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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux network code vs. FreeBSD
Date: 23 Nov 1995 22:15:34 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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shovey@buffnet.net (Steve Hovey) writes:
> Im sorry - when Ive done FTP that pooped out it was an ethernet 
> connection.  The trumpet users here connect to an annex 4000 for PPP.
> Flow control is hardware.
> 
> I have one linux box with cern http which serves a web client who
> has pages with large pictures of chinchillas.
> 
> I have one 2.0.5 BSD for other purpose cern httpd use.
> 
> The linux pages dont poop out, the bsd ones do. And it resembles the same
> type of sudden stoppage that FTP does.

Can you translate "poop out"?  What exactly does happen?  Network
meltdown?  Any syslog messages?  netstat output?

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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