Renumber cluase 4 to 3, per what everybody else did when BSD granted
them permission to remove clause 3. My insistance on keeping the same
numbering for legal reasons is too pedantic, so give up on that point.
Submitted by: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@stevens.edu>
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/pull/96
- Add RATELIMIT kernel configuration keyword which must be set to
enable the new functionality.
- Add support for hardware driven, Receive Side Scaling, RSS aware, rate
limited sendqueues and expose the functionality through the already
established SO_MAX_PACING_RATE setsockopt(). The API support rates in
the range from 1 to 4Gbytes/s which are suitable for regular TCP and
UDP streams. The setsockopt(2) manual page has been updated.
- Add rate limit function callback API to "struct ifnet" which supports
the following operations: if_snd_tag_alloc(), if_snd_tag_modify(),
if_snd_tag_query() and if_snd_tag_free().
- Add support to ifconfig to view, set and clear the IFCAP_TXRTLMT
flag, which tells if a network driver supports rate limiting or not.
- This patch also adds support for rate limiting through VLAN and LAGG
intermediate network devices.
- How rate limiting works:
1) The userspace application calls setsockopt() after accepting or
making a new connection to set the rate which is then stored in the
socket structure in the kernel. Later on when packets are transmitted
a check is made in the transmit path for rate changes. A rate change
implies a non-blocking ifp->if_snd_tag_alloc() call will be made to the
destination network interface, which then sets up a custom sendqueue
with the given rate limitation parameter. A "struct m_snd_tag" pointer is
returned which serves as a "snd_tag" hint in the m_pkthdr for the
subsequently transmitted mbufs.
2) When the network driver sees the "m->m_pkthdr.snd_tag" different
from NULL, it will move the packets into a designated rate limited sendqueue
given by the snd_tag pointer. It is up to the individual drivers how the rate
limited traffic will be rate limited.
3) Route changes are detected by the NIC drivers in the ifp->if_transmit()
routine when the ifnet pointer in the incoming snd_tag mismatches the
one of the network interface. The network adapter frees the mbuf and
returns EAGAIN which causes the ip_output() to release and clear the send
tag. Upon next ip_output() a new "snd_tag" will be tried allocated.
4) When the PCB is detached the custom sendqueue will be released by a
non-blocking ifp->if_snd_tag_free() call to the currently bound network
interface.
Reviewed by: wblock (manpages), adrian, gallatin, scottl (network)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3687
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
MFC after: 3 months
which refers to IEEE 802.1p class of service and maps to the frame
priority level.
Values in order of priority are: 1 (Background (lowest)),
0 (Best effort (default)), 2 (Excellent effort),
3 (Critical applications), 4 (Video, < 100ms latency),
5 (Video, < 10ms latency), 6 (Internetwork control) and
7 (Network control (highest)).
Example of usage:
root# ifconfig em0.1 create
root# ifconfig em0.1 vlanpcp 3
Note:
The review D801 includes the pf(4) part, but as discussed with kristof,
we won't commit the pf(4) bits for now.
The credits of the original code is from rwatson.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D801
Reviewed by: gnn, adrian, loos
Discussed with: rwatson, glebius, kristof
Tested by: many including Matthew Grooms <mgrooms__shrew.net>
Obtained from: pfSense
Relnotes: Yes
specified by the -f flag or IFCONFIG_FORMAT environment variable, the user
can request that inet4 subnet masks be printed in CIDR or dotted-quad
notation, in addition to the traditional hex output.
inet6 prefixes can be printed in CIDR as well.
For more documentation see the ifconfig(8) man page.
PR: 169072
Requested by: seanc, marcel, brd, many others
Reviewed by: gnn, jhb (earlier version)
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: ScaleEngine Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2856
Add net.link.lagg.lacp.default_strict_mode which defines
the default value for LACP strict compliance for created
lagg devices.
Also:
* Add lacp_strict option to ifconfig(8).
* Fix lagg(4) creation examples.
* Minor style(9) fix.
MFC after: 1 week
gif(4) interface. Add new option "ignore_source" for gif(4) interface.
