Re: [tcpdump-workers] [PATCH] Add ioctl to disable bpf timestamping

2004-09-25 Thread Guy Harris
Matthew Luckie wrote: The motivation for this patch was to obtain something resembling the timestamp closest to when a packet I generated and transmitted hit the wire, to infer a more accurate RTT with an associated response packet. That's certainly a worthy goal, but the patch might not help muc

Re: (KAME-snap 8794) Re: Weird memory exhaustion with FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE

2004-09-25 Thread Pekka Savola
On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, JINMEI Tatuya / [ISO-2022-JP] [EMAIL PROTECTED]@C#:H wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 20:39:32 +0300 (EEST), > > Pekka Savola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >> 1. do you see massive number of entries with "netstat -rna"? > > > Yes. > > > # netstat -nra | wc -l > >

Re: [tcpdump-workers] [PATCH] Add ioctl to disable bpf timestamping

2004-09-25 Thread Matthew Luckie
This is probably a pointless optimization, as you probably relatively rarely have multiple BPF devices bound to the same interface receiving the bulk of the packets (as opposed to some daemon with a filter that passes only the packets it's interested in), but would there be any advantage to hav

Re: locking

2004-09-25 Thread Waldemar Kornewald
Robert Watson wrote: There are some sections of the network stack, such as the KAME IPSEC implementation, parts of IPv6, and some device drivers, which are not yet completely MPSAFE. This may or may not be an issue depending on what your requirements are. If you have any bug fixes or improvements

Re: creating default route in kernel

2004-09-25 Thread Waldemar Kornewald
George V. Neville-Neil wrote: could you please tell me how I can create a default route from within the kernel? I am a member of the Haiku (OS) networking team and maintainer of the PPP stack and for dial-on-demand support there must be a default route which does not work. BTW, we use a port of

Re: Haiku

2004-09-25 Thread Waldemar Kornewald
Julian Elischer wrote: we at the Haiku networking team are considering a port of your 5.3 netstack because it is thread-safe and making the old one (4.x, I think) thread-safe is probably a much bigger task. do you have a web page that describes what you are doing? Of course: http://www.haiku-os.or

Re: [tcpdump-workers] [PATCH] Add ioctl to disable bpf timestamping

2004-09-25 Thread Darren Reed
In some email I received from Guy Harris, sie wrote: > On Sep 8, 2004, at 2:26 AM, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > > > Here's a patch against 5.3 to add a per-instance switch which allows > > the user to specify if captured packets should be timestamped (and, > > if so, whether microtime() or the faster