OK, I'll try compiling the latest 3.x (I guess 3.4.35) on my development
box once I get it back up on Monday (transferring from a Ultra 5 to a
new Sun Blade 1500).

I'll put the 3.4.35 package on the two systems that are crashing right
now quite frequently and see if it is more stable.  I think it is likely
4.x related branch related.


Currently using Sun Fire V210 and V240 servers with Solaris 8,
Generic_117350-20

I'm using Feb 2005 patch revision level as I haven't had a chance to
update them to latest rev (transferring ownership to our Ops group) but
will be doing a mass upgrade of all the servers to probably Feb 2006
patch revisions once all of our systems are built and transferred.

But I don't think this is really an issue with versions since we have
such a minimized OS that hardly gets patched when it is patched.


Pretty basic system installs so not using any other 3rd party apps that
would use the streams module I think...  just syslog-ng, NFS mounts from
a NetApp filer, telnet/ssh and so forth.

I think it is either the UDP packets for syslog or NFS mounts that might
be causing the fragmented packet problems.


On Monday I'll try and get my development box up and going and compile
4.1.9 and the 3.4.35 and test on the two systems and see how things go.



-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Dibowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2005 10:38 PM
To: Olmsted, Brian
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: ipf still crashing

Olmsted, Brian wrote:
> 
> I'm not using ipf 3.x in my environment as I was trying to use some of
> the features of 4.1 such as IP Pools, etc which aren't working
properly
> and I picked the latest version as I thought it was the stable
version.

Sure - but it'd be interesting to see if you have the same behavior with
3.x or not. I currently use IP Filter on Solaris compiled with GCC3
without issues - both sparc and x86. So, I'm trying to eliminate
factors... try a 3.x branch (is it 4.x specific?), try a different
physical box (is it hardware related?) Are you at the latest patch rev?
Any strange kernel tunables you have set? Any odd software you have that
plays with the STREAMS modules in ways that pfil wouldn't expect?

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