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Date:      Tue, 26 Feb 2002 07:26:10 -0800 (PST)
From:      Jim <dillweed58@yahoo.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   FreeBSD connection problems
Message-ID:  <20020226152610.15135.qmail@web20407.mail.yahoo.com>

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I'm hoping someone can help me solve this strange
problem.

I have FreeBSD 4.4 on pent 3 500 with 384 meg.

The BSD box is on my LAN at home with a small web
server (apache), proftp, and qmail.  This has been the
set up since last summer.

I have a cable modem with a Linksys router that has
the latest firmware.

Some of the symptoms are this:

Within the LAN, Samba can't re-establish connect when
I boot up my win2k workstation; I have to click
'cancel'.

When I try to FTP to the BSD box on the LAN; I get
"connecting to ozric..." and then
"Connected to 192.168.1.110" and it just stays there
forever and finally times out.

When I try to telnet I get:
"Connecting to ozric..."
then
"Resolving ozric..."
then
"Connected to 192.168.1.110" but it stays there
forever and eventually, after a min or so, connects.

I can check for email no problem.  But when I try to
SMTP send mail, it hangs and times out.  Anyone trying
to relay email from outside the LAN also gets a
timeout.

I can ping the BSD box (192.168.1.110) with no
percentage lost.  And "netstat -an" shows no one is
connected by myself.

This first happened one time in fall last year, but
cleared up after 2 days.

It next happened last week and the duration was again
about 2 days.

Now it doing it again and I can't nail it down.

I have not done any config changes to the FreeBSD box
in months.

I tried using ethereal but I'm not sure what to look
for.

Anyone got any ideas where I might be able to solving
this?

Thanks!
Jim

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