What could drop OCI and transport connections on the network but not the link connection on the NIC?
What could drop OCI and transport connections on the network but not the link connection on the NIC?
Here is the deal. This has me stumped.
Server a has a Broadcom NIC linking at 1Gps to a cisco switch. We noticed over the week the OCI oracle database connection was dropping, we then notcied that HTTP connections and pc anywhere connections were also dropping at the same time on server a. However, we see no packet loss or drops on server a NIC, no collisions, no packet loss on the switch. The NIC is not loosing connection to the Switch. When we set the NIC to 100Mbps the drops go away go away and the link is stable.
So if i set server a NIC to 1Gbps, and hit the switch with heavy traffic, ping packets 8000bytes and then work on Server a it starts to drop connections on the apps, pc anywhere, Oracle, http but the NIC shows fine. no packet loss on the nic or switch no collisions and no drops.
There was a firewall changed on the network however this firewall does no intercept traffic between clients connecting to server a. What could cause the OCI oracle drops and the other application drops on server a at 1Gps that does not show up with 100Mbps link and also not show up with dropped packets, collisions or connection renegotiating?
this one has me stumped. Obviously we want to keep the link at 1Gbps.
Here is the deal. This has me stumped.
Server a has a Broadcom NIC linking at 1Gps to a cisco switch. We noticed over the week the OCI oracle database connection was dropping, we then notcied that HTTP connections and pc anywhere connections were also dropping at the same time on server a. However, we see no packet loss or drops on server a NIC, no collisions, no packet loss on the switch. The NIC is not loosing connection to the Switch. When we set the NIC to 100Mbps the drops go away go away and the link is stable.
So if i set server a NIC to 1Gbps, and hit the switch with heavy traffic, ping packets 8000bytes and then work on Server a it starts to drop connections on the apps, pc anywhere, Oracle, http but the NIC shows fine. no packet loss on the nic or switch no collisions and no drops.
There was a firewall changed on the network however this firewall does no intercept traffic between clients connecting to server a. What could cause the OCI oracle drops and the other application drops on server a at 1Gps that does not show up with 100Mbps link and also not show up with dropped packets, collisions or connection renegotiating?
this one has me stumped. Obviously we want to keep the link at 1Gbps.
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Les Moore
Assuming that this application has been running for a good while with no issues, and this is a new problem, the obvious question is - what changed? MS updates on the server? IOS upgrade on the switch? New firewall - what else? What kind of firewall? How is it different from the old firewall?
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yeah, this is on a customer network. so all i know is what they tell me. They instist there is only a switch between the client and the server.
the nic only has auto and a 100 full or half setting. with it set to 100 full it works auto for the 1Gbps the the application layer seems to blow up.
the customer says they see nothing on the switch.
how could i check for packet timeouts? what would i look for?
the drops seem to occur at the 1G connection when we start large pings. but it does not jsut drop the oracle connection but http and other apps as well.
what would i look for on the packet sniffer?
the nic only has auto and a 100 full or half setting. with it set to 100 full it works auto for the 1Gbps the the application layer seems to blow up.
the customer says they see nothing on the switch.
how could i check for packet timeouts? what would i look for?
the drops seem to occur at the 1G connection when we start large pings. but it does not jsut drop the oracle connection but http and other apps as well.
what would i look for on the packet sniffer?
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>the customer says they see nothing on the switch.
Can you get switch make/model? Is is a managed switch or unmanaged? Is it Gigabit capable?
With the packet analyzer you can filter out results to just traffic to/from that one server and click Analyze and check for Warnings. Beware that you'll have to have a SPAN/Mirror port on the switch that the server is connected to.
Can you get switch make/model? Is is a managed switch or unmanaged? Is it Gigabit capable?
With the packet analyzer you can filter out results to just traffic to/from that one server and click Analyze and check for Warnings. Beware that you'll have to have a SPAN/Mirror port on the switch that the server is connected to.
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I will try and get the switch specs. i know it is a cisco blade switch that handles 10 100 1000 links.
I know it is managed.
I have been researching and it appears the TCP packets are breaking at the transport layer. OCI, HTTP, i believe operate at this layer. Are there some opbvious things on a packet sniff or switch that would verify this?
I know it is managed.
I have been researching and it appears the TCP packets are breaking at the transport layer. OCI, HTTP, i believe operate at this layer. Are there some opbvious things on a packet sniff or switch that would verify this?