Re: repeatedly reading ipchains rules causes ppp trouble

bert hubert (ahu@casema.net)
Wed, 20 Oct 1999 07:40:44 +0200


On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 12:47:33PM +1000, Paul Rusty Russell wrote:

> > 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.

9 rules, on a 486.

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