RE: Random packet loss using IPsec with AES128-SHA1

["Gabriele Beltrame" <belgab@drvsource.net>]

Hi Steffen,

I don't think it's IPsec (I can see the outbound packet in tcpdump), not
alone at least but the XEN /AWS Ethernet driver (or multiple things
concurring to the issue) actually... the odd thing is that it does seem to
affect AES-CBS only (3DES-CBS, AES-GCM are fine)
This is the short discussion on the Strongswan support wiki:
https://wiki.strongswan.org/issues/1220

Thanks,
Gabriele

-----Original Message-----
From: Steffen Klassert [mailto:steffen.klassert@secunet.com] 
Sent: mercoledì 16 dicembre 2015 11:00
To: Gabriele Beltrame <belgab@drvsource.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Random packet loss using IPsec with AES128-SHA1

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 10:17:54AM +0100, Gabriele Beltrame wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running a few Strongswan 5.3.* CentOS (Kernel 3.16.7, 4.2.6, 
> 4.1.*) instances on AWS to terminate VPNs between each other and/or to 
> other devices across the Internet.
> While investigating some application issues, I've noticed that on 
> every VPNs I have random packet losses (from 1% to 4% over 100 to 300
requests sent).
> This only happens when the two following conditions are met: (a) AES 
> encryption used, (b) IP packet size shorter than about (150+8+20)Bytes.

I've never seen this.

If xfrm statistics are compiled in, a counter is bumped for each packet
dropped by IPsec. You can check these counters in /proc/net/xfrm_stat.

This will tell you at least whether IPsec is the reason for your packet
loss.


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