From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Willstrand" Subject: Re: TCP connection failure in kernel 2.6.25 Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:56:02 +0200 Message-ID: <1209315362.2934.55.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1209205136.2929.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1209241624.2929.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: "M. Istehbab" Return-path: Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.154]:40442 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753860AbYD0RBQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:01:16 -0400 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id l27so4572165fgb.17 for ; Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:01:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 11:02 +0500, M. Istehbab wrote: > On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 1:27 AM, H. Willstrand wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 17:16 +0500, M. Istehbab wrote: > > > Yes, after a while (it can be a few seconds, minutes, or 1+ hour) the > > > proxy server starts accepting connections again. I don't need to > > > reboot the box when this happens. > > > > > > This happens randomely to anyone behind it. Then, after a while, it > > > starts working again by itself. > > > > > Well, there are too many possibilities for failures... the Linux > > distribution (RHEL 3 workstation) was built for 2.4.21 (around year > > 2003) and you try 2.6.x > > > > Maybe you should stick to one of the later 2.4.x kernels or even better > > upgrade the Linux distribution. > > > > Cheers, > > H. Willstrand > > > I didn't have problems with rhel ws3 or with the kernel it came with. > I removed it in favour of debian a long time back, when debian/etch r0 > was released. > > I have been running debian etch r2 (4.0 r2) ever since, which comes > with kernel (2.6.18-5-686). As you might notice from the mentioned > kernel versions, I tried upgrading to kernels from lenny/debian and > sid/debian hoping to find a solution. I tried from 2.3.13 - 2.6.25 > from both debian packages and vanilla sources (as they are called), > but the problem persists. It started and is continuing on debian. > So, you have the same issue with all tested kernels RHEL 3 works, Debian fails This smells configuration failure, you better compare your working configuration with the others. // H.Willstrand > I have 2 ISPs hooked into this box. One is CIR, the other is ADSL. The > ADSL runs over pppoe. I don't know if the 2.4.x kernels support pppoe. > The 2.6.x kernels do. I need to run 2 ISPs on this box seemlessly. > > The last rhel version I used was using kernel 2.6.9. I'm going to grab > that and see if that helps. > > I need pppoe, iptables, vpn, scsi with raid support, smp, and a around > 8000 file descriptors to run stable on this box. > > M. Istehbab