A "Combining filters" section for packet-filters.md: deterministic drops
are an OR-gate (first kill wins — a clsact-dropped frame consumes no rate
serialization, no limit capacity and no netem counter), netem draws are
independent probabilities that multiply in one qdisc pass, and a round
trip squares everything. The couplings that do exist: quota's byte count
sees only frequency_drop survivors (ordered evaluation slows the burn),
delay/reorder/rate fold into one time_to_send, limit x rate x delay is
the tail-drop triangle to watch, and seed pins netem's draws but not the
eBPF program's own PRNG. Closes with a fully-loaded 12-filter walkthrough
of one frame through the gauntlet.
The Packet filters section of docker-kernel-datapath.md was the de-facto
filter documentation every other datapath doc pointed at; move it to
features/packet-filters.md as the node-type-neutral home (veth or TAP
anchor), centered on a mermaid walkthrough of all 13 types through the
anchor's egress chain: clsact first (the eBPF stateful classifier's nth /
quota / window modes at prio 1, then the bpf expression lines at 10-99,
first drop wins), the single netem qdisc behind it (enqueue draws, one
time_to_send drained by the delay queue).
Clarify a naming trap the table verbs invite: uBridge's tc module only
borrows the iproute2 vocabulary — the tc ... tokens are its own hypervisor
command names over hand-built netlink messages (RTM_NEWQDISC /
RTM_NEWTFILTER), raw bpf() syscalls, embedded distribution tables and
instruction array, libpcap as a library only; the tc binary is never
invoked outside the test suite's oracles. Verified against the uBridge
sources (hypervisor_tc.c, tc_impair.bpf.c, tc_ebpf.c), not just the
commands gns3-server sends.
docker-kernel-datapath.md keeps a pointer section; the iol doc's filter
reference and docs/README.md's tree and catalog point at the new doc.
The live suite asserted the datapath over IPv4 only. Give every guest a
ULA IPv6 address next to its v4 one and twin every v4 assertion point,
sharing the impairment window (one filter application, both families
asserted) so the runtime grows by minutes, not double.
- harness: configure_ios(eth_ipv6=), ping() dispatches to `ping ipv6`,
docker_bring_up_ipv6 (the Docker daemon leaves eth0 with
disable_ipv6=1 on v6-less bridge networks, so the interfaces-file
route cannot work), family-aware docker_wait_address, pcap_records
scans every record (a leading DAD/MLD frame must not mask the
sampled ethertype), and pcap_icmp_rtt measures the wire round trip
from capture timestamps;
- scenarios: connectivity/delay/suspend/isolation/churn checks in both
families, captures assert 86dd next to 0800, the libpcap bpf drops
are asserted family-selective (icmp vs icmp6, each killing its own
family and leaving the other alive), the eBPF classifier modes on
both families, marker v6 twins with an echo-specific expression
(bare icmp6 also matches DAD/MLD and would break the exact counts),
the v6 sharkd replay, and the link-local matrix gains the 86dd
all-nodes row; serial (HDLC) legs stay v4-only;
- the dynamips-emulated classic IOS under-reports its `ping ipv6` RTT
by ~40 % of a delayed round trip (pcap-verified: the wire carries the
v6 echo exchange in the same ~230 ms as v4 while the console reports
~130 ms), so the dynamips-family scenarios assert the v6 delay from
the capture's own timestamps — recorded in tests/e2e/README.md.
Full suite: 17 passed in 58m50s.
Support uploading images into nested subfolders inside predefined image directories, and check whether templates can be created for uploaded images based on existing appliance definitions.
Both fixes from the code-review pass were carried by other tests'
side effects: the move_to_ns failure path (the branch that used to skip
the delete_veth) and the required-but-nullable bridge field on the NIO
create routes.
The persistent-TAP lifecycle — probe, sweep, create, register, delete —
was implemented four times, once per node type, and the copies had drifted
(probe mechanism, _tap_datapath reset, keep-vs-recreate policy). The
mechanical half moves into KernelDatapathMixin:
- _probe_persistent_taps(probe_name): the scratch-TAP probe, returning the
refusal for the caller's own warning (QEMU, Dynamips);
- _create_anchor_taps(ports, set_owner, keep_existing): sweep + create +
optional ownership handover + carrier down + registry, with the ports
enumerated by the node type and named through the new _tap_name hook;
- _delete_anchor_taps(): the suppressed tap sweep + per-link bridge
cleanup + registry clear.
Each node type keeps what its fd holder dictates: the release step before
the tap sweep (the QEMU process, the IOL bridge, the hypervisor's NIO
bindings, the container port bridges), its probe policy, and its registry
lifetime. QEMU's now-unconditional registry clear aligns it with the other
three; everything else is behavior-preserving.
