Accidentally, the size of IOMEM dataspace got accounted within the
implementation of the platform driver for ARM. Instead we should
only account a bit for the metadata and paging of the I/O memory.
Fix#4307
The custom ack avail handler is required for zero-copy nic drivers (e.g.
the zynq nic driver), which must release the corresponding DMA buffers.
Fixesgenodelabs/genode#4277
This component can service Qemu VirtIO mouse, keyboard and tablet
devices. The implementation is based on VirtIO 1.1 device spec. Its
described in section 5.8 "Input Device".
Issue #4282
- CPU-architecture annotations
- Change order of top-level menu, moving Mesa driver to the end
- Add black_hole, recall_fs, file_fault
- Add usb_webcam, test-capture
- Add audio driver and mixer
- Add vbox6, keeping vbox5-nova-sculpt as fallback
- Remove recall_fs launcher, which is obsolete with the recall_fs pkg
- Replace system_clock by system_clock-pc pkg
Issue #4281
This patch extends the notion of having only one uniquely hovered client
in the presence of held keys.
If motion occurs once a key is pressed (e.g., while dragging), the
receiver of the key sequence observes the motion events. In this case,
we have to submit an artificial leave event to the originally hovered
client so that no more than one client observes itself as being hovered
at the same time. Once the key sequence is finished, the hovering is
updated again, eventually presenting a motion event to the originally
hovered client and a leave event to the receiver of the key sequence.
Issue #4176
The new 'Env::try_session' method mirrors the existing 'Env::session'
without implicitly handling exceptions of the types 'Out_of_ram',
'Out_of_caps', 'Insufficient_ram_quota', and 'Insufficient_cap_quota'.
It enables runtime environments like init to reflect those exceptions to
their children instead of paying the costs of implicit session-quota
upgrades out of the own pocket.
By changing the 'Parent_service' to use 'try_session', this patch fixes
a resource-exhaustion problem of init in Sculpt OS that occurred when
the GPU multiplexer created a large batch of IO_MEM sessions, with each
session requiring a second attempt with the session quota upgraded by
4 KiB.
Issue #3767
'Out_of_ram' was so far the only exception a client had to deal with
during buffer managment. Allocating memory, however, does not only
consume RAM quota but CAP quota as well.
This commit tries to mitigate that shortcoming by reflecting the
'Out_of_caps' state back to the client. Furthermore it allows for
resource accounting on certain client allocations, e.g. buffers.
Fixes#4284.
Allocating and mapping buffers not only consumes RAM quota, it consumes
CAP quota as well. Extended the Gpu session to allow for dealing with
that on the client side.
On a side note, the amount of initial CAP quota needed to establish
a connection is increased to cover the current costs of the Intel
GPU multiplexer.
Issue #4284.
The platform driver uses a 'Constrained_ram_allocator' to allocate
meta-data on behave of a client. It uses the PD session as
'Ram_allocator' back end that in return is implemented via the
'Expanding_pd_session_client'.
Whenever the PD client itselft comes into resource shortage it will
ask its parent unconditionally. However, depending on the integration,
such a request may be left unanswered.
This commit introduces a check to prevent that situation from
occurring. In case the platform driver notices the resource shortage
it will reflect that back to the client.
Issue #4284.
ROM clients have to request an initial update of dynamic ROMs explicitly
and should not depend on artificial signals from the ROM session on
signal-handler registration.
Issue #4274
The sequence app should immediately stop the child when it called
parent().exit(). Otherwise, the child will continue execution which
causes a race condition: The child's ld.lib.so will eventually destruct
an Attached_rom_dataspace for the config rom. If sequence destructed the
corresponding service first, we will get an Ipc_error.
genodelabs/genode#4267
This patch introduces a C API to be used by input drivers to generate
Genode events. The initial version is limited to multitouch events only.
Fixes#4273
The former implementation did not internally track ROM changes notified
vs. delivered to the client. We adapt the versioning implementation
implemented in dynamic_rom_session.h and enable explicit notification of
the current version.
The feature is used by the clipboard to notify permitted readers of the
clipboard ROM service on focus change via the newly created private
Rom::Module::_notify_permitted_readers() function.
Fixes#4274
The various mapping methods are modelled after the requirements of
the Intel GPUs or rather the Mesa driver back end.
With upcoming support for other driver back ends, we need to
sequeeze their requirements in as well. For now hijack 'map_buffer'
to provide for specifying the kind of attributes the client needs.
