From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Oct 1 22:14:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA03733 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 22:14:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ozramp.ozramp.net.au (rowan@ozramp.ozramp.net.au [203.17.73.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA03727 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 22:14:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rowan@localhost) by ozramp.ozramp.net.au (8.6.11/8.6.11) id PAA10253; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 15:15:52 +1000 Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 15:15:52 +1000 (EST) From: Rowan Crowe To: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Possible low level TCP bug Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="298516809-874746121-844233352=:9161" Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to mime@docserver.cac.washington.edu for more info. --298516809-874746121-844233352=:9161 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hello, I am a relative newcomer to FreeBSD. Firstly, let me say, I think it's a great OS! I will be going online full time soon, and I'll be using a FreeBSD box as my router. I have noticed some strange behaviour with packets originating from a FreeBSD box. I first saw this when connecting to an IRC server which uses FreeBSD, and just before I saw it come from my own FreeBSD box. The behaviour is this: seemingly small amounts of complete data (ie: a line on IRC) are split into two packets, and are sent about a second apart. The trace from my current router (not a FreeBSD box) shows this behaviour. Note the first packet has the PSH attribute. At most other times a complete set 500+ bytes is sent in one IP packet. One idea I had: possibly some sort of circular buffer quirk. I don't know anything about the internals of FreeBSD so this is a wild guess. Hope this helps, or you can enlighten me on this seemingly strange behaviour, if it's supposed to do that! Regards, Rowan Crowe Melbourne Australia --298516809-874746121-844233352=:9161 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; name="FreeBSD.tcp.bug" Content-Transfer-Encoding: BASE64 Content-ID: Content-Description: Text dump of router trace V2VkIE9jdCAwMiAxNDo1MDo1MSAxOTk2IC0gcHAwIHNlbnQ6DQ0KUFBQOiBs ZW4gMTA3ICAgIHByb3RvY29sOiBWSiBDb21wcmVzc2VkIFRDUC9JUA0NCiAg ICAgICAgY2hhbmdlczogMHgxZiAgIFRDUCBjaGVja3N1bTogMHg1YzYxICAg UFVTSA0NCiAgICAgICAgZGVsdGEgU0VRIGltcGxpZWQgYnkgbGVuZ3RoIG9m IGRhdGENDQogICAgICAgIGluY3JlbWVudCBJRA0NCjAwMDAgIFBSSVZNU0cg I0ZyZWVic2QgOi5BQ1RJT04gdGhpbmtzIGEgbG90IG9mIGZ1c3MgaXMgYmVp bmcgbWFkZSBvdmUNDQowMDQwICByIGEgc21hbGwgcHJvYmxlbSB3aGljaCBp cyBlYXNpbHkgZmkNDQoNDQpXZWQgT2N0IDAyIDE0OjUwOjUyIDE5OTYgLSBw cDAgcmVjdjoNDQpQUFA6IGxlbiAgNDQgICAgcHJvdG9jb2w6IElQDQ0KSVA6 IGxlbiA0MCAyMDMuMjIuMTg0LjEwLT4yMDMuMzAuMTEuMTMxIGlobCAyMCB0 dGwgNjQgdG9zIDggcHJvdCBUQ1ANDQpUQ1A6IDY2NjctPjEwNDQgU2VxIHgx ZmJjNDkyYSBBY2sgeDhkYzMzNzQ4IEFDSyBXbmQgODU3Ng0NCg0NCldlZCBP Y3QgMDIgMTQ6NTA6NTIgMTk5NiAtIHBwMCBzZW50Og0NClBQUDogbGVuICAx MiAgICBwcm90b2NvbDogVkogQ29tcHJlc3NlZCBUQ1AvSVANDQogICAgICAg IGNoYW5nZXM6IDB4MWYgICBUQ1AgY2hlY2tzdW06IDB4ZTJhNCAgIFBVU0gN DQogICAgICAgIGRlbHRhIFNFUSBpbXBsaWVkIGJ5IGxlbmd0aCBvZiBkYXRh DQ0KICAgICAgICBpbmNyZW1lbnQgSUQNDQowMDAwICB4ZWQuLg0NCg0NCg== --298516809-874746121-844233352=:9161--