Bug#401435: debian-installer: sometimes net install does not work because of networking change in Linux 2.6.17 or later

2007-04-02 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 01 April 2007 15:20, Josip Rodin wrote: I'm willing to add that info, especially for the installed system. Do values in tcp_wmem also need to be modified or is modifying tcp_rmem sufficient? What's the difference between the two? The r stands for read, w stands for write.

Bug#401435: debian-installer: sometimes net install does not work because of networking change in Linux 2.6.17 or later

2007-04-01 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 20 March 2007 15:50, Josip Rodin wrote: TCP window scaling as such was by default enabled in earlier Linux kernel versions, too, but the default window *sizes* were different, much smaller. These are set in the tcp_rmem/tcp_wmem pseudo-files in the same directory; you could just run

Bug#401435: debian-installer: sometimes net install does not work because of networking change in Linux 2.6.17 or later

2007-04-01 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 09:30:16AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: TCP window scaling as such was by default enabled in earlier Linux kernel versions, too, but the default window *sizes* were different, much smaller. These are set in the tcp_rmem/tcp_wmem pseudo-files in the same directory; you

Bug#401435: debian-installer: sometimes net install does not work because of networking change in Linux 2.6.17 or later

2007-03-20 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 03:14:02PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: Short summary: A change introduced in Linux 2.6.17 makes the network not to work properly in some cases, due to buggy routers. There is a trivial workaround: echo 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling However, I had to

Bug#401435: debian-installer: sometimes net install does not work because of networking change in Linux 2.6.17 or later

2006-12-03 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: debian-installer Version: 20061102 Severity: important This is really a feature more than a bug, but the adverse effects are so devastating that it would be nice to have a workaround in debian-installer, or have it properly documented in the install manual. It seems there is a buggy