Fixed: OpLocks caused the corruptions/slowness (Was: How Samba let us down)
David W. Chapman Jr.
dwcjr at inethouston.net
Sat Nov 23 01:09:00 GMT 2002
> David> Duplex problems are a simple example like setting full-duplex
> David> on a half-duplex switch might.
>
> David> A bad cable or NIC could cause intermitten problem as well.
> David> Yes packets would get retransmitted, but who's to say the
> David> retransmitted packets won't get dropped as well?
>
> Uh, RFC793, section 2.6 maybe? I think people would notice a total
> network failure, so I am excluding that possibility.
>
No, I'm not talking about things that would cause total network
failures, just packet errors that would cascade the way a broadcast
storm would for non switched ethernet.
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David W. Chapman Jr.
dwcjr at inethouston.net Raintree Network Services, Inc. <www.inethouston.net>
dwcjr at freebsd.org FreeBSD Committer <www.FreeBSD.org>
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