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Old 4th April 2017
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Hi,

We hired a dedicated server in a cloud and XenServer 6.5 was installed on it. In it we will create an infrastructure with firewall, active directory etc.
Inside this Xen I installed openbsd, which served as a firewall for the local network. In the firewall there is an interface with public ip, which is the interface of exit, and another with private ip, which will be the gateway of the local network.
The firewall is already working and interconnected with our company via vpn.
The communication between my network in the company and the cloud network via vpn is very slow.
Analyzing, I saw that openbsd is with the network interface as "Ethernet manual" rather than "Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT full-duplex, rxpause, txpause)"
Code:
root@fw~# ifconfig
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 32768
        index 4 priority 0 llprio 3
        groups: lo
        inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
xnf0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        lladdr ce:b9:92:83:93:26
        index 1 priority 0 llprio 3
        groups: egress
        media: Ethernet manual
        status: active
        inet 104.xxx.xx.xxx netmask 0xfffffffc broadcast 104.xxx.xx.xxx
xnf1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        lladdr 3a:19:53:f8:c5:ce
        index 2 priority 0 llprio 3
        media: Ethernet manual
        status: active
        inet 192.168.50.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.50.255

root@fw~# cat /etc/hostname.xnf0
inet 104.xxx.xx.xxx 255.255.255.252

root@fw~# cat /etc/hostname.xnf1
inet 192.168.50.1 255.255.255.0
I'm guessing the problem is in this "Ethernet manual".
From our company, we communicate with two other desktops using the same firewall configuration.
Does anyone know if this interface that XenServer passes to openbsd works correctly?

Last edited by ocicat; 4th April 2017 at 08:47 PM. Reason: Please use [code] & [/code] tags when posting command output.
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The xnf(4) driver is a Xen-specific driver. I do not know if "manual" has any impact, but I do know that OpenBSD 6.0 is using revision 1.22 of the driver, and OpenBSD 6.1, which will be released shortly, will use revision 1.54, so there are 32 patches to the driver between releases.

If you are using OpenBSD 6.0, try a -current snapshot. If this solves the performance problem, then you know the problem will be fixed with OpenBSD 6.1 when it is released.

See the commit log here: http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cv...ev/pv/if_xnf.c

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jggimi,

I tried with the 6.1 snapshot but it did not work. The same slowness remains.
To be sure, I replicated the same configuration to another environment outside the cloud, on an adsl link, and it worked instantly.
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That is helpful news. I recommend reaching out to mikeb@, as he continues to be the lead developer for the driver.

Even though this would be an informal problem report, be sure to include your dmesg(8) and your Xen guest provisioning information.
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Old 7th April 2017
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Problem solved. When this slow problem occurs, you must disable the checksum on the physical and virtual cards and restart the XenServer.
Now everything is very good!!
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