[ILUG] Bizarre networking problem

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Niall O Broin wrote:

> so it would seem that the ISDN router is mangling the packets from s8A, 
> which frankly isn't ALL that surprising, considering that the same router 
> randomly lost its configuration. However, I'm left wondering why it only 
> mangles the packets from s8A.

It looked from what you sent me like the linux machine wasn't doing SACK
(an oldish kernel perhaps?) but the solaris 8 obviously does SACK and I
gather Tiger does too.  

I guess you just got lucky with the linux one as most distros would have it
on.

Gavin