Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:18:15 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ggate trouble Message-ID: <20040921111815.GG93460@darkness.comp.waw.pl> In-Reply-To: <414F331C.2000606@fer.hr> References: <414F331C.2000606@fer.hr>
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On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 09:44:28PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote:
+> I have trouble with ggate devices "going bad" after some time. Here are=
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+> the simptoms:
+>=20
+> Creating ggate devices (on client machine) works fine. Using them right=
=20
+> after devices are created (for several hours) works without problems.=20
+> BUT, after some idle time (on the scale of 24h), devices just stop=20
+> working. They are listed in /dev, "ggatec list" shows them, but any read=
=20
+> requests made to them (e.g. using dd) fail after a few seconds of=20
+> "waiting" with "Input/Output error". Nothing is shown in syslog.
+>=20
+> Ggated demon on the server works fine, and doing "telnet server 3080" on=
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+> the client establishes connection (I tried typing some garbage into the=
=20
+> connection, but the server seems to ignore it, and doesn't send any data=
=20
+> back; it DOES log into server syslog that it's confused when I do that=
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+> ("ggated: Requested path isn't exported: Unknown error: 0.; ggated:=20
+> exiting")).
+>=20
+> For the record: I'm using gmirror to mirror over a ggate device, and=20
+> gmirror correctly detects and processes the read fault, and deactivates=
=20
+> the provider.
Is there anything between those two machines? Maybe some kind of firewall
which remove connections after some idle time?
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Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.FreeBSD.org
pjd@FreeBSD.org http://garage.freebsd.pl
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