On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Steve Glaus wrote:
Hi everyone,I'm at my wits end here with this and I don't know who to ask.. For about a week now my OpenBSD router has been acting up in the strangest ways. Route's dissapear, ethernet speeds crawl to a halt and other wierdness.. I'm about to wipe this box clean and start from scratch but I would really like to try and figure out what's going on first.. I don't know if it helps if I describe some of the symptoms.. I'll try and draw a diagram first if I may... ISP1 ISP2 | | | | | | dc1------- dc2 | obsd3.9 | | | |-sis0--dc0--| | | | |---------DMZ | --------- 10.110.38/24 Interface dc0 is bridged with interfaces dc1&dc2 Firstly, and perhaps most alarming.... When I run the iperf utitlity between the router and a system on the network I get about 3Mb/s throughput. When I run it between a system on the DMZ and the router - the same thing. I tried disabling pf and get the same results. Running iperf between the boxes on the LAN I get proper results - of course. My only ideas are 1) failing NIC 2) NIC Drivers?? 3) routing issues? The second symptom is that periodically my vpn will drop throughout the day - corresponding with this (I think) whenever I run a continual ping to somewhere(anywhere) on the internet it will work fine any number of times but then it'll stop - sit there and hang for 10 seconds perhaps and then start back up IF it is a failing NIC - could one bad NIC make the others act up (interrupts?) I'm not sure I made myself very clear on this - I'm having a very hard time tracking this down. Any ideas or suggestions on investigation this would be appreciated. Any beautifully simple solutions even more so :) I REALLY want to figure out what's going on instead of simply wiping the box clean. Think of all the knowledge value :| Thanks a lot... Steve Glaus
Well a dmesg would help. Do you have auto-neg set on your nic's? Regards John.
