IPX was a network transport protocol in Novell's NetWare network operating
system from late 80s and then 90s. The NetWare itself switched to TCP/IP
as default transport in 1998. Later, in this century the Novell Open
Enterprise Server became successor of Novell NetWare. The last release
that claimed to still support IPX was OES 2 in 2007. Routing equipment
vendors (e.g. Cisco) discontinued support for IPX in 2011.
Thus, IPX won't be supported in FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE.
- Stateful TCP offload drivers for Terminator 3 and 4 (T3 and T4) ASICs.
These are available as t3_tom and t4_tom modules that augment cxgb(4)
and cxgbe(4) respectively. The cxgb/cxgbe drivers continue to work as
usual with or without these extra features.
- iWARP driver for Terminator 3 ASIC (kernel verbs). T4 iWARP in the
works and will follow soon.
Build-tested with make universe.
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What interfaces support TCP offload? Look for TOE4 and/or TOE6 in the
capabilities of an interface:
# ifconfig -m | grep TOE
Enable/disable TCP offload on an interface (just like any other ifnet
capability):
# ifconfig cxgbe0 toe
# ifconfig cxgbe0 -toe
Which connections are offloaded? Look for toe4 and/or toe6 in the
output of netstat and sockstat:
# netstat -np tcp | grep toe
# sockstat -46c | grep toe
Reviewed by: bz, gnn
Sponsored by: Chelsio communications.
MFC after: ~3 months (after 9.1, and after ensuring MFC is feasible)
headers for TSO but also for generic checksum offloading. Ideally we
would only have one common function shared amongst all drivers, and
perhaps when updating them for IPv6 we should introduce that.
Eventually we should provide the meta information along with mbufs to
avoid (re-)parsing entirely.
To not break IPv6 (checksums and offload) and to be able to MFC the
changes without risking to hurt 3rd party drivers, duplicate the v4
framework, as other OSes have done as well.
Introduce interface capability flags for TX/RX checksum offload with
IPv6, to allow independent toggling (where possible). Add CSUM_*_IPV6
flags for UDP/TCP over IPv6, and reserve further for SCTP, and IPv6
fragmentation. Define CSUM_DELAY_DATA_IPV6 as we do for legacy IP and
add an alias for CSUM_DATA_VALID_IPV6.
This pretty much brings IPv6 handling in line with IPv4.
TSO is still handled in a different way and not via if_hwassist.
Update ifconfig to allow (un)setting of the new capability flags.
Update loopback to announce the new capabilities and if_hwassist flags.
Individual driver updates will have to follow, as will SCTP.
Reported by: gallatin, dim, ..
Reviewed by: gallatin (glanced at?)
MFC after: 3 days
X-MFC with: r235961,235959,235958
Allow tso4 and tso6 be set individually given we have the bits.
This will help with drivers not working as expected during the
transition time and later.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Sponsored by: iXsystems
Reviewed by: gnn
MFC After: 1 week
from scratch, copying needed functionality from the old implemenation
on demand, with a thorough review of all code. The main change is that
interface layer has been removed from the CARP. Now redundant addresses
are configured exactly on the interfaces, they run on.
The CARP configuration itself is, as before, configured and read via
SIOCSVH/SIOCGVH ioctls. A new prefix created with SIOCAIFADDR or
SIOCAIFADDR_IN6 may now be configured to a particular virtual host id,
which makes the prefix redundant.
ifconfig(8) semantics has been changed too: now one doesn't need
to clone carpXX interface, he/she should directly configure a vhid
on a Ethernet interface.
To supply vhid data from the kernel to an application the getifaddrs(8)
function had been changed to pass ifam_data with each address. [1]
The new implementation definitely closes all PRs related to carp(4)
being an interface, and may close several others. It also allows
to run a single redundant IP per interface.
Big thanks to Bjoern Zeeb for his help with inet6 part of patch, for
idea on using ifam_data and for several rounds of reviewing!
PR: kern/117000, kern/126945, kern/126714, kern/120130, kern/117448
Reviewed by: bz
Submitted by: bz [1]
a /rescue/ifconfig more modern than the kernel could still configure
IPv4 or IPv6 addresses.
Reported by: Andrzej Tobola (ato iem.pw.edu.pl)
Reported by: gcooper
MFC after: 1 day
X-MFC: will not MFC any time soon, just reminder for r222527
Document the fact that we might want an IFCAP_CANTCHANGE mask,
even though the value is not yet used in sys/net/if.c
(asked on -current a week ago, no feedback so i assume no objection).
