Subject: Re: can't contacted www.netbsd.org
To: Matt Doughty <mdoughty@paingate.dyndns.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 02/11/2004 20:48:19
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 03:57:38AM -0500, Matt Doughty wrote:
> Not sure if this is the right list, but here we go.  I am currently behind
> a linksys broadband router, and I can't access www.netbsd.org from any of
> the *bsd (netbsd 1.6ZF, and OS X) hosts behind the router.  I can access
> the site from my solaris, and windows boxes.  what works from the *bsd
> hosts:
> 
> ping to anywhere including www.netbsd.org
> the initial handshake with www.netbsd.org (it gets to the point of sending the GET and never
> gets a response)
> access to small pages on the netbsd site (http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/subscribe_list.pl?list=tech-net)
> surfing to all other sites I have tried
> 
> what doesn't work:
> 
> traceroute to anywhere (traceroute works from the windows box, but not the
> solaris and *bsd boxes)
> surfing the netbsd site.

Try
sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=0

PPPoE and the MTU tricks it involves to work with TCP on ADSL links don't play
well with rfc1323 options.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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