Re: TCP Stack Bug/Error

[Adam Tauno Williams <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>A friend sent me this link.  Interesting!
>>I suspected there was an issue, but never thoroughly investigated it.
>>This is...over my understanding of TCP/IP but the bug affects alot of
>>people.
>>http://www-didc.lbl.gov/Linux-tcp-bug.html

Yep, this kills performance on VPNs too,  where you have one packat wrapped in
another,  the wrapped packet's RTO expires and causes a retransmission (inside
another packet) while at the same time the original encapsulation packet expires
and causes a retransmission, etc....

http://www.psc.edu/networking/perf_tune.html#Linux

talks about tuning the TCP parameters.

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