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Date:      Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:15:36 +0900
From:      Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com>
To:        Bjoern Koenig <bkoenig@alpha-tierchen.de>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fxp: stalled transfers
Message-ID:  <20090410001536.GH37714@michelle.cdnetworks.co.kr>
In-Reply-To: <c527997835b4ea46c1e492c3a3c9d030.squirrel@webmail.alpha-tierchen.de>
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On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 11:02:06AM +0200, Bjoern Koenig wrote:
> pyunyh@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> > If you can easily reproduce the issue, can you capture stalled TCP
> > session with tcpdump on receiving host?(Make sure to disable Rx
> > checksum offload prior to capturing the session.)
> 
> I transferred a 256 kiB file and these are the tcpdumps:
> 
> http://www.alpha-tierchen.de/~bkoenig/fxp0-with-tso.txt
> http://www.alpha-tierchen.de/~bkoenig/fxp0-without-tso.txt
> 
> Actually the transfer doesn't stall although ftp and scp told me so. It
> becomes incredibly slow. It seems like that the chunks are too large and a
> smaller packet will be resent. I decreased the MTU from 1500 to 1492 and
> it works fine with TSO enabled.
> 
> I also captured the traffic on my router:
> 
> http://www.alpha-tierchen.de/~bkoenig/fxp0-with-tso-router.txt
> http://www.alpha-tierchen.de/~bkoenig/fxp0-without-tso-router.txt
> 
> It reveals a suspect information: "truncated-ip - 8 bytes missing!"
> 
> I almost suppose that this is a PPPoE-related configuration issue and the
> fxp driver is not necessarily the problem since decreasing the MTU of the
> LAN host solves it.
> 

I think you're right. Thanks a lot!



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