Subject: Re: Slow in accepting connections
To: Nicholas James Humfrey <njh1@st-andrews.ac.uk>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 09/29/1998 09:11:03
Nicholas James Humfrey wrote:
> 
>    I am running NetBSD/mac68k on a MacIIsi with an Apple Ethernet card, I have
>    setup apache on it to act as a proxy server for the other machines on the
>    network, this works very well and very fast. However when using other services
>    like Telnet or FTP, and the IMAP host there seem to be long delays before the
>    host responds to the connection, so very often the client timesout. There are
>    also very long delays when running the netstat command.
> 
>    I have a Linux machine on the network acting as an AppleTalk + IP router
>    between the LocalTalk and Ethernet networks. Does anyone have any ideas as
>    to what could be causeing this ?

unfortunately, i have _no_ idea what could be causing this, although you
can run tcpdump on your netbsd box to watch what packets are going where
and perhaps that'll help some...
 
>    Also in response to a previous mailing I was told to get a copy of the 'dt'
>    packages for controlling console settings. I looked on ftp.netbsd.org but
>    could not find it. Does anyone have the exact location ?

i'm not sure of the exact location, but it's below

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/mac68k/

probably in some kind of utils subdirectory (it's not in the snapshot
directory, at least :-)

later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - PMD                 Intel Corporation
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