From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 11 8:28:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (law2-f54.hotmail.com [216.32.181.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BCDA37B401 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 08:28:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 08:28:14 -0700 Received: from 198.95.226.224 by lw2fd.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 15:28:14 GMT X-Originating-IP: [198.95.226.224] From: "Mary Kay" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problems accepting TCP connections Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 11:28:14 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Oct 2001 15:28:14.0558 (UTC) FILETIME=[58101FE0:01C15269] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I am trying to setup a FreeBSD box to serve as an anonymous ftp server. Everything works well, but at some point (8-12 hours or so) I start having unexplained problems with connectivity to the FreeBSD box. These do not seem to be load issues as the box is normally under very low load. Specifics of the problem follow: Release: FreeBSD p100.ne.mediaone.net 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 10:5 4:49 GMT 2001 jkh@narf.osd.bsdi.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 Box: x86 P100, ISA, 3c509, 80MB RAM Here is a tcpdump of a couple incoming ftp connections. Note that the 3-way-handshake does not complete for some reason and FreeBSD resets the connections. 09:17:17.434468 10.10.10.104.1874 > 10.10.10.2.ftp: S 3730349325:3730349325(0) win 16384 (DF) 09:17:17.434903 10.10.10.2.ftp > 10.10.10.104.1874: S 3786888360:3786888360(0) ack 3730349326 win 17520 (DF) 09:17:17.435181 10.10.10.104.1874 > 10.10.10.2.ftp: . ack 1 win 17520 (DF) 09:18:17.452217 10.10.10.104.1874 > 10.10.10.2.ftp: R 3730349326:3730349326(0) win 0 (DF) 09:18:20.246318 10.10.10.104.1881 > 10.10.10.2.ftp: S 3746393118:3746393118(0) win 16384 (DF) 09:18:20.246735 10.10.10.2.ftp > 10.10.10.104.1881: S 4294600260:4294600260(0) ack 3746393119 win 17520 (DF) 09:18:20.246991 10.10.10.104.1881 > 10.10.10.2.ftp: . ack 1 win 17520 (DF) 09:19:20.264378 10.10.10.104.1881 > 10.10.10.2.ftp: R 3746393119:3746393119(0) win 0 (DF) inetd in debug shows the following: p100# inetd: someone wants ftp inetd: accept, ctrl 11 inetd: + closing from 10 inetd: 382 execl /usr/libexec/ftpd inetd: handling signal flag C inetd: 382 reaped, status 0x100 I can ping the box fine. I can connect to it using telnet although it takes a painfully long time to get the login prompt (1-2 minutes). Also of note when the box gets into this state is that a "netstat -a" or "arp -a" will also take an excruciatingly long time to complete. A warm boot does not seem to clear the problem but a cold boot does. Does this sound like some sort of NIC/driver combination issue? Any hints on what to try or what else to do to get more information to help debug would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message