FRR ospf6 and bridge interfaces.

2022-06-11 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
So... I have FRR OSPF and OSPF6 up on my lan. As I've got a few VMs that (say) act as a VPN sever, I want OSPF and OSPF6 to pick up from the bridge that serves the VMs. Both OSPF and OSPF6 work fine on the physical lan interfaces (in fact, on vlan interfaces that attach to regular lan interfaces)

Re: Porting OpenBSD MPLS to FreeBSD

2021-12-07 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I would also like to be on the list of possible beta testers. On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 11:27 AM Santiago Martinez wrote: > Hi Neel, it is exciting to see the topic coming alive again. > > Once you think is good/ready for testing, or when you require it, i can > avail hardware , routers and traffi

Re: LTE modem?

2020-05-04 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
Most of the cell modems (over the years) that I have seen show up as serial devices and emulate a basic AT command set. In most cases, you need to know the dial string for your carrier --- it's often something goofball like "ATDT pppservice.mycarrier.com" ... and then, after connecting speaking pp

Re: 10 Gbps NIC - advice needed

2019-09-04 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I just wanted to say that I got several Intel 10 GBE cards: vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = 'Ethernet Controller 10G X550T' and while FreeBSD support seems strong, they will not hold a 10G connection with my UniFi swtich. The talk 1G just fine, but even with the most expens

Re: Working around unsupported Ethernet card with PXE or UEFI?

2019-06-20 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I suppose he could be asking, in his way, about a type of universal driver (not unlike ndis used to be). Not knowing anything about the UEFI environment, but recalling that PXE requires one of the more restrictive processor modes ... would make that quite a challenge for a universal driver. ... b

12.0 RC3 fails to use em0.

2018-12-10 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
So... if I choose live CD and type "ifconfig em0 up" followed by "dhclient em0" ... everything works... but if I go through the install, select something that isn't on the media and continue, selecting em0 as my network, and ipv4->DHCP ... I see "sendmeg on em0: No buffer space available" ... If I

isc-dhcpd refuses access?

2018-11-16 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
So... my home router has a trunked relationship to the home switch. BGE0.31 is the guest network and has 172.17.31.1/24. BGE0.221 is the home network and has 192.168.221.1/24. Now on the switch, the "access" (untagged) VLAN is 1. This works: BGE0 is 192.168.110.1 and the switch's management is

Re: AQtion AQC107 driver status

2018-11-02 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I'm interested in taking a whack at this. Where's the Linux driver? I tried searching for aquantia in the linux kernel and didn't get a hit. On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 12:51 PM Grzegorz Junka wrote: > Hello, > > As far as I could check FreeBSD doesn't yet support this card. It's > supported in Li

FreeBSD11 bge and bce interfaces showing packet loss with older Cisco.

2018-01-14 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I've been trying to track this problem down for awhile now. I have two different router servers with two different chipset on board NICs. One server has BGE and the other server has BCE. Both are running a full 650k-odd route BGP table with quagga and they're joined internally with OSPF (also qu

Re: OCD window scaling behavior on local network.

2017-11-07 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
window behavior remains. On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 2:56 PM, Sean Bruno wrote: > > > On 05/29/17 00:50, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > > so... I have some really OCD window scaling behavior on a GigE local > > network. The protocol is BGP, this is one session recorded. Nearly >

Re: mbuf_jumbo_9k & iSCSI failing

2017-06-26 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
Don't forget that, generally, as I understand it, the network stack suffers from the same problem for 9k buffers. On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 12:56 PM, Ben RUBSON wrote: > > On 25 Jun 2017, at 17:32, Ryan Stone wrote: > > > > Having looking at the original email more closely, I see that you showed

OCD window scaling behavior on local network.

2017-05-28 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
so... I have some really OCD window scaling behavior on a GigE local network. The protocol is BGP, this is one session recorded. Nearly every payload packet is answered by both an 'ACK' and a 2nd window scaling packet. I have examined the packet counters: no errors reported by the box or the man

Re: quagga misinterpreting route.

