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Re: [Xen-devel] ARP problems with xen 4.0 with pvops kernel

from [Luís Silva] [Permanent Link][Original]
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] ARP problems with xen 4.0 with pvops kernel
From: Luís Silva <luis.silva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:53:40 +0100
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Hello,

On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 09:06 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: 
On 06/02/2010 01:47 AM, Luís Silva wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using the latest stable-2.6.32.x. I already tried "ethtool -K
> <bridge> tx off", but that didn't make any difference. Also, this only
> happen with pv, in hvm mode all works ok and the domU sees the arp
> messages...

Yes, ARP is a new twist on network problems.  I'm guessing you're using
hvm without stubdoms, which means that its networking originates from
qemu within dom0, whereas PV and HVM+stubdom comes via netback.
Yes, when I mentioned hvm I was talking about hvm without stubdoms. I haven't tried those yet. 
But aside from that, I'm stumped.  Are you running any firewalls on
either side?   Can you try disabling all the offloads (tx, rx, gso, tso)
on all the relevent interfaces (bridge, netback, within the guest) and
see if that changes anything?

    J

Ok, this is the bridge interface:

brctl show
bridge name	bridge id		STP enabled	interfaces
virbr0		8000.feffffffffff	no		vif1.0

ifconfig virbr0
virbr0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr c2:ef:67:2b:a4:23  
          inet addr:192.168.120.254  Bcast:192.168.120.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::c0ef:67ff:fe2b:a423/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:25 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:4662 (4.6 KB)

I'm not using firewall other than the rules defined by libvirt. DomU has no firewall and the rules in dom0 are only these (virbr0 is natted to the outside, virbr1 is routed. The result is the same in either one of them): 
sudo iptables -L -n -v
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 241K packets, 53M bytes)
 pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination         
    0     0 ACCEPT     udp  --  virbr1 *       0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           udp dpt:53 
    0     0 ACCEPT     tcp  --  virbr1 *       0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           tcp dpt:53 
    0     0 ACCEPT     udp  --  virbr1 *       0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           udp dpt:67 
    0     0 ACCEPT     tcp  --  virbr1 *       0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           tcp dpt:67 
    8   515 ACCEPT     udp  --  virbr0 *       0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           udp dpt:53 
    0     0 ACCEPT     tcp  --  virbr0 *       0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           tcp dpt:53 
    0     0 ACCEPT     udp  --  virbr0 *       0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           udp dpt:67 
    0     0 ACCEPT     tcp  --  virbr0 *       0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           tcp dpt:67 

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes)
 pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination         
    0     0 ACCEPT     all  --  *      virbr1  0.0.0.0/0            192.168.121.0/24    
    0     0 ACCEPT     all  --  virbr1 *       192.168.121.0/24     0.0.0.0/0           
    0     0 ACCEPT     all  --  virbr1 virbr1  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           
    0     0 REJECT     all  --  *      virbr1  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           reject-with icmp-port-unreachable 
    0     0 REJECT     all  --  virbr1 *       0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           reject-with icmp-port-unreachable 
   13  3448 ACCEPT     all  --  *      virbr0  0.0.0.0/0            192.168.120.0/24    state RELATED,ESTABLISHED 
   16  1374 ACCEPT     all  --  virbr0 *       192.168.120.0/24     0.0.0.0/0           
    0     0 ACCEPT     all  --  virbr0 virbr0  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           
    0     0 REJECT     all  --  *      virbr0  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           reject-with icmp-port-unreachable 
    0     0 REJECT     all  --  virbr0 *       0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           reject-with icmp-port-unreachable 

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 233K packets, 27M bytes)
 pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination


And these are the various offload parameters as set at boot:

Offload parameters for virbr0:
rx-checksumming: on
tx-checksumming: on
scatter-gather: on
tcp-segmentation-offload: on
udp-fragmentation-offload: on
generic-segmentation-offload: on
generic-receive-offload: off
large-receive-offload: off

Offload parameters for vif1.0:
rx-checksumming: on
tx-checksumming: on
scatter-gather: on
tcp-segmentation-offload: on
udp-fragmentation-offload: off
generic-segmentation-offload: on
generic-receive-offload: off
large-receive-offload: off

Offload parameters for eth0:
rx-checksumming: on
tx-checksumming: on
scatter-gather: on
tcp-segmentation-offload: on
udp-fragmentation-offload: off
generic-segmentation-offload: off
generic-receive-offload: off
large-receive-offload: off

