On 2008/02/07 11:08, Joe Warren-Meeks wrote: > On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 07:19:03PM +0100, Pete Vickers wrote: > > Hey there, > > > OpenBSD's bge driver sucks big time, typical symptoms are very slow > > transfers, and incrementing errors (netstat -i). > > You can confirm this by booting $other_os_boot_cd and retesting. > > Ah, I was unaware of this. I've got a pair of OpenBSD firewalls running > pf and carp using bge interfaces. > > What is the best miliation strategy to deal with this? I've upped the > tcp recvspace and sendspace. Any idea if/when the driver will be > improved?
recvspace and sendspace do *nothing* to packet-forwarding performance. they affect only locally sourced/sinked traffic.
