[iyonix-support] Re: Iyonix hardware(?) problems
- From: Tom Hughes <tom@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 16:55:28 +0000
In message <b2e27b9f4e.druck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
David J. Ruck <druck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 3 Jan 2007 Tom Hughes <tom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> It's more likely that it is related to the routing cache (assuming
>> that the RISC OS stack is based on a recent enough BSD stack to have
>> that) which will implicitly create a host route for each host you
>> connect to and then (after you haven't talked to it for a while) timeout
>> that host route and delete it. That is functionality that is entirely
>> internal to the stack.
>
> That would certainly explain why it hasn't been possible to narrow it down to
> a specific application in Harriet's case, and seems to have after any period
> of internet activity regardless of the application in use.
>
>> The point of creating the implicit host routes is to use them to cache
>> things like round trip times and MTU values so that if you connect to
>> the same host again it has a better idea what values to start with.
>
> The question then being how come this is going wronng for Harriet almost
> constantly on two different machines and has only occured once for me.
> Could there be some issue with the values returned when talking to a
> particular ISP or remote site causing an overflow?
It shouldn't do - those are just numbers stored in the routing table
entry and have nothing to do with managing it's lifetime.
Tom
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