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Re: insight on S10 ipfilter patch 125014-02?

To: "Jeff A. Earickson" <jaearick@colby.edu>
Subject: Re: insight on S10 ipfilter patch 125014-02?
From: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 02:40:22 -0800
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Hi Jeff,

How to try and trouble shoot the problem...

You'll need to actually analyse in depth a single connection that fails to
work.  Do you see extra output in the ipmon log files for it?
Do you see the normal add/remove state messages?
If you can pick a specific address to trace it from (that isn't otherwise
used), using dtrace might help...the probes you want are something
like this:

fbt:ipf:fr_check:entry/((struct ip *)arg0)->ip_src.s_addr == 0xipaddr ||
(struct ip *)arg0)->ip_dst.s_addr == 0xipaddr/ { self->follow = 1; }
fbt:ipf:fr-check:return/self->follow/{self->follow = 0;}
fbt:ipf::entry/self->follow/{}
fbt:ipf::return/self->follow/{}

Darren

Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
> Darren,
>
> I have been using Sun's shipped version of ipfilter in the
> past few months with my Solaris 10 systems.  Things have worked well
> with this setup (ipfilter 4.0.3, pfil 2.1.4).
>
> In my last patch cycle on Feb 28, Sun patch 125014-02 got
> applied to my systems (ipfilter 4.1.9, pfil 2.1.6) and now
> I'm starting to see vague indications of network issues.
> My biggest headache is with my mail server (a V490 using
> multipathing, running sendmail).  Email is piling up in the
> outbound queues.  If I put in an empty ipfilter ruleset and
> restart ipfilter, then I can get most of this email to go when
> I run the queues by hand.  If I restart ipfilter with the
> ruleset that I always had, things start piling up again.
>
> I'm also having complaints from students in Australia not
> being able to connect to our webmail servers, coincident with
> this patch application to these systems.
>
> I haven't opened a Sun case yet, because I don't have much to
> go on.  Got any insight here?
>
> Jeff Earickson
> Colby College


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