Re: Restarting IPv6

2023-10-04 Thread Kevin Oberman
Ok, I'll check it out. Thanks! On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 2:21 AM Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: > On 04.10.2023 03:02, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > > I had a problem with one network and had to restart (service > > wpa_supplicant restart wlan0). My Iv4 came up file, but

Restarting IPv6

2023-10-03 Thread Kevin Oberman
I had a problem with one network and had to restart (service wpa_supplicant restart wlan0). My Iv4 came up file, but IPv6 does not come up. Interface has only link-local address. When I boot to the same AP, it comes up fine. Any idea what I'm missing? -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herde

Re: em0: No buffer space available for IPv6 traffic but IPv4 is OK

2023-08-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
st a fix? > > Reboot did not solve, no software updates made, no config changes, just > stop working from one day to the next. > > Thank you. > > -- > José Pérez > Oddly, ENOBUFS is the error I get when my firewall is blocking transmit traffic. There may well be other causes. -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683

Re: IPv6: How does one have the system use a prefix gotten from rtsol with a static host part?

2022-03-11 Thread Kevin Oberman
/22" > > ifconfig_bce0_ipv6="inet6 accept_rtadv" > > > Thank You so much. That works here too. I wonder if this deserves a > document somewhere? > It's NOT intuitively obvious that: > a) Order in /etc/rc.conf matters > b) the fe80 address influences the global address > I don't see how 'a' is possible. All rc.conf does is defne a bunch of environmental variables. I don't see any way the order is relevant other than that a later definition of a variable overriding an earlier one. What am I missing here? -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683

Re: Splitting antenna

2021-11-21 Thread Kevin Oberman
strength is enough to work well before splitting. If you have a friend who is a ham radio operator, they could help a lot. -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683

Quenching repeated wpa_supplicant log messages

2021-10-25 Thread Kevin Oberman
a problem indicator? If so, what should I look for. Otherwise, how can I stop these messages from filling my log? -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683

Re: Support for Intel AX200 WiFi 6 card

2020-07-26 Thread Kevin Oberman
Thanks! This is really great news! One question though. The status report shows the iwl driver as supporting "7k/8k/9k/22k" devices. In the insanity of product models vs. chip models vs. marketing names, is the AX200 one of these? -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retir

Support for Intel AX200 WiFi 6 card

2020-07-26 Thread Kevin Oberman
ine a bit. It's just really hard to do anything with a laptop with no WiFi connectivity. Thanks in advance! -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39

Re: ssh command hang

2020-01-08 Thread Kevin Oberman
g top or building large ports with no problems. I do recall a time when my terminal emulator would occasionally freeze, but I have not seen it for quite a while. I use mate-terminal. This was a problem with the emulator, though, and also would lock up local operation as well as ssh sessions. --

Re: TCP Congestion Control

2019-10-23 Thread Kevin Oberman
Have you loaded kernel modules for other algorithms? I believe only newreno is in the default kernel. "man 4 mod_cc" for available modules and other information. -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com PGP F

Re: logs/traces

2019-10-15 Thread Kevin Oberman
Use tcpdump(1) and/or net/wireshark(5). See man tcpdump and pcap-filter for usage details. wireshark can analyze files collected by tcpdump and dissect the packets. It can also do packet capture, itself. -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkober

Re: Several IPv6 routers and default gateway choice

2019-09-06 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 8:56 PM Victor Sudakov wrote: > Hiroki Sato wrote: > > va> Can any IPv6 unicast or link-local address be configured as an > anycast > > va> address of a router? > > > > Yes. There is no restriction about address scope. > > > > You might want to read RFC 4291, which defin

Re: [Bug 219428] em network driver broken in current

2019-07-13 Thread Kevin Oberman
nfig igb0 up > > I think the problem is when the network card loses ethernet link and then > errors occurs with non-working interface. > No idea whether it will do the trick, but you might try "service netif restart ibg0". It does a lot more than just down-up of the interfa

Re: Eliminating IPv6 (?)

