Re: polling(4) rocks!

2004-11-17 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 05:51:24AM -, Mark Magiera wrote: > > Why can some NIC use polling and others not ? > > > > eg I went to turn on polling on my BCM5782 Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit > >Ethernet Card. And bge(4) doesn't mention anything about polling. > > > > Is it a hardware feature of

Re: polling(4) rocks!

2004-11-17 Thread Mark Magiera
> Why can some NIC use polling and others not ? > > eg I went to turn on polling on my BCM5782 Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit >Ethernet Card. And bge(4) doesn't mention anything about polling. > > Is it a hardware feature of the NIC ? > > - aW > >From `man 4 polling`: SUPPORTED DEVICES Polli

Re: polling(4) rocks!

2004-11-17 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
Why can some NIC use polling and others not ? eg I went to turn on polling on my BCM5782 Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Card. And bge(4) doesn't mention anything about polling. Is it a hardware feature of the NIC ? - aW 0n Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 09:13:51PM +0300, Yar Tikhiy w

ng_fec with tap interfaces.

2004-11-17 Thread Chris Dionissopoulos[freemail]
Hello, I'm trying to load-balance and failover 2 lines using ng_fec. This is my configuraration and schema so far: LAN---clients_net | [router1][box1] -[router2] |\---$sp-nat-1 |\---$sp-nat-2 (ISP1)

Re: in.c autoadding prefix route [PATCH]

2004-11-17 Thread Max Laier
On Wednesday 17 November 2004 23:02, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 07:50:32PM +0300, Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote: > > Ð ÑÑ, 11/11/2004 Ð 21:24 +0100, Max Laier ÐÐÑÐÑ: > > > All, > > > > > > I know I have sent this a couple of times before, but never got > > > anywhere. This time

Re: in.c autoadding prefix route [PATCH]

2004-11-17 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 07:50:32PM +0300, Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote: > В чт, 11/11/2004 в 21:24 +0100, Max Laier пишет: > > All, > > > > I know I have sent this a couple of times before, but never got anywhere. > > This > > time I am set to commit! > > > > The attached patch (http://people.

Re: polling(4) rocks!

2004-11-17 Thread James
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 01:52:49AM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 09:13:51PM +0300, Yar Tikhiy wrote: > > > The router box is a 1.4GHz Celeron PC with an fxp(4) interface split > > across a dozen of vlans. There is nothing special about its setup > > except for ~250 rules

Re: polling(4) rocks!

2004-11-17 Thread Bosko Milekic
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 02:08:25PM -0500, Charles Swiger wrote: > On Nov 17, 2004, at 1:52 PM, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > >On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 09:13:51PM +0300, Yar Tikhiy wrote: > >[ ...praise of polling(4)... ] > >Does polling(4) increase latency? It is very imortant for router > >that handles

Re: polling(4) rocks!

2004-11-17 Thread Charles Swiger
On Nov 17, 2004, at 1:52 PM, Eugene Grosbein wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 09:13:51PM +0300, Yar Tikhiy wrote: [ ...praise of polling(4)... ] Does polling(4) increase latency? It is very imortant for router that handles lots of RTP (VoIP) traffic. Using polling does increase the latency of the tra

Re: polling(4) rocks!

2004-11-17 Thread Yar Tikhiy
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 01:52:49AM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 09:13:51PM +0300, Yar Tikhiy wrote: > > > The router box is a 1.4GHz Celeron PC with an fxp(4) interface split > > across a dozen of vlans. There is nothing special about its setup > > except for ~250 rules

Re: polling(4) rocks!

2004-11-17 Thread Eugene Grosbein
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 09:13:51PM +0300, Yar Tikhiy wrote: > The router box is a 1.4GHz Celeron PC with an fxp(4) interface split > across a dozen of vlans. There is nothing special about its setup > except for ~250 rules loaded into ipfw2. It is running 4.10-RELEASE. > Without polling, it was

polling(4) rocks!

2004-11-17 Thread Yar Tikhiy
Hi there, I can't but remind you that there's polling(4) in FreeBSD :-) Until today, I was convinced for some obscure reason that polling(4) was an experimental feature that might or might not work. Today I tried it on our central router box and got astounding results. The router box is a 1.4GH

Re: in.c autoadding prefix route

2004-11-17 Thread Vladimir Grebenschikov
В чт, 11/11/2004 в 21:24 +0100, Max Laier пишет: > All, > > I know I have sent this a couple of times before, but never got anywhere. > This > time I am set to commit! > > The attached patch (http://people.freebsd.org/~mlaier/in.c.patch) derived > from > WIDE via OpenBSD in.c, rev 1.21 impro