Re: Diagnosing packet loss

2011-11-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 24/11/2011 10:07, Kees Jan Koster wrote: > This seems to be local to my machine. Here is another reason why I > say that: I can reliably transmit data when I bind to the aliased IP > address: If I use mtr to measure packet loss from saffron (the stricken > machine) to cumin (another machine in a

Re: Diagnosing packet loss

2011-11-24 Thread Kees Jan Koster
Dear All, Thank you so much for the excellent suggestions. I can tell some of you have a lot of experience troubleshooting this issue. At this stage I ruled out hardware or network issues. These are server grade network interfaces, new cables and the ifconfig configuration seems in order. nets

Re: Diagnosing packet loss

2011-11-23 Thread Kees Jan Koster
Dear Mike, >> I am stuck with a machine that shows serious packet loss (about 1% of all >> traffic is dropped). I tried the obvious (new network cable, different >> switch port, different ethernet interface on the machine), but the problems >> remain. > > What is the output of > sysctl -a dev.

Re: Diagnosing packet loss

2011-11-22 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 11/22/2011 3:33 PM, Kees Jan Koster wrote: > Dear All, > > I am stuck with a machine that shows serious packet loss (about 1% of all > traffic is dropped). I tried the obvious (new network cable, different switch > port, different ethernet interface on the machine), but the problems remain.

RE: Diagnosing packet loss

2011-11-22 Thread Gary Gatten
Cc: Michael Sierchio; Gary Gatten; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Diagnosing packet loss On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Kees Jan Koster mailto:kjkos...@gmail.com>> wrote: [kjkoster@saffron ~]$ ifconfig bge0 bge0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 options=8009b ether

Re: Diagnosing packet loss

2011-11-22 Thread Michael Sierchio
Matthew suggests turning off hardware checksums - it won't hurt to give that a try: ifconfig bge0 media 100baseTX mediaopt -txcsum On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Kees Jan Koster wrote: >> >> [kjkoster@saffron ~]$ ifconfig bge0 >> bge0

Re: Diagnosing packet loss

2011-11-22 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Kees Jan Koster wrote: > [kjkoster@saffron ~]$ ifconfig bge0 > bge0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 > > options=8009b >ether 00:e0:81:32:ed:b4 >inet 91.196.169.165 netmask 0xfff8 broadcast 91.196.169.167 >inet 91.196.169.166 netmask 0xff

Re: Diagnosing packet loss

2011-11-22 Thread Kees Jan Koster
Dear Michael, [kjkoster@saffron ~]$ ifconfig bge0 bge0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 options=8009b ether 00:e0:81:32:ed:b4 inet 91.196.169.165 netmask 0xfff8 broadcast 91.196.169.167 inet 91.196.169.166 netmask 0x broadcast 91.196.169.166 media:

Re: Diagnosing packet loss

2011-11-22 Thread J65nko
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Kees Jan Koster wrote: > Dear All, > > I am stuck with a machine that shows serious packet loss (about 1% of all > traffic is dropped). I tried the obvious (new network cable, different switch > port, different ethernet interface on the machine), but the problems

Re: Diagnosing packet loss

2011-11-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 22/11/2011 20:33, Kees Jan Koster wrote: > I am stuck with a machine that shows serious packet loss (about 1% of > all traffic is dropped). I tried the obvious (new network cable, > different switch port, different ethernet interface on the machine), > but the problems remain. > > Another machi

Re: Diagnosing packet loss

2011-11-22 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Kees Jan Koster wrote: > Thank you for your reply. Your comment about dupe IP triggered something that > I failed to mention: the interface is aliased. It has two IP addresses. IP > address a and it has an alias IP address b. I just tested binding mtr to each >

Re: Diagnosing packet loss

2011-11-22 Thread Kees Jan Koster
> Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 02:33 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Diagnosing packet loss > > Dear All, > > I am stuck with a machine that shows serious packet loss (about 1% of all > traffic is dropped). I tried the obvious (new network cable,

Re: Diagnosing packet loss

2011-11-22 Thread Gary Gatten
ws or stays put. - Original Message - From: Kees Jan Koster [mailto:kjkos...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 02:33 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Diagnosing packet loss Dear All, I am stuck with a machine that shows serious packet loss (about 1% of all traff

Diagnosing packet loss

2011-11-22 Thread Kees Jan Koster
Dear All, I am stuck with a machine that shows serious packet loss (about 1% of all traffic is dropped). I tried the obvious (new network cable, different switch port, different ethernet interface on the machine), but the problems remain. Another machine that sits in the same rack and is hooked