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Date:      Sat, 13 Sep 1997 21:39:49 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Chris <theta@voicenet.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Packets disappearing
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970913213849.918O-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970913194447.4699A-100000@omni1>

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On Sat, 13 Sep 1997, Chris wrote:

> I am having a problem with packets on my system disappearing.  I am using
> the new version of User Processs PPP and FreeBSD 2.2.2.  I run a web
> server on a dial up link using Apache and ml.org's dyndns service.  I do
> not have a dedicated IP address.

Yuck.  Standard dialup?

> Occasionally, when I have high traffic on my web server, packets disappear
> for no reason.  Actually, my system won't send packets, but will receive
> them.  I receive SYN requests from hosts and they are visable with netstat
> -n, but my system doesn't actually connect with them, nor will it perform
> a DNS lookup.  All Internet traffic stops.  My site will stop loading for
> people who have already established connections, and all telnet activity
> will stop.

There are some known bugs in ppp that might cause.  Try upgrading your PPP
to the one at http://www.freebsd.org/~brian, also keep an eye on your
routing table (netstat -rn).  Killing routed might help things.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail    | Death to Cyberpromo




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