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Solaris TCP

Asked by HPCIT in Sun Solaris, TCP/IP, Unix Networking

Hi there,

We're currently experiencing problems with one of our web apps that POSTS data, but then return the same page. After doing a packet capture of the process, I've noticed the following:
1) Wireshark shows quite allot of packets with TCP checksum errors.
2) I also see some IP header checksum errors.
3) I can see the POST packet as the first segment of a PDU, but the next segment seems to get lost. Wireshark says [TCP previous segment lost].

If I do a "netstat -s -P tcp" I get:
TCP     tcpRtoAlgorithm     =     4     tcpRtoMin           =   400
        tcpRtoMax           = 60000     tcpMaxConn          =    -1
        tcpActiveOpens      =339862     tcpPassiveOpens     =1763983
        tcpAttemptFails     =  4440     tcpEstabResets      =791348
        tcpCurrEstab        =     4     tcpOutSegs          =33173951
        tcpOutDataSegs      =45977963   tcpOutDataBytes     =315501543
        tcpRetransSegs      =311103     tcpRetransBytes     =61380072
        tcpOutAck           =117406468  tcpOutAckDelayed    =823897
        tcpOutUrg           =     0     tcpOutWinUpdate     =  7015
        tcpOutWinProbe      =    20     tcpOutControl       =3320784
        tcpOutRsts          = 29858     tcpOutFastRetrans   =  2612
        tcpInSegs           =29284013
        tcpInAckSegs        =33042622   tcpInAckBytes       =2253738235
        tcpInDupAck         =1576711    tcpInAckUnsent      =     0
        tcpInInorderSegs    =251956755  tcpInInorderBytes   =29848017
        tcpInUnorderSegs    = 20161     tcpInUnorderBytes   =17992747
        tcpInDupSegs        =  4487     tcpInDupBytes       =1430951
        tcpInPartDupSegs    =   614     tcpInPartDupBytes   =302318
        tcpInPastWinSegs    =     2     tcpInPastWinBytes   =1337682269
        tcpInWinProbe       =     0     tcpInWinUpdate      =    20
        tcpInClosed         = 15304     tcpRttNoUpdate      =566771
        tcpRttUpdate        =31381910   tcpTimRetrans       =193480
        tcpTimRetransDrop   =  2902     tcpTimKeepalive     = 13991
        tcpTimKeepaliveProbe=   134     tcpTimKeepaliveDrop =     0
        tcpListenDrop       =     0     tcpListenDropQ0     =     0
        tcpHalfOpenDrop     =     0     tcpOutSackRetrans   =125101

From the above output I see a high number of tcpRetransSegs and  tcpInUnorderSegs.

My question is basically, what does this indicate? A network error like a DUPLEX mismatch?

This is a hosted solution, so I unfortunately dont have physical access to the network equipment. Any ideas welcome.

Thanks,

Jason
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