From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@linuxcare.com>
To: Clint Hepner <chepner@cs.dartmouth.edu>, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: TCP stalls and VJ compression
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 15:51:22 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0002111552340D.12760@argo.linuxcare.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20000210211623.B896@cs.dartmouth.edu
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Clint Hepner wrote:
> I've been having problems with stalled downloads, mainly in Netscape,
> for several weeks now. Also, I've been unable to rsync from linuxcare;
> rsync would stop once I saw the "receiving file list..." message.
> I was searching through the archives tonight, and found the recommendation to
> disable Van Jacobsen header compression on the PPP link. I wasn't sure this
> would work, though, since I'm not actually running PPP on my machine; I
> connect over Ethernet through a Mac running IPNetRouter for a PPP dialup.
> However, disabling header compressoin solved both of my problems: Netscape
> downloads without stalling, and I can rsync from linuxcare again.
Where exactly and how did you disable TCP header compression? And what's
at the other end of your PPP link?
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Paul Mackerras, Senior Open Source Researcher, Linuxcare, Inc.
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