Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 6 Jun 1999 18:07:36 +0200 (CEST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: TCP/PPP bug 2.3.5? |
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On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Then why is packet loss only happening to _outgoing_ connections? > > Well for one you will find that people use different wires in each direction
The telephone system uses one pair of wires for both directions of traffic.
> I'd be -suprised- if a partial failure case (as opposed to the > complete failure) was bidirectional
Well. I guess that still doesn't explain how to fix the problem I and a lot of other people are seeing. Since we have workarounds for just about every other hardware problem, I guess we will want to do something to have at least decent worst-case performance on slightly flakey networks...
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