Hi. We just discovered this kernel panic bug when we moved the WAN port on our router to new hardware and the new machine immediately kernel panicked.
So, now the question is, can we disable the Quick Assist driver in 1.4, so that I can use VTI IPSec connections without kernel panicking?
We had to set up a connection on short notice two years back and had a Dell PowerEdge R530 lying around. Now we’re trying to upgrade the hardware to a SuperMicro SYS-1019D-FRN8TP, to be able to upgrade the WAN from 1gbit to 10gbit.
We temporarily moved some tunnels to OpenVPN, to be able to use the new hardware, but I’d really rather like to have those tunnels be IPsec.
Here is the output of “show version” on the new hardware:
Version: VyOS 1.4-rolling-202104202252
Release Train: sagitta
Built by: [email protected]
Built on: Wed 21 Apr 2021 01:17 UTC
Build UUID: 72a94b35-9559-46e1-999c-e72e28a0e281
Build Commit ID: a934e73e2738e5
Architecture: x86_64
Boot via: installed image
System type: bare metal
Hardware vendor: Supermicro
Hardware model: SYS-1019D-FRN8TP
Hardware S/N: A354290X1301173
Hardware UUID: 3b72d000-468b-11ea-8000-3cecef44e298
Copyright: VyOS maintainers and contributors
That’s a great question and one I don’t know the answer to. Have you considered using Vyos 1.3 RC4? It does not suffer from this issue as the kernel version is different.
Apropos of this, does anybody know how I downgrade a running system? Does add system image <url> work to downgrade or only to upgrade? (I’m guessing the config migration scripts that run at boot don’t like seeing versions from newer versions)
Hello @asgeirbjarnason
I tested the device with QAT support in our lab, and modules do not load when you have disabled QAT acceleration in VyOS CLI
vyos@R2-QAT:~$ show version | match Version
Version: VyOS 1.4-rolling-202106062324
vyos@R2-QAT:~$ show configuration commands | match qat
vyos@R2-QAT:~$ sudo lsmod | grep qat
vyos@R2-QAT:~$ show system cpu
CPU Vendor: GenuineIntel
Model: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU C3758 @ 2.20GHz
Total CPUs: 0-7
Sockets: 1
Cores: 8
Threads: 1
Current MHz: 2197.813
Minimum MHz: 800.0000
Maximum MHz: 2200.0000
vyos@R2-QAT:~$ cat /proc/modules | grep qat
vyos@R2-QAT:~$