Re: TCP fix for sluggish rlogin/rsh

David S. Miller (davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com)
Sat, 21 Mar 1998 00:08:45 -0800


Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 10:52:11 -0500 (EST)
From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>

I confirm that your patch seems to work, and work well, between
Linux machines.

Of course it does, this was my experimental test bed ;-)

However, there seems to be a problem when communicating between
Linux machines and Suns. Linux seems to agravate a silly-window
syndrome on the Sun.

Ok, interesting.

Here is the result of reading the character-generator on a Linux
machine. every time the received packet-length changes, results
are written. Otherwise, there is no output from the program.

Ok, these data points are real nice. However (as I mentioned in
another mail to this list) it is insufficient for me to fix things. I
need tcpdump output which logs the session showing the bad behavior.
It is also nice to get a tcpdump of good behavior as well, especially
when talking to one TCP implementation shows the problem and another
which doesn't.

So I ask politely that you provide me with tcpdump traces of sessions
exhibiting the bad behavior to SunOS machines. Thanks. ;-)

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com

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