2016-11-12 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
down bce0. Then, quagga claims: my.other.router.ca# sh ipv6 route 1001:abcd:1::1 Routing entry for 1001:abcd:1::/64 Known via "kernel", distance 0, metric 0, tag 0, vrf 0, best, fib >* fe80::212:3fff:fe41:72fd, via lo0 ... which is somewhat ridiculous. On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at

quagga misinterpreting route.

2016-11-12 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I have an if-up mpd5 rule that says: route -n6 add $route -iface $interface where $route is something like 1001:abcd:1::/64 and $interface is something like ng2. When I go into quagga, I see: my.router.ca# sh ipv6 route 1001:abcd:1::1 Routing entry for 1001:abcd:1::/64 Known via "kernel", dis

Re: FreeBSD10.3-RELEASE. Kernel panic.

2016-10-12 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
While my mp5 servers are possibly less busy (I havn't had common crashes), I have noticed a "group" of problems. 1. The carrier dropping communication (ie: fiber cut or l2 switch breakage) of the L2TP streams can leave mpd5 in a state where it will not die and will not destroy interfaces (requires

FreeBSD not properly padding vlan packets on several interface types.

2015-08-24 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
So, as background, the minimum packet size for ethernet packets is 64 bytes. According to at least cisco, the minimum size, then, for 802.1q (vlan, etc) packets is 68 bytes. On at least BGE and BCE interfaces, it seems (according to counters on my switch) that FreeBSD doesn't honour this. "show

Re: tcpdump filter not ignoring jail subnet

2015-03-08 Thread Beeblebrox
I got out of my logic-loop and solved my filter problem. Thanks everyone for thier input. ((src net not 192.168.1.0/24 and host not 192.168.2.97 and not ip6) or host mybsd) and not port (imap or imaps or 6667) Below syntax is not accepted by tcpdump, btw: src not (net 192.168.1.0/24 and host 192.

Re: tcpdump filter not ignoring jail subnet

2015-03-05 Thread Beeblebrox
Hi. Thanks for the input. > 192.168.2.97 is not a net. Any /32 is a host... even if it is > anycast. So filter on "host 192.168.2.9". I assume that specifying one of {src | dst} is not required and that "host 192.168.2.97" will remove all (in and out) from that IP? > The real issue is that, whi

tcpdump filter not ignoring jail subnet

2015-03-05 Thread Beeblebrox
I'm using "tcpdump -i re0 -tq -F bin/tcpdump.txt" on my workstation for real-time traffic analysis. The current filter file has: (src not net 192.168.1.0/24 and not ip6 and not net 192.168.2.97/32) or (src host mybsd and not port imap and not port imaps and not port 6667) I'd like to create the

Re: NFS and diskless: some questions re nfs_diskless.c

2015-02-16 Thread Beeblebrox
Well, I removed all the BOOTP* items from config and re-built kernel. * With FreeBSD's pxeboot everything works normally and root is mounted as NFSv3. dhcp.conf has option root-path defined. * When trying to use Grub, boot stops at the "mountroot>" prompt, wich was the original problem as far a

Re: NFS and diskless: some questions re nfs_diskless.c

2015-02-16 Thread Beeblebrox
Hi again, Rick. > If you are using a pxeboot built with this code, I don't know why you > would still get NFSv2 instead of NFSv3. (Check the line for "/" in > the diskless root's /etc/fstab try adding the "nfsv3" option. * I added nfsv3 to the client fstab as advised, but get same result (V2).

