What's the best diagnostic utility for wireless signal?

2007-06-17 Thread Andrew Liles
I use wireless on a FreeBSD 6.1 box in an area of low signal to my Access Point. I want to be able to inspect the signal strength/quality so that I may adjust the antenna to get best results. What is the best diagnostic to use? For instance: wicontrol wi0 produces: ... Comms quality/signal/

Re: Issue with huge numbers of connections

2007-06-17 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2007-Jun-17 13:02:38 -0600, "M. Warner Losh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Doing the math on 10^9 connections in a week translates to ~1650/s, so we'd >expect there are on the order of 100-200 connections steady state at any >time. I suspect that the peak load may be up to 100 times that, which i

Re: Issue with huge numbers of connections

2007-06-17 Thread Maxim Konovalov
On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, 13:02-0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Joe Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : M. Warner Losh wrote: > : > Greetings, > : > > : > I have a friend who is having problems with a service he's running. > : > He gets billions and billio

Re: Issue with huge numbers of connections

2007-06-17 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Joe Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : M. Warner Losh wrote: : > Greetings, : > : > I have a friend who is having problems with a service he's running. : > He gets billions and billions of connections to this service a day. : > Somewhere between 10^8 a

Re: tcp connections hanging

2007-06-17 Thread Maxim Konovalov
On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, 11:38-0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > OK. I'm getting very frustrated with my TCP connections hanging. It > happens when I log into remote sites, when I try to encode dvds, etc. > It is driving me nuts. This is with current from today. Current from > 5 or 6 weeks ago doesn't

Re: Issue with huge numbers of connections

2007-06-17 Thread Robert Watson
On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, M. Warner Losh wrote: I have a friend who is having problems with a service he's running. He gets billions and billions of connections to this service a day. Somewhere between 10^8 and 10^9 connections, he notices that his servers lose the ability to accept new connection

Re: Issue with huge numbers of connections

2007-06-17 Thread Joe Holden
M. Warner Losh wrote: > Greetings, > > I have a friend who is having problems with a service he's running. > He gets billions and billions of connections to this service a day. > Somewhere between 10^8 and 10^9 connections, he notices that his > servers lose the ability to accept new connections.

Issue with huge numbers of connections

2007-06-17 Thread M. Warner Losh
Greetings, I have a friend who is having problems with a service he's running. He gets billions and billions of connections to this service a day. Somewhere between 10^8 and 10^9 connections, he notices that his servers lose the ability to accept new connections. These are TCP connections. This

tcp connections hanging

2007-06-17 Thread M. Warner Losh
OK. I'm getting very frustrated with my TCP connections hanging. It happens when I log into remote sites, when I try to encode dvds, etc. It is driving me nuts. This is with current from today. Current from 5 or 6 weeks ago doesn't seem to be bothered by this issue. Has anybody else seen it?

RFC: Latest FAST_IPSEC + IPv6 patch

2007-06-17 Thread gnn
Howdy, In preparation for changes in CURRENT, aka 7.0, I have produced a patch that removes Kame IPsec and adds support for IPv6 to FAST_IPSEC. I have produced a patch which applies and compiles here: http://people.freebsd.org/~gnn/fast_ipv6.20070617.diff I am still testing the kernel I built in

Re: Firewalling NFS

2007-06-17 Thread Matteo Riondato
On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 10:09:56PM +0200, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: > Sorry, I checked RELENG_6. I've been told that rpc.lockd(8) and > rpc.statd(8) now have the "-p" option in -CURRENT. It seems that > nfsd(8)'s port number is assigned in recorded in services(5). > Therefore my question will be tota

Re: Quickly creating VLANs?

2007-06-17 Thread Miroslav Slavkov
# ifconfig vlan100 create inet 1.2.3.4/24 vlan 100 vlandev xl0 # ifconfig vlan100 vlan100: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 1.2.3.4 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 1.2.3.255 ether 00:10:5a:48:ce:a4 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) status: active vlan: 100 parent

Re: pf 4.1 Update available for testing

2007-06-17 Thread Eygene Ryabinkin
Max, good day. Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 03:47:24AM +0200, Max Laier wrote: > $subject at: http://people.freebsd.org/~mlaier/PF41/ I glanced over the new code and found that no changes were introduced to the altq_subr.c. And there was rather old issue I found in April: non-initialised callback due to

Re: Quickly creating VLANs?

2007-06-17 Thread Ivan Voras
Rudy Rucker wrote: > > Works for me, but if you put in the 'inet' if breaks. I've noticed that too, so I split it in a separate line. > Is inet inherited from the 'vlandev' and therefore redundant? It can't be - VLANs are Ethernet-level constructs. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: kern/103253: inconsistent behaviour in arp reply of a bridge

2007-06-17 Thread Mark Linimon
Synopsis: inconsistent behaviour in arp reply of a bridge Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-net Responsible-Changed-By: linimon Responsible-Changed-When: Sun Jun 17 09:17:28 UTC 2007 Responsible-Changed-Why: Over to maintainer(s). http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=10325