From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 12 22:05:38 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 283CC16A402 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:05:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0700113C4A3 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:05:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 11316 invoked from network); 12 Feb 2007 22:05:37 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 12 Feb 2007 22:05:37 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 98AC528433; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:05:36 -0500 (EST) To: Matthew Pope References: <45CF9010.7040905@teksavvy.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:05:36 -0500 In-Reply-To: <45CF9010.7040905@teksavvy.com> (Matthew Pope's message of "Sun\, 11 Feb 2007 16\:52\:16 -0500") Message-ID: <448xf3hw0f.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.93 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Connection timed out X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:05:38 -0000 Matthew Pope writes: > I am trying to resolve a connection timed out problem. The problem > occurs when I attempt to ssh, or http to my freebsd host from my > windows (2K) box. About 3/4 of the time I get a "Connection timed > out" when I attempt to ssh into the freebsd host. > Coincident with this behaviour, I can not ping my windows box from the > freebsd host, and when I try I get no packets returned. > > Meanwhile, the freebsd box at no time has any problems pinging google, > only the local network. I recall having a sockets timeout variable or > something that needed tuning when I ran freebsd as a http / ssh server > before . Can someone provide a hint as to how I can resolve this? > Thanks, > Matthew > > -bash-2.05b$ uname -a > FreeBSD ns.mbpesecurity.com 6.1-RELEASE-p10 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10 > #0: Mon Oct 23 00:47:22 EDT 2006 root@ns.mbpesec > urity.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MPKERNEL i386 Does the FreeBSD box access the Internet through the same link as it reaches the Windows machine? [I'm guessing not, but you didn't say.] Is there anything in the logs or on the console? Does the link light stay on for the FreeBSD machine?