On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 01:41:51 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> fetchmail broke. It's fetching mail from localhost (ssh port-forwarded to
> remote servers) and then for some reason it wants to open an SMTP
> connection to localhost. It was failing, some error message about that
> SMTP connection.
>
> While I was poking at it, it started to work. `uptime' said 6 minutes. So
> I'd be suspecting that there's a jiffy wrap bug in TCP-to-localhost
> introduced since 2.6.9-rc3.
That's possible.
It could also be something that only happens the first time you try
to talk to a remote system.
You're using e1000 on x86 right? Maybe force TSO off via ethtool
right after the interface is brought up and see if that makes it
go away?
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