Messages in this thread | | | From | bofh@snoopy ... | Date | Tue, 25 Mar 97 15:57:28 +1000 | Subject | Re: pre-2.0.30, ether tcp stalling |
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I've been having similar problems on a PPP link since about 2.1.27. I can get the problem to go away by using the program "strobe" on the machine I'm receiving data from.
Russell Coker
>> I have a 3com 3c509B, and a Lance PCNet32 as my ethernet cards for >> my two-computer network. With both systems running David Miller's >> pre2.0.30 kernel, I experience frequent TCP stalls. If I ping the >> other host, TCP flows quickly. For a short while. Then it stalls >> again. NFS (UDP) filesystems are unaffected by this, except again, >> it stalls during the 'mounting remote filesystems' of my bootup, which >> negotiates TCP connections for the portmapper. >> >> If one systems reverts back to 2.0.29, TCP works smoothly. >> I have reverted both my systems back to vanilla 2.0.29. >> >> -- >> Myles Uyema >> myles@puck.nether.net
>I have had the same problem too. I am using PPP though but still the >symptons are the same. I am in the process of downloading a file and it >just stalls out and never picks up. I was runnin kernel 2.0.25 but now I >just compiled kernel 2.0.29, but I haven't got a chance to test it yet. >If anyone knows how to fix the problem or knows what is going on could you >please let me know. Thank you!!
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