Re: Collision on NIC

2003-05-31 Thread Petri Helenius
>Changing both sides to full-duplex removes to collisions. >However: Changing only one side _always_ results in packet-loss! It´s only when both sides transmit at once. Which is not always. It happens almost always though. Pete ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] m

Re: Collision on NIC

2003-05-31 Thread Erwane Breton
> Repeat after me: "Collisions are normal on ethernet. 0.03% is > nothing to be upset about." > > -- > "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" > > Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Collisions are normal on ethrnet. 0.03% is nothi

Re: Network stack cloning / virtualization patches

2003-05-31 Thread Sean Chittenden
> at http://www.tel.fer.hr/zec/vimage/ you can find a set of patches > against 4.8-RELEASE kernel that provide support for network stack > cloning. The patched kernel allows multiple fully independent > network stack instances to simultaneously coexist within a single OS > kernel, providing a found

Re: Collision on NIC

2003-05-31 Thread Wes Peters
On Friday 30 May 2003 09:26, Erwane Breton wrote: > > > Well, I don't see the problem. > > > > > > My math says that that's .03% collision rate, which is so deep in > > > the noise as to be practically zero. What do you _think_ it > > > should be? > > > > Even Mr. Inventor of the ethernet himself

Re: Network stack cloning / virtualization patches

2003-05-31 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 10:07:07PM +0200, Marko Zec wrote: >I plan to start porting the cloning code to -CURRENT once it becomes -STABLE >(that means once the 5.2 gets out, I guess). FreeBSD has a policy that all new features must be added to -CURRENT before they can be added to -STABLE (4.x or 5.

Re: Collision on NIC

2003-05-31 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 06:26:56PM +0200 I heard the voice of Erwane Breton, and lo! it spake thus: > > > > > > Well, I don't see the problem. > > > > > > My math says that that's .03% collision rate, which is so deep in the > > > noise as to be practically zero. What do you _think_ it should be

Re: Network stack cloning / virtualization patches

2003-05-31 Thread Marko Zec
Juli Mallett wrote: > * Sean Chittenden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Date: 2003-05-30 ] > [ w.r.t. Re: Network stack cloning / virtualization patches ] > > > at http://www.tel.fer.hr/zec/vimage/ you can find a set of patches > > > against 4.8-RELEASE kernel that provide support for network stack

Alpine4Linux

2003-05-31 Thread Neelkanth Natu
Hi all, Alpine4Linux is a userlevel FreeBSD 4.8 networking stack running on top of a stock Linux kernel. It is an implementation of an idea that I came across in a paper[1] by David Ely, Stefan Savage and David Wetherall. Alpine4Linux consists of a userland server program that runs the FreeBSD

RE: Collision on NIC

2003-05-31 Thread Sten Daniel Sørsdal
> > > > > > Well, I don't see the problem. > > > > > > My math says that that's .03% collision rate, which is so > deep in the > > > noise as to be practically zero. What do you _think_ it > should be? > > > > > Even Mr. Inventor of the ethernet himself regrets calling > them collisions beca

RE: Collision on NIC

2003-05-31 Thread Sreekanth
Hmmm..The thumb rule I generally follow is that if there are too many collisions, I would look at the duplex settings of the NIC and the switch.If one of them is forced(Not auto negotiated) then the other one turns itself into Half-duplex.The ifconfig display is also cryptic in the sense that it do

Re: Collision on NIC

2003-05-31 Thread Erwane Breton
> > > > Well, I don't see the problem. > > > > My math says that that's .03% collision rate, which is so deep in the > > noise as to be practically zero. What do you _think_ it should be? > > > Even Mr. Inventor of the ethernet himself regrets calling them collisions because > that term has a b

Re: limiting connections per IP w/FreeBSD ftpd?

2003-05-31 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Luigi Rizzo writes: > On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 09:33:56AM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > ... > > As for adding it to the server itself, its an alpha, and I don't think > > dummnet/ipfw are production quality on alpha... > > actually the ipfw1/dummynet code is the same and should be working

Re: limiting connections per IP w/FreeBSD ftpd?

2003-05-31 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 09:33:56AM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: ... > As for adding it to the server itself, its an alpha, and I don't think > dummnet/ipfw are production quality on alpha... actually the ipfw1/dummynet code is the same and should be working perfectly fine on the alpha. ipfw2 does