Retransmitted Packets
Zero Window Advertisements
Out of Order Receives
These statistics are available via the -T argument to
netstat(1).
MFC after: 2 weeks
starting from netgraph import in 1999.
netstat(8) used pointer to node as node address, oops. That didn't
work, we need the node ID in brackets to successfully address a node.
We can't look into ng_node, due to inability to include netgraph/netgraph.h
in userland code. So let the node make a hint for a userland, storing
the node ID in its private data.
MFC after: 2 weeks
query routines. This code is necessarily more fragile in the presence of
kernel changes than querying the kernel via sysctl (the default), but
useful when investigating crashes or live kernel state via firewire.
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Juniper Networks
otherwise sign extension leads to unlikely values when in the negative
range of the signed short structure fields that hold the statistics.
The type used to hold routing statistics is arguably also incorrect.
MFC after: 3 days
feature when you have a seemingly stuck socket and want to figure
out why it has not been closed yet.
No plans to MFC this, as it changes the netstat sysctl ABI.
Reviewed by: andre, rwatson, Eric Van Gyzen
New counters now exist for:
requests sent
replies sent
requests received
replies received
packets received
total packets dropped due to no ARP entry
entrys timed out
Duplicate IPs seen
The new statistics are seen in the netstat command
when it is given the -s command line switch.
MFC after: 2 weeks
In collaboration with: bz
Add necessary changes to the kernel for this (basically introduce a
bpf_zero_counters() function). As well, update the man page.
MFC after: 1 month
Discussed with: rwatson
an accessor function to get the correct rnh pointer back.
Update netstat to get the correct pointer using kvm_read()
as well.
This not only fixes the ABI problem depending on the kernel
option but also permits the tunable to overwrite the kernel
option at boot time up to MAXFIBS, enlarging the number of
FIBs without having to recompile. So people could just use
GENERIC now.
Reviewed by: julian, rwatson, zec
X-MFC: not possible
Match the bracketing in netstat.
Since the cleanup of MROUTING, ports have broken because they
expect to include <netinet/ip_mroute.h> without including
<sys/queue.h>. Fix breakage at source.
The real fix, of course, is to fix the MROUTING APIs by blowing them
away and replacing them with something else...
This is purely a forwarding plane cleanup; no control plane
code is involved.
Summary:
* Split IPv4 and IPv6 MROUTING support. The static compile-time
kernel option remains the same, however, the modules may now
be built for IPv4 and IPv6 separately as ip_mroute_mod and
ip6_mroute_mod.
* Clean up the IPv4 multicast forwarding code to use BSD queue
and hash table constructs. Don't build our own timer abstractions
when ratecheck() and timevalclear() etc will do.
* Expose the multicast forwarding cache (MFC) and virtual interface
table (VIF) as sysctls, to reduce netstat's dependence on libkvm
for this information for running kernels.
* bandwidth meters however still require libkvm.
* Make the MFC hash table size a boot/load-time tunable ULONG,
net.inet.ip.mfchashsize (defaults to 256).
* Remove unused members from struct vif and struct mfc.
* Kill RSVP support, as no current RSVP implementation uses it.
These stubs could be moved to raw_ip.c.
* Don't share locks or initialization between IPv4 and IPv6.
* Don't use a static struct route_in6 in ip6_mroute.c.
The v6 code is still using a cached struct route_in6, this is
moved to mif6 for the time being.
* More cleanup remains to be merged from ip_mroute.c to ip6_mroute.c.
v4 path tested using ports/net/mcast-tools.
v6 changes are mostly mechanical locking and *have not* been tested.
As these changes partially break some kernel ABIs, they will not
be MFCed. There is a lot more work to be done here.
Reviewed by: Pavlin Radoslavov
certain flags that should have been in inp_flags ended up in inp_vflag,
meaning that they were inconsistently locked, and in one case,
interpreted. Move the following flags from inp_vflag to gaps in the
inp_flags space (and clean up the inp_flags constants to make gaps
more obvious to future takers):
INP_TIMEWAIT
INP_SOCKREF
INP_ONESBCAST
INP_DROPPED
Some aspects of this change have no effect on kernel ABI at all, as these
are UDP/TCP/IP-internal uses; however, netstat and sockstat detect
INP_TIMEWAIT when listing TCP sockets, so any MFC will need to take this
into account.
MFC after: 1 week (or after dependencies are MFC'd)
Reviewed by: bz
IPv4 stack.
Diffs are minimized against p4.
PCS has been used for some protocol verification, more widespread
testing of recorded sources in Group-and-Source queries is needed.
sizeof(struct igmpstat) has changed.
__FreeBSD_version is bumped to 800070.
from the inet6 stack along with statistics and make sure we
properly free the rt in all cases.
While the current situation is not better performance wise it
prevents panics seen more often these days.
After more inet6 and ipsec cleanup we should be able to improve
the situation again passing the rt to ip6_forward directly.
