From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 2 23:17:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA02508 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 2 Nov 1996 23:17:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.webspan.net (mail.webspan.net [206.154.70.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA02501 for ; Sat, 2 Nov 1996 23:17:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.5]) by mail.webspan.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA10351; Sun, 3 Nov 1996 02:16:45 -0500 (EST) Received: from orion.webspan.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA05667; Sun, 3 Nov 1996 02:16:45 -0500 (EST) To: robert@chalmers.com.au (Robert Chalmers) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (bsd) From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: server slow to react? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 02 Nov 1996 22:02:51 +1000." Date: Sun, 03 Nov 1996 02:16:44 -0500 Message-ID: <5665.847005404@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Robert Chalmers wrote in message ID : > Hi, > Having problems I think with the server being slow to react, and > causing timeout problems? > > If I ping the FreeBSD server with the SCO box, I get 0 ms times, > yet if I use the FreeBSD box to ping the SCO I get 1.2ms times. > > The FreeBSD www server wont respond to Yahoo.com, and it times out > the attempt, yet yahoo.com connects to the sco box no worries. > > Both machines are on the same network, and go through a Stallion > Communications Server. Try turning off TCP extensions in /etc/sysconfig ... I bet they're biting you. The Stallion probably has a broken TCP/IP implimentation that can't handle the larger header sizes. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info