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From: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
To: Lin Jui-Nan Eric <ericlin@tamama.org>
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Subject: Re: pf stalls connection when using route-to
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On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 08:17:57PM +0800, Lin Jui-Nan Eric wrote:
> We recently found that when the traffic passes pf with route-to, the
> connection stalls.
> Turning off TSO solves the problem. Our pf.conf is very simple:
> 
> table <privip> const {10/8, 172.16/12, 192.168/16}
> pass out quick route-to (em0 10.1.1.1) from <privip> to ! <privip> no state
> 
> And we have a tcpdump capture file. It shows that there's lots of
> duplicate packets and
> retransmissions while TSO is enabled. Our NIC is an Intel PRO/1000:
> 
> em0: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection 6.9.14> port 0x2000-0x201f
> mem 0xdf200000-0xdf21ffff irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci4
> em0: Using MSI interrupt
> em0: [FILTER]
> 
> Screenshot: http://cf.files.jnlin.org/with-tso.png
> 
> Any suggestion? I just turn off the TSO, but I think it is only a workaround.

What FreeBSD version?  uname -a output please.

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