TCP dies on a Linux laptop
- by Roman Cheplyaka
Once in several days I have the following problem. My laptop (Debian GNU/Linux testing)
suddenly becomes unable to work with TCP connections to the internet.
The following things continue to work fine:
UDP (DNS), ICMP (ping) — I get instant response
TCP connections to other machines in the local network (e.g. I can ssh to a
neighbour laptop)…