From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 14 12:08:52 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3E4A16A4CE for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 12:08:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from v8.acast.nova.edu (v8.acast.nova.edu [137.52.224.128]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9B5743D39 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 12:08:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jonaadam@nsu.acast.nova.edu) Received: from v8.acast.nova.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by v8.acast.nova.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i5EC8r5m010127 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 08:08:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (mail21000.acast.nova.edu [137.52.226.94]) by v8.acast.nova.edu (8.12.10/8.12.1) with ESMTP id i5EC8qlk010122 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 08:08:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 164.214.4.62 ( [164.214.4.62]) as user jonaadam@v81000 by mail2.acast.nova.edu with HTTP; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 08:08:52 -0400 Message-ID: <1087214932.40cd9554bc024@mail2.acast.nova.edu> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 08:08:52 -0400 From: Jon Adams To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 4.0 X-Originating-IP: 164.214.4.62 Subject: Newbie Issues (networking w/ FreeBSD) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 12:08:52 -0000 Hi all, First a qualifier: I am FreeBSD noob, I have had exposure to it for about two years, but I just built my first FreeBSD box last nite... fresh install over an old (and extremely tweaked) Red Hat Linux box.... After much procrastination, I have finally made the change (been stuck on linux since 98). The (main) problem -> My network connectivity is ridiculously slow... I had OpenSSH timeout set to the default, 120 secs, and the messages file said the connections (on the same 100MBPs hub mind you) were timing out before authentication (password). I went in and doubled the timeout, and after a long wait (I didnt check the time) I could get a password prompt... at first I thought this was just a SSH problem, but it is the same if I use telnet (or any other network service). I have several devices on my Lan including 2 (eww) Windows XP laptops, and a PS2 and a XP workstation. I have 3 public IPs, (Speakeasy is the ISP) The laptops use a LinkSys 54G Wireless Hub and one public IP (its plugged into a NetGear 4 port hub), I split another IP with the Desktop and PS2, and the FreeBSD box will have its own IP, of course the final port is the uplink. There are absolutly no connectivity problems with the other machines. The FreeBSD box cannot connect to the dns servers (on three different networks) or much of anything else. Here is the really weird part, when I run an NMAP scan from inside the network and one from outside the network, the box is reachable (NMAP can see the ports and determine the OS), but nothing can connect to it (all connections time out). Any suggestions would help: about the box FreeBSD version 5.1 Release CPU Celeron 733, 384 (3x128) MB Ram 30GB WD HD, 768 MB Swap, the rest in various partitions 12x4x40 CD Burner 48x CD Drive SiS 6326 Video RTL8139 chip network card (rl0) using static IP (I know I read about issues using this card and DHCP... but I am not using DHCP) I dont know if this is a side effect of the networking problem, but my Xwindows is incredible slow as well. This is with both KDE and Gnome. I havent seen any other weirdness whatsoever in the system logs. off the topic, if anybody could point me at how to build ipfw I would appreciate it, i have seen the basic tutorials via google, but have no idea where to get the kernel sources to do the install. -- Jonathan Keirre Adams PhD Candidate, Computer Information Systems Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences Nova Southeastern University Web: http://www.scis.nova.edu/~jonaadam