2019-06-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
y most OSes including Windows, MacOS, Linux and FreeBSD that IPv6 and IPv4 will be enabled by default. As time goes on, it will likely be more and more likely that disabling IPv6 will become difficult if networks are used at all. It already really requires a custom kernel to completely remove it and,

Re: why rtsold ?

2018-10-08 Thread Kevin Oberman
un SLAAC without rtsold, but it may not prove stable as it is not possible to deal with router changes after network startup. (I do run rtsold on my laptop even though I only need it when not connecting to my home network and that net supports IPv6.) -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herde

Re: cxl nic not working after reboot

2018-08-28 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 5:17 PM Marius Halden wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2018, at 01:50, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 1:14 PM Marius Halden wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2018, at 21:34, Navdeep Parhar wrote: > > > > On 8

Re: cxl nic not working after reboot

2018-08-28 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 1:14 PM Marius Halden wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2018, at 21:34, Navdeep Parhar wrote: > > On 8/28/18 12:30 PM, Marius Halden wrote: > > > tx_frames does move, rx_frames is stuck at zero. The following > counters are non-zero and does increase when traffic is sent through th

Very frequent "log_in_vain" messages

2018-08-17 Thread Kevin Oberman
FreeBSD, but it may also be tied to Firefox. Is anyone else seeing this? I'm not sure how common it is to run log_in_vain, so it may be common, but little noticed. Thanks for any clues about this. -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkober...@gmail.co

Re: usb ethernet adapter does not work after reboot

2018-06-26 Thread Kevin Oberman
Thank you! You have given me an obvious and relevant example of why "shutdown -r" should normally be used and "reboot" should not. I don't use NFS, so it has not bitten me. I do recall dealing with similar issue MANY years ago on Solaris systems working with Auspex file se

Re: usb ethernet adapter does not work after reboot

2018-06-25 Thread Kevin Oberman
n page for sync(8) really needs updating. It is unchanged other than fixing wording and formatting since 4.4-lite and probably that was largely unchanged from AT&T V4. I probably should open a ticket. -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com PGP

Bad outbound performance with Intel 6205 [Taylor Peak] WiFi (IWN)

2018-04-19 Thread Kevin Oberman
ance. Are others seeing this? Any suggestions for troubleshooting? I don't see much in the way of statistics or diagnostic information on iwn. the man page gives me no clues. Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com

Re: Calling nxge(4) users

2018-03-25 Thread Kevin Oberman
f this device and plan to remove it from FreeBSD-12 if not. > > -- Brooks > Just for the record, Neterion was acquired by Exar, an old-line hybrid IC company in 2010 and Exar was acquired last year by MaxLinear. Looks like Exar bought them for some of their tech and killed off the Ethe

Re: Looking for a Wireless NIC with 802.11ac or 802.11n support

2018-02-05 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 9:38 PM, Victor Sudakov wrote: > Eugene Grosbein wrote: > > 06.02.2018 1:37, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > > > My ancient Intel Centrino (iwn) card does 11n, HOSTAP and 5G. Or, at > least > > > it did as I have not tried HOSTAP for a fe

Re: Looking for a Wireless NIC with 802.11ac or 802.11n support

2018-02-05 Thread Kevin Oberman
getting along with the wpa_supplicant in 11. It can take many minutes to sync up on re-boot. It also goes "DOWN" very briefly a few times a day, but it comes back up very quickly from these, so I may have a hardware issue on my almost 7 year-old ThinkPad T520. -- Kevin Oberman, Part ti

Re: IP packet header visualization software

2017-11-01 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 2:46 PM, DES <3...@inx.su> wrote: > Hello FreeBSD-Net, > > does anybody remember, around year 2004, there was a software application > available (either as port, or package). Unfortunately I do not recall the > application name and I'm not able to find it again, although I'v

