From owner-freebsd-net Mon Mar 15 1: 3:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from arthur.axion.bt.co.uk (arthur.axion.bt.co.uk [132.146.5.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03B2514E1E for ; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 01:03:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from graeme.brown@bt-sys.bt.co.uk) Received: from rambo (actually rambo.futures.bt.co.uk) by arthur (local) with SMTP; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 09:02:07 +0000 Received: from maczebedee (actually macsmtp) by rambo with SMTP (PP); Mon, 15 Mar 1999 09:03:06 +0000 Message-ID: Date: 15 Mar 1999 09:06:36 +0100 From: Graeme Brown Subject: Why does it it take so long to establish a connection to some FreeBSD hosts ? To: "FreeBSD-Net (FreeBSD.Org) List" X-Mailer: Mail*Link SMTP for Quarterdeck Mail; Version 4.0.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi I have noticed on several occasions that it may take on the order of minutes to establish a telnet or ftp connection between two FreeBSD (typically our FBSD boxes are using releases 2.2.6 -> 2.2.8. Does this have something to do with TCP configuration options ? What do I need to do to speed this up ? TIA Graeme N Brown BT labs, Uk email: graeme.brown@bt-sys.bt.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message