Re: WEP problems with ndis and ath drivers

2004-03-23 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 14:36:22 +0900, Motonori Shindo wrote: > Gary, > > From: Gary Corcoran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: WEP problems with ndis and ath drivers > Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 23:05:11 -0500 > > > Sam Leffler wrote: > > > > > It appears your AP requires shared-key authenticatio

Re: WEP problems with ndis and ath drivers

2004-03-23 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 21:55:05 +0800, Sam Leffler wrote: > On Mar 21, 2004, at 9:35 AM, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > > > >I have a Dell Inspiron 8500 laptop with an onboard TrueMobile 1300 > >(Broadcom, b/g chipset) and a Netgear WAG511 cardbus card (Atheros, > &

WEP problems with ndis and ath drivers

2004-03-20 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
I have a Dell Inspiron 8500 laptop with an onboard TrueMobile 1300 (Broadcom, b/g chipset) and a Netgear WAG511 cardbus card (Atheros, a/b/g chipset). I have a Netgear FWAG114 firewall/access point. (Atheros based, does a, b and g.) I'm running FreeBSD-current from Friday, March 19th. Both car

Re: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5705M support

2003-07-13 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 16:59:56 +0300, Boris Georgiev wrote: > Hello All, > > I've got a Compaq Evo N620c notebook, which comes with a built-in lan network card - > Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5705M. I researched on the hardware support for this NIC in > FreeBSD and noticed that there is no hardware

Re: High interrupt load on firewalls

2002-10-08 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
[ taking -questions out of the CC list, please don't send things to more than 2 lists, the mail servers don't usually allow it in any case. ] On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 13:41:38 +1000, Christopher Smith wrote: > We have two firewalls sitting on gigabit links. Each has 2 Netgear GA620 > (ti driver)

Re: zero copy code checkin in 2 days, new snapshot

2002-06-23 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 01:17:03 -0500, Mike Silbersack wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > > I'm planning on checking in the zero copy sockets code Tuesday evening, > > MDT. If there are any concerns, I'm more than willing to delay it. > &g

zero copy code checkin in 2 days, new snapshot

2002-06-23 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
I'm planning on checking in the zero copy sockets code Tuesday evening, MDT. If there are any concerns, I'm more than willing to delay it. I've also released a new snapshot, based on -current from June 23rd, 2002: http://people.freebsd.org/~ken/zero_copy/ The following changes went into this

Re: bge driver issue

2002-06-20 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 21:06:46 -0400, Barney Wolff wrote: > Er, you would appear to be measuring the transfer rate of your disk, > unless you actually have enough ram to cache a 1.2GB file. > > By coincidence, tonight I hooked my dual 1.0GHz PIII running fbsd 4.6-stable > to a Mac G4 OS-X (also

updated zero copy sockets snapshot available

2002-06-20 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
I've released a new zero copy sockets snapshot, based on -current from June 20th, 2002. http://people.FreeBSD.org/~ken/zero_copy This fixes the following issues: - Use SLIST_FIRST() macros to access the first entry in a SLIST in uipc_jumbo.c. I didn't fix all of these when Alfred pointed

Re: new zero copy sockets snapshot

2002-06-20 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 11:45:11 -0400, Bosko Milekic wrote: > On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 11:24:05AM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Bosko Milekic writes: > > > > By the way, my other two comments have been deleted, but reading the > > > page that Ken maintains I noticed that Alfred already po

Re: new zero copy sockets snapshot

2002-06-18 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 00:43:13 -0400, Bosko Milekic wrote: > On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 10:36:36PM -0600, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > > > I've released a new zero copy sockets snapshot, against -current from June > > 18th, 2002. > > > > http://people.FreeBSD

new zero copy sockets snapshot

2002-06-18 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
I've released a new zero copy sockets snapshot, against -current from June 18th, 2002. http://people.FreeBSD.org/~ken/zero_copy The fixes that went into this snapshot: - Take mutex locking out of ti_attach(), it isn't really needed. As long as we can assume that probes of successive ti(4)

