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Date:      Fri, 8 Apr 2016 10:03:25 +0100
From:      Dr Josef Karthauser <joe@truespeed.com>
To:        Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable <stable@freebsd.org>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IPFW with NAT : Problems with duplicate packets on FreeBSD 10.3-RC3
Message-ID:  <F5A94B5B-9261-48F3-AD5E-C123EA48324D@truespeed.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160408154100.E39547@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
References:  <A03E136A-7599-4992-9F9E-13E7350F972B@truespeed.com> <20160408154100.E39547@sola.nimnet.asn.au>

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> On 8 Apr 2016, at 06:51, Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 7 Apr 2016 17:08:38 +0100, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote:
> 
> [ AppleMail msgs fail to quote properly in pine, so a partial quote: ]
> 
>> Looks like the first packet is being retransmitted, which means that 
>> the nat is probably misconfigured and the TCP connection is broken in
>> some strange way.
> 
>> Does anyone have a clue as to where to look? The ipfw rules are
>> simple enough - what have I missed?
> 
> Do you have TSO enabled on that NIC?  If so, see ipfw(8) BUGS, third 
> last para.  If not, no idea ..
> 

Thanks Ian,

It was exactly that issue! I wish I had remembered that I’d seen that in the man page; would have saved hours of debugging :)

Joe

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