RHEL8: TCP encapsulated in UDP tunnel is dropped on vmxnet3 adapters
Issue
- VXLAN on
vmxnet3
in RHEL 8.3 might cause TCP packet length to be calculated wrong in VXLAN frames. - VMware ESX drops packets coming from RHEL 8 container host machines.
- After scaling the workers into the existing OpenShift cluster not all the functionality of the OpenShift SDN works.
- Podman pod-to-pod connectivity is slow or reaches timeout.
- k3s on rhel 8 network/dns probleme and metrics not work #5013 upstream k3s GitHub Issue for flannel networking
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.3 and 8.4.
- VMware ESSi
vmxnet3
adapter with UDP tunnel such asvxlan
orGRE
- Commonly used for container networking such as third-party Kubernetes
flannel
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