Re: dummynet, em driver, device polling issues :-((

2005-10-04 Thread Kevin Day
On Oct 4, 2005, at 6:56 PM, Dave+Seddon wrote: You mention your running at "near" line rate. What are you pushing or pulling? Whats the rough spec of these machines pushing out this much data? What setting do you have for the polling? I've been trying to do near line rate and can't eve

RE: Which em(4) chips work/don't work? [Was: RE: dummynet, em driver, device polling issues :-((]

2005-10-04 Thread Darren Pilgrim
From: Petri Helenius [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Darren Pilgrim wrote: > >> I'd be interested in finding out the specific chips with which people are >> (not) having success. As em(4) supports an entire family of products, >> rather than a single chip, it may be that some chips have quirks or

Re: Which em(4) chips work/don't work? [Was: RE: dummynet, em driver, device polling issues :-((]

2005-10-04 Thread Petri Helenius
Darren Pilgrim wrote: I'd be interested in finding out the specific chips with which people are (not) having success. As em(4) supports an entire family of products, rather than a single chip, it may be that some chips have quirks or other gotchas the driver needs to address. It certainly woul

Re: Which em(4) chips work/don't work? [Was: RE: dummynet, em driver, device polling issues :-((]

2005-10-04 Thread Dave+Seddon
Under 5.4 this revision of the em card doesn't work: 82546EB [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:0: class=0x02 card=0x00db0e11 chip=0x10108086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82546EB Dual Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper)' class= networ

RE: Which em(4) chips work/don't work? [Was: RE: dummynet, em driver, device polling issues :-((]

2005-10-04 Thread Darren Pilgrim
[Reflowed] From: Benjamin Rosenblum > Darren Pilgrim wrote: >> >> I'd be interested in finding out the specific chips with which people >> are (not) having success. As em(4) supports an entire family of >> products, rather than a single chip, it may be that some chips have >> quirks or other gotc

Re: Which em(4) chips work/don't work? [Was: RE: dummynet, em driver, device polling issues :-((]

2005-10-04 Thread Daemon
Benjamin Rosenblum wrote: > my non working card is 82547EI aka 1000CT. > > Darren Pilgrim wrote: > >> From: Chuck Swiger >> >> >>> People who have em NICs, and who do not have problems, probably do not >>> report regularly that their Intel 10/100/1000 NIC works fine, even >>> though it does,

Re: Which em(4) chips work/don't work? [Was: RE: dummynet, em driver, device polling issues :-((]

2005-10-04 Thread Benjamin Rosenblum
my non working card is 82547EI aka 1000CT. Darren Pilgrim wrote: From: Chuck Swiger People who have em NICs, and who do not have problems, probably do not report regularly that their Intel 10/100/1000 NIC works fine, even though it does, at least for them. I've got a dozen or so machines w

Which em(4) chips work/don't work? [Was: RE: dummynet, em driver, device polling issues :-((]

2005-10-04 Thread Darren Pilgrim
From: Chuck Swiger > > People who have em NICs, and who do not have problems, probably do not > report regularly that their Intel 10/100/1000 NIC works fine, even > though it does, at least for them. I've got a dozen or so machines > with that hardware, and I haven't seen any problems with them.

Re: dummynet, em driver, device polling issues :-((

2005-10-04 Thread Dave+Seddon
Jeremie, Sorry for "top posting". My time machine is broken :) Kevin, You mention your running at "near" line rate. What are you pushing or pulling? Whats the rough spec of these machines pushing out this much data? What setting do you have for the polling? I've been trying to do near lin

Re: ng_tee, right2left, et al

2005-10-04 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Ragnar Lonn wrote this message on Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 18:58 +0200: > Ceri Davies wrote: > > >I only call it "wrong" as it didn't agree with Archie's article or my > >expectations, hence the quotes - I realise that it's subjective. > > > >It just seems to me that packets leaving left2right would g

Re: send_query: No buffer space available [SOLVED]

2005-10-04 Thread Pertti Kosunen
Pertti Kosunen wrote: What should i do to avoid these messages from MRTG and dhclient? This happens with some network load on xl0 interface and pf+altq or ipfw+dummynet+statefull rules enabled, even with simple pass rules. Increasing kern.ipc.nmbclusters, kern.ipc.nsfbufs, kern.ipc.somaxconn

Re: ng_tee, right2left, et al

2005-10-04 Thread Ragnar Lonn
Ceri Davies wrote: I only call it "wrong" as it didn't agree with Archie's article or my expectations, hence the quotes - I realise that it's subjective. It just seems to me that packets leaving left2right would go to right, as the name implies. I don't really mind either way, it's simply that

