ng_mppc_decompress: too many (4094) packets dropped, disabling node

[Sami Halabi]

On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Sami Halabi <sodynet1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> >1) Is the number always 4094?
>
> No, i see 4092, 4093 also:
> Dec 24 09:17:04 mpd2 kernel: ng_mppc_decompress: too many (4092) packets
> dropped
> , disabling node 0xffffff003051e400!
> Dec 24 09:17:04 mpd2 kernel:
> Dec 24 14:22:45 mpd2 kernel: ng_mppc_decompress: too many (4093) packets
> dropped
> , disabling node 0xffffff003d53db00!
> Dec 24 14:22:45 mpd2 kernel:
> Dec 24 19:28:45 mpd2 kernel: ng_mppc_decompress: too many (4092) packets
> dropped
> , disabling node 0xffffff00304e8500!
>
>
> >2) Have you tried to disable this code, thus never disable node? How
> >this performs? A patch for this is avaliable in
> >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=123045&cat=
> didn't try yet.. should I? i saw later mail by you with patch....
>
> Sami
>
>
> 2011/12/27 Gleb Smirnoff <glebius at freebsd.org>
>
>> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 09:51:09PM +0200, Sami Halabi wrote:
>> S> Hi,
>> S>
>> S> I've searched the net andfound basicly 2 threads talking about the
>> message:
>> S>
>> S> ng_mppc_decompress: too many (4094) packets dropped, disabling node
>> S>
>> S> in FBSD 6.3
>> S> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2008-April/030183.htmlits
>> S> a pr 123045
>> S> and 5.4. http://markmail.org/message/lptpp4qmiwksazxc
>> S> basicly suggested to set define MPPE_MAX_REKEY to a higher values
>> S> and found somewhere a patch that changes it to variable rather than
>> using
>> S> it as macro
>> S>
>> S> i saw no answer indicating this really solves the problem.
>> S>
>> S> did anyone have a solution tothe problem? i'm suffering from it even i
>> have
>> S> about 200 concurrent connections, as i read MPD+FREEBSD usually can
>> utilize
>> S> thousands of sessions.
>>
>> A couple of questions:
>>
>> 1) Is the number always 4094?
>> 2) Have you tried to disable this code, thus never disable node? How
>> this performs? A patch for this is avaliable in
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=123045&cat=
>>
>> --
>> Totus tuus, Glebius.
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Sami Halabi
> Information Systems Engineer
> NMS Projects Expert
>
>


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Sami Halabi
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