Re: new zero copy sockets snapshot, WITNESS problems

2002-06-11 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 04:37:04 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > On 10-Jun-2002 Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > 3. ti_attach() calls bus_alloc_resource(), which through a ton of calls > > ends up calling vm_map_entry_create(), same problem as above. > > > > 4. ti_at

new zero copy sockets snapshot, WITNESS problems

2002-06-09 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
I have released a new zero copy sockets snapshot, the code and a brief update on what has been fixed is here: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~ken/zero_copy In short, I fixed the following things, which were found by Alfred Perlstein: - fix a race in the vm object allocation in jumbo_vm_init() - u

Re: new zero copy sockets patches available

2002-05-18 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 13:15:43 -0400, Don Bowman wrote: > > Andrew Gallatin writes: > >> Kenneth D. Merry writes: > >> > > >> > I have released a new set of zero copy sockets patches, against > -current > >> > from today (May 17th,

Re: new zero copy sockets patches available

2002-05-18 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 13:12:09 -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Kenneth D. Merry writes: > > > > I have released a new set of zero copy sockets patches, against -current > > from today (May 17th, 2002). > > > > The main change is to deal with the vfs

Re: new zero copy sockets patches available

2002-05-18 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 09:03:38 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 18-May-2002 Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 23:02:55 -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > >> * Kenneth D. Merry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020517 22:40] wrote: > >> > > &

Re: new zero copy sockets patches available

2002-05-17 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 23:02:55 -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Kenneth D. Merry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020517 22:40] wrote: > > > > I have released a new set of zero copy sockets patches, against -current > > from today (May 17th, 2002). > > > > The ma

new zero copy sockets patches available

2002-05-17 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
I have released a new set of zero copy sockets patches, against -current from today (May 17th, 2002). The main change is to deal with the vfs_ioopt changes that Alan Cox made in kern_subr.c. (They conflicted a bit with the zero copy receive code.) The patches and the FAQ are available here: h

zero copy sockets patches available

2002-05-04 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
I have released a new zero copy sockets snapshot; the patches are against yesterday's (May 3rd) -current. The astute reader may note that it has been quite a while (November 2000) since my last zero copy code release, and all I can say is "time, motivation, lack of local equipment". Anyway, the

Re: Alteon gigE NIC (if_ti driver) problems

2001-09-27 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 11:48:56 -0500, Matthew Rezny wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion, it set me in the right direction. I checked > my fibre before but went ahead and checked it again. In doing so, I > rearranged the cables at the switch to check if that made a difference. > Sure enough, one p

Re: 3COM 3c985-SX or 3c985B-SX

2001-09-27 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 16:36:06 -0400, Sam Tannous wrote: > >From what I've seen in this list, this seems > to be the best performing gigabit ethernet card > on FreeBSD. Most stores now stock the newer > 3c985B-SX rather then the 3c985-SX. Does the existing > driver handle the newer "b" card as

Re: Alteon gigE NIC (if_ti driver) problems

2001-09-27 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 15:55:30 -0500, Matthew Rezny wrote: > I have some more information since my initial posting yesterday. I set > the NMBCLUSTERS back to default, which made no difference. Therefore, > moving from 4.3 to 4.4 is what drastically increased the frequency at > which the link goe

Re: TCP problems with large window sizes on FreeBSD (GigaTCP)

2001-08-07 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 17:08:32 -0400, stanislav shalunov wrote: > stanislav shalunov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'll try increasing the value of TI_JSLOTS to 8192 (twice the number > > of 4K packets in 16MB window) and see if it makes a difference. > > FWIW, this seems to have improved

Re: zero copy code review

2000-12-11 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 00:30:58 +0300, Vladimir B. Grebenschikov wrote: > Kenneth D. Merry writes: > > > http://people.FreeBSD.org/~ken/zero_copy > > > > There are diffs posted above against -current as of early November 28th, > > along with a FAQ, and chan