Bridging Packet Loss

From: Tim Wilde (twilde_at_dyndns.org)
Date: 10/24/03

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    Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 15:28:28 -0400 (EDT)
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    I'm experiencing 2-3% packet loss in a bridging configuration on a FreeBSD
    4.8-p13 box, Intel Celeron 700MHz with 256MB RAM, dual fxp NICs (it's a
    Dell Poweredge 350). I'm running ipfw2 rules on the bridge, but have
    ruled them out as the cause of the loss by clearing them out - the loss
    still occurs. We're seeing around 5Mbps of traffic bidirectionally across
    the server. We were running this exact same packet load, with the same
    server and the same firewall rules, as a router, without this loss. The
    packet loss is observed pinging the IP on the firewall from the inside
    network, as well as pinging across the bridge. Output from ifconfig and
    relevant sysctls is below. Anyone have any suggestions as to what might
    be causing this or how we could rectify it? Both ends of both connections
    are locked down to 100Mbps full-duplex (server and switches). Thanks!

    fxp0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
            inet6 fe80::202:b3ff:fe86:8afc%fxp0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
            ether 00:02:b3:86:8a:fc
            media: Ethernet 100baseTX <full-duplex>
            status: active
    fxp1: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
            inet6 fe80::202:b3ff:fe86:8afd%fxp1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
            inet 63.208.196.57 netmask 0xffffff80 broadcast 63.208.196.127
            ether 00:02:b3:86:8a:fd
            media: Ethernet 100baseTX <full-duplex>
            status: active

    net.link.ether.inet.prune_intvl: 300
    net.link.ether.inet.max_age: 1200
    net.link.ether.inet.host_down_time: 20
    net.link.ether.inet.maxtries: 5
    net.link.ether.inet.useloopback: 1
    net.link.ether.inet.proxyall: 0
    net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_wrong_iface: 1
    net.link.ether.bridge_cfg: fxp0,fxp1
    net.link.ether.bridge: 1
    net.link.ether.bridge_ipfw: 1
    net.link.ether.bridge_ipf: 0
    net.link.ether.bridge_ipfw_drop: 0
    net.link.ether.bridge_ipfw_collisions: 0
    net.link.ether.verbose: 0
    net.link.ether.bdg_split_pkts: 0
    net.link.ether.bdg_thru: 352262925
    net.link.ether.bdg_copied: 0
    net.link.ether.bdg_copy: 0
    net.link.ether.bdg_predict: 481965741
    net.link.ether.bdg_fw_avg: 0
    net.link.ether.bdg_fw_ticks: 0
    net.link.ether.bdg_fw_count: 0
    net.link.ether.ipfw: 0

    If anyone needs anything else to diagnose, let me know. Thanks.

    Tim Wilde

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    Dynamic DNS Network Services
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