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Date:      Fri, 13 May 2011 16:07:31 -0400
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Spurious ACKs, ICMP unreachable?
Message-ID:  <iqk323$f8e$1@dough.gmane.org>

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I'm seeing an an unusual problem at a remote machine; this machine is
the FreeBSD server, and the client is a probably Windows machine (but I
don't know the details yet). Something happens which causes FreeBSD to
send ACKs to the client, and the client to send ICMP unreachable
messages to the server. It is most likely a configuration error at the
remote site but I have no idea how to verify this.

A tcpdump sample is attached. Any ideas what to look into next?


18:56:02.711942 IP server.http > client.4732: Flags [.], ack 2110905191,
win 0, length 0
E..(J...@.W..(.d.(.D.P.|....}..gP...lR..
18:56:02.712009 IP server.http > client.elan: Flags [.], ack 2661379534,
win 0, length 0
E..(J...@.V..(.d.(.D.P.b.(....m.P.......
18:56:02.712025 IP server.http > client.2402: Flags [.], ack 2197439003,
win 0, length 0
E..(J...@.V..(.d.(.D.P  b.m>5..B.P...@p..
18:56:02.712064 IP server.http > client.3427: Flags [.], ack 1373214750,
win 0, length 0
E..(K%..@.V..(.d.(.D.P^Mc_N..Q...P.......
18:56:02.712176 IP server.http > client.1893: Flags [.], ack 3549121877,
win 0, length 0
E..(K...@.V..(.d.(.D.P.ee..G..MUP...~_..
18:56:02.712304 IP server.http > client.atex_elmd: Flags [.], ack
2600295677, win 0, length 0
E..(Lq..@.UU.(.d.(.D.P.i.*.F..\.P...,...
18:56:02.713155 IP server.http > client.4732: Flags [.], ack 1, win
65535, length 0
E..(L.@.@..2.(.d.(.D.P.|....}..gP.......
18:56:02.713193 IP server.http > client.elan: Flags [.], ack 1, win
65535, length 0
E..(L.@.@....(.d.(.D.P.b.(....m.P.......
18:56:02.713206 IP server.http > client.2402: Flags [.], ack 1, win
65535, length 0
E..(L.@.@....(.d.(.D.P  b.m>6..B.P.......
18:56:02.713452 IP server.http > client.3427: Flags [.], ack 1, win
65535, length 0
E..(L.@.@....(.d.(.D.P^Mc_N..Q...P.......
18:56:02.713937 IP server.http > client.1893: Flags [.], ack 1, win
ovd65535, length 0
E..(M'@.@....(.d.(.D.P.ee..H..MUP.......
18:56:02.714436 IP server.http > client.atex_elmd: Flags [.], ack 1, win
65535, length 0
E..(M.@.@..P.(.d.(.D.P.i.*.G..\.P.......
18:56:05.723511 IP client > server: ICMP host client unreachable, length 48
E..D.8..?....(.D.(.d........E..(J...>.Y..(.d.(.D.P.|....}..gP...lR..
18:56:05.723527 IP client > server: ICMP host client unreachable, length 48
E..D.9..?....(.D.(.d........E..(L.@.>..2.(.d.(.D.P.|....}..gP...lQ..
18:56:07.712140 IP server.http > client.1859: Flags [.], ack 70891158,
win 0, length 0
E..(N0..@.S..(.d.(.D.P.C.>S..9..P.......
18:56:07.712161 IP server.http > client.dict: Flags [.], ack 878675698,
win 0, length 0
E..(NF..@.S..(.d.(.D.P
D...:4_..P...g...
18:56:07.713390 IP server.http > client.1859: Flags [.], ack 1, win
65535, length 0
E..(O.@.@....(.d.(.D.P.C.>S..9..P.......
18:56:07.713459 IP server.http > client.dict: Flags [.], ack 1, win
65535, length 0
E..(O.@.@....(.d.(.D.P
D...;4_..P.......
18:56:17.712207 IP server.http > client.3454: Flags [.], ack 119451926,
win 0, length 0
E..(R...@.O..(.d.(.D.P^M~@.i.....P...f7..
18:56:17.712354 IP server.http > client.2412: Flags [.], ack 4105579117,
win 0, length 0
E..(R...@.N..(.d.(.D.P  l......*mP.......
18:56:17.712448 IP server.http > client.3438: Flags [.], ack 1002884906,
win 0, length 0
E..(SL..@.Nz.(.d.(.D.P^MnF.;.;..*P...;...
18:56:17.713764 IP server.http > client.3454: Flags [.], ack 1, win
65535, length 0
E..(S.@.@.^M..(.d.(.D.P^M~@.i.....P.......
18:56:17.714361 IP server.http > client.2412: Flags [.], ack 1, win
65535, length 0
E..(TY@.@.^M}.(.d.(.D.P l......*mP.......




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