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:
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> 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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