Packet Analysis for Troubleshooting-SSH server slow response

Symptom: customer complains about slow response to SSH server running on one Centos box Method: perform packet capture on the SSH server. Finding: DNS query fails during establishing SSH session When folllow the TCP session for SSH login packet caoture, see the below: During packet 17 and 24, there is about 10 seconds gap. Go …

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Packet Analysis for Troubleshooting-Slow response of AD home directory

Symptom: virtual desktop end users complain the performance issue: the end users can access their AD home directory quickly at the first time. After a little while, they have to wait for over 30 seconds before they can reach their home directory. Method: perform packet capture on one of end users and successfully capture the …

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How to achieve maximum TCP throughput on LFN

Firstly, what's LFN? LFN means long fat network, often pronounced "elephan". In RFC 1072, a network is considered an LFN if its bandwidth-delay product is significantly larger than 105 bits  (12500 bytes). Then you will possibly have another question: what bandwidth-delay product is? As Wiki suggested, bandwidth-delay product refers to the product of a data …

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