SG-3100 switch weird behavior (resolved)

stephenw10

First ping I get the no response found as shown in packet 6645, then the following ICMP requests goes to the correct host (192.168.255.253).
The problem gets solved for a few minutes and then it starts again.

Could be something redirecting it. What does a pcap on the RasPi show when that's happening?

Almost feels like a bad subnet mask except pfSense is sending to correct MAC.

mcury

@stephenw10 said in SG-3100 switch weird behavior:

It looks like you changed the IP address of the desktop from .254 to .251. I assume that made no difference?

correct, same behavior

@stephenw10 said in SG-3100 switch weird behavior:

You also said that removing ramdisks appeared to resolve it. Did that turn out to be incorrect?

Unfortunately it worked for a while, but the problem started again, same as before.

@stephenw10 said in SG-3100 switch weird behavior:

When you add or remove ramdisks the firewall has to reboot. Does rebooting normally also correct it for some time?

Yes, it rebooted normally and it was fine for a while, except that the problem happened again.

mcury

@stephenw10 said in SG-3100 switch weird behavior:

Could be something redirecting it. What does a pcap on the RasPi show when that's happening?

I'll tcpdump it, let me wait for the problem to happen again

Almost feels like a bad subnet mask except pfSense is sending to correct MAC.

raspberry pi 4b 192.168.255.253 eth0:

2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether dc:a6:32:a5:47:19 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.255.253/29 brd 192.168.255.255 scope global dynamic eth0

mcury

@johnpoz said in SG-3100 switch weird behavior:

Or wait this is a 3100, so switch ports. If I had to guess your mini is leaking, this is a flex mini?
So you send traffic to 255.253, and your PC is seeing it.. Which you are correct it never should. Even in prosc mode, those packets should only be sent out the port that 255.253 is connected to - not all of them.
You have some sort of leak if you ask me.. Could be pfsense sending it out all the lan interfaces in on the switch.. Hmmm

Sorry, I missed that part
Yes, its a SG-3100, the problem started, let me tcpdump it from rapsberry pi 4b, one sec

rpi4.pcap

mcury

yes, hehe, its kind of a mess

Packet capture in host 192.168.255.251

mcury

I'll reinstall my pfsense from scratch to test, but I can't do it right now.
Then, if the problem happens again, I'll replace this switch.

mcury

So weird man, a ping fixes it temporarily..

johnpoz

@mcury yeah you shouldn't be seeing those. Hmmmm Even if your nic was in promiscuous mode, that mac shouldn't be sent down the port where the mac is not listed.

If you had some sort of leak or bridge where the mac was being learned on multiple interfaces that could happen..

So proper destination mac is your down the trunk (lan4) to the flex mini. But pfsense is also sending it out lan1? But the only place the mac of that pi4 should be seen by pfsense is the lan4 interface, it should never send that mac out lan1, unless there was bridge setup.

hmmmm strange...

This a good question for @stephenw10 he would know way more than me on the inter workings of the switch in the 3100. But typically a switch would only send traffic down the interface that the mac is on.

mcury

@johnpoz Exactly, its so weird, that packet should never go to pfsense's LAN1 ..

I'll try to fix it tonight by reinstalling my pfsense from scratch..
Then, if the problem happens again, I'll replace this switch..

stephenw10

Yeah, it's a pretty basic switch and there's no control over things like the MAC table. That's the only thing I could imagine causing that though.

If you haven't already try power cycling the 3100 entirely. That should completely reset the switch if it's somehow managed to toggle some flag.

Steve

mcury

@stephenw10 hm, I'll try it now a shutdown, remove the power cable, one sec, let me see who is here using the Internet

mcury

Done, the problem persists..

Halt system and once the shutdown process ended, removed the power cable for a few seconds.

stephenw10

Hmm, the only other thing I could imagine causing this is if something feeding bad data into the switch MAC table. That would have to be the desktop machine.

If you run a continuous ping from the RasPi to somewhere that has to be accessed through the 3100 switch, does that prevent the issue?

If it does I'd try to find something sending the RasPi MAC from the desktop. Hard to say what that might be.... something reflected perhaps?

If you run a pcap on the desktop and filter by the RasPi MAC address whilst the problem is not happening and wait for it to start. The first thing that happens there might be the offending packet.

Steve

mcury

@stephenw10 said in SG-3100 switch weird behavior:

If you run a continuous ping from the RasPi to somewhere that has to be accessed through the 3100 switch, does that prevent the issue?

Testing now, ping is running from RPI4 to pfsense.
It seems to have stopped, but it may start again soon, so I'll wait a little longer this time.

Packet capture set:

Edit:

This is my ARP table (desktop)

$ cat /proc/net/arp
IP address       HW type     Flags       HW address            Mask     Device
192.168.255.252  0x1         0x2         00:11:32:9f:ee:93     *        enp7s0
192.168.255.249  0x1         0x2         00:08:a2:0c:c4:1c     *        enp7s0
192.168.255.250  0x1         0x2         b8:27:eb:ea:f8:65     *        enp7s0
192.168.255.253  0x1         0x2         dc:a6:32:a5:47:19     *        enp7s0

mcury

40 minutes pinging from raspberry pi 4b (192.168.255.253) to pfsense (192.168.255.249) and no problem so far.

I have two wireshark windows opened, one monitoring:
eth.src == dc:a6:32:a5:47:19 and not tcp.port == 22 and not tcp.port == 9000

And the second one monitoring:
ip.addr == 192.168.255.253 and not tcp.port == 9000 and not tcp.port == 22

mcury

Dropped the ping and one minute later (or less), the problem starts again:

desktop ARP table:
$ cat /proc/net/arp
IP address HW type Flags HW address Mask Device
192.168.255.252 0x1 0x2 00:11:32:9f:ee:93 * enp7s0
192.168.255.249 0x1 0x2 00:08:a2:0c:c4:1c * enp7s0
192.168.255.250 0x1 0x2 b8:27:eb:ea:f8:65 * enp7s0
192.168.255.253 0x1 0x2 dc:a6:32:a5:47:19 * enp7s0

stephenw10

Hmm, so nothing from the RasPi MAC address at the desktop that might be inserting invalid entries into the switch.

It might be worth re-running that test using the RasPi MAC as destination in the filter (or as either).
You might catch something arriving using that but a different IP address.

Also when this happens do you see traffic being sent only to the desktop? Or is the syslog traffic sent to all the 3100 switch ports? Does it also arrive at the RasPi?

Steve

mcury

@stephenw10 It seems that its only going to LAN1..

raspberry pi 3 in which you see the tcpdump above is connected to the switch unifi mini.

Let me perform this test again, but in the NAS which is connected to LAN2 of pfsense, one sec.

mcury

Hmmm, its going to port LAN2 of pfsense too:
NAS IP is 192.168.255.252 (tcpdump) (LAN2 of pfsense)

On the right, wireshark running on desktop (LAN1 of pfsense)

stephenw10

Aha, interesting. You wouldn't expect so see it on one of the other Unifi swtch ports because it should only send it out of the port that MAC is connected to. So to the RasPi4 there.

The same should be true of the switch in the 3100 The fact it seems to be sending it to all ports implies that it no longer has a an entry for the MAC address in it's table. If it was an incorrect entry as I speculated earlier then it would only send from port 1.
Because that traffic is UDP with no replies it never sees any traffic from the RasPi4 to repopulate the table. Is the RasPi configured with a static IP?

It seems unexpected that the table entry has expired though. How long does it take to fail after sending some pings approximately?

Steve