Apparently SOLVED: Linux networking freezes in ~2.1.90-2.1.102

Adam J. Richter (adam@yggdrasil.com)
Sun, 17 May 1998 02:30:18 -0700

The problem that I was experiencing where my telnet sessions
from my home notebook computer to my office workstation would freeze
went away when I fixed a problem with SLIP maximum transfer unit (MTU)
being set differently on my home computer and the modem server that it
was connected to. I would like to thank Pavel Machek for suggesting
that the idea that this was MTU problem. I would also like to thank
David Miller for his help in isolating this problem.

My office workstation still should not have locked up hard
under those circumstances, and there is a question of why the 486
machine that I would use for running tcpdump would complain about "too
much work at interrupt" and then eventually lose network connectivity.
I suspect that the hard lockups will have to remain a mystery for
now (and they may have done away in the 101->102 changes; I have not
tried to reproduce the problem under 102). The tcpdump problem may
just be a function of trying to tcpdump a busy 100mbps ethernet from
a 486.

Anyhow, I just want to report that the problem that I
originally experienced does not occur anymore.

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