Enable 802.11 debug at boot

2017-07-28 Thread Kevin Oberman
ot. Do I need to write a little rc.d script to run after /usr is mounted and before the network starts? Of is there a better way? Thanks! -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B05

Re: [Bug 220032] [if_alc] sys/dev/alc/if_alc.c: sleep-under-mutex bugs

2017-06-17 Thread Kevin Oberman
oad the source from a repository. Be sure the file in your source directory is the current, unmodified file. Edit the file or files as needed to correct the bug Generate the diff with the command "svn diff path-to-directory-containing-file(s) > diff-file.diff" Update the bug report a

iwn logging "need promiscuous mode update callback"

2017-01-15 Thread Kevin Oberman
5 09:41:13 rogue kernel: need promiscuous mode update callback I don't see how this is even possible as I always thought syslog messages were atomic. Guess not. Again, this is not causing problems that I am aware of, but is a bit disturbing. -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired N

Re: is lagg (re+wlan) working on 11.0-RELEASE?

2016-11-16 Thread Kevin Oberman
dware revisions can trigger driver issues that don't break things on most variants. And, lest I knew, RealTek did not provide documentation adequate to write a driver and this makes drivers more likely to have subtle bugs. -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid her

Re: iwn(4) association issues in 11-Stable (and maybe RC)

2016-08-24 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Glen Barber < g...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 12:20:57PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > > On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 12:03 PM, Glen Barber wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 11:55:13AM -0700, Kevi

Re: iwn(4) association issues in 11-Stable (and maybe RC)

2016-08-24 Thread Kevin Oberman
hours right now. On Aug 24, 2016 12:46 PM, "Glen Barber" wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 12:20:57PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > > On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 12:03 PM, Glen Barber wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 11:55:13AM -0700, Kevin Oberm

Re: iwn(4) association issues in 11-Stable (and maybe RC)

2016-08-24 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 12:03 PM, Glen Barber wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 11:55:13AM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Not working right. I do see 802.11 messages but nothing from iwn. > > Rebuilt with: > > optionsIEEE80211_DEBUG > &g

Re: iwn(4) association issues in 11-Stable (and maybe RC)

2016-08-24 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 10:40 PM, Kevin Oberman < kob6...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 11:48 AM, Adrian Chadd < > adrian.ch...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Compile in IWN_DEBUG and IEEE80211_DEBUG and then do: >> >> wlande

Re: iwn(4) association issues in 11-Stable (and maybe RC)

2016-08-22 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 12:21 PM, Vinícius Zavam < egyp...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > 2016-08-20 23:07 GMT-03:00 Adrian Chadd : > >> On 20 August 2016 at 19:02, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> > On Aug 20, 2016 6:29 PM, "Adrian Chadd" wrote: >> >

Re: iwn(4) association issues in 11-Stable (and maybe RC)

2016-08-20 Thread Kevin Oberman
ess. It seems worse when my phone is the hot spot than with my home router. > > > On Aug 19, 2016 3:48 PM, "Kevin Oberman" wrote: >> >> Lately I have had serious issues with my system successfully associating. >> These were not present with 10.3. >> >>

iwn(4) association issues in 11-Stable (and maybe RC)

2016-08-19 Thread Kevin Oberman
: ioctl[SIOCS80211, op=103, val=0, arg_len=128]: Operation now in progress Aug 19 00:14:53 rogue wpa_supplicant[1634]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-FAILED ret=-1 retry=1 Is anyone else seeing this? Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkober...@gmail.c

IWN issue in 11-BETA3

2016-07-31 Thread Kevin Oberman
and no routes. I did "service dhclient restart wlan0" which assigned the address and that resolved hte issue until I reboot. Is this a known issue? Should I open a bug report? This would leave me in a bad position should I ever need to reboot the system remotely or should it crash when I a

