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.<br><br>Cheers<br>
Justin<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/18/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Joe Peterson</b> <<a href="mailto:joe@...">joe@...</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Great! That should be good to visit. Is there a time of day when<br>people are more likely to be on? I may try this evening (I'm in US<br>mountain time).<br><br> -Thanks, Joe<br><br><br>Ignacio Arqué-Latour wrote:
<br>> Joe<br>>> Is the project active right now?<br>> Yes<br>>> I have high hopes of setting up a working desktop, and I'd be glad to<br>> contribute in whatever way I can to the effort.<br>> OK, that is the attitude!
<br>> You are going to find plenty of help from the developers in our irc channel<br>> (inclusive while you are installing), please meet us on:<br>> channel: #gentoo-bsd<br>> server: <a href="http://irc.freenode.net">
irc.freenode.net</a><br>><br>> I hope to see you soom in the channel ;-)<br>><br>> -- Ignacio<br>><br>> On 4/18/07, Joe Peterson <<a href="mailto:joe@...">joe@...</a>> wrote:<br>>> I am in the process of trying out Gentoo/FreeBSD - I love the idea of
<br>>> being able to use the very cool portage system on BSD!<br>>><br>>> Anyway, I have tried the install twice, the second time doing the<br>>> "emerge -e system" before the kernel build, but I am getting stuck at
<br>>> the same issue: I get TCP timeouts to some sites. This is such a<br>>> bummer, and I am asking if anyone knows a solutuon. I have seen some<br>>> other postings to this list that may be the same issue (packet mangling?).
<br>>><br>>> Anyway, as an example, I can never FTP to <a href="http://www.astron.com">www.astron.com</a> (where the<br>>> "file" package, among other things, lives). Even if I use wget or lynx
<br>>> to do an FTP connection, it simply hangs. I *can* get to this site<br>>> using Windows, Linux, and regular FreeBSD (non-Gentoo) from the same<br>>> machine and on the same network, so it has to be something to do with
<br>>> Gentoo/FreeBSD in particular.<br>>><br>>> If I can find a way past this problem, I have high hopes of setting up a<br>>> working desktop, and I'd be glad to contribute in whatever way I can to
<br>>> the effort. Is the project active right now? I have not seen much<br>>> activity as of late. I do wish the best for this project, since I think<br>>> it is valuable!<br>>><br>>> Thanks! Joe
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