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Re: .65-.72 to .73 problems go away
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (lilo)
Mon Dec 19 12:15:37 1994
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 1994 09:57:12 +0000
From: lilo <TaRDiS@mail.utexas.edu>
To: Brian Edmonds <edmonds@cs.ubc.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199412190927.BAA00693@edmonds.home.cs.ubc.ca>
On Mon, 19 Dec 1994, Brian Edmonds wrote:
> >>>>> On Sun, 18 Dec 1994, lilo <TaRDiS@mail.utexas.edu> said:
>
> l> Some of the tcp.c code was completely rewritten between 1.1.72 and
> l> 1.1.73. I think Alan plans to rewrite more of it.
>
> I hope so. As someone else (I forget who) pointed out here, p73 is
> resulting in a lot of hung sockets for me. This reminds of the old days
> of 0.99.13 before I added Fred's net2e patches, when I had to reboot
> every day to clean up the jammed sockets. Say what you will of Fred's
> work, but it was a real lifesaver for me at the time -- kept me going
> right up until I upgraded to 1.1.36...
I think we'd probably have seen a patch much more quickly, but for the
time of year. As I understand it, Alan is out until the beginning of
the year, and I'm sure we'll see another patch sometime soon
thereafter.... The jammed sockets are a known problem with 1.1.73....
lilo