For now all buffers mapped in the GGTT for Intel GPUs are treated
as RW.
Issue #4265.
This call allows for checking if the given execution buffer has been
completed and complements the completion signal. Initially the GPU
multiplexer always sent such a signal when the currently scheduled
execution buffer has been completed. During enablement of the 'iris'
driver it became necessary to properly check of sequence number.
In case of the Intel GPU multiplexer the sequence numbers are
continous, which prompted the greater-than-or-equal check in the
DRM back end. By hidding this implementation detail behind the
interface, GPU drivers are free to deal with sequence numbers any
way they like and allows for polling in the client, where the
completion signal is now more of a progress signal.
Issue #4265.
The current info implementation (as RPC) is limited in a few ways:
* The amount of data that may be transferred is constrained by the
underlying base platform
* Most information never changes during run time but is copied
nonetheless
* The information differs depending on the used GPU device and
in its current implementation only contains Intel GPU specific
details
With this commit the 'info' RPC call is replaced with the
'info_dataspace' call that transfers the capability for the dataspace
containing the information only. This is complemented by a client
local 'attached_info' call that allows for getting typed access to
the information. The layout of the information is moved to its own
and GPU-specific header file, e.g., 'gpu/info_intel.h'
Issue #4265.
Rather than using the dataspace capability directly, let the client
choose its own local identifier that is linked to the underlying
capability.
Fixes#4265.
Right now the warning about failure to forward packet from driver to
uplink RX connection reads:
"exception while trying to forward packet from driverto Uplink
connection TX"
Add missing space between "driver" and "to".
Issue #4264
32KB is a rather small value. The driver can cope with it now, but
it does not perform as well as it should. This visible especially
in scenarions like nic_router_flood where we still often hit
synchronous wait path. Bump the size to 256kB.
Issue #4264
The problem can be seen when running nic_router_flood scenarion on arm
qemu_virt boards. With the amount of data this scenario tries to send
the driver quickly complains it has failed to push data into TX VirtIO
queue. After this warning message is printed nothing really happens and
after a while the test scenario fails.
The fact that we can't write all available data to the device is not
unexpected. VirtIO queue size is slected at initialization time and we
don't change it during driver lifetime. It can be tweaked via driver
config, but this does not change the fact that we'll always be able to
produce more data packets than we have free space in the VirtIO queue.
IMO the expected behavior of the driver in such case should be to:
1. Notify the device there is data to process.
2. Wait for the device to process at least part of it.
3. Retry sending queued packets.
One could expect returning Transmit_result::RETRY from _drv_transmit_pkt
would produce such result. Unfortunately it seems that Uplink_client_base
treats RETRY return value as indication of link being down. It'll retry
sending the packet only after the device notifies it the link is once
again up. This is the reason why nothing happens when running
nic_router_flood on top of virtio_nic driver. The link never goes down
in this case so once we fill the TX VirtIO queue and tell the base class
to retry the send, we'll be stuck waiting for link up change event
which will never arrive.
To fix this problem, when sending a packet to the device fails, do a
synchrnonus TX VirtIO queue flush (tell device there is data to process
and wait until its done with it).
With this fix in place nic_router_flood test scenario passes on both arm
qemu_virt boards.
Issue #4264
The contents of those descriptor rings can be modified by the device.
Mark them as volatile so the compiler does not make any assumptions
about them.
Issue #4264
This commit contains features and buf fixes:
* Catch errors during resource allocation
* Because Mesa tries to allocate fence (hardware) registers for each
batch buffer execution, do not allocate new fences for buffer objects
that are already fenced
* Add support for global hardware status page. Each context additionally
has a per-process hardware status page, which we used to set the
global hardware status page during Vgpu switch. This was obviously
wrong. There is only one global hardware status page (set once during
initialization) and a distinct per-process page for contexts.
* Write the sequence number of the currently executing batch buffer to
dword 52 of the per-process hardware status page. We use the pipe line
command with QW_WRITE (quad word write), GLOBAL_GTT_IVB disabled
(address space is per-process address space), and STORE_DATA_INDEX
enabled (write goes to offset of hardware status page). This command
used to write to the scratch page. But Linux now uses the first
reserved word of the per-process hardware status page.
