Re: [OT] Re: ipv6 stack seems to forget to send ACKs

[Andrew McGregor <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Probably not slow and/or overloaded.  I'd think it's more likely that it 
has a routing update problem or an unreliable link.  But whatever, this 
seemed to me to be a classic 'dodgy box in the middle' rather than an end 
host problem.

Andrew

--On Wednesday, January 08, 2003 21:31:04 +0100 Fabio Massimo Di Nitto 
<fabbione@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Definitly it is somehow unstable. Difficult to find the reason.
> Anyway Im sure that there is asimmetric routing between me and
> ipv6.lkml.org and I could see pkts coming back. It might not have been the
> case for Wichert
>
> Fabio
>
> On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Maciej Soltysiak wrote:
>
> > > Probably on the server's side it got an ICMP Host Unreachable or two as
> > > some router updated its tables, and decided to close the connection.
> > Sounds reasonable to me. Could it mean that this router that we are
> > talking about is simply slow or overloaded ?
> >
> > Maciej