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Date:      Mon, 27 Oct 2014 10:43:20 -0200
From:      Tiago Felipe <lists@connectionlost.com.br>
To:        Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dropped due to the socket
Message-ID:  <544E3DE8.2060602@connectionlost.com.br>
In-Reply-To: <20141027122116.GA6851@in-addr.com>
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Thanks for the explanation, net.inet.udp.log_in_vain was very well put,
now I can debug better.

I'll do some more tests and then come back here to the list.


Thank you Steven and Gary.

[]s

On 27/10/14 10:21, Gary Palmer wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 09:31:04AM -0200, Tiago Felipe wrote:
>> Maybe, but do not believe it, because when you turn it on, the counter=

>=20
>=20
> Turn what on, exactly?
>=20
>=20
>> "dropped due to the socket" has gradually increased, this machine acts=

>=20
>=20
> Please provide the exact output from the "netstat -s -s" command that
> you are talking about.  There is no such statistic
> "dropped due to the socket".
>=20
>=20
>> as pppoe concentrator, mpd5 and netgraph ..
>> I have clients with public IP and nat44.
>>
>> I'm doing tests yet, but I've read a lot about and looked for similar
>> problems, could not come to a conclusion ...
>=20
>=20
> If you are referring to "dropped due to no socket" it means that=20
> a UDP packet arrived for a port that had no socket listening on it.
>=20
> If you are referring to another statistic please provide the *exact*
> statistic
>=20
> If you want to see what UDP requests are being dropped due to no
> socket then run this as root:
>=20
> sysctl net.inet.udp.log_in_vain=3D1
>=20
> it may produce a LOT of logs, so to turn it off again to:
>=20
> sysctl net.inet.udp.log_in_vain=3D0
>=20
> The log_in_vain output should go to the console and anywhere in syslog
> you have configured to receive kern.info syslog events.
>=20
> If you have an idle system where the counter is not incrementing
> and it is passing no traffic (a VM with no network would be ideal)
> you can test the behaviour of the "dropped due to no socket" statistic =

> yourself.
>=20
> Run:
>=20
> netstat -s -s | grep 'dropped due to no socket'
> traceroute localhost
> netstat -s -s | grep 'dropped due to no socket'
>=20
> The 'dropped due to no socket' count should go up by 3, for the 3
> traceroute packets that tried to connect to a port that had no listenin=
g
> socket.  You can use the net.inet.udp.log_in_vain sysctl to see the 3
> traceroute packets during the test if you are interested.=20
>=20
> If you aren't running any firewalls, then as Steve mentioned the most
> likely reason is people scanning your box looking for vulnerabilities. =

> e.g. I see people try to hit the SIP port (UDP 5060) every day on IPs
> that don't run any SIP services.  It's also possible that some
> customer equipment is hitting ports on your PPPOE termination boxes
> as the box is the "other end" of the PPPOE session and the customer
> equipment is trying to use that "other end" for services, e.g. DNS, NTP=

> or similar, even if your PPP session points them elsewhere for those
> services
>=20
> Regards,
>=20
> Gary
>=20
>>
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>> On 27/10/14 09:21, Steven Hartland wrote:
>>> I assume you mean "dropped due to *no *socket" which means your seein=
g
>>> requests to a port which isn't open, possibly due to being port scann=
ed?
>>>
>>> On 27/10/2014 11:00, Tiago Felipe wrote:
>>>> Good afternoon!
>>>>
>>>> I have seen "dropped due to the socket" on multiple servers with
>>>> Freebsd, this case is a Release 10.
>>>> # Netstat -s -s
>>>> ...
>>>> 4614884 dropped due to the socket
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> In this case the current flow is 700mbits download and 80mbits uploa=
d,
>>>> averaging 130kpps.
>>>>
>>>> I've done many changes in sysctl.conf and loader.conf, swapped hardw=
are
>>>> and have not had many improvements.
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone tell me the reason? I'm looking for it to weeks, but stil=
l no
>>>> result.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thank you so much.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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