Freebsd 5.2.1 Performance Woes

[Bill Moran]

Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 01:55:29PM -0500, Eric Schuele wrote:
> > Well... you can't get much newer to BSD than me.  So, most likely I have no 
> > place in this thread at all (please be gentle).  And I certainly do not 
> > want to get in the middle of something that appears to be on the virge of 
> > becoming personal...
> > 
> > But....
> > 
> > I was experiencing very VERY poor performance TCP/IP wise, untill I dug up 
> > a tip from google....
> > Someone mentioned that many ISPs do not fully support IPv6, and that 5.2.1 
> > would try to use it first.... and then after a timeout it would try IPv4.  
> 
> No, that's referring to order of DNS lookups and your ISP's broken
> nameserver, not TCP/IP performance.

There is also the workaround of recompiling a kernel without IPv6 support.

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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