Re: [2.6.24.3][net] bug: TCP 3rd handshake abnormal timeouts

Hi

Thanks for the netdev Cc, I didn't know where to write to the "network guys".

By the way thanks for replying. It's hard to explain and describe a problem when you know people will ask you hundreds of questions related to application-level problems, or not reply because web/mysql problems are so common and generally not related to any kernel issue.

On 03/15/2008 7:58:49 AM +0100, Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx> wrote:

You should carefully check the the SYN-ACK received by the client has a
correct checksum ("cksum OK" in tcpdump output). It would be possible
that for some reason, something on the network randomly corrupts it.

I used to use TCP offloading one time, and by the way never had a problem with it. Besides just to be sure, I have been able to reproduce the problem without any offload engine enabled (= not compiled into the kernel, mainly because it seems to hang the kernel at boot in 2.6.24.3). So I assume that is not the problem

I use wireshark to analyse my pcap files and it says the checksum is correct on all packets.

Also, you say you have netfilter with conntrack. Is this on the client ?
If so, you should try disabling it to rule out any possible bug in the
connection tracking.

I have the conntrack on both the client and server, and unfortunately can't disable it now on the client (I use it only for the REDIRECT target on a precise destination address and port, not MySQL related), however I will test today and disable it on the server, after I get some sleep (although I think the issue is on the client).

Gabriel
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