Re: Slow performance with Intel X540-T2 10Gb NIC

2016-07-22 Thread Kevin Oberman
ce. So far > nothing I tweak makes a noticeable difference. I'm increasingly skeptical > that I am going to find a setting or two that more than doubles the speed I > am currently experiencing. > > I am open to any and all suggestions at this point. > > Thank you! > Chris >

Re: ifconfig creates a bogus(?) route

2016-05-29 Thread Kevin Oberman
stems have a default gateway defined, this may relate to the issue you are seeing. I'm very unclear what happens with 0/0 if default is not defined. FWIW, here is what I see on this system (10.3-STABLE r299096): Routing tables Internet: DestinationGatewayFlags Net

Re: IPv6, ULAs and FreeBSD

2016-05-27 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 12:09 AM, Niklaas Baudet von Gersdorff < nikl...@box-fra-01.niklaas.eu> wrote: > Kevin Oberman [2016-05-26 21:11 -0700] : > > > The most valid use is when you can only get a /64 from your provider. > > I got a /112 for each of my virtual servers...

Re: IPv6, ULAs and FreeBSD

2016-05-26 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Niklaas Baudet von Gersdorff < st...@niklaas.eu> wrote: > I was eventually able to solve this issue. I asked for help on several > mailing lists. So, for reference, here are links to the relevant > threads: > > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions

Re: [Bug 166255] [net] [patch] It should be possible to disable "promiscuous mode enabled" messages

2016-05-23 Thread Kevin Oberman
a compromised system. While I don't like the idea of hiding these messages at all and think dealing with the issue through syslog.conf more appropriate, at least don't let the setting be changed on a running system! -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder a

Re: ifconfig with quoted arguments

2016-02-10 Thread Kevin Oberman
tmask" al together. ifconfig ue0 inet 192.168.2.176/24 Aside form no longer using a form of addressing that had been obsolete for 20 years, quotation marks won't matter. -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: D03F

Re: Does FreeBSD have sendmmsg or recvmmsg system calls?

2016-01-26 Thread Kevin Oberman
. Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683 On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 7:04 PM, Bruce Evans wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jan 2016, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > > On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 17:46:52 -

Re: Per-jail private loopback

2015-12-19 Thread Kevin Oberman
boot, this is when you need to replace /boot/kernel/kernel with your custom kernel. If the kernel was not changed, you won't be required to reboot, though I do recommend doing so to be sure that no vulnerable code is left running. -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engin

Re: Outgoing packets being sent via wrong interface

2015-11-25 Thread Kevin Oberman
ding a rule to block them? I can't provide a sample rule as I don't use pf, but you want to block ICMP type 5 messages. For a good overview of redirects, see either Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Control_Message_Protocol#Redirect> or Cisco <http://www.cisco.co

Re: ixl 40G bad performance?

2015-10-25 Thread Kevin Oberman
in any way inaccurate. However, it is entirely possible to get misleading results if options not properly selected. -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683 __

Re: Cannot add an ipv6 route with -interface

2015-10-22 Thread Kevin Oberman
er is theoretically useless as it is on the same network than the > FreeBSD one. > > Do you have any idea about this issue? Did I make a mistake or is it a > bug? > > Thanks, > -- > Alarig Le Lay > Take a look at route(8). There are significant syntax differences. E.g

Re: ixl 40G bad performance?

2015-10-19 Thread Kevin Oberman
t; I already have powerd_flags="-a max -b max -n max" in rc.conf, which I > > hope should be enough. > > > I suspect it might not touch the c states, but better check. The safest is > disable them in the bios. > To disable C-States: sysctl dev.cpu.0.cx_lowest=C1

Re: Network tuning help needed - asymmetric speed

2015-09-29 Thread Kevin Oberman
nce. The man page describes it and how to run it quite clearly. For lots of tuning recommendations for truly high performance, see FasterData <http://fasterdata.es.net/>. Unfortunately, since my retirement five years ago, I believe that all work has moved to Linux, so there may not be much s

