Manuel,  thanks,

the sysctl didn't work.

the inet connection is fibre.
and the firewall guy is going to try lots of different
MTU's.

still a mystery,
but here's hoping,
gotta be able to ftp to ftp.netbsd.org!
It's MY OS for goodness sakes!!!
mothers umbilical!

cheers:)
Paul.






Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 02:28:23PM +1000, Paul (NCC/CS). wrote:
> >
> > Manuel, others,
> >
> > from our firewall guy:
> >
> > >>>>
> > The Firewall is a Cyberguard (its a stateful firewall)  Our net connection is Telstra - Bigpond
>
> Is it ADSL, cable, something else ?
> I suspect a MTU problem here.
> Maybe you could also try
> sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=0
>
> --
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
>      NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
> --

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Paul
Australian Bureau Of Meteorology
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