Re: Error loading tcp_bbr kernel module

From: Michael Tuexen <tuexen_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Sat, 9 May 2020 17:42:55 +0200
> On 9. May 2020, at 16:25, Gordon Bergling <gbergling_at_googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> thanks for your reply.
> 
> I tried tcp_rack and tcp_bbr, since both are separate TCP stacks. I just posted the wrong error message. Both TCP stacks weren’t loadable as a kernel module with just the former mentioned build option.
> 
> I currently have build running with both kernel options  you mentioned.
> 
> If the build is successful and I can change the default TCP stack to RACK and BBR I let you know.
That would be great. I have them running on my machines, but I might have missed something.
> 
> Further I didn’t find any documentation within tcp(4) regarding RACK and BBR. Since I am about to enhance the manpages, I’ll extent tcp(4) about information about RACK and BBR, but this is a different topic.
> 
Yes it is. And I would suggest to use separate man pages, a single one for each stack.
The the generic man page might refer to them...

Best regards
Michael
> Best regards,
> 
> Gordon
> 
>> Am 09.05.2020 um 14:37 schrieb Michael Tuexen <tuexen_at_freebsd.org>:
>> 
>>> On 9. May 2020, at 14:18, Gordon Bergling <gbergling_at_googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Greetings,
>>> 
>>> I build -CURRENT with WITH_EXTRA_TCP_STACKS=1, but I got the following error
>>> when I try to load for example tcp_bbr.ko.
>>> z
>>> kldload: an error occurred while loading module tcp_rack.ko. Please check dmesg(8) for more details.
>> This indicates that you want to load the RACK stack.
>> 
>> Please note that you need for BBR and RACK:
>> options		TCPHPTS
>> in the kernel config and in addition to that for RACK
>> options		RATELIMIT
>> 
>> Best regards
>> Michael
>>> 
>>> dmesg shows:
>>> 
>>> KLD tcp_bbr.ko: depends on tcphpts - not available or version mismatch
>>> linker_load_file: /boot/kernel/tcp_bbr.ko - unsupported file type
>>> 
>>> Any hints on solving the problem?
>>> 
>>> The kernel config is GENERIC.
>>> 
>>> Best regards,
>>> 
>>> Gordon
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