Re: Frequent download time outs - Solved?

2001-02-08 Thread Jeff Kelm
I have figured out a way to solve my problem. Using tcpdump I was able to determine that the problem always occurred when the exchange was doing SACK (Selective Acknowledgement). This is a feature turned on by default in the 2.2.x kernels (actually since 2.1.??). It is intended to increase

Re: Frequent download time outs

2001-01-21 Thread Jeff Kelm
Carl Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have the same problem, but some sites are much worse than others. I know it was happening with Debian 2.1, but I don't know about before that. You don't mention if you are using a modem, cable, or DSL, but I am using a modem. My suspicion is that it is

Frequent download time outs

2001-01-20 Thread Jeff Kelm
I am having trouble getting reliable downloads using Debian 2.2. After downloading 30-150KB the download usually stops and eventually times out. I noticed this first when I tried using apt-get to download the base system packages. During 'apt-get update' download of the package lists, the

Re: Debian 2.2: download stops during apt-get update

2000-12-20 Thread Jeff Kelm
What happens if you do a flood ping? (assuming this is between 2 local machines). Normally, you should see a dot flashing on lhs of screen, with a dot drawn for each error. Perhaps you get no errors for a while and then the card falls over giving you lines and lines of dots? This isn't

Re: Debian 2.2: download stops during apt-get update

2000-12-17 Thread Jeff Kelm
I still haven't been able to get 2.2 to network properly. A suggestion was a possible hardware problem. I don't see how this would explain the problem. If I boot off the harddrive with Debian 1.3, everything works fine. Booting off the harddrive with Debian 2.2 and the problem shows up. No

Debian 2.2: download stops during apt-get update

2000-12-09 Thread Jeff Kelm
I am in the process of trying to upgrade my computers to 2.2. My workstation was running 2.0 and my server was running 1.3. When I upgraded my workstation, I started having network problems. Downloading files seems to frequently stop after 1-5 minutes. The network is still up, pinging the