Bug 216815 - Network connectivity problems
Summary: Network connectivity problems
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 207373
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 6
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Brian Brock
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-11-22 03:09 UTC by Denis Tumpic
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Environment:
Last Closed: 2006-11-22 15:05:17 UTC
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Description Denis Tumpic 2006-11-22 03:09:13 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

Description of problem:
Network connectivity problems when trying to connect to websites by either using:

Firefox, wget, telnet or (ssh tunnel + hosts file change)

When trying to connect to http://www.enterprisegroupwaresystem.org/ or http://dev.mysql.com the network just doesn't respond after the second ACK.


No.     Time        Source                Destination           Protocol Info
      7 2.970186    192.168.0.2           195.182.4.55          TCP      56271 > http [SYN] Seq=0 Len=0 MSS=1452 T
SV=27259478 TSER=0 WS=7

Frame 7 (74 bytes on wire, 74 bytes captured)
Ethernet II, Src: AsustekC_fc:97:18 (00:13:d4:fc:97:18), Dst: Netgear_82:ae:6e (00:09:5b:82:ae:6e)
Internet Protocol, Src: 192.168.0.2 (192.168.0.2), Dst: 195.182.4.55 (195.182.4.55)
Transmission Control Protocol, Src Port: 56271 (56271), Dst Port: http (80), Seq: 0, Len: 0

No.     Time        Source                Destination           Protocol Info
      8 3.075324    195.182.4.55          192.168.0.2           TCP      http > 56271 [SYN, ACK] Seq=0 Ack=1 Win=1
6384 Len=0 MSS=1452 WS=0 TSV=818469626 TSER=27259478

Frame 8 (78 bytes on wire, 78 bytes captured)
Ethernet II, Src: Netgear_82:ae:6e (00:09:5b:82:ae:6e), Dst: AsustekC_fc:97:18 (00:13:d4:fc:97:18)
Internet Protocol, Src: 195.182.4.55 (195.182.4.55), Dst: 192.168.0.2 (192.168.0.2)
Transmission Control Protocol, Src Port: http (80), Dst Port: 56271 (56271), Seq: 0, Ack: 1, Len: 0

No.     Time        Source                Destination           Protocol Info
      9 3.075388    192.168.0.2           195.182.4.55          TCP      56271 > http [ACK] Seq=1 Ack=1 Win=5888 L
en=0 TSV=27259583 TSER=818469626

Frame 9 (66 bytes on wire, 66 bytes captured)
Ethernet II, Src: AsustekC_fc:97:18 (00:13:d4:fc:97:18), Dst: Netgear_82:ae:6e (00:09:5b:82:ae:6e)
Internet Protocol, Src: 192.168.0.2 (192.168.0.2), Dst: 195.182.4.55 (195.182.4.55)
Transmission Control Protocol, Src Port: 56271 (56271), Dst Port: http (80), Seq: 1, Ack: 1, Len: 0

No.     Time        Source                Destination           Protocol Info
     10 3.075526    192.168.0.2           195.182.4.55          HTTP     GET / HTTP/1.1

Frame 10 (468 bytes on wire, 468 bytes captured)
Ethernet II, Src: AsustekC_fc:97:18 (00:13:d4:fc:97:18), Dst: Netgear_82:ae:6e (00:09:5b:82:ae:6e)
Internet Protocol, Src: 192.168.0.2 (192.168.0.2), Dst: 195.182.4.55 (195.182.4.55)
Transmission Control Protocol, Src Port: 56271 (56271), Dst Port: http (80), Seq: 1, Ack: 1, Len: 402
Hypertext Transfer Protocol

No.     Time        Source                Destination           Protocol Info
     13 3.383316    195.182.4.55          192.168.0.2           TCP      http > 56271 [ACK] Seq=1 Ack=403 Win=1728
0 Len=0 TSV=818469626 TSER=27259583

Frame 13 (66 bytes on wire, 66 bytes captured)
Ethernet II, Src: Netgear_82:ae:6e (00:09:5b:82:ae:6e), Dst: AsustekC_fc:97:18 (00:13:d4:fc:97:18)
Internet Protocol, Src: 195.182.4.55 (195.182.4.55), Dst: 192.168.0.2 (192.168.0.2)
Transmission Control Protocol, Src Port: http (80), Dst Port: 56271 (56271), Seq: 1, Ack: 403, Len: 0


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.6.18-1.2849.fc6

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. point forefox to the links
2. or use wget on the links
3. or use telnet on port 80 and manually do HTTP commands on the hosts
4. ssh tunnel + hosts change is a bit more involved

Actual Results:
Network traffic is halted for that link.

Expected Results:
Network traffic should continue until either SIGPIPE happens or until FIN.

Additional info:
Another computer that is one router further away from (beneath) the machine I have a problem with is able to contact and show above sites with no problems (Mac OSX 10.3.9.) Another machine running FC5 has the same problem (not going through any router but directly to ADSL.) FC3 seems ok. FC4 derivative works as well.

Comment 1 Denis Tumpic 2006-11-22 03:24:07 UTC
IPv6 is off
Ethernet device is forcedeth
FW is off
Other network activity seems 100% ok
Dual core AMD CPU
ACPI is on
3 GB main memory

Comment 2 Jarod Wilson 2006-11-22 03:44:21 UTC
I seem to recall a tcp window scaling bugzilla ticket somewhere that sounds very similar... Ah, there it is. 
I'm inclined to think this is a duplicate of bug 207373. Try out the suggestions from comment #13 of bug 
207373 and see if that doesn't help your situation.

Comment 3 Denis Tumpic 2006-11-22 13:52:19 UTC
That is exactly what it was (tcp_window_scaling). Sorry for the dup and my
inability to find it.

I would say though that it can't be my router because on a different setup (FC5)
the router in question is not even in the mix... so this problem is on ISP level
or maybe even on the server side.

Anyhow added:

net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling = 0

to

/etc/sysctl.conf

Maybe this should be the default in Fedora?

Thanks!

Comment 4 Jarod Wilson 2006-11-22 15:05:17 UTC
No worries, searches here somewhat stupidly default to not looking at closed
bugs, so lots of dupes get missed... :(

Anyhow, no, we don't want to make it the default, that just papers over the fact
there are broken routers out there. Better to get 'em fixed. :)

Maybe its something we should add to the release notes and/or the FC6 common
issues wiki page...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 207373 ***


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