On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, David Mosberger wrote: > Martin> I tested this patch and it looks like it has cured my > Martin> mysterious TCP stalls. > > Yes, this sounds reasonable. I wasn't very clear on this point, but > "by going south" I meant that TCP is starting to misbehave. In > particular, you'll likely end up with the kernel aborting ESTABLISHED > TCP connections with extreme prejudice (and in violation of the TCP > protocol), because it thought that it had been unable to communicate > with the remote end for a _very_ long time. The net effect typically > is that you end up with one end having a connection that's in the > ESTABLISHED state and the other end having no trace of that > connection. David, This might be the solution to one of the 'must-fix' bugs for the networking, which nobody so far was quite able to track down. - James -- James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>Received on Tue Jun 03 17:26:17 2003
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