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Date:      Thu, 30 Apr 1998 19:35:40 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Dan Janowski <danj@3skel.com>
To:        Snob Art Genre <benedict@echonyc.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: odd network problem
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980430193417.1133A-100000@fnur.3skel.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980430142219.12530A-100000@echonyc.com>

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Do you have TCP extensions on? Some terminal servers and
other lame routing hardware get jammed. This one got me
once. Only between FreeBSD boxes, right?

Dan

On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Snob Art Genre wrote:

> I'm having a network problem that only manifests between two
> FreeBSD-stable machines.  I posted about this on questions, but got no
> answer, and I think it might be over the collective questions head
> anyway. 
> 
> I have two machines, float and ben.  Float is dialed up PPP to
> interport, ben is on a T1 from Sprint.  I can ping and traceroute either
> machine from the other one, but I cannot use TCP-based services.  The
> TCP handshake completes, and then the connection hangs.  For example, if
> I'm trying to telnet to float from ben, the handshake happens, and then
> ben sends the same 27-byte packet for several minutes until it gives up. 
> 
> Meanwhile, telnet/ftp/ssh all work fine from a Solaris/SPARC box and
> from a Linux box, to or from float or ben.
> 
> Packet traces available upon request, of course.
> 
> 
>  Ben
> 
> "You have your mind on computers, it seems." 
> 
> 
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danj@3skel.com
Dan Janowski
Triskelion Systems, Inc.
Bronx, NY


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