Re: How to set interface description containing space in 8.x

2011-10-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 05:55:28AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 02:11:17PM +0200, sth...@nethelp.no wrote: > > FreeBSD 8.x (well, at least 8.2) has the very nice feature of letting > > you set an interface *description* (just like you can on any Jun

Re: How to set interface description containing space in 8.x

2011-10-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
rrier This is on RELENG_8 dated 2011/09/28. If you want me to test it on my em0 interface (which is what actually has an IP configured, etc.) and do a full reboot, I can do that. Let me know. So there may have been some rc.d framework changes that address your problem. Are you running -RELEASE

Re: Production use of carp?

2011-06-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ove description was the root cause. The solution was to have mpath probe against a dedicated host (another Solaris box) rather than the network gateway. Problem solved. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.p

Re: Production use of carp?

2011-06-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
protocols which can cause this behaviour as well. One such protocol is LLDP (Link Layer Discovery Protocol). I ran into this issue on our HP ProCurve switches; disabling LLDP ("no lldp run") solved slow link negotiation. Other such protocols link disovery protocols are

Re: MAC address / per-proto ARP caching in 8.1-RELEASE

2011-03-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ld recommend setting this in sysctl.conf and rebooting; I don't know what happens in the case you set it on a live system that's already experiencing the MAC issue you describe). net.inet.flowtable.enable=0 Details: http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2009/workshops/presto

Re: Routing between two physical networks

2011-02-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
g lines in my dhcpd.conf file when making a new "subnet" section... -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | |

Routing between two physical networks

2011-02-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
conf has "set skip on wlan0" and "set skip on em1", so I'm not exactly sure where the packets are disappearing, and am inclined to think it's a routing table issue. I can put up my configuration bits (rc.conf, pf.conf) as well as "ifconfig -a&qu

Re: Reliable PCI wifi cards, and layer 7 filtering

2011-02-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 12:06:20PM -0500, Boris Kochergin wrote: > On 02/10/11 10:56, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >(I was considering cross-posting this to freebsd-pf but decided against > >it, instead starting here first. Please keep me CC'd as I'm not > >subscr

Reliable PCI wifi cards, and layer 7 filtering

2011-02-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ctly this. They return TCP RST to the client which submit the packet, and never forwarding the original packet out the WAN. Item #2 above seems to be the kicker. Is there anything in the works regarding such a capability? I'd be more than happy to test out code or whatever. -- | J

Re: Watchdog resets on 82575

2010-08-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
el type. So: $ grep -i 0x10c9 * e1000_hw.h:#define E1000_DEV_ID_825760x10C9 For Jack: igb_vendor_info_array should really be extended to include actual ASCII strings for the individual chips/models/codenames. I'm sure that's on your todo list somewhere. I'

Re: Watchdog resets on 82575

2010-08-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
e igb0. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4B

Re: PF + BRIDGE still causes system freezing

2010-05-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
nsion protocols that address this (such as RSTP). If you're actually using FreeBSD as a "smart switch", then there may be some spanning tree software that works on FreeBSD. I'm not familiar with this setup or what software may be available. The majority of folks connect their

Re: rc(8) script -- waiting for the network to become usable

2010-04-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 09:00:07AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > On 4/26/10 1:08 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >Foremost, sorry for the cross-post, but more eyes in this case means > >overall more discussion. Secondly, please keep me CC'd as I'm not on > >either

rc(8) script -- waiting for the network to become usable

2010-04-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
commented out) in my original post which I've since fixed in the version that's available via HTTP. Thank you! -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator

Re: HW VLAN Filtering on FreeBSD 6.3 + 7.0

2008-11-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
t; remove). I can't find such ioctl. > second is to have a direct access from the driver to the OS vlan table. I'm > not familiar with the interface or if it's possible at all, and that is my > actual question. This question should go to freebsd-hackers. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: HW VLAN Filtering on FreeBSD 6.3 + 7.0

2008-11-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
) is missing), so be sure to check the man page of your NIC driver. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making lif

Re: kernel profiling: spinlock_exit consumes 36% CPU time.

2008-10-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
t; spinlock_exit consume ~36% CPU time? > > Am I missing something? Could anybody help me understand this? Many thanks. > > BTW, the kernel is compiled with SMP and PREEMPTION disabled. The scheduler > is ULE. What FreeBSD version, and what build date of the kernel? -- | Jeremy Chad

Re: 7.1-PRERELEASE : bad network performance (nfe0)

2008-09-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 06:30:03PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 06:15:43PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Ga

Re: 7.1-PRERELEASE : bad network performance (nfe0)

2008-09-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) > status: active I see 100baseTX there, not 1000baseTX. This speed is being selected via autoneg (auto speed/duplex negotiation). Whatever switch you're connected to is not properly negotiating the speed. What brand and model of switch is

Re: 7.1-PRERELEASE : bad network performance (nfe0)

2008-09-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
get about 10M/s. Very odd. > Did a tcpdump and saw lots of bad checksum errors. This is probably because checksum offloading was being done on the NIC. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com

Re: connect(): Operation not permitted

2008-07-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 04:32:13AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 08:55:21AM -0700, Kian Mohageri wrote: > > A similar/related problem was addressed in OpenBSD 4.3 > > (http://www.openbsd.org/plus43.html). > > > > * In pf(4), allow state

Re: connect(): Operation not permitted

2008-07-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
#x27;d our main webserver, and within about 15 minutes, state-mismatch was up to 22. We use tcp.closed of 5 (which means 15 seconds). Workarounds such as "no state" suffice, but if you use rdr rules, you MUST track state, which means there's no way of winning in that case. For sake

Re: kernel panic on em0/taskq

2008-06-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
r person: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-May/042250.html I'll add this to my Commonly reported issues Wiki. As for the problem itself, sorry, I have no idea what's causing it. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius N

Re: kernel panic on em0/taskq

2008-06-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
omatic reoboot, > it just stays there. Try adjusting some of these sysctl values: hw.acpi.disable_on_reboot hw.acpi.handle_reboot You're using VMware, which may or may not behave properly anyways. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius

Re: MFC of em/igb drivers

2008-06-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ied too, doesn't work. Good to know. Sounds like a driver problem; back to Jack for that one. :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator

Re: MFC of em/igb drivers

2008-06-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ing speed and duplex negotiation and explicitly stating speed and duplex like so? ifconfig_em0="... media 1000baseTX mediaopt full-duplex" Cisco switches have a notorious history of not being "friendly" with non-Cisco hardware. Forcing duplex on both ends of the link (tha

Re: connect(): Operation not permitted

2008-05-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
annot comment on that. I'd consider re-posting your problem to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and include your entire pf ruleset, so people could analyse it. Output from "pfctl -s info" would also be benefitial. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com

Re: nfs-server silent data corruption

2008-04-21 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 06:24:45PM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: > As for reliability I see no particular reason for that board to be less > reliable than any other multi-CPU board. Sorry for my complete and total opinionated noise, then. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: nfs-server silent data corruption

2008-04-21 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
s the two NICs together to give you the equivalent of 2000mbit of traffic? I don't know. Does the corruption you see go away if you install a separate NIC (e.g. an Intel NIC) in a PCI or PCI-e slot, and disable the onboard NICs (should be "MAC LAN: Disable" on both the primary

Re: RFC: Evolution of the em driver

2007-10-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
separate driver (presumably igb(4)) than a "hacked up" em(4) driver trying to handle tons of IC revisions. A good example of the insanity the latter causes is nve(4) vs. nfe(4). :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius