HWeiss@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL (07/06/90)
Sounds just like silly window syndrome! Looks like one end of the connection has exhausted all its buffers and has closed its incoming packet window. The other end keeps probing the zero window sending a little bit more data and the zero window machine is still out of buffers. Usually what happens in this situation is that if you leave the connection alone for a period of time, the buffer congestion will go away, a bunch more packets will get delivered, the buffers will get congested again, and you go around in circles. There was a RFC written a number of years ago by Dave Clark commenting on how to avoid this kind of situation. Howard Weiss Sparta, Inc.