If compiled in for dual-stack use, test with feature_present(3)
to see if we should register the IPv4/IPv6 address family related
options.
In case there is no "inet" support we would love to go with the
usage() and make the address family mandatory (as it is for anything
but inet in theory). Unfortunately people are used to
ifconfig IF up/down
etc. as well, so use a fallback of "link". Adjust the man page
to reflect these minor details.
Improve error handling printing a warning in addition to the usage
telling that we do not know the given address family in two places.
Reviewed by: hrs, rwatson
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Sponsored by: iXsystems
MFC after: 2 weeks
isn't configurable in a meaningful way. This is for ifconfig(8) or
other tools not to change code whenever IFT_USB-like interfaces are
registered at the interface list.
Reviewed by: brooks
No objections: gavin, jkim
use a different interface type (IFT_L2VLAN vs IFT_ETHER). Treat IFT_L2VLAN
interfaces like IFT_ETHER interfaces when handling link layer addresses.
Reviewed by: syrinx (bsnmpd)
MFC after: 1 week
interface considers that it hits a fatal error, and will not copyout
the request structure back for _IOW and _IOWR ioctls, keeping them
untouched.
The previous implementation of the SIOCGIFDESCR ioctl intends to
feed the buffer length back to userland. However, if we return
an error, the feedback would be defeated and ifconfig(8) would
trap into an infinite loop.
This commit changes SIOCGIFDESCR to set buffer field to NULL to
indicate the previous ENAMETOOLONG case.
Reported by: bschmidt
MFC after: 2 weeks
if the interface has such capability. The interface
capability flag indicates whether such capability
exists. This approach is much more backward compatible.
Physical device driver changes will be part of another
commit.
Also updated the ifconfig utility to show the LINKSTATE
capability if present.
Reviewed by: rwatson, imp, juli
MFC after: 3 days
- fix ifconfig to ignore the non-existent interface in the current
network stack in case of '-vnet'.
- in ifconfig: actually use the local variables defined for the
vnet functions rather than modifying the global.
Reviewed by: rwatson
Approved by: re (kib)
operations. This allows the query operations to work in non-IPv4 jails,
and will be necessary in a future of possible non-INET networking.
Approved by: bz (mentor)
all others. Use this to disambiguate cmd line arguments that can
be either clone params or regular parameters so, in particular,
"bssid" again works as a regular parameter.
While here leverage the above to improve the logic for flushing
clone operations on the first !clone cmd line parameter.
Reviewed by: jhay
o mark cmds/parameters to indicate they are potential arguments to a clone
operation (e.g. vlantag)
o when handling a create/clone operation do the callback on seeing the first
non-clone cmd line argument so the new device is created and can be used;
and re-setup operating state to reflect the newly created device
Reviewed by: Eugene Grosbein
MFC after: 2 weeks
it would return true on a partial match where it would think the edsc module
was already present by having a positive match on 'ed'. This changes it so
that it compares the full string including the nul terminators.
This also fixes a buffer overflow in the ifkind variable where the length of
the interface name in *argv wasnt checked for size.
Reviewed by: brooks
Approved by: re (gnn)
previous commit:
Remove IPX over IP tunneling support, which allows IPX routing over IP
tunnels, and was not MPSAFE. The code can be easily restored in the
event that someone with an IPX over IP tunnel configuration can work
with me to test patches.
This removes one of five remaining consumers of NET_NEEDS_GIANT.
Approved by: re (kensmith)
Spotted by: Artem Naluzhny <tutat nhamon dot com dot ua>
hardware drivers. Unlike pseudo-device drivers, which just attach
to the cloning framework and wait for "ifconfig create", h/w drivers
create interfaces for installed cards as soon as loaded. The issue
of devd(8) involuntarily reloading modules should be dealt with in a
different way.
new interface. In other cases loading the module is unwanted and
can lead to ill side effects. One such effect found is as follows:
"kldunload if_foo" tells the module to kill all its interfaces,
which results in messages sent to devd; the module unloads. Then
devd starts processing the messages, which ends up in a etc script
running ifconfig fooX, which reloads the module.
'ifconfig em0 tso' and 'ifconfig em0 -tso'. TSO for IPv4 and IPv6 is always
enabled or disabled together. The driver may enable only one if it doesn't
support both.
Document 'tso' and '-tso' in the ifconfig(8) man pages.
Sponsored by: TCP/IP Optimization Fundraise 2005
mechanism
o change vlan cloning to use callback and pass all vlan parameters
on create using the new SIOCREATE2 ioctl
o update vlan set logic to match existing practice
