From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 1 13:13:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76CE916A4ED for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 13:13:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 208DA43D46 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 13:13:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 18361 invoked from network); 1 Jun 2006 13:13:49 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 1 Jun 2006 13:13:49 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 0525B28449; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 09:13:47 -0400 (EDT) To: nocturnal References: <447DF7B5.6090507@swehack.se> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 09:13:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: <447DF7B5.6090507@swehack.se> (nocturnal@swehack.se's message of "Wed, 31 May 2006 22:08:21 +0200") Message-ID: <44ejy9rpbo.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Net dies after many torrent packets, BUG?! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 13:13:58 -0000 nocturnal writes: > Not sure if this is already posted or already reported as a bug > because i honestly don't have time for those things. > > I have reproduced this problem a few times but it has some special > requirements. For example i download a torrent from a very fast peer > in the rtorrent client. I have reproduced this with both rTorrent > 0.4.5 - > libTorrent 0.8.5 and two earlier versions which i don't remember. My > friend is using the same versions as i am now and reported no problems > in the latest development versions, he only started using them > today. I have a 10/10Mbit connection at home and this happens when > rtorrent is downloading at max speed. It varies somewhere around > 7-10Mbit but never over 10Mbit by much. My friend only has a capacity > of 1Mbit but got the same problem. > > This is why i'm reporting this because if it turns out that this can > be reproduced by sending speciall crafted packets or packets in a > special order then i guess it's pretty serious. I highly doubt this > but still, a user process should not kill the net like rtorrent has > done. > > Both me and my friend were running FreeBSD 6.0 RELEASE when this happened. > > I was not going to report this but a friend just told me he gets the > exact same results on FreeBSD 6.0 so i felt i should tell someone. Do you have good NICs?