From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 27 12:11:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from aries.ai.net (aries.ai.net [205.134.163.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 614CC37B719 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 12:11:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from deepak@ai.net) Received: from blood (adsl-138-88-48-78.bellatlantic.net [138.88.48.78]) by aries.ai.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA23415; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 15:11:29 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from deepak@ai.net) Reply-To: From: "Deepak Jain" To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" , Subject: RE: Network lockups on fxp0? Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 15:15:26 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <000101c0b681$206fad00$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG They are all on Cisco switches, each server is on a different port, and the servers are on different switches in different cities. The port graphs show no unusual traffic patterns in or out of the box. The mbuf settings are pretty generous: $ netstat -m 13033/16624/67520 mbufs in use (current/peak/max): 2315 mbufs allocated to data 10718 mbufs allocated to packet headers 2232/3184/16880 mbuf clusters in use (current/peak/max) 10524 Kbytes allocated to network (20% of mb_map in use) 0 requests for memory denied 0 requests for memory delayed 0 calls to protocol drain routines Thanks for the advice, Deepak Jain AiNET -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Ted Mittelstaedt Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 12:45 AM To: deepak@ai.net; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Network lockups on fxp0? I'd start by looking at what is most common - your network hubs. You may have a failed hub that's trashing packets. Otherwise maybe someone is hitting you with a DoS attack? Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Deepak Jain >Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 5:41 PM >To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Network lockups on fxp0? > > > >This weekend we started seeing a bunch of new and stable machines (all >4.2-RELEASE) with varying levels of traffic (3mb/s to 15mb/s) withdrawing >their MAC addresses from the network layer: > >fxp0: SCA timeout >fxp0: DMA timeout >(repeating) > >or: > >fxp0: SCB timeout >fxp0: DMA timeout >(repeating) > >Reboots clear it, but the systems are completely responsive at the console. >The strangest thing is that of 10 machines that showed this over the >weekend, machines would lock up in pairs and singles. This, even though the >users on the servers were completely unrelated. 5 locked up in one data >center another 5 in a different one, no other servers anywhere had any >issues. > >These systems are all Tyan Thunder motherboards, with dual integrated sym >controllers (SCSI) and dual integrated fast ethernet (fxp) ports. 1GB RAM, >single and dual hard drives. The kernel's buffers and things are known good >well over 50mb/s and the kernel is identical across all of them as well as >400 other 4.2 machines. No single server has gone down twice yet, so I have >no idea of how long between occurrences. Occurrences don't seem to be >related to traffic flows or system load. > >Any ideas of where to track down these issues? > >Thanks, > > >Deepak Jain >AiNET > > >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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message