Re: Curious UDP packets - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Kari Pahula
Subject Re: Curious UDP packets
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Msg-id 20060415095049.GA9773@sammakko.yok.utu.fi
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In response to Re: Curious UDP packets  ("Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net>)
List pgsql-general
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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