AW: Strange networking issue

From: Sippel, Christian (Christian.Sippel@IZB.DE)
Date: 04/25/03

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    From: "Sippel, Christian" <Christian.Sippel@IZB.DE>
    To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
    
    

    My 0.02c:
    AFAIK traceroute sends an message to the destination IP. The first message
    has TTL value of 0 so the message is thrown away at the first hop. This
    first hop sends an SNMP-message to the source machine and that's how
    traceroute on the source machine knows about the first hop. As there are
    machines where this SNMP-replys are blocked, after a timeout traceroute send
    the next messages with TTL of the last message+1 to reach the second hop. So
    the output of the traceroute command shows that the machine is sending
    messages with increasing TTLs but never gets a reply.

    When you ping from W2K to AIX can you see the incoming ip packet on AIX when
    you listen on the interface with iptrace?

    Christian

    > ----------
    > Von: Holger.VanKoll@SWISSCOM.COM[SMTP:Holger.VanKoll@SWISSCOM.COM]
    > Antwort an: IBM AIX Discussion List
    > Gesendet: Freitag, 25. April 2003 10:43
    > An: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
    > Betreff: Re: Strange networking issue
    >
    > yes, there should be no routing, but it is!
    > traceroute should exit after 1 "hop"
    >
    > post output of
    >
    > netstat -rn
    > ifconfig -a
    >
    >
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Willeat, Todd [mailto:TWilleat@MHP.SMHS.COM]
    > Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 6:56 AM
    > To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
    > Subject: Re: Strange networking issue
    >
    >
    > There shouldn't be any routing since both boxes are on the same
    > subnet... But, if it helps, here's the traceroute info:
    >
    > trying to get source for mhp-aquaman
    > source should be 170.29.112.254
    > traceroute to mhp-aquaman (170.29.112.30) from 170.29.112.254
    > (170.29.112.254), 30 hops max outgoing MTU = 1500 1 * * * 2 * * * 3
    > * * * 4 * * * 5 * * * 6 * * * 7 * * * 8 * * * 9 * * * 10 *
    > * * 11 * * * 12 * * * 13 * * * 14 * * * 15 * * * 16 * * * 17 * *
    > * 18 * * * 19 * * * 20 * * * 21 * * * 22 * * * 23 * * * 24 * * *
    > 25 * * * 26 * * * 27 * * * 28 * * * 29 * * * 30 * * *
    >
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: John Jolet [mailto:john.jolet@FXFN.COM]
    > Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 8:16 PM
    > To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
    > Subject: Re: Strange networking issue
    >
    >
    > really, really sounds like a routing issue...what does a traceroute from
    > the aix to win2k box look like?
    >
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Willeat, Todd [mailto:TWilleat@MHP.SMHS.COM]
    > Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 5:22 PM
    > To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
    > Subject: Strange networking issue
    >
    >
    > Hi all,
    >
    > I have a strange network connectivity issue between a p640 box (AIX
    > 4.3.3
    > ML11) and a Win2K box (SP3). Both boxes are on the same subnet (and same
    > switch), but are having problems pinging each other. The Win2K box has
    > no problem connecting to other boxes, and people can telnet to the AIX
    > box. The Win2K box has 6 GigE connections in an 802.3ad dynamic team.
    > The p640 box has a SysKonnect dual-port GigE card running in failover
    > mode (as well as the 2 integrated 10/100s - I have one of these on
    > another subnet and the Win2K box can ping that just fine...). Looking at
    > the arp tables shows that each box knows the other's MAC address. My
    > network admin captured some packets between the 2 and this is what we
    > saw:
    >
    > Pinging from Win2K to AIX - we saw the packet go from Win2K to AIX, but
    > AIX did not return any packets. Pinging from AIX to Win2K - we saw the
    > packet go from AIX to Win2K and saw the response packet from Win2K to
    > AIX, but AIX did not receive it (request timed out).
    >
    > It appears that AIX is dropping the packets from this Win2K box for some
    > reason (I have several other p640s with the same config that work fine).
    > However, when I rebooted the Win2K box (after it locked up...), I could
    > then ping between the boxes. But this only lasted for a day or so, and
    > now it is not working again.
    >
    > Has anyone seen anything like this before?
    >
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