Re: ssh over WAN: TCP window too small

2015-08-27 Thread Kevin Oberman
//fasterdata.es.net. In particular, they have documented the issues with ssh over long latency links at http://fasterdata.es.net/data-transfer-tools/say-no-to-scp/. It is VERY hard to get good performance on high latency links in the bast of cases and, unfortunately, ssh/scp makes

Re: a couple /etc/rc.firewall questions

2015-08-22 Thread Kevin Oberman
rity mandated that there be nothing allowed until they were put in place by firewall.conf (which ran WAY too late to do the job.) I don't recall who shot it down, but I was quite annoyed that someone who was clearly clueless about IPv6 would just toss a PR on a subject he didn't know. It wa

Re: Exposing full 32bit RSS hash from card for ixgbe(4)

2015-08-05 Thread Kevin Oberman
volume data transfers (very large flows), a single CPU solution does work best. But if Barney is going at this with his usual attitude, it's probably not worth it to continue the discussion. -- Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E

Re: bugzilla chatter?

2015-08-04 Thread Kevin Oberman
and provide a fair bit up useful information and a reasonable "heads-up" for problem status. I suspect that once Sean has hit most of the old (some really old) tickets, things will quiet down a fair bit. (But I could be wrong.) I love seeing tickets being taken care of. -- Kevin Oberma

Re: rc settings for ipv6 in 9.3?

2015-07-01 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 8:17 AM, wrote: > On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 09:40:46PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > >On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 5:29 PM, <[1]kpn...@pobox.com> wrote: > > > > I just got a /56 block of ipv6 addresses today and I'm trying to > >

Re: rc settings for ipv6 in 9.3?

2015-06-30 Thread Kevin Oberman
e address on their router(s). The remainder of the /56 is yours but I could not swear to that. You will probably want more than one /64 for different purposes. Other than externally accessible servers, you should put systems in a different /64 and spread them at random around that space if t

Re: [BUG?] dhclient sends packets with source IP address that has been deleted

2015-04-08 Thread Kevin Oberman
provides that notion, and the interface has had a previously assigned address, but I agree that this is debatable. I think the word "notion" provides a clear indication of the intent. I know that Windows XP-SP2 behaved this way. I have not looked at anything more recent as that what

Re: Issue with TCPdump

2015-04-06 Thread Kevin Oberman
; could take a look. > > -Dan > I just tried this and it worked fine for me. All files were compressed and suffixed with ".gz". My command was: tcpdump -i wlan0 -p -G 500 -z gzip -s0 -w test.pcap.%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M:%S While I didn't think any options were positio

Re: tcpdump filter not ignoring jail subnet

2015-03-05 Thread Kevin Oberman
to look up addresses for FreeBSD systems, or build a list of freebsd.org names. That might work, but it would be a bit painful. Especially since there may multiple addresses for a single name. -- Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com _

Re: Cant Access Web site

2015-02-25 Thread Kevin Oberman
quot;some_file.bpf" and then you can use other tools to analyze it. I use wireshark. It's free, in ports and works quite well. It will flag packets which have issues and handle breaking down the prorocols. Since port 81 is not the "normal" http port, you will need to tell w

Re: Problems with DNSSEC -- answer in fragmented UDP doesn't work

2015-01-31 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:11 PM, David DeSimone wrote: > Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > > For ipfw you need something like "allow ip from any to me frag". If you > > want to restrict this to DNS, restrict it to dst-port 53. > > Unfortunately, UDP fragments onl

Re: Problems with DNSSEC -- answer in fragmented UDP doesn't work

2015-01-30 Thread Kevin Oberman
gt; not TCP. > > Is it Ok? Is it misconfiguration of my networks (I have such problem > in tow different installations) or something? > > - -- > // Lev Serebryakov > Does the system have a firewall? If so, is it configured to allow fragments? For ipfw you need something like "

Re: only lo0 interface inside jail, no default gw

2014-12-16 Thread Kevin Oberman
achable other than 10.1.1.206 and 127.0.0.2. I just learned today that the handbook has a very nice tutorial on jailing BIND. It will probably save a lot of time if you check it out at https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/jails-ezjail.html#jails-ezjail-example-bind As the ha

