RE: Hping/Ping

2008-02-26 Thread Ingo Flaschberger
Dear Dave, and, what hz value do you use at the server? sysctl -a | grep hz It seems, you are missing incomming packets because the system is busy. For this high network load, you should use 1000HZ. (Thats a kernel compile option). Kind regards, Ingo Flaschberger __

RE: Hping/Ping

2008-02-26 Thread Ingo Flaschberger
Dear Dave, intr_queue_drops was rising very quickly, after changing queue_maxlen to 500 (from 50) the problems all went away. What's a reasonable value for that for a high load box (5000+ interrupts a second) ? http://devwiki.pfsense.org/Tuning?show_comments=1 they set it to 3000 intel em-car

RE: Hping/Ping

2008-02-26 Thread Dave Raven
ssage- From: Ingo Flaschberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 9:28 PM To: Dave Raven Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Hping/Ping Dear Dave, some more ideas: sysctl -a | fgrep ip.intr_qu Kind regards, In

RE: Hping/Ping

2008-02-26 Thread Dave Raven
@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Hping/Ping Dear Dave, some more ideas: sysctl -a | fgrep ip.intr_qu Kind regards, Ingo Flaschberger ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any

RE: Hping/Ping

2008-02-26 Thread Ingo Flaschberger
Dear Dave, some more ideas: sysctl -a | fgrep ip.intr_qu Kind regards, Ingo Flaschberger ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

RE: Hping/Ping

2008-02-26 Thread Ingo Flaschberger
Dear Dave, do you use firewall? what rules? do you use traffic shaping? # netstat -m 4078/14240/67584 mbufs in use (current/peak/max): 4078 mbufs allocated to data 4065/14168/33792 mbuf clusters in use (current/peak/max) do you have now traffic-loss? Kind regards, Ingo Flasch

RE: Hping/Ping

2008-02-26 Thread Dave Raven
PM To: Dave Raven Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Hping/Ping Dear Dave, > Also - sometimes during my testing I see this message, it's hard to make it > happen but its been popping up I'm not sure if its related/different etc -- > > "sendto: No buffer space availa

RE: Hping/Ping

2008-02-26 Thread Ingo Flaschberger
Dear Dave, Also - sometimes during my testing I see this message, it's hard to make it happen but its been popping up I'm not sure if its related/different etc -- "sendto: No buffer space available" try: netstat -m Kind regards, Ingo Flaschberger

RE: Hping/Ping

2008-02-26 Thread Dave Raven
CTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 8:45 PM To: Dave Raven Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Hping/Ping Dear Dave, > I have set my icmplim to 1024. When it was 200 I would sometimes get a > warning about an OPEN port RST - which was also strange to me (that it was > open not clo

RE: Hping/Ping

2008-02-26 Thread Dave Raven
ay, February 26, 2008 8:45 PM To: Dave Raven Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Hping/Ping Dear Dave, > I have set my icmplim to 1024. When it was 200 I would sometimes get a > warning about an OPEN port RST - which was also strange to me (that it was > open not closed). I suspect

RE: Hping/Ping

2008-02-26 Thread Ingo Flaschberger
Dear Dave, I have set my icmplim to 1024. When it was 200 I would sometimes get a warning about an OPEN port RST - which was also strange to me (that it was open not closed). I suspected that it was because 5% of my packets where being dropped though. The server is under reasonable load (networ

RE: Hping/Ping

2008-02-26 Thread Dave Raven
: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Hping/Ping Dear Dave, > Unfortunately I don't have most of that information, I can try to > get more but my question is if hping works and ping doesn't shouldn't I be > looking on the box itself not at the network ? With

RE: Hping/Ping

2008-02-26 Thread Ingo Flaschberger
Dear Dave, Unfortunately I don't have most of that information, I can try to get more but my question is if hping works and ping doesn't shouldn't I be looking on the box itself not at the network ? With icmp I think about icmp bandwidth limit. sysctl -a | grep icmp net.inet.icmp.icmpl

RE: Hping/Ping

2008-02-26 Thread Dave Raven
EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 8:22 PM To: Dave Raven Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Hping/Ping Dear Dave, > Its hard to tell but it appears like all protocols are dropping. Tried to replace the cable? What product/vendor is the switch? Is it manageable? Is fl

RE: Hping/Ping

2008-02-26 Thread Ingo Flaschberger
Dear Dave, Its hard to tell but it appears like all protocols are dropping. Tried to replace the cable? What product/vendor is the switch? Is it manageable? Is flow-control enabled at the switch? How much traffic does the switch handle? How much traffic does the server handle? bye,

RE: Hping/Ping

2008-02-26 Thread Dave Raven
Hi, Its hard to tell but it appears like all protocols are dropping. Thanks Dave -Original Message- From: Ingo Flaschberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 8:04 PM To: Dave Raven Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Hping/Ping Dear Daven

RE: Hping/Ping

2008-02-26 Thread Ingo Flaschberger
Dear Daven, I get the drops with other IP addresses on the same switch as well. Also from another unit I can ping through the switch to the router without any problems. Given that hping works is it possible that it's a switch/network related problem - I had thought it would definitely b

RE: Hping/Ping

2008-02-26 Thread Dave Raven
be a problem on the unit (a buffer or something perhaps) seeing as hping works fine? Thanks again Dave -Original Message- From: Ingo Flaschberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 7:50 PM To: Dave Raven Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Hping/Ping Dear

RE: Hping/Ping

2008-02-26 Thread Ingo Flaschberger
Dear Dave, Yes there are no hops, I'm just pinging the router infront of me. The silbpi card uses the em driver - I tried the onboard em cards but had the same problem.. I've also connected a cable to my other card, silbpi0, which does no traffic and pinging on there is stable. That se

RE: Hping/Ping

2008-02-26 Thread Dave Raven
there is stable. That seems to indicate it's something card specific, but hping never has a problem ? Thanks for the help Dave -Original Message- From: Ingo Flaschberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 7:34 PM To: Dave Raven Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Sub

RE: Hping/Ping

2008-02-26 Thread Ingo Flaschberger
Dear Dave, Also, if I use tethereal to sniff for icmp packets to the host I'm pinging I see them all even though I am getting drops -- 23 packets transmitted, 22 packets received, 4% packet loss The last two lines of my tethereal -- 45 22.214610 x.x.x.x -> y.y.y.y ICMP Echo (ping) re

RE: Hping/Ping

2008-02-26 Thread Dave Raven
6:21 PM To: 'freebsd-net@freebsd.org' Subject: Hping/Ping Hi all, I have a problem where my machine is dropping packets and pings after a few days of running (under load). The reason I'm mailing the -net list is because I seem to have tracked down something I'm just not sure w

Hping/Ping

2008-02-26 Thread Dave Raven
Hi all, I have a problem where my machine is dropping packets and pings after a few days of running (under load). The reason I'm mailing the -net list is because I seem to have tracked down something I'm just not sure where to look now. If I use ping I get 5% drops -- 872 packets transmitt