Subject: Re: What's happening here? (NFS)
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/18/2005 16:59:40
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 05:40:17PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 03:48:54PM +0000, Patrick Welche wrote:
> > > Good point..
> > 
> > How about this:
> > 
> > 15:35:15.825614 IP (tos 0x0, ttl  63, id 4649, offset 0, flags [none], length: 240, bad cksum 0 (->8cda)!) quartz.newn.cam.ac.uk.domain > 192.168.203.45.1072:  51958 1/5/4 time.windows.com. A time.windows.com (212)
> > 
> > It comes from tcpdump running on a -current box between quartz.newn and
> > 192.168.203.45. Is the bad checksum from quartz.newn, or because the box
> > running tcpdump has an ex(4) with hardware checksumming? All seems to
> > work, so I would guess the later.. (BTW nfs seems OK for me, but the loads
> > are very low)
> 
> Where are you running the tcpdump ? quartz.newn.cam.ac.uk or 192.168.203.45 ?

In between, on yet another current box, tcpdumping on the 192.168 interface.
The packet was routed through it using 2 ex(4)'s with h/w csum enabled.

Cheers,

Patrick