Subject: Re: Trouble with latest tcp fixes on pmax. Any others?
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 11/14/1997 00:33:57
On Thu, 13 Nov 1997 21:08:45 -0800
Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
> I just built a pmax kernel from the latest sup source, with
> the updated tcp_subr.c.
...I'm assuming you got the rest of the tcp changes that went in a couple
of days ago. The last change to tcp_subr.c simply removed an extra
call to rtfree(), and would only have made a difference of PMTU
discovery is enabled.
> A DECstation 5000/150 crashes every time I try and open any TCP
> connection to it. (well, sof ar I've tried FTP and rlogin.) The
> kernel reports a bad address in kernel mode, fills the msgbuf with
> attempts to traceback that error, and then wedges hard, requiring a
> reset.
>
> A kernel built yesterday works fine on the same machine, but has
> horrendously low TCP throughput.
>
> Has anyone tried or tested the latest TCP code on, say, a machine
> requiring aligned addresses? Did it work?
TCP is working Fine on my SS2 and AlphaStations. Source base is "today".
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