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From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Question about TCP Checksum errors
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:18:05 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EED232D.3010208@lwfinger.net> (raw)

In https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=718736, a user reports that his 
network using an RTL8188CE becomes very slow under "heavy" load. This condition 
started when he updated from openSUSE 11.4 to 12.1. The kernels involved are 
2.6.37 and 3.1. I am unable to duplicate the problem.

Packet capture with Wireshark shows that the slow down is due to retransmissions 
due to TCP checksum errors. I found nothing to explain the situation with a 
Google search, thus I am asking here.

I put heavy in quotes because the traffic is from a web browser to yahoo.com, 
thus the potential throughput is not very high.

As far as I know, this checksum is generated in a higher layer of the network 
stack, and that data is just passed through the 802.11 layer, and the wireless 
driver. Is this correct? Anyone have any ideas on where to look for the problem?

Thanks,

Larry

             reply	other threads:[~2011-12-17 23:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-17 23:18 Larry Finger [this message]
2011-12-17 23:43 ` Eric Dumazet

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