From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jan 29 8:21:55 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A979037B401 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 08:21:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.87]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44D0343F43 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 08:21:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtp02.mac.com (asmtp02-qfe3 [10.13.10.66]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id h0TGLrg7024822 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 08:21:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from bust ([12.38.161.88]) by asmtp02.mac.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id H9HHGG00.9AP for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 08:21:52 -0800 Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 11:21:50 -0500 Subject: Re: TCP oddities in -STABLE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v482) From: Chuck Swiger To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20030129093958.GG88010@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> Message-Id: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.482) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, January 29, 2003, at 04:39 AM, Peter Jeremy wrote: > Background: The client is an old Pentium laptop running 4.6 from > mid-July, using a 3Com Etherlink III 3C589 NIC (10baseT). The server > is an Athlon XP running -stable from last Sunday, using a RealTek 8139 > NIC (100baseTX FD). They are connected using a cheap-and-very-nasty > switch. 'netstat -m' on the client shows no problems and there are no > kernel messages suggesting a resource problem. Try switching the Althon box to running a 10Mbs/HD; your switch may not be handling the different speeds very well. (Although your NICs are also somewhat dubious in terms of quality hardware, too.) -Chuck Chuck Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | All your packets are belong to us. -------------+-------------------+----------------------------------- "The human race's favorite method for being in control of the facts is to ignore them." -Celia Green To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message