Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 14:35:49 -0500 (EST) From: steve hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: tcp extensions Message-ID: <Pine.SCO.3.91.960329142502.9830A-100000@buffnet3.buffnet.net>
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Ive probably gotten you all trained to just hit your delets when you see its another note from me - but I swear Im closing in on my problem with apache & 2.1R and the delay is attributable to infrequent sketchy problem reporting. After spending two weeks trying everything, I noted that the server no one complained about was on subnet A, while the 2 in trouble were on subnet B. Two of my annex terminal servers for PPP are on that subnet B. So I grabbed one of the screaming meemies, and I forced him onto a subnet B term server, and true enough, he could not get pages from the subnet B web servers (He got the text - but left alone it timed out and he got some kind of bad socket error). But while on the subnet B term server he could retrieve pages, graphics and all from the subnet A server. (note that webservs on subnet A and B are as identicle as I could get them in apache and kernel configs as well as hardware - the user uses trumpet - but then so do I and I have no problem). Then I got him to log into a term server on subnet C - and violins! er I mean viola', he could retrieve pages & graphics from servers on both A and B. So now this makes me think that if the packets go thru my cisco router they some how get cleaned up acceptably to the annex and this end user (this also happens to my lead tech support person), whereas if they dont go thru the router there is trouble. So one would think to turn off the tcp_extensions - BUT THEY ARE. I put NO in sysconfig and I see at boot that it issues the sysctl on those RPC variables. Is there something else one must do to turn off extensions? Im going to count my blessing and either move 2 term servers or two web servers to a new subnet - but I really wwould like to know why the heck this is happening. Any insight, or guesses appreciated! ------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Hovey -- shovey@buffnet.net root@buffnet.net
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