Re: Massive TCPv4 bad checksum

Gerhard Mack (gmack@imag.net)
Sun, 18 Oct 1998 20:40:14 -0700 (PDT)

On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, H.J. Lu wrote:

> I tried that. I still got back TCP checksum. But the speed
> seems faster than before. BTW, the other side of my SLIP
> link is runnings Linux 2.1.102 with Cyclades card and some
> modems. Should they also turn off the new RFC1323/SACK TCP
> options?
>

They should probably upgrade, I have bad memories of those new options and
older devel kernels, I seem to recall seeing a patch that fixed it by
allocation more memory for the headder. Looks like the same bug I used to
have a problem with.

Gerhard

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Gerhard Mack


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As a computer I find your faith in technology amusing.






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