Re: debugging SLP problems on Mac OS 9/X
Re: debugging SLP problems on Mac OS 9/X
- Subject: Re: debugging SLP problems on Mac OS 9/X
- From: Glenn Anderson <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 15:43:09 +1300
At 7:15 PM -0700 2/8/05, Smith Kennedy wrote:
I was wondering if anyone might have any insight into a problem we
are having with Mac systems on our site. The problem seems to
involve SLP on both Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X.
I posted a related message to the client-management ML a while ago,
but got no meaningful replies (thanks to John Welch for trying,
though).
A couple of months ago, for several days, there were these
"multicast packet squalls" that would occur periodically, and would
be visible on all our subnets on the site. Each "squall" consists
of 250K or so SLP service request queries being made within 1-2
minutes. All queries in a particular "squall" would emanate from
the same system, and the system was always a Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X
system.
<snip>
My questions are these:
- Does anybody have any hunches why this would be happening?
I have seen something like this happen before, it was some sort of
ethernet switch problem causing a multicast loop. If you are seeing
the same problem, it is not the Mac going crazy, it is one packet
from the Mac being looped back and forth between a couple of ethernet
switches. One way to tell is the packet storm will continue even if
you unplug the Mac that started it. The network where I saw this was
too complex to try and track down the problem in the time available,
we ended up solving it by rate limiting multicast packets on the main
switch. As it was just one packet going 'round and 'round, as soon as
it hit the rate limit the packet was discarded, and this stopped the
storms in a fraction of a second. My guess is it was some sort of
layer 3 IGMP and/or spanning tree problem with one or more ethernet
switches.
Glenn.
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