Internet problem after recent rewrite of mbuf

[Matthew Dillon]

:On 10:15, Mon 09 Aug 04, Matthew Dillon wrote:
:>     I don't think it could be the 29 July commit, but it could
:>     be one of the later ones.
:
:I backed out changes to 3 August when the new network code
:went in, and that wasn't the problem.

    So you are saying it was something that went in after Aug 3 or are
    you saying that it is something that went in on Aug 3 ?

    What is the cvs rev on the file /usr/src/sys/netinet/tcp_input.c and
    /usr/src/sys/netinet/tcp_output.c of the last known working kernel?

    From examining your output the point where it really starts to stall
    is here:

21:21:04.752575 IP 194.125.183.39.3340 > 207.171.163.90.80: P 909:1389(480) ack 659 win 58400
21:21:06.949765 IP 194.125.183.39.3340 > 207.171.163.90.80: P 909:1389(480) ack 659 win 58400
21:21:07.300225 IP 207.171.163.90.80 > 194.125.183.39.3340: . ack 1389 win 6432
21:21:24.249690 IP 207.171.163.90.80 > 194.125.183.39.3340: . 659:2119(1460) ack 1389 win 6432

    What this seems to show is packet loss.  Your machine sends a packet but
    does not get an ack.  Then it sends the packet again..  Then it gets an
    ack, then 17 seconds later amazon sends you a data packet.

    What I believe is happening is that amazon in fact sent you a data packet
    immediately, but the packet was lost, as were a number of retries until
    17 seconds later a packet amazon sent actually made it through.

    So the question is what is causing the data loss?  Could it be serial
    port buffer overflows?  Check your 'dmesg' output when things fail.
    I suspect it is either something like that, which means that it will in
    fact work with a later kernel 'sometimes' depending on how fast the
    modem negotiates its connection.  Or something we did broke ppp.

    What makes me suspect a serial port issue is that large packets are
    clearly being dropped more often then small packets.

    Try reducing the baud rate at which you talk to your modem.  I suspect
    you have it set to 115200.  Try 38400 and try 9600.

						-Matt