poor fastforwarding and polling performance

2006-12-02 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
Hi, I'm playing with the settings for some PC Engines WRAP cards[1] (sis interfaces) that acts as mini routers on relatively slow networks. I am testing with iperf from two Linux boxes (that are plugged directly into an interface each on the FreeBSD box). The IP addresses used for the rou

Re: Gigabit Ethernet NIC with Jumbo Frame Support

2006-12-02 Thread Mike Tancsa
On Fri, 1 Dec 2006 20:11:18 -0600, in sentex.lists.freebsd.net you wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >I am looking for a recommendation for a card purchase of a Gigabit >Ethernet NIC that supports jumbo frames. Looking at the kernel, >the following drivers support jumbo fra

Re: Gigabit Ethernet NIC with Jumbo Frame Support

2006-12-02 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 01 December 2006 21:11, Jim Pirzyk wrote: > I am looking for a recommendation for a card purchase of a Gigabit > Ethernet NIC that supports jumbo frames. Looking at the kernel, > the following drivers support jumbo frames; bce, bge, em, ixgb, > lge, nge, sk stge, and vge. What is percei

Re: FreeBSD-6.1/amd64 bge(4) driver performance problems

2006-12-02 Thread MQ
2006/11/29, Vladimir Terziev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: The cable and the switch port, both were one and the same in the test with Broadcom NIC and in the test with D-Link NIC. So, the reason is not in them for sure. I didn't mention in my initial e-mail, that since the swtich is 100

Re: re(4) needs promisc to work properly

2006-12-02 Thread Ed Schouten
Hello Bill, * Bill Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a little concerned about the fact that now SIOCSIFFLAGS can never > cause re_init_locked() to be called. There are some cases where it > does need to be called (like when the IFF_UP flag is first set to > turn the interface on). > > I usual

Re: Broadcom (bce) support and POLLING

2006-12-02 Thread Christian Brueffer
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 08:42:02AM -0700, Kirk Davis wrote: > Hi, > We have just upgraded to a Dell 2950 for our main BGP router. > With the constant rise in traffic through the box, I have started to > notice some dropped packets so I figured I would take a look at putting > the interfaces i