SOLVED: Frozen connections

Eugene Grosbein eugen at kuzbass.ru
Thu Mar 11 21:51:34 PST 2004


Don Lewis wrote:

> > I'm experiencing strange problems with HTTP connections between
> > two machines connected using 100Mbit ethernet switch.
> > Client is Windows 2000 SP4 (named kost),
> > server is FreeBSD 4.9/Apache 1.3.27 (named www).

> It looks like the client is the guilty party.  The server is sending
> 1-byte long window probes, and the client is responding with an ACK
> packet that is advertising a receive window of 0.
> 
> I'd be suspicious of the application software on the client.  Can you
> try a different web browser, or even fetch the same URL using something
> like telnet?

That was AtGuard 3.22. It does strange things under Windows 2000SP4
while works OK under Win9x.

Thanks!

Eugene Grosbein


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