[SOLVED] Traffic graph weirdness

[PiBa]

Looks fine for me. see attachment.. Not sure why your graph would be that different..

While downloading does iftop show your same double bandwidth for the connection on lan side?
Does tcpdump show any 'extra' traffic? Is everything re-transmitted?

Is it virtual? Bridged? Lacp? Or anything else 'special'?


[maverick_slo]

Hi.
Nothing special but I think only http traffic is counted like this, need to confirm that first.
No bridge or lacp, just vlans and thats it.

[maverick_slo]

OK.
So…
No retransmissions.
All traffic affected.
Iftop shows correct data
Traffic graph is wrong.
Tried 3 browsers same thing.
Ipv6 and IPv4 are both affected
Tried with 4 machines on LAN
Only DOWNLOAD is affected, upload from LAN to WAN displays correct data.

WTF :)

[maverick_slo]

It seems that only "out" is affected.
That`s weird.

[Harvy66]

Are you using VLANs?

[maverick_slo]

post no. 3
yes

[Harvy66]

Do you have any untagged VLANs on that physical network interface?

[maverick_slo]

nope, all 4 tagged

[scott83]

I'm running 2.4.0.b.20170802.1526 and I'm in the same boat, my tagged VLAN interface out is showing double of my WAN in. I also verified using iftop that the VLAN interface is not showing double, only the traffic graph does. I also have 4 tagged VLANs on that interface and no untagged VLANs.

[jahonix]

Double-quoted traffic on VLAN interfaces was a problem in the past but solved (about a year or so ago).
Seems to be newly featured on Github again. Report on Redmine!

[maverick_slo]

done
https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/7751

[maverick_slo]

Hi!

Any idea if this is pfsense bug or upstream?
I would really like this to be resolved in 2.4…

[PiBa]

Maybe you could install "nload" on ssh/console?

pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:11:x86:64/latest/All/nload-0.7.4_1.txz

Start it use arrows to switch to desired nic/vlan and compare with traffic graphs.

It should pull statistics from sysctl just like pfSense.. And if also wrong then points a little to freebsd.
Though i suppose it could still be a issue introduced by pfSense's changes somewhere..

[maverick_slo]

Hehe :)
So here we go, guess pfsense bug after all….

[PiBa]

Oké i guess its still not 100% definitive…

Pfsense calls sysctl with:

CTL_NET, PF_LINK, NETLINK_GENERIC, IFMIB_IFDATA, {ifidx}, IFDATA_GENERAL

Where it retrieves the data: bytes, packets, collisions, multicasts, mtu
https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-ports/blob/devel/devel/php56-pfSense-module/files/pfSense.c#L3210

While nload calls sysctl with:

CTL_NET, PF_ROUTE, 0, 0, NET_RT_IFLIST, 0

Where it retrieves the data: bytes, packets, errors
https://github.com/liuyang1/nload/blob/master/src/devreader-bsd.cpp#L108

So its similar but not the same, and that might be for a good reason. I'm not exactly sure.. Though i guess most of those extra data items are not needed for traffic graphs..

[maverick_slo]

Jarred is on the case
Maybe just fewer flags and thats it.

[jdillard]

I think this is the issue jahonix was referring to: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/3314

If that's the case someone else might pick up the ticket, but for now I'll try and find the commit with the patch.

edit: I tried running:

git log --since "MAY 18 2015" --until "MAY 20 2015" --pretty=format:"%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%ad) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset"

on the following repos:

pfsense/pfsense
pfsense/FreeBSD-ports
pfsense/FreeBSD-src

without any luck finding the patch so far. I may have accidentally missed it or be taking the wrong approach.

[PiBa]

Found it: https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense-tools/commit/ad55e66a3fb817f8e54bae7bf38306039b82e3ad

Or: https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-src/commit/939f11b196e7d22a1ce3da8533e97ff3e92510b6#diff-437f2b0c100f75faf75f7c5b60eca6a4R1156

[PiBa]

2.3:

 			ifp->if_opackets++;
 			//ifp->if_omcasts += mcast;
 			//ifp->if_obytes += len;

2.4:

			if_inc_counter(ifp, IFCOUNTER_OPACKETS, 1);
			if_inc_counter(ifp, IFCOUNTER_OBYTES, len);
			if_inc_counter(ifp, IFCOUNTER_OMCASTS, mcast);

In 2.4 it looks different.. probably needs some // as well.. https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-src/blob/RELENG_2_4/sys/net/if_vlan.c#L1132

[jahonix]

I love this kind of collaboration, really great!