Re: bikeshed for all!

2007-12-12 Thread Chris Dillon
Quoting Julian Elischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I need a word to use to describe the network view one is currently on.. e.g. if you are usinghe second routing table, you could say I've set xxx to 1 (0 based).. current;y in my code I'm using 'universe' but I don't like that.. I think you just sa

Re: FreeBSD box as router adding latency

2004-02-26 Thread Chris Dillon
ee if your latency improves if you remove all pipe and queue rules (other ipfw rules are OK). -- Chris Dillon - cdillon(at)wolves.k12.mo.us FreeBSD: The fastest, most open, and most stable OS on the planet - Available for IA32, IA64, AMD64, PC98, Alpha, and UltraSPARC architectures - Power

Re: FreeBSD box as router adding latency

2004-02-26 Thread Chris Dillon
reboot, and test again. You should see something between a slight improvement to a ten-fold improvement. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon(at)wolves.k12.mo.us FreeBSD: The fastest, most open, and most stable OS on the planet - Available for IA32, IA64, AMD64, PC98, Alpha, and UltraSPARC archi

Re: FreeBSD box as router adding latency

2004-02-25 Thread Chris Dillon
Cs and the switch. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon(at)wolves.k12.mo.us FreeBSD: The fastest, most open, and most stable OS on the planet - Available for IA32, IA64, AMD64, PC98, Alpha, and UltraSPARC architectures - PowerPC, ARM, MIPS, and S/390 under development - http://www.freebsd.org Q: Becaus

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci if_rl.c if_rlreg.h

2003-08-14 Thread Chris Dillon
g so many TX and RX rings could be a boon for QoS applications and routers when it comes to traffic prioritization. Thank you for such an in-depth insight! -- Chris Dillon - cdillon(at)wolves.k12.mo.us FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet - Available for IA32, IA

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci if_rl.c if_rlreg.h

2003-08-09 Thread Chris Dillon
ips, or has RealTek improved them to the point where they are actually on par with their peers? In other words, what's your take on their performance and reliability compared to the Intel or Broadcom chipsets? -- Chris Dillon - cdillon(at)wolves.k12.mo.us FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable

Re: Is there such a thing like a TCP proxy|relay?

2002-11-22 Thread Chris Dillon
it because it uses kqueue()/kevent() to do its thing rather than poll()/select(). -- Chris Dillon - cdillon(at)wolves.k12.mo.us FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet - Available for IA32 (Intel x86) and Alpha architectures - IA64, PowerPC, UltraSPARC, ARM, and S/390 und

Re: network traffic analysis with a network switch

2002-04-21 Thread Chris Dillon
right switch you can do this easily. It requires a managed switch with the ability to have a "monitoring" port. You can copy traffic to/from one port to another port, or if the switch allows it, all of the traffic on an entire VLAN to a port. -- Chris Dillon - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMA

Re: Bug in stateful code?

2002-02-15 Thread Chris Dillon
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Earl A. Killian wrote: > Chris Dillon writes: > > Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 10:20:39 -0600 (CST) > > From: Chris Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > If you have the luxury of having more than one IP address available > > for the

Re: Bug in stateful code?

2002-02-15 Thread Chris Dillon
T address. This is what I've done and it works fine. -- Chris Dillon - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet - Available for IA32 (Intel x86) and Alpha architectures - IA64, PowerPC, UltraSPARC, and ARM architectu

Re: fxp patch - bundling receive interrupts

2001-10-24 Thread Chris Dillon
ut 600 interrupts were generated), so it definately worked. If I get real brave I might try it on my router which has mostly 82558B's but also an 82559 or two. -- Chris Dillon - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet - Availab

Re: multi-subnet windows file sharing?

2001-04-09 Thread Chris Dillon
\drivers\etc, usually C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc. -- Chris Dillon - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For IA32 and Alpha architectures. IA64, PPC, and ARM under development. http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: s

Re: mbuf leak? fxp?

2001-04-05 Thread Chris Dillon
g pretty much the gamut of network related abuse you could do to a box -- routing on lots of interfaces, bpfilter (two per interface in most cases), ipfw, NAT, a fair amount of incoming and outgoing connections -- except I'm not doing anything Netgraph related (assuming you might be, being one

Re: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module

2001-02-09 Thread Chris Dillon
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Alex Pilosov wrote: > On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Chris Dillon wrote: > > > Cool, if thats all it will take, I'll give it a try. But, whatever > > method Compaq/Intel is using doesn't require me to set up the ports on > > the switch as being part

Re: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module

2001-02-09 Thread Chris Dillon
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Feb 08), Chris Dillon said: > > > The channel bonding is done using the Cisco fast etherchannel > > > mechanism. The default hashing mechanism uses the MAC address, > > > however you can select IP address

Re: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module

2001-02-08 Thread Chris Dillon
where I have two bonded channels from a server, each port shows a different MAC address. Any idea how that would work? It would be really cool if you could choose either the EtherChannel method or some other non-EtherChannel method that will work with other switches, if we can figure out how it works. :-)

Re: Problem with fxp0 card and slowing/dying transmits - now I'mreally confused

2001-01-08 Thread Chris Dillon
he core, they'll only work with stranded cable. If they attempt to "straddle" both sides the core, they should work well with solid cable and most likely stranded as well. -- Chris Dillon - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on th