To disable all checksuming I run the following commands:
dom0: 
sudo ethtool -K virbr0 tx off sg off tso off gso off gro off
sudo ethtool -K vif1.0 tx off sg off tso off gso off gro off
domU 
sudo ethtool -K eth0 tx off sg off tso off gso off gro off

This managed to get all parameter to off in the mentioned interfaces, but unfortunately the result is the same. The arp requests get to vif1.0, but not to eth0 on the domU.

sudo tcpdump -i vif1.0 -n -vv arp
tcpdump: WARNING: vif1.0: no IPv4 address assigned
tcpdump: listening on vif1.0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes
19:43:51.233378 ARP, Ethernet (len 6), IPv4 (len 4), Request who-has 192.168.120.1 tell 192.168.120.254, length 28
19:43:52.233164 ARP, Ethernet (len 6), IPv4 (len 4), Request who-has 192.168.120.1 tell 192.168.120.254, length 28
19:43:53.233166 ARP, Ethernet (len 6), IPv4 (len 4), Request who-has 192.168.120.1 tell 192.168.120.254, length 28
19:43:54.684214 ARP, Ethernet (len 6), IPv4 (len 4), Request who-has 192.168.120.1 tell 192.168.120.254, length 28
19:43:55.684218 ARP, Ethernet (len 6), IPv4 (len 4), Request who-has 192.168.120.1 tell 192.168.120.254, length 28
19:43:56.684232 ARP, Ethernet (len 6), IPv4 (len 4), Request who-has 192.168.120.1 tell 192.168.120.254, length 28

I hope this information is enough. If I can provide anything else to help debug or test, please just ask! ;)