Re: DNS resolution problem

2014-12-15 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Marcelo Gondim wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > On 13/12/2014 23:44, Kevin Oberman wrote: > >> On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 4:26 AM, Marcelo Gondim >> wrote: >> >> Dear, >>> >>> I'm having trouble resolving domain na

Re: DNS resolution problem

2014-12-13 Thread Kevin Oberman
ing and tracing to these addresses. All of them are in very dispersed locations on different provider backbones. (Cogent, Hurricane Electric, and ISC, itself. You might try directing queries to each system to see if one fails when other succeed. Use "dig @servr-addr host". -- R. Kevin Oberm

Re: Should I be using ipv6_activate_all_interfaces or ip6addrctl_policy="ipv6_prefer"

2014-08-27 Thread Kevin Oberman
ases SLAAC (and, perhaps DHCPv6) along with things like NDP and RTSOL do allof hte configuration. If ipv6_activate_)all_interfaces is NO, only explicitly configured interfaces will run IPv6. If it i YES, any interface with no explicit configuration will auto-configure and run IPv6. The system I am typing this on is entirely auto-configured as are almost all Windows systems running 7 or 8. (Maybe Vista, too. Don't recall.) -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Should I be using ipv6_activate_all_interfaces or ip6addrctl_policy="ipv6_prefer"

2014-08-27 Thread Kevin Oberman
drctl and /etc/network.subr. The list of prefixes set by it should match what I list above. If 'ipv6_activate_all_interfaces="NO"', or ipaddrctl_policy="ipv4_prefer", you should get: ::1/128 50 0 ::/0 40 1 ::fff

Re: Should I be using ipv6_activate_all_interfaces or ip6addrctl_policy="ipv6_prefer"

2014-08-26 Thread Kevin Oberman
uestion? ping6 to it is a trivial test.Many issues can arise when trying ot get IPv6 running. Firewalls are a common issue. What output do you get from "ip6addrctl show"? netstat -rnf inet6? -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com

Server sockets staying in CLOSED for extended periods

2014-03-25 Thread Kevin Oberman
"sshd with zombie process on FreeBSD 10.0-STABLE - workaround". -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubsc

Re: LAN network performance issues

2014-03-09 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 11:44 AM, justin victoria wrote: > > On 3/9/2014 10:40 AM, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > You might try installing iperf3 and testing with that. iperf3 is a major > rewrite of iperf and is totally incompatible with the older version, so > you will need to ins

Re: LAN network performance issues

2014-03-09 Thread Kevin Oberman
9%re0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 > nd6 options=29 > media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT ) > status: active > lo0: flags=8049 metric 0 mtu 16384 > options=63 > inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 > inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 > inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 > nd6 options=21 > [vic@yeaguy ~] > > I tried to remove rxcsum and txcsum, but that didnt really improve the > behavior I almost convinced its a iperf issue? maybe.. after iperf > testing i did a FTP transfer and it exceeded what iperf is claiming the > throughput is.. so im not sure what to make of it. > You might try installing iperf3 and testing with that. iperf3 is a major rewrite of iperf and is totally incompatible with the older version, so you will need to install iperf3 on all systems I doubt iperf is the issue, but this is a way to check. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Re[3]: Assymetric NIC performance problem

2013-10-07 Thread Kevin Oberman
nd congestion control. Both wireshark and tcptrace are in ports and are best installed on a workstation. The tcpdump output can be used as input to both. ("tcpdump -pw FILE -i INTERFACE host ADDRESS" can do the job. Then copy the capture to the right place for analysis. But start with configurat

Re: TSO and FreeBSD vs Linux

2013-08-14 Thread Kevin Oberman
sends multiple packets when is doesn't need to.. > http://people.freebsd.org/~julian/fbsd9.png > Ack! (Sorry) I could have sworn that this had been fixed. Has it been re-broken? -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Recommendations for 10gbps NIC

