On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 01:57:38PM -0800, Doug Hardie wrote:
> 
> On 13 February 2013, at 02:29, Eugene Grosbein <egrosb...@rdtc.ru> wrote:
> 
> > 13.02.2013 17:25, Doug Hardie ??????????:
> >> Monitoring a tcpdump between two systems, a FreeBSD 9.1 system has the 
> >> following interface:
> >> 
> >> msk0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
> >>    
> >> options=c011b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,TSO4,VLAN_HWTSO,LINKSTATE>
> >>    ether 00:11:2f:2a:c7:03
> >>    inet 10.0.1.199 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.1.255
> >>    inet6 fe80::211:2fff:fe2a:c703%msk0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 
> >>    nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
> >>    media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX 
> >> <full-duplex,flowcontrol,rxpause,txpause>)
> >>    status: active
> >> 
> >> 
> >> It sent the following packet:  (data content abbreviated)
> >> 
> >> 02:14:42.081617 IP 10.0.1.199.443 > 10.0.1.2.61258: Flags [P.], seq 
> >> 930:4876, ack 846, win 1040, options [nop,nop,TS val 401838072 ecr 
> >> 920110183], length 3946
> >>    0x0000:  4500 0f9e ea89 4000 4006 2a08 0a00 01c7  E.....@.@.*.....
> >>    0x0010:  0a00 0102 01bb ef4a ece1 680b ae37 1bbc  .......J..h..7..
> >>    0x0020:  8018 0410 3407 0000 0101 080a 17f3 8ff8  ....4...??????.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> The indicated packet length is 3946 and the load of data shown is that 
> >> size.  The MTU on both interfaces is 1500.  The receiving system received 
> >> 3 packets.  There is a router and switch between them.  One of them 
> >> fragmented that packet. This is part of a SSL/TLS exchange and one side or 
> >> the other is hanging on this and just dropping the connection.  I suspect 
> >> the packet size is the issue. ssldump complains about the packet too and 
> >> stops monitoring.  Could this possibly be related to the hardware 
> >> checksums?
> > 
> > You have TSO enabled on the interface, so large outgoing TCP packet is 
> > pretty normal.
> > It will be split by the NIC. Disable TSO with ifconfig if it interferes 
> > with your ssldump.
> 
> Thanks.  Now all the packets are 1500 or under.  They all are received with a 
> SSL header.

If disabling TSO on msk(4) fixed the issue of the remote end
dropping/ignoring the packet, that sounds like a bug in msk(4).

Yong-Hyeon, do you have any recent msk(4) patches relating to TSO?

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