From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 27 14:54:23 2002 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 B7D5437B401 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 14:54:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03.attbi.com [204.127.202.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35D3B43E3B for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 14:54:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fozekizer@attbi.com) Received: from hume ([12.239.154.32]) by sccrmhc03.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with SMTP id <20020927215420.FZAB22381.sccrmhc03.attbi.com@hume>; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 21:54:20 +0000 Message-ID: <004501c2666f$f61c7ba0$32040101@hume> From: "Charles Pelletier" To: "Dan Nelson" , "Peter Brezny" Cc: References: <20020927211411.GD7711@dan.emsphone.com> Subject: Re: Kernel log question "pullup failed" Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 16:50:56 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG so, having never used IPFW, does that really signify anything other than bad transmission? i mean, sounds like it could be a warning for corrupted packets? somebody explain that to me? --charlie pelletier --litmus(mp3.com/litmus) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Nelson" To: "Peter Brezny" Cc: Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 4:14 PM Subject: Re: Kernel log question "pullup failed" > In the last episode (Sep 27), Peter Brezny said: > > Has anyone seen this before? > > > > > pullup failed > > > > what is it? > > It's an ipfw log message. It could certainly stand to be a bit > clearer :) > > From man ipfw: > > FINE POINTS > o There are circumstances where fragmented datagrams are > unconditionally dropped. TCP packets are dropped if they do > not contain at least 20 bytes of TCP header, UDP packets are > dropped if they do not contain a full 8 byte UDP header, and > ICMP packets are dropped if they do not contain 4 bytes of > ICMP header, enough to specify the ICMP type, code, and > checksum. These packets are simply logged as ``pullup > failed'' since there may not be enough good data in the packet > to produce a meaningful log entry. > > > > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@allantgroup.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message