Packet corruption in re0

Pyun YongHyeon pyunyh at gmail.com
Fri Feb 22 10:20:35 UTC 2008


On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 06:47:42PM +0900, To Ian FREISLICH wrote:

[...]
 >  > It seems like it's corrupting large packets on transmit when vlanhwtag
 >  > is enabled.  From the tcpdump output it looks like a padding or
 >  > packet length issue.
 >  > 
 >  > Here's what tcpdump on the re(4) device thinks it's transmitting:
 >  > 
 >  > 00:08:a1:3c:32:9c > 00:90:fb:0c:89:7d, ethertype 802.1Q (0x8100), length 1510: vlan 1000, p 0, ethertype IPv4, 196.22.138.92 > 196.22.138.89: OSPFv2, Database Description, length: 1472
 >  > 
 >  > Here's what was actually recieved by the em(4) device on the
 >  > neighbour.  Note the absense of the 801.1Q header:
 >  > 
 > 
 > I see, I'll check it.
 > 
 >  > 00:08:a1:3c:32:9c > 00:90:fb:0c:89:7d, ethertype IPv4 (0x0800), length 1506: 196.22.138.92 > 196.22.138.89: OSPFv2, Database Description, length: 1472
 >  > 
 >  > When vlanhwtagging is disabled, the re(4) device transmits:
 >  > 
 >  > 00:90:fb:0c:89:7d > 00:08:a1:3c:32:9c, ethertype 802.1Q (0x8100), length 1510: vlan 1000, p 0, ethertype IPv4, 196.22.138.89 > 196.22.138.92: OSPFv2, Database Description, length: 1472
 >  > 
 >  > and the em(4) device recieves:
 >  > 
 >  > 00:08:a1:3c:32:9c > 00:90:fb:0c:89:7d, ethertype 802.1Q (0x8100), length 1510: vlan 1000, p 0, ethertype IPv4, 196.22.138.92 > 196.22.138.89: OSPFv2, Database Description, length: 1472
 >  > 
 >  > Let me know if you need more detailed tcpdump output than I've provided.
 >  > 

Apply attached patch and let me know how it goes.
It just disables checksum offload for vlan interface.

-- 
Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon
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Index: if_re.c
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RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/dev/re/if_re.c,v
retrieving revision 1.103
diff -u -r1.103 if_re.c
--- if_re.c	17 Jan 2008 23:37:47 -0000	1.103
+++ if_re.c	22 Feb 2008 10:16:26 -0000
@@ -1332,8 +1332,10 @@
 
 	/* VLAN capability setup */
 	ifp->if_capabilities |= IFCAP_VLAN_MTU | IFCAP_VLAN_HWTAGGING;
+#if 0
 	if (ifp->if_capabilities & IFCAP_HWCSUM)
 		ifp->if_capabilities |= IFCAP_VLAN_HWCSUM;
+#endif
 	ifp->if_capenable = ifp->if_capabilities;
 #ifdef DEVICE_POLLING
 	ifp->if_capabilities |= IFCAP_POLLING;


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