Re: PROBLEM: 3.11.0-rc2+ lost of connectivity

From: Cong Wang
Date: Thu Aug 01 2013 - 22:48:44 EST


On Thu, 01 Aug 2013 at 14:34 GMT, Sebastiano Spicuglia <spicuglia.sebastiano@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The machine suddenly stops to be connected to the network.
> Running "ifdown eth0" "ifup eth0" the network starts to work
> again for few minutes and then the failure happens again.
> It is not even possible to ping the machine.
> /var/log/messages does not report anything wrong.
>
> I instrumented the kernel with SystemTap to see what happens when the
> machine is in the failure state.
>
> the function ip_rcv is invoked.
> the function ip_rcv_finish is invoked.
> the function ip_local_deliver is invoked
> the function ip_local_deliver_finish is invoked
> the function tcp_v4_rcv is NOT invoked
>
> When the network works the function tcp_v4_rcv is invoked.
>

Please turn off your firewall and run dropwatch to see where the
packets are dropped.

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