Re: kern/114839: [fxp] fxp looses ability to speak with traffic

2009-06-23 Thread David Gilbert
yong...@freebsd.org wrote: Synopsis: [fxp] fxp looses ability to speak with traffic State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback State-Changed-By: yongari State-Changed-When: Tue Jun 23 08:27:34 UTC 2009 State-Changed-Why: It seems your controller is plain i82559. Since you said you can see incoming

Re: kern/115360: [ipv6] IPv6 address and if_bridge don't play well together.

2007-11-16 Thread David Gilbert
works. bge0 connected to the dc1 segment or iwi0 (still dc1 segment) doesn't work. If dc1 (only) has the ipv6 address, bge0 connected to the em0 segment doesn't work, bge0 connected to the dc1 segment or iwi0 (also on the dc1 segment) works. Dave. -- =

Re: kern/115360: IPv6 address and if_bridge don't play well together.

2007-08-10 Thread David Gilbert
g Eric> works great. I'm using the fxp driver on both cards (Dell Eric> PowerEdge 1550 dual 10/100 interfaces). Eric> Feel free to ask more about my setup, if I can help at all. Are you using IPv6? IPv4 appears to work just fine. Dave. -- =========

Re: kern/115360: IPv6 address and if_bridge don't play well together.

2007-08-09 Thread David Gilbert
The following reply was made to PR kern/115360; it has been noted by GNATS. From: David Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Andrew Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: kern/115360: IPv6 address and if_bridge don't play well together.

Re: rc.order wrong (ipfw)

2007-03-19 Thread David Gilbert
lock, loading it at the wrong time can break other startup items because they require name resolution or the sending of packets (rtsol). Dave. -- |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can be | |Mail:

Status of iwi vs. iwiNG?

2007-02-20 Thread David Gilbert
I'd like to know the status of the iwi driver vs. iwiNG. I've been using iwiNG for some time now and I don't see any notes in the CVS log of iwi that the changes have been merged. Dave. -- ======== |David Gilbe

Re: Multiple routes to the same destination

2006-06-25 Thread David Gilbert
>>>>> "ISO" == ISO writes: ISO> David Gilbert wrote: >> No. round-robin will deliver packets out-of-order. TCP will >> behave very badly with this (at the very least, smart selective-ack >> hosts will transmit a lot of selective-ack packets ---

RE: Multiple routes to the same destination

2006-06-24 Thread David Gilbert
Now... this is an unscalble solution --- it's reasonably trivial to knock over a linux router with a simple DOS ... details left to the interested reader. Dave. -- ======== |David Gilbert, Independent

New atheros chipset?

2006-01-16 Thread David Gilbert
I'm looking at an auction on eBay selling an Atheros AR5006XR chipset mini-pci card. It aparently features the AR5414 ... Is there an expectation that the ath driver will work with this card? Dave. -- ==== |David Gi

ifconfig_fxp0 with both DHCP and Link?

2005-12-21 Thread David Gilbert
, you can edit /etc/dhclient.conf and do the following: interface "dc0" { media "media 10baseT/UTP mediaopt full-duplex"; } IIRC, the media line can accept an 'ether' statement. Dave. -- ========

Re: FreeVRRPd project status

2005-04-14 Thread David Gilbert
e VRRP... which was why people stopped working on it. Dave. -- ======== |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| equal if and only if they | |http://daveg

quagga and OSPFD and point-to-point tunnels.

2005-03-04 Thread David Gilbert
r all versions of FreeBSD, but I'm using 5.3-RELEASE-p5 to test. Dave. -- ==== |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| equal if a

ng_fec and cisco 2931

2005-02-28 Thread David Gilbert
meaningful data) and still found the card maxxing out at 100 megabit total over the 4 ports. Dave. -- ======== |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: altq for vlans?

2005-02-13 Thread David Gilbert
>>>>> "Max" == Max Laier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Max> On Sunday 13 February 2005 22:36, David Gilbert wrote: >> Has anyone considered patching the vlan driver to support altq? I >> gather that since tun works, so should vlan. Max> This

altq for vlans?

