Re: [9fans] rtl8169 gbe slow

[tlaronde@polynum.com]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 05:20:40AM -0800, erik quanstrom wrote:
> why?  what's the evidence?
>

If I download from vanilla Plan9 (running on bare metal) data from
_another http server_, I have correct results.

So the problem is not with Plan9 per se, but downloading from _this_
site (and it is mine!) and under Plan9.

If there was a problem with Plan9, I will have bad speed from whatever
server under Plan9. But it is not the case.

So there is something at the intersection (&&) of Plan9 and this site.
And it can be Plan9 identifier (client ID) triggering something on
the server side leading to throttling the connection (or my DSL provider
throttling to the server provider; but this doesn't explain why others
have also poor results connecting from Plan9 while I guess they are not
with the same DSL provider as me---SFR here---and this doesn't explain
why with the same connection, downloading under NetBSD doesn't show the
problem---unless, once more, "plan9/hget" is considered a bittorrent
client or a robot and is causing the throttling, but this would seem a
"general" rule then).

Yes, it could be something with Plan9 at some upper IP level. But before
searching the needle in the hay stack, I have to rule out a possible
throttling on the server side (that I don't own or manage; I only
lend room on it; I have hence to ask the provider if there is something,
in their configuration, that could explain this).
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