On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Thomas Jarosch wrote: > On Thursday, 10. July 2008 15:17:53 you wrote: > > It looks as the smtp server receives the packets slowly and it's just > > behind the client. There's no more packet to/from port 53132 in the > > tcpdump. > > Thanks for looking into this, Jozsef. If you take a look at the timing > information, the connection was already running ~270 seconds without real > data transfer. The mailserver then aborts the SMTP connection with the error > msg: "421 mailbackup.webpage.t-com.de Lost connection to [217.85.147.6]" > Only after that the port is "changed" to the wrong one. > > The time ranges between the retransmissions seem > to really go downhill after the first retransmission. > > The linux box is connected via a mostly idle 2 mbit SDSL line, the mailserver > is located at the provider. So theoretically this shouldn't be slow at all. > This is also proved as 2.6.23.17 works without trouble. You did not mention the type of your driver. Isn't there some changes in the driver code between 2.6.23.17 and 2.6.24 which could cause such stallings? Best regards, Jozsef - E-mail : kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxx PGP key : http://www.kfki.hu/~kadlec/pgp_public_key.txt Address : KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics H-1525 Budapest 114, POB. 49, Hungary -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html