Hal Murray <hmur...@megapathdsl.net>:
> Thanks.
>
> There is another quirk that seems related to retransmissions. I forget the
> details. I'm pretty sure there is bug report on it.
>
>
> > I do remember that there was a very old issue with flaky behavior of ntpq
> > over WiFi that we thought might be due to a bug in the fragment reassembly
>
> If I interpret "WiFi" as lost packets, that fits in with the other collected
> observations.
You reported lost packets happening over WiFi links, yes.
> My guess is that this new quirk is just what happens with "peers" when lots
> of
> packets get lost and we just haven't seen it enough before now to get
> reported.
I don't think you're wrong.
Nonreproducible bugs suck. When you reported the original flakiness
over WiFi I nodded, thinking I knew where the problem was likely to be,
and dove into the packet reassembly code looking for an off-by-one bug
or something.
It's one of the few times I've gone on an expedition like that and
completely failed. Whatever it is, it's not going to be obvius.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
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