* Add Gen9+ WaEnableGapsTsvCreditFix workaround. This sets the "GAPS TSV
Credit fix Enable" bit of the Arbiter control register (GARBCNTLREG)
as described by the documentation this bit should be set by the BIOS
but is not on most Gen9/9.5 platforms. Not setting this bit leads to
random GPU hangs.
* Increase the context size from 20 to 22 pages for Gen9. On Gen8 the
hardware context is 20 pages (1 hardware status page + 19 ring context
register pages). On Gen9 the size of the ring context registers has
increased by two pages to 21 pages or 81.3125 KBytes as the IGD
documentation states.
* The logical ring size in the ring buffer control of the execlist
context has to be programmed with number of pages - 1. So 0 is 1 page.
We programmed the actual number of pages before, leading to ring
buffer execution of NOOPs if page behind our ring buffer was empty or
GPU hangs if there was data on the page.
issue #4260
Increased number of trace subjects since the test sporadically fails on
some platforms.
Also added a sanity check to print an error message in case we run into
the same issue again.
Fixesgenodelabs/genode#4261
The NIC router parses, stores and forwards DNS domain names from DHCP replies.
Yet the routers DHCP client used to not request DNS domain-name information on
DHCP requests. This caused DHCP servers to skip this information on their
replies although it was available. This commit fixes the issue by adding the
DNS domain name code to the request parameter list of requests from the routers
DHCP client.
The 'black_hole' component provides dummy implementations of common
session interfaces.
At this time, only the 'Audio_out' session is provided if enabled
in the configuration of the component:
<config>
<audio_out/>
</config>
Issue #3653
According to spec the tail pointer points to the next qword instructions
which will be used by the software.
p 1354, Doc Ref # IHD-OS-BDW-Vol 2c-11.15
issue #4254
Superpages (2M, 1G) are not supported by now, but partially copied over code
from base-hw was around. Remove unused register definitions and remove
non-working super page code do avoid confusion.
issue #4254
Size argument of ggtt free range check is ignored, which leads to
overlapping allocations inside, which leads to unavailable IO-MEM exceptions
thrown by core.
issue #4254
Both, trace_logger and vfs_trace had their own trace_buffer.h. This
commit consolidates the existing implementations and provides the
resulting trace_buffer.h at 'include/trace/'. It thereby becomes part of
the trace api archive.
genodelabs/genode#4244
If the trace subjects are not properly destructed when the TRACE client
disappears, enabled sources will be owned by a non-existing client.
In other words, when a TRACE client disappears all sources owned by the
client must be disabled.
genodelabs/genode#4247
test-trace always passed, although tracing was never enabled because the
trace subject was not within the first 32 subjects.
* increase number of queried subjects
* output error if trace subject was not found
genodelabs/genode#4247
With this commit, the NIC router DHCP client reads out the first DNS domain
name (DHCP option 15) if any from a DHCP reply that generates an IPv4 config
for a domain and stores the name together with the IPv4 config for that domain.
DNS domain names are reported via the new report tag '<dns-domain>' if the
'config' attribute in the config tag '<report>' is set.
Furthermore, the NIC router DHCP server becomes able to obtain a DNS domain
name from another domain that has a DHCP client dynamically (given the config
attribute 'dns_config_from' is set and no static DNS config is given) or
statically from its configuration (new config tag '<dns-domain>') and propagate
this name with DHCP replies (DHCP option 15).
The 'nic_router_dhcp_*' tests are adapted to test the new feautures.
The commit also gets rid of some mirrored files in
'test/nic_router_dhcp/manager'.
Fixes#4246
WARNING: BREAKS CONFIG COMPATIBILITY!
This commit changes the configuration interface of the NIC router in a way that
may break systems that use the component without proper adjustment!
How to adjust:
At each occurrence of the 'dns_server_from' attribute in a NIC router
configuration replace the attribute name with 'dns_config_from'. The attribute
value remains unaltered.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
The new attribute name 'dns_config_from' reflects that also other aspects of
the DNS configuration of the denominated domain are used by the DHCP server
that holds the attribute. This commit is a preparation for forwarding also the
domain name (DHCP option 15) with the mechanism behind the attribute.
Ref #4246
The fact that the IPv4 config was a struct with all data members public was a
mere leftover of an early state of the NIC router. Today, the router
implementation style is to avoid structs and public data members wherever
possible.
This commit slightly changes the behavior of the router regarding log output.
