serious packet routing issue causing ntpd high load?

Qing Li qingli at freebsd.org
Thu Feb 9 16:22:46 UTC 2012


Hi Vlad,

Sorry about the delayed response. No, this one just fell through the cracks.

Has anyone responded ?  Does it still exist in 9.x ?

--Qing

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Vlad Galu <dudu at dudu.ro> wrote:
> Hi Qing,
>
> Any luck with this?
>
> Thanks
> Vlad
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Li, Qing <qing.li at bluecoat.com> wrote:
>>
>> This endless route lookup miss message problem is reproducible without
>> FLOWTABLE.  The problem is with the multiple FIBs. I cannot reproduce
>> this problem in my home network but the problem is easily seen at work.
>>
>> The route lookup miss itself in multi-FIBs configuration may be normal
>> depending on the actual system configuration. It's the flooding of
>> RTM_MISS messages that is abnormal. For example, if the route to the
>> DNS servers is not configured in all FIBs, then the RTM_MISS
>> message will be generated when an userland application sends to an
>> explicit IP address in a specific FIB.
>>
>> In any case, I can reproduce the issue consistently and just trying to get
>> a few uninterrupted
>> hours to get it done.
>>
>> --Qing
>>


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