Re: A query regarding sctp_bindx api in SCTP

2007-09-07 Thread sazzadur rahman
Thanks for your update (Sep6_2007) in your website. It simply works fine. Comparing with sctp_asconf.c of 6.1 patch, I found that sending ASCONF chunk was only timer based where in the updated version, it is sent immediately. Basically I am porting SCTP from freebsd to a RTOS to test some algorith

Re: OS choice for an edge router

2007-09-07 Thread Christopher Arnold
On Sat, 8 Sep 2007, Andre Oppermann wrote: There are no NICs known that can do packet forwarding offload. And neither is there support in FreeBSD for that. You're probably confusing this with checksum offloading or TSO (TCP segmentation offloading) which isn't an issue with packet forwarding

Re: OS choice for an edge router

2007-09-07 Thread Bakul Shah
> This is not the case. Flood ping doesn't reach the limit in any > way. Have a look at the ping man page and flood ping description. Ah yes, I was forgetting about the strict synchrony. > Stock FreeBSD 6.2 or 7.0 can easily do 500kpps with good network > cards and fastforwarding enabled. On a

Re: new version of polling for FreeBSD 6.x

2007-09-07 Thread Andre Oppermann
Mike Tancsa wrote: On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 15:12:06 +0200, in sentex.lists.freebsd.net you wrote: After many years of good services we will stop using FreeBSD 4.x :) During my performance regression tests under FreeBSD 6.2 i've found that polling has lower performance than interrupt. To solve that

RE: FreeBSD discarding received packets > MTU

2007-09-07 Thread David Christensen
> > > Internet ettiquette demands being gracious in what you accept. > > > The default policy of FreeBSD is to accept such packets. > > > This is a really weird bug to track down. > > > Other drivers support it. > > > > > > This isn't worth making a stand over, unless you're trying > > > to hold u

Re: FreeBSD discarding received packets > MTU

2007-09-07 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* David Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070907 13:41] wrote: > > > I'm not completely opposed to making such a change, but I don't want > > > to make a default change in the driver's behavior that other people > > > may be depending upon (whether they are aware of it or not). A > > > tunable dri

Re: OS choice for an edge router

2007-09-07 Thread Andre Oppermann
Bakul Shah wrote: One of my concern is on the native forwarding capability of FreeBSD OS and the execution of critical userland processes. I have experience before that a FreeBSD box configured as router appears to slow down the userland processes when the traffic load is high. I have verified th

Re: new version of polling for FreeBSD 6.x

2007-09-07 Thread Mike Tancsa
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 15:12:06 +0200, in sentex.lists.freebsd.net you wrote: >After many years of good services we will stop using FreeBSD 4.x :) >During my performance regression tests under FreeBSD 6.2 i've found >that polling has lower performance than interrupt. >To solve that issue i've rewritt

Re: kern/116186: can not set wi channel on current

2007-09-07 Thread remko
Synopsis: can not set wi channel on current Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-net Responsible-Changed-By: remko Responsible-Changed-When: Fri Sep 7 21:45:57 UTC 2007 Responsible-Changed-Why: Over to maintainer. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=116186 __

Re: kern/116185: if_iwi driver leads system to reboot

2007-09-07 Thread remko
Synopsis: if_iwi driver leads system to reboot Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-net Responsible-Changed-By: remko Responsible-Changed-When: Fri Sep 7 21:45:47 UTC 2007 Responsible-Changed-Why: Over to maintainer. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=116185 ___

RE: FreeBSD discarding received packets > MTU

2007-09-07 Thread David Christensen
> > I'm not completely opposed to making such a change, but I don't want > > to make a default change in the driver's behavior that other people > > may be depending upon (whether they are aware of it or not). A > > tunable driver value could be the answer but I'm not entirely sure > > how it wou

Re: OS choice for an edge router

2007-09-07 Thread Bakul Shah
> One of my concern is on the native forwarding capability of FreeBSD OS and the > execution of critical userland processes. I have experience before that a > FreeBSD box configured as router appears to slow down the userland processes > when the traffic load is high. I have verified this lately on

Re: FreeBSD discarding received packets > MTU

2007-09-07 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* David Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070907 10:48] wrote: > > > It could certainly be argued by some that Cisco is not standards > > > compliant in this case for sending an oversized Ethernet frame > > > and expecting everyone to accept it. Hardware has limitations > > > and assuming that all

Re: OS choice for an edge router

2007-09-07 Thread Gary Palmer
Kirc Gover wrote: Hi Gary, Thanks for your response. Yes, the bus architecture would be either PCI-X or PCI-Express. Host CPU would be a high performance multi-core such as Xeon and NICs would be Intel. One of my concern is on the native forwarding capability of FreeBSD OS and the execution o

