add snmp counters document
Add explainations for some general IP counters, SACK and DSACK related counters Signed-off-by: yupeng <yupeng0921@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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@ -17,7 +17,9 @@ Defined in `RFC1213 ipInReceives`_
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The number of packets received by the IP layer. It gets increasing at the
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beginning of ip_rcv function, always be updated together with
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IpExtInOctets. It indicates the number of aggregated segments after
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IpExtInOctets. It will be increased even if the packet is dropped
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later (e.g. due to the IP header is invalid or the checksum is wrong
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and so on). It indicates the number of aggregated segments after
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GRO/LRO.
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* IpInDelivers
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@ -57,6 +59,58 @@ status. They count the real frame number regardless the LRO/GRO. So
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for the same packet, you might find that IpInReceives count 1, but
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IpExtInNoECTPkts counts 2 or more.
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* IpInHdrErrors
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Defined in `RFC1213 ipInHdrErrors`_. It indicates the packet is
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dropped due to the IP header error. It might happen in both IP input
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and IP forward paths.
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.. _RFC1213 ipInHdrErrors: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1213#page-27
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* IpInAddrErrors
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Defined in `RFC1213 ipInAddrErrors`_. It will be increased in two
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scenarios: (1) The IP address is invalid. (2) The destination IP
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address is not a local address and IP forwarding is not enabled
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.. _RFC1213 ipInAddrErrors: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1213#page-27
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* IpExtInNoRoutes
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This counter means the packet is dropped when the IP stack receives a
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packet and can't find a route for it from the route table. It might
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happen when IP forwarding is enabled and the destination IP address is
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not a local address and there is no route for the destination IP
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address.
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* IpInUnknownProtos
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Defined in `RFC1213 ipInUnknownProtos`_. It will be increased if the
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layer 4 protocol is unsupported by kernel. If an application is using
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raw socket, kernel will always deliver the packet to the raw socket
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and this counter won't be increased.
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.. _RFC1213 ipInUnknownProtos: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1213#page-27
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* IpExtInTruncatedPkts
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For IPv4 packet, it means the actual data size is smaller than the
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"Total Length" field in the IPv4 header.
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* IpInDiscards
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Defined in `RFC1213 ipInDiscards`_. It indicates the packet is dropped
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in the IP receiving path and due to kernel internal reasons (e.g. no
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enough memory).
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.. _RFC1213 ipInDiscards: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1213#page-28
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* IpOutDiscards
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Defined in `RFC1213 ipOutDiscards`_. It indicates the packet is
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dropped in the IP sending path and due to kernel internal reasons.
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.. _RFC1213 ipOutDiscards: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1213#page-28
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* IpOutNoRoutes
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Defined in `RFC1213 ipOutNoRoutes`_. It indicates the packet is
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dropped in the IP sending path and no route is found for it.
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.. _RFC1213 ipOutNoRoutes: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1213#page-29
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ICMP counters
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============
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* IcmpInMsgs and IcmpOutMsgs
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@ -425,6 +479,100 @@ The sum of CWND detected by packet delay. Dividing this value by
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TcpExtTCPHystartDelayDetect is the average CWND which detected by the
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packet delay.
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TCP retransmission and congestion control
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======================================
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The TCP protocol has two retransmission mechanisms: SACK and fast
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recovery. They are exclusive with each other. When SACK is enabled,
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the kernel TCP stack would use SACK, or kernel would use fast
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recovery. The SACK is a TCP option, which is defined in `RFC2018`_,
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the fast recovery is defined in `RFC6582`_, which is also called
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'Reno'.
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The TCP congestion control is a big and complex topic. To understand
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the related snmp counter, we need to know the states of the congestion
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control state machine. There are 5 states: Open, Disorder, CWR,
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Recovery and Loss. For details about these states, please refer page 5
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and page 6 of this document:
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https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/0e9c/968d09ab2e53e24c4dca5b2d67c7f7140f8e.pdf
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.. _RFC2018: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2018
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.. _RFC6582: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6582
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* TcpExtTCPRenoRecovery and TcpExtTCPSackRecovery
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When the congestion control comes into Recovery state, if sack is
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used, TcpExtTCPSackRecovery increases 1, if sack is not used,
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TcpExtTCPRenoRecovery increases 1. These two counters mean the TCP
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stack begins to retransmit the lost packets.
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* TcpExtTCPSACKReneging
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A packet was acknowledged by SACK, but the receiver has dropped this
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packet, so the sender needs to retransmit this packet. In this
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situation, the sender adds 1 to TcpExtTCPSACKReneging. A receiver
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could drop a packet which has been acknowledged by SACK, although it is
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unusual, it is allowed by the TCP protocol. The sender doesn't really
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know what happened on the receiver side. The sender just waits until
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the RTO expires for this packet, then the sender assumes this packet
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has been dropped by the receiver.
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* TcpExtTCPRenoReorder
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The reorder packet is detected by fast recovery. It would only be used
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if SACK is disabled. The fast recovery algorithm detects recorder by
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the duplicate ACK number. E.g., if retransmission is triggered, and
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the original retransmitted packet is not lost, it is just out of
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order, the receiver would acknowledge multiple times, one for the
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retransmitted packet, another for the arriving of the original out of
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order packet. Thus the sender would find more ACks than its
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expectation, and the sender knows out of order occurs.
