Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:32:21 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: E.Schuele@Computer.Org Subject: Re: Freebsd 5.2.1 Performance Woes Message-ID: <20040930153221.37247498.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20040930185938.GA4844@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <1ea.2b3eae1a.2e8d9780@aol.com> <200409301355.29288.E.Schuele@Comcast.Net> <20040930185938.GA4844@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 01:55:29PM -0500, Eric Schuele wrote: > > Well... you can't get much newer to BSD than me. So, most likely I have no > > place in this thread at all (please be gentle). And I certainly do not > > want to get in the middle of something that appears to be on the virge of > > becoming personal... > > > > But.... > > > > I was experiencing very VERY poor performance TCP/IP wise, untill I dug up > > a tip from google.... > > Someone mentioned that many ISPs do not fully support IPv6, and that 5.2.1 > > would try to use it first.... and then after a timeout it would try IPv4. > > No, that's referring to order of DNS lookups and your ISP's broken > nameserver, not TCP/IP performance. There is also the workaround of recompiling a kernel without IPv6 support. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com
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