VLANs and routing

2007-06-13 Thread Ivan Voras
Hi! I have a question that's accidentally connected with VLANs, but I think it's generally routing related. The situation is : machine1 VLAN 400 on fxp1 <-- network --> machine2, VLAN 400 on em0 The interfaces on both machines are called vlan400. If I assign "normal" IP addresses on both ends,

Re: Tuning if_bge for high packet rates (receive descriptors/transmit descriptors?)

2007-06-13 Thread Bruce Evans
On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Stephan Koenig wrote: We have some servers that have a very high packet rate in a normal production mode, and require polling to keep the CPU load reasonable. We have Kern.HZ=4000, and even still, have some dropped packets. On our servers that use the intel "em" driver, we

Re: Weird "ignoring syn" problem

2007-06-13 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Adam McDougall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 10:19:49AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > > > This one has got me pretty befuddled. > > We're seeing some really odd behaviour with FreeBSD ignoring SYN packets. > I've been trying to diagnose this for a couple o

Re: CARP on backup doesn't relinquish MASTER

2007-06-13 Thread Marko Lerota
Rudy Rucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I noticed that if I reboot a server that is the MASTER, the carp0 on > the BACKUP box goes into MASTER mode and stays that way -- even when > the real master machine has finished rebooting. Is this a desired > trait to prevent CARP from switching IPs out