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Date:      Thu, 11 Apr 2013 10:11:30 +0900
From:      YongHyeon PYUN <pyunyh@gmail.com>
To:        Spil Oss <spil.oss@gmail.com>
Cc:        current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Problems with axe(4) and checksum offloading
Message-ID:  <20130411011130.GA2985@michelle.cdnetworks.com>
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On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 07:48:00PM +0200, Spil Oss wrote:
> Hi YongHyeon,
> 
> With the original unmodified .ko...
> 
> ifconfig output as requested at bottom
> 
> Static IP-configuration does not make a difference with the ipfw behaviour.
> 
> ipfw ruleset (based on /etc/rc.firewall simple ruleset)
> 00010 allow ip from any to me dst-port 22 recv ue0
> 00010 allow tcp from me 22 to any xmit ue0
> 00100 allow ip from any to any via lo0
> 00200 deny ip from any to 127.0.0.0/8
> 00300 deny ip from 127.0.0.0/8 to any
> 00400 deny ip from any to ::1
> 00500 deny ip from ::1 to any
> 00600 allow ipv6-icmp from :: to ff02::/16
> 00700 allow ipv6-icmp from fe80::/10 to fe80::/10
> 00800 allow ipv6-icmp from fe80::/10 to ff02::/16
> 00900 allow ipv6-icmp from any to any ip6 icmp6types 1
> 01000 allow ipv6-icmp from any to any ip6 icmp6types 2,135,136
> 01100 deny ip from 10.16.2.1 to any in via ue0
> 01200 deny ip from 172.17.2.111 to any in via re0
> 01300 deny ip from any to 10.0.0.0/8 via ue0
> 01500 deny ip from any to 192.168.0.0/16 via ue0
> 01600 deny ip from any to 0.0.0.0/8 via ue0
> 01700 deny ip from any to 169.254.0.0/16 via ue0
> 01800 deny ip from any to 192.0.2.0/24 via ue0
> 01900 deny ip from any to 224.0.0.0/4 via ue0
> 02000 deny ip from any to 240.0.0.0/4 via ue0
> 02100 divert 8668 ip4 from any to any via ue0
> 02200 deny ip from 10.0.0.0/8 to any via ue0
> 02400 deny ip from 192.168.0.0/16 to any via ue0
> 02500 deny ip from 0.0.0.0/8 to any via ue0
> 02600 deny ip from 169.254.0.0/16 to any via ue0
> 02700 deny ip from 192.0.2.0/24 to any via ue0
> 02800 deny ip from 224.0.0.0/4 to any via ue0
> 02900 deny ip from 240.0.0.0/4 to any via ue0
> 03000 allow tcp from any to any established
> 03100 allow ip from any to any frag
> 03200 allow tcp from any to me dst-port 22 setup
> 03300 allow tcp from any to me dst-port 25 setup
> 03400 allow tcp from any to me dst-port 465 setup
> 03500 allow tcp from any to me dst-port 587 setup
> 03600 allow tcp from any to me dst-port 80 setup
> 03700 allow tcp from any to me dst-port 443 setup
> 03800 deny log logamount 5 ip4 from any to any in via ue0 setup proto tcp
> 03900 allow tcp from any to any setup
> 04000 allow udp from me to any dst-port 53 keep-state
> 04100 allow udp from me to any dst-port 123 keep-state
> 04200 allow ip from any to any dst-port 22 recv ue0
> 65535 deny ip from any to any
> 
> If I remove rule 10 it will NOT work with ue0, the ruleset without rule 10
> DOES work with re0.
> 
> Found an older PR about em or fxp having trouble with natd when
> rxcsum/txcsum was enabled, that is why I started fiddling with
> rxcsum/txcsum and found that the NIC would be unusable without
> rxcsum/txcsum enabled. If only I could find that PR now (kern/170081???)...
> Was fixed in base...

If you don't use ipfw/natd, checksum offloading of axe(4) work?
If yes, you'd get better answer from ipfw mailing list.

> 
> Some other post reported fake AX88772A chips (32-pin packaging vs 64 in the
> original) on cheap USB NICs so I checked the hardware as well and could not

AX88772A does not support TX/RX checksum offloading.

