Re: load balancing with 2 nic cards possible?

2002-04-27 Thread Olafur Osvaldsson
The FEC works for me doing the following on 4.5-STABLE: # cd /usr/src/sys # tar -zxvf /fec.tar.gz # cd modules/netgrah/fec && make install # kldload ng_fec.ko # ngctl mkpeer fec dummy fec # ngctl msg fec0: add_iface '"fxp0"' # ngctl msg fec0: add_iface '"fxp1"' # ngctl msg fec0: set_mode_inet t

Re: NFS clearing attribute cache in nfs_open

2002-04-27 Thread Robert Watson
On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Brian Candler wrote: > > If you are really > > into clusters with low-latency, you might want to look into something like > > NFS V4 (Is anybody working on that on FreeBSD, anymore?), AFS, CODA, or > > something more specialized. Those networked filesystems have a > > bidre

Re: NFS clearing attribute cache in nfs_open

2002-04-27 Thread Robert Watson
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Brian Candler wrote: > I have been tracing some performance problems on diskless systems. In > particular, the following test program: > >perl -e 'for ($i=0;$i<1000;$i++) { open F,"; close F;}' > > generates 1000 'access' transactions, and hence an exchange of 2000 UDP

IPSEC, IPFW, and NATD

2002-04-27 Thread Jonathan Feally
Network setup: Networks Inside Net - 192 Outside Net - 63 - Natd from 192 to 63 and back Server Net - 216 I have a esp transport IPSec policy setup from my outside IP(63) to a server on the Internet(216) and back. Machines on the 192 go though the natd on the outside interface and get translated

Re: load balancing with 2 nic cards possible?

2002-04-27 Thread Baldur Gislason
I have tried that fec driver, no luck. I get the interface up, but when I try to transmit packets over it I get "invalid argument" or something like that, I had the network cards hooked to a Cisco catalyst and I had grouped the ports, and I've tried two types of network cards, 3com 905C and Int

Re: NFS clearing attribute cache in nfs_open

2002-04-27 Thread Brian Candler
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 04:42:48PM -0700, Andrew P. Lentvorski wrote: > > ... Could it safely be made less restrictive, e.g. don't > > clear the cache when opening a file for read? > > In a word, no. Why couldn't the sysadmin be running "make installworld" > on the NFS server while you're runnin