5.4 Sloooooow network

[Lowell Gilbert]

Bernt Hansson <bernt at bah.homeip.net> writes:

> I've just installed FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0.
> 
> Internal network works fast and without problems, the problems occur
> with external connections to the services I'm running (mail & web).
> 
> Almost every connection attempt times-out like this.
> 
> qpopper[4372]: (v4.0.5) Timeout (120 secs) during nw read from  at
> host.net (x.x.x.x)
> 
> qpopper[4372]: (null) at host.net (x.x.x.x): -ERR POP timeout from myhost
> 
> Qpopper runs out of inetd.
> 
> Internal if is rl0 and external is fxp0. The machine is a HP netserver
> LC2000 and it acts as a gateway to.
> 
> Any thoughts?

Any network collisions on the outside link?
How many (if any) packets pass before the connections time out?