TCP gets special treatment?

2009-01-28 Thread Per Hurtig (work)
Hi, How differently are TCP packets treated compared to e.g. SCTP packets, while traversing the FreeBSD network stack (up