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Re: [Xen-users] Release 0.8.5 of GPL PV drivers for Windows

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Release 0.8.5 of GPL PV drivers for Windows
From: jim burns <jim_burn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:42:07 -0400
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On Thursday 13 March 2008 07:49:14 am James Harper wrote:
> I have a feeling that the large send offload stuff is breaking local (eg
> inside Dom0's bridge) communications, as the packets stay 'large' until
> they leave via a physical adapter. Windows doesn't like receiving
> packets larger than the MTU (and Wireshark causes a BSoD). Unless I can
> find an alternative I'll have to have the Windows xennet driver break
> them up itself, which might erode any performance benefit.
>
> I'd be grateful if anyone who has posted previous iperf results could
> re-test under this version.

I completely could not establish a tcp connection, with either Windows 
File/Print, IE7, or iperf. Dns seems to work in IE, and iperf worked fine in 
udp mode. I had to copy back the 0.8.4 files.

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