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Date:      Wed, 2 Dec 1998 11:26:06 -0500 (EST)
From:      Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
To:        eischen@vigrid.com, nate@mt.sri.com
Cc:        dillon@apollo.backplane.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it
Subject:   Re: TCP bug
Message-ID:  <199812021626.LAA27156@pcnet1.pcnet.com>

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> No, 10% of machines out on the big bad Internet don't work.  (I'm
> guessing at the 10% number.  It may be higher/lower, but about 10% of
> the sites I try to contact don't work.)
>
> 90% of the sites *OUTSIDE MY NETWORK* that I attempt to contact on these
> internal machines work, and all of my network machines can talk to one
> another.

OK, I got it now ;-)

> > If you sit at the router, can you ping those systems (assuming
> > they can be pinged)?
>
> If I sit on the machine who can't make the WWW connections I can ping
> the remote sites if they haven't blocked out ICMP packets to me.  I
> simply can't make TCP connections to them.

That's pretty strange.  So the router can't make TCP connections to
these sites either?

Dan Eischen
eischen@vigrid.com

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