Funnily enough there’s another excellent article by apenwarr that touches on this a bit. Ethernet is designed to go as fast as possible/line rate and assumes t

Funnily enough there’s another excellent article by apenwarr that touches on this a bit. Ethernet is designed to go as fast as possible/line rate and assumes that everything is the same speed. When you disabled pause frames, it likely prevented the switch from interfering and punting the issue to the TCP stack of the server/client. https://apenwarr.ca/log/20170810 https://apenwarr.ca/log/20170810