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Luis, > Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 14:07:57 -0400 > From: "Luis Cano" <address@hidden> > Organization: DOC/NOAA/NWS/NCEP > To: address@hidden > Cc: Scott Jacobs <address@hidden> > Subject: ldmfail > Keywords: 200408251807.i7PI7RXn018684 The above message contained the following: > I was wondering if you knew of an issue with ldmping with a busy ldmd > server. We use ldmfail with SPC and intermittently, SPC is determined > down when it is not. I captured a failed ldmfail with a tcpdump, its > attached. It looks like the server procedure never breaks out to give > time to the network code to respond to the sync (line 243, 277, 331). I > think spc is running a version of ldm6 and we are running a version of > ldm5. It is definitely possible for the ldmping(1) utility to return a false negative if the network is too congested or the remote LDM host is too busy. As far as I know, there is no way to avoid this. If you have the bandwidth, then I would configure your LDM system to receive duplicate feeds of the same data from different upstream hosts. That way if one goes down, you still get the data. > Thanks, > > Lou ... > 13:24:14.611941 ncosrv5.ncep.noaa.gov.35046 > alice.spc.noaa.gov.ldm: P > 1505:1537(32) ack 116340 win 35040 (DF) > 13:24:14.632407 ncosrv5.ncep.noaa.gov.35107 > alice.spc.noaa.gov.ldm: S > 3870427560:3870427560(0) win 5840 <mss 1460,sackOK,timestamp 8689395 > 0,nop,wscale 0> (DF) > 13:24:14.654639 alice.spc.noaa.gov.ldm > ncosrv5.ncep.noaa.gov.35046: . ack > 1537 win 65535 (DF) > 13:24:15.273414 alice.spc.noaa.gov.ldm > ncosrv5.ncep.noaa.gov.35046: P > 116340:116604(264) ack 1537 win 65535 (DF) ... > 13:24:17.235982 ncosrv5.ncep.noaa.gov.35046 > alice.spc.noaa.gov.ldm: P > 1825:1857(32) ack 120612 win 35040 (DF) > 13:24:17.278418 alice.spc.noaa.gov.ldm > ncosrv5.ncep.noaa.gov.35046: . ack > 1857 win 65535 (DF) > 13:24:17.629126 ncosrv5.ncep.noaa.gov.35107 > alice.spc.noaa.gov.ldm: S > 3870427560:3870427560(0) win 5840 <mss 1460,sackOK,timestamp 8689695 > 0,nop,wscale 0> (DF) > 13:24:19.470711 alice.spc.noaa.gov.ldm > ncosrv5.ncep.noaa.gov.35046: P > 120612:120896(284) ack 1857 win 65535 (DF) ... > 13:24:23.462998 alice.spc.noaa.gov.ldm > ncosrv5.ncep.noaa.gov.35046: P > 155232:155680(448) ack 1985 win 65535 (DF) 13:24:23.463528 ncosrv5.ncep.noaa.gov.35046 > alice.spc.noaa.gov.ldm: P 1985:2017(32) ack 155680 win 35040 (DF) > 13:24:23.508991 alice.spc.noaa.gov.ldm > ncosrv5.ncep.noaa.gov.35046: . ack > 2017 win 65535 (DF) > 13:24:23.630552 ncosrv5.ncep.noaa.gov.35107 > alice.spc.noaa.gov.ldm: S > 3870427560:3870427560(0) win 5840 <mss 1460,sackOK,timestamp 8690295 > 0,nop,wscale 0> (DF) > 13:24:25.454202 alice.spc.noaa.gov.ldm > ncosrv5.ncep.noaa.gov.35046: . > 155680:157140(1460) ack 2017 win 65535 (DF) ... Regards, Steve Emmerson LDM Developer