Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 19 Nov 1996 21:15:56 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Bug fixed. |
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I am running 2.1.11. I note that a ppp problem has just been fixed! The problem WAS that when I opened a socket connection to a private port on a remote server via ppp, I could start to receive data but, after about 20 seconds, I could no longer receive any data for many minutes. If I logged into the server, I would find that the ARP cache had expired so there was no longer any entry even though both parties were waiting on an open socket connection. The server was waiting to send data (forever) on a blocking socket, and the client was waiting (forever) to receive data.
If I pinged the server from the client, the data-flow would restart and everybody would be happy. The server is a VAXen running third-party TCP/IP software under VMS. The client(s) were all Linux boxes.
Now, with no changes except the kernels, no recompiles, etc. Everything works as advertised! Whatever the Network wizards have done is certainly on the right track. Thanks!
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