Re: repeatedly reading ipchains rules causes ppp trouble
Paul Rusty Russell (Paul.Russell@rustcorp.com.au)
Wed, 20 Oct 1999 12:47:33 +1000
In message <19991019125316.A19291@server.ds9a.tudelft.nl> you write:
> On a related note, I found that reading the relevant /proc files to get
> ipchains accounting statistics cause my PPP transfer to halt. I read the
> files once every second, all ftp transfers going on simply stopped. This
> under 2.2.12.
How many rules? It's almost certainly blocking interrupts for too
long, and causing serial overflows. The fix is fairly trivial if this
is the case.
Rusty.
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