2005-02-13 Thread David Gilbert
Has anyone considered patching the vlan driver to support altq? I gather that since tun works, so should vlan. Dave. -- |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail: [EMAIL

Trendnet TU-ET100C

2004-11-12 Thread David Gilbert
there a chance that there's a known chipset in there? How might I tell? Dave. -- ==== |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| eq

Underutilisation of CPU --- am I PCI bus bandwidth limited?

2004-10-25 Thread David Gilbert
tumped. -- Luke Well... you're going to get a lot more packets through (likely) if you turn on polling, but keep in mind that your low priority "soaker" process will no longer be accurate. Seeing bytes/packets decline and cpu stay the same is the same failure mode that I've

Re: Disabling VLAN_HWTAGGING

2004-03-29 Thread David Gilbert
nd BPF is very Ruslan> unlikely to reconstruct the ETHERTYPE_VLAN packet using this Ruslan> information... This may entirely be, but it makes debugging awfully hard. Dave. -- ======== |David Gilbert, Independen

Re: Disabling VLAN_HWTAGGING

2004-03-29 Thread David Gilbert
te. The FreeBSD and Linux drivers share this behaviour. Dave. -- ======== |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| equal if and only if they | |http://da

Re: Disabling VLAN_HWTAGGING

2004-03-29 Thread David Gilbert
th Linux and FreeBSD, many nge chipsets will not show vlan packets from the driver with a tcpdump. Dave. -- |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

My planned work on networking stack

2004-03-02 Thread David Gilbert
mmon network server usages Andre> overall and in specific detail in depth in the network code. Andre> (planned) I'm partiularly interested in these two items. I would like to be involved. Dave. -- ======== |David Gilb

Re: [D800] Dell D800 (FBSD 5.2-release) Broadcom BCM5705M MTU/Jumbo Problem

2004-01-23 Thread David Gilbert
t; higher end laptop all around when compared to the 600. I've been wondering if it's a revision thing. Maybe newer D800's have the better chip. Maybe the power profile of the 'M' chip is "better" ... Dave. -- =

Re: [D800] Dell D800 (FBSD 5.2-release) Broadcom BCM5705M MTU/Jumbo Problem

2004-01-22 Thread David Gilbert
Eric> Strange - it shows BCM5702, then BCM5703 If you look in the code, you'll probably find that one of the lines is being more specific about the chip. Dave. -- ======== |David Gilbert, Independent Contra

[D800] Re: Dell D800 (FBSD 5.2-release) Broadcom BCM5705M MTU/Jumbo Problem

2004-01-22 Thread David Gilbert
deliberate bit of marketing goo, I suspect. Dave. -- ======== |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| equal if and only if they | |http://dav

Re: [D800] Dell D800 (FBSD 5.2-release) Broadcom BCM5705M MTU/Jumbo Problem

2004-01-22 Thread David Gilbert
t address: 00:0b:db:94:3d:01 miibus0: on bge0 Dave. -- ======== |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca

[D800] Dell D800 (FBSD 5.2-release) Broadcom BCM5705M MTU/Jumbo Problem

2004-01-22 Thread David Gilbert
dcom sells the cripled part at a lower price than the full part. There are notes in the driver about what's diabled in this specific version. :(. Dave. -- |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two thing

Re: kern/61215: off-by-one error likely in ip_fragment()

2004-01-15 Thread David Gilbert
mp -i dc0 doesn't show gre packets leaving the machine. Dave. -- ======== |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| equal if and only if they | |http:

Re: kern/61215: off-by-one error likely in ip_fragment()

2004-01-15 Thread David Gilbert
l Keep in mind this is a working tunnel under October's 5.1-CURRENT. My config is: cloned_interfaces="gre0" ifconfig_gre0="inet 66.246.133.114 66.246.133.113 netmask 255.255.255.252 tunnel 24.100.27.151 66.246.133.17" Dave. -- ==

Re: kern/61215: off-by-one error likely in ip_fragment()

2004-01-15 Thread David Gilbert
nnel endpoints. gre0: flags=9011 mtu 1476 inet6 fe80::2d0:9ff:fee4:bbc2%gre0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5 inet 66.246.133.114 --> 66.246.133.113 netmask 0xfffc Dave. -- |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor.

