From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Mackerras To: Clint Hepner , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: TCP stalls and VJ compression Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 15:51:22 +1100 Content-Type: text/plain References: <20000210211623.B896@cs.dartmouth.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0002111552340D.12760@argo.linuxcare.com.au> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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? -- Paul Mackerras, Senior Open Source Researcher, Linuxcare, Inc. +61 2 6262 8990 tel, +61 2 6262 8991 fax paulus@linuxcare.com.au, http://www.linuxcare.com.au/ Linuxcare. Support for the revolution. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/