netdev - Re: Constantly varying download rate with a complex xen networking setup, why?

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0906171659380.31880@melkinkari.cs.Helsinki.FI>
Date:	Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:02:43 +0300 (EEST)
From:	"Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
To:	Raphael Hertzog <raphael@...za.com>
cc:	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Constantly varying download rate with a complex xen networking
 setup, why?

On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote:

> Le lundi 15 juin 2009, Ilpo Järvinen a écrit :
> > Maybe the proxy interferes there somehow... I don't know enough about the
> > details to say but I suppose the proxy at least breaks your tcp connection 
> > to two parts.
> 
> Indeed. Is there some processing done in a simple linux bridge where the
> reapperance of the same TCP packet that has been created and sent on another
> local interface could create problem?

I thought out had a http proxy in between? I suppose it is certainly doing 
more than bridging. Anyway, I'll be week away, so no quick responses are 
to be expected from my part after this mail.

-- 
 i.