Everyone,

The issue turned out to be related to my ISP.

Thanks for all the help and support.

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Evan Rowley <[email protected]> wrote:
> Robert,
> Thanks for all of your insight. I appreciate the comments about how
> vnics are handled. Also it's great to know that I354 is supported now.
> I have some of the basic information you asked for at the end of this
> message.
>
> The next question I have for the SmartOS community is, can someone
> please QA my snoop command? I'm not an experienced snoop user, but I
> think the following commands will provide the relevant information:
>
> snoop -o /opt/snoops/capture1 # Let this run while I ping 8.8.8.8 and
> the GZ IP from the KVM guest, then ^C to stop
> snoop -i /opt/snoops/capture2 -o /opt/snoops/capture3 '!(port 22)' #
> Don't inlcude SSH traffic to SmartOS GZ
> snoop -i /opt/snoops/capture3 -o /opt/snoops/capture4 '!(port XXXXX)'
> # Don't include VNC traffic on port XXXXX
> snoop -i /opt/snoops/capture4 -o /opt/snoops/capture5
> 'XXX.XXX.137.205'  # Get traffic to and from KVM Guest's IP
> (XXX.XXX.137.205)
> snoop -v -i /opt/snoops/capture5 | less
>
> If that is the correct set of commands, then the output I saw in less
> showed ping traffic travelling back and forth between the
> XXX.XXX.137.205 KVM Guest and the SmartOS GZ XXX.XXX.136.64. The
> output also showed ping traffic travelling from KVM Guest
> XXX.XXX.137.205 to Google's 8.8.8.8 and even what looked like DNS
> resolution traffic going to both 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 per the vmadm
> JSON settings.
>
> My guess here is that either SmartOS is dropping packets returning to
> XXX.XXX.137.205, or my ISP is behaving unexpectedly. Is there a way to
> reveal dropped packets on SmartOS? On FreeBSD and OpenBSD, 'tcpdump
> pflog0' can do this.
>
> Here is the basic info on my SmartOS installation:
>
> [root@00-1f-29-61-59-34 ~]# uname -a
> SmartOS version is: SunOS 00-1f-29-61-59-34 5.11
> joyent_20140307T223339Z i86pc i386 i86pc
>
> [root@00-1f-29-61-59-34 ~]# prtconf -d
> System Configuration:  Joyent  i86pc
> Memory size: 16374 Megabytes
> System Peripherals (Software Nodes):
> i86pc
>  ...
>     pci, instance #0
>  ...
>         pci8086,1f12 (pciex8086,1f12) [Intel Corporation Atom
> processor C2000 PCIe Root Port 3], instance #2
>             pci103c,7044 (pciex8086,105e) [Intel Corporation 82571EB
> Gigabit Ethernet Controller], instance #0
>             pci103c,7044 (pciex8086,105e) [Intel Corporation 82571EB
> Gigabit Ethernet Controller], instance #1
>    ....
>
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Robert Mustacchi <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Evan,
>>
>> I have some responses inline for this and also some comments based on
>> your most previous e-mail.
>>
>> First can you please confirm what release you're running?
>>
>> We should have support for the Intel I354, though it will require a more
>> recent platform. Support wasn't added into illumos until the beginning
>> of this month. Next, can you also please confirm what the PCI ID of your
>> HP NC360T is? You should be able to get that from prtconf -d.
>>
>> On 3/24/14 15:22 , Evan Rowley wrote:
>>> The last email I sent was somewhat auto-corrected by my Android phone.
>>> I apologize to anyone who was confused by the minor typos.
>>>
>>> [root@00-1f-29-61-59-34 ~]# nictagadm list
>>> NAME           MACADDRESS         LINK
>>> admin          00:1f:29:61:59:34  e1000g0
>>>
>>>
>>> ^ This looks normal.
>>
>> Yes, there's nothing wrong with that.
>>
>>> The single KVM guest I am running now is paired (somehow? I don't know
>>> the exact mechanics yet) to the net0 link.
>>
>> Every entry in the nics array causes the creation of a virtual nic in
>> the host. The first one for a given zone is called net0, the second
>> net1, etc. A vnic is created over a physical nic. The physical nic is
>> then programmed to receive on that mac address. If we've exceeded the
>> number of mac addresses that the device supports, then it is
>> transparently put into promiscuous mode.
>>
>>> A couple interesting things in the output for net0:
>>>
>>> LINK PROPERTY PERM VALUE DEFAULT POSSIBLE
>>> net0 state r- unknown up up,down
>>>
>>> ^ The state is currently "unknown" which the rest of the links have
>>> "up". I'm not sure why that is. Is it out of the ordinary?
>>
>> I'll have to dig into how that's generated, but I see the same state on
>> our KVM instances.
>>
>> In general, what I'd ask is that if you snoop packets in the global
>> zone, eg. run snoop -d e1000g0, do you see traffic coming from the
>> guest? Keep in mind that depending on the problems that you're seeing,
>> you may need to pay attention to ARP messages. What we'd like to
>> ascertain is are we seeing traffic go out over the wire and if so, are
>> we seeing responses come back to it and appear in the packet capture?
>>
>> I hope this helps point you in the right direction, let me know if
>> there's something else I can clarify or suggest with respect to debugging.
>>
>> Robert
>>
>>
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