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Date:      Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:48:19 -0800
From:      Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Wireless <freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: IWN performance very bad with 10.0-RC5
Message-ID:  <CAN6yY1vYGa3pq9oRQVrpY8dQkyK5C7MeBTsboixEk2DvpgHgjA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> So does it still pause with traffic?
>
Yes, it does.


>
> Have you disabled bgscan?
>

Just did so. After the issues I had in the past with bgscan, I should have
done it already.

I'll know by tomorrow whether it made a difference.

Kevin

>
>
>
> -a
>
>
> On 15 January 2014 18:04, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Sorry, It's been a little busy the past couple of days.
> >
> > No, I have had only one interface losing association and not recovering
> > since my first report. That one did not occur in conjunction with one of
> the
> > crypto events. Those seem to interrupt the network for about half a
> > second.Then it restores. Those issues still seem to crop up periodically,
> > about twice a day. I suspect that they me be linked to volumeof network
> > traffic , butI cannot be sure at this point.
> >
> > Here is the log during the failure yesterday:
> > Jan 14 23:13:27 rogue kernel: wlan0: _ieee80211_crypto_delkey: AES-CCM
> keyix
> > 0 flags 0x133 rsc 0 tsc 379793 len 16
> > Jan 14 23:13:27 rogue kernel: wlan0: link state changed to DOWN
> > Jan 14 23:13:27 rogue wpa_supplicant[2669]: wlan0:
> CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED
> > bssid=00:26:b8:67:c3:2d reason=0
> > Jan 14 23:13:27 rogue kernel: wlan0: _ieee80211_crypto_delkey: NONE keyix
> > 65535 flags 0x3 rsc 0 tsc 0 len 0
> > Jan 14 23:13:27 rogue kernel: wlan0: _ieee80211_crypto_delkey: AES-CCM
> keyix
> > 1 flags 0x136 rsc 411 tsc 0 len 16
> > Jan 14 23:13:27 rogue kernel: wlan0: _ieee80211_crypto_delkey: AES-CCM
> keyix
> > 2 flags 0x136 rsc 3344 tsc 0 len 16
> > Jan 14 23:13:27 rogue kernel: wlan0: _ieee80211_crypto_delkey: NONE keyix
> > 65535 flags 0x3 rsc 0 tsc 0 len 0
> > Jan 14 23:13:29 rogue ntpd[1291]: sendto(199.7.177.206) (fd=25): Network
> is
> > down
> > Jan 14 23:14:22 rogue dhclient[2755]: My address (192.168.1.5) was
> deleted,
> > dhclient exiting
> > Jan 14 23:14:22 rogue wpa_supplicant[2669]: ioctl[SIOCS80211, op=26,
> val=0,
> > arg_len=0]: Operation not supported
> > Jan 14 23:14:22 rogue wpa_supplicant[2669]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-TERMINATING
> > Jan 14 23:14:23 rogue wpa_supplicant[3162]: Successfully initialized
> > wpa_supplicant
> > Jan 14 23:14:23 rogue kernel: wlan0: _ieee80211_crypto_delkey: NONE keyix
> > 65535 flags 0x3 rsc 0 tsc 0 len 0
> > Jan 14 23:14:23 rogue kernel: wlan0: _ieee80211_crypto_delkey: NONE keyix
> > 65535 flags 0x3 rsc 0 tsc 0 len 0
> > Jan 14 23:14:23 rogue last message repeated 3 times
> > Jan 14 23:14:24 rogue wpa_supplicant[3163]: wlan0: Trying to associate
> with
> > 00:26:b8:67:c3:2d (SSID='babcom' freq=2437 MHz)
> > Jan 14 23:14:24 rogue wpa_supplicant[3163]: wlan0: Associated with
> > 00:26:b8:67:c3:2d
> > Jan 14 23:14:24 rogue kernel: wlan0: link state changed to UP
> > Jan 14 23:14:24 rogue devd: Executing '/etc/rc.d/dhclient quietstart
> wlan0'
> > Jan 14 23:14:24 rogue wpa_supplicant[3163]: wlan0: WPA: Key negotiation
> > completed with 00:26:b8:67:c3:2d [PTK=CCMP GTK=CCMP]
> > Jan 14 23:14:24 rogue kernel: wlan0: ieee80211_crypto_newkey: cipher 3
> flags
> > 0x3 keyix 65535
> > Jan 14 23:14:24 rogue kernel: wlan0: ieee80211_crypto_newkey: no h/w
> support
> > for cipher AES-CCM, falling back to s/w
> > Jan 14 23:14:24 rogue kernel: wlan0: ieee80211_crypto_setkey: AES-CCM
> keyix
> > 0 flags 0x133 mac 00:26:b8:67:c3:2d rsc 0 tsc 0 len 16
> > Jan 14 23:14:24 rogue kernel: wlan0: ieee80211_crypto_newkey: cipher 3
> flags
> > 0x6 keyix 1
> > Jan 14 23:14:24 rogue kernel: wlan0: ieee80211_crypto_newkey: no h/w
> support
> > for cipher AES-CCM, falling back to s/w
