Network problems with IDS 7.3 and Linux Kernel 2.2.x

Problem: - No connection via Sockets and TCP (onsoctcp) to the Informix Dynamic Server 7.3 data base. Situation occurs on follwing systems: - Informix Dynamic Server 7.30 UC7-2 or UC5 - SuSE-Linux 6.1 and Kernel 2.2.5 or SuSE-6.0 and Kernel 2.2.8 Problem: - Trying a connection with soctcp failed, although database up and connection via ipcshm works fine. - Upgrading from glibc-2.0.7 to glibc-2.1.1 didn't help either. - In spite of Informix statement that IDS 7.3 should run with Kernel 2.2.5 and glibc-2.1.1, it doesn't. A least I do not know the knack for it. - onmonitor says problems. "Network down" - In the online.log stands the messages: "15:46:34 listener-thread: err = -25573: oserr = 11: errstr = : Network driver cannot accept a connection on the port." - Looking at a system trace by an oninit, shows that that the servers reads the tcp-port from /etc/services and starts a socket connection on this port, but immediately get after an listen-command the error "EAGAIN", which leads to the above mentioned log message. - Even strange, I repace the original SuSE-6.1 - Kernel 2.2.5 with the official patched SuSE-Kernel 2.0.36 (for many file descriptors) and although many services has problems booting , the socket communiction onsoctpc with IDS worked!!! IMHO, this seems to be a problem with socket access between the kernel and oninit. Background: - slqhost: "tolkien_tcp ontlitcp tolkien sqlexec" - onconfig: "NETTYPE soctcp,1,32,CPU" Has some one other also encoutered this problem, or better and seriously wanted has some one a work around? Thanks in advice, Christian Konrad -- IXTRA Software GmbH Christian Konrad http://www.ixtra.de mailto:Christian.Konrad@ixtra.de Am Hockacker 2, D85630 Grasbrunn, Germany Tel. +49 (89) 45 60 34-20 Fax +49 (89) 45 60 34-92

Christian Konrad wrote: > > Background: > - slqhost: > "tolkien_tcp ontlitcp tolkien sqlexec"That should be tolkien_tcp onsoctcp tolkien sqlexec The Linux port doesn't support tli sockets (because Linux 2.0.36 doesn't support them). > - onconfig: > "NETTYPE soctcp,1,32,CPU" This I think you may also find problems with. Check the release notes there is a problem related to NETTYPE and set soctcp, but it is in the release notes. > > Has some one other also encoutered this problem, or better and seriously > wanted has some one a work around? > > Thanks in advice, > Christian Konrad Dominic -- Dominic Binks/Systems Engineer/Logica-Aldiscon 400 Park Avenue/Aztec West/Bristol/BS32 4TR/United Kingdom Tel: +44 1454 614455/Fax: +44 1454 620527/Mobile: +44 498 693964 E-mail: dominic.binks@aethos.co.uk

Christian Konrad wrote: > > Problem: > - No connection via Sockets and TCP (onsoctcp) to the Informix > Dynamic Server 7.3 data base. > > ... > > - In the online.log stands the messages: > "15:46:34 listener-thread: err = -25573: oserr = 11: errstr = : > Network driver cannot accept a connection on the port." > >... > > Has some one other also encoutered this problem, or better and seriously > wanted has some one a work around? > We've got exactly the same problem. We are using SuSe-Linux 6.1, kernel 2.2.5. Dirk Steinkopf, WorNet Internetdienste -- Dirk Steinkopf http://www.wor.net steinkopf@wor.net WorNet Internetdienste Internet Tel.: 08171/41809-3 Buergermeister-Graf-Ring 28 Beratung Fax: 08171/41809-9 82538 Geretsried-Gelting Software Mobil: 0172/9945861

Dirk Steinkopf <steinkopf@wor.net> schrieb im Beitrag <37720E19.59839569@wor.net>... > Christian Konrad wrote: > > > > Problem: > > - No connection via Sockets and TCP (onsoctcp) to the Informix > > Dynamic Server 7.3 data base. > > > > ... > > > > - In the online.log stands the messages: > > "15:46:34 listener-thread: err = -25573: oserr = 11: errstr = : > > Network driver cannot accept a connection on the port." > > > >... > > > > Has some one other also encoutered this problem, or better and seriously > > wanted has some one a work around? > > > > We've got exactly the same problem. We are using SuSe-Linux 6.1, > kernel 2.2.5. > > > Dirk Steinkopf, > WorNet Internetdienste > I Have got exactly the same problem too. (SuSe-Linux 6.1 kernel 2.2.5) In an other article in this newsgroup Art S. Kagel (Re Network Connection - Linux IDS 17.06.99 22:16) was told to download the latest release. So I installed "Informix Dynamic Server, Linux Edition Suite CPU_VP/NET VPs Patch" but it did not help ... Harald Raffelt

