Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 23:13:42 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Jerry Bell <jbell@stelesys.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help with strange web server problem Message-ID: <43F3FBF6.1020501@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <43F3F70F.6040205@stelesys.com> References: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNCEGGFDAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <43F3F70F.6040205@stelesys.com>
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Jerry Bell wrote: [ ... ] > I've done some more troubleshooting and some strange things have > appeared. First, the colo says there is NO proxy, and NO firewall in > front of this server. That's believable too, perhaps you simply have a NIC which is failing or is screwing up the packet checksums in some odd case. You would have to sniff the traffic from another machine (perhaps a sysadmin's laptop?) and grab the full packets ("-s 0" to tcpdump to be sure. Have you tried swapping NICs or adding a PCI NIC card? BTW: > 1671172334:1671172334(0) win 64512 <mss 1260,nop,nop,sackOK> This is not quite enough data to tell, but this looks like maybe you're seeing the IPv6 MSS of 1260 rather than what I get by default (1460?) under FreeBSD? Of course, it could just be a Windows client machine or something going through something like a VPN/PPTP tunnel which reduces the MTU...? What happens if you reduce your interface MTU to 1260? You ought to be looking for all traffic between your server and a test host, BTW, sometimes the ICMP traffic, if any, is important to understanding the issue. -- -Chuck
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