From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 28 11:01:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA02430 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 11:01:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (root@buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA02425; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 11:01:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet1.buffnet.net (mmdf@buffnet1.buffnet.net [205.246.19.10]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA06657; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 13:44:28 -0500 Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net by buffnet1.buffnet.net id aa26569; 28 Jan 97 14:02 EST Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 14:02:15 -0500 (EST) From: Steve To: Terry Lambert cc: robert@nanguo.chalmers.com.au, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: progress report on connection problems In-Reply-To: <199701281830.LAA08629@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 28 Jan 1997, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > 1) Contact the vendor for a fix; one probably exists. > > > > > > 2) If no fix is available, turn extension off on the FreeBSD > > > system, and submit a bug report to the vendor so that a > > > fix will happen. > > > > Turning extensions off does not stop the problem. > > Does the remote system triggering the problem have extensions enabled? Nope. > > Are extensions off on *both* ends? If so, *exactly* what do you > see happening, and for what programs? Yup - It was with users - only some - same problem as the other guy has.. They would connect to the news server, and not be able to pull headers - or to the web server, and get the text but not the graphics. It would stall. The bandaide I put on it was to number all freebsd boxes on class C's other than those of my annexes, forcing the packets thru my cisco. Everything cleared.