Re: TCP Stalls

David Woodhouse (David.Woodhouse@mvhi.com)
Wed, 09 Sep 1998 09:21:04 +0100

leitner@math.fu-berlin.de said:
> > Searching the net I have found several references to TCP stalls in
> > Linux, especially when using PPP. So far this problem does not seem to
> > have been solved, it is usually dismissed as noise and occasional
> > losses over the link.
>
> The same happens with PPP over ISDN, too, so line noise is not a viable
> explanation anyway. This was rather some kind of first-shot thing IMHO.

PPP over ISDN could be an entirely different problem - I've recently sent in a
demonstration where even ICMP echo packets are 'stalled', and the outgoing
packet queue is never completely flushed. Two people have confirmed that they
also see this with ISDN in 2.1.recent

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