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Message-ID: <20110305185719.GA31410@openwall.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 21:57:19 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: owl-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: vlan support broken?
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 04:39:37PM +0100, Piotr Meyer wrote:
> Uff. I made more tests, then I repeat them and careful wrote results, and
> now I know that:
>
> 1. Default selected eepro100 doesn't support vlans (it's nothing new,
> but should be noticed) - eepro100 should be disabled in favour e100.
Thanks. Yes, we may change the default driver for this NIC type.
> 2. Without Owl patch (taken from public repo) all works fine: transfers
> via tg3 and e100 and _pings_ from machine to remote hosts.
> Tested on 2.6.18 with OpenVZ patches.
>
> 3. After applying Owl patch transfers on tg3 and e100 works as expected,
> but pinging from server to remote hosts works only, when selected
> packetsize (-s) is lesser than 1473 bytes.
That's curious. Yes, I confirm that our non-raw ICMP socket mode of
ping only works when the MTU would not be exceeded. That is, on a clean
install of Owl-current 2011/02/12, ping to external hosts over MTU 1500
Ethernet only works for sizes up to 1472 bytes (which translates to
exactly 1500 bytes with IP and ICMP headers). 1473+ doesn't work
("packet loss"). However, when I do:
sysctl -w net.ipv4.ping_group_range='1 0'
which disables our ICMP sockets, and then run ping as root, larger sizes
work (with IP fragmentation).
Vasiliy - can you please take a look and see if it's an intentional
limitation or if it's something to be fixed in the code? Maybe ask
Pavel on owl-dev.
I did my testing (above) with no VLANs involved on the Owl system.
> In my previous posts I made incorrect assumptions because of use ping
> command for all tests.
Oh, do you normally use ping with large packets? I mean, it definitely
makes sense to test large packet pings in some cases, and you've even
identified a shortcoming that we might want to fix, but "by default"
most people run ping without raising its packet size. So I am a bit
surprised that this managed to lead you to the wrong conclusions.
Thanks again,
Alexander
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