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From: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
To: kernel <kernel@nea-fast.com>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.9 tcp problems
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 07:43:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041130064338.GI783@alpha.home.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41AB6476.8060405@nea-fast.com>

It is possible that the autoneg code has changed between 2.4 and 2.6
for the interface connected to the current firewall, and that you lose
packets because of a duplex mismatch. Please check the negociation
with ethtool on your system, and do so on the other firewall.

Regards,
willy

On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 01:03:34PM -0500, kernel wrote:
> I've run into a problem with 2.6.(8.1,9) after installing a secondary 
> firewall. When I try to pull data through the original firewall (mail, 
> http, ssh), it stops after approx. 260k. Running ethereal tells me "A 
> segment before the frame was lost" followed by a bunch of  "This is a 
> TCP duplicate ack" when using ssh. All 2.4.x machines and windows 
> clients work fine. I built 2.4.28 and it works fine from my machine. I 
> also fiddled with tcp_ecn and that didn't fix it either. I don't have 
> any problems communicating to "local" machines. I've attached the 
> tcpdump output from an scp attempt. NIC is a 3Com Corporation 3c905B.
> 
> Thanks !
> walt
> 



  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-11-30  6:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-29 18:03 2.6.9 tcp problems kernel
2004-11-29 18:35 ` Stephen Hemminger
2004-11-30  6:43 ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
2004-11-30 15:44 ` John Heffner
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-11-29 19:44 kernel
2004-12-01 14:11 ` Mark Watts

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