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Date:      Tue, 4 Jun 2002 16:51:40 -0700
From:      jayanth <jayanth@yahoo-inc.com>
To:        Nguyen-Tuong Long Le <le@cs.unc.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problem with SYN cache in FreeBSD 4.5
Message-ID:  <20020604165140.B44498@yahoo-inc.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10206041856150.18337-100000@capefear.cs.unc.edu>; from le@cs.unc.edu on Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 07:45:31PM -0400
References:  <20020603121118.Y38431-100000@patrocles.silby.com> <Pine.GSO.4.10.10206041856150.18337-100000@capefear.cs.unc.edu>

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Can you dump the output of  netstat -s -p tcp  ?
Checking for listen queue overflows and syncache bucket overflows.

jayanth

Nguyen-Tuong Long Le (le@cs.unc.edu) wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Mike Silbersack wrote:
> 
> > A few questions:
> > 
> > 1.  Is this 4.5-release, or 4.5-stable (aka 4.6-RC2)?  4.5-release had a
> > few bugs in the syn cache which could cause crashes.
> > 
> > 2.  Are you using accept filters?  Accept filters act oddly on
> > 4.5-release, you'll have to upgrade to 4.5-stable/4.6.
> > 
> > 3.  Could you use tcpdump to determine what exactly is going wrong and
> > post a url to the log so that we can investigate what is going wrong?
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Thanks for all your suggestions. I've tried out all of them but
> they unfortunately didn't fix the problem.
> 
> I have this problem with 4.5-RELEASE. I cvsup'ed the source tree and
> tried 4.5-RELEASE-p6 and 4.6-RC #1 but they didn't fix the problem.
> Setting net.inet.tcp.syncookies didn't help either.
>  
> I use poll(). I don't use accept filters.
> 
> I instrumented some code in tcp_input() that seems to indicate
> that lots of TCP segments (about 42000 segments in 10 minutes)
> are dropped because syncache_expand() returns 0. This in turn
> is caused because syncache_lookup() and syncookie_lookup()
> return NULL. Why this is happening is beyond my knowledge.
> 
> I took a 10-minute tcpdump trace and put it up at
> www.cs.unc.edu/~le/tmp/ti.dump.gz (It's actually two one-way
> tcpdump traces taken at the fiber tap next to the server.
> I used tcpslice from tcpdump.org to merge them. I checked that all
> packets from the two one-way traces are in the merged trace and
> they seem to be sorted in timestamp order). Here is a typical
> sequence of exchanges for connections that are reset by the server.
> The server ack's the first SYN by a SYN/ACK but doesn't ack any
> segment after that.
> 
> 18:11:33.461574 152.2.135.14.1827 > 152.2.136.39.6789: S 171182594:171182594(0) win 16384 <mss 1460,nop,wscale 0,nop,nop,timestamp 33031 0> (DF)
> 18:11:33.760675 152.2.136.39.6789 > 152.2.135.14.1827: S 4246482515:4246482515(0) ack 171182595 win 16384 <mss 1460,nop,wscale 0,nop,nop,timestamp 28256 33031>
> 18:11:33.761000 152.2.135.14.1827 > 152.2.136.39.6789: . ack 1 win 17376 <nop,nop,timestamp 33061 28256> (DF)
> 18:11:33.761390 152.2.135.14.1827 > 152.2.136.39.6789: P 1:5(4) ack 1 win  17376 <nop,nop,timestamp 33061 28256> (DF)
> 18:11:33.761586 152.2.135.14.1827 > 152.2.136.39.6789: P 5:13(8) ack 1 win 17376 <nop,nop,timestamp 33061 28256> (DF)
> 18:11:33.762172 152.2.135.14.1827 > 152.2.136.39.6789: P 13:293(280) ack 1 win 17376 <nop,nop,timestamp 33061 28256> (DF)
> 18:11:34.031741 152.2.136.39.6789 > 152.2.135.14.1827: R 4246482516:4246482516(0) win 0
> 18:11:34.046008 152.2.136.39.6789 > 152.2.135.14.1827: R 4246482516:4246482516(0) win 0
> 18:11:34.060284 152.2.136.39.6789 > 152.2.135.14.1827: R 4246482516:4246482516(0) win 0
> 
> Any hint or suggestion would be very much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> -- long
> 
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