Re: [PATCH v7 net-next] net-core: add InDropOtherhost counter

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Mon Feb 07 2022 - 22:51:50 EST


On Mon, 7 Feb 2022 23:57:14 +0000 Jeffrey Ji wrote:
> From: jeffreyji <jeffreyji@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Increment InDropOtherhost counter when packet dropped due to incorrect dest
> MAC addr.
>
> An example when this drop can occur is when manually crafting raw
> packets that will be consumed by a user space application via a tap
> device. For testing purposes local traffic was generated using trafgen
> for the client and netcat to start a server
>
> example output from nstat:
> \~# nstat -a | grep InMac
> Ip6InDropOtherhost 0 0.0
> IpExtInDropOtherhost 1 0.0
>
> Tested: Created 2 netns, sent 1 packet using trafgen from 1 to the other
> with "{eth(daddr=$INCORRECT_MAC...}", verified that nstat showed the
> counter was incremented.

As far as I can tell nobody objected to my suggestion of making this
a netdev counter, so please switch to working on that. Thanks.