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From: Val Henson <val@nmt.edu>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: Lost TCP retransmission timer
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On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 02:56:09PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> 
> BTW, you mentioned that you are seeing this on PPC, do you have any
> way to verify if the bug can be triggered on any other platform?

I'm currently away from my x86 workstation, but I can try it this
weekend.

The requirements for triggering this are:

2.4.6 or higher kernel
2.4.6 machine pushes lots of data on _first_ TCP connection after boot
Lots of packets from 2.4.6 machine are dropped (I'm using 10 Mb hub)

-VAL