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

2005-10-05 Thread Dave+Seddon
Greetings, The default values are based on 100 MB/s fxp driver. Luigi did heaps of work a few years ago on this, and arrived at these values after lots of testing (i think). (I also remember reading some interesting stuff where he had fxp and a 3com card and was testing to see how many frame

IPFW+DUMMYNET UPLOAD PROBLEM

2005-10-05 Thread Daniel Dias Gonçalves
I have the following rules: $fwcmd add 600 pipe 602 src-ip 192.168.0.0/24 out $fwcmd add 601 pipe 603 dst-ip 192.168.0.0/24 in $fwcmd pipe 602 config mask src-ip 0x00ff bw 128Kbit/s queue 10KBytes $fwcmd pipe 603 config mask dst-ip 0x00ff bw 128Kbit/s queue 10KBytes And my test speed fr

Call for performance evaluation: net.isr.direct

2005-10-05 Thread Robert Watson
In 2003, Jonathan Lemon added initial support for direct dispatch of netisr handlers from the calling thread, as part of his DARPA/NAI Labs contract in the DARPA CHATS research program. Over the last two years since then, Sam Leffler and I have worked to refine this implementation, removing

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

2005-10-05 Thread Gleb Smirnoff
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 02:24:20PM +0200, Ferdinand Goldmann wrote: F> >In one case, we had a system acting as a router. It was a Dell PowerEdge F> >2650, with two dual "server" adapters. each were on separate PCI busses. F> >3 were "lan" links, and one was a "wan" link. The lan links were F> >r

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

2005-10-05 Thread Pertti Kosunen
Ferdinand Goldmann wrote: 944mbps is a very good value, anyway. What we see in our setup are throuput rates around 300mbps or below. When testing with tcpspray, throughput hardly exceeded 13MB/s. Increasing MTU should help to get better results, as long all devices in network support jumbo fr

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

2005-10-05 Thread Kevin Day
On Oct 5, 2005, at 7:21 AM, Ferdinand Goldmann wrote: In one case, we had a system acting as a router. It was a Dell PowerEdge 2650, with two dual "server" adapters. each were on separate PCI busses. 3 were "lan" links, and one was a "wan" link. The lan links were receiving about 300mbps

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

2005-10-05 Thread Ferdinand Goldmann
Kevin Day wrote: In one case, we had a system acting as a router. It was a Dell PowerEdge 2650, with two dual "server" adapters. each were on separate PCI busses. 3 were "lan" links, and one was a "wan" link. The lan links were receiving about 300mbps each, all going out the "wan" link at near

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

2005-10-05 Thread Ferdinand Goldmann
Kevin Day wrote: In one case, we had a system acting as a router. It was a Dell PowerEdge 2650, with two dual "server" adapters. each were on separate PCI busses. 3 were "lan" links, and one was a "wan" link. The lan links were receiving about 300mbps each, all going out the "wan" link at near

bridge and ng_ether deja vu

2005-10-05 Thread Gleb Smirnoff
Andrew, Max, exactly after one year I see if_bridge(4) having the same problem with ng_ether(4) as old bridge(4) had. The problem is that packets flowed thru ng_ether miss bridge processing. The problem is explained well in this mail: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-net/2004-Ma

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

2005-10-05 Thread Ferdinand Goldmann
Jeremie Le Hen wrote: em0: Missed Packets = 39 em0: Receive No Buffers = 2458 "Receive No Buffers" grows when polling is enabled and it's somewhat a normal behaviour. After running with polling enabled for two hours, the statistics were: em0: Missed Packets = 2159959 em0: Receive No Buffers

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

2005-10-05 Thread .
[ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ] > > Would an official person care to chime in about putting together a card/chip > > vs. em(4) bugs matrix? No sense, because bugs depend not on/only card/chip, but at least load. In my expierence quality of em interface depends on quantity of ipfw rule

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

2005-10-05 Thread Ferdinand Goldmann
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: How to best set-up a small local 'sync' network next to the live network?

2005-10-05 Thread Oliver Fromme
Hi, (This doesn't seem to be AMD64-specific, so I think it should be moved to the -net mailing list.) Olaf Greve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Setting up two machines with fall-back] > > Primary server: > - Runs FreeBSD 5.4-Release AMD64 > - Connected to outside world via NIC 1 @ a real IP

Re: ng_tee, right2left, et al

2005-10-05 Thread Ragnar Lonn
John-Mark Gurney wrote: 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 leavi