NFS and diskless: some questions re nfs_diskless.c

2015-02-15 Thread Beeblebrox
I have several questions on implementing the features in nfs_diskless.c. Understanding these parameters are necessary to get a decent menu-driven (grub2) boot process working for clients. 1. for diskless clients get mounted as V2 instead of V3. I have defined { boot.nfsroot.options="nfsv3" },

Re: IPv6 stacks responds to all node link local multicast NS

2014-10-17 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
Urm ... question: is NS how, then, a client should be getting an IP over PPP? I have an l2tp server configured with mpd ... and I've noticed that mpd will allow me to turn on ipv6, but it won't assign addresses like ipv4. On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 2:28 PM, prabhakar lakhera < prabhakar.lakh...@gmai

bug 191975

2014-08-18 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
It seems I'm being outclassed by bug 191975. Simply put: 1. packet arrives on ngX interface (ng_iface) 2. packet destination is local 3. AFAICT packet disappears. This is not true of packet destination is non-local. Routed packets work as advertised. Local services (say, ssh) are also working

ng_iface regression from 9.2 to 10.0

2014-07-14 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I'm going to post again with some new information. I have a 10.0p6 machine running mpd5 terminating a bunch of l2tp tunnels from subscribers (not encrypted). The specific regression between 9.2 and 10.0 is that hosts on the tunnels cannot communicate with local services. They can ping local IPs,

PXE boot using Grub bootloader fails at mountroot; no PXE devs.

2014-07-13 Thread Beeblebrox
Sorry for the late response, but there were too many mixed results and I had to get all variables before commenting. I can't make any sense of it, Bu I can say that all required modules are loaded by both Grub & BTX boot settings. B: BTX, D: Debug Kernel, G: GRUB, NGM: No Grub Menu (not BSD-rela

ngX connected hosts not receiving replies from non-kernel IP services.

2014-07-12 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I have a network of computers at home. The gateway/firewall is FreeBSD 9.2 running mpd5. The host requesting the service is FreeBSD 9.2. The misbehaving host is FreeBSD 10.0p6 running mpd5. So the details: ssh is listening (output of netstat -an) tcp4 0 0 *.22 *.*

Re: PXE boot using Grub bootloader fails at mountroot; no PXE devs.

2014-07-01 Thread Beeblebrox
Hi Rick, > Btw, there is BOOTP_DEBUG stuff in bootp_subr.c. If your debug kernel > didn't include that option, trying it might tell you where it breaks? I got around to trying the BOOTP_DEBUG knob, it breaks the kernel build right from start. bootp_subr.c does have that code, but the buildkernel

Re: PXE boot using Grub bootloader fails at mountroot; no PXE devs.

2014-06-29 Thread Beeblebrox
>> when trying to use Grub the client now reboots at the end of kernel loading Sooo, I got curious and compiled a full debug kernel that included {options BOOTP, options BOOTP_NFSROOT} knobs. From the grub menu, without changing any grub.cfg lines (as previously posted) - hit go and ... YEAH BABY!

Re: PXE boot using Grub bootloader fails at mountroot; no PXE devs.

2014-06-29 Thread Beeblebrox
Thanks Rick for the insight. I complied a fresh kernel with {options BOOTP, options BOOTP_NFSROOT} as you suggested. The new kernel behaves differently but does not solve the problem. BTX's pxeboot still works normally, but when trying to use Grub the client now reboots at the end of kernel loadi

PXE boot using Grub bootloader fails at mountroot; no PXE devs.

2014-06-28 Thread Beeblebrox
I'm using grub2 as the pxe bootloader rather than BTX's pxeboot. I get Grub to load kernel and all necessary modules and boot. It goes as far as mountroot> and stops. "?" fails to show any pxe devices. If I recall correctly, when booting from BTX and upon hitting a mountroot problem, "?" is able

Latest update of dnscrypt-proxy broke DNSSEC chain

2014-06-22 Thread Beeblebrox
I have {unbound + dnscrypt-proxy} running in a jail. /etc/passwd in jail has below and appears started in sockstat, but provides no log records. My setup was working before I did "pkg upgrade" in the jail. _dnscrypt-proxy:*:978:65534::0:0:dnscrypt-proxy user:/var/empty:/usr/sbin/nologin # dnscrypt

Re: No UDP/TCP IPv6 connectivity (only) to router using gif interface - maybe ARM related

2013-09-03 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
Whether you feel it right, or not, net.inet.ip.forwarding must be 1 for gif to work (even for IPv6). On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 2:42 AM, Martin Laabs wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to set up my raspberry PI as an ipv6 router. As a tunnel broker I > use sixxs. Now I observed an interesting behavior: > > Ev