Regression coverage added with the fixes:
- capture-slot semantics: second-port refusal, failed-start rollback, and
a non-owner port's stop not reaching `capture stop_kernel`;
- QEMU stop/start teardown on a mid-body or pre-launch failure, IOU start
cleanup and filter guards, Dynamips half-attach undo plus retry;
- switch VLAN reconcile skipping a deferred anchor and rolling the
ports_mapping back on failure;
- Docker/QEMU occupied-port refusal, probe ctime invalidation, probe
survival of a failing uBridge start;
- env-marker dialects (mid-line mentions, falsy values) and the agent
merge rejecting entries without a device_name.
Test-body imports of product modules move to the shared header.
Compute:
- Track the anchor that owns uBridge's single AF_PACKET capture slot: a
second kernel port's capture is refused with a clear error (its flag
rolled back), a failed start no longer wedges the port, and only the
owning port's stop issues the process-wide `capture stop_kernel`
(docker/qemu/iou/dynamips/switch, via the mixin's slot helpers).
- Unwind failed starts instead of leaking uBridge and the anchor TAPs:
QEMU's stop body runs under try/finally, QEMU and IOU start the datapath
inside the launch try, Dynamips undoes a half-attached port (the retry
used to be short-circuited into a silent black hole), and Docker deletes
the veth pair when the namespace move fails.
- Restore the relay filter guard on IOU (kernel-only filters raise
NodeError, an uncompilable BPF line degrades to a warning), validate the
eBPF/quota/window/bpf filter shapes before touching the bridge (short or
non-numeric values surfaced as 500s after partial state), and refuse a
second NIO on an occupied Docker/QEMU port (the guard IOU and Dynamips
already had).
- Probe fixes: `_probe_bridge_tap` survives a failing uBridge start, and
the probe caches key on ctime too, so a chmod/setcap remedy re-probes.
Controller:
- Parse GNS3_UNIX_SOCKET_NIO like the compute does (line-anchored, truthy
value) and mirror the compute's class selection in kernel_anchor_type.
- Read partial capability reports defensively; make BridgeNIO.bridge
required-but-nullable so an omitted key is a 422 rather than a KeyError.
- Strip the packet_loss correlation slot even when it is zero: the relay
filter takes exactly one argument and rejected `packet_loss 10 0`.
Ethernet switch: skip ports whose absorbed anchor does not exist yet (the
join is deferred by design) and roll the ports_mapping back when the VLAN
reconcile fails, so a retry still diffs against the old mapping.
Agent: reject device config entries without a device_name instead of
silently dropping them (a malformed batch used to execute partially while
reporting success).
Also split the netem builder to clear C901 and drop the two per-file ruff
ignores the PR had added, keeping the remove-only policy.
The rebase onto 65c858d45 brought upstream's UP032 enforcement; the
conflict resolution kept this branch's semantics on the overlapping
lines, so their .format() calls needed the conversion afterwards
(ruff check --fix, 41 sites) plus the formatter's rewrap (7 files).
Replicates the CI recipe locally: pip check, ruff check/format, mypy
2.3.1 (clean, 434 files), unit suite 2216 passed.
Adds what running the suite on a real machine actually requires (uBridge
with caps, tc for the filter assertions, a Docker daemon, cc -static for
the raw-frame probe), the full image-selection matrix (preferred
filenames, fallback patterns, per-folder layout, the alpine digest
ladder; missing images skip, never false-fail), the NetworkManager host
hazard and its record, timing/load sensitivity notes, the complete
GNS3_E2E_* environment-variable list — and the link-local scenario,
which the scenario list was missing.
The 'impairment cleared' asserts used avg < 50 on three-packet IOS pings;
the unimpaired baseline is 20-45 ms with 4 ms quantization, and host
scheduling jitter pushed averages to 54/56 in two full-suite runs
(esw, dynamips) — a margin, not an impairment (the qdisc asserts pass,
success is 100 %). The contrasted delayed regime is >= 150 ms, so a
100 ms bound still separates the two cleanly. Docker's sub-millisecond
veth asserts keep their 50 ms bound (three orders of magnitude of
headroom, never observed to flake).
The exec stream can truncate after busybox's 4294967 ms RTT timer-wrap
artifact, dropping the summary line — docker_ping then reported a
phantom 100 % loss and made the corrupt-filter scenario fail spuriously.
Factor the parsing into _busybox_ping_parse: the summary stays
authoritative when present; otherwise the loss is derived from the
seq= replies actually seen (no replies at all still reports 100 %).
Same guard the ethernet-switch scenario already carries: NetworkManager
can release an NM-managed TAP from its bridge shortly after
(re-)enslavement (docs/bugs/networkmanager-tap-release.md). Applied to
the Dynamips, QEMU, IOU, IOL-runner and switch-cascade scenarios after
their nodes have booted (no-op where nmcli/NetworkManager is absent).
This keeps those tests deterministic on un-declared hosts.
