Re: kernel 2.6.8.1

Graham Murray <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.unix
Message-ID <[email protected]>
danny van elsen <[email protected]> writes:

> 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?

Could it be because the default TCP window scaling changed to 7 in kernel
2.6.8? I believe that other equipment has problems with this and
treats the windows scaling as 1 and thus the connection stalls
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