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For those of you hanging out in #gentoo-bsd, you've probably heard some |
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about my TCP problem on my Gentoo/FreeBSD box. I discovered the problem |
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because I was not able to checkout the Sunrise overlay. At first I |
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thought it was a problem with SVN, but I realized that I simply cannot |
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make TCP connections to certain sites. |
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Then I suspected a proxy problem, but I had the same issues both at home |
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(no proxy) and at work (transparent proxy), and other Gentoo boxes at |
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both sites worked just fine. |
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What is really frustrating is its inconsistency. I can never connect to |
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gentoo-sunrise.org, but at work two of the servers in the distfiles.g.o |
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rotation were also inaccessible, as well as packages.gentoo.org (and a |
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fair share of other random sites). |
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JoseJX suggested that it may be related to TCP windowing, so I did some |
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Googling and found the following: |
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http://lwn.net/Articles/92727/ <- An article on how this problem played |
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out in Linux. |
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http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2007-January/019070.html |
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<- As described in the FreeBSD mailing list. |
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The sysctl workaround described in the FreeBSD mailing list does not fix |
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my problem. Also The_Paya suggested a packet-filter approach which has |
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not worked as of yet. |
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So anyhow, I am making due, but it is a frustrating problem to say the |
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least. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. :-) |
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Nathan Smith |
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ndansmith@×××××.com |
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