Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 23:20:03 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: "B. Scott Michel" <scottm@CS.UCLA.EDU> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TCP Oddities followup Message-ID: <199912240720.XAA10161@apollo.backplane.com> References: <199912232255.OAA00872@mordred.cs.ucla.edu> <3862DBF3.B0EC432B@cs.ucla.edu>
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:Scott Michel wrote:
:> - tcpdump-ing the pn0 interface shows that the host thinks that it's
:> sending data. tcpdump-ing elsewhere in the network shows that pn0
:> isn't actually transmitting anything into the wire.
:
:The host appears to be doing retransmissions but nothing goes out
:on the wire.
:
:> - This really is a TCP or interface bug because NFS connections don't
:> freeze using UDP.
:
:It's not just NFS. I can duplicate this behavior with scp and
:cvsup (things that do bulk data transfer.)
:
:
:-scooter
Try doing a ping on the host with the pn0 interface to another
machine. See if the packets it thinks it is sending get
transmitted after a bunch of ping packets have accumulated.
somethign like 'ping -i 0.03 remotehost' so it writes a lot of
packets out.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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