When it is enabled, gif's encapcheck function requires match only for
packet's destination address.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2004
Obtained from: Yandex LLC
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Yandex LLC
packets on tunnel interfaces. Add support of these ioctls to gre(4),
gif(4) and me(4) interfaces. For incoming packets M_SETFIB() should use
if_fib value from ifnet structure, use proper value in gre(4) and me(4).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2462
No objection from: #network
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Yandex LLC
because a link where looped back NS messages are permanently observed
does not work with either NDP or ARP for IPv4.
- draft-ietf-6man-enhanced-dad is now RFC 7527.
Discussed with: hiren
MFC after: 3 days
- Add no_dad and ignoreloop per-IF knob. no_dad disables DAD completely,
and ignoreloop is to prevent infinite loop in loopback probing state when
loopback is permanently expected.
vxlan creates a virtual LAN by encapsulating the inner Ethernet frame in
a UDP packet. This implementation is based on RFC7348.
Currently, the IPv6 support is not fully compliant with the specification:
we should be able to receive UPDv6 packets with a zero checksum, but we
need to support RFC6935 first. Patches for this should come soon.
Encapsulation protocols such as vxlan emphasize the need for the FreeBSD
network stack to support batching, GRO, and GSO. Each frame has to make
two trips through the network stack, and each frame will be at most MTU
sized. Performance suffers accordingly.
Some latest generation NICs have begun to support vxlan HW offloads that
we should also take advantage of. VIMAGE support should also be added soon.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D384
Reviewed by: gnn
Relnotes: yes
if_lagg(4) interfaces which were cloned in a vnet jail.
Sysctl nodes which are dynamically generated for each cloned interface
(net.link.lagg.N.*) have been removed, and use_flowid and flowid_shift
ifconfig(8) parameters have been added instead. Flags and per-interface
statistics counters are displayed in "ifconfig -v".
CR: D842
The FreeBSD is the only system that has the FEC protocol, that is a simple alias
to loadbalance protocol and does not implement the ancient Cisco FEC standard.
From now on, we remove the fec protocol from the documentation and keep the FEC
code only for compatibility.
Phabric: D539
Reviewed by: glebius, thompsa
Approved by: glebius
Sponsored by: QNAP Systems Inc.
and receives frames on any port of the lagg(4).
Phabric: D549
Reviewed by: glebius, thompsa
Approved by: glebius
Obtained from: OpenBSD
Sponsored by: QNAP Systems Inc.
It affects the IPv6 source address selection algorithm (RFC 6724)
and allows override the last rule ("longest matching prefix") for
choosing among equivalent addresses. The address with `prefer_source'
will be preferred source address.
Obtained from: Yandex LLC
MFC after: 1 month
Sponsored by: Yandex LLC
AppleTalk was a network transport protocol for Apple Macintosh devices
in 80s and then 90s. Starting with Mac OS X in 2000 the AppleTalk was
a legacy protocol and primary networking protocol is TCP/IP. The last
Mac OS X release to support AppleTalk happened in 2009. The same year
routing equipment vendors (namely Cisco) end their support.
Thus, AppleTalk won't be supported in FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE.
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.
with CARP.
Currently, we've got a problem that interface isn't IFF_UP at the time
we assign it a redundant address, and the latter gets stuck in INIT state.
Additional SIOCSIFFLAGS from ifconfig(8) kicks it to a working state.
A proper fix is kernel side and appeared to be non-trivial, not to be
checked in before 10.0-RELEASE.
Submitted by: Ole Myhre <ole.myhre dataoppdrag.no>
It stops treating the address on the interface as special by source
address selection rule even when the interface is outgoing interface.
This is desired in some situation.
Requested by: hrs
Reviewed by: IHANet folks including hrs
MFC after: 1 week
seemingly mysterious actions that are not done by ifconfig itself, but
by devd triggering on events caused by ifconfig.
PR: docs/173405
Submitted by: Mateusz Kwiatkowski <mateusz.kwiatkowski@atlashost.eu>
MFC after: 1 week
implementation of RFC 3484 for this purpose for a long time and "prefer_source"
was never implemented actually. ND6_IFF_PREFER_SOURCE macro is left intact.
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
reality:
1. Only 12-bit VLAN Identifiers, not full 16-bit VLAN tags can be set using
ifconfig vlan.
2. When we mean VLAN Identifiers, spell it that way, rather than as VLAN tag.
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: Adara Networks, Inc.