In message <Pine.NEB.3.91.951023221449.14983A-100000@tuhnu.cute.fi>  Jarkko Torppa wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Oct 1995, Peter Seebach wrote:
> 
> > Certainly, I've never had that panic, even on a 6+ user ISP.
> 
> One machine i'm admistering sees that often when the flakey
> ethernet repeater behind it fails. It has 2 interfaces and it is 
> gatewaying between them, NMBCLUSTER right now at 4096.

Than dropping incomings would make it worse. I think missing acks 
is you're problem already.

Work around: scale down tcp_sendbuffer space.

Stefan
> 
> Makes me wonder if there is/were a misfeature somewhere.
> 
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>  Jarkko.Torppa@cute.fi     +358-0-648090          Cute Communications Oy
> 

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