Re: Intel 4-port ethernet adaptor link aggregation issue

2013-08-02 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
On several machines with large numbers of IGBx interfaces, I've found that hw.igb.enable_msix=0 is necessary to ensure proper operation. On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Freddie Cash wrote: > On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 12:36 AM, Steve Read wrote: > > > On 01.08.2013 20:07, Joe Moog wrote: > > > >>

Re: Please implement patch in PR180893

2013-07-29 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Mike Karels wrote: > > Sure, but it would be nice to file bugs with VMware and such to ensure > > they fix their bugs. > There's quite a bit of chatter about this problem on the VMWare lists. Linux complains when these packets show up, so it isn't going unnoticed

Please implement patch in PR180893

2013-07-27 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I'd like to advocate implementing http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=180893 Quoting the PR: Some errant network equipment (including the simulation of a network by VMware, as an example) will reflect back multicast packets to the sender. This breaks protocols such as DAD and makes IPv6 ne

Re: Duplicate Address Detection misfire?

2013-07-23 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
Doesn't my original suggestion still stand... regardless of how this particular problem is fixed? That is: if the sending MAC address is _our_ MAC address, then the address is not duplicate. It seems a simple change (unless the function that processes the packet would have difficulty determining

Re: Duplicate Address Detection misfire?

2013-07-23 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
only one MAC per station > and do not do the right thing in some places. > > I don't have an answer for you, but I'd look at the physical networking > card/adapter on the host OS first if I were troubleshooting this. Updated > driver/replace with something else/etc. > &g

Re: Duplicate Address Detection misfire?

2013-07-23 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Zaphod Beeblebrox > wrote: > > What to do when you don't trust the interface? VMWare is obviously > > emulating the hardware and their interpretation of what the hardware "is" > > is possibly differ

Re: Duplicate Address Detection misfire?

2013-07-22 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
done? If VMWare is reflecting the packet back, I'm curious as to how we can fix this. On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 1:22 AM, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > I've further narrowed this down. According to the output: > > em0 DAD detected duplicate IPv6 address fe80:2::250:56ff:fe2e:45fd: N

Re: Duplicate Address Detection misfire?

2013-07-21 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
2013 at 9:21 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > > > > On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Kevin Day wrote: > >> >> On Jun 30, 2013, at 6:48 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: >> >> > I have a FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE vmware guest running. It is using the >> >

Re: Duplicate Address Detection misfire?

2013-07-18 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Kevin Day wrote: > > On Jun 30, 2013, at 6:48 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > > > I have a FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE vmware guest running. It is using the > > "bridged" type of networking with VMWare. It gets it's IPv4 address f

Duplicate Address Detection misfire?

2013-06-30 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I have a FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE vmware guest running. It is using the "bridged" type of networking with VMWare. It gets it's IPv4 address from DHCP (successfully) and then fails to initialize IPv6. The relevant rc.conf is: ipv6_activate_all_interfaces="YES" ifconfig_em0_ipv6="inet6 accept_rtadv" ip

Re: VirtualBox + FreeBSD 9-STABLE == Frozen Ethernet

2013-05-06 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
Heh. VirtualBox has (in my experience) been buggy as heck. Beyond buggy as heck. I have 3 virtualization platforms at my disposal (and the host here is win 7). VirtualBox, VMWare and Windows Virtual PC. I can report that under VirtualBox, every major type of guest caused stability problems wit

vlan on em0 cannot set MAC address.

2013-03-15 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I have a FreeBSD-8.3 machine with an em0 interface in it. em0: port 0xd400-0xd43f mem 0xcffa-0xcffb,0xcff8-0xcff9 irq 12 at device 17.0 on pci0 em0: [FILTER] em0: Ethernet address: 00:0e:0c:bc:6f:87 For various reasons, I have more than one DSL interface, and for some time I have

Re: igb network lockups

2013-03-04 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
For everyone having lockup problems with IGB, I'd like to ask if they could try disabling hyperthreads --- this worked for me on one system but has been unnecessary on others. ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listi

Re: ipv6 route ignores MTU.

