[net-perf] bad performance w/o jumbo frames over large BDPs

[Michael Van Norman]

> boote at nms1-chin:~[465]$ uname -a
> Linux nms1-chin.abilene.ucaid.edu 2.4.25-2.3.6smp #1 SMP Tue Mar 23 12:41:02
> CST 
> 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> 
> Not so current... ;)

And that may be why it works! :)

I don't think we had these problems when we were running a 2.4 kernel and
alpha web100 code.  Have you guys tried using the current web100 kernel
releases?  Put another way: is there a reason the test nodes are still
running code that's over two years old?

/Mike