Re: Curious UDP packets

From: Kari Pahula <kaol(at)iki(dot)fi>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Curious UDP packets
Date: 2006-04-15 09:50:49
Message-ID: 20060415095049.GA9773@sammakko.yok.utu.fi
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On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 02:59:10PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > omega kernel: Shorewall:all2all:REJECT:IN= OUT=lo SRC=x.x.x.x
> > DST=x.x.x.x LEN=1016 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00
> > TTL=64 ID=21629 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=32769 DPT=32769 LEN=996
>
> The PostgreSQL stats collector uses UDP over a random loopback port. It
> should normally use localhost, though and not a "real" IP.

It's a virtual server, that (currently) has no loopback device.

Is it possible to tell the stats collector to use a specific port?

> To see if that's it, turn of the stats collector
> (start_stats_collector=off), restart postgresql (restart needed ,not
> enough to just HUP) and see if they go away.

Apparently this didn't prevent those UDP packets... I'm not certain
about this one, though, since I wasn't the one testing this.

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