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Date:      Wed, 21 Jul 2004 13:10:12 -0700
From:      Matt White <matt+list.sw.freebsd.current@publicly.neglect.us>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: fetch hangs, part 2
Message-ID:  <3279369656.1090415412@[192.168.20.34]>
In-Reply-To: <20040721115021.J81889@carver.gumbysoft.com>
References:  <000001c46f11$1f53a880$132a15ac@spud> <3270557515.1090406600@[192.168.20.34]> <20040721115021.J81889@carver.gumbysoft.com>

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I don't think so in this case since I was using this same netscreen with a 
FreeBSD 5.1 box without incident.  I'm actually suspicious of the cabling 
at the moment, but I have higher priorities than to figure that out at the 
moment.


-Matt



--On Wednesday, July 21, 2004 11:51 AM -0700 Doug White 
<dwhite@gumbysoft.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Matt White wrote:
>
>> In my case, I tracked this down to either my netscreen5 or the cable into
>> it going south.  It's a bit strange because other software wasn't having
>> an issue, so I'll probably look at this more in the next few days.  But
>> for now, removing that box from my network has made fetch happy again,
>> which in turn has made me happy again.
>
> It might have been breaking passive-mode FTP.  I've noticed this problem
> coming from certain places. Thankfully not from my workplace or home :)
>
> Some older inspective firewalls don't understand passive mode and drop the
> connection.
>
> --
> Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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