Re: 2.6.25-rc8: FTP transfer errors

[Gerhard Mack]

On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Harvey Harrison wrote:

> Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:37:28 -0700
> From: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: Mark Lord <lkml@xxxxxx>
> Cc: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
>     jeff@xxxxxxxxxx, rjw@xxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
>     linux-net@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc8: FTP transfer errors
> 
> On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 20:02 -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
> > David Miller wrote:
> > > From: Mark Lord <lkml@xxxxxx>
> > > Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:05:47 -0400
> > > 
> > >> But it would be far more useful for whoever has been working on the
> > >> stack to suggest some possible/likely commits to look at instead.
> > > 
> > > Personally all I see is that one side closes the socket before all
> > > data packets received have been read into the application, resulting
> > > in a (correct) reset going out.
> > > 
> > > I can't think of any change we've made over the course of this
> > > release that would change behvaior in that area.
> > > 
> > > So you will likely need to bisect.
> > ..
> > 
> > Or I can ignore it, like the net developers, since I have a workaround.
> > And then we'll see what other apps are broken upon 2.6.25 final release.
> > 
> > Really, folks.  Bug reports are intended to *help* the developers,
> > not something to be thrown back in their faces.
> > 
> > There do seem to have been a *lot* of changes around the tcp closing/close
> > code (as I see from diff'ing 2.6.24 against latest -git).
> > 
> > *Somebody* is responsible for those changes.
> > That particular *somebody* ought to volunteer some help here,
> > reducing the mountain of commits to a big handful or two.
> > 
> 
> Could you do a poor-man's bisect and test 2.6.25-rc1 and -rc2, that
> would probably help a lot to narrow it down.


Seeing as how your Canadian.. any way to make sure it's not ISP (bell or 
bell wholesale) / rogers traffic shaping ?

	Gerhard

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<>< As a computer I find your faith in technology amusing.
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