TCP stalls and VJ compression

[Paul Mackerras]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Clint Hepner wrote:

> I've been having problems with stalled downloads, mainly in Netscape,
> for several weeks now. Also, I've been unable to rsync from linuxcare;
> rsync would stop once I saw the "receiving file list..." message.
> I was searching through the archives tonight, and found the recommendation to
> disable Van Jacobsen header compression on the PPP link. I wasn't sure this
> would work, though, since I'm not actually running PPP on my machine; I
> connect over Ethernet through a Mac running IPNetRouter for a PPP dialup.
> However, disabling header compressoin solved both of my problems: Netscape
> downloads without stalling, and I can rsync from linuxcare again.

Where exactly and how did you disable TCP header compression?  And what's
at the other end of your PPP link?

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