Comment by seiji
13 years ago
Weird connection problems like that sound like tcp timestamps breaking things. You can try turning it off across the board and see if your problems immediately clear up: http://prowiki.isc.upenn.edu/wiki/TCP_tuning_for_broken_fire...
This was demonstrably link-level corruption, though, so that's irrelevant, right? That's about higher-level failures.
Did you even read to the end of the story? He found the cause.