I'd be grateful if something along these lines could be committed :) We're finding more and more people getting hit by this problem and it can be very painful to debug.
----- Forwarded message from Colm MacCarthaigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- From: Colm MacCarthaigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 12:14:37 +0100 To: [email protected] Subject: EnableSendfile + Linux + IPv6 The Linux TCP checksum offloading bugs are well-established at this stage. Might aswell document it. Index: manual/mod/core.html.en =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvspublic/httpd-2.0/docs/manual/mod/core.html.en,v retrieving revision 1.83 diff -u -r1.83 core.html.en --- manual/mod/core.html.en 6 Aug 2003 13:57:29 -0000 1.83 +++ manual/mod/core.html.en 1 Sep 2003 11:10:35 -0000 @@ -862,6 +862,8 @@ system did not detect, especially if the binaries were built on another box and moved to such a machine with broken sendfile support.</li> + <li>On Linux the use of sendfile triggers TCP-checksum + offloading bugs on certain networking cards when using IPv6.</li> <li>With a network-mounted <code class="directive"><a href="#documentroot">DocumentRoot</a></code> (e.g., NFS or SMB), the kernel may be unable to serve the network file through its own cache.</li> Index: manual/mod/core.xml =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvspublic/httpd-2.0/docs/manual/mod/core.xml,v retrieving revision 1.76 diff -u -r1.76 core.xml --- manual/mod/core.xml 6 Aug 2003 13:57:29 -0000 1.76 +++ manual/mod/core.xml 1 Sep 2003 11:10:35 -0000 @@ -800,6 +800,8 @@ system did not detect, especially if the binaries were built on another box and moved to such a machine with broken sendfile support.</li> + <li>On Linux the use of sendfile triggers TCP-checksum + offloading bugs on certain networking cards when using IPv6.</li> <li>With a network-mounted <directive module="core">DocumentRoot</directive> (e.g., NFS or SMB), the kernel may be unable to serve the network file through -- Colm MacC�rthaigh Public Key: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stdlib.net/ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Colm MacC�rthaigh Public Key: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stdlib.net/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
