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SubjectRe: After many hours all outbound connections get stuck in SYN_SENT
On 12/18/2007 02:45 PM, James Nichols wrote:
>
> I've run tcpdump for all IPs during this problem. I haven't tried
> doing it for a single explicit IP address- due to the nature of the
> workload it's very difficult to know which IPs will be hit at any
> given moment. What I did see in the full IP captures is that the
> returning ACKs don't show up in the packet capture. Unfortunately,
> tcpdump reported that some packets were dropped during the capture.
> Is it possible that the kernel was dropping the packets before they
> could be captured by tcpdump?
>

The only way to get a reliable trace is to run a capture from a port
mirror on the switch the server is connected to. Capturing from inside
the server at the same time and comparing the traces could be useful.


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