Re: kernel 2.6.8.1

danny van elsen wrote:
> hello all,
> 
> I have an odd problem with mozilla under kernel version 2.6.8.1: it
> doesn't succeed at collecting mail... after displaying 'connecting to [my
> pop server] in the status bar, it just keeps displaying this same text,
> and never really downloads the new mail.
> 
> I regularly compile the latest source version of mozilla, but thunderbird
> shows the same error...
> 
> Returning to kernel 2.6.6 solves the problem, but I don't understand why?
> 
> greetings, D.

This comment is brought to you via 2.6.8.1

It must be something in your networking.  My setup is a cable-modem 
using (surprise) dhcp over eth1 and using the Linux firewall.  This means:
- no ppp or pppiop setup
- no actual modem

I'd do not know what you are using, but the HW drivers or whatever ppp 
stuff you use could be a good place to start.

Do you use some special window/block sizes? (When I first started using 
NFS, files > 2MB were not being transferred at all - it just hung, it 
turned out that 2.4 allowed larger blocking than 2.6 does)

What else does not work?

Any messages in /var/log/messages?



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