TCP Free-BSD setup behaviour.

[saravana perumal]

Hi  Louie.
 
As per Testing 
 
1.Sending SYN and reaching the SYN_SENT state INTIALLY [Active open]
2. Then Expects to RECEIVE SYN packet and 
3. To Send SYN & ACK  to reach  SYN-RCVD state.
 
In Free BSD active SYN-RCVD state is not happening .
 
In TCP state tranistion my expectation is represented for SYN_RCVD state.
 
 
Thanks.
Saravanan


--- On Tue, 6/16/09, saravana perumal <seesaravanan at yahoo.co.in> wrote:


From: saravana perumal <seesaravanan at yahoo.co.in>
Subject: Re: TCP Free-BSD setup behaviour.
To: "Louis Mamakos" <louie at transsys.com>
Cc: "FreeBSD Mailer List" <freebsd-net at freebsd.org>
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 2009, 3:15 PM







Hi Louie
 
 We are trying to make Active Sync Received state.
 
As per our testing we are trying to received Syn packet from APPLICATION end and to send syn & ACK from Device END and hence reaching the ACTIVE SYN-RECEIVED state.
 
So initially make the application to send SYN sending the Initial SYN and once Received the SYN packet , expecting the Device to Send SYN & ACK
 
I hope the expectation should be rite in case of ACTIVE-SYN received State.
 
Thanks.
Saravanan
 


--- On Tue, 6/16/09, Louis Mamakos <louie at transsys.com> wrote:


From: Louis Mamakos <louie at transsys.com>
Subject: Re: TCP Free-BSD setup behaviour.
To: "saravana perumal" <seesaravanan at yahoo.co.in>
Cc: freebsd-net at freebsd.org, sarbalas at gmail.com
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 2009, 3:05 AM



On Jun 15, 2009, at 3:44 AM, saravana perumal wrote:

> Hi Louie ,
> 
> 
> Thanks for the Response on my Queries.
> 
> For QUERY 3,
> ACTIVE open frm Free BSD end:
> 
>        FREE BSD          APPLICATION
>                 Send ---------> syn
>                 Receive <-------- SYN
> 
> Expect SYN & ACK-------------> Getting only ACK in this Scenario,
> 
>  Now Expects FREE BSD to respond back with the SYN & ACK , but BSD is sending only ACK message as the response.

There's no reason why the FreeBSD host would send another SYN; presumably the "APPLICATION" host received the SYN and responds back with SYN of it's own and ACK of the FreeBSD host's SYN.  Once the SYN has been ACK'd, there's no reason to resend it.  I suppose I wonder why you expect the FreeBSD system to retransmit it's SYN?

> 4    .When checking the State - TIME-WAIT    Sending FIN and expecting the ACK ;Getting the ACK properly.   Sending Data Segment and Expecting the RST signal not getting the RST ; Instead DUT is sending the Last TCP packet. Issue seen only in Free BSD
> 
> 
> For this Issue mentioned above, Last TCP packet is jst a Testing packet with the
> following Field set  in TIME-WAIT state ,
> 
> 
> TCP: ---- TCP Packet ----
> TCP:
> TCP: Source Port           = 16815 (16815)
> TCP: Destination Port      = 16816 (16816)
> TCP: Sequence Number       = 3865716731 (0xE66A27FB)
> TCP: Acknowledgment Number = 0 (0x00000000)
> TCP: Data Offset           = 5 (20 bytes)
> TCP: Reserved              = 0
> TCP: Control Bits          = 0x10
> TCP:  |543210
> TCP:  |0.....              = Urgent Pointer Isn't Significant
> TCP:  |.1....              = Acknowledgment Is Significant
> TCP:  |..0...              = No Push Function
> TCP:  |...0..              = No Reset Connection
> TCP:  |....0.              = No Synchronize Sequence Numbers
> TCP:  |.....0              = More Data From Sender
> TCP: Window                = 32752 bytes
> TCP: Checksum              = 0x41A0 (Correct)
> TCP: Urgent Pointer        = 0 (Not Significant)
> TCP:
> TCP: --- Trailing Data [12 bytes] ---
> TCP:  53 61 6D 70 6C 65 20 44 61 74 61 00               Sample Data.
> TCP: --- Trailing Data End ---
> From machine Sending  to the FREE BSD machine,
> 
> This is to verify that Free BSD is in TIME-WAIT state.

Not sure what good this packet trace is; the only reason the TCP would respond with a RST segment is if the segment it receives is somehow bogus.  Perhaps that the send sequence is outside the window.  If the data is within the window, it might be considered an "old" segment that happens to arrive, perhaps out-of-order; why would the local TCP reset the connection for no good reason?

louie