browselist showing up late

[Valentijn Sessink]

Hello all,

I'm having the following problem. I have a Win95 PC in a WAN, and a Linux
WINS. For the local subnets there's no problem, but the WINS seems to react
very slowly for the WAN pc.

- both WINS and win95 have the same workgroup; the workgroup is not in any
computer name (as far as I know and can see)
- ICMP echo about a 35 msec reply

tcpdump shows a couple of 137 < - > 137 tries, and then finally starts
something else (which is, probably, the browselist exchange or so):
19:31:14.207839 145.99.132.3.137 > 145.99.70.68.137: udp 50
19:31:14.207839 145.99.70.68.137 > 145.99.132.3.137: udp 74
19:31:16.237839 145.99.132.3.137 > 145.99.70.68.137: udp 50
19:31:16.237839 145.99.70.68.137 > 145.99.132.3.137: udp 62
19:31:37.427839 145.99.132.3.137 > 145.99.70.68.137: udp 50
19:31:37.437839 145.99.70.68.137 > 145.99.132.3.137: udp 74
... couple of more, no reaction...
then (the 1st one puzzles me, might be a bug in tcpdump -r <filename>):
19:35:17.067839 145.99.132.3.1030 > 145.99.70.68.139: S 387173:387173(0)
win 64000 <mss 1460,nop,wscale 0,nop,nop,timestamp 0
0,opt-65:,eol,eol,opt-112:727420313337206f7220706f727420313338206f7220706f72
742031333920616e6420686f7374203134352e39392e3133322e3300000000000031000000e8
1b0208204f0b08204f0b08004000000000000001000000010000000100000001000000000000
0000000000094000> (DF) [tos 0xd]
19:35:17.067839 145.99.70.68.139 > 145.99.132.3.1030: S
195323009:195323009(0) ack 387174 win 32736 <mss 1460>
19:35:17.097839 145.99.132.3.1030 > 145.99.70.68.139: . ack 1 win 64000
(DF) [tos 0xd]
19:35:17.097839 145.99.132.3.1030 > 145.99.70.68.139: P 1:73(72) ack 1 win
64000 (DF) [tos 0xd]
... etc.

... and there is the browselist.

Does anyone got a clue? Is this due to the ping times? (This behaviour
first showed up after a software upgrade in our ADSL modems, which
introduced latencies of 70ms and more. Some weeks ago these were cut down
to 35ms and browsing seems to work slightly better).

Valentijn

Valentijn Sessink - valentyn at dds.nl
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