-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 19/05/2010 21:48:36, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On May 19, 2010, at 1:44 PM, Marco Beishuizen wrote: >> On Wed, 19 May 2010, Chuck Swiger wrote: >>> Are you using NAT? >> >> Not that I know of. > > You presumably would know from the IP your machine has-- if it's RFC-1918 > unroutable, NAT is involved. > >>> It sounds like something has a limited number of NAT state slots available, >>> and is dropping connections past that limit. It probably will help to try >>> to serialize the activity of fetchmail / procmail so that they aren't >>> opening new connections for every email being processed, if that is what is >>> going on. >> >> Seems worth trying to increase this number but how do I do that? Is this >> changable in FreeBSD or do I change this in the modem (couldn't find >> anything about this in the modem though)? > > It would be in whatever device is doing NAT, assuming it is being used. > Running tcpdump against your traffic during this sort of problem would likely > be informative.
Hmmm... I wonder if it could be something like this? http://www.benzedrine.cx/ackpri.html although at first glance, the traffic flows would be in the wrong direction to trigger this effect. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkv0x5sACgkQ8Mjk52CukIzCBACdGFOr54HVxLPV6XRwK9PFu6KF zhsAnRm4m7sIH9/CeMXKIcopWhubbn2G =DJjY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
