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From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: TCP latency
Date: 14 Jun 1996 13:14:06 GMT
Organization: Institute For Industrial Information Technology
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In article <6AbFLHBUcsB@khms.westfalen.de> kai@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) writes:
>Didn't some recent versions of the Linux kernel _also_ have severe  
>problems with Solaris machines? I seem to remember that the conclusion was  
>that the Solaris machines were doing something wrong, but the Linux kernel  
>was changed to work around this anyway.

Sun have also released fixes to the problem in general for Solaris 2.51 and
patches are available from Sun. Contact your vendor
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Yow! 233 microsecond remote host TCP latency ---- beat that
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Alan Cox, Alan.Cox@linux.org               /_____________/ / /\/ /_/ ><