17 Sep
2002
17 Sep
'02
1:39 a.m.
I'll add to Paul's comments: Updating the client did fix the problem here, but it's not really a fix (in my opinion). The NetApp is still vulnerable to a stream of badly-formed IP fragments, which exhausts the filer's available reassembly space. Here's my earlier discussion:
http://teaparty.mathworks.com:1999/toasters/11666.html
I see that they now have an actual bug report on NOW regarding this issue (yay!). It's #77650.
Regards,
--
Marion Hakanson hakanson@cse.ogi.edu
CSE Computing Facilities
> On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Igor Schein wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 04:30:22PM -0400, Brian Long wrote:
> > > RH 7.3 will exhibit this behavior (and lock all clients out of the
> > > Netapp) until you update the kernel. I recommend you run
> > > "up2date" to use RedHat Network and update the 7.3 kernel.
> >
> > Aint's gonna help - we had the same problem, and the latest kernel
> > still exhibits the same NFS bug. The workaround is to set rsize and
> > wsize on the client side to something smaller - 8192 does the job.
>
> Odd. The updates did the trick for us (F820, 6.1.3).
>
> --Paul Heinlein heinlein@cse.ogi.edu