Re: arplookup problems

From: Daemon (daemon_at_foxchat.net)
Date: 09/27/05

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    Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 03:44:07 -0400
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    I'm not sure how to respond to that. I was getting the same errors on
    older ed0 and rl0 nic cards. I bought the intel cards because I'm using
    them on a production server and have had zero problems with them.

    Dave+Seddon wrote:
    > There seem to be serious issues around this driver. There have been
    > many posts on this list in the last days particularly, as well as over
    > the last few months. People seem to be looking at it, and I guess once
    > we all rush out and by other (e.g. broadcom) NICs intel might try to help.
    > dave
    >
    > Daemon writes:
    >
    >> I hope this is the correct list to post to, if not, I apologize. I've
    >> had an ongoing problem with arplookup for some months now and as of yet,
    >> haven't been able to find anything on the web concerning my particular
    >> problem. Every 24 hours, almost to the minute, I get the following
    >> errors;
    >> *Note This proceeds each arplookup failure
    >> em0: Link is Down
    >> em0: Link is up 100 Mbps Full Duplex
    >> Sep 25 01:32:49 thisbox kernel: arplookup 169.0.0.1 failed: host is not
    >> on local network
    >> Sep 25 01:33:05 thisbox kernel: arplookup 10.32.240.171 failed: host is
    >> not on local network
    >> Sep 26 01:23:37 thisbox kernel: arplookup 169.0.0.1 failed: host is not
    >> on local network
    >> Sep 26 01:23:49 thisbox kernel: arplookup 10.32.240.171 failed: host is
    >> not on local network
    >> Sep 27 01:23:35 thisbox kernel: arplookup 169.0.0.1 failed: host is not
    >> on local network
    >> Sep 27 01:23:48 thisbox kernel: arplookup 10.32.240.171 failed: host is
    >> not on local network
    >> When this happens, one by one, each of my (ssh, gaim, irc, etc.)
    >> connections time out until every connection is dead. I'm using
    >> RoadRunner Business Class with a static IP on em0 and an internal subnet
    >> 172.16.XXX.XXX on em1. I was getting the errors on two older nics I
    >> had, so I bought new nics in hopes that would correct the problem. I
    >> was running FreeBSD 5.4-Release p7 and switched to FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE
    >> about a week ago. I'm running the most current DHCP server, IPFW2, and
    >> NATD.
    >> I have the following in /etc/sysctl.conf
    >> kern.polling.enable=1
    >> net.inet.tcp.syncookies=0
    >> net.inet.udp.blackhole=1
    >> net.inet.tcp.blackhole=2
    >> # TCP send and receive spaces
    >> net.inet.tcp.sendspace=1048576
    >> net.inet.tcp.recvspace=1048576
    >> # Socket queue defense against SYN attacks
    >> kern.ipc.somaxconn=1024
    >> # Redirects
    >> net.inet.icmp.drop_redirect=1
    >> net.inet.icmp.log_redirect=1
    >> net.inet.ip.redirect=0
    >> # Subnet
    >> net.link.ether.bridge_cfg=em0,em1
    >> net.link.ether.bridge.enable=0
    >> net.link.ether.bridge.ipfw=0
    >> net.link.ether.ipfw=1
    >> # ARP cleanup
    >> net.link.ether.inet.max_age=1200
    >> # Source routing
    >> net.inet.ip.sourceroute=0
    >> net.inet.ip.accept_sourceroute=0
    >> # Broadcast ECHO response
    >> net.inet.icmp.bmcastecho=0
    >> # Other broadcast probes
    >> net.inet.icmp.maskrepl=0
    >> net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_ack_lifetime=3600
    >> net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_buckets=1024
    >> net.inet.ip.fw.one_pass=0
    >> I have the following in my kernel conf;
    >> # Firewall Stuff
    >> options IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT
    >> options IPFIREWALL
    >> options IPFIREWALL_FORWARD
    >> options IPFIREWALL_FORWARD_EXTENDED
    >> options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE
    >> options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE_LIMIT=10
    >> options IPDIVERT
    >> options DUMMYNET
    >> options BRIDGE
    >> options IPSTEALTH
    >> options HZ=1000
    >> options DEVICE_POLLING
    >> It is probably a bad idea to post my /etc/rc.conf ifconfig info here,
    >> but since I'm almost positive that in order for someone to help me track
    >> this down, they're going to want/need to know what is in there, I'll
    >> wait in hopes of a response first.
    >>
    >> Regards,
    >> Mark
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