soekris/sis tx checksum problems

2007-06-19 Thread David Cornejo
Hi, I am using CURRENT on a Soekris 4801 (sis ethernet). With a recent kernel all TCP packets sent via sis0 have a bad checksum. Other systems using other interface types (though I don't have a broad selection to test) don't seem to suffer from this problem. There was a thread in freebsd-c

Re: how do you bring IPv6 live without reboot?

2007-06-19 Thread Bruce A. Mah
If memory serves me right, George Michaelson wrote: > on a 6-STABLE host, I added: > > ipv6_enable="YES" > ipv6_network_interfaces="bge1" > > to rc.conf, and ran /etc/rc.d/network_ipv6 > > this did not bring IPv6 live. rtsol reported problems with get_llflag() > calls. However acro

how do you bring IPv6 live without reboot?

2007-06-19 Thread George Michaelson
on a 6-STABLE host, I added: ipv6_enable="YES" ipv6_network_interfaces="bge1" to rc.conf, and ran /etc/rc.d/network_ipv6 this did not bring IPv6 live. rtsol reported problems with get_llflag() calls. However across reboot, the system came up with IPv6 fine. Can somebody explain w

Timestamp option and srtt

2007-06-19 Thread kapil jain
Hi, I have a question about the RTT/srtt calculation in presence of the timestamp option. If timestamp is nor present, RTT is not calculated for retransmits due to karn's algorithm. However with timestamps even retransmits factor into the RTT calculation. I understand that this is useful in

Re: Issue with huge numbers of connections

2007-06-19 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 19:06:16 +0100 Joe Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > kern.ipc.nmbclusters FWIW, this one in particular ( controls mbuf clusters) will made a huge difference back in the FBSD 4 days on very heavily used websites. I've had them tuned up to the order of almost 100K - over that

Re: pf 4.1 Update available for testing

2007-06-19 Thread Florian C. Smeets
Also send this to the list(s) so people can see that the patches actually work ;-) Max Laier wrote: > On Tuesday 19 June 2007, you wrote: >> Max Laier wrote: >>> On Wednesday 13 June 2007, you wrote: Just as a data point. Will be happy to test altq as soon as it works ;-) >>> Just sent a

Re: new ARP code review

2007-06-19 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Julian Elischer wrote: I have some thoughts on this. firstly, while it is interesting to have an arp table (ok LLA table) on each interface, I'm not sure that it gains you very much. Unfortunately maintaining a single ARP table is insufficient for supporting multiple paths within the IPv4 st

Re: new ARP code review

2007-06-19 Thread Julian Elischer
Luigi Rizzo wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 05:51:44PM +, Qing Li wrote: [luigi:] i agree that the timing is a bit tight for inclusion, especially because the work dates back to 2004 if not before, and i think Qing Li took over development at least two years ago - not a great track record