On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 12:38:11PM -0500, Joseph Sarkes wrote:
> > Joseph Sarkes writes:
> > > > On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 07:40:52AM -0500, Joseph Sarkes wrote:
> > > > > also my netstat command shows a 16384 sendq to the anoncvs server
> > > > > that never drains. Is there something wrong with the server? or is
> > > > > there something wrong here somehow?
> > > > which anoncvs server do you use?
> > > 
> > > anoncvs.netbsd.org 
> > > and I have tried a great many times, so the machine can't be
> > > doing updates all the time... 
> > 
> > Have you tried: sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=0 yet?
> > 
> > Through my DirecPC satellite link sup and rsync always would hang
> > until I disabled the rfc1323 stuff.  Now it completes correctly.
> > I don't know if this will help or not.  I might be completely offbase
> > here, but it appears to have solved it for me. :-)
> 
> Hmmm, that appears to have fixed things here, THANKS :)
> At least there is now data transfer happening to the server. It
> will take a while for the sup to happen though (via ppp phone connection)
> The thing is though, that cvs worked fine for me till a couple days
> ago. What is this, and when did it change/what does it do?

I was just today reading the 386BSD faq and the number 1323 rang a bell.
See http://www.bookcase.com/library/faq/archive/386bsd-faq/part7.html
section 6.4.6

Ben
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