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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!bone.think.com!blanket.mitre.org!sed.psrw.com!news.apk.net!not-for-mail From: patrick@apk.net (Patrick Lewis) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: TCP connections timing out? Date: 10 Dec 1996 15:42:57 GMT Organization: APK Net, Ltd. Lines: 34 Message-ID: <58k0e1$oc9@nerd.apk.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: junior.apk.net X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Hello all... I have a rather curiosu problem with a FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE machine I maintain. Namely, the machine will come to a point where it will start failing to properly transmit TCP/IP data, particularly FTP, WWW and SMTP packets... Rebooting the machine seems to temporarily alleviate the problem, but I'm unsure as to what's causing it. It is a rather heavily congested network, although there were only about 150 packet collisions for almost the 500k packets received... (And only 40 input errors for packets) What happens whne one attempts to FTP (in or out of the machine) is the most curious of all: it will handle ASCII transfers fine (such as, directory listings, etc.), but when you go to actually receiving a file, it will send approximately 2500 bytes of the file (no, not 2048 or some neat number like that) and then the connection will time out. The direction of the FTP traffic is irrelevant, so unless both the FTP server and client that are installed are bad, we can safely rule out the FTP daemon/client as the problem. Could this be a problem with the network card? thanks... And if possible, could any respondents Cc: their replies to my mailbox too? Thanks :) -- __________________________________________________________ Patrick Lewis patrick@apk.net patrick@craghey.us.edu Web page: http://junior.wariat.org/~patrick Encrypted e-mail accepted and preferred. Finger patrick@apk.net for PGP key.