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Date:      Tue, 28 Aug 2007 02:23:07 +0200
From:      Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
To:        "Bill Marquette" <bill.marquette@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-pf@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pfsync errors
Message-ID:  <200708280223.27279.max@love2party.net>
In-Reply-To: <55e8a96c0708271710n82428eet8c714b9e8d30a3aa@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <55e8a96c0708221242h2d5e7d15q847e6fac7cf60554@mail.gmail.com> <200708230006.32294.max@love2party.net> <55e8a96c0708271710n82428eet8c714b9e8d30a3aa@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tuesday 28 August 2007, Bill Marquette wrote:
> On 8/22/07, Max Laier <max@love2party.net> wrote:
> > There are two reasons why we increase the send error counter.  Either
> > the internal deferred work queue is full or ip_output fails.  Could
> > you locate "pfsyncstats.pfsyncs_oerrors++" in your source code and
> > replace either occurrence with a printf().  Maybe use the attached. 
> > This way we will know what exactly fails and if it is ip_output, why.
>
> Here's what we get with the patch:
> pfsync_senddef: ip_output 64

that's EHOSTDOWN ... that's strange.  Are you using syncpeer?

> # netstat -s -p pfsync
> pfsync:
>         1264507 packets received (IPv4)
>         0 packets received (IPv6)
>                 0 packets discarded for bad interface
>                 0 packets discarded for bad ttl
>                 0 packets shorter than header
>                 0 packets discarded for bad version
>                 0 packets discarded for bad HMAC
>                 0 packets discarded for bad action
>                 0 packets discarded for short packet
>                 0 states discarded for bad values
>                 0 stale states
>                 115608 failed state lookup/inserts
>         86591 packets sent (IPv4)
>         0 packets sent (IPv6)
>                 0 send failed due to mbuf memory error
>                 37231 send error
>

But since the send error still increases it seems as if the internal queue 
is overflowing, too.  This is something that must be fixed as well, but I 
think the EHOSTDOWN from ip_output is more serious.

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