Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] weird packet garbling problem

2013-02-06 Thread Al Hopper
This may be totally offbase - but is it possible that it's just an ethernet device port negotiation issue (one port in full-duplex mode connecting to a port in half-duplex)? Regards, Al Hopper On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 6:22 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) < openindi...@nedharvey.com> wrote: >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] weird packet garbling problem

2013-02-06 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
> From: Roel_D [mailto:openindi...@out-side.nl] > > I use ASA5505's always. I never had this problem with solaris 10&11, but > those run on sun hardware. > I also have solaris 10 on an old HP DL340 with bge's also without problem. > And OI 1.57 on VMware also without the problems you describe. > I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] weird packet garbling problem

2013-02-05 Thread Roel_D
I use ASA5505's always. I never had this problem with solaris 10&11, but those run on sun hardware. I also have solaris 10 on an old HP DL340 with bge's also without problem. And OI 1.57 on VMware also without the problems you describe. I use the cisco VPN windows client. Is your cisco the def

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] weird packet garbling problem

2013-02-04 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
> From: Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) > [mailto:openindi...@nedharvey.com] > > I am having a really hard time coming up with a plausible explanation for > this, > other than some kind of kernel bug with openindiana... Found a new clue, which is totally unbelievable, yet totally enlightening.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] weird packet garbling problem

2013-02-04 Thread James Carlson
On 02/04/13 10:01, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: >> From: James Carlson [mailto:carls...@workingcode.com] >> >> Which of the many Broadcom drivers is this? If it's bnx, try editing >> /kernel/drv/bnx.conf, and uncommenting and changing the "checksum=" >> line >> to set it to all zeros. >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] weird packet garbling problem

2013-02-04 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
> From: James Carlson [mailto:carls...@workingcode.com] > > Which of the many Broadcom drivers is this? If it's bnx, try editing > /kernel/drv/bnx.conf, and uncommenting and changing the "checksum=" > line > to set it to all zeros. One of the systems is using bge, and the other is using bnx. I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] weird packet garbling problem

2013-02-03 Thread Roel_D
You said: "the OI machine saw the packet come in, and get repeated like 100 times all within 1ms of each other. Then it spewed out like 100 responses, all with about 1ms, and wireshark flagged as error, like 100 duplicate ACKs, that were again" So OI first received 100 messages, although unkn

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] weird packet garbling problem

2013-02-03 Thread James Carlson
On 2/2/2013 11:36 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: > The more I think about it, the more I am suspicious of the broadcom NIC > driver. Which of the many Broadcom drivers is this? If it's bnx, try editing /kernel/drv/bnx.conf, and uncommenting and changing the "checksum=" line to set it

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] weird packet garbling problem

2013-02-02 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
> From: Bob Friesenhahn [mailto:bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us] > > Unless TCP is offloaded from the kernel (so that checksums are in an > adaptor card), it is exceedingly difficult for wrong data to pass > TCP's checksumming and get passed up to the socket that SSH uses. In the one packet capture

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] weird packet garbling problem

2013-02-02 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 2 Feb 2013, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: From: Jim Klimov [mailto:jimkli...@cos.ru] Basically, the workaround for us was to enable this line in /etc/system: set ip:dohwcksum = 0 Oh well, thanks for the suggestion... Unfortunately, didn't make any difference... Unless TC

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] weird packet garbling problem

2013-02-02 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
> From: Jim Klimov [mailto:jimkli...@cos.ru] > > Basically, the workaround for us was to enable this line in /etc/system: > > set ip:dohwcksum = 0 Oh well, thanks for the suggestion... Unfortunately, didn't make any difference... ___ OpenIndiana-di

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] weird packet garbling problem

2013-02-02 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 2 Feb 2013, Jim Klimov wrote: On 2013-02-02 18:26, Jake Young wrote: Oddly enough I never had any issues with the automounter or nfs share I was backing up the V445 to. One issue was with the ssh connection between my OI desktop and the V445 dropping out (note there is very little text

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] weird packet garbling problem

2013-02-02 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-02-02 18:26, Jake Young wrote: Oddly enough I never had any issues with the automounter or nfs share I was backing up the V445 to. One issue was with the ssh connection between my OI desktop and the V445 dropping out (note there is very little text output in my backup script) after an ho

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] weird packet garbling problem

2013-02-02 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-02-02 18:26, Jake Young wrote: Thanks Jim! I've seen similar behavior to what Ed described on a Solaris 10 Sparc box (V445) that is in a remote office. I think we had something similar too on another setup, but the failure involved larger packets, i.e. in SCP sessions timing out at 192

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] weird packet garbling problem

2013-02-02 Thread Jake Young
Thanks Jim! I've seen similar behavior to what Ed described on a Solaris 10 Sparc box (V445) that is in a remote office. I'll try that setting and see if it resolves my issue. I was VNCing in to an OI box in my office from my laptop via VPN and sshing in to the V445 box to kick off some backup s

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] weird packet garbling problem

2013-02-02 Thread Jim Klimov
As an alternate thought, what OSes and NICs are running on your router, VPN box (and what sort of VPN is that?), and on those boxes where you don't have the problem? I might guess that if the problem happens with Solaris/OI boxes and does not, for example, happen to Linux and Windows, this might

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] weird packet garbling problem

2013-02-02 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-02-02 16:32, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: I am having a really hard time coming up with a plausible explanation for this, other than some kind of kernel bug with openindiana... This may be a (well-known) problem between hardware TCP offload and IPFilter. Basically, the hardwa

[OpenIndiana-discuss] weird packet garbling problem

2013-02-02 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
I am having a really hard time coming up with a plausible explanation for this, other than some kind of kernel bug with openindiana... I have two systems in the office, Dell PowerEdge SC 1435 (Embedded Broadcom 5721 NIC) and Dell PowerEdge 2950 (Embedded Broadcom 5708 NIC), both running OI 151a