I had a strange experience today that I was wondering if anyone else has seen or has an explanation of.
I run the JavaScript tests via some scripts which start the browser, load a url from a local webserver, close the browser, and repeat a couple of thousand times. While the tests were running, ssh connections to other machines over my Hughesnet Satellite connection would just freeze up and stop responding. The Hughesnet gateway kept having TCP acceleration issues. I didn't seem to have the same problem with connecting to the test machine from another machine on my local network, just connecting the test machine to outside machines over the satellite connection. From my experience with Hughesnet, I assumed that the root problem was with the satellite connection, but as soon as the tests completed running my ssh connections to outside machines worked fine and the TCP acceleration problems ceased. I haven't tried to reproduce this yet since I am still recovering from the pita it caused, but will try to do so later. I'm wondering though if the act of starting up and stopping Firefox repeatedly like this could have caused my network problems? bc _______________________________________________ dev-tech-network mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-network
