Bug 536775

Summary: tcp6 retransmission broken
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Wolfgang Rupprecht <wolfgang.rupprecht>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 12CC: dougsland, fschwarz, gansalmon, itamar, kernel-maint
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Description Wolfgang Rupprecht 2009-11-11 10:39:03 UTC
Created attachment 369005 [details]
Wireshark packet dump of a failed transmission

Description of problem:

tcp6 retransmission seems to be broken.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

kernel 2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64 

How reproducible:
very

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start a yum to a site that is ipv6 capable but slightly overloaded.
2. watch a packet get dropped and linux ask for a single retransmission and then nothing.
3. 
  
Actual results:
retransmission of last ACK stops after one retry.

Expected results:
retransmission of last ACK till the other side sends the missed data.

Additional info:

Shouldn't there be some timeout after which tcp throws in the towel?  I've watched these hangs persist for many hours (This hang persisted for 9 hrs).

Comment 1 Wolfgang Rupprecht 2009-11-11 17:38:13 UTC
My buddy tells me that this is normal for TCP.  TCP never retransmits an ACK unless it has data to send.  I guess I should close this bug.

Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2009-11-16 15:26:14 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle.
Changing version to '12'.

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Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2010-12-04 03:23:50 UTC
Fedora 12 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-12-02. Fedora 12 is 
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