On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Dâniel Fraga wrote: > On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:18:22 -0700 (PDT) > David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > We had the same situation with ECN and window scaling, and my proposal > > is the same as how we handled those situations involving broken > > middleware boxes. > > Sorry for my ignorance (I'm just an user), but if the problem > is not with Linux, why this problem appeared just on 2.6.25 kernel? I > mean, with 2.6.24 and before I never had stalled connections. Just a > coincidence? Or something has changed in 2.6.25 which caused this? I still propose that you tcpdump it, then I can tell you (I know enough about Thomas' case but yours has a large number of unknowns)... :-) I don't know why 2.6.24 didn't suffer from the problem as FRTO was enabled already in it. The command you need to create dump.log file: # tcpdump -w dump.log -i <iface> host <peerip> ...you need root rights (or sudo) to do the capturing. -- i.