Re: guessing when TSO is present

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

Hannes Gredler wrote:
> checked in - thanks for the submission - /hannes
>
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 05:35:13PM -0800, Rick Jones wrote:
> | A while back I think I posted something asking about what to do about TSO 
> | (large send) and how it generated "IP bad-len 0" output  when tracing on a 
> | TSO-enabled sender.
> | 
> | I had a couple spare cycles, so I decided to just take a WAG at what might 
> | be done, which was to say that if the IP len was zero, just go ahead and 
> | guess that this was a TSO and set the len to the length parm pass-in to 
> | print-ip and hope.
>
> [ ... ] 
>
> | basically, if the IP len is zero, ass-u-me that the segment is TSO and wing 
> | it.
> | 
> | rick jones

Should we make that the default, or would that be too risky?

See

        https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1437110&group_id=53066&atid=469573

which I suspect is caused by TSO.
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