Leave the ip6_forward_rt entry in struct vinet6 but mark it
for removal.
PR: kern/128247, kern/131038
MFC after: 25 days
Committed from: Bugathon #6
Tested by: Denis Ahrens <denis@h3q.com> (different initial version)
1. separating L2 tables (ARP, NDP) from the L3 routing tables
2. removing as much locking dependencies among these layers as
possible to allow for some parallelism in the search operations
3. simplify the logic in the routing code,
The most notable end result is the obsolescent of the route
cloning (RTF_CLONING) concept, which translated into code reduction
in both IPv4 ARP and IPv6 NDP related modules, and size reduction in
struct rtentry{}. The change in design obsoletes the semantics of
RTF_CLONING, RTF_WASCLONE and RTF_LLINFO routing flags. The userland
applications such as "arp" and "ndp" have been modified to reflect
those changes. The output from "netstat -r" shows only the routing
entries.
Quite a few developers have contributed to this project in the
past: Glebius Smirnoff, Luigi Rizzo, Alessandro Cerri, and
Andre Oppermann. And most recently:
- Kip Macy revised the locking code completely, thus completing
the last piece of the puzzle, Kip has also been conducting
active functional testing
- Sam Leffler has helped me improving/refactoring the code, and
provided valuable reviews
- Julian Elischer setup the perforce tree for me and has helped
me maintaining that branch before the svn conversion
control over the result of buildworld and installworld; this especially
helps packaging systems such as nanobsd
Reviewed by: various (posted to arch)
MFC after: 1 month
(all types) used per socket buffer.
Add support to netstat to print out all of the socket buffer
statistics.
Update the netstat manual page to describe the new -x flag
which gives the extended output.
Reviewed by: rwatson, julian
This particular implementation is designed to be fully backwards compatible
and to be MFC-able to 7.x (and 6.x)
Currently the only protocol that can make use of the multiple tables is IPv4
Similar functionality exists in OpenBSD and Linux.
From my notes:
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One thing where FreeBSD has been falling behind, and which by chance I
have some time to work on is "policy based routing", which allows
different
packet streams to be routed by more than just the destination address.
Constraints:
------------
I want to make some form of this available in the 6.x tree
(and by extension 7.x) , but FreeBSD in general needs it so I might as
well do it in -current and back port the portions I need.
One of the ways that this can be done is to have the ability to
instantiate multiple kernel routing tables (which I will now
refer to as "Forwarding Information Bases" or "FIBs" for political
correctness reasons). Which FIB a particular packet uses to make
the next hop decision can be decided by a number of mechanisms.
The policies these mechanisms implement are the "Policies" referred
to in "Policy based routing".
One of the constraints I have if I try to back port this work to
6.x is that it must be implemented as a EXTENSION to the existing
ABIs in 6.x so that third party applications do not need to be
recompiled in timespan of the branch.
This first version will not have some of the bells and whistles that
will come with later versions. It will, for example, be limited to 16
tables in the first commit.
Implementation method, Compatible version. (part 1)
-------------------------------
For this reason I have implemented a "sufficient subset" of a
multiple routing table solution in Perforce, and back-ported it
to 6.x. (also in Perforce though not always caught up with what I
have done in -current/P4). The subset allows a number of FIBs
to be defined at compile time (8 is sufficient for my purposes in 6.x)
and implements the changes needed to allow IPV4 to use them. I have not
done the changes for ipv6 simply because I do not need it, and I do not
have enough knowledge of ipv6 (e.g. neighbor discovery) needed to do it.
Other protocol families are left untouched and should there be
users with proprietary protocol families, they should continue to work
and be oblivious to the existence of the extra FIBs.
To understand how this is done, one must know that the current FIB
code starts everything off with a single dimensional array of
pointers to FIB head structures (One per protocol family), each of
which in turn points to the trie of routes available to that family.
The basic change in the ABI compatible version of the change is to
extent that array to be a 2 dimensional array, so that
instead of protocol family X looking at rt_tables[X] for the
table it needs, it looks at rt_tables[Y][X] when for all
protocol families except ipv4 Y is always 0.
Code that is unaware of the change always just sees the first row
of the table, which of course looks just like the one dimensional
array that existed before.
The entry points rtrequest(), rtalloc(), rtalloc1(), rtalloc_ign()
are all maintained, but refer only to the first row of the array,
so that existing callers in proprietary protocols can continue to
do the "right thing".
Some new entry points are added, for the exclusive use of ipv4 code
called in_rtrequest(), in_rtalloc(), in_rtalloc1() and in_rtalloc_ign(),
which have an extra argument which refers the code to the correct row.
In addition, there are some new entry points (currently called
rtalloc_fib() and friends) that check the Address family being
looked up and call either rtalloc() (and friends) if the protocol
is not IPv4 forcing the action to row 0 or to the appropriate row
if it IS IPv4 (and that info is available). These are for calling
from code that is not specific to any particular protocol. The way
these are implemented would change in the non ABI preserving code
to be added later.
