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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