Subj : TCP/IP - Neigborhood Router Woes
To : All
From : Mike Luther
Date : Sun Oct 28 2001 01:04 am
My IP's tech and I are puzzled.
I'm with COX on a cable system. Have been for a long time. I stumbled on one
of the Israeli info sites which has been useful to watch in gathering 'what
next?' data on the political situations. But with that has come a problem for
my neighbors!
I'm using NS 4.61, TCP/IP I guess it is 4.1, at any rate the one that uses
WR8425 and UN980 as the now top of the fixme line for it. I have digit block,
somehow on all these version numbers .. but whatever, that's the version I
have.
When I click on:
www.debka.com
I get the sometimes seen peg on the CPU meter on the WPS, but this thing stays
up there in segments of action like that for maybe two minutes or more before
this thing finally loads!
During the entire time it is loading, the entire desktop is frozen. If you
happen to have the cursor over the Netscape window, the cursor turns into the
little clock and stays there until it starts another segment of this behavior.
For most of this cycle, you can do nothing with the desktop and the box is
still working, as to other tasks continuing, but you can't change focus, nor
use the keyboard at all.
The latest Warp 4.5 Kernel, PMMERGE, and so on in the Fixpack 15 and onward
saga, nor backleveling to the initial Fixpack 15 stuff make no difference. But
I can't do anything about the TCP/IP game. Sort of "I am what I am.",logic,
chuckling here...
More important, if you have a PING window set up to look at the cable router,
the IP's DNS, IP's main server, and so on, the times to reach them stretch out
to even 4000 MS for all of them!
I've been curious about this since I hit it. But there are other more
important things and it came to focus with my IP during the recent run of
tech-talk during the viruses (viri) which were pounding the system and still
are. Yes Johnathan, men write viruses, even the polymorphic kind, it was good
punishment ... chuckle!
The COX tech was dumbfounded when he and I were doing joint PING and TRACERTE
operations coordinated over the phone between us. He is in Tyler,Texas, and
I'm in College Station, Texas. He watches the cable system here starting at my
neighborhood router start taking up to 4000 MS ping times as soon as I see the
effect at my box! Between us we narrowed it down to a point in the connection
traffic when DEBKA is sending data to me, not me sending anything to DEBKA.
The tech confirms that when my site becomes involved in this, the entire
collection of cable people here is in for the long haul too! Yet both of us
agree that there is no traffic passing over the connection; the modem and
router are silent for data. He and I are puzzled.
I posted this in the WWW Usegroup. Many people can see this site in about 10
seconds or so total load time with OS/2 and NS 4.6.latest. Others have the
same effect as I do. I thought it was geographically oriented as to the flaw,
but Stan Goodman, in Israel, sees the effect too! Yet at the same time, the
COX tech in Tyler does not. Nor does Al Savage out on the West Coast.
Al Savage indicates that it is a 'feature' of Netscape wherein it takes
Netscape forever to render the huge text frames that DEBKA sends in with the
hookup to their site. He indicates that only Netscape for OS/2 has the CPU
bashing symptoms. The Tyler tech has the same experience.
I can buy that. However, even if that is true, the system should not be able
to tie up a router sending it into delay oblivion, just while it is rendering
text! And if so, why do some of us see it and others do not? The thread ran
out in the Usegroup with no further suggestios.
Both COX and I want to know what's causing this. If it is a flaw in the OS/2
side of the house, both of us want to see if we can get it addressed. However
neither of us knows quite where to turn with the tools available at our level
of knowledge. COX really has some quality people aboard that do listen, to my
experience. They state they have very little experience with OS/2, but are, so
told me, *NOT* a WIN operation. They are told me to be solid UNIX, which I
guess must mean LINUX, but maybe are for-real SUN SOLARIS or whatever like
that.
Any thoughts on this one?
--> Sleep well; OS/2's still awake! ;)
Mike @ 1:117/3001
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