| Summary: | LibAlias: allocate NAT ports using exhaustive search | ||||||
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| Product: | Base System | Reporter: | Damjan Jovanovic <damjan.jov> | ||||
| Component: | kern | Assignee: | freebsd-net (Nobody) <net> | ||||
| Status: | Open --- | ||||||
| Severity: | Affects Some People | CC: | emaste, grahamperrin | ||||
| Priority: | --- | Keywords: | needs-qa | ||||
| Version: | CURRENT | ||||||
| Hardware: | Any | ||||||
| OS: | Any | ||||||
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Created attachment 183594 [details] LibAlias: allocate NAT ports using exhaustive search Currently libalias allocates NAT ports from a pool of 32768 ports (from ALIAS_PORT_BASE to ALIAS_PORT_BASE + ALIAS_PORT_MASK), by randomly trying GET_NEW_PORT_MAX_ATTEMPTS (20) ports and returning the first unused one, otherwise failing. On a heavily loaded setup, as the number of ports in use approaches 32768, requests for ports will increasingly fail even though there are free ports. With 30000 ports in use, 17.12% of requests fail, with 31000 ports in use, 32.98% of requests fail, with 32000 ports in use, 62.23% of requests fail. This behavior is erratic, and both PF and IPFILTER allocate ports by exhaustively searching the entire port range from a random starting point (eg. pf_get_sport() in sys/netpfil/pf/pf_lb.c), which is guaranteed to find a port if any are available. The attached patch changes libalias to do the same.