Re: kern/61215: off-by-one error likely in ip_fragment()

2004-01-15 Thread David Gilbert
is0 are internal networks. dc0 is the external network interface. A /32 route for the far end of the tunnel exists (and works on the new kernel ... it pings), but pings into the tunnel don't generate traffic on dc0 (at least according to tcpdump). Dave. -- ==

Handling 100.000 packets/sec or more

2004-01-14 Thread David Gilbert
ng other cards by a fair margin. Different motherboards have several orders of magnitude different performance with the same processor. Polling (as others have mentioned) roughly doubles the throughput of a server and eliminates live lock. Dave. --

Re: off-by-one error in ip_fragment, recently.

2004-01-11 Thread David Gilbert
code, the values that arrive in ip->ip_len in ip_fragment() from the gre tunnel are the byteswapped values from m->m_pkthdr.len above. ... which makes me wonder if this is a showstopper ... that ip_fragment() is broken in some general way. Dave. -- ========

Re: off-by-one error in ip_fragment, recently.

2004-01-11 Thread David Gilbert
Further in followup to the ip_fragment() bug, at the crash, off = 1500, len = 1480 and ip->ip_len = 21248. So m_copym() is being called with off > len. Dave. -- |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor.

Re: off-by-one error in ip_fragment, recently.

2004-01-11 Thread David Gilbert
ter. Dave. -- ==== |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | ==

Re: off-by-one error in ip_fragment, recently.

2004-01-10 Thread David Gilbert
ot sure exactly. Andre> Could you please open a PR with this information too? It helps Andre> keeping track of the progress. I'll be opening the PR tomorrow once I have a crash dump and a better trace. This configuration is working in a kernel from 5.1-CURRENT built in october. Dave. --

off-by-one error in ip_fragment, recently.

2004-01-10 Thread David Gilbert
dto() syscall() xint0x80_syscall() ... now I'm not sure that the error is perfectly technically off-by-one, but its something similar. Dave. -- ======== |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can o

crossover between gigE?

2003-12-21 Thread David Gilbert
ant, an 8 wire straight thru cable works as both a straight and a crossover. The GigE standard requires this behaviour. Dave. -- ======== |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can onl

Knowing a route multiply.

2003-11-17 Thread David Gilbert
pinnions? Dave. -- ======== |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are pre

Re: what about 5000 .. 10000 VLANs in one system?

2003-11-14 Thread David Gilbert
vote for the 4096 pointer model (or at least an option for same). We often use machines with 100 or more vlans. Constant time packet delivery is a "good thing" (tm). Dave. -- ==== |David Gilbert, I

Preferred Gigabit interfaces for -CURRENT

2003-02-07 Thread David Gilbert
like to know if the choice might be different for -STABLE (as some of our routers run -STABLE). Dave. -- ======== |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mpd-netgraph problem.

2002-05-09 Thread David Gilbert
I never solved my problem. Since I control both ends, and there's no packet loss, I'm currently running ppp over ssh. Dave. -- ==== |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be

mpd-netgraph problem.

2002-01-31 Thread David Gilbert
ted protocol 0x0001 on link -1, rejecting (on the other) The second log also contains lines of the form: [strikeppp] rec'd proto 0xee53 on MP link! (ignoring) [strikeppp] rec'd proto 0xcc0d on MP link! (ignoring) ... any ideas? Dave. -- =======

Re: netgraph bridge works on fxp0, fails on wi0

2001-12-05 Thread David Gilbert
>>>>> "Brooks" == Brooks Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brooks> On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 05:23:48PM -0500, David Gilbert wrote: >> The netgraph bridge setup for vmware works very well and I've been >> happy with it for some time running on my

netgraph bridge works on fxp0, fails on wi0

2001-12-05 Thread David Gilbert
all cases. ... but no packets from the vmware process ever escape (I was specifically looking for dhcp packets with tcpdump). Any ideas? Dave. -- ======== |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can onl