Re: BIRD drops specific IPv6 session for no reason

2020-03-19 Thread Stavros Konstantaras
Hi Stefan (and the rest of the community), To give you an update, two days before we upgraded one of our Route servers with Kernel version 4.9 and at the same time we upgraded Bird to version 1.6.8 Situation became worse, the customer who reported the bug, 6 hours after the maintenance he compl

Re: BIRD drops specific IPv6 session for no reason

2020-03-03 Thread Ondrej Zajicek
On Tue, Mar 03, 2020 at 09:09:58AM +0100, Stavros Konstantaras wrote: > Hi Ondrej, > > Great feedback, thank’s a lot for sharing it with us. Currently we are using > the kernel 3.16.39-1+deb8u2, do you remember if this kernel was inside the > list of complains? Hi See the link i sent you in t

Re: BIRD drops specific IPv6 session for no reason

2020-03-03 Thread Stavros Konstantaras
Hi Alexander, In general we try to keep the RS as light as possible, which means we do not run unwanted applications or packet captures over there. Nevertheless, we didn’t observe busy HDD issues but that is also a valid point. As per Ondrej’s feedback, it seems there is a kernel issue, maybe

Re: BIRD drops specific IPv6 session for no reason

2020-03-03 Thread Stavros Konstantaras
Hi Ondrej, Great feedback, thank’s a lot for sharing it with us. Currently we are using the kernel 3.16.39-1+deb8u2, do you remember if this kernel was inside the list of complains? We will schedule a maintenance to update the kernel in both Route Servers and see if that solves the issue. T

Re: BIRD drops specific IPv6 session for no reason

2020-02-28 Thread Alexander Zubkov
Hi, Can it be some IO issue? We had similar problems with bird making an IO loop for too much time so that hold timers were expired by that time. It was probably caused when it was writing a log file on a busy HDD. But we catch those with syslog too, because that write is blocking for the bird too

Re: BIRD drops specific IPv6 session for no reason

2020-02-28 Thread Ondrej Zajicek
On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 03:33:06PM +0100, Stavros Konstantaras wrote: > HI Alarig, > > Thank you for sharing your experiences. I don’t have the MSS currently but if > that was the case, wouldn’t have experienced the drops more frequently? > Currently it happens once per month (or 0.8 per month)

Re: BIRD drops specific IPv6 session for no reason

2020-02-28 Thread Stavros Konstantaras
Hi Tapio, Good point as well but I don’t have access to customer’s router. I can only touch my Linux server and based on that, ARP entry is there as the BGPv4 session remains up (which means that the switches in the middle can have a valid MAC entry in their MAC table). Only the BGPv6 session

Re: BIRD drops specific IPv6 session for no reason

2020-02-28 Thread Stavros Konstantaras
HI Alarig, Thank you for sharing your experiences. I don’t have the MSS currently but if that was the case, wouldn’t have experienced the drops more frequently? Currently it happens once per month (or 0.8 per month) and contrary to your case which was 100% network related, in our case we don’t

Re: BIRD drops specific IPv6 session for no reason

2020-02-28 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi Stavros, On ven. 28 févr. 12:41:24 2020, Stavros Konstantaras wrote: > Hi Bird community, > > We are investigating a weird customer issue regarding our Bird Route > Servers (version 1.6.3) and a specific IPv6 session. Customer reports > a sudden drop of his IPv6 session and -until now- we coul

Re: BIRD drops specific IPv6 session for no reason

2020-02-28 Thread Tapio Haapala
double check that your router have arp entry and route for that peer when that happens. Example if your router get wrong route for peer it can send response packets (or some cases arp requests) to wrong interface. So dump your another interfaces also at same time and you will see what it do. Pro