From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 25 18:56:43 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F260316A418 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:56:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sbruno@miralink.com) Received: from plato.miralink.com (mail.miralink.com [70.103.185.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2D4F13C481 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:56:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sbruno@miralink.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by plato.miralink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98FD01E002E for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:56:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from plato.miralink.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (plato.miralink.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 03701-10 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:56:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.0.0.40] (iago.office.miralink.com [10.0.0.40]) by plato.miralink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6CD91E002D for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:56:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4720E6EA.50409@miralink.com> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:56:42 -0700 From: Sean Bruno User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <471F85DD.1070906@miralink.com> <20071025035454.GA28174@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <4720D41C.4030606@miralink.com> <20071025182604.GA72040@eos.sc1.parodius.com> In-Reply-To: <20071025182604.GA72040@eos.sc1.parodius.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-DSPAM-Result: Innocent X-DSPAM-Processed: Thu Oct 25 11:56:43 2007 X-DSPAM-Confidence: 0.9997 X-DSPAM-Probability: 0.0000 X-DSPAM-Signature: 4720e6eb161488539715904 X-DSPAM-Factors: 27, X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.499 tagged_above=-10 required=6.6 autolearn=ham tests=[ALL_TRUSTED=-1.8, AWL=-0.000, BAYES_00=-2.599, DSPAM_HAM=-0.1] X-Spam-Score: -4.499 X-Spam-Level: Subject: FreeBSD.org website problems was: Serial speed for boot device selection prompt X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:56:44 -0000 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 10:36:28AM -0700, Sean Bruno wrote: > >> Thanks for the pointers. I am currently unable to access www.freebsd.org >> for some reason. It appears that I get a timeout trying to retrieve >> anything from the web site. Other folks in my office seem to have the same >> problem, yet I can access the web site from my home network. >> >> Any ideas what the connection issues might be? >> > > Someone else recently reported similar on their FreeBSD box, and the fix > for them was to disable RFC1323 TCP window scaling. Try this: > > sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=0 > > If this works for you, you can place the variable=value portion in > /etc/sysctl.conf for application upon start-up. > > If your FreeBSD box acts as a gateway for the rest of your office, and > the then that might explain why others are seeing the same thing. > Otherwise the problem is likely not FreeBSD-related, and you should > talk to your office networking folks to find out what's going on. > > Interesting, what is _really_ going on with the website? I was having connectivity issues to www.freebsd.org from linux, netbsd and freebsd machines. After adjusting the appropriate value for linux, netbsd and freebsd the issues seem to clear. Under linux adjust: net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling Under FreeBSD/NetBSD adjust: net.inet.tcp.rfc1323 Sean