[Chilli] CoovaChilli (Connection reset by peer) redir_read(0) failed!

[Steffen Dettmer]

Hi,

> Apr  3 08:29:31 captive coova-chilli[3979]: redir.c: 2020: 104 (Connection reset by peer) redir_read(0) failed!

"Connection reset by peer" is often seen when a TCP communication partner ("peer") resets an initiated or established TCP connection, for example if a TCP packet was received, but the peer has no matching socket associated (could be caused by change of dynamic IP or closing a socket after an error). As a result, a locally invoked TCP receive (for example, by read(2), which could be "wrapped" by a higher-level reading function) will return -1 and set ERRNO to ECONNRESET, which on Linux might equal to 104.

Sometimes it helps to see the RST packets, for example using:

	tcpdump -n -v 'tcp[tcpflags] & (tcp-rst) != 0'

or for older versions:

	tcpdump -n -v 'tcp[13] & 4 != 0'

(see also http://www.ihtb.org/security/tcpdump-explained.txt)

Regards
Steffen