Do a little mbuf rework while here. Change all uses of MGET*(*, M_WAIT, *)
to m_get*(M_WAIT, *). These are not performance critical and making them
call m_get saves considerable space. Add m_clget analogue of MCLGET and
make corresponding change for M_WAIT uses.
Modify netinet, gem, fxp, tulip, nfs to support MBUFTRACE.
Begin to change netstat to use sysctl.
we can always keep 2 packets on the wire, no matter what SO_SNDBUF is,
and therefore ACKs will never be delayed unless we run out of data to
transmit. The problem is quite easy to tickle when the MTU of the
outgoing interface is larger than the socket buffer size (e.g. loopback).
Fix from Charles Hannum.
optimization made last year. should solve PR 17867 and 10195.
IP_HDRINCL behavior of raw ip socket is kept unchanged. we may want to
provide IP_HDRINCL variant that does not swap endian.
* Remove the code that allocates a cluster if the packet would
fit in one; it totally defeats doing references to M_EXT mbufs
in the socket buffer. This drastically reduces the number of
data copies in the tcp_output() path for applications which use
large writes. Kudos to Matt Thomas for pointing me in the right
direction.
all open TCP connections in tcp_slowtimo() (which is called 2x
per second). It's fairly rare for TCP timers to actually fire,
so saving this list traversal is good, especially if you want
to scale to thousands of open connections.
Instead of incrementing t_idle and t_rtt in tcp_slowtimo(), we now
take a timstamp (via tcp_now) and use subtraction to compute the
delta when we actually need it (using unsigned arithmetic so that
tcp_now wrapping is handled correctly).
Based on similar changes in FreeBSD.
network interfaces. This works by pre-computing the pseudo-header
checksum and caching it, delaying the actual checksum to ip_output()
if the hardware cannot perform the sum for us. In-bound checksums
can either be fully-checked by hardware, or summed up for final
verification by software. This method was modeled after how this
is done in FreeBSD, although the code is significantly different in
most places.
We don't delay checksums for IPv6/TCP, but we do take advantage of the
cached pseudo-header checksum.
Note: hardware-assisted checksumming defaults to "off". It is
enabled with ifconfig(8). See the manual page for details.
Implement hardware-assisted checksumming on the DP83820 Gigabit Ethernet,
3c90xB/3c90xC 10/100 Ethernet, and Alteon Tigon/Tigon2 Gigabit Ethernet.
ISS attacks (which we already fend off quite well).
1. First-cut implementation of RFC1948, Steve Bellovin's cryptographic
hash method of generating TCP ISS values. Note, this code is experimental
and disabled by default (experimental enough that I don't export the
variable via sysctl yet, either). There are a couple of issues I'd
like to discuss with Steve, so this code should only be used by people
who really know what they're doing.
2. Per a recent thread on Bugtraq, it's possible to determine a system's
uptime by snooping the RFC1323 TCP timestamp options sent by a host; in
4.4BSD, timestamps are created by incrementing the tcp_now variable
at 2 Hz; there's even a company out there that uses this to determine
web server uptime. According to Newsham's paper "The Problem With
Random Increments", while NetBSD's TCP ISS generation method is much
better than the "random increment" method used by FreeBSD and OpenBSD,
it is still theoretically possible to mount an attack against NetBSD's
method if the attacker knows how many times the tcp_iss_seq variable
has been incremented. By not leaking uptime information, we can make
that much harder to determine. So, we avoid the leak by giving each
TCP connection a timebase of 0.
- let ipfilter look at wire-format packet only (not the decapsulated ones),
so that VPN setting can work with NAT/ipfilter settings.
sync with kame.
TODO: use header history for stricter inbound validation
ip_output(). This flag, if set, causes ip_output() to set
DF in the IP header if the MTU in the route is not locked.
This allows a bunch of redundant code, which I was never
really all that happy about adding in the first place, to
be eliminated.
Inspired by a similar change made by provos@openbsd.org when
he integrated NetBSD's Path MTU Discovery code into OpenBSD.
between protocol handlers.
ipsec socket pointers, ipsec decryption/auth information, tunnel
decapsulation information are in my mind - there can be several other usage.
at this moment, we use this for ipsec socket pointer passing. this will
avoid reuse of m->m_pkthdr.rcvif in ipsec code.
due to the change, MHLEN will be decreased by sizeof(void *) - for example,
for i386, MHLEN was 100 bytes, but is now 96 bytes.
we may want to increase MSIZE from 128 to 256 for some of our architectures.
take caution if you use it for keeping some data item for long period
of time - use extra caution on M_PREPEND() or m_adj(), as they may result
in loss of m->m_pkthdr.aux pointer (and mbuf leak).
this will bump kernel version.
(as discussed in tech-net, tested in kame tree)
due to massive changes in KAME side.
- IPv6 output goes through nd6_output
- faith can capture IPv4 packets as well - you can run IPv4-to-IPv6 translator
using heavily modified DNS servers
- per-interface statistics (required for IPv6 MIB)
- interface autoconfig is revisited
- udp input handling has a big change for mapped address support.
- introduce in4_cksum() for non-overwriting checksumming
- introduce m_pulldown()
- neighbor discovery cleanups/improvements
- netinet/in.h strictly conforms to RFC2553 (no extra defs visible to userland)
- IFA_STATS is fixed a bit (not tested)
- and more more more.
TODO:
- cleanup os-independency #ifdef
- avoid rcvif dual use (for IPsec) to help ifdetach
(sorry for jumbo commit, I can't separate this any more...)
MSS advertisement must always be:
max(if mtu) - ip hdr siz - tcp hdr siz
We violated this in the previous code so it was fixed.
tcp_mss_to_advertise() now takes af (af on wire) as its argument,
to compute right ip hdr siz.
tcp_segsize() will take care of IPsec header size.
One thing I'm not really sure is how to handle IPsec header size in
*rxsegsizep (inbound segment size estimation).
The current code subtracts possible *outbound* IPsec size from *rxsegsizep,
hoping that the peer is using the same IPsec policy as me.
It may not be applicable, could TCP gulu please comment...
(Sorry for a big commit, I can't separate this into several pieces...)
Pls check sys/netinet6/TODO and sys/netinet6/IMPLEMENTATION for details.
- sys/kern: do not assume single mbuf, accept chained mbuf on passing
data from userland to kernel (or other way round).
- "midway" ATM card: ATM PVC pseudo device support, like those done in ALTQ
package (ftp://ftp.csl.sony.co.jp/pub/kjc/).
- sys/netinet/tcp*: IPv4/v6 dual stack tcp support.
- sys/netinet/{ip6,icmp6}.h, sys/net/pfkeyv2.h: IETF document assumes those
file to be there so we patch it up.
- sys/netinet: IPsec additions are here and there.
- sys/netinet6/*: most of IPv6 code sits here.
- sys/netkey: IPsec key management code
- dev/pci/pcidevs: regen
In my understanding no code here is subject to export control so it
should be safe.
SYN,ACK packets during Path MTU Discovery. Fix tcp_respond() to do the
appropriate route lookup and set DF as appropriate.
Also, fixup similar code in tcp_output() to relookup the route if it
is down.
where the user issued a write with a length greater than MLEN but less
than MINCLSIZE, thus causing two mbufs to be used. The loop in sosend()
would then call PRU_SEND twice, causing TCP to transmit 2 packets when
it could have transmitted one.
Suggested by Justin Walker <justin@apple.com> on the freebsd-net
mailing list.
