On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Jonathan Conrad wrote: > The problem is that often while receiving a stream of data over > a connected socket, the stream will stall, especially when a > large amount of information is available to send at one time. > For instance, email of only a few kilobytes in size will be > delivered from my ISP's POP3 server without problem, but some > messages larger than 10 kilobytes or so will cause fetchmail > to time-out. If I telnet to a remote shell account and issue > a command such as, "cat /proc/net/tcp," the listing never > (in my short amount of patience) completes, though I am still > able to issue the command "exit" after it stops, and the server > will then acknowledge that by closing the connection. I don't know if this is your problem, but in my experience the problem of small tcp-connections going throught without problems and big stalling are mostly coming from a. different MTU's on 2 sides of a link or b. blocked "fragmentation needed" icmp-packets and one link with smaller MTU on the way. c'ya sven -- The Internet treats censorship as a routing problem, and routes around it. (John Gilmore on http://www.cygnus.com/~gnu/) - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
