Re: POP3 session hangs

From: ing. Fabio (goldrake1966_at_libero.it)
Date: 11/05/03 

Date: 5 Nov 2003 07:44:04 -0800

Questo succede perché sei uno sbifidone acido. Se + acido di una
spremuta di limoni verdi.

Ahhhhaahhhaa.

Fabio.

enricod@videotron.ca (Enrico Demarin) wrote in message news:<c2cecc9c.0310210837.241beb78@posting.google.com>...
> I am experiencing a weird problem downloading mail from a Linux (
> RedHat 6.2 , kernel 2.2.22-6.2.3 ) , from a Psion Epoq client through
> PPP :
>
> the connection after a while seems to hang, so i did a tcpdump and it
> hangs right here :
>
> ...
>
> 270 145.209900 CLIENT SERVER TCP 2795 > pop3
> [ACK] Seq=1637462565 Ack=3327575601 Win=8192 Len=0
> 271 145.209937 SERVER CLIENT POP Continuation
> 272 145.469903 CLIENT SERVER TCP 2795 > pop3
> [ACK] Seq=1637462565 Ack=3327577061 Win=8192 Len=0
> 273 145.469918 SERVER CLIENT POP Continuation
> 274 145.999993 CLIENT SERVER TCP 2795 > pop3
> [ACK] Seq=1637462565 Ack=3327578521 Win=8192 Len=0
> 275 146.000011 SERVER CLIENT POP Continuation
> 276 146.265720 CLIENT SERVER TCP 2795 > pop3
> [ACK] Seq=1637462565 Ack=3327579981 Win=8192 Len=0
> 277 146.265734 SERVER CLIENT POP Continuation
> 278 146.795770 CLIENT SERVER TCP 2795 > pop3
> [ACK] Seq=1637462565 Ack=3327581441 Win=8192 Len=0
> 279 146.795788 SERVER CLIENT POP Continuation
> 280 147.065809 CLIENT SERVER TCP 2795 > pop3
> [ACK] Seq=1637462565 Ack=3327582901 Win=8192 Len=0
> 281 147.065848 SERVER CLIENT POP Continuation
> 282 147.595846 CLIENT SERVER TCP 2795 > pop3
> [ACK] Seq=1637462565 Ack=3327584361 Win=6732 Len=0
> 283 147.865890 CLIENT SERVER TCP 2795 > pop3
> [ACK] Seq=1637462565 Ack=3327585821 Win=5272 Len=0
> 284 148.395924 CLIENT SERVER TCP 2795 > pop3
> [ACK] Seq=1637462565 Ack=3327587281 Win=3812 Len=0
> 285 148.665953 CLIENT SERVER TCP 2795 > pop3
> [ACK] Seq=1637462565 Ack=3327588741 Win=2352 Len=0
> 286 148.918120 CLIENT SERVER TCP 2795 > pop3
> [ACK] Seq=1637462565 Ack=3327590201 Win=892 Len=0
> 287 151.758721 SERVER CLIENT POP Continuation
> 288 152.408379 CLIENT SERVER TCP 2795 > pop3
> [ACK] Seq=1637462565 Ack=3327591093 Win=0 Len=0
> 289 158.098716 SERVER CLIENT TCP pop3 > 2795
> [ACK] Seq=3327591092 Ack=1637462565 Win=32120 Len=0
> 290 158.293192 CLIENT SERVER TCP 2795 > pop3
> [ACK] Seq=1637462565 Ack=3327591093 Win=0 Len=0
> 291 166.528715 SERVER CLIENT TCP pop3 > 2795
> [ACK] Seq=3327591092 Ack=1637462565 Win=32120 Len=0
> 292 166.701317 CLIENT SERVER TCP 2795 > pop3
> [ACK] Seq=1637462565 Ack=3327591093 Win=0 Len=0
> 293 183.178717 SERVER CLIENT TCP pop3 > 2795
> [ACK] Seq=3327591092 Ack=1637462565 Win=32120 Len=0
> 294 183.407362 CLIENT SERVER TCP 2795 > pop3
> [ACK] Seq=1637462565 Ack=3327591093 Win=0 Len=0
> 312 216.358713 SERVER CLIENT TCP pop3 > 2795
> [ACK] Seq=3327591092 Ack=1637462565 Win=32120 Len=0
> 313 216.520005 CLIENT SERVER TCP 2795 > pop3
> [ACK] Seq=1637462565 Ack=3327591093 Win=0 Len=0
> 331 282.438712 SERVER CLIENT TCP pop3 > 2795
> [ACK] Seq=3327591092 Ack=1637462565 Win=32120 Len=0
>
>
> And it goes on and on with this series of 2 packets :
>
> 444 763.058713 SERVER CLIENT TCP pop3 > 2795
> [ACK] Seq=3327591092 Ack=1637462565 Win=32120 Len=0
> 445 763.212666 CLIENT SERVER TCP 2795 > pop3
> [ACK] Seq=1637462565 Ack=3327591093 Win=0 Len=0
>
>
> What could be the problem ?
>
> Please let me know if you need more details and CC replies to my email
> since i'm not subscribed to this list.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Enrico