From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 18 09:37:43 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E13D437B401 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:37:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web14104.mail.yahoo.com (web14104.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.172.134]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 957E943F75 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:37:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from galen_sampson@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20030418163743.55544.qmail@web14104.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [209.244.105.76] by web14104.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:37:43 PDT Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:37:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Galen Sampson To: current@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Localhost Strangeness X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 16:37:44 -0000 Hello all, I am experiencing some very strange behavior with the lo0 interface. I have been running -current for almost 1 year. Sometime before 5.0-RELEASE I started experiencing this... andromeda# ping localhost PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.170 ms 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.125 ms ^C --- localhost ping statistics --- 17 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 88% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.125/0.148/0.170/0.022 ms and a tcpdump -i lo0 shows... 08:31:51.832405 localhost > localhost: icmp: echo request 08:31:51.832494 localhost > localhost: icmp: echo reply 08:31:52.834535 localhost > localhost: icmp: echo request 08:31:52.834603 localhost > localhost: icmp: echo reply 08:31:53.844567 localhost > localhost: icmp: echo request 08:31:54.854574 localhost > localhost: icmp: echo request 08:31:55.864590 localhost > localhost: icmp: echo request 08:31:56.874600 localhost > localhost: icmp: echo request 08:31:57.884611 localhost > localhost: icmp: echo request 08:31:58.894636 localhost > localhost: icmp: echo request 08:31:59.904788 localhost > localhost: icmp: echo request 08:32:00.914661 localhost > localhost: icmp: echo request 08:32:01.924666 localhost > localhost: icmp: echo request 08:32:02.934683 localhost > localhost: icmp: echo request 08:32:03.944719 localhost > localhost: icmp: echo request 08:32:04.954721 localhost > localhost: icmp: echo request 08:32:05.964732 localhost > localhost: icmp: echo request 08:32:06.974744 localhost > localhost: icmp: echo request 08:32:07.984758 localhost > localhost: icmp: echo request and ipfw contains this... andromeda# ipfw show 65000 4437 402440 allow ip from any to any 65535 20 2426 deny ip from any to any This is _extremely_ frustrating for things like dns queries as they just timeout randomly (as you can tell from the ping some packets made it through) yet work sometimes. I need some insight into possible pilot error, etc. regards, Galen Sampson __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo http://search.yahoo.com