Re: vtnet rxcsum broken for forwarding RELENG_13 ?

From: Kristof Provost <kp_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 10:43:10 UTC
On 12 Apr 2022, at 2:07, Matt Garber wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 7:15 PM mike tancsa <mike@sentex.net> wrote:
>
>> I was setting up a VM pf firewall and noticed I was not able to nat out
>> for some reason. Looking at the pcap, it seems when the vm is in
>> forwarding mode, I get tcp checksum errors. If I do a
>>
>> ifconfig vtnet1 -rxcsum
>>
>> ifconfig vtnet0 -rxcsum
>>
>> nat then seems to work fine
>>
>> The setup is a simple VM with the hypervisor libvirt/KVM ubuntu 20 LTS.
>> Guest is RELENG_13 from Apr 11/2022. If I change to em nics in the VM,
>> all is fine out of the box.
>>
>>
>> I opened up https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=263229
>
>
>
> Unless someone knows otherwise, I’ve been under the impression that PF — or
> potentially any of the other FreeBSD firewalls (?), but I use PF — has been
> “broken” in that regard on Linux KVM-based FreeBSD guests for years. As
> such I’ve always needed to use csum_disable flags on the vtnet interfaces
> or suffer *extremely* poor network performance, even for servers not doing
> NAT forwarding.
>
That PF checksum issue was fixed c110fc49da2995d10d60d908af0838ecb4be9bee, back in 2015.

Kristof