Re: TCP Connection lockup between 2.4.0 and 2.4.5

[David S. Miller]

Darryl Miles writes:
 > It appears the .218 end stops ACKing, even though it is obviously seeing
 > the data come in, since the TCPDUMP is from the .218 host.  I've been
 > running 2.4.0 on 10.0.0.218 since 9th Jan and can't believe that this
 > problem is a bug in 2.4.0, since it was speaking with the .219 box all
 > this time until I recently updated the .219 end from 2.0.32 to 2.4.5
 > over last weekend.

Believe it or not, it is likely a bug in 2.4.0 :-)  2.4.0 has several
major TCP failures, not fixed until 2.4.4/2.4.5.

Later,
David S. Miller
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