Messages in this thread | | | From | Keith Owens <> | Subject | Re: TCP Stall | Date | Mon, 31 Mar 1997 18:50:14 +1000 |
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On Sun, 30 Mar 1997 21:35:26 -0500 (EST), "Richard B. Johnson" <root@analogic.com> wrote: > > March 30, 1997 > Via PPP from Groveland, Massachusetts, USA at about 10 baud > on a 56 kb link. > > Gentlemen, > > I have been looking into the TCP Stall problem when FTPing > files between Linux machines via a PPP link. This problem > also occurs with remotely mounted file-systems. I have > reported this problem over 10 times during the past two > years and I have recorded at least 25 other instances in > which other users have reported the same problem. > > Apparently this problem is not considered important because > absolutely nothing has been done about it for over two > years. There have been no experimental patches from Network > gurus attempting to fix this very real and very troublesome > problem.
Richard - on March 23 I mailed you a couple of patches, asked you to try them and if they did not work to do a tcpdump trace and mail me the results. You did not reply which makes it very difficult to diagnose the problem.
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