Re: _Very_ strange network delay over dialup-ISDN in 2.2.11.

David Woodhouse (David.Woodhouse@mvhi.com)
Thu, 19 Aug 1999 23:36:05 +0100


Marc@Mutz.com said:
> I just experienced a very wierd network delay: I use a ISDN dialup
> line to my university. Normally I do not run ping, so this is - apart
> from a similar occurence with up to 20 sec lags in 2.2.10 - the first
> time I noticed this behaviour. But this time I wanted to keep the
> connection established. So I fired up ping, and saw that it reported a
> round-trip time of 1 second (1000 ms)!

Marc@Mutz.com said:
> it could only be resolved by shutting down the ISDN system (/sbin/
> init.d/i4l stop) and starting it again.

Marc@Mutz.com said:
> Anyone got a clue?

This sounds familiar. I had a similar problem a few months ago. There were
always a constant number of packets in the outgoing queue. If I ran tcpdump on
the ISDN interface, I could see them being sent out. TCP connections would
stall, unless I ran ping across the link to keep the queue moving. ping -f
would make packets go out almost immediately (chronologically speaking).

I didn't ever manage to find out the cause of the problem. It used to take
some days of connectivity before it would happen, so I couldn't easily debug
it. Eventually we installed a leased line to replace the ISDN, so I have no
clue if it's still happening.

I was using the CVS ISDN code at the time - the standard code wouldn't work
with the Teles 16.3c IIRC.

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