Re: Freebsd IP Forwarding performance (question, and some info) [7-stable, current, em, smp]

2008-07-05 Thread Julian Elischer
Bart Van Kerckhove wrote: Perhaps you have some better luck at some different hardware systems (ppc, mips, ..?) or use freebsd only for routing-table-updates and special network-cards (netfpga) for real routing. The netfpga site seems more or less dead - is this project still alive? It does l

Re: Freebsd IP Forwarding performance (question, and some info) [7-stable, current, em, smp]

2008-07-05 Thread Chris Marlatt
Bart Van Kerckhove wrote: The netfpga site seems more or less dead - is this project still alive? It does look like a very interesting idea, even though it's currently quite linux-centric (and according to docs doesn't have VLAN nor ip6 support, the former being quite a dealbreaker) Just last

Re: Freebsd IP Forwarding performance (question, and some info) [7-stable, current, em, smp]

2008-07-05 Thread Bart Van Kerckhove
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul / Ingo, > >> I tried all of this :/ still, 256/512 descriptors seem to work the >> best. Happy to let you log into the machine and fiddle around if you >> want :) I've been watching this thread closely, since I'm in a very similair situation. A

Re: Freebsd IP Forwarding performance (question, and some info) [7-stable, current, em, smp]

2008-07-05 Thread Paul
UP 32 bit test vs 64 bit: negligible difference in forwarding performance without polling slightly better polling performance but still errors at lower packet rates same massive hit with ipfw loaded Installing dragonfly in a bit.. If anyone has a really fast PPC type system or SUN or something i'

Re: Freebsd IP Forwarding performance (question, and some info) [7-stable, current, em, smp]

2008-07-05 Thread Paul
ULE + PREEMPTION for non SMP no major differences with SMP with ULE/4BSD and preemption ON/OFF 32 bit UP test coming up with new cpu and I'm installing dragonfly sometime this weekend :] UP: 1mpps in one direction with no firewall/no routing table is not too bad, but 1mpps both directions is the

Re: Freebsd IP Forwarding performance (question, and some info) [7-stable, current, em, smp]

2008-07-05 Thread Ingo Flaschberger
Dear Paul, I tried all of this :/ still, 256/512 descriptors seem to work the best. Happy to let you log into the machine and fiddle around if you want :) yes, but I'm shure I will also not be able to achieve much more pps. As it seems that you hit hardware-software-level-barriers, my only id

Re: One-liner for setting IPv6 address and IPv4 endpoints on gif interface?

2008-07-05 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 03:02:35PM -0400, Boris Kochergin wrote: > Hi, list. I set up an IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnel from Hurricane Electric > using a gif(4) interface using the commands: > > ifconfig gif0 tunnel [source IPv4] [destination IPv4] > ifconfig gif0 inet6 [source IPv6] [destination IPv6] pr

One-liner for setting IPv6 address and IPv4 endpoints on gif interface?

2008-07-05 Thread Boris Kochergin
Hi, list. I set up an IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnel from Hurricane Electric using a gif(4) interface using the commands: ifconfig gif0 tunnel [source IPv4] [destination IPv4] ifconfig gif0 inet6 [source IPv6] [destination IPv6] prefixlen 128 route -n add -inet6 default [destination IPv6] I'm wondering

Re: arplookup x.x.x.x failed: host is not on local network

2008-07-05 Thread Chuck Swiger
David DeSimone wrote: [ ... ] Again, I did see these messages in my environment, but in my case, the error was correct: The IP *was not* on the local network. The reason being that we had multiple subnets configured on the same broadcast domain, so the BSD box could indeed hear ARP for subnets

Net crash in ath on FREEBSD-7 STABLE

2008-07-05 Thread Mark Dixon
Hi, I get the following when I run portupgrade and it tries to hit the network for a package on stable. It looks like something has been broken in ath? Seeing as I don't update very often it could have been around for a while. Kernel is GENERIC. Modules are kernel, snd_ich, sound, aio and