Wind River Support Network

Description

We found one more issue for C6610’s counter behavior: with ipIfStatsHCOutRequests counter. In the scenario we send 1400 B long packet and then it is fragmented by C6610 when it is transmitted towards VM_7. In routing scenario (case no 1 in below description) the counter in our opinion should not be incremented for the outgoing interface (as it is for G2/G3) but for Controller 6610/SSC it is incremented. Then in the second scenario (case no2 in below description) we send a packet directly from TN_A interface towards VM_7 and in this case we expect the counter is increased, it works this way both for Controller 6610 and for BB G2/G3 (no fault). Could it be possible to investigate on WR side why this counter is increased for the case no 1?

 

Reproduce environment:
network with 3 VM linuxs is connected as below:
VM1<---->VM2(latest kernel 6.5.0-rc7)<---->VM3
VM1: eth0 ip: 192.168.122.207 MTU 1500
VM2: eth0 ip: 192.168.122.208, eth1 ip: 192.168.123.224 MTU 1500
VM3: eth0 ip: 192.168.123.240 MTU 1500

Reproduce:
VM1 send 1400 bytes UDP data to VM3 using tools scapy with flags=0.
scapy command:
send(IP(dst="192.168.123.240",flags=0)/UDP()/str('0'*1400),count=1,
inter=1.000000)

Result:
Before IP data is sent.
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root@qemux86-64:~# cat /proc/net/snmp
Ip: Forwarding DefaultTTL InReceives InHdrErrors InAddrErrors
  ForwDatagrams InUnknownProtos InDiscards InDelivers OutRequests
  OutDiscards OutNoRoutes ReasmTimeout ReasmReqds ReasmOKs ReasmFails
  FragOKs FragFails FragCreates
Ip: 1 64 11 0 3 4 0 0 4 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
......
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After IP data is sent.
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root@qemux86-64:~# cat /proc/net/snmp
Ip: Forwarding DefaultTTL InReceives InHdrErrors InAddrErrors
  ForwDatagrams InUnknownProtos InDiscards InDelivers OutRequests
  OutDiscards OutNoRoutes ReasmTimeout ReasmReqds ReasmOKs ReasmFails
  FragOKs FragFails FragCreates
Ip: 1 64 12 0 3 5 0 0 4 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
......
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"ForwDatagrams" increase from 4 to 5 and "OutRequests" also increase
from 7 to 8.

Issue description and patch:
IPSTATS_MIB_OUTPKTS("OutRequests") is counted with IPSTATS_MIB_OUTOCTETS
("OutOctets") in ip_finish_output2().
According to RFC 4293, it is "OutOctets" counted with "OutTransmits" but
not "OutRequests". "OutRequests" does not include any datagrams counted
in "ForwDatagrams".
ipSystemStatsOutOctets OBJECT-TYPE
    DESCRIPTION
           "The total number of octets in IP datagrams delivered to the
            lower layers for transmission.  Octets from datagrams
            counted in ipIfStatsOutTransmits MUST be counted here.
ipSystemStatsOutRequests OBJECT-TYPE
    DESCRIPTION
           "The total number of IP datagrams that local IP user-
            protocols (including ICMP) supplied to IP in requests for
            transmission.  Note that this counter does not include any
            datagrams counted in ipSystemStatsOutForwDatagrams.
So do patch to define IPSTATS_MIB_OUTPKTS to "OutTransmits" and add
IPSTATS_MIB_OUTREQUESTS for "OutRequests".
Add IPSTATS_MIB_OUTREQUESTS counter in __ip_local_out() for ipv4 and add
IPSTATS_MIB_OUT counter in ip6_finish_output2() for ipv6.

Test result with patch:
Before IP data is sent.
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root@qemux86-64:~# cat /proc/net/snmp
Ip: Forwarding DefaultTTL InReceives InHdrErrors InAddrErrors
  ForwDatagrams InUnknownProtos InDiscards InDelivers OutRequests
  OutDiscards OutNoRoutes ReasmTimeout ReasmReqds ReasmOKs ReasmFails
  FragOKs FragFails FragCreates OutTransmits
Ip: 1 64 9 0 5 1 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
......
root@qemux86-64:~# cat /proc/net/netstat
......
IpExt: InNoRoutes InTruncatedPkts InMcastPkts OutMcastPkts InBcastPkts
  OutBcastPkts InOctets OutOctets InMcastOctets OutMcastOctets
  InBcastOctets OutBcastOctets InCsumErrors InNoECTPkts InECT1Pkts
  InECT0Pkts InCEPkts ReasmOverlaps
IpExt: 0 0 0 0 0 0 2976 1896 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 0
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After IP data is sent.
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root@qemux86-64:~# cat /proc/net/snmp
Ip: Forwarding DefaultTTL InReceives InHdrErrors InAddrErrors
  ForwDatagrams InUnknownProtos InDiscards InDelivers OutRequests
  OutDiscards OutNoRoutes ReasmTimeout ReasmReqds ReasmOKs ReasmFails
  FragOKs FragFails FragCreates OutTransmits
Ip: 1 64 10 0 5 2 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5
......
root@qemux86-64:~# cat /proc/net/netstat
......
IpExt: InNoRoutes InTruncatedPkts InMcastPkts OutMcastPkts InBcastPkts
  OutBcastPkts InOctets OutOctets InMcastOctets OutMcastOctets
  InBcastOctets OutBcastOctets InCsumErrors InNoECTPkts InECT1Pkts
  InECT0Pkts InCEPkts ReasmOverlaps
IpExt: 0 0 0 0 0 0 4404 3324 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
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"ForwDatagrams" increase from 1 to 2 and "OutRequests" is keeping 3.
"OutTransmits" increase from 4 to 5 and "OutOctets" increase 1428.