The network connection works fine with Kernel 2.0.36. So if you don't need to use Kernel 2.2.x ... Harald Raffelt

In my first posting I reported a problem with Informix Dynamic Server 7.30 and socket-based TCP (onsoctcp) connections with a Linux 2.2.5-Kernel from SuSE 6.x. At first I want to express my sincere thanks to all who posted , email or phoned me their possible solution or other description of this problem. I didn't thought that so many have the same problems. The only solution we found working with our configuration at the moment is using the glibc-2.1.1-7-RPM-package and the newest 2.2.10-Kernel on top of the original SuSE distribution. This alone really solved our problems. Other things we tried, but didn't help: - Kernel 2.2.5 and a glibc-pathch for many (30k) file descriptors - Kernel 2.2.5 and the above mentioned glibc-2.1.1-7-RPM-package - Playing with the NR_OPEN define in "linux/lmits.h" and "linux/fs.h" and the /proc/sys/fs/files-max and inode-max entries. I also tried to build the 2.1.1 version of the glibc myself, but this didn't help the soctcü problem, but cauesed to panic all new build kernels in the INIT phase of booting ;-( So be careful, if we play with this. Conclusion: None, for the moment. Unfortunately I have now not the time to find the differences in the Linux and Glibc sources to track down the real problem. Although I am now really curious to know them. So if you know more stuff related to this, please inform me. Other wise thank you and may the forces of the RDMS never drops you. Christian. Christian Konrad wrote: > Problem: > - No connection via Sockets and TCP (onsoctcp) to the Informix > Dynamic Server 7.3 data base. > > Situation occurs on follwing systems: > - Informix Dynamic Server 7.30 UC7-2 or UC5 > - SuSE-Linux 6.1 and Kernel 2.2.5 or SuSE-6.0 and Kernel 2.2.8 > > Problem: > - Trying a connection with soctcp failed, although database up and > connection via ipcshm works fine. > - Upgrading from glibc-2.0.7 to glibc-2.1.1 didn't help either. > - In spite of Informix statement that IDS 7.3 should run with Kernel > 2.2.5 and glibc-2.1.1, it doesn't. A least I do not know the knack for > it. > - onmonitor says problems. "Network down" > - In the online.log stands the messages: > "15:46:34 listener-thread: err = -25573: oserr = 11: errstr = : > Network driver cannot accept a connection on the port." > - Looking at a system trace by an oninit, shows that that the servers > reads the tcp-port from /etc/services and starts a socket connection on > this port, but immediately get after an listen-command the error > "EAGAIN", which leads to the above mentioned log message. > - Even strange, I repace the original SuSE-6.1 - Kernel 2.2.5 with the > official patched SuSE-Kernel 2.0.36 (for many file descriptors) and > although many services has problems booting , the socket communiction > onsoctpc with IDS worked!!! IMHO, this seems to be a problem with > socket access between the kernel and oninit. > > Background: > - slqhost: > "tolkien_tcp onsoctcp tolkien sqlexec" <- > there was a bug in my first posting > - onconfig: > "NETTYPE soctcp,1,32,CPU" > > Has some one other also encoutered this problem, or better and seriously > wanted has some one a work around? > > Thanks in advice, > Christian Konrad > > -- > IXTRA Software GmbH Christian Konrad > http://www.ixtra.de mailto:Christian.Konrad@ixtra.de > Am Hockacker 2, D85630 Grasbrunn, Germany > Tel. +49 (89) 45 60 34-20 > Fax +49 (89) 45 60 34-92 -- IXTRA Software GmbH Christian Konrad http://www.ixtra.de mailto:Christian.Konrad@ixtra.de Am Hockacker 2, D85630 Grasbrunn, Germany Tel. +49 (89) 45 60 34-20 Fax +49 (89) 45 60 34-92