Re: Windows 9x and RFC1323

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl)
Sun, 12 Dec 1999 00:02:44 -0300


"Jeffrey B. Siegal" <jbs@quiotix.com> said:
> Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> > Do you know for sure it broken and not something else going on?

> No, as I said in a later message, the results of subsequent testing with sack
> on/off were not as I expected. I will do more testing when I get a chance.

> > I
> > have SACK enabled on machines that make hundred if not thousands of
> > connections to both solaris and windows machines every day... if
> > there are problems, I've not seen them -- but then again, I'm
> > certainly not looking either.

> The problems I've seen are very sensitive to characteristics that are
> unclear. A connection from a single Windows system (running either NT or 98,
> doesn't matter) to a Linux system on one network works fine, while one on
> another network pretty consistently fails. Both Linux sustems are running
> out-of-the-box RH 6.1 on Pentium-II SMP hardware. One is 400 Mhz; the other
> is 450 MHz. More later.

Sounds like something is going on _between_ the networks then. Check out
the router.

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