From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 7 3:34: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B352637B401 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 03:34:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from topaz.mdcc.cx (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4088043EA3 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 03:34:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: from k7.mavetju (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by topaz.mdcc.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED49E2B91C; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 12:34:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: by k7.mavetju (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 701DA6A712B; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 20:33:54 +1000 (EST) Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 20:33:54 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Michele Costabile Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network problem (stall after a few packets) Message-ID: <20021007103354.GJ930@k7.mavetju> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , Michele Costabile , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3DA14556.2020401@zucchetti.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DA14556.2020401@zucchetti.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 10:27:02AM +0200, Michele Costabile wrote: > I have installed FreeBSD 4.6.2 on a system with a Realtek RTL8139 > network card and I see a strange behaviour: I connect to the network, > and get my IP with DHCP, but when I start a connection, e.g. I open lynx > or a X browser, I download a few chilobytes and then the network stalls. > I have tried 4.5 on the same machine and I did not experience this > problem, I also use Windows every day on the same hardware and it works > fine, so I am pretty sure that it is some comfiguration error I made. > Oddly, I have less problems with www.freebsd.org than with java.sun.com > or other sites. > I installed Debian Linux 3.3r0 and I found the same problem. > I am not sure if I enabled IPv6 (how can i tell?). > Where could I start from for troubleshooting the problem? > I would like to be able to reconfigure rl0 in different ways, but I do > not know how (reinstalling everything is too stupid). > I had experience with 4.3BSD on Sun, VAX and SVR4 from 1985 to 1992, so > I think I can catch up easily once I have some pointers in hand. > Thank you very much! See if it's an MTU issue. "ifconfig rl0 mtu 1400". Half the internet is broken :-( Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/weblog.php bash$ :(){ :|:&};: | Interested in MUDs? http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message