Re: increasing em(4) buffer sizes

2010-05-19 Thread rihad
On 05/20/2010 10:19 AM, Eugene Grosbein wrote: On 20.05.2010 11:33, rihad wrote: BTW, I can't read the current value: $ sysctl hw.em.rxd sysctl: unknown oid 'hw.em.rxd' $ Is this a write-only value? :) They are loader tunnables that have no sysctl variables with same names - as an example of

Re: increasing em(4) buffer sizes

2010-05-19 Thread Eugene Grosbein
On 20.05.2010 11:33, rihad wrote: >> First, read: http://www.intel.com/design/network/applnots/ap450.htm >> You'll see you may be restricted with your NIC's chip capabilities. >> > Likely sooner than later these cards will be upgraded to 10 GigE ones, I > just want to make sure that the delays im

Re: increasing em(4) buffer sizes

2010-05-19 Thread rihad
On 05/20/2010 08:54 AM, Sriram Gorti wrote: Hi, I'm new to FreeBSD but there is one aspect of your description (thanks for the detail) on which I had a comment that I thought can be shared. > To mitigate the problem I've set up a two-level hash by means of skipto rules, dropping the number of

Re: increasing em(4) buffer sizes

2010-05-19 Thread rihad
On 05/20/2010 12:05 AM, Eugene Grosbein wrote: On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 10:51:43PM +0500, rihad wrote: We have a FreeBSD 7.2 Intel Server System 4GB RAM box doing traffic shaping and accounting. It has two em gigabit interfaces: one used for input, the other for output, servicing around 500-600

Re: increasing em(4) buffer sizes

2010-05-19 Thread Eugene Grosbein
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 10:51:43PM +0500, rihad wrote: > We have a FreeBSD 7.2 Intel Server System 4GB RAM box doing traffic > shaping and accounting. It has two em gigabit interfaces: one used for > input, the other for output, servicing around 500-600 mbps load through > it. Traffic limiting

Re: Multicast tftpd

2010-05-19 Thread jhell
On 05/18/2010 21:41, dave jones wrote: > Hello, > > It seems that FreeBSD's tftpd doesn't support multicast. > Does anyone know which multicast tftpd available on FreeBSD? > Thank you. > There was talk at one point about updating tftpd to the one in NetBSD. I dont remember which one but there sh

increasing em(4) buffer sizes

2010-05-19 Thread rihad
Hi there, We have a FreeBSD 7.2 Intel Server System 4GB RAM box doing traffic shaping and accounting. It has two em gigabit interfaces: one used for input, the other for output, servicing around 500-600 mbps load through it. Traffic limiting is accomplished by dynamically setting up IPFW pipe

Re: Crashes with ixgbe on FreeBSD 8

2010-05-19 Thread Jack Vogel
It will work on 8 RELEASE just fine except for a macro define that ALTQ required that's not in RELEASE, what I did was stick the define into the header and all was well. I was thinking that I would not check that change in but I now see it will probably be useful to have it in the mainstream. I hav

Re: Crashes with ixgbe on FreeBSD 8

2010-05-19 Thread Robin Sommer
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 22:28 -0700, you wrote: > Yes, download the latest code, oh hmmm, can you install STABLE, > because there's one small issue that will cause a problem on 8 REL, > but if that's a big problem I can also give you a patch so it will work. Jack, thanks for the reply. I could

Re: kern/146719: [pf] [panic] PF or dumynet kernel panic

2010-05-19 Thread linimon
Old Synopsis: PF or dumynet kernel panic New Synopsis: [pf] [panic] PF or dumynet kernel panic Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-net Responsible-Changed-By: linimon Responsible-Changed-When: Wed May 19 09:03:36 UTC 2010 Responsible-Changed-Why: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-p

Re: Dual-rate transceivers with ixgbe?

2010-05-19 Thread Jack Vogel
Hmmm, this is odd, I'm sure that was tested by my validation engineer. Tell me what the hardware looks like, ie what the 1G link partner is and I'll have him check into it... it SHOULD work. You could just ask me you know :) Jack On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Juli Mallett wrote: > Hey all