Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:56:42 -0700 From: Sean Bruno <sbruno@miralink.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD.org website problems was: Serial speed for boot device selection prompt Message-ID: <4720E6EA.50409@miralink.com> In-Reply-To: <20071025182604.GA72040@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <471F85DD.1070906@miralink.com> <20071025035454.GA28174@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <4720D41C.4030606@miralink.com> <20071025182604.GA72040@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
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Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 10:36:28AM -0700, Sean Bruno wrote: > >> Thanks for the pointers. I am currently unable to access www.freebsd.org >> for some reason. It appears that I get a timeout trying to retrieve >> anything from the web site. Other folks in my office seem to have the same >> problem, yet I can access the web site from my home network. >> >> Any ideas what the connection issues might be? >> > > Someone else recently reported similar on their FreeBSD box, and the fix > for them was to disable RFC1323 TCP window scaling. Try this: > > sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=0 > > If this works for you, you can place the variable=value portion in > /etc/sysctl.conf for application upon start-up. > > If your FreeBSD box acts as a gateway for the rest of your office, and > the then that might explain why others are seeing the same thing. > Otherwise the problem is likely not FreeBSD-related, and you should > talk to your office networking folks to find out what's going on. > > Interesting, what is _really_ going on with the website? I was having connectivity issues to www.freebsd.org from linux, netbsd and freebsd machines. After adjusting the appropriate value for linux, netbsd and freebsd the issues seem to clear. Under linux adjust: net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling Under FreeBSD/NetBSD adjust: net.inet.tcp.rfc1323 Sean
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