Re: After many hours all outbound connections get stuck in SYN_SENT

2007-12-21 Thread James Nichols
> Huh? Do you mean a PIX blade in a Cisco switch-router chassis? It > would be very useful if you could be less vague about the > equipment in use. Right it's a PIX blade in Cisco chassis. The PIX is running ASA version 7.0(6) > That depends more on your customers' networking attributes > the

Re: After many hours all outbound connections get stuck in SYN_SENT

2007-12-20 Thread James Nichols
> But I'd be very surprised if the router is acting as anything more > that a network-layer device. It might perhaps have some soft connection > state being used for generating accounting records. Being Cisco > it's probably a switch-router, so it might carry some per-port hard > state for validat

Re: After many hours all outbound connections get stuck in SYN_SENT

2007-12-20 Thread James Nichols
> I still dont understand. > > "tcpdump -p -n -s 1600 -c 1" doesnt reveal User data at all. > > Without any exact data from you, I am afraid nobody can help. Oh, I didn't see that you specified specific options. I'll still have to anonymize 2000+ IP addresses, but I think there is an open sou

Re: After many hours all outbound connections get stuck in SYN_SENT

2007-12-19 Thread James Nichols
> The router could be sooo crappy that it drops all packets from > TCP streams that have SACK enabled and the client has opened > 200+ SACK connections previously... something like that? I don't know, maybe. My router is a fairly new model Cisco and is pretty major (i.e. pretty expensive), so it'

Re: After many hours all outbound connections get stuck in SYN_SENT

2007-12-19 Thread James Nichols
On 12/19/07, Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Nichols a écrit : > >> So you see outgoing SYN packets, but no SYN replies coming from the remote > >> peer ? (you mention ACKS, but the first packet received from the remote > >> peer should be a

Re: After many hours all outbound connections get stuck in SYN_SENT

2007-12-19 Thread James Nichols
> So you see outgoing SYN packets, but no SYN replies coming from the remote > peer ? (you mention ACKS, but the first packet received from the remote > peer should be a SYN+ACK), Right, I meant to say SYN+ACK. I don't see them coming back. > When the problem comes, instead of restarting the

Re: After many hours all outbound connections get stuck in SYN_SENT

2007-12-18 Thread James Nichols
> Well... please dont start a flame war :( > > Back to your SYN_SENT problem, I suppose the remote IP is known, so you > probably could post here the result of a tcdpump ? > > tcpdump -p -n -s 1600 host IP_of_problematic_peer -c 500 > > Most probably remote peer received too many attempts from you,

Re: After many hours all outbound connections get stuck in SYN_SENT

2007-12-18 Thread James Nichols
> Well... please dont start a flame war :( > > Back to your SYN_SENT problem, I suppose the remote IP is known, so you > probably could post here the result of a tcdpump ? > > tcpdump -p -n -s 1600 host IP_of_problematic_peer -c 500 > > Most probably remote peer received too many attempts from you,

Re: After many hours all outbound connections get stuck in SYN_SENT

2007-12-18 Thread James Nichols
> Here is a purely hypothethical (and in practice unlikely) idea: > Java opens up too many sockets (more than you really request) and the > kernel, for whatever reason, does not deliver packets to programs > which have maxed out their fds. Well it would already help if the > java blob was split int

Re: After many hours all outbound connections get stuck in SYN_SENT

2007-12-18 Thread James Nichols
> >> Well you could still blame Java. I am sure that if you program was C, > >> the problem could be narrowed down much easier. > > > >That may very well be true, but I can't rewrite the whole 500K line > >application in C at this point. Plus, it's a web app which would be > >"fun" to implement in

Re: After many hours all outbound connections get stuck in SYN_SENT

2007-12-18 Thread James Nichols
> Well you could still blame Java. I am sure that if you program was C, > the problem could be narrowed down much easier. That may very well be true, but I can't rewrite the whole 500K line application in C at this point. Plus, it's a web app which would be "fun" to implement in C. -- To unsubscr

Re: After many hours all outbound connections get stuck in SYN_SENT

2007-12-18 Thread James Nichols
> Try uploading something through rsync+ssh, or scp+ssh. If it aborts > or hangs after a while, that may be an strong indication of a crappy > router. Also, I'd advise to upgrade to something newer like >= > 2.6.22. There was one of those SACK-broken routers around here too, > but it seemed to have

After many hours all outbound connections get stuck in SYN_SENT

2007-12-15 Thread James Nichols
ebug this problem in the kernel to find out what the root cause is? I've temporarily signed up on this list, but may opt-out if I can't handle the traffic, so please CC me directly on any replies. Thanks, James Nichols -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-