Re: Is something wrong with 2.0.33??

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 8 Jan 1998 11:49:53 +0000 (GMT)


> 2. I have watched a tcpdump during other transfers and have found
> that my ACK's after having lost a packet never seem to make it to the
> site I am FTPing from. Doing a traceroute to the site at this time
> will often kick the ftp going again (and I have a little shell script
> I use which watches the file I am getting and does a traceroute should
> it ever stall.) Idle speculation: the route back to the site has
> gotten clobbered and the ICMP package has a better chance discovering
> a new route than does a TCP ack. Now I constantly run this in a very

Idle but wildly implausible. It may just be the time you see drop outs. It
may even more likely be a vj compression bug on the terminal server (or
maybe the Linux end tho I think not given the origin and age of the code).
Tru running pppd with -vj

Alan