9.3 RELEASE not forwarding pkt-gen (netmap) packets over XenServer

[Raimundo Santos]

On 26 August 2014 20:16, Olivier Cochard-Labbé <olivier at cochard.me> wrote:
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> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Raimundo Santos <raitech at gmail.com>
wrote:
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>> 15:38:13.286119 00:1b:21:53:51:3d > 00:1b:21:53:51:39, ethertype IPv4
>> (0x0800), length 60: (tos 0x10, ttl 64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto
>> UDP (17), length 46, bad cksum 6605 (->6604)!)
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>>     10.0.0.1.0 > 192.168.10.2.0: [bad udp cksum 0x5e7c -> 0x5e7b!] UDP,
>> length 18
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> Hi,
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> the bad UDP checksum seems related to this pkt-gen bug:
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=187149


Hello Olivier,

thank you for pointing it out. That patch help me to achieve my needs.
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> pkt-gen one checksum for all the paquets it generate (then once it update
the IP or port, the checksum didn't match).
> Applying the patch correctly update the checksum for all paquets (but it
have a performance impact).


As my needs are somehow low, I can not notice any performance penalty.

Cheers,
Raimundo Santos