- 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.
30s overview
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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)
Currently, 'ifconfig laggX down' does not remove members from this
lagg(4) interface. So, 'service netif stop laggX' followed by
'service netif start laggX' will choke, because "stop" will leave
interfaces attached to the laggX and ifconfig from the "start" will
refuse to add already-existing interfaces.
The real-world case is when I am bundling together my Ethernet and
WiFi interfaces and using multiple profiles for accessing network in
different places: system being booted up with one profile, but later
this profile being exchanged to another one, followed by 'service
netif restart' will not add WiFi interface back to the lagg: the
"stop" action from 'service netif restart' will shut down my main WiFi
interface, so wlan0 that exists in the lagg0 will be destroyed and
purged from lagg0; the "start" action will try to re-add both
interfaces, but since Ethernet one is already in lagg0, ifconfig will
refuse to add the wlan0 from WiFi interface.
Since adding the interface to the lagg(4) when it is already here
should be an idempotent action: we're really not changing anything,
so this fix doesn't change the semantics of interface addition.
Approved by: thompsa
Reviewed by: emaste
MFC after: 1 week
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.
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]
This allows a hostap to specify to a set of stations that they
should not transmit for a certain period of time after each
beacon interval has expired. This is used when searching for
radar pulses or general interference.
Submitted by: Himali Patel <himali.patel@sibridgetech.com>
Sponsored by: Sibridge Technologies
on frequency bands with DFS. All Atheros chipsets >= AR9001 support
radar event detection on HT40 extension channels.
This should be a chipset specific item rather than enforced in the
regulatory domain database.
In addition, it's irrelevant for STA mode, as the radar detection is
done by the access point, not the STA.
Approved by: re (kib)
list channel' is run. The following new options are introduced:
* D: channel requires DFS
* R: channel has a radar event
* I: channel has detected inteference
* C: the CAC period has completed on a channel that requires it (ie,
DFS + PASSIVE.)
It's relevant for developing, debugging and using the DFS and
interference options.
Approved by: re (bz)
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
to be assigned to a non-default FIB instance.
You may need to recompile world or ports due to the change of struct ifnet.
Submitted by: cjsp
Submitted by: Alexander V. Chernikov (melifaro ipfw.ru)
(original versions)
Reviewed by: julian
Reviewed by: Alexander V. Chernikov (melifaro ipfw.ru)
MFC after: 2 weeks
X-MFC: use spare in struct ifnet
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).
- A new per-interface knob IFF_ND6_NO_RADR and sysctl IPV6CTL_NO_RADR.
This controls if accepting a route in an RA message as the default route.
The default value for each interface can be set by net.inet6.ip6.no_radr.
The system wide default value is 0.
- A new sysctl: net.inet6.ip6.norbit_raif. This controls if setting R-bit in
NA on RA accepting interfaces. The default is 0 (R-bit is set based on
net.inet6.ip6.forwarding).
Background:
IPv6 host/router model suggests a router sends an RA and a host accepts it for
router discovery. Because of that, KAME implementation does not allow
accepting RAs when net.inet6.ip6.forwarding=1. Accepting RAs on a router can
make the routing table confused since it can change the default router
unintentionally.
However, in practice there are cases where we cannot distinguish a host from
a router clearly. For example, a customer edge router often works as a host
against the ISP, and as a router against the LAN at the same time. Another
example is a complex network configurations like an L2TP tunnel for IPv6
connection to Internet over an Ethernet link with another native IPv6 subnet.
In this case, the physical interface for the native IPv6 subnet works as a
host, and the pseudo-interface for L2TP works as the default IP forwarding
route.
Problem:
Disabling processing RA messages when net.inet6.ip6.forwarding=1 and
accepting them when net.inet6.ip6.forward=0 cause the following practical
issues:
- A router cannot perform SLAAC. It becomes a problem if a box has
multiple interfaces and you want to use SLAAC on some of them, for
example. A customer edge router for IPv6 Internet access service
using an IPv6-over-IPv6 tunnel sometimes needs SLAAC on the
physical interface for administration purpose; updating firmware
and so on (link-local addresses can be used there, but GUAs by
SLAAC are often used for scalability).
- When a host has multiple IPv6 interfaces and it receives multiple RAs on
them, controlling the default route is difficult. Router preferences
defined in RFC 4191 works only when the routers on the links are
under your control.
Details of Implementation Changes:
Router Advertisement messages will be accepted even when
net.inet6.ip6.forwarding=1. More precisely, the conditions are as
follow:
(ACCEPT_RTADV && !NO_RADR && !ip6.forwarding)
=> Normal RA processing on that interface. (as IPv6 host)
(ACCEPT_RTADV && (NO_RADR || ip6.forwarding))
=> Accept RA but add the router to the defroute list with
rtlifetime=0 unconditionally. This effectively prevents
from setting the received router address as the box's
default route.
(!ACCEPT_RTADV)
=> No RA processing on that interface.
ACCEPT_RTADV and NO_RADR are per-interface knob. In short, all interface
are classified as "RA-accepting" or not. An RA-accepting interface always
processes RA messages regardless of ip6.forwarding. The difference caused by
NO_RADR or ip6.forwarding is whether the RA source address is considered as
the default router or not.
R-bit in NA on the RA accepting interfaces is set based on
net.inet6.ip6.forwarding. While RFC 6204 W-1 rule (for CPE case) suggests
a router should disable the R-bit completely even when the box has
net.inet6.ip6.forwarding=1, I believe there is no technical reason with
doing so. This behavior can be set by a new sysctl net.inet6.ip6.norbit_raif
(the default is 0).
Usage:
# ifconfig fxp0 inet6 accept_rtadv
=> accept RA on fxp0
# ifconfig fxp0 inet6 accept_rtadv no_radr
=> accept RA on fxp0 but ignore default route information in it.
# sysctl net.inet6.ip6.norbit_no_radr=1
=> R-bit in NAs on RA accepting interfaces will always be set to 0.
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
clear the options of the current media, i.e. only inherit the instance,
which matches what NetBSD does. Without this it's really non-intuitive
that the following sequence:
ifconfig bge0 media 1000baseT mediaopt full-duplex
ifconfig bge0 media 100baseTX
results in 100baseTX full-duplex to be set or that:
ifconfig bge0 media autoselect mediaopt flowcontrol
ifconfig bge0 media 1000baseT mediaopt full-duplex
tries to set 1000baseT full-duplex with flowcontrol, which isn't suported
und thus fails while the following:
ifconfig re0 media 1000baseT mediaopt flowcontrol,full-duplex
ifconfig re0 media autoselect
just switches to autoselection without flowcontrol.
MFC after: 2 weeks
was incorrect - 'list scan' does not actually do a scan, but instead lists
the results of the background 'scan' cache.
Submitted by: Fabian Keil (freebsd-listen of fabiankeil de) (via email)
Discussed with: bschmidt
MFC after: 3 days
When requesting a scan and one is already in progess, e.g. while in scan
state, we happily wait for a scan done notification. Though, this
notification might never be sent, e.g. if we are trying to find a network
to associate to and there is none. Instead of always waiting for a
notification just do so if a new scan has been started. For both cases the
scan cache is used to report available networks even if the content might
not be fresh.
MFC after: 1 month
