Re: Failover and load balancing using advanced NAT daemon

2006-01-25 Thread Jon Simola
ful use of anchors and some scripting (or ifstated which might be in ports) can move traffic off failed links or respond to changing loads. I've done a lot with both ipfw and PF now, and I'm finding PF to be more flexible for my uses. -- Jon Simola Sys

Re: Question on VLAN

2006-01-23 Thread Jon Simola
its already seperated, otherwise it has to figure it out by looking in the header for the presence of the ETHERTYPE_VLAN tag. Hope that helps you out. -- Jon Simola Systems Administrator ABC Communications ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://li

Re: sending MAC packets --- again, and again

2005-05-20 Thread Jon Simola
#x27;m not sure how polite pcap is about leaving dangling bpf devices. -- Jon Simola Systems Administrator ABC Communications ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: [Q-4.9-R]Questions About A Simple Bridge

2005-05-07 Thread Jon Simola
he MAC of my upstream router, stopping my network dead. I have to become very agressive with layer2 filtering with ipfw to keep the bridge from seeing packets on the wrong interface. -- Jon Simola Systems Administrator ABC Communications ___ freebsd-net@f

Re: Performance Intel Pro 1000 MT (PWLA8490MT)

2005-04-19 Thread Jon Simola
0). > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sysctl -a | grep kern.polling > >>kern.polling.handlers: 0 No handlers? On all my boxes I've got one handler per polled device. -- Jon Simola Systems Administrator ABC Communications ___ freebsd-net

Re: altq for vlans?

2005-02-14 Thread Jon Simola
> > 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. > > Well... the issue is several fold. Firstly, the router in question is > talking in trunk mode to a switch which i

Re: quad port fast ethernet card recommendations

2005-02-03 Thread Jon Simola
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 12:18:05 -0500, Michael W. Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > subject sums it up. will be used in small firewall boxes with WAN, LAN, > DMZ, and WLAN (via x-over to AP) connections. older hardware, so > please, no fancy super-duper mega-bandwidth PCI cards that I won't have >

em(4) VLAN + PROMISC followup question

2005-01-26 Thread Jon Simola
mp on either em1 or one of the vlan interfaces reduces throughput by a factor of 10 or so. Running tcpdump with the -p option does not. This is a steady stream of 10 to 20 Mbps of traffic, routing 11 /24s over 4 vlans, kernel polling is enabled for the em devices. Thank you, Jon Simola Systems Administ

Re: vlans changed?

2005-01-19 Thread Jon Simola
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:01:52 -0800, Charlie Schluting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, in 5.3, the only thing I can get working is to configure the em0 int with > the IP, and set the trunk to have the native vlan corresponding to that IP. > Weird. Sounds like you're not getting the module loade

Re: Network accounting

2005-01-17 Thread Jon Simola
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 23:07:54 +0100, Andrew Seguin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With the help, in pointing out the mask feature to me from Jon Simola, this > quite possibly might be the path I'll take (I'll sleep on it first). > Interfaces are 100Mbps, but our interne

Re: Network accounting

2005-01-17 Thread Jon Simola
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:41:16 +0100, Andrew Seguin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >What I was doing with the same setup: > >$IPFW pipe 1 config mask src-ip 0x buckets 512 > >$IPFW pipe 2 config mask dst-ip 0x buckets 512 > >$IPFW add 32001 pipe 1 src-ip 192.168.110.0/24 bridged > >$IP

Re: Network accounting

2005-01-17 Thread Jon Simola
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:11:13 +0100, Andrew Seguin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But, here's my situation. A dedicated FreeBSD transparent firewall-bridge > with 3 NICs (two for the bridge w/o IP, one for console). I'm using IPFW for > the firewall, and at the moment I'm doing some very bare-bones s

ALTQ patch for if_vlan.c

2005-01-17 Thread Jon Simola
OCK(&ifp->if_snd); + } + ifv = ifp->if_softc; p = ifv->ifv_p; ifp->if_flags |= IFF_OACTIVE; for (;;) { - IF_DEQUEUE(&ifp->if_snd, m); + IFQ_DEQUEUE(&ifp->if_snd, m); if (m == 0)