One feature of the first version of the code is that for ipv4,
the interface routes show up automatically on all the FIBs, so
that no matter what FIB you select you always have the basic
direct attached hosts available to you. (rtinit() does this
automatically).
You CAN delete an interface route from one FIB should you want
to but by default it's there. ARP information is also available
in each FIB. It's assumed that the same machine would have the
same MAC address, regardless of which FIB you are using to get
to it.
This brings us as to how the correct FIB is selected for an outgoing
IPV4 packet.
Firstly, all packets have a FIB associated with them. if nothing
has been done to change it, it will be FIB 0. The FIB is changed
in the following ways.
Packets fall into one of a number of classes.
1/ locally generated packets, coming from a socket/PCB.
Such packets select a FIB from a number associated with the
socket/PCB. This in turn is inherited from the process,
but can be changed by a socket option. The process in turn
inherits it on fork. I have written a utility call setfib
that acts a bit like nice..
setfib -3 ping target.example.com # will use fib 3 for ping.
It is an obvious extension to make it a property of a jail
but I have not done so. It can be achieved by combining the setfib and
jail commands.
2/ packets received on an interface for forwarding.
By default these packets would use table 0,
(or possibly a number settable in a sysctl(not yet)).
but prior to routing the firewall can inspect them (see below).
(possibly in the future you may be able to associate a FIB
with packets received on an interface.. An ifconfig arg, but not yet.)
3/ packets inspected by a packet classifier, which can arbitrarily
associate a fib with it on a packet by packet basis.
A fib assigned to a packet by a packet classifier
(such as ipfw) would over-ride a fib associated by
a more default source. (such as cases 1 or 2).
4/ a tcp listen socket associated with a fib will generate
accept sockets that are associated with that same fib.
5/ Packets generated in response to some other packet (e.g. reset
or icmp packets). These should use the FIB associated with the
packet being reponded to.
6/ Packets generated during encapsulation.
gif, tun and other tunnel interfaces will encapsulate using the FIB
that was in effect withthe proces that set up the tunnel.
thus setfib 1 ifconfig gif0 [tunnel instructions]
will set the fib for the tunnel to use to be fib 1.
Routing messages would be associated with their
process, and thus select one FIB or another.
messages from the kernel would be associated with the fib they
refer to and would only be received by a routing socket associated
with that fib. (not yet implemented)
In addition Netstat has been edited to be able to cope with the
fact that the array is now 2 dimensional. (It looks in system
memory using libkvm (!)). Old versions of netstat see only the first FIB.
In addition two sysctls are added to give:
a) the number of FIBs compiled in (active)
b) the default FIB of the calling process.
Early testing experience:
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Basically our (IronPort's) appliance does this functionality already
using ipfw fwd but that method has some drawbacks.
For example,
It can't fully simulate a routing table because it can't influence the
socket's choice of local address when a connect() is done.
Testing during the generating of these changes has been
remarkably smooth so far. Multiple tables have co-existed
with no notable side effects, and packets have been routes
accordingly.
ipfw has grown 2 new keywords:
setfib N ip from anay to any
count ip from any to any fib N
In pf there seems to be a requirement to be able to give symbolic names to the
fibs but I do not have that capacity. I am not sure if it is required.
SCTP has interestingly enough built in support for this, called VRFs
in Cisco parlance. it will be interesting to see how that handles it
when it suddenly actually does something.
Where to next:
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After committing the ABI compatible version and MFCing it, I'd
like to proceed in a forward direction in -current. this will
result in some roto-tilling in the routing code.
Firstly: the current code's idea of having a separate tree per
protocol family, all of the same format, and pointed to by the
1 dimensional array is a bit silly. Especially when one considers that
there is code that makes assumptions about every protocol having the
same internal structures there. Some protocols don't WANT that
sort of structure. (for example the whole idea of a netmask is foreign
to appletalk). This needs to be made opaque to the external code.
My suggested first change is to add routing method pointers to the
'domain' structure, along with information pointing the data.
instead of having an array of pointers to uniform structures,
there would be an array pointing to the 'domain' structures
for each protocol address domain (protocol family),
and the methods this reached would be called. The methods would have
an argument that gives FIB number, but the protocol would be free
to ignore it.
When the ABI can be changed it raises the possibilty of the
addition of a fib entry into the "struct route". Currently,
the structure contains the sockaddr of the desination, and the resulting
fib entry. To make this work fully, one could add a fib number
so that given an address and a fib, one can find the third element, the
fib entry.
Interaction with the ARP layer/ LL layer would need to be
revisited as well. Qing Li has been working on this already.
This work was sponsored by Ironport Systems/Cisco
PR:
Reviewed by: several including rwatson, bz and mlair (parts each)
Approved by:
Obtained from: Ironport systems/Cisco
MFC after:
Security:
