Re: Multilink PPP Download Speeds With Round-Robin Packets

2008-01-15 Thread Michael MacLeod
On Jan 16, 2008 2:17 AM, Julian Elischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1/ when downloading, does the load on each incoming interface > (I assume you have one ethernet to each modem) match? This is a pretty rough way to estimate it, but starting/stopping tcpdump on each of the interfaces at the same

Re: Multilink PPP Download Speeds With Round-Robin Packets

2008-01-15 Thread Julian Elischer
Michael MacLeod wrote: Hello all, I've got two DSL lines running to my house, and two WAN NIC's installed in my FreeBSD router. I've been trying to get multilink ppp working through my ISP (TekSavvy in Canada) for the last little while, with mixed results. Each of my DSL lines sync's at 6016 kbi

Multilink PPP Download Speeds With Round-Robin Packets

2008-01-15 Thread Michael MacLeod
Hello all, I've got two DSL lines running to my house, and two WAN NIC's installed in my FreeBSD router. I've been trying to get multilink ppp working through my ISP (TekSavvy in Canada) for the last little while, with mixed results. Each of my DSL lines sync's at 6016 kbits down and 800 kbits up.

Re: Relayd (former hoststated) status for freebsd 7.0RC1

2008-01-15 Thread Alexandre Vieira
On Jan 15, 2008 8:29 PM, Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 15 January 2008 15:24:52 Bruce M. Simpson wrote: > > Alexandre Vieira wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > I remember that there was a port (net/hoststated) where I could > install > > > hoststated to use with PF. Anyone can shed

Re: Relayd (former hoststated) status for freebsd 7.0RC1

2008-01-15 Thread Brad
On Tuesday 15 January 2008 15:24:52 Bruce M. Simpson wrote: > Alexandre Vieira wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I remember that there was a port (net/hoststated) where I could install > > hoststated to use with PF. Anyone can shed a light on what is the status of > > this software implementation on 7.

Re: Relayd (former hoststated) status for freebsd 7.0RC1

2008-01-15 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Alexandre Vieira wrote: Hello all, I remember that there was a port (net/hoststated) where I could install hoststated to use with PF. Anyone can shed a light on what is the status of this software implementation on 7.0? Perhaps ports/net/ifstated is the answer? BMS

Re: Programming interface MAC filter without enabling PROMISC on an interface from user space.

2008-01-15 Thread Andrew Thompson
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 09:59:22AM +, Tom Judge wrote: > Bruce M. Simpson wrote: >> Tom Judge wrote: > >>> Personally I can't see why this approach would be a problem, but I am >>> not a expert. The address is defined in IEEE Std 802.1D-2004 as to not >>> be forwarded by bridges (which I i

Relayd (former hoststated) status for freebsd 7.0RC1

2008-01-15 Thread Alexandre Vieira
Hello all, I remember that there was a port (net/hoststated) where I could install hoststated to use with PF. Anyone can shed a light on what is the status of this software implementation on 7.0? TIA -- Alexandre Vieira - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-

Re: kern/119361: [bge] bge(4) transmit performance problem

2008-01-15 Thread Laurent Frigault
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 08:56:36AM +0800, Sepherosa Ziehau wrote: > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=119361 > > > > > > Have you tested polling(4)? If polling could give you better TX > > > performance, you should consider raise: > > > in bge_attach() > > > sc->bge_tx_max_coal_bds

Re: Linux SMP network performance measurements

2008-01-15 Thread Ian FREISLICH
Stefan Lambrev wrote: > Thierry Herbelot wrote: > > gives some measurements on various tweakings of an SMP machine with > > 4 Xeon processors (it *shows* a nice improvement when using more > > CPUs and more bonded Ethernet interfaces). > > > > Has some the machine (and the time, obviously) to make

Re: Programming interface MAC filter without enabling PROMISC on an interface from user space.

2008-01-15 Thread Tom Judge
Bruce M. Simpson wrote: Tom Judge wrote: Personally I can't see why this approach would be a problem, but I am not a expert. The address is defined in IEEE Std 802.1D-2004 as to not be forwarded by bridges (which I interpret as it being link local in a sense as switches/bridges are not all

802.11abg pci recco

2008-01-15 Thread Randy Bush
i am putting in a newegg order for when i visit the states in two weeks. among other goodies, i may need a pci 802.11 card to work with current in a soekris 5501 (see minipci saga elsewhere). what is smack on compatible and solid? thanks. randy ___

Re: Linux SMP network performance measurements

2008-01-15 Thread Stefan Lambrev
Greetings, Thierry Herbelot wrote: Hello, a recent article (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-scalability/?ca=dgr-lnxw02FasterLinuxNet) gives some measurements on various tweakings of an SMP machine with 4 Xeon processors (it *shows* a nice improvement when using more CPUs an