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* TcpExtTCPTSReorder
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The reorder packet is detected when a hole is filled. E.g., assume the
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sender sends packet 1,2,3,4,5, and the receiving order is
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1,2,4,5,3. When the sender receives the ACK of packet 3 (which will
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fill the hole), two conditions will let TcpExtTCPTSReorder increase
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1: (1) if the packet 3 is not re-retransmitted yet. (2) if the packet
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3 is retransmitted but the timestamp of the packet 3's ACK is earlier
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than the retransmission timestamp.
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* TcpExtTCPSACKReorder
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The reorder packet detected by SACK. The SACK has two methods to
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detect reorder: (1) DSACK is received by the sender. It means the
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sender sends the same packet more than one times. And the only reason
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is the sender believes an out of order packet is lost so it sends the
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packet again. (2) Assume packet 1,2,3,4,5 are sent by the sender, and
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the sender has received SACKs for packet 2 and 5, now the sender
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receives SACK for packet 4 and the sender doesn't retransmit the
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packet yet, the sender would know packet 4 is out of order. The TCP
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stack of kernel will increase TcpExtTCPSACKReorder for both of the
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above scenarios.
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DSACK
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=====
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The DSACK is defined in `RFC2883`_. The receiver uses DSACK to report
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duplicate packets to the sender. There are two kinds of
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duplications: (1) a packet which has been acknowledged is
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duplicate. (2) an out of order packet is duplicate. The TCP stack
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counts these two kinds of duplications on both receiver side and
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sender side.
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.. _RFC2883 : https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2883
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* TcpExtTCPDSACKOldSent
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The TCP stack receives a duplicate packet which has been acked, so it
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sends a DSACK to the sender.
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* TcpExtTCPDSACKOfoSent
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The TCP stack receives an out of order duplicate packet, so it sends a
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DSACK to the sender.
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* TcpExtTCPDSACKRecv
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The TCP stack receives a DSACK, which indicate an acknowledged
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duplicate packet is received.
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* TcpExtTCPDSACKOfoRecv
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The TCP stack receives a DSACK, which indicate an out of order
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duplciate packet is received.
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examples
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between the 4th nc and the nstat was longer, the value of
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TcpExtListenOverflows and TcpExtListenDrops would be larger, because
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the SYN of the 4th nc was dropped, the client was retrying.
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IpInAddrErrors, IpExtInNoRoutes and IpOutNoRoutes
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----------------------------------------------
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server A IP address: 192.168.122.250
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server B IP address: 192.168.122.251
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Prepare on server A, add a route to server B::
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$ sudo ip route add 8.8.8.8/32 via 192.168.122.251
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Prepare on server B, disable send_redirects for all interfaces::
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$ sudo sysctl -w net.ipv4.conf.all.send_redirects=0
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$ sudo sysctl -w net.ipv4.conf.ens3.send_redirects=0
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$ sudo sysctl -w net.ipv4.conf.lo.send_redirects=0
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$ sudo sysctl -w net.ipv4.conf.default.send_redirects=0
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We want to let sever A send a packet to 8.8.8.8, and route the packet
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to server B. When server B receives such packet, it might send a ICMP
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Redirect message to server A, set send_redirects to 0 will disable
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this behavior.
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First, generate InAddrErrors. On server B, we disable IP forwarding::
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$ sudo sysctl -w net.ipv4.conf.all.forwarding=0
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On server A, we send packets to 8.8.8.8::
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$ nc -v 8.8.8.8 53
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On server B, we check the output of nstat::
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$ nstat
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#kernel
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IpInReceives 3 0.0
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IpInAddrErrors 3 0.0
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IpExtInOctets 180 0.0
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IpExtInNoECTPkts 3 0.0
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As we have let server A route 8.8.8.8 to server B, and we disabled IP
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forwarding on server B, Server A sent packets to server B, then server B
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dropped packets and increased IpInAddrErrors. As the nc command would
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re-send the SYN packet if it didn't receive a SYN+ACK, we could find
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multiple IpInAddrErrors.
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Second, generate IpExtInNoRoutes. On server B, we enable IP
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forwarding::
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$ sudo sysctl -w net.ipv4.conf.all.forwarding=1
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Check the route table of server B and remove the default route::
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$ ip route show
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default via 192.168.122.1 dev ens3 proto static
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192.168.122.0/24 dev ens3 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.122.251
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$ sudo ip route delete default via 192.168.122.1 dev ens3 proto static
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On server A, we contact 8.8.8.8 again::
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$ nc -v 8.8.8.8 53
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nc: connect to 8.8.8.8 port 53 (tcp) failed: Network is unreachable
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On server B, run nstat::
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$ nstat
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#kernel
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IpInReceives 1 0.0
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IpOutRequests 1 0.0
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IcmpOutMsgs 1 0.0
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IcmpOutDestUnreachs 1 0.0
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IcmpMsgOutType3 1 0.0
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IpExtInNoRoutes 1 0.0
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IpExtInOctets 60 0.0
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IpExtOutOctets 88 0.0
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IpExtInNoECTPkts 1 0.0
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We enabled IP forwarding on server B, when server B received a packet
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which destination IP address is 8.8.8.8, server B will try to forward
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this packet. We have deleted the default route, there was no route for
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8.8.8.8, so server B increase IpExtInNoRoutes and sent the "ICMP
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Destination Unreachable" message to server A.
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Third, generate IpOutNoRoutes. Run ping command on server B::
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$ ping -c 1 8.8.8.8
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connect: Network is unreachable
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Run nstat on server B::
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$ nstat
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#kernel
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IpOutNoRoutes 1 0.0
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We have deleted the default route on server B. Server B couldn't find
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a route for the 8.8.8.8 IP address, so server B increased
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IpOutNoRoutes.
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