From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 16 02:08:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA01809 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 02:08:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA01751 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 02:07:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (from narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA00252; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 12:05:42 +0200 Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 12:05:42 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Overloading Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk A strange problem with a FreeBSD box working as a packet filtering router: 1) Symptom: During a data transfer from a real close site featuring speed around 200Kb/s the connection would fail and the FreeBSD box just hang. 2) Networks: The networks on the both sides are plain 10Base2 ethernets 3) Configuration: the machine running FreeBSD 2.1-release is a 486DX4-120 with 16MB RAM & two D-link PCI cards using the DEC 21040 chipsets. 4) The firewall rule list contains 5 entries Does anyone know what could be causing this? Could it be re-occuring in the future and what could be making the FreeBSD hang instead of just dropping the packets it can't handle? Sander.