Re: [pfSense] substantial packet loss on em interfaces (Superserver 5015A-EHF-D525)
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 3:35 AM, Tim Jansen tim...@byte-site.de wrote: some SuperMicro systems (and yours as well) have an IPMI interface running via the 1st onboard NIC, which means IPMI shares the phys. NIC with the typically LAN configuration on OS level while the IPMI interface is configured within the Bios. This has caused issues for me too. If you have the IPMI interface enabled, make sure that the sharing mode for the ethernet port is suitable for your configuration. I personally always put the LAN interface on the shared port as that causes the fewest problems for me. I usually set the interfaces to share mode with the IPMI. ___ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold
Re: [pfSense] substantial packet loss on em interfaces (Superserver 5015A-EHF-D525)
On 15-01-16 07:34 AM, Vick Khera wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 3:35 AM, Tim Jansen tim...@byte-site.de mailto:tim...@byte-site.de wrote: some SuperMicro systems (and yours as well) have an IPMI interface running via the 1st onboard NIC, which means IPMI shares the phys. NIC with the typically LAN configuration on OS level while the IPMI interface is configured within the Bios. This has caused issues for me too. If you have the IPMI interface enabled, make sure that the sharing mode for the ethernet port is suitable for your configuration. I personally always put the LAN interface on the shared port as that causes the fewest problems for me. I usually set the interfaces to share mode with the IPMI. Hi Vick. I think you are on to something there. The part that really confused me is I have two of those servers. One was working OK and the other was failing miserably. It is quite possible the working server had the IPMI interface on the LAN port. The intermittent failure was enough to drive me crazy!! thanks, Geoff ___ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold
Re: [pfSense] substantial packet loss on em interfaces (Superserver 5015A-EHF-D525)
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 6:56 PM, Geoff Nordli geo...@gnaa.net wrote: Hi. We have a Superserver 5015A-EHF-D525 (http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1u/5015/sys-5015a-ehf-d525.cfm) running pfsense 2.1.5-RELEASE (amd64) with 2GB of RAM. Which has this board in it: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPE-HF-D525.cfm In this chassis we also have a 4 port Intel NIC which shows up as igb interfaces. We were experiencing substantial packet loss when using the em interfaces, but since we switched over to the igb interfaces things have been good. I have both Hardware TCP Segmentation Offloading and Hardware Large Receive Offloading disabled. This is not a heavily used firewall. Anyone else experiencing packet loss on the em interfaces. Are there any other settings I should look at? My best guess with those symptoms, if it isn't a hardware problem, is one or more of the affected NICs ending up on the same IRQ as a USB controller or something else that's causing issues. Most of the time that's no big deal, on occasion with certain systems with several NICs it can cause packet loss or performance issues. If that's the case, may find a BIOS update that fixes it, or may be able to muck with BIOS settings to make it go away. It is possible it is a hardware failure, but I want to see what other experience is out there. When looking at the network interface statistics, there are zero errors. thanks, Geoff ___ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold ___ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold
Re: [pfSense] substantial packet loss on em interfaces (Superserver 5015A-EHF-D525)
On 15-01-15 11:13 PM, Chris Buechler wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 6:56 PM, Geoff Nordli geo...@gnaa.net wrote: Hi. We have a Superserver 5015A-EHF-D525 (http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1u/5015/sys-5015a-ehf-d525.cfm) running pfsense 2.1.5-RELEASE (amd64) with 2GB of RAM. Which has this board in it: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPE-HF-D525.cfm In this chassis we also have a 4 port Intel NIC which shows up as igb interfaces. We were experiencing substantial packet loss when using the em interfaces, but since we switched over to the igb interfaces things have been good. I have both Hardware TCP Segmentation Offloading and Hardware Large Receive Offloading disabled. This is not a heavily used firewall. Anyone else experiencing packet loss on the em interfaces. Are there any other settings I should look at? My best guess with those symptoms, if it isn't a hardware problem, is one or more of the affected NICs ending up on the same IRQ as a USB controller or something else that's causing issues. Most of the time that's no big deal, on occasion with certain systems with several NICs it can cause packet loss or performance issues. If that's the case, may find a BIOS update that fixes it, or may be able to muck with BIOS settings to make it go away. thanks Chris. Anything visible I can see on the local machine -- without going to bios. Doing a vmstat -i shows the msi interrupts being used for those controllers. interrupt total rate irq18: ehci0 uhci5 2 0 irq19: uhci2 uhci4+ 2649947 6 cpu0: timer761654301 1992 irq256: igb0:que 0 9765149 25 irq257: igb0:que 1 2747978 7 irq258: igb0:que 2 2562344 6 irq259: igb0:que 3 2387427 6 irq260: igb0:link 2 0 irq261: igb1:que 0 13670253 35 irq262: igb1:que 1 7013567 18 irq263: igb1:que 2 7502120 19 irq264: igb1:que 3 4520889 11 irq265: igb1:link 2 0 irq266: igb2:que 0 17501710 45 irq267: igb2:que 1 8228974 21 irq268: igb2:que 2 6685269 17 irq269: igb2:que 3 5603615 14 irq270: igb2:link 2 0 irq279: em1:rx 0 233940 0 irq280: em1:tx 0 215119 0 irq281: em1:link 15 0 cpu1: timer761634299 1991 cpu2: timer761634319 1991 cpu3: timer761634321 1991 Total 3137845564 8206 I can definitely try a bios update next time I am close to the machine. Geoff ___ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold
