new em-driver still broken (was: Re: em network issues)

2006-10-27 Thread Mikhail Teterin
On Saturday 21 October 2006 13:33, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: = We aren't currently speaking about performance, we need to know whether = kernel with DEVICE_POLLING option makes NIC work stable. Having noticed today's em-driver update, I rebuilt world/kernel and tried the dump-test again. The kernel ha

New em driver

2006-10-27 Thread Jack Vogel
After a conference call today, it was decided that a merge of my Intel driver base and the STABLE code would take place. This code undoes the INTR_FAST/taskqueue approach for right now. Work will continue to get that to work, but the hope is that this driver will be more stable for the 6.2 releas

Re: Instructing dhclient to set hostname of client

2006-10-27 Thread Doug Barton
Joe Holden wrote: Brooks Davis wrote: On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 09:16:07AM +0200, Harti Brandt wrote: On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Joe Holden wrote: JH>Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: JH>> Doug Barton wrote: JH>>> If you're talking about a laptop where you're not sure what the DHCP JH>>> server is going to sen

Path MTU discovery broken in IPSec

2006-10-27 Thread Khetan Gajjar
Hi. Summary; searching for this problem revealed another query, but no solution - http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2005-July/007899.html Explanation; I'm experiencing a broken path MTU discovery problem between two hosts connecting with each other via IPSec transport mode, exaspera

Re: paket loss on freebsd router if (b)snmpd is running##SPAM

2006-10-27 Thread Thomas
Hello Harti Harti Brandt schrieb: > On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Thomas wrote: > > T>Hello Harti > T> > T>Harti Brandt schrieb: > T>> On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Thomas wrote: > T>> > T>> T>Hello > T>> T> > T>> T>I use several 5.4 and 6.1 FBSD machines as router (with quagga). The > T>> T>average traffic is 30

Re: check internet connection

2006-10-27 Thread gnn
At Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:43:17 +1000, Sam Wun wrote: > > [1 ] > Hi, > > I want to write a C program to check freebsd's internet connection. > What s the best way to achieve this checking in layer 2 or 3 of the tcp/ip > stacks in freebsd? What do you want to check? There are many layers of connec

Re: paket loss on freebsd router if (b)snmpd is running##SPAM

2006-10-27 Thread Harti Brandt
On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Thomas wrote: T>Hello Harti T> T>Harti Brandt schrieb: T>> On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Thomas wrote: T>> T>> T>Hello T>> T> T>> T>I use several 5.4 and 6.1 FBSD machines as router (with quagga). The T>> T>average traffic is 300mbit/s (em interfaces with polling enabled). It T>> T>wo

Re: paket loss on freebsd router if (b)snmpd is running##SPAM

2006-10-27 Thread Thomas
Hello Harti Harti Brandt schrieb: > On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Thomas wrote: > > T>Hello > T> > T>I use several 5.4 and 6.1 FBSD machines as router (with quagga). The > T>average traffic is 300mbit/s (em interfaces with polling enabled). It > T>works more or less. > T> > T>Problem: > T>If bsnmpd is run

Re: paket loss on freebsd router if (b)snmpd is running##SPAM

2006-10-27 Thread Harti Brandt
On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Thomas wrote: T>Hello T> T>I use several 5.4 and 6.1 FBSD machines as router (with quagga). The T>average traffic is 300mbit/s (em interfaces with polling enabled). It T>works more or less. T> T>Problem: T>If bsnmpd is running and I'm doing a snmpwalk from a remote machine the

patch to support setting carp state with ifconfig

2006-10-27 Thread Nick Barkas
Hello- A few months ago I wrote a small patch that allows ifconfig to explicitly set a carp device to MASTER or BACKUP state. The code is based upon OpenBSD's ifconfig, which has this feature. This is handy for situations where you want an active carp interface to fail over to/take over fr