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SubjectRe: TCP Stalls.
On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> Okay. That's good. This might point to a serious problem with the PPP
> link (losing lots of packets), because that's where the bad stalls occur.

I know I saw a a patch that fixed the worst of the problems on my system,
(included alreddy in 2.1.119),looks like it allocvates extra memory for
the headder ?? (did I guess that right?), but I am still seeing stalls
though not anyware near as bad. And the truncated complaints are
gone.

Is there anything I can do to help track the rest of it down ?

Gerhard


>
> I can run serial I/O to serial I/O (regular 'C' programs in Linux) between
> two computers with two modems _and_ the phone line with only an occasional
> lost character (actually a group of 6), far less than 1/2 percent. Maybe
> flow-control isn't working in PPP??

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Gerhard Mack
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gmack@imag.net
InnerFIRE@starchat.net

As a computer I find your faith in technology amusing.




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