dmesg may possible give some clues. when it's not responding to the network, does it respond to the console?
On 2011-02-15, travis+ml-openbsd-m...@subspacefield.org <travis+ml-openbsd-m...@subspacefield.org> wrote: > Hey there, > > I have been asked to help a friend whose system is used as a VPN hub. > > It used to be an older OpenBSD, possibly 4.5 or 4.6, and he got many > kernel panics around some buffer routines (possibly mbuf) that led to > disk corruption. > > It's now OpenBSD 4.8 amd64, and if the system has transit traffic - > going from one leaf through the hub to another - in excess of 100MB at > 200kB/s or more, the system stops responding to network traffic for a > minute or three. During this time, it becomes unpingable, and the VPN > basically stops working temporarily. Often it will start up again, > but if the connection is lossy (like a wifi connection), then it > sometimes won't recover. > > Before I investigate further, does anyone have a clue as to what my be > going on here? > > If not, what would be the suggested method for investigating? > -- > Effing the ineffable since 1997. | http://www.subspacefield.org/~travis/ > My emails do not usually have attachments; it's a digital signature > that your mail program doesn't understand. > If you are a spammer, please email j...@subspacefield.org to get blacklisted. > > [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
