Re: Problems with stability of networking / pfinet

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi,

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:13:04PM +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 10:06:54AM +0200, I wrote:

> > For a few weeks now, I seem to notice more and more problems w.r.t.
> > networking.  Olaf confirmed this.

Well, not exactly: While I can confirm that disabling syslog fixed the
ssh problems on some of Barry's boxes, the networking problems I'm
experiencing on *my* machine seem to have a different nature: When
apt-get downloads many packages during a larger upgrade, pfinet
regularily hangs after a while. The current ssh connection consequently
hangs as well. New connections fail, though IIRC in an unusual manner.
(Don't remember the details.)

After restarting pfinet and sshd, everything works again. (Well, I also
need to create a new screen session -- the old session is not able to
create new screens anymore, though the existing ones go on working
perfectly fine...)

I never tried disabling syslog on my box I think -- but I have a hard
time believing this problem is related to syslog as well...

-antrik-