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Date:      Sun, 29 May 2016 14:45:14 -0400
From:      Manas Bhatnagar <b.manas.88@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Possible bug with SCTP and iperf3?
Message-ID:  <CAN5odxAZ_VEL=wNLbb=aTv1LiHkPaGA2jrgam=Qe6DDPPB=XiA@mail.gmail.com>

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Hello,

I experienced a hard reset of a system recently, running FreeBSD
10-RELEASE, while running iperf3. I do not know much about SCTP nor
iperf3, I was just fiddling around with iperf3 arguments. These are
the commands I ran:

iperf3 -c $IP -P 32 -t 60
iperf3 -u -c $IP -P 32 -t 60
iperf3 --sctp -c $IP -P 32 -t 60
iperf3 --sctp -c $IP -P 4 -t 60
iperf3 --sctp -c $IP -t 60
iperf3 --sctp --nstreams 64 -c $IP -P 32 -t 60
iperf3 --sctp --nstreams 2 -c $IP -P 32 -t 60

What I remember is that the second last command would not show any
data as being transferred and when I ran the last command, the system
running the iperf3 server did a hard reset.

I don't know if this is a bug or not but it seems to my inexperienced
eyes like it is something that could be used maliciously to bring down
a system running 'iperf3 -s' and so I thought it would be best to
share this with the mailing list.

Thank you,
Manas



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