Re: Poor TCP throughput in 2.1.103

Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
24 May 1998 10:00:38 +0200


Shaw Carruthers <shaw@shawc.demon.co.uk> writes:

> I have found that I can only get 1500 bytes per second out of ftp over a
> 28.8 modem in 2.1.103 compared to 2800 in 2.0.33.
>
> The 'route add ... window nnn' option seems to have been left
> unimplemented in 2.1.103. Is there an alternative? I need a 6K window to
> get good throughput.

Try to define CONFIG_RTNL_OLD_IFINFO in net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c

It is a bit unfortunate that TCP needs this setting, it would be better if
it would work without user tuning.

-Andi

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