Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

Odd Networking Problem with MacOS

Filed under: Science and Technology — Daniel Lemire @ 15:52

We just found a major MacOS bug, but there seems to be no trace of it on the Web, so I am posting this here hoping that someone can help. We tested several machines and whenever you have an ethernet connection, trying to do an HTTP POST request with a sizeable load (such as editing a large article on wikipedia) will fail. This does not happen with WiFi, only ethernet (with a cable).

We tested with several browsers. Apparently, some version of Safari would not suffer from this bug, but I could not confirm it.

The problem is not hardware-bound because running Windows XP on the same machine fixes the issue. So, it seems there is a major bug in Apple’s ethernet driver.

Help me!

2 Comments »

  1. Can you post an example (eg page you are trying to edit)?

    Comment by cyril — 10/10/2007 @ 8:53

  2. Try to actually edit any large article on wikipedia with a Mac connected to the Internet using a cable (no wifi).

    Comment by Daniel Lemire — 10/10/2007 @ 14:06

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