Sorry for the dup, Ian. I meant to send to the list the first time. Ian Chard <ian.ch...@ict.ox.ac.uk> writes:
> Hi, > > I'm troubleshooting a very strange problem, where my ssh connection to > a few different OpenBSD machines drops suddenly, with the client > machine receiving a TCP RST from the server. I've taken tcpdump > captures on both sides (in different sessions, so the tcpdump process > doesn't die with my shell), and the OpenBSD machine's capture doesn't > log the RST it apparently sends. > > Now the machines are in a complex network, so it's possible that the > packet is being generated spuriously by something else. My question > is: is there any way that the OpenBSD kernel could sent a TCP RST that > is always missed by tcpdump running on the same machine? > > Thanks for any help > - Ian This sounds a little like something I'm noticing lately. I thought it was our network at work, but now I see it's really predictable. If you run "dillo boston.com" on a connection with X forwarded and wait a few seconds do you see the reset too? I'm connecting using PuTTY 0.60-2008-09-17 on a windows xp machine with Xming 6.0.9.31. $ pkg_info -c dillo Information for inst:dillo-2.0p1 Comment: fast and light graphical web browser $ dmesg [ using 426072 bytes of bsd ELF symbol table ] console out [ATY,Rage128Pd]console in [keyboard] , using USB : memaddr 94000000 size 4000000, : consaddr 96008000, : ioaddr 90020000, size 20000: memtag 8000, iotag 8000: width 1280 linebytes 1280 height 960 depth 8 Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 1995-2009 OpenBSD. All rights reserved. http://www.OpenBSD.org OpenBSD 4.5 (GENERIC) #0: Thu May 7 17:54:23 EDT 2009 r...@holly.mauritania:/usr/src/sys/arch/macppc/compile/GENERIC real mem = 402653184 (384MB) avail mem = 377503744 (360MB) mainbus0 at root: model PowerMac3,4 cpu0 at mainbus0: 7400 (Revision 0x209): 466 MHz: 1MB backside cache mem0 at mainbus0 spdmem0 at mem0: 128MB SDRAM non-parity PC133CL2 spdmem1 at mem0: 256MB SDRAM non-parity PC133CL3 memc0 at mainbus0: uni-n kiic0 at memc0 offset 0xf8001000 iic0 at kiic0 mpcpcibr0 at mainbus0 pci: uni-north, Revision 0xff pci0 at mpcpcibr0 bus 0 pchb0 at pci0 dev 11 function 0 "Apple Uni-N2 AGP" rev 0x00 vgafb0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0 "ATI Rage Fury" rev 0x00, mmio wsdisplay0 at vgafb0 mux 1: console (std, vt100 emulation) mpcpcibr1 at mainbus0 pci: uni-north, Revision 0x0 pci1 at mpcpcibr1 bus 0 pchb1 at pci1 dev 11 function 0 "Apple Uni-N2 Host" rev 0x00 macobio0 at pci1 dev 23 function 0 "Apple Keylargo" rev 0x03 openpic0 at macobio0 offset 0x40000: version 0x4614 little endian macgpio0 at macobio0 offset 0x50 macgpio1 at macgpio0 irq 47 "programmer-switch" at macgpio0 not configured "gpio5" at macgpio0 not configured "gpio6" at macgpio0 not configured "gpio11" at macgpio0 not configured "extint-gpio15" at macgpio0 not configured "extint-gpio16" at macgpio0 not configured "escc-legacy" at macobio0 offset 0x12000 not configured zsc0 at macobio0 offset 0x13000: irq 22,50 zstty0 at zsc0 channel 0 zstty1 at zsc0 channel 1 tumbler0 at macobio0 offset 0x10000: irq 30,1,2 "timer" at macobio0 offset 0x15000 not configured adb0 at macobio0 offset 0x16000 irq 25: via-pmu, 0 targets apm0 at adb0: battery flags 0x9, 0% charged kiic1 at macobio0 offset 0x18000 iic1 at kiic1 wdc0 at macobio0 offset 0x1f000 irq 19: DMA wd0 at wdc0 channel 0 drive 0: <ST3160812A> wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 152627MB, 312581808 sectors wd0(wdc0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 4 wdc1 at macobio0 offset 0x20000 irq 20: DMA atapiscsi0 at wdc1 channel 0 drive 0 scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <PIONEER, DVD-RW DVR-115D, 1.18> ATAPI 5/cdrom removable cd0(wdc1:0:0): using BIOS timings, DMA mode 2 wdc2 at macobio0 offset 0x21000 irq 21: DMA audio0 at tumbler0 ohci0 at pci1 dev 24 function 0 "Apple USB" rev 0x00: irq 27, version 1.0 ohci1 at pci1 dev 25 function 0 "Apple USB" rev 0x00: irq 28, version 1.0 usb0 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0 at usb0 "Apple OHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb1 at ohci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1 at usb1 "Apple OHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 mpcpcibr2 at mainbus0 pci: uni-north, Revision 0x16 pci2 at mpcpcibr2 bus 0 pchb2 at pci2 dev 11 function 0 "Apple Uni-N2 Host" rev 0x00 "AT&T/Lucent FW322 1394" rev 0x00 at pci2 dev 14 function 0 not configured gem0 at pci2 dev 15 function 0 "Apple Uni-N GMAC" rev 0x01: irq 41, address 00:03:93:04:f9:b2 brgphy0 at gem0 phy 0: BCM5401 10/100/1000baseT PHY, rev. 3 uhub2 at uhub0 port 1 "Chicony Generic USB Hub" rev 1.10/1.00 addr 2 uhidev0 at uhub2 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0 "Chicony PFU-65 USB Keyboard" rev 1.10/1.00 addr 3 uhidev0: iclass 3/1 ukbd0 at uhidev0: 8 modifier keys, 6 key codes wskbd0 at ukbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 uhidev1 at uhub2 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0 "Microsoft Microsoft 3-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM)" rev 1.10/3.00 addr 4 uhidev1: iclass 3/1 ums0 at uhidev1: 3 buttons, Z dir wsmouse0 at ums0 mux 0 softraid0 at root bootpath: /p...@f2000000/mac...@17/at...@1f000/d...@0/bsd root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b wsmouse0 detached ums0 detached uhidev1 detached -- Mike Small sma...@panix.com