I have noticed that vrf is not working with kernel v4.15.0 but was
working with v4.13.0 when using cxgb4 Chelsio driver (T520-cr)
Setup:
Two metal servers with a T520-cr card each, directly connected without a
switch in between.
SVR1 only ipfwd SVR2 with vrf
.----------------------------. .----------------------------------.
| | | |
| 192.168.8.1 [ ens2f4]--|---------|--[ens1f4] 192.168.8.2 |
| 192.168.9.1 [ens2f4d1]--|---------|--<ens1f4d1> 192.168.9.2 VRF=10 |
`----------------------------' `----------------------------------'
When vrf is not working there are no error messages (dmesg or iproute
commands), tcpdump on the interface (SVR2.ens1f4d1) enslaved in vrf 10
shows packets(arp req/reply) coming in and going out, but outgoing
packets(arp reply) do not reach the other server SVR1.ens2f4d1
Bisect:
Found this commit to be the problem after doing a git bisect between
v4.13..v4.15:
commit ba581f77df23c8ee70b372966e69cf10bc5453d8
Author: Ganesh Goudar <ganes...@chelsio.com>
Date: Sat Sep 23 16:07:28 2017 +0530
cxgb4: do DCB state reset in couple of places
reset the driver's DCB state in couple of places
where it was missing.
A bisect step was considered good when:
- successful ping from SVR1 to SVR2.ens1f4d1 vrf interface
- successful ping from SVR2 global to SVR2 vrf interface trough SVR1(l3
forwarding) (this check was redundant,both tests fail or pass simultaneous)
The problem is still present on recent kernels also, checked v4.16.0 and
v4.17.rc7
Disabling DCB for the card support fixes the problem ( Compiling kernel
with "CONFIG_CHELSIO_T4_DCB=n")
This is my first time reporting a bug to the linux kernel and hope I
have included the right amount of information. Please let me know if I
have missed something.
Thank you,
Zollner Robert
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Logs:
VRF configured using folowing commands:
#!/bin/sh
CHDEV=ens1f4
VRF=vrf-recv
sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_l3mdev_accept=1
sysctl -w net.ipv4.udp_l3mdev_accept=1
sysctl -w net.ipv4.conf.all.accept_local=1
ifconfig ${CHDEV} 192.168.8.2/24
ifconfig ${CHDEV}d1 192.168.9.2/24
ip link add ${VRF} type vrf table 10
ip link set dev ${VRF} up
ip rule add pref 32765 table local
ip rule del pref 0
ip route add table 10 unreachable default metric 4278198272
ip link set dev ${CHDEV}d1 master ${VRF}
ip route add table 10 default via 192.168.9.1
ip route add 192.168.9.0/24 via 192.168.8.1
