> On 26. Sep 2025, at 02:58, John Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi-
> 
> Not sure if this is a known issue or even an issue on the FreeBSD side but 
> decided to ask here first. I’m happy to put in a bug report if appropriate.
> 
> I have a hypervisor machine running Arch Linux with KVM, Qemu and libvirtd. 
> The machine has a Chelsio T520-CR adapter. I recently began passing through 
> virtual functions of the NIC to several of the guests I run on the 
> hypervisor. One of the guests runs Windows 11, and the change was seamless. 
> Two of the guests are running FreeBSD (14.3 or so). On each of them the VFs 
> were readily identified and configured (using DHCP in one case), and ping and 
> ARP appeared to work fine. However, TCP and UDP traffic to the guests never 
> received a response. After some head-scratching and troubleshooting I 
> discovered that running “ifconfig cxlv0 -rxcsum” immediately allowed traffic 
> to flow as expected.
Hi John,

I don't have access to such a network card. Just to be clear: you are running 
the “ifconfig cxlv0 -rxcsum” command inside the guest running FreeBSD, right?
What is the peer, when you mention TCP and UDP do not work? Is it the host 
running Linux? Is it another VM? Is it some external host?
> 
> As workarounds go that isn’t terrible, but I was surprised that the FreeBSD 
> guests required this adjustment while the Windows one did not.
> 
> As a point of reference I have another hypervisor machine that runs FreeBSD 
> 14-STABLE. It also has a 
So the host runs FreeBSD and you use bhyve to run some VM?
> Chelsio T520-CR adapter. FreeBSD guests on that machine do not require 
> “-rxcsum” in order to use the Chelsio virtual functions.
The guests run FreeBSD-STABLE or Freebsd 14.3?
What is the peer, when you mention TCP and UDP do not work? Is it the host 
running Linux? Is it another VM? Is it some external host?
> 
> Let me know if anyone can shed some light on this. I’m happy to provide 
> additional details or run further tests if needed. Thank you!
Maybe I can, but I need to understand the scenario...

Best regards
Michael
> 
> -John
> 
> 


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