RE: 10Gb/s ixgbe and mbuf performance tuning.

2012-05-14 Thread Kirk Davis
oesn't router traffic and I can't ssh into the server. If I try to ping a host on the local network from the console, I get an "Out of Buffer Space" error (not sure of the exact wording). >Jack > >On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Kirk Davis wrote: >Hi, >

10Gb/s ixgbe and mbuf performance tuning.

2012-05-14 Thread Kirk Davis
media: Ethernet autoselect (10Gbase-T ) status: active Kirk Kirk Davis Supervisor - Network Operations ITS, Edmonton Public Schools One Kingsway Ave. NW Edmonton, Alberta T5H 4G9 (780) 429-8308 ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mail

RE: allowing gif thru ipfw

2012-02-01 Thread Kirk Davis
On Wednesday, February 01, 2012 7:24 AM wrote Eugene Grosbein >01.02.2012 21:12, Eric W. Bates пишет: >> On 2/1/2012 3:06 AM, Doug Barton wrote: >>> If it's a hurricane electric tunnel don't you want protocol 41? >> >> Well, it's a straight up gif. Right this second I'm trying to suss out >> wh

RE: Performance problem using Intel X520-DA2

2012-01-24 Thread Kirk Davis
>-Original Message- >On 24.01.2012 09:18, Nikolay Denev wrote: >> On Jan 23, 2012, at 11:39 PM, Marcin Markowski wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> This message has been sent to freebsd-performance@ but got the >>> information that should contact also with freebsd-net@. >>> >>> We use FreeBSD

RE: Intel em0: watchdog timeout

2010-02-23 Thread Kirk Davis
ks to Jack and Mike for your help. Kirk Kirk Davis Senior Network Analyst, ITS Edmonton Public Schools One Kingsway Ave. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T5H 4G9 From: Jack Vogel [mailto:jfvo...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 22, 20

RE: Intel em0: watchdog timeout

2010-02-23 Thread Kirk Davis
> From: owner-freebsd-...@freebsd.org > > Jack Vogel wrote on 2010-02-22 20:13: > > > 7.2 seems to be a stable base OS and driver, 8 is better in > some respects, > > but > > has not been without its reported problems. I leave the > choice to you. > > Let me sneak into this thread as I am

RE: Intel em0: watchdog timeout

2010-02-23 Thread Kirk Davis
__ From: Jack Vogel [mailto:jfvo...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 5:30 PM To: Kirk Davis Cc: Mike Tancsa; freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel em0: watchdog timeout Is your driver static, ie builtin, to the ke

RE: Intel em0: watchdog timeout

2010-02-22 Thread Kirk Davis
x27;m not sure the next time I can schedule another reboot on this production server. Kirk Kirk Davis Senior Network Analyst, ITS Edmonton Public Schools One Kingsway Ave. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T5H 4G9 phone: 1-780-429-8308 From: Jack

RE: Intel em0: watchdog timeout

2010-02-22 Thread Kirk Davis
> -Original Message- > From: Mike Tancsa [mailto:m...@sentex.net] > Subject: Re: Intel em0: watchdog timeout > > At 03:46 PM 2/22/2010, Kirk Davis wrote: > >Does this need to be done in loader.conf? It doesn't seem > to take from > >the command

Re: Intel em0: watchdog timeout

2010-02-22 Thread Kirk Davis
build up the new server with 7.3 on it and see if the newer driver makes any difference. Kirk On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Kirk Davis wrote: I have a backup server sitting here that I am going to load 7.3-RC1 onto and t

Re: Intel em0: watchdog timeout

2010-02-22 Thread Kirk Davis
onday, February 22, 2010 11:43 AM To: Kirk Davis Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: [SPAM:#] Re: Intel em0: watchdog timeout With the increased load you might be running out of mbufs more easily, would suggest you increase the mbuf pool. This is an old old driver now, you might consider going to some

Intel em0: watchdog timeout

2010-02-22 Thread Kirk Davis
91M56K 010M 0 0 Kirk ---- Kirk Davis Senior Network Analyst, ITS Edmonton Public Schools One Kingsway Ave. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T5H 4G9 ___

RE: What does the net.inet.ip.fastforwarding sysctl do?

2006-11-30 Thread Kirk Davis
> From: Ruslan Ermilov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 02:16:33PM -0700, Kirk Davis wrote: > > Hi, > > I have am setting up a router that needs to handle a lot of > > traffic. I am using a Dell 2950 that I have added Intel > Gig cards in

What does the net.inet.ip.fastforwarding sysctl do?

2006-11-30 Thread Kirk Davis
Hi, I have am setting up a router that needs to handle a lot of traffic. I am using a Dell 2950 that I have added Intel Gig cards into (em). This server will be running quagga (for BGP) and also use a couple of IPFW FWD rules to forward packets to another host. In order to get th

RE: Broadcom (bce) support and POLLING

2006-11-30 Thread Kirk Davis
Hi, > Polling is not currently supported in the bce driver. OK. That would explain it. The man page for polling lists the bce interface as a supported interface so I just assumed that it would work. Does anyone know if someone is working on polling support for the bce interfaces in a

Broadcom (bce) support and POLLING

2006-11-30 Thread Kirk Davis
Hi, We have just upgraded to a Dell 2950 for our main BGP router. With the constant rise in traffic through the box, I have started to notice some dropped packets so I figured I would take a look at putting the interfaces into polling more to squeeze a little more packets through them.