2013-07-29 Thread Kevin Oberman
om California to Europe and Australia. (Yes, careful tuning was required.) -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscr

Re: LACP LAGG device problems

2013-07-21 Thread Kevin Oberman
special applications, or any special > > logic above the LAGG device. > > > > Describing how you are using LAGG (and why) might be better > > than just asking for "improvements". > > > > BC > I am aware of at least one case where 100G WAN links ar

Re: Terrible ix performance

2013-07-03 Thread Kevin Oberman
tering Extended Passive Mode (|||10613|) >> 226 Transfer complete >> 43474223104 bytes sent in 01:41 (410.09 MiB/s) >> ftp> >> >> so still about 50% performance on 10GB >> > > Out of interest have you tried limiting the number of queues? > > If not gi

Re: IPv6 tunnel MTU of 1480 not effective

2013-05-12 Thread Kevin Oberman
Pv6 based on the destination specified, and options > -4 / -6 like telnet has. Same for traceroute / traceroute6. However, > this is an aside.) > > Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sth...@nethelp.no > Sorry to be so hackneyed, but... +1 Sorry that I was unclear (and may

Re: IPv6 tunnel MTU of 1480 not effective

2013-05-11 Thread Kevin Oberman
the developer (I don't recall exactly who any more) that it was right and would not be changed. I really would love to see this reconsidered before IPv6 becomes much more popular as it will simply cause confusion, but I, too, fear that it is a lost cause. Please prove me wrong! -- R. Kevin Ob

Re: Capture packets before kernel process

2013-04-30 Thread Kevin Oberman
PCAP code will capture the data very early after it is received by the kernel, but the kernel still must do this as it and only actually can "talk" to the interface and receive data. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com _

Re: ntpd bind() failure: Can't assign requested address

2013-03-12 Thread Kevin Oberman
one assigned by the router, a static from rc.conf or DHCPv6? You should have two inet6 addresses, one is link-local (starts with "fe") and another should start with "2". There may be more than two. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com _

Re: failed to use getifaddrs on geli code

2013-02-16 Thread Kevin Oberman
y is that your sources from which you built the modified geom_eli module are not the same as were used to build the kernel you are running. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

Re: [PATCH] Add a new TCP_IGNOREIDLE socket option

2013-02-09 Thread Kevin Oberman
ned it on to cause serious problems... yet!) It seems a shame to make everyone who really has a need develop their own patches or dig though old mail to find John's. What I would like to see is a way to have it available, but make it unlikely

Re: how to completely makes an interface down?

2013-01-24 Thread Kevin Oberman
hting the LED. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Low Bandwidth on intercontinental connections

2012-11-21 Thread Kevin Oberman
great deal and is very easy to work with. Just load the kernel module and use sysctls to control it. I have used it in conjunction with tcpdump and wireshark to find performance problems. Also, for high performance on bulk data transfers over long, fat pipes, take a look at http://fasterdata.e

Re: Wireless Networking Bug(s) in 9.1-RC2 (?)

2012-10-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
used. What key_mgmt are you specifying? It looks like authentication might be failing. You might try running the supplicant manually (after stopping any that is running) and see what you get. > P.S. I ain't using IPv6... like not at all. Unfortunate, but I can't run it at home, eit

Re: Wireless Networking Bug(s) in 9.1-RC2 (?)

2012-10-16 Thread Kevin Oberman
ddity is that you specify your ssid in the rc.conf file while using WPA. I've never seen that before. It's in my wpa_supplicant.conf file. It seems more reasonable for a laptop that may need to associate with a home and a work SSID as well as ones at conferences and, in my case alternate

Re: What driver should I use for 'intel centrino wireless-N 2200 BGN' ?

