Re: Intermittent problems with LAN transfer speeds

2004-01-09 Thread John
Long - Adam wrote: > Any suggestions on how to test this effectively? SInce this is very intermittant and to the point where you have to reboot my first suggestion: Run top and check for a memory leak from a process. I had this once where apache would slowly use up the memory then all the swap s

Re: Intermittent problems with LAN transfer speeds

2004-01-09 Thread Adam McLaurin
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 00:48:26 +0300 (MSK) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does > ifconfig xx down; ifconfig xx up > helps? Tried that many many times; no effect. > Can be packet loss triggered by a lot of small > packets on this interface? Not that I've noticed. Any suggestions on how to test this

RE: Paper on device polling and packet capture performance

2004-01-09 Thread Guy Helmer
Richard Bejtlich wrote on January 09, 2004 11:17 AM > I was wondering if anyone read the paper by Luca Deri > (of Ntop fame) on "Improving Passive Packet Capture: > Beyond Device Polling": > > http://luca.ntop.org/Ring.pdf > > Luca makes some astounding claims regarding packet > capture performa

Re: Intermittent problems with LAN transfer speeds

2004-01-09 Thread .
> On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 13:02:23 +1000 > Q <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The first thing you should try is setting the ethernet card to use > > autosense. This enables the autosense pulse to be sent to the switch, > > without this some passive/unmanaged switches can get very confused and > > swit

Wireless Repeater

2004-01-09 Thread afshin
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Re: (revised) 4.*9*-stable & Linksys WRT54G won't talk w/each other

2004-01-09 Thread Kenneth W Cochran
>Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 12:56:20 -0500 (EST) >From: Anthony Volodkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Kenneth W Cochran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: (revised) 4.0-stable & Linksys WRT54G won't talk w/each other > >Hey, > >Apparently the WRT54G is having some

Re: (revised) 4.0-stable & Linksys WRT54G won't talk w/each other

2004-01-09 Thread Anthony Volodkin
Hey, Apparently the WRT54G is having some arp issues. I'd check the following: - install latest firmware - install Ethereal on the windows machine and watch the traffic exchange when you would ping/access the WRT54G. It is important that this is done right after boot so that the Windows machin

Windows 2000 <-> FreeBSD IPsec problem

2004-01-09 Thread haesu
Hi, I am trying to setup an IPSEC transport between a Windows 2000 box and a FreeBSD server for a customer... Both systems are on live public IP's and packets are not filtered by any intermediate systems or firewalls/routers in between. I have the following setup: Windows 2000 box: 1.1.1.2 F

(revised) 4.*9*-stable & Linksys WRT54G won't talk w/each other

2004-01-09 Thread Kenneth W Cochran
oops, mistype, that should've been 4.9-stable instead of 4.0... stupidfingers... Hello: I'm having problems getting a FreeBSD machine and a Linksys WRT54G talking with each other. Interfaces: dc0 - "public" to outside Internet dc1 - internal 192.168.0.1/24, connects to a hub dc2 - internal 192.1

(revised) 4.0-stable & Linksys WRT54G won't talk w/each other

2004-01-09 Thread Kenneth W Cochran
Hello: I'm having problems getting a FreeBSD machine and a Linksys WRT54G talking with each other. Interfaces: dc0 - "public" to outside Internet dc1 - internal 192.168.0.1/24, connects to a hub dc2 - internal 192.168.1.100/24, connects to a switched LAN port on the router dc3 - currently unused

Paper on device polling and packet capture performance

2004-01-09 Thread Richard Bejtlich
Hello, I was wondering if anyone read the paper by Luca Deri (of Ntop fame) on "Improving Passive Packet Capture: Beyond Device Polling": http://luca.ntop.org/Ring.pdf Luca makes some astounding claims regarding packet capture performance, with FreeBSD performing very well when device polling is

Re: Odd behaviour on em0 device in -stable ... I think ...

2004-01-09 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Just a quick follow up note on this ... this morning, we upgraded the server in question to latest stable, and rebooted, to see if that would clear up the problem ... The problem persisted, but, based on comments about auto-negotiation made in this thread, I figured I'd see if maybe 'forcing' to

Re: Intermittent problems with LAN transfer speeds

2004-01-09 Thread Adam McLaurin
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 21:47:59 -0500 (EST) Mitch Collinsworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When you say "both ends" do you mean computer and network switch? Or > do you mean computer A and computer B? Is the switch managed or > unmanaged? You can't set full duplex on an unmanaged switch, it is > a