Re: 2.6.27 seems to break something with DSL

[Philip Stark]

I was just going to say that Bug Nr. 11721 on bugzilla.kernel.org is
exactly my problem and is in fact resolved with the
solution/workaround presented there.

Thanks for your time
Philip Stark

2008/10/20 Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
<snip>
> | it seems to  be related to the packet  size because ping only seems to
> | work because it uses small packets. if i increase the ping size up to
> | 1000 bytes, it fails as well. (while it does work on 2.6.26)
>
>  If you haven't solved this issue yet you could try:
>
> # echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_timestamps
>
>  We (Mandriva) have had some reports of this issue and it seems that
> some broken routers can drop packages because of the timestamp (that's
> what our local network guy has said). Disabling timestamps make it work
> again.
>
> --
> Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
>
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