Thanks in advance,
Luís

>
> Thanks,
> Luís
>
> On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 18:20 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>> On 06/01/2010 05:38 PM, Luís Silva wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > Finally I managed to get a xen 4.0 working on ubuntu 10.04 with pvops
>> > kernel and libvirt. However I am having some problems with
>> > networking... after initial installation with netinstall image in hvm
>> > mode, when I transform the vm in xen pv (via pygrub with the current
>> > ubuntu kernel), networking startEd to act weird...
>> >
>> > Basically I'm not using a network script from xen. I define a bridge
>> > (manually or via libvirt, the result is the same) and I use vif-bridge
>> > to connect the vif to it. But now the weird part comes: I can
>> > communicate from domU to dom0, but not the other way around, unless I
>> > keep a ping running from domU to dom0... That's right, weird... while
>> > trying the ping from dom0 to domU, I used tcpdump both on the bridge,
>> > on the vif and on the eth0 in the domU. The arp packets never get to
>> > domU, but they appear both in the bridge and the vif sniff's...
>>
>> What version of kernel are you using in dom0 and domU?  There was a
>> netback bug which caused problems with dom0<->domU communication, but it
>> has been fixed for a while in 2.6.32 (but only recently in .31).  The
>> workaround is to disable tx checksum offload on your bridge (ethtool -K
>> <bridge> tx off).
>>
>>     J
>>
>> >
>> > Here is the bridge:
>> > ifconfig virbr0
>> > virbr0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr fe:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff  
>> >           inet addr:192.168.120.254  Bcast:192.168.120.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>> >           inet6 addr: fe80::7cee:4bff:fe82:e63f/64 Scope:Link
>> >           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>> >           RX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>> >           TX packets:226 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>> >           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
>> >           RX bytes:952 (952.0 B)  TX bytes:13953 (13.9 KB)
>> >
>> >
>> > brctl show
>> > bridge name	bridge id		STP enabled	interfaces
>> > virbr0		8000.feffffffffff	no		vif5.0
>> >
>> >
>> > tcpdump -i virbr0 -vv -n
>> > tcpdump: listening on virbr0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes
>> > 01:31:25.945151 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto ICMP (1), length 84)
>> >     192.168.120.254 > 192.168.120.1: ICMP echo request, id 10317, seq 1, length 64
>> > 01:31:26.945361 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto ICMP (1), length 84)
>> >     192.168.120.254 > 192.168.120.1: ICMP echo request, id 10317, seq 2, length 64
>> > 01:31:27.945420 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto ICMP (1), length 84)
>> >     192.168.120.254 > 192.168.120.1: ICMP echo request, id 10317, seq 3, length 64
>> > 01:31:28.945362 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto ICMP (1), length 84)
>> >     192.168.120.254 > 192.168.120.1: ICMP echo request, id 10317, seq 4, length 64
>> > 01:31:29.945364 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto ICMP (1), length 84)
>> >     192.168.120.254 > 192.168.120.1: ICMP echo request, id 10317, seq 5, length 64
>> > 01:31:30.944300 ARP, Ethernet (len 6), IPv4 (len 4), Request who-has 192.168.120.1 tell 192.168.120.254, length 28
>> > 01:31:30.945359 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto ICMP (1), length 84)
>> >     192.168.120.254 > 192.168.120.1: ICMP echo request, id 10317, seq 6, length 64
>> > 01:31:31.944297 ARP, Ethernet (len 6), IPv4 (len 4), Request who-has 192.168.120.1 tell 192.168.120.254, length 28
>> > 01:31:31.945444 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto ICMP (1), length 84)
>> >     192.168.120.254 > 192.168.120.1: ICMP echo request, id 10317, seq 7, length 64
>> > 01:31:32.944294 ARP, Ethernet (len 6), IPv4 (len 4), Request who-has 192.168.120.1 tell 192.168.120.254, length 28
>> > 01:31:32.945401 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto ICMP (1), length 84)
>> >     192.168.120.254 > 192.168.120.1: ICMP echo request, id 10317, seq 8, length 64
>> > 01:31:33.947293 ARP, Ethernet (len 6), IPv4 (len 4), Request who-has 192.168.120.1 tell 192.168.120.254, length 28
>> > 01:31:34.947373 ARP, Ethernet (len 6), IPv4 (len 4), Request who-has 192.168.120.1 tell 192.168.120.254, length 28
>> > 01:31:35.947353 ARP, Ethernet (len 6), IPv4 (len 4), Request who-has 192.168.120.1 tell 192.168.120.254, length 28
>> > 01:31:37.948352 ARP, Ethernet (len 6), IPv4 (len 4), Request who-has 192.168.120.1 tell 192.168.120.254, length 28
>> > 01:31:38.948399 ARP, Ethernet (len 6), IPv4 (len 4), Request who-has 192.168.120.1 tell 192.168.120.254, length 28
>> > 01:31:39.948376 ARP, Ethernet (len 6), IPv4 (len 4), Request who-has 192.168.120.1 tell 192.168.120.254, length 28
>> > 01:31:40.949356 ARP, Ethernet (len 6), IPv4 (len 4), Request who-has 192.168.120.1 tell 192.168.120.254, length 28
>> >
>> >
>> > tcpdump -i vif5.0 -vv -n
>> > tcpdump: WARNING: vif5.0: no IPv4 address assigned
>> > tcpdump: listening on vif5.0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes
>> > 01:32:19.956358 ARP, Ethernet (len 6), IPv4 (len 4), Request who-has 192.168.120.1 tell 192.168.120.254, length 28
>> > 01:32:20.956358 ARP, Ethernet (len 6), IPv4 (len 4), Request who-has 192.168.120.1 tell 192.168.120.254, length 28
>> > 01:32:21.956359 ARP, Ethernet (len 6), IPv4 (len 4), Request who-has 192.168.120.1 tell 192.168.120.254, length 28
>> > 01:32:23.957311 ARP, Ethernet (len 6), IPv4 (len 4), Request who-has 192.168.120.1 tell 192.168.120.254, length 28
>> > 01:32:24.957312 ARP, Ethernet (len 6), IPv4 (len 4), Request who-has 192.168.120.1 tell 192.168.120.254, length 28
>> > 01:32:25.957359 ARP, Ethernet (len 6), IPv4 (len 4), Request who-has 192.168.120.1 tell 192.168.120.254, length 28
>> > 01:32:27.958360 ARP, Ethernet (len 6), IPv4 (len 4), Request who-has 192.168.120.1 tell 192.168.120.254, length 28
>> > 01:32:28.958310 ARP, Ethernet (len 6), IPv4 (len 4), Request who-has 192.168.120.1 tell 192.168.120.254, length 28
>> > 01:32:29.958362 ARP, Ethernet (len 6), IPv4 (len 4), Request who-has 192.168.120.1 tell 192.168.120.254, length 28
>> >   
>> >
>> >
>> > Forwarding and iptables don't seem to be the problem, because if I
>> > initiate a ping from domU (at the same time as the failing one from
>> > dom0), the ping in dom0 starts to work. As soon as I stop the ping in
>> > domU, the one in dom0 starts failing again...
>> >
>> > Is anyone having the same problem? Is this a bug in the kernel? In
>> > dom0 or domU?
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance,
>> > Luís
>> >
>> >
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