On Sun, 2 Jun 2019 at 18:35, Jared Mauch <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > On Jun 2, 2019, at 3:50 AM, James Bensley <[email protected]> 
> > wrote:
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> > I recently upgraded from eXR 6.5.2 to 6.5.3 and pushed the files using
> > SCP to the router from a jump box, which was on the same LAN as the
> > management interface on the RSP. It was copying at 100Mbps (the speed
> > of the OOB switch) so I think in eXR these issues are more or less
> > fixed.
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> I don’t believe you have enough data to conclude that.  When copying data 
> from longer distances away (eg: global network with centralized file 
> server/images) I previously saw bad behavior, but when the latency was low it 
> worked well.

Right, that's why I made a vague statement.

> This is what led me down the path to determine what was going on with the XR 
> TCP stack.  I suggest capturing a PCAP and figuring out if it’s doing SACK or 
> window scaling with appropriate sized buffers.
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> Even from bash/run on eXR you may also want to check this out.  This led to 
> an effort to internally anycast resources as it was a problem that was easier 
> solved that way as Cisco was afraid to fix the TCP stack, and got even more 
> worried when we saw issues with their SACK implementation and reported the 
> details.  (It was doing an ACK of the wrong number of bytes, which caused 
> drama with super strict stateful firewalls that tried to be too smart for 
> their own good).
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> Also beware TCP disconnects as they don’t do TCP keepalives by default so any 
> session that drops in the middle of a transfer would cause it to act like a 
> file transfer is ongoing even though TCP was dead).

All good info. I was just adding an anecdote that I have personally
experienced very slow TCP transfer times on cXR and much faster times
on eXR (my slow experiances on cXR were also when copying from a jump
box on on the OOB LAN). I am semi interested to dig deeper but for me
it's plenty "fast enough" now so it doesn't warrant any more time.

Cheers,
James.
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