pre-patch2.0.30-2 and connections

Donald R Willhoit (willhoit+@andrew.cmu.edu)
Sun, 6 Apr 1997 08:09:26 -0400 (EDT)

If this should go to another newsgroup please let me know. First I
apologize for not being able to provide a lot of info but I noticed
something very odd a night or two ago. I have a private IRC server
running and my friend was connected to it. Prior to 2.0.29 and
pre-patch2.0.30-2 we used to lose the connection several times a night
(3+ hours of connection). Now though he can literally hangup, use his
phone and then reconnect and if use netstat throughout the ordeal, my
computer never notices any type of loose of connction. Basically is
this expected/acceptable behaviour.

Ryan Willhoit

Client---PPP---Server (not mine) -----Internet----My Linux Box
He's running Windows 3.11 and using an irc client that runs on his
machine (he's not like telneting to the server and running it there or
anything like that).

Linux version 2.0.30 (root@XXXXXXX) (gcc version 2.7.2) #1 Wed Apr 2
15:35:15 EST 1997

(2.0.29 + pre-patch-2.0.30-2)

# Networking options
#
# CONFIG_FIREWALL is not set
# CONFIG_NET_ALIAS is not set
CONFIG_INET=y
# CONFIG_IP_FORWARD is not set
# CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST is not set
# CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES is not set
# CONFIG_IP_ACCT is not set
# CONFIG_IP_ROUTER is not set
# CONFIG_NET_IPIP is not set

# CONFIG_INET_PCTCP is not set
# CONFIG_INET_RARP is not set
# CONFIG_NO_PATH_MTU_DISCOVERY is not set
CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y
CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y