There are a couple of threads about similar TCP issues, and one did
mention windowing.  I did try turning off rfc1323 windowing per
instructions I saw, but it did not help.  I also noted that Nathan Smith
(post: http://scriptstest.gentoo.org/gentoo-bsd/msg_00121.xml) also said
playing with and turning off windowing did not seem to help.

Nathan went further and captured packets, noting that ones from the
Gentoo/FreeBSD system had bad checksums (they were mangled somehow).
Another common experience is that regular FreeBSD does not have the
problem - it is somehow specific to Gentoo/FreeBSD.  A reliable test
case I found is trying to FTP to ftp.astron.com - never works.

		Thanks, Joe


Justin Wyer wrote:
> Hi Joe, if you check the list archives you will find a thread about the same
> problem. It is essentially a TCP window scaling issue, you can check the
> archive for details, I am unsure if a solution was found.
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