Subject: Re: for what ails your gem(4)
To: None <port-macppc@NetBSD.org>
From: David Young <dyoung@pobox.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 04/12/2007 18:02:23
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 12:06:57AM +0200, Loic Hoguin wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:51:16 +0200, Allen Wong <allen@submoron.org> wrote:
> 
> >Is anyone else running 4.0 BETA2 and not having this problem?  I'm open  
> >to
> >the suggest that this may be a hardware issue.
> 
> I have the same problem with a netbsd-current (5 days ago) on an amd64
> hardware with a msk network card.
> 
> If I try to send large files by scp or ftp it timeouts and I must do
> ifconfig down and up to make the network card work again.
> 
> However I can receive big files without any problem.
> 
> I'll be able to do more tests or submit a PR this week-end. (I hope)

This is beginning to sound like a TCP problem rather than a driver
problem.  (I do still believe that gem(4) has outstanding problems.)

You are not using PF, are you?  Just a few days ago, a student and I
tripped over an undesirable interaction between PF and TCP.

Dave

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