2012-10-09 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 6:23 AM, Denise H. G. wrote: > > On 2012/10/09 at 00:44, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> >> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Andreas Nilsson wrote: >>> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Denise H. G. wrote: >>> >>>> Hi list, >>&

Re: What driver should I use for 'intel centrino wireless-N 2200 BGN' ?

2012-10-08 Thread Kevin Oberman
ode? Yes. Some vendors (e.g. Lenovo, HP) have private PCIIDs on their cards, so they may not be in the source. Adding them is trivial, but, should this be the issue, please open a PR to have it added to the source in SVN. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com

Re: Major performance hit with ToS setting

2012-07-15 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Lawrence Stewart wrote: > On 06/03/12 15:18, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 2:48 AM, Lawrence Stewart >>  wrote: >>> >>> On 05/31/12 13:33, Kevin Oberman wrote: >>> [snip] >>>> >

Re: ating 100Gbit transfer rate

2012-07-12 Thread Kevin Oberman
on ANI (and I am not sure if new proposals are being accepted), see: http://www.es.net/RandD/advanced-networking-initiative/ > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 6:43 AM, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Sami Halabi wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> >

Re: ating 100Gbit transfer rate

2012-07-11 Thread Kevin Oberman
ll work, too. All 100G hardware is just a mite pricey, though it has dropped tremendously over the past year and a half and I expect it will continue to do so. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mail

Re: ifconfig accepting hostname as ipv4 address

2012-06-09 Thread Kevin Oberman
d where on systems that had numerous interfaces, though this was more common in the day of async serial lines and modems. I'll admit that I have mixed feelings about its practicality today, though it does not hurt anything, as far as I can tell. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network

Re: recommended 10g cards

2012-06-08 Thread Kevin Oberman
e FreeBSD drivers and is active in the FreeBSD community. -- R. Kevin Oberman - Network Engineer rkober...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Major performance hit with ToS setting

2012-06-02 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 2:48 AM, Lawrence Stewart wrote: > On 05/31/12 13:33, Kevin Oberman wrote: > [snip] >> >> I used SIFTR at the suggestion of Lawrence Stewart who headed the >> >> project to bring plugable congestion algorithms to FreeBSD and found >> real

Re: Major performance hit with ToS setting

2012-05-30 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 6:27 AM, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > On 05/24/12 18:55, Kevin Oberman wrote: > >> >> This is,of course, on a 10G interface. On 7.3 there is little > > > Hi Kevin, > > > What you're seeing looks almost like a checksum is bad, or > th

Re: Major performance hit with ToS setting

2012-05-25 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 6:27 AM, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > On 05/24/12 18:55, Kevin Oberman wrote: > >> >> This is,of course, on a 10G interface. On 7.3 there is little > > > Hi Kevin, > > > What you're seeing looks almost like a checksum is bad, or > th

Re: Major performance hit with ToS setting

2012-05-24 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > On 24. May 2012, at 22:55 , Kevin Oberman wrote: > >> When we set the ToS bits for less than best effort (also called >> scavenger) on packets (ToS=32), performance on FreeBSD 8.2 is >> terrible. It was as good as be

Major performance hit with ToS setting

2012-05-24 Thread Kevin Oberman
=4.1942 Mbps 0.5000 MB / 1.00 sec =4.1942 Mbps This is,of course, on a 10G interface. On 7.3 there is little difference between the two. We are using cubic CC on the 8.2 system. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com

Re: Controlling queue delays

2012-05-08 Thread Kevin Oberman
s. This assumes that it actually works as advertized, but the authors are unlikely to have published this without thorough analysis and testing. They are, after all, among the leading TCP experts in the world. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-ma

Re: Stateful IPFW - too many connections in FIN_WAIT_2 or LAST_ACK states

2012-04-20 Thread Kevin Oberman
Are you seeing a large number of TCP sessions in partially closed states? I don't recall if you mentioned it, but what version of FreeBSD are you running? If you have not dine so, I urge you to read the firewall(7) man page. It discusses firewall design and implementation with IPF

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