On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Martin Schmiedel wrote:
> I'm having some minor troubles with my ppp connection.
>
> I have managed to achieve a stable internet connection with ppp, but I'm
> still not 100% happy with it. For instance, I'm downloading StarOffice for
> Windows right now, and I have downloaded about 50% in 2 hours and 30
> minutes. Since I've been browsing, I think it is a quite good time. When I
> connect with Linux, however, something is not as fast as with Windows, and I
> think it should be quite faster.
> I've never managed to get StarOffice to
> download more than 7%, at some moment, the connection stalls.
This happens to me all the time; the problem is often Netscape. It
has some bug which has been there as long as I can remember where it
will stall during a long download. Believe it or not, all you need to
do is generate some X events in the download window (or maybe anywhere
in Netscape): just move your mouse in and out of the window and it
will start up again. Repeat every time it stalls (evey couple of
minutes). Yes, this means you need to babysit any long download you
do with Netscape. Sometimes it won't happen at all; I really have no
clue what is going on. I should strace it sometime, not that I could
do anything about it if I did...
> On the other
> hand, Netscape hangs quite often. When I use it for a while, it stops
> responding (all open windows). When I close it and open it again, it seems
> to work properly. What can I do about it?
Nothing. If you do a 'netstat -tna', you'll see a socket or two in
the 'SYN_SENT' state. This is the remote site not responding sensibly
to netscape's attempt to start a connection, I suppose. When a socket
is in that state netscape gets stuck for whatever reason. Once the
socket clears (several minutes if you aren't lucky: more than 10 and
less than 30), everything will be fine again.
None of this is ppp sepecific; I've seen both on ethernet.
-Scott Berg
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