TCP Out of Order Packets? Help!

[James Knott]

Stephen wrote:
> I have a home network, connected with an SMB Barricade router. I have a
> 10.1 Mandrake Linux machine, and OS/2 (eCS) machine, an XP Desktop and
> an XP latop.
> 
> When transferring data from either XP box to either the Linux od OS/2
> box I get terrible performance.
> 
> When transferring data to an XP box, I get expected performance for a
> 100mps LAN.
> 
> I am using ftp, to try to keep things as simple as possible while
> analyzing the problem (but I want to start using SAMBA as a fle server.
> 
> Since the problem occurs regardless of whether the ftp server is on the
> linux box or the OS/2 and from either of the XP boxes, I am guessing
> hardware is not an issue.
> 
> I ran netstat on the OS/2 box (I am still more comfortable in that
> environment) and found that 60% of the TCP packets were out of order!?
> 
> For a simple LAN this seems absurd. Is this the cause of the bad
> performance?
> 
> If so, how do I fix.
> 
> Thanks for any and all help!

Hi Stephen.  Install ethereal on the Linux box and watch what happens
during the file transfer from XP.  Also try it with a transfer to OS/2.


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