The router used to print malformed IPv4 configurations to the log only if
the 'verbose' config flag was set using this style:
! [my_domain] malformed dynamic IP config: interface 10.0.2.1/24 ...
Now, malformed IPv4 configurations are only printed if the
'verbose_domain_state' config flag is set (like with any IP4v configuration
states) using this style:
! [my_domain] dynamic IP config: malformed (interface 10.0.2.1/24 ...)
Fixes#4242
The NIC router DHCP server used to add an extra option 6 field to DHCP replies
for each DNS server address. This conflicts with RFC #2132 section 3.8 which
states that the addresses should be listed within one option 6 field without
delimiter. The discrepancy is fixed by this commit.
Ref #4242
Via a new configuration attribute, the user can decide whether the router
should answer dropped fragmented IPv4 with an ICMP "destination unreachable"
packet and, if so, which value the ICMP code field of this packet should have.
The default is that the router doesn't send such responses (silently dropping
fragmented IPv4). The behavior is tested by the 'nic_router_ipv4_fragm' test.
Fixes#4236
If the new attribute 'dropped_fragm_ipv4' of the <report> tag in the NIC router
config is set "yes", the router will report the number of packets that were
dropped per interface respectively domain because fragmented IPv4 is not
supported. The default is not to report the counter. The behavior is tested by
the 'nic_router_ipv4_fragm' test.
Ref #4236
The NIC router used to ignore the IPv4 header fields "More fragments" and
"Fragment offset" completely. Therefore higher-level protocols of fragmented
IPv4 were interpreted wrong because each fragment was considered a self-
standing packet, expecting, for instance UDP/TCP headers somewhere inside of
the UDP/TCP data field. Normally, such packets were dropped as soon as the
UDP/TCP checksum check failed because of the misinterpretation. However,
it was also possible for fragmented IPv4 to pass the router although normally
only partially.
IPv4 fragmentation support in the router would introduce some potential
security risks and is presumably not an easy endeavor. So, for now, we settled
on not supporting IPv4 fragmentation. With this commit, the router simply drops
all fragmented IPv4. This is reflected to the log for each fragment as "drop
packet (fragmented IPv4 not supported)" when 'verbose_packet_drop="yes"' is
configured.
The new test 'run/nic_router_ipv4_fragm' is an automated test for this
behavior. The test is added to the autopilot list.
Ref #4236
* the GPU multiplexer now offers the platform service to the Intel
framebuffer driver (driver_manager)
* ajdusted drivers_managed-pc to hand out resources to the GPU driver
* adjust quotas
issue #4233
The platform services is intented to be used by dde_linux's intel_fb_drv
in order to initlialize displays.
* implement and announce platform session
* limit accessible GTT and aperture of client to 64 MB
* forward display engine IRQs to platform client
* move all PCI resources to 'Igd::Resources' class in order to make them
accessible by the platform service and the GPU driver
* fix fence register allocation for id zero (return true)
issue #4233
For mesa-21 the client takes care and manages
the virtual address space of the vGPU by itself and the intel/gpu driver
can't add silently a guard page anymore. Move the patch to the drm/ioctl
of the former mesa version.
Issue #4148#4233
_unmap_dataspace_ggtt requires the cap of Ggtt::Mapping (ring_map, ctx_map)
in order to find the right metadata and to free up the ggtt entries. Also the
pte range is removed already if the metadata was found.
Issue #4148#4233
BREAKS CONFIG COMPATIBILITY:
This commit changes the configuration interface of the NIC router in a way that
may break systems that use the component without proper adjustment!
HOW TO ADJUST:
At each occurrence of the '<uplink ...>' tag in a NIC router configuration
replace the tag name 'uplink' with 'nic-client'. The rest of the tag stays the
same.
The term "uplink" for network interfaces in the router that have a NIC session
client as back end was introduced in a time when Uplink sessions didn't yet
exist. Now, they do and, although both an uplink and an Uplink session
normally describe a network session between router and network device driver,
they are based on two different service types (NIC and Uplink). This can easily
cause confusion when integrating the router (the <uplink> is not related to
Uplink sessions) or trying to understand its functioning (an 'Uplink' object
has nothing to do with the Uplink service).
