Strange NFS Problem

From: Douglas Furlong (douglas.furlong_at_firebox.com)
Date: 09/30/04

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    Good morning all.

    Considering the exceedingly fast and speedy response I got yesterday
    with regards to my problem accessing edirectory.co.uk I thought I would
    try my luck with an NFS problem.

    All our unix systems at work have their home directory mounted via NFS
    to allow hot seating (not that they ever use it!).

    I have just recently upgraded to Fedora Core 2, running the most recent
    kernel.

    All the workstations are running Fedora Core 2, with the second from
    last kernel (due to CIFS/SMB problems in the latest one).

    Unfortunately there are two users who's connection to the NFS server is
    dropped and does not seem to want to reconnect. To date I have.

    1) Replaced both of their PC's
    2) Replaced switch
    3) will replace network cables tomorrow
    4) I have tried numerous version of the kernel including the testing
    kernel from rawhide.
    5) Tried variations in the timeo=x value to see if that will help.

    These lockups vary in time between 30 minutes and 5 hours. Network
    connections are not affected by this lock up, I am able to ssh on to the
    box (that's how I collected the tcpdump data).

    I also have two windows PC's on this switch and things appear to be
    fine.

    I have 7 or 8 other systems running linux on the network and NFS
    communication is not affected.

    I have increased the number of servers on the NFS server from 8 to 16. I
    did this by editing /etc/init.d/nfs (don't think this is of any help).

    I took some tcpdump info on both the client and the server to try and
    see if I can work out what is going on. Initially it is not providing me
    with much information (but loads of data).

    I have attached two files, one from the client and one from the server.
    Main reason for attaching them is due to length of data. I had wanted to
    attach them as plain text to simplify access, but at 100k it's a bit too
    large.
    I didn't want to cut them down too much just in case I removed some
    pertinent information :(

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    Douglas Furlong
    Systems Administrator
    Firebox.com
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