> see an issue (64-pin packaging).
> 
> # ifconfig ue0
> ue0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>         options=8000b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,LINKSTATE>
>         ether 00:60:6e:42:5b:53
>         nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
>         status: active
> 
> # dhclient ue0
> DHCPDISCOVER on ue0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
> DHCPOFFER from 172.17.2.1
> DHCPREQUEST on ue0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> DHCPACK from 172.17.2.1
> bound to 172.17.2.111 -- renewal in 43200 seconds.
> 
> # ifconfig ue0
> ue0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>         options=8000b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,LINKSTATE>
>         ether 00:60:6e:42:5b:53
>         inet6 fe80::260:6eff:fe42:5b53%ue0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x7
>         inet 172.17.2.111 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.17.2.255
>         nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
>         status: active

I can see TX/RX checksum offloading is active and it successfully
got a IP address via DHCP.

> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 4:14 AM, YongHyeon PYUN <pyunyh@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 08:45:58PM +0200, Spil Oss wrote:
> > > Hi YongHyeon,
> > >
> > > output from verbose boot
> > >
> > > ugen3.2: <vendor 0x0b95> at usbus3
> > > axe0: <vendor 0x0b95 product 0x772b, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 2> on usbus3
> > > axe0: PHYADDR 0xe0:0x10
> > > miibus1: <MII bus> on axe0
> > > ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> PHY 16 on miibus1
> > > ukphy0: OUI 0x007063, model 0x0008, rev. 1
> > > ukphy0:  none, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto,
> > > auto-flow
> > > ue0: <USB Ethernet> on axe0
> > > ue0: bpf attached
> > > ue0: Ethernet address: 00:60:6e:42:5b:53
> > > ue0: link state changed to UP
> > > ue0: link state changed to DOWN
> > > ue0: link state changed to UP
> >
> > AX88772B engineering sample I have still worked on latest current.
> > Could you use a static IP rather than using DHCP and see whether
> > that makes any difference?(Note, you have to revert your changes
> > made to axe(4) before trying that).
> >
> > Also show me the output of 'ifconfig ue0' before/after running
> > dhclient(8).
> >
> > >
> > > Apart from what I originally described...
> > > Networking does work, but not when packets pass through ipfw and nat. If
> > I
> > > add my ipfw rules before the divert natd rule networking works as
> > expected,
> > > without the SYN,ACK response packets are not accepted if I e.g. connect
> > to
> > > something on the axe interface. I have validated the ipfw ruleset with
> > the
> > > onboard realtek NIC and it then works as expected.
> > >
> > > # usbconfig -u 3 -a 2 dump_info
> > > ugen3.2: <product 0x772b vendor 0x0b95> at usbus3, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH
> > > (480Mbps) pwr=ON (200mA)
> > >
> > > Kind regards,
> > >
> > > Spil.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 8:35 AM, YongHyeon PYUN <pyunyh@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 09:14:16PM +0200, Spil Oss wrote:
> > > > > Hi all,
> > > > >
> > > > > With checksum offloading enabled I cannot use my axe NIC (ASIX
> > AX88772B).
> > > > >
> > > > > ifconfig ue0 -txcsum -rxcsum
> > > > > will make dhclient ue0 return
> > > > >
> > > > > if I re-enable txcsum and rxcsum I get an immediate response from the
> > > > dhcp
> > > > > server.
> > > > >
> > > > > Tried to remove the csum features by commenting out
> > > > > ifp->if_capabilities |= IFCAP_TXCSUM | IFCAP_RXCSUM;
> > > > > ifp->if_hwassist = AXE_CSUM_FEATURES;
> > > > > (lines 855 and 856 in /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/net/if_axe.c)
> > > > > and rebuild the module. This does remove RXCSUM and TXCSUM from
> > options
> > > > and
> > > > > behaves the same as disabling the features with ifconfig (i.e. does
> > not
> > > > > work)
> > > > >
> > > > > 10.0-CURRENT r248351
> > > > >
> > > > > Hope someone can help me... Spil.
> > > >
> > > > Last time I tried, checksum offloading worked as expected.
> > > > Would you show me the verbose dmesg output after attaching the
> > > > axe(4) NIC?
> > > >
> >



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