On Mon, Oct 07, 2024 at 10:52:19PM +0800, Zhenlei Huang wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Oct 2, 2024, at 3:42 PM, Mark Johnston <ma...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, Oct 01, 2024 at 12:46:07PM +0000, Franco Fichtner wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >>> On 1. Oct 2024, at 02:47, Zhenlei Huang <z...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> The test plan is simple, either of the following should suffice:
> >>> 
> >>> • Do traffic sniffing on axgbe interface. The interface will enter 
> >>> promisc mode and should see packets not for us.
> >> 
> >> I tested this with and without the patch and it's inconclusive:
> >> 
> >> 1. tcpdump sees foreign packets with and without patch
> >> 2. tcpdump -p sees foreign packets with and without patch
> > 
> > That's somewhat surprising.
> 
> Maybe the firmware / hardware happens to been ( wrongly ) set to promisc mode 
> already ?

Maybe, or the driver is missing some initialization step.

> >> This oddly enough matches my expectation that nobody raised issues about
> >> promisc not working so far, but it leaves the question if we are/I am 
> >> testing the
> >> right thing?
> > 
> > I think you are.  BPF uses ifpromisc() to enable promiscuous mode, and
> > tcpdump uses that interface rather than setting IFF_PPROMISC directly,
> > and without the patch I expect that that's a bit broken.
> > 
> > There is perhaps an unrelated driver bug there.  I wonder what flags get
> > printed by ifconfig before and during your experiments.  It'd also be
> > useful to try enabling debug logging (sysctl
> > dev.ax.0.axgbe_debug_level=1, I think) to see if axgbe_if_promisc_set()
> > is getting executed as expected.
> 
> Probably I should firstly check D46794 in. Any idea ?

I have no objection, but it would be good to understand this better.

> >> Cheers,
> >> Franco
> >> 
> >> ax0: <AMD 10 Gigabit Ethernet Driver> mem 
> >> 0x80160000-0x8017ffff,0x80140000-0x8015ffff,0x80188000-0x80189fff at 
> >> device 0.4 on pci6
> >> ax0: Using 512 TX descriptors and 512 RX descriptors
> >> ax0: Using 4 RX queues 4 TX queues
> >> ax0: Using MSI-X interrupts with 8 vectors
> >> ax0: Ethernet address: XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
> >> ax0: xgbe_config_sph_mode: SPH disabled in channel 0
> >> ax0: xgbe_config_sph_mode: SPH disabled in channel 1
> >> ax0: xgbe_config_sph_mode: SPH disabled in channel 2
> >> ax0: xgbe_config_sph_mode: SPH disabled in channel 3
> >> ax0: RSS Enabled
> >> ax0: Receive checksum offload Enabled
> >> ax0: VLAN filtering Enabled
> >> ax0: VLAN Stripping Enabled
> >> ax0: Checking GPIO expander validity
> >> ax0: GPIO configuration valid
> >> ax0: SFP detected:
> >> ax0:   vendor: FS               ax0:   part number:    SFP-10G-T        
> >> ax0:   revision level: A    ax0:   serial number:  XXXXXXXXXXX      ax0: 
> >> netmap queues/slots: TX 4/512, RX 4/512
> >> ax0: Link is UP - 10Gbps/Full - flow control off
> >> ax0: link state changed to UP
> >> ax0: xgbe_config_sph_mode: SPH disabled in channel 0
> >> ax0: xgbe_config_sph_mode: SPH disabled in channel 1
> >> ax0: xgbe_config_sph_mode: SPH disabled in channel 2
> >> ax0: xgbe_config_sph_mode: SPH disabled in channel 3
> >> ax0: RSS Enabled
> >> ax0: Receive checksum offload Disabled
> >> ax0: VLAN filtering Disabled
> >> ax0: VLAN Stripping Disabled
> >> ax0: promiscuous mode enabled
> >> ax0: promiscuous mode disabled
> 
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