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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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Fengrui Gu wrote:
> There is something interesting. I accidentally started a
> ping command(ping data sender side) from data receiver side.
> As you know, ping will continue running until you stop it.
> 
> I started netperf again from data sender side. You know what?
> The link seems more stable with additional ping session on
> receiver side no matter TCP or UDP traffic. I got the following
> numbers by running netperf.

Do a search engine query on "receiver livelock".


-- Terry

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