From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 1 20:52:20 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E3C916A4E4; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 20:52:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from max@love2party.net) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.188]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3290D43D83; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 20:52:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from max@love2party.net) Received: from [84.163.210.15] (helo=amd64.laiers.local) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu8) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0ML2ov-1FEYIl46Rc-0007jg; Wed, 01 Mar 2006 21:52:04 +0100 From: Max Laier Organization: FreeBSD To: Luigi Rizzo Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 21:50:36 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <20060301193342.GA11086@totem.fix.no> <20060301115655.A50285@xorpc.icir.org> In-Reply-To: <20060301115655.A50285@xorpc.icir.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2009766.qCQR9IS4dk"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200603012150.44445.max@love2party.net> X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:61c499deaeeba3ba5be80f48ecc83056 Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Anders Nordby , damien@freebsd.org, flz@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iwi stability when doing large file transfers/backups X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 20:52:21 -0000 --nextPart2009766.qCQR9IS4dk Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 01 March 2006 20:56, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 08:33:42PM +0100, Anders Nordby wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm having great difficulties taking backup of my laptop computer. It's > > a Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook E8020 system with a Intel PRO/Wireless > > 2915ABG NIC. I'm connected to a FreeBSD hostap, using WPA2 (CCMP/AES). > > > > Updating to 6-STABLE (6.1-PRERELEASE) seems to have improved the > > stability of the iwi driver quite a bit, but when doing large file > > transfers (in this case rsyncing all the data from the laptop through > > SSH), I always and oftenly get: > > > > Disconnecting: Corrupted MAC on input. > > > > The messages comes from SSH, so it seems to be getting corrupted data. > > Is anyone looking into that? Is there any fixes or settings that should > > be tried? How are people's experience with iwi? Am I the only one to > > have problems with it? > > I am using RELENG_6 on my dell latitude x1 and > i have been getting ssh's "corrupted data" messages with 'iwi' since > i started using the native driver back in september. > After the update at the end of january the driver would consistently > crash my laptop right after loading the firmware (i suspect some kind > of race condition) so i had a hard time for a couple of weeks until > i replaced it with the code that Max Laier and Sam Leffler gave me > (using the 'firmware' driver from RELENG_7). > Since then the driver is solid as a rock, but the "corrupt data" > thing keeps happening, especially with bulk data transfers such as > scp, although occasionally i get them with http accesses too. ahrg, still didn't get to putting out the RELENG_6 version of the driver. = =20 Luigi, can you share your version. Should be easy now since firmware has=20 been MFCed. I'd really like to see people testing this version and let us= =20 know what works and what not. I hope to find some time to do something abo= ut=20 that then. > curiously interactive ssh is always ok, so i suspect that packet size > has an influence on the problem. > I had no time to instrument the relevant part of the ssl library > to try and figure out if there is a pattern in the error (e.g. > zeroed bytes, or a constant packet size, etc.) > > but yes, overall the native iwi driver does have issues and i > am unsure on what is the source (i had firmware 2.3 before feb, > and 2.4 now). =2D-=20 /"\ Best regards, | mlaier@freebsd.org \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News --nextPart2009766.qCQR9IS4dk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEBgkkXyyEoT62BG0RAnx2AJ9EUpjQpP7BWR4fk/XRDaIZ2WRZ1QCfYz5N iWhkkgwdWz4OIKnAusk/5jY= =8i64 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2009766.qCQR9IS4dk--