From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 2 22:08:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA03856 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 22:08:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA03850 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 22:08:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA28025; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 22:08:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id WAA29237; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 22:08:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 22:08:27 -0800 (PST) Organization: Polstra & Co., Inc. From: John Polstra To: Alfred Perlstein Subject: Re: cvsup problems Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, cejkar@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 03-Dec-98 Alfred Perlstein wrote: > On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, John Polstra wrote: >> It sounds like network problems, not CVSup problems. Try "-P m" on >> the cvsup command line. That makes it behave more like "normal" >> applications as far as the network is concerned. If it helps, it >> probably indicates that there's a buggy router between you and the >> server. > > If that fails try: > > "-P -" > > is your last resort. It tells cvsup to only use a single outgoing socket. True, but "-P m" is the safest. It only uses a single TCP connection, period. "-P -" uses two TCP connections, and its traffic patterns on the connections are more atypical. Trust me, I wrote the thing. :-) John --- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." -- H. L. Mencken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message