Re: dummynet, em driver, device polling issues :-((

2005-10-04 Thread Jeremie Le Hen
Hi Benjamin, Ferdinant, (Please avoid top-posting, this reverts the flow of the conversation and make the whole thread difficult to follow.) > i have been messing with the em driver now for over a month, ive come to > the conclusion is a piece of crap. if you watch on this list every > other d

Re: dummynet, em driver, device polling issues :-((

2005-10-04 Thread Benjamin Rosenblum
yea i have been messing with the driver for about a month now to try to atleast target where the failure is, ive probably put about 25-30 hours in now modifying the code and recompiling and testing it. best i have gotten is to figure out its a problem with the cache becoming full and not sendi

Re: dummynet, em driver, device polling issues :-((

2005-10-04 Thread Chuck Swiger
Benjamin Rosenblum wrote: i have been messing with the em driver now for over a month, ive come to the conclusion is a piece of crap. if you watch on this list every other day you have someone saying there em driver is causing some sort of error, this should not be on a nic from a company like

Re: dummynet, em driver, device polling issues :-((

2005-10-04 Thread Benjamin Rosenblum
i have been messing with the em driver now for over a month, ive come to the conclusion is a piece of crap. if you watch on this list every other day you have someone saying there em driver is causing some sort of error, this should not be on a nic from a company like intel. im saddly contimp

Re: dummynet, em driver, device polling issues :-((

2005-10-04 Thread Ferdinand Goldmann
Kevin Day wrote: This is pretty odd. We've got dozens of servers using various versions of 5.x, and many different em cards, and have no problem, even when shoving near line rate speeds out of them. Maximum transfer rates we see in MRTG were around 320Mbit/s (with polling disabled) em0: po

Re: How connect 2 PC with ath in hostap mode ?

2005-10-04 Thread Marcin Jessa
On Tue, 4 Oct 2005 16:37:21 +0400 Andrey Smagin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Marcin, > > Tuesday, October 4, 2005, 11:35:17 AM, you wrote: > > > MJ> How are you bridging the interfaces? What kind of bridging > MJ> mechanism are you using? > > In FreeBSD: > kldload ath, ath_hal, bridge

Re: dummynet, em driver, device polling issues :-((

2005-10-04 Thread Kevin Day
On Oct 4, 2005, at 7:00 AM, Ferdinand Goldmann wrote: Ok, to followup on this issue: Today I installed the driver which I had downloaded from the Intel website (em-3.2.15.tar.gz). This driver does not solve the issue with Ierrs rising rapidly when polling is enabled (I tried HZ=1000 and

Re: How connect 2 PC with ath in hostap mode ?

2005-10-04 Thread Andrey Smagin
Hello Marcin, Tuesday, October 4, 2005, 11:35:17 AM, you wrote: MJ> How are you bridging the interfaces? What kind of bridging mechanism MJ> are you using? In FreeBSD: kldload ath, ath_hal, bridge, fxp On both host: ifconfig_ath0="inet ssid 1234 channel 6 mode 11g mediaopt adhoc" in sysct

Re: dummynet, em driver, device polling issues :-((

2005-10-04 Thread Ferdinand Goldmann
Gleb Smirnoff wrote: On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 02:29:35PM +0200, Ferdinand Goldmann wrote: F> Gleb Smirnoff wrote: F> F> >All I can say: I have faced this problem, too. :( This is not problem in F> >polling, but in em. F> > F> F> Thank you! Just now I downloaded the driver from the Intel website

Re: "ifconfig -vlandev" syntax

2005-10-04 Thread Yar Tikhiy
On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 11:08:25PM +0100, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > > There's also the issue that the "vlan" and "vlandev" options have to be > specified in that order, which is counter-intuitive and undocumented. I've committed a change to ifconfig(8) that makes the order arbitrary. Please test i

Re: vlan(4), bge(4) and bringing parent interface up

2005-10-04 Thread Yar Tikhiy
On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 08:48:42PM +0100, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > > It seems to me that assigning an IP address to a vlan device (parent > device bge0) isn't enough to get the interface working - I need to > manually bring the parent interface up. Yes you need. The UP flag on an interface is adm

Re: How connect 2 PC with ath in hostap mode ?

2005-10-04 Thread Marcin Jessa
On Tue, 4 Oct 2005 10:25:40 +0400 Andrey Smagin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Marcin, > > MJ> man ifconfig should be the place to start. > :) re read it 2 year, for information about > MJ> Anyway, you can connect two PCs when one of them runs in > MJ> hostap and the other one in ad-hoc mode