Re: Strange behaviour of route command

2007-09-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-07 16:57, "Bruce M. Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom Judge wrote: >> Hi, >> While making some changes to the routing table on one of our routers >> today I noticed that "route add" was showing some strange >> behaviour. When adding a route for 128/8 to the table rather than >> a

Re: FreeBSD discarding received packets > MTU

2007-09-07 Thread Julian Elischer
John-Mark Gurney wrote: Why not set the mtu on the net and host routes to 1500 to make it all work? I forget if my route mtu code is in 6.2, but it'll be in 7.0... I think it is.. took us ages to figure out why some client machines hit this and others didn't. turned out that there were MTUs

Re: FreeBSD discarding received packets > MTU

2007-09-07 Thread Julian Elischer
John-Mark Gurney wrote: Julian Elischer wrote this message on Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 18:14 -0700: David Christensen wrote: Julian Elischer wrote: Ok which clever person did this again? It just broke our product. If it hasn't been removed from 7.0 and 6.x yet it's just about to be... on the

Re: OS choice for an edge router

2007-09-07 Thread Kirc Gover
Hi Gary, Thanks for your response. Yes, the bus architecture would be either PCI-X or PCI-Express. Host CPU would be a high performance multi-core such as Xeon and NICs would be Intel. One of my concern is on the native forwarding capability of FreeBSD OS and the execution of critical userland

Re: OS choice for an edge router

2007-09-07 Thread Kirc Gover
Hi Louis, Thanks for your response. I appreciate it a lot. The router would be deployed at the service provider network that will terminate roughly 4000 (maximum) individual customers and corporate networks/VPNs. We have decided to integrate control plane, data plane and management plane functi

RE: FreeBSD discarding received packets > MTU

2007-09-07 Thread David Christensen
> > It could certainly be argued by some that Cisco is not standards > > compliant in this case for sending an oversized Ethernet frame > > and expecting everyone to accept it. Hardware has limitations > > and assuming that all Ethernet controllers can support frames > > greater than 1522 bytes is

Re: FreeBSD discarding received packets > MTU

2007-09-07 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Julian Elischer wrote this message on Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 18:14 -0700: > David Christensen wrote: > >>Julian Elischer wrote: > >>>Ok which clever person did this again? > >>> > >>>It just broke our product. > >>>If it hasn't been removed from 7.0 and 6.x yet it's just > >>about to be... > >> > >>

Intel 82572GI PCIe question

2007-09-07 Thread Cheng Jin
Hi, Has anyone had experience playing with the 82572GI PCIe cards under FreeBSD? We had bunch of cards from two vendors, a few server adapter cards, but most of them client adapter cards (http://www.intel.com/network/connectivity/products/prodbrf/pro1000_pt_desktop_adapter.pdf) They all had

Re: Strange behaviour of route command

2007-09-07 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Tom Judge wrote: Hi, While making some changes to the routing table on one of our routers today I noticed that "route add" was showing some strange behaviour. When adding a route for 128/8 to the table rather than adding 128.0.0.0/8 it would add 0.0.0.0/8, however adding 10/9 works correctly.

Re: OS choice for an edge router

2007-09-07 Thread Louis Mamakos
Kirc Gover wrote: We are in the stage of planning and research for a commercial development of an edge router that will be based mostly on OpenSource software. I would like to solicit for information and recommendation if FreeBSD is a suitable OS. The router is expected to withstand forwarding

Re: Country Code woes with D-Link DWL-AG530

2007-09-07 Thread Wesley Griffin
On 9/6/07, Erich Dollansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Wesley Griffin wrote: > > > > but I get the following output: > > - > > Current value 0x0013 will change to 0x0010 > > Retrying eeprom write! > > Retrying eeprom write! > > [snip lots of this message] > > EEPROM write failed > > th

Strange behaviour of route command

2007-09-07 Thread Tom Judge
Hi, While making some changes to the routing table on one of our routers today I noticed that "route add" was showing some strange behaviour. When adding a route for 128/8 to the table rather than adding 128.0.0.0/8 it would add 0.0.0.0/8, however adding 10/9 works correctly. Is this a bug i

ICMP error notification with IPsec in ip6_forward()

2007-09-07 Thread blue
Dear all: Recently I am tracing the codes of ip6_forward(), which is defined in ip6_forward.c. My referenced version is FreeBSD Release 6.1. I have the following questions about IPsec operations: (1) lines 489-512 are about the transmission of ICMP Packet Too Big message. Is it necessary her

Re: kern/116172: Network / ipv6 recursive mutex panic

2007-09-07 Thread remko
Synopsis: Network / ipv6 recursive mutex panic Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-net Responsible-Changed-By: remko Responsible-Changed-When: Fri Sep 7 08:45:35 UTC 2007 Responsible-Changed-Why: Over to maintainer. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=116172 ___