From owner-freebsd-net Thu Mar 22 8:43:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B3B537B71B for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 08:43:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA30673; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 11:43:33 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 11:43:33 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200103221643.LAA30673@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Tommi Harkonen Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RTM_LOSING: Kernel Suspects Partitioning: In-Reply-To: <20010322124742.A9984@teliafi.net> References: <20010322124742.A9984@teliafi.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org < said: > RTM_LOSING: Kernel Suspects Partitioning: len 124, pid: 0, seq 0, errno 0, flags: > locks: inits: > sockaddrs: > ftp.de.cw.net 62.236.255.201 This is perfectly natural. TCP will generate these messages whenever its retransmission timer goes off; they should correlate with packet losses. (The `routed' program, for one, uses these messages as an indication that the gateway for a particular route may be down, in which case if there is another equal-cost route it will try that one instead.) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message