2012-12-13 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 2:31 PM, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > > The MTU in this case is set in the ifconfig_em0 rc.conf entry and the > > machine has been rebooted. > > Are you sure that the mtu is set before the ipv6 address is assigned > to the interface? The route inherits what ever MTU was on

Re: 9.1-RC3 IGB dropping connections.

2012-11-27 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 9:25 PM, Mike Tancsa wrote: > Are you using pf ? Also, did you confirm it is the igb nic and not > something more general ? e.g. if you put in a different nic, does the > problem go away ? No pf, the motherboard em-driver NIC does not have this problem. In reply to anoth

Re: 9.1-RC3 IGB dropping connections.

2012-11-27 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
To Jack Vogel's comment, this problem only seems to occur on systems that are exceedingly lightly loaded (in this case, not yet in production and I'm the only one using it). On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Andre Oppermann wrote: > r243570 in CURRENT should likely fix this issue. It's only 27 h

Re: 9.1-RC3 IGB dropping connections.

2012-11-27 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
A further update to my problem: it only seems to occur when there is largely traffic "out" ie: the window is active with ... but typing in the window seems to prevent the effect. ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/li

9.1-RC3 IGB dropping connections.

2012-11-27 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I've got an Intel server motherboard with 4x igb (and 1x em) on it. The motherboard in question is the S3420GPRX and the IGB's show up as: igb0: port 0x3020-0x303f mem 0xb1b2-0xb1b3,0xb1bc4000-0xb1bc7fff irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci3 igb0: Using MSIX interrupts with 9 vectors igb0: Etherne

Re: getting counters for a plenty of vlan ifaces

2012-09-16 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Mike Tancsa wrote: > On 9/16/2012 10:41 AM, Ivan Alexandrovich wrote: >> >> We are running freebsd9.0 on a router with >> more than 1000 of subscriber's vlan interfaces. >> Outgoing packet rate is approximately 40 kpps. >> >> There's a need to collect bytes and pac

Adding CoDel to the stack.

2012-05-09 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I was wondering if anyone had considered adding "CoDel" to the queuing infrastructure in FreeBSD. The ACM paper on it is http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2209336 . The "short" of it is that current TCP behaviour encourages router/switch buffers to always be "full" and that other solutions like

Re: Full Cone NAT In PF

2012-04-29 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Michael MacLeod wrote: > Every once and a while I run into an issue wherein the symmetric NAT of pf > causes me grief. I've found some older mailing list entries asking about PF > and Cone or Full Cone NAT (such as this one from 2005: > http://www.mail-archive.com

Re: lagg problems on diskless client

2012-04-07 Thread Beeblebrox
> Note to doing anything on wifi: in STA mode, you can't (standards > wise) send frames with a MAC that isn't yours. > > There's a conceptual fix for this - called "proxy-STA" - but noone's > coded it up in net80211 and/or any driver. @ Adrian: The DC's are not wireless. They have 2 NICs (NIC 10/1

Re: lagg problems on diskless client

2012-04-06 Thread Beeblebrox
@Peter: My DC nodes already mount /tmp as tmpfs (a ramdisk). I have hence modified the script and defined lagg_tmp:=/tmp/mnt and added the line mkdir "$lagg_tmp" before the md creation. lagg still breaks, so I commented out the lines following "Actually flip the interface". Checking the DC status

Re: lagg problems on diskless client

2012-04-06 Thread Beeblebrox
In a previous mail re this problem, Adrian Chadd had asked: What's the routing table and ifconfig output look like? It sounds like you're creating the interface and moving things over without: * deleting the route/IP table entry; * create the lagg; * adding the interfaces to the lagg, including the

lagg problems on diskless client

2012-04-05 Thread Beeblebrox
Since jail/etc/rc.d/lagg results in an error message "cannot change re0" and results in a system freeze on the DC, I tried the following in jail/etc/rc.conf: ifconfig_lagg0="up laggproto failover laggport re1 laggport re0 192.168.2.2 netmask 255.255.255.0" Resulting messages on the DC before freezi

Re: PXE Boot vmware 8.x fails after pxeboot.

