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Date:      Tue, 7 Aug 2012 11:43:30 -0700
From:      Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>
To:        Ian FREISLICH <ianf@clue.co.za>
Cc:        "current@freebsd.org" <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Speaking of ship blockers for 9....
Message-ID:  <94FD01E0-87CC-40DF-ABE8-313BFCE4BCC7@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <E1SyoLs-0000P8-UU@clue.co.za>
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On Aug 7, 2012, at 11:17 AM, Ian FREISLICH <ianf@clue.co.za> wrote:

> Garrett Cooper
>>    Is this is in 9.1 -PRERELEASE, -RELEASE (or whatever the official
>> label is...)? If so, it seems like this would be a ship blocker.
>=20
> I have a problem that's been getting progressively worse as the
> source progresses.  So much so that it's had me searching all the
> way from 8.0-RELEASE to 10-CURRENT without luck on both amd64 and
> i386.
>=20
> pf(4) erroneously mismatches state and then blocks an active flow.
> It seems that 8.X does so silently and 9 to -CURRENT do so verbosely.
> Whether silent or loud, the effect on traffic makes it impracticle
> to use FreeBSD+PF for a firewall in any setting (my use is home,
> small office, large office and moderately large datacenter core
> router).  It appears that this has actually been a forever problem
> that just being tickled more now.
>=20
> Here's from my home firewall:
> Status: Enabled for 7 days 02:57:58           Debug: Urgent
>=20
> State Table                          Total             Rate
>  current entries                     1653              =20
>  searches                        45792251           74.4/s
>  inserts                           428375            0.7/s
>  removals                          426722            0.7/s
> ...
>  state-mismatch                      1586            0.0/s
>=20
>=20
> Here's from a moderately busy firewall:
> Status: Enabled for 0 days 21:40:44           Debug: Urgent
>=20
> State Table                          Total             Rate
>  current entries                   122395              =20
>  searches                      4428641685        56745.4/s
>  inserts                        202644593         2596.5/s
>  removals                       202522198         2595.0/s
> ...
>  state-mismatch                    277767            3.6/s
>=20
> That's 277767 flows terminated in the last almost 22 hours due to
> this pf bug. (!!!)
>=20
> 9.1-PRERELEASE logs (as does -CURRENT):
> Jul 22 08:54:25 brane kernel: pf: state key linking mismatch! dir=3DOUT, i=
f=3Dtun0, stored af=3D2, a0: 10.0.2.220:60985, a1: 192.41.162.30:53, proto=3D=
17, found af=3D2, a0: 41.154.2.53:1701, a1: 41.133.165.161:59051, proto=3D17=
.
> Jul 22 08:54:25 brane kernel: pf: state key linking mismatch! dir=3DOUT, i=
f=3Dtun0, stored af=3D2, a0: 10.0.2.220:52995, a1: 41.154.2.100:53, proto=3D=
17, found af=3D2, a0: 41.154.2.53:1701, a1: 41.133.165.161:59051, proto=3D17=
.
> Jul 22 08:54:25 brane kernel: pf: state key linking mismatch! dir=3DOUT, i=
f=3Dtun0, stored af=3D2, a0: 10.0.2.220:60095, a1: 206.223.136.200:53, proto=
=3D17, found af=3D2, a0: 41.154.2.53:1701, a1: 41.133.165.161:59051, proto=3D=
17.
> Jul 22 08:54:25 brane kernel: pf: state key linking mismatch! dir=3DOUT, i=
f=3Dtun0, stored af=3D2, a0: 10.0.2.220:50463, a1: 206.223.136.200:53, proto=
=3D17, found af=3D2, a0: 41.154.2.53:1701, a1: 41.133.165.161:59051, proto=3D=
17.
> Jul 22 08:54:25 brane kernel: pf: state key linking mismatch! dir=3DOUT, i=
f=3Dtun0, stored af=3D2, a0: 10.0.2.220:56748, a1: 192.41.162.30:53, proto=3D=
17, found af=3D2, a0: 41.154.2.53:1701, a1: 41.133.165.161:59051, proto=3D17=
.
> Jul 22 08:54:25 brane kernel: pf: state key linking mismatch! dir=3DOUT, i=
f=3Dtun0, stored af=3D2, a0: 10.0.2.220:60793, a1: 192.41.162.30:53, proto=3D=
17, found af=3D2, a0: 41.154.2.53:1701, a1: 41.133.165.161:59051, proto=3D17=
.

    Filed a PR yet with packet captures?
Thanks,
-Garrett=



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