From owner-freebsd-hackers  Wed Dec  2 08:26:39 1998
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Received: (from majordom@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA09230
          for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 08:26:39 -0800 (PST)
          (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG)
Received: from pcnet1.pcnet.com (pcnet1.pcnet.com [204.213.232.3])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA09225
          for <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 08:26:37 -0800 (PST)
          (envelope-from eischen@vigrid.com)
Received: (from eischen@localhost)
	by pcnet1.pcnet.com (8.8.7/PCNet) id LAA27156;
	Wed, 2 Dec 1998 11:26:06 -0500 (EST)
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 11:26:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
Message-Id: <199812021626.LAA27156@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
To: eischen@vigrid.com, nate@mt.sri.com
Subject: Re: TCP bug
Cc: dillon@apollo.backplane.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG,
        luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it
Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

> No, 10% of machines out on the big bad Internet don't work.  (I'm
> guessing at the 10% number.  It may be higher/lower, but about 10% of
> the sites I try to contact don't work.)
>
> 90% of the sites *OUTSIDE MY NETWORK* that I attempt to contact on these
> internal machines work, and all of my network machines can talk to one
> another.

OK, I got it now ;-)

> > If you sit at the router, can you ping those systems (assuming
> > they can be pinged)?
>
> If I sit on the machine who can't make the WWW connections I can ping
> the remote sites if they haven't blocked out ICMP packets to me.  I
> simply can't make TCP connections to them.

That's pretty strange.  So the router can't make TCP connections to
these sites either?

Dan Eischen
eischen@vigrid.com

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message