Re: Networking oddities

Sascha Schumann (sas@schell.de)
Sun, 19 Jul 1998 16:52:08 +0200 (MET DST)


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On Sun, 19 Jul 1998 woody@chunnel.oca.udayton.edu wrote:

> Hello again.. just thought I'd give in another report on 2.1.109ac1..
>
> I have no idea if this is related to the broken ppp driver or not, but it
> seems that after sitting overnight, my computer seems to lose all
> capabilities for running networking commands. pppd, ifconfig, route all
> just hang, with the "D" uninteruptable status in ps uax. Reboot solves
> the problem. :(
>
> K6/166 64M RAM gcc 2.7.2.3 or egcs 1.0.2
> 2.1.109 with ac1 patches.

I noticed a similiar (related?) problem. Configuration:

o 2.1.109ac1
o isdn4linux drivers 980718 (Hisax driver for AVM A1)
o happened with gcc 2.7.2.3/pgcc-2.91.50
o P166, 96MB

This problem didn't happen before I upgraded from 2.1.108ac2 to 109ac1.
After some hours online I wasn't able to open new TCP connections as quick
as normal. I tried to initiate a ftp session to another host and waited
about 10 minutes until I got connected. Transfers were very slow (about
0.5 - 1kb/sec). It wasn't a network related problem - pings showed normal
behavior.

The already open ssh session to the server I ftp'ed to worked without
any problem. Problem was gone after a reboot (yeah - Windoze feelings come
up ;)

Some minutes ago - slogin'ing to a server - the same thing happened again.
Uptime was about 9 hours, few network activity. ping still worked, TCP
didn't want to work.

Sascha

PS: config.gz attached

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