very odd PF + FreeBSD6.0 problems

Paul Dokas dokas at oitsec.umn.edu
Fri Dec 16 11:48:08 PST 2005


On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 20:38:30 +0100 Daniel Hartmeier <daniel at benzedrine.cx> wrote:
> Doh.
> 
> delta_tsval == 1424952994 - 1424712993 == 240001
> delta_time == 120082719 us (120.082719 s)
> 
> freq == delta_tsval / delta_time
>      == 240001 / 120.082719
>      == 240001 * 1000000 / 120082719   
>      == 1998 Hz (> 1000 Hz)
> 
> So it's not that far off, the server seems to increment timestamps at
> 0.5 ms per tick (2 kHz), instead of the RFC mandated 1 ms (1 kHz).
> 
> Daniel


Bingo (I think).  I found the following in the firewall's kernel config:

  options HZ=2000

I'm going to get than changed and see if the problem goes away.


I really appreciate the help!

Paul
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