From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 28 17:35:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA29330 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 17:35:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from packfish.gateway.net.hk (john@packfish.gateway.net.hk [202.76.19.16]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA29270; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 17:34:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (from john@localhost) by packfish.gateway.net.hk (8.8.3/8.7.3) id JAA16436; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 09:32:36 +0800 (HKT) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 09:32:36 +0800 (HKT) From: John Beukema To: Steve cc: Terry Lambert , 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: 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, Steve wrote: > 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 ^^^^^^ sounds like software handshaking enabled jbeukema > 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. > >