netdev - Re: TCP connection stalls under 2.6.24.7

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Date:	Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:47:22 +0200
From:	Thomas Jarosch <thomas.jarosch@...ra2net.com>
To:	Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	Sven Riedel <sr@...urenet.de>,
	Netfilter Developer Mailing List 
	<netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: TCP connection stalls under 2.6.24.7

On Friday, 11. July 2008 16:33:41 Thomas Jarosch wrote:
> On Thursday, 10. July 2008 23:21:37 Jozsef Kadlecsik wrote:
> > You did not mention the type of your driver. Isn't there some changes in
> > the driver code between 2.6.23.17 and 2.6.24 which could cause such
> > stallings?
>
> It's a 8139too and the "same" hardware works fine at other sites.
> I tried the nmap trick mentioned by Dâniel Fraga with no noticable
> difference.

I swapped the NIC with a "via-rhine" based card which is installed
in the remote box, but without much success.

Luckily I'm able to reproduce the problem locally using an ADSL line from the 
same provider, so I'll now bisect the kernel from 2.6.23.17 to 2.6.24.

Thomas
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