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Does VirtualBox's vboxnetflt(4) work on stable/11 | 11.2?

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Harry Schmalzbauer

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Jun 16, 2018, 3:46:08 PM6/16/18
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Hello,

I'm observing some kind of congestion with virtualbox-ose-kmod-5.2.12 on
-current.

Frames from the guest make it through ng_ether(4), but frames coming
from ng_ether(4) seem to choke this direction.
Initially, the guest successfully can get a DHCP lease (both, v4 and v6)
and all DNS traffic is passed successfully, but as soon as the first TCP
transmission with some payload happens (jumbo frames, but quick test
showed that also 1514-frames choke the LAN->guest direction), not even
ARP replys reach the guest anymore. At least they are traversing
ng_ether(4).  So there's either a general netgraph(4) problem or
vboxnetflt(4) problem on -current.

To rule out a known vboxnetflt(4) limitation/failure, I'd like to know
if somebody successfully uses vboxnetflt(4) from
virtualbox-ose-kmod-5.2.12 on stable/11|11.2.

Thanks,

-harry

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Harry Schmalzbauer

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Jun 19, 2018, 2:34:59 PM6/19/18
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Am 16.06.2018 um 21:42 schrieb Harry Schmalzbauer:
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> To rule out a known vboxnetflt(4) limitation/failure, I'd like to know
> if somebody successfully uses vboxnetflt(4) from
> virtualbox-ose-kmod-5.2.12 on stable/11|11.2.

Really nobody out there who has VirtualBox sucessfully running under
stable/11 or 11.x with bridged network?

Anyone who tried, but also observed similar problems like I have on
-current?

Kevin Oberman

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Jun 19, 2018, 6:23:27 PM6/19/18
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On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 11:30 AM, Harry Schmalzbauer <fre...@omnilan.de>
wrote:

> Am 16.06.2018 um 21:42 schrieb Harry Schmalzbauer:
> …
>
>> To rule out a known vboxnetflt(4) limitation/failure, I'd like to know if
>> somebody successfully uses vboxnetflt(4) from virtualbox-ose-kmod-5.2.12 on
>> stable/11|11.2.
>>
>
> Really nobody out there who has VirtualBox sucessfully running under
> stable/11 or 11.x with bridged network?
>
> Anyone who tried, but also observed similar problems like I have on
> -current?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -harry
>

I suspect you would have gotten better response if you had asked for
someone using a bridged network (as opposed to NATed) on VirtualBox 5.2.12
ib FreeBSD-11. I had to check on just what vboxnetflt was to realize that,
yes, I use it and it works fine on my 11-STABLE system system. Worked on 11
from the time 5.12 was placed in ports ubtil now on several different
revisions of STABLE.
--
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Graham Menhennitt

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Jun 20, 2018, 5:13:55 AM6/20/18
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I'm on 11-Stable as of about a month ago. Works or me (although I don't
stress it very much).

Graham

On 20/06/2018 04:30, Harry Schmalzbauer wrote:
> Am 16.06.2018 um 21:42 schrieb Harry Schmalzbauer:
> …
>> To rule out a known vboxnetflt(4) limitation/failure, I'd like to
>> know if somebody successfully uses vboxnetflt(4) from
>> virtualbox-ose-kmod-5.2.12 on stable/11|11.2.
>
> Really nobody out there who has VirtualBox sucessfully running under
> stable/11 or 11.x with bridged network?
>
> Anyone who tried, but also observed similar problems like I have on
> -current?

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Pete French

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Jun 20, 2018, 6:52:22 AM6/20/18
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I use VirtualBox all the time on 11-STABLE. I do make sure I recompile
the ernel module every time I rebuild the OS, but its pretty solid for
me. You need the AIO tunings though.

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=168298

-pete.
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