workaround for VMware WS NAT bug triggered by OpenSSH 7.8p1 changes

[Cy Schubert]

In message <913730b6-c6f0-60b8-a589-e89e872b7f42 at yuripv.net>, Yuri 
Pankov write
s:
> Yuri Pankov <yuripv at yuripv.net> wrote:
>> In-Reply-To: <CAGGgMJf45vkNY6o6-in+kiAFHxsFZpKBc4Oa6qiCFnzKnRjk1g at mai
l.gmail.
>> com>
>> Mark Peek wrote:
>> > On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 9:30 PM Enji Cooper <yaneurabeya at gmail.com>
 wro=
>> te:
>> >=20
>> >>
>> >>> On Dec 21, 2018, at 17:48, Yuri Pankov <yuripv at yuripv.net> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Mark Peek wrote:
>> >>>> Thanks for the cc:. I forwarded the original report on to an 
interna=
>> l
>> >>>> VMware desktop product contact.
>> >>>
>> >>> Thank you.
>> >>>
>> >>>> What version of Workstation or Fusion is this occurring on? I 
saw
>> >>>> Workstation 14 mentioned but curious if it occurs on 
Workstation 15
>> >>>> (latest).
>> >>>
>> >>> Running the latest available for download: 15.0.2 build-10952284.
>> >>
>> >> This is affecting me on VMware Fusion 11.0.1-11.0.2. I know it 
wasn=E2=
>> =80=99t
>> >> affecting me on 10.x. I didn=E2=80=99t install 11.0.0, so I 
don=E2=80=99=
>> t know if it
>> >> affects that version...
>> >>
>> >> Thanks so much!
>> >>
>> >> -Enji
>> >=20
>> >=20
>> > BTW, there appears to be a workaround here using -o 
'IPQoS=3Dthroughput=
>> '
>> > (untested by me). I've seen the issue forwarded internally but no 
furth=
>> er
>> > discussions yet.
>> >=20
>> > https://communities.vmware.com/thread/590825
>
> Yes, that's exactly what the patch attached to original message does if
> we are running as a VMware guest.  The workaround is known and it works,
> but it's not immediately clear and I just wanted it to be the default
> for the time being.

The patch assumes VMWARE_GUEST_WORKAROUND unconditionally. Is this 
intended?

Juxtaposed to this, at $JOB where our VMware guests (mostly Linux and 
Windows) running on VMware clusters with NSX network (with plans to 
totally virtualize the network), we've noticed other network 
quirkiness, most notably with NFS between unlike O/S's, i.e. Solaris 
<--> Linux. I'm not surprised that this regression also exists.


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