[SOLVED] Traffic graph weirdness

[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!

[jdillard]

Nice work PiBa! And thanks for the lead jahonix!

I updated the ticket with the new info: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/7751

[maverick_slo]

Thanks guys!
This us why I prefer pfsense to other fw's…  ;)

[jahonix]

@jared: I didn't do a thing despite remembering that I had this problem in the past myself.
And someone gave me a smite for it anyways.  ;-)

I'd love to contribute more actively but my programming abilities are elsewhere (Crestron mainly).

[maverick_slo]

Resolved with todays snap!

Thanks guys!