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Message-Id: <20111122.192338.1206677511966747729.davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:23:38 -0500 (EST)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: jlyo@...o.org
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Missing TCP SYN on loopback, retransmits after 1s
From: Jesse Young <jlyo@...o.org>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:13:20 -0600
> What's also puzzling, is that I see no packet drop reporting in
> $ ifconfig lo
> lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 16436 metric 1
> inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
> inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
> loop txqueuelen 0 (Local Loopback)
> RX packets 276411482 bytes 15822880567 (14.7 GiB)
> RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
> TX packets 276411482 bytes 15822880567 (14.7 GiB)
> TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions
The device driver therefore isn't even seeing the packets, they are
being dropped elsewhere.
Why is this "puzzling"?
There's layers upon layers and thousands of places where packets can
be dropped between the originating network stack and the actual device
driver.
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