Re: unreliable connections

2014-04-01 Thread Henning Brauer
* Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org [2014-01-27 13:18]: On 2014/01/26 14:53, Chris Smith wrote: On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 8:26 PM, Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org wrote: This could be an MTU or RWIN-related issue. Could my issue have anything to with the miscounting bug for

Re: unreliable connections

2014-04-01 Thread Henning Brauer
* Chris Smith obsd_m...@chrissmith.org [2014-03-17 23:41]: I think the source of this reported problem has been found, and happily fixed (the preliminary results are promising). Basically I needed to find some way to get the backups to complete reliably so I started a 20 count ping job a

Re: unreliable connections

2014-03-17 Thread Chris Smith
I think the source of this reported problem has been found, and happily fixed (the preliminary results are promising). Basically I needed to find some way to get the backups to complete reliably so I started a 20 count ping job a minute before the rsync job (actually an rsnapshot job which

Re: unreliable connections

2014-01-27 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2014/01/26 14:53, Chris Smith wrote: On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 8:26 PM, Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org wrote: This could be an MTU or RWIN-related issue. Could my issue have anything to with the miscounting bug for inbound with pf on mentioned in the following commit?

Re: unreliable connections

2014-01-26 Thread Chris Smith
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 8:26 PM, Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org wrote: This could be an MTU or RWIN-related issue. Could my issue have anything to with the miscounting bug for inbound with pf on mentioned in the following commit? CVSROOT:

Re: unreliable connections

2014-01-22 Thread Chris Smith
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Chris Smith obsd_m...@chrissmith.org wrote: have moved the block all to the beginning of the ruleset to see if it will make any difference Unfortunately no difference. The attempt to rsync the first directory failed last night, second one worked fine. Any

Re: unreliable connections

2014-01-22 Thread Charles RAPENNE
:23À: Stuart HendersonCc: OpenBSD-MiscObjet: Re: unreliable connections On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Chris Smith obsd_m...@chrissmith.org wrote: have moved the block all to the beginning of the ruleset to see if it will make any difference Unfortunately no difference. The attempt to rsync

Re: unreliable connections

2014-01-22 Thread Chris Smith
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Charles RAPENNE char...@bsd.zplay.euwrote: Do you rsync directly to an ip address or are you using avec domain name ? Not DNS - directly to IP address. Thanks, Chris

Re: unreliable connections

2014-01-22 Thread Chris Smith
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 8:26 PM, Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org wrote: Posting the firewall ruleset may possibly help people diagnose this in more detail. Here's some pertinent pf.conf info: === set skip on { lo enc0 } set block-policy drop set reassemble

Re: unreliable connections

2014-01-20 Thread Chris Smith
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 8:26 PM, Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org wrote: This could be an MTU or RWIN-related issue. One common problem is if the firewall state is created from an already-established connection rather than a SYN packet, in this case the firewall can't keep track of the

Re: unreliable connections

2014-01-16 Thread Chris Smith
This issue is still with me. Sporadically the connection will fail, and a connection attempt immediately after the failure will (so far) always work. Again the problem is only with this one remote firewall, all of the others are fine. the hardware is virtually identical, similar versions of the

Re: unreliable connections

2014-01-16 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2014-01-16, Chris Smith obsd_m...@chrissmith.org wrote: This issue is still with me. Sporadically the connection will fail, and a connection attempt immediately after the failure will (so far) always work. Again the problem is only with this one remote firewall, all of the others are fine.

unreliable connections

2013-12-29 Thread Chris Smith
I'm having a problem connecting with (and through) one OpenBSD box. Both ends are running OpenBSD -current (-current as of last weekend) and I've had the issue through a couple of months of various builds of -current. The problem occurs whether I'm connecting directly to the remote OpenBSD box