Comment 293 for bug 204996

My Laptop locks up with an UMTS dialup connection, another fellow of me ha his laptop locking up on wired ethernet connected to a DSL modem. Both lockups occur, when the upstream bandwith is saturated with many TCP/IP-connections regardless from the locally used network interface. We both do not have an Intel 82573L adapter. From the point of TCP/IP packet drops and reordering it is sometimes favorable to have the bottleneck on the local side, which might explain, that for some users a wireless connection from the laptop to the DSL router might cure the problem.

@kpagan: Were's your bandwith bottleneck with wireless/wired connection? Which bandwith is available in both cases.

And yes, I *do* think a kernel developer should review the following patch, which fixes a deadlock-problem with some corner-states of the TCP stack:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=b000cd3707e7b25d76745f9c0e261c23d21fa578

  Best regards,

    Wolfgang