> > Jan 14 23:14:24 rogue kernel: wlan0: ieee80211_crypto_setkey: AES-CCM
> keyix
> > 1 flags 0x136 mac ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff rsc 454 tsc 0 len 16
> > Jan 14 23:14:24 rogue wpa_supplicant[3163]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED -
> > Connection to 00:26:b8:67:c3:2d completed [id=1 id_str=]
> > Jan 14 23:14:24 rogue dhclient: New IP Address (wlan0): 192.168.1.5
> > Jan 14 23:14:24 rogue dhclient: New Subnet Mask (wlan0): 255.255.255.0
> > Jan 14 23:14:24 rogue dhclient: New Broadcast Address (wlan0):
> 192.168.1.255
> > Jan 14 23:14:24 rogue dhclient: New Routers (wlan0): 192.168.1.1
> >
> > I have found a problem with my AP configuration that was the cause of the
> > performance issue, so that is not related to FreeBSD and is now fixed.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Kevin
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Yup. Is this when things started getting strange? Were they okay
> >> before the replay detection kicked in?
> >>
> >>
> >> -a
> >>
> >> On 12 January 2014 14:45, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 10:36 PM, Erich Dollansky
> >> > <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Hi,
> >> >>
> >> >> On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 21:45:59 -0800
> >> >> Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> > Please help dig up which change broke it. Even just test out the
> head
> >> >> > iwn code from 6 months ago.
> >> >>
> >> >> I came to a very strange result. I have iwn in the kernel since June
> >> >> 2012 using 10. I also have had run in the kernel of another machine
> >> >> since February 2011. I could not even add runfw to the kernel those
> >> >> days running some 8 stable. I kept it that way until now.
> >> >>
> >> >> run was always working. iwn gave problems starting between August and
> >> >> November of last year on my access point but still worked on other
> >> >> places. I used iwn to connect successfully to another wireless
> network
> >> >> mid November 2013.
> >> >>
> >> >> After adding the firmware to the kernel for both iwn and run, I could
> >> >> compile the kernel and iwn started to work. runfw did not break
> >> >> compilation.
> >> >>
> >> >> I wonder now if the iwn or run could even work without firmware or if
> >> >> the firmware was automatically loaded even when iwn or run where
> >> >> compiled into the kernel.
> >> >>
> >> >> Erich
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Some things look odd here. I had been running with crypto debug for
> >> > about 15
> >> > hours when I captured the attached log. The things tha looks odd to me
> >> > are
> >> > two series of "AES-CCM replay detected" errors.
> >> > Jan 12 00:54:03 rogue kernel: wlan0: [00:26:b8:67:c3:2d] AES-CCM
> replay
> >> > detected tid 16 <rsc 1165, csc 1207, keyix 2 rxkeyix 65535>
> >> > [rsc inc. by one 41 times until rsc = csc]
> >> > Jan 12 00:54:03 rogue kernel: wlan0: [00:26:b8:67:c3:2d] AES-CCM
> replay
> >> > detected tid 16 <rsc 1206, csc 1207, keyix 2 rxkeyix 65535>
> >> >
> >> > One VERY odd thing is the MAC address. It is one byte from being the
> >> > address
> >> > of my Verizon/ActionTec wireless router. It is the only device on my
> >> > network
> >> > that has an OID of 00:26:b8, but the last nibble is 28 while these
> >> > errors
> >> > claim a MAC ending in 2d.
> >> >
> >> > The setkey statements with a MAC of FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF also look odd to
> >> > be,
> >> > but I am pretty clueless about the meaning of most of the message, do
> it
> >> > might be fine, but looks strange.
> >> >
> >> > During this time I have not had the network  completely hang and
> require
> >> > an
> >> > interface restart.
> >> >
> >> > Does this provide anything useful?
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
> >> > E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
> > E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
>



-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com



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