OpenWrt 21.02 status

[Adrian Schmutzler]

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: openwrt-devel [mailto:openwrt-devel-bounces at lists.openwrt.org]
> On Behalf Of Hauke Mehrtens
> Sent: Sonntag, 29. August 2021 11:54
> To: OpenWrt Development List
> Cc: John Crispin; Jo-Philipp Wich; Kevin 'ldir' Darbyshire-Bryant
> Subject: Re: OpenWrt 21.02 status
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We did the 21.02-rc4, but there is still a problem with flow offloading as this
> was not fixed. The other problems should be fixed now.
> 
> On 7/17/21 5:45 PM, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
> > Currently we still have these problem:
> >
> > - IPv6 broken with flow offloading (according to reports, potentially
> > related to hw flow offloading)
> > - PPPoE allegedly broken (according to reports, not fully
> > reproducible, likely related to hw flow offloading too)
> >    - https://bugs.openwrt.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=3909
> >    - https://bugs.openwrt.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=3835
> 
> 
> Some more information can be found here:
> https://forum.openwrt.org/t/software-flow-offloading-and-conntrack-
> timeouts/74588
> https://bugs.openwrt.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=3373
> https://bugs.openwrt.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=3759
> 
> It could be that this change causes the problems:
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netdev/patch/20180720130906.27687-
> 3-pablo at netfilter.org/
> 
> I do not know how much time and interest I have in debugging and fixing this
> problem. If someone wants to have a closer look into this problem it would
> be really nice. even when you can make it easier to reproduce it in a test
> environment it would be nice.
> 
> Should we just release with this as a known problem?

Although my opinion should not be given much weight in this context, I'd also prefer a "quick" release, for about the same reasons as Hannu has given in his e-mail.

As I understand it, disabling offloading will give you a working device, so it's fair enough.

Best

Adrian

> 
> Other than this problem I am not aware of any other critical problem.
> 
> Hauke