Therefore, this commit introduces the more specific term "NIC client" for an
interface that is based on a NIC session requested by the router. This doesn't
imply any semantic changes at the NIC router. However, the commit also brings a
broader update of the router's README and removes the term "downlink" that was
used only in documentation to refer to interfaces backed by a NIC session
provided by the router. The term was only associated with this meaning because
it is the natural counterpart to an uplink. This isn't appropriate anymore as
the terms for interface types have moved to a more technical level.
The commit adjusts all scenarios in the basic Genode repositories properly.
Fixes#4238
An interface that received a signal for a link-state change accessed its
domain reference without assuming that it could not be attached to a domain
at that moment. This caused the NIC router to crash with an uncaught exception
of type 'Net::Pointer<Net::Domain>::Invalid'. The commit adds a catch
directive for this exception resulting in the handler doing nothing if not
attached to any domain.
Fixes#4222
The test script failed during preparation of the on-target execution for
USB Armory with the following error:
! can't read "tz_vmm_block_irq": no such variable
Presumably, the script wasn't run anymore since the introduction of the
'tz_vmm_block_irq' variable for i.MX53 QSB. As we do not have infrastructure
for automated testing of the USB Armory and there seems to be not much
interest in using Genode on this platform, this commit simply removes the
support from the script.
Filtering boards in a run script by specs isn't the right way anymore (the
specs do not exist anymore). Nowadays, we have to use [have_board] instead.
Ref #4229
For unknown reasons, the former 'wget genode.org' call, that was meant to test
network in the Trustzone guest on imx53_qsb_tz, didn't succeed anymore although
the same call succeeded on my Sculpt VM Linux. However, 'ping 1.1.1.1' still
works, so, the script now uses this as test for networking instead.
Fixes#4229
So far, in order to create an ARP reply, the NIC router merely created a copy
of the corresponding ARP request and modified only those values that differ.
This approach has the disadvantage of re-using bad parameters from a broken
request. The specific use-case that made this visible was an early version of
the Pine board network driver that used to forward ARP requests with a greater
size than required. The ARP replies of the router re-used this size and
confused other network nodes with that. In general, the NIC router should
rely on the data of incoming packets the least possible. Therefore, with this
commit, the router creates a new ARP reply from scratch and uses only those
values required from the corresponding ARP request.
Fixes#4235
The former declaration of the IPv4 packet did not only use the questionable
tool of implementation-defined C++ bitsets but also lacked access to flags
"don't fragment" (DF) and "more fragments" (MF). This commit replaces the
C++ bitsets by using the register framework and introduces accessors for the
missing flags.
Ref #4236
This commit introduces a C-API to the Uplink session, as well as to
serve as a Block service. It can be used by drivers ported from
C-only projects, like the Linux kernel, or BSD kernels for instance.
Fix#4226
Adds try-catch-statement with diagnostic errors in Dhcp_server::free_ip in
order to guard against exceptions from the underlying bit allocator. These
exceptions should never happen given that the router is programmed correctly
and always feeds Dhcp_server::free_ip with sane arguments (which it should).
However, should this not be the case, we can assume that the failed IP freeing
indicates that the IP isn't allocated anyway and it's fine to continue using
the router. Furthermore, IP allocations are a mere client service and not
relevant for the integrity or safety of the router.
Ref #4200
When Interface::handle_config_3 (third step of applying a new configuration to
interfaces) tried to detach the interface from the current IP config because
the old and new IP config differed, it did so using the new domain. The former
steps of the reconfiguration already installed the new domain reference at the
interface. Therefore, also the DHCP server of the new domain was used. This,
however caused uncaught exceptions because detaching from an IP config
includes dissolving all DHCP allocations. This dissolving of DHCP allocations
now operated on a DHCP server (the one of the new domain) that wasn't related
to the allocations and, in the worst case, caused an uncaught exception
because the IPs were out of its range.
That said, this commit ensures that detaching an interface from an IP config
is always done on the domain from which the IP config originated. Normally,
this is the domain the interface is attached to. But in the case of
Interface::handle_config_3, it is another - the former domain the interface
was attached to.
The commit also adapts the nic_router_dhcp_* tests in a way that they
reconfigure the router in a way that would trigger the uncaught exception
without the fix.
Fixes#4200
Adapts Dir_file_system::open_composite_dirs in a way that it returns "success"
when the leaf node of the path is an empty directory but "lookup failed", as
usual, if one of the other directories on the way to the leaf node is empty.
I couldn't find a technical reason why we used to return "lookup failed" when
only the leaf node was empty.