2012-04-04 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
Apr 3, 2012 at 1:27 AM, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > Replying to my own message, I add more below... > > On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: >> I have had diskless FreeBSD machines before.  I started this project >> with an eye to booting iscsi disks, but t

Re: lagg problems on diskless client

2012-04-04 Thread Beeblebrox
> > > Almost as bad as back when I sent a note to a customer about a > requirement to adjust our 'peeing' policy. (And the spell checker > won't catch that one.) > > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Beeblebrox wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 7:46 PM, Ke

Re: lagg problems on diskless client

2012-04-03 Thread Beeblebrox
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 7:46 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote: > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 4:51 AM, Beeblebrox wrote: > > Slightly different point of view: Under this scenario of dikless clients > > having dual NICs would CRAP be a choice to consider? From what I have > read > Typo

Re: lagg problems on diskless client

2012-04-03 Thread Beeblebrox
> > > > Please don't top post. > Wasn't aware I was doing that. This is better I hope? > > > Assuming you're netbooting off re0, that looks correct. > YES, re0 is the BIOS detected NIC > > > Are you sure you installed /etc/rc.d/lagg or an equivalent script? > I had not noticed the link to the scrip

Re: lagg problems on diskless client

2012-04-03 Thread Beeblebrox
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Peter Jeremy wrote: > Please don't top post. > > On 2012-Apr-02 12:25:06 +0300, Beeblebrox wrote: > >I had looked into failover with wireless and tried it before posting, but > >got nowhere. > > Wired/wireless on a diskfull system

Re: PXE Boot vmware 8.x fails after pxeboot.

2012-04-02 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
Replying to my own message, I add more below... On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > I have had diskless FreeBSD machines before.  I started this project > with an eye to booting iscsi disks, but there seems to be no way to > communicate the root disk path (and p

Re: (no subject)

2012-04-02 Thread Beeblebrox
Discussion continued here, please: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2012-April/031904.html ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr.

Re: lagg problems on diskless client

2012-04-02 Thread Beeblebrox
Hi, Peter. I had looked into failover with wireless and tried it before posting, but got nowhere. I delayed posting an answer because I needed to do more fiddleing; and I made some headwy, but still problems: 1. With below setup in diskless client's rc.conf, the client is able to boot and gets to

Re: (no subject)

2012-04-02 Thread Beeblebrox
gest you read man lagg, example #2 (failover interface between wired and wireless) On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Jason Hellenthal wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 04:42:38AM +0300, Beeblebrox wrote: > > Hi Adrian, > > > > Re your comments; you ar

PXE Boot vmware 8.x fails after pxeboot.

2012-04-01 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I have had diskless FreeBSD machines before. I started this project with an eye to booting iscsi disks, but there seems to be no way to communicate the root disk path (and parameters) to FreeBSD --- something that might be solvable, but I need practical at the moment. So I fall back on NFS diskles

Re: (no subject)

2012-03-28 Thread Beeblebrox
Hi Adrian, Re your comments; you are 100% right, as I have not done steps 1 & 4 from your list below. I must also admit that my knowledge of networking, on a scale of 0-10, is probably -1. I assume you mean for Client? For example, re0 has static IP assigned by DHCP and re1 (GBit NIC) has no IP

(no subject)

2012-03-28 Thread Beeblebrox
I have some problems implementing lagg(4) on dual NIC's on the diskless client side. It may be because my switch is a cheap, un-managed Gbit switch or hopefully some other reason. I would like to either get lagg working properly or find an alternative method of solving the problem. HARDWARE DESCRI

Re: nmbclusters: how do we want to fix this for 8.3 ?

2012-02-22 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
It could do some good to think of the scale of the problem and maybe the driver can tune to the hardware. First, is 8k packet buffers a reasonable default on a GigE port? Well... on a GigE port, you could have from 100k pps (packets per second) at 1500 bytes to 500k pps at around 300 bytes to trul