From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 28 12:06:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA06935 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 12:06:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA06922; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 12:06:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA08815; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 12:48:39 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199701281948.MAA08815@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: progress report on connection problems To: shovey@buffnet.net (Steve) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 12:48:39 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, robert@nanguo.chalmers.com.au, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Steve" at Jan 28, 97 02:02:15 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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. And you are positive that you are using Annex software 10.1 or better, and/or none of the machines are sending data in the SYN packets? The TCP extensions do not bear on whether or not data will be sent in the SYN packet, I don't think. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.