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Date:      Mon, 27 Jul 2020 12:00:11 +0700
From:      Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>
To:        Joe Clarke <jclarke@marcuscom.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Traffic "corruption" in 12-stable
Message-ID:  <9d6dc414-2866-e6c8-6b66-22af23efc728@grosbein.net>
In-Reply-To: <9FAE54DE-F409-4A53-B91E-59AE52A86513@marcuscom.com>
References:  <9FAE54DE-F409-4A53-B91E-59AE52A86513@marcuscom.com>

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27.07.2020 5:16, Joe Clarke wrote:

> About two weeks ago, I upgraded from the latest 11-stable to the latest 12-stable.  After that, I periodically see the network throughput come to a near standstill.  This FreeBSD machine is an ESXi VM with two interfaces.  It acts as a router.  It uses vmxnet3 interfaces for both LAN and WAN.  It runs ipfw with in-kernel NAT.  The LAN side uses a bridge with vmx0 and a tap0 L2 VPN interface.  My LAN side uses an MTU of 9000, and my vmx1 (WAN side) uses the default 1500.
> 
> Besides seeing massive packet loss and huge latency (~ 200 ms for on-LAN ping times), I know the problem has occurred because my lldpd reports:
> 
> Jul 26 15:47:03 namale lldpd[1126]: frame too short for tlv received on bridge0
> 
> And if I turn on ipfw verbose messages, I see tons of:
> 
> Jul 26 16:02:23 namale kernel: ipfw: pullup failed
> 
> This leads to me to believe packets are being corrupted on ingress.  I’ve applied all the recent iflib changes, but the problem persists. What causes it, I don’t know.
> 
> The only thing that changed (and yes, it’s a big one) is I upgraded to 12-stable.  Meaning, the rest of the network infra and topology has remained the same.  This did not happen at all in 11-stable.
> 
> I’m open to suggestions.

First, try: ifconfig $ifname -rxcsum -txcsum




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