Re: Driver patch to look at...

2013-02-04 Thread John Baldwin
On Monday, February 04, 2013 12:22:49 pm Randy Stewart wrote: > All: > > I have been working with TCP in gigabit networks (igb driver actually) and > have > found a very nasty problem with the way the driver is doing its put back when > it fills the out-bound transmit queue. > > Basically it has

Re: Driver patch to look at...

2013-02-04 Thread Randy Stewart
I am beating the heck out of it on my 9.x testbed where I lifted it from. I don't have any ix or ixgbe cards to play with yet though.. R On Feb 4, 2013, at 1:11 PM, Jack Vogel wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Randy Stewart wrote: > All: > > I have been working with TCP in gigabit

Re: Driver patch to look at...

2013-02-04 Thread Jack Vogel
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Randy Stewart wrote: > All: > > I have been working with TCP in gigabit networks (igb driver actually) and > have > found a very nasty problem with the way the driver is doing its put back > when > it fills the out-bound transmit queue. > > Basically it has taken a

Driver patch to look at...

2013-02-04 Thread Randy Stewart
All: I have been working with TCP in gigabit networks (igb driver actually) and have found a very nasty problem with the way the driver is doing its put back when it fills the out-bound transmit queue. Basically it has taken a packet from the head of the ring buffer, and then realizes it can't f

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2013-02-04 Thread FreeBSD bugmaster
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Re: A question about SYN cookies...

2013-02-04 Thread Andre Oppermann
On 04.02.2013 01:09, George Neville-Neil wrote: Howdy, I've been reviewing the SYN cache and SYN cookie code and I'm wondering why we do all the work of generating a SYN cache entry before sending a SYN cookie. If the point of SYN cookies is to defend against a SYN flood then, to my mind, the