The commit also adds a test for en empty root directory and empty
sub-directories to the fs_query run script.
Fixes#4198
Enable watching files via the inotify interface of the Linux Kernel.
Delivery of watches to components is staggered in order to prevent an
overflow of the ACK queue in cases when a lot of changes are made to the
file system from the Linux side.
Fixes#4070
A reset domain can consist of one or several reset-pins
denoted by name that are assigned to a device.
When the device gets acquired via the Platform RPC API,
the pins are de-asserted, and asserted again when the
device gets released.
A configuration looks like the following:
<device name="mipi_dsi>
<reset-domain name="mipi_dsi_pclk"/>
...
</device>
Fixes#4171
Introduces the notion of a transaction that consists of one or more
messages. Whereby a message has a read or write direction and consists
of one or more bytes.
Issue #4170Fixes#4169
Report via platform_info the capabilities of the kernel, e.g. ACPI and MSI.
With the commit the try-catch pattern on IRQ session creation by the platform
driver is avoided.
Issue #4016
This patch moves the utility from the app/text_area to os/vfs.h to make
it easier to use by other components. By hosting the 'New_file' as a
friend alongside the 'Directory', we can now pass a 'Directory' as
constructor argument, which is consistent with other utilities such as
'File_content'.
As a further improvement, the new version supports the implicit creation
of the directory hierarchy leading to the new file.
Issue #4032
For fs_file_systems, reads are limited to the size of the packets from the
File_system session. Hence, we cannot read the large files in one go.
This fix is particularly helpful for fonts_fs, as it enables including font
files from a File_system.
genodelabs/genode#4135
When a DHCP packet is printed out, it first tries to determine the most
specific message type from the DHCP options and print its human-readable name
right after the protocol name. If finding the message type fails, the less
specific opcode is printed instead, but also in a human-readable way.
Fixes#4131
This new runscript demonstrates how a file can be overwritten by vfs
import with the flag overwrite set to false. This is due to a bug
in lx_fs that is not propagating an ernno EEXIST syscall error.
Issue genodelabs#4104
This commit introduces a fix for lx_fs to propagate errno EEXIST error.
This prevents vfs <import overwrite="false"> to overwrite an imported
file, if it already exists, without the overwrite flag set to true.
Issue genodelabs#4104
With the update to GCC 10, the compiler stopped with an error when compiling
places where a MAC address is copied from outside into a packed object using
the Net::Netaddress::copy method (e.g. in
Net::Arp_packet::dst_mac(Mac_address)):
! error: writing 6 bytes into a region of size 4 [-Werror=stringop-overflow=]
While trying to find a clean solution for this error, I found posts on
gcc.gnu.org and github that stated that the size calculations that cause these
errors are incorrect. Indeed, I could verify that the actual size of the two
regions was static and exactly the same in places were the error occured.
Furthermore, I couldn't find a way of making it more clear to the compiler
that the sizes are the same. By accident, we found that using the address of
the first element of the array that forms the second region instead of the
array address itself, somehow circumvents the error.
Fixes#4109
With the update to GCC 10 the compiler used to warn when using the internet
checksum functions on packet classes (like in
Net::Ipv4_packet::update_checksum):
warning: converting a packed ‘Net::[PACKET_CLASS]’ pointer
(alignment 1) to a ‘const uint16_t’ {aka ‘const short
unsigned int’} pointer (alignment 2) may result in an
unaligned pointer value
Apparently, the 'packed' attribute normally used on packet classes sets the
alignment of the packet class to 1. However, for the purpose of the
internet-checksum functions, we can assume that the packet data has no
alignment. This is expressed by casting the packet-object pointer to a pointer
of the new packed helper struct 'Packed_uint16' that contains only a single
uint16_t member before handing it over to the checksum function (instead of
casting it to a uint16_t pointer).
Ref #4109
The NAT feature of the NIC router used to prefer re-using source ports that
have been freed recently. From an external server's perspective, if a client
dies and restarts, chances are high that the new connect arrives with the same
source-IP/source-port as the old connection. The server has to forcefully reset
the connection. If that happens a lot, the server may even start to ignore
further connections from this IP/port combination for a while as a mitigation.
This patch adds a continuous counter feature that makes sure that every new
port allocation will increment and result in a port that hasn't been used for a
long time.
The NAT feature of the nic_router is now more in line with RFC 6056 chapter 4.
Ref #4086
