Hello all,
 
we recently experience intermittent packet
losses on child system.
 
In this situation the the root server is
still reachable, access to the child is possible via console, and also you can
ping from root to child system. But you cannot ping from external to the child
and from (console) child to external.
 
This happens every now and then and the
duration differs from few seconds to sometimes more than half a minute.
 
I cannot find a solution in the internet or
any help resource out there, … maybe my search patterns are dumb… I
don’t know.
Also I cannot find anything in any system
log… 
 
Maybe there is someone who had the same
issues. 
 
I found something about bridge helo time,
that apparently must not be zero but “brctl showstp xenbr0” shows
this:
 
xenbr0
 bridge
id             
8000.feffffffffff
 designated
root        8000.feffffffffff
 root
port                
0                   
path cost                 
0
 max
age                 
20.00                
bridge max age           
20.00
 hello
time               
2.00                
bridge hello time          2.00
 forward
delay            
0.00                
bridge forward delay       0.00
 ageing
time            
300.01
 hello
timer              
1.77                
tcn timer                 
0.00
 topology change
timer    
0.00             
   gc
timer                  
0.09
 flags
 
Therefore it shouldn’t be zero…
 
My domain-config is set up like this:
 
disk    = [
'file:/vserver/domains/xyz/disk.img,sda1,w', 'file:/vserver/domains/xyz/swap.img,sda2,w'
]
 
#
#  Hostname
#
name    = 'xyz'
 
 
#
#  Networking
#
vif  = [ 'ip=x.x.x.x' ]
 
#
#  Behaviour
#
on_reboot   = 'restart'
on_crash    = 'restart'
 
 
ifconfig
eth0     
Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:11:6B:93:6F:F4
         
inet addr:x.x.x.x  Bcast:xx.xx.x.x  Mask:255.255.255.224
         
inet6 addr: xxx::xxx:xxx:xxx:xxx/64 Scope:Link
         
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
         
RX packets:680162 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
         
TX packets:687269 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
         
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
     
    RX bytes:95845391 (91.4 MiB)  TX bytes:100974938
(96.2 MiB)
 
eth0:2   
Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:11:6B:93:6F:F4
         
inet addr:x.x.x.x  Bcast:x.x.x.x  Mask:255.255.255.248
         
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
 
lo       
Link encap:Local Loopback
         
inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
         
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
         
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
         
RX packets:14729 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
         
TX packets:14729 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
         
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
         
RX bytes:2272689 (2.1 MiB)  TX bytes:2272689 (2.1 MiB)
 
peth0    
Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
         
inet6 addr: xxx::xxx:xxx:xxx:xxx /64 Scope:Link
         
UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP  MTU:1500  Metric:1
         
RX packets:478347 errors:3 dropped:12 overruns:1 frame:0
         
TX packets:505109 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0
txqueuelen:1000
         
RX bytes:75612245 (72.1 MiB)  TX bytes:88192492 (84.1 MiB)
         
Interrupt:18 Base address:0x4000
 
vif0.0   
Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
         
inet6 addr: xxx::xxx:xxx:xxx:xxx /64 Scope:Link
         
UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP  MTU:1500  Metric:1
         
RX packets:687269 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
         
TX packets:680162 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
         
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
         
RX bytes:100974938 (96.2 MiB)  TX bytes:95845391 (91.4 MiB)
 
vif4.0   
Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
         
inet6 addr: xxx::xxx:xxx:xxx:xxx /64 Scope:Link
         
UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP  MTU:1500  Metric:1
         
RX packets:209217 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
         
TX packets:217172 errors:0 dropped:2 overruns:0 carrier:0
         
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
         
RX bytes:19954554 (19.0 MiB)  TX bytes:22273840 (21.2 MiB)
 
xenbr0   
Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
         
inet6 addr: xxx::xxx:xxx:xxx:xxx /64 Scope:Link
         
UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP  MTU:1500  Metric:1
         
RX packets:6847 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
         
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
         
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
         
RX bytes:220966 (215.7 KiB)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
 
Any help would be appreciated!
 
Thanks in advance
Christian