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Re: SIP UDP timeout not being respected

To: "LinuxVirtualServer.org users mailing list." <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: SIP UDP timeout not being respected
From: Horms <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 12:02:38 +0900
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 08:45:37AM -0400, Benjamin Lawetz wrote:
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lvs-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:lvs-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Horms
> Sent: June 30, 2005 11:31 PM
> To: LinuxVirtualServer.org users mailing list.
> Subject: Re: SIP UDP timeout not being respected
> 
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 05:02:56PM -0400, Benjamin Lawetz wrote:
> > Sorry to answer myself, but narrowed down the problem.
> > 
> > I sniffed the traffic on the load balancer coming from one of the "stuck"
> > IPs and I'm getting no traffic whatsoever.
> > So basically while getting no traffic coming in, having no destination 
> > to go to and having a timeout of 35 seconds, the connection entries 
> > counts down from 59 seconds to 0 seconds and loops back to 59 seconds 
> > again. Is there a way to remove these connections? Anyone have any 
> > idea why they are looping when no traffic is coming in?
> 
> Which kernel do you have? This sounds like a counter bug that was resolved
> recently. However I couldn't convince myself that it manifests in 2.4 (I
> looked at 2.4.27).
> 
> http://archive.linuxvirtualserver.org/html/lvs-users/2005-05/msg00043.html
> 
> 
> Also, I may as well mention this as it has been floating around:
> 
> http://oss.sgi.com/archives/netdev/2005-06/msg00564.html
> 
> 
> I'm using kernel 2.6.11 (SMP), tried the first patch, and so far it seems to
> work. 

Excellent. I'm actually not sure if either of these patches have made it
upstream yet, though I know they am pretty sure have been submitted to
Davem.

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Horms

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