Re: significant increase in ipfw pullup failed

On Apr 22, 2005, at 12:24 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
> on a 1ru system with an fxp
> yesterday, i cvsupped Apr 21 17:00 and built, first time in a few weeks
> previously i got an ipfw pullup failed a couple of times a day
> now i get them every few minutes
>
> anyone else seeing this, or should i start to send someone into
> the colo to check cables?

What it means is that the IPFW code didn't see a long enough packet to 
contain enough data to be logged usefully.  That could be a sign of 
hardware problems like a flaky cable or a NIC that is going wonky: if 
you can check "netstat -i" and look for excessive input errors or 
collisions.

If the machine is connected to a managed switch, look for "runt 
packets", smaller than 54 bytes (56?, whatever the minimum valid size 
is)....

-- 
-Chuck