netdev - Re: TCP connection stalls under 2.6.24.7

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Date:	Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:39:56 +0300 (EEST)
From:	"Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
To:	"Dâniel Fraga" <fragabr@...il.com>
cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TCP connection stalls under 2.6.24.7

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Dâniel Fraga wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:30:45 -0300
> Dâniel Fraga <fragabr@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> > 	I'm using kernel 2.6.26 and the problem has gone. No stalled
> > connections anymore. The problem was with 2.6.25 kernel only.
> 	
> 	Sorry, I was wrong. In 2.6.26 the problem remains.
> 
> 	Everyday my connection stalls to my NNTP server using 2.6.26
> too. Before I just used a "nmap -sS server" and the connection would
> come back, but now it doesn't work.

Tcpdumping it would help some... :-) Can you try the suggested patch if it 
changes any (though would I have a tcpdump showing the problem, I could 
probably tell right away if the patch would help or not, and also come up 
with something else if necessary :-)):

  http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=121699478406378&w=2



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