Re: [OT] Re: ipv6 stack seems to forget to send ACKs

Andrew McGregor
2003-01-08T20:31:01Z

Probably not slow and/or overloaded. I'd think it's more likely that it
has a routing update problem or an unreliable link. But whatever, this
seemed to me to be a classic 'dodgy box in the middle' rather than an end
host problem.

Andrew

--On Wednesday, January 08, 2003 21:31:04 +0100 Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
<fabbione@fabbione.net> wrote:

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> Definitly it is somehow unstable. Difficult to find the reason.
> Anyway Im sure that there is asimmetric routing between me and
> ipv6.lkml.org and I could see pkts coming back. It might not have been the
> case for Wichert
>
> Fabio
>
> On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Maciej Soltysiak wrote:
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>> > Probably on the server's side it got an ICMP Host Unreachable or two as
>> > some router updated its tables, and decided to close the connection.
>> Sounds reasonable to me. Could it mean that this router that we are
>> talking about is simply slow or overloaded ?
>>
>> Maciej
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