Re: funding TCP stack rewrite

2001-11-30 Thread Anthony Atkielski
George writes: > What is the exact set of goals to be achieved > by the rewrite? It will give developers some cool code to write. After all, there isn't any other reason to rewrite something if it already works. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" i

Re: Capturing packets w/ bad CRC's?

2001-11-30 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Ryan Mooney wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm trying to write an ethernet level network tester to test a wireless > gigabit product the company I'm working for has developed. I need > to be able to get packets off a Gig-E interface that have bad CRC > checksums so I can see how badly mangled they are.

Re: funding TCP stack rewrite

2001-11-30 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* George V. Neville-Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011130 15:15] wrote: > > I don't think a rewrite is ever going to be much of a good idea, > > a restructuring might, meaning that fixing up all the layering > > and making it more flat like Van Jacobson suggested (and Linux > > implemented in one of th

Re: funding TCP stack rewrite

2001-11-30 Thread Robert Watson
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Bill Fumerola wrote: > core has nothing to do with preventing or allowing completed work to > enter the tree. the quality of the code does. presumably, the people > that the foundation (or NAI or whoever) contracts to do FreeBSD work are > of high calibur and that isn't a pr

Re: funding TCP stack rewrite

2001-11-30 Thread George V. Neville-Neil
> I don't think a rewrite is ever going to be much of a good idea, > a restructuring might, meaning that fixing up all the layering > and making it more flat like Van Jacobson suggested (and Linux > implemented in one of their stack of the year projects) might > gain us performance. I would disag

Capturing packets w/ bad CRC's?

2001-11-30 Thread Ryan Mooney
Hello, I'm trying to write an ethernet level network tester to test a wireless gigabit product the company I'm working for has developed. I need to be able to get packets off a Gig-E interface that have bad CRC checksums so I can see how badly mangled they are. I've tried using pcap and ng_eth

Re: funding TCP stack rewrite

2001-11-30 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Jonathan Lemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011130 14:40] wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 12:09:20PM -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > > Will the dedicated work of the said guru get a high priority as far as > > > review and commit steps are concerned? A public semi-formal commitment > > > or encouragem

Re: TCP anomalies (was Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?)

2001-11-30 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > Can you run these tests again with rfc1323 off ? Not any time soon. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: funding TCP stack rewrite

2001-11-30 Thread Jonathan Lemon
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 12:09:20PM -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > Will the dedicated work of the said guru get a high priority as far as > > review and commit steps are concerned? A public semi-formal commitment > > or encouragement from FreeBSD core group may be in order to raise > > support fr

Re: TCP anomalies (was Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?)

2001-11-30 Thread jayanth
Garrett, Can you run these tests again with rfc1323 off ? jayanth Garrett Wollman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > < >said: > > [Quoting Bruce Mah:] > > >> happens. In *most* cases, the receiver somehow gets the missing data > >> because you can later see it acking later sequence numbers. The

Re: funding TCP stack rewrite

2001-11-30 Thread Jordan Hubbard
> Will the dedicated work of the said guru get a high priority as far as > review and commit steps are concerned? A public semi-formal commitment > or encouragement from FreeBSD core group may be in order to raise > support from the community. Otherwise, folks may worry that these big > changes, o

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-11-30 Thread Jonathan Lemon
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >Hmm, this is what has broken fast retransmit. >I should probably replace > if (tp->t_dupacks < tcprexmtthresh) >tp->t_dupacks = 0; > > with > if (tcp_do_newreno && (tp->t_dupacks < tcprexmtthresh)) >

Re: Revised polling code for STABLE

2001-11-30 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 05:30:14AM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: > But this doesn't require _very_ accurate syncing with the hardclock > interrupt. It's similar to scheduling. The scheduler runs approximately Maybe there is a misunderstanding here. What i want to call from hardclock() is the thres

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet in.c

2001-11-30 Thread Brian Somers
> brian 2001/11/30 06:00:55 PST > > Modified files: > sys/netinet in.c > Log: > During SIOCAIFADDR, if in_ifinit() fails and we've already added an > interface address, blow the address away again before returning the > error. > > In in_ifinit(), if we get an er

Re: Revised polling code for STABLE

2001-11-30 Thread Bruce Evans
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 06:37:33PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > > > The call to update_poll_threshold() however needs to be done by > > > either hardclock() or statclock() (i am experimenting with that > ...

TCP anomalies (was Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?)

2001-11-30 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > Your 4.4-STABLE machine, is it from before or after rev 1.107.2.18 of > sys/netinet/tcp_input.c? Before. > Also...where did you do the trace (i.e. sender, receiver, or a third > machine)? Sender, of course -- that's the only place some of these phenomena could possibly be observed.

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-11-30 Thread jayanth
Hmm, this is what has broken fast retransmit. I should probably replace if (tp->t_dupacks < tcprexmtthresh) tp->t_dupacks = 0; with if (tcp_do_newreno && (tp->t_dupacks < tcprexmtthresh)) tp->t_dupacks = 0; jayanth Bruce A

Re: funding TCP stack rewrite

2001-11-30 Thread Bill Fumerola
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 10:27:04AM -0700, Alex Rousskov wrote: > What kind of sum of money are we talking about here? Can you estimate > what hacker/month effort is required? Would it make sense to setup a > [paypal] fund of some kind, hosted on freebsd.org to raise the > required sum? That way s

Re: TCP anomalies (was Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?)

2001-11-30 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: [Quoting Bruce Mah:] >> happens. In *most* cases, the receiver somehow gets the missing data >> because you can later see it acking later sequence numbers. The first >> place I saw this was at :41.504152. Those are not duplicate acks because the window is still getting updated. >> An

Re: funding TCP stack rewrite

2001-11-30 Thread George V. Neville-Neil
> On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 09:01:21AM -0600, mark tinguely wrote: > > > Too bad there are not companies throwing money around to fund a good > > > rewrite...of course there is some competative advatange to do so only > > > for themselves. > > > > Anyon

funding TCP stack rewrite

2001-11-30 Thread Alex Rousskov
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 09:01:21AM -0600, mark tinguely wrote: > > Too bad there are not companies throwing money around to fund a good > > rewrite...of course there is some competative advatange to do so only > > for themselves. > > Anyone want to fund

Re: Revised polling code for STABLE

2001-11-30 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 06:37:33PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: > On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > The call to update_poll_threshold() however needs to be done by > > either hardclock() or statclock() (i am experimenting with that ... > Why in that particular interrupt? If you do it in

Re: Does 4.4 FreeBSD kernel supports TCP simultaneous open?

2001-11-30 Thread Jonathan Lemon
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 09:01:21AM -0600, mark tinguely wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 10:05:34AM -0600, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 03:03:04PM +0800, ¼B¾JÂ× wrote: > > > Thanks...I know where my problem is now...It's indeed a duplicate SYN. > > > > > > By the way, the t

Re: Does 4.4 FreeBSD kernel supports TCP simultaneous open?

2001-11-30 Thread mark tinguely
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 10:05:34AM -0600, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 03:03:04PM +0800, ¼B¾JÂ× wrote: > > Thanks...I know where my problem is now...It's indeed a duplicate SYN. > > > > By the way, the tcp_input function is so long and large and there are > > several goto sta

Re: kern/31575: wrong src ip address for some ICMPs

2001-11-30 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
[Redirected to -net] [Category changed to "kern"] On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 11:01:56AM +0700, Igor M Podlesny wrote: [...] > [router] > | > X>|backbone|--> > | > | > Yip1|the same media|--[some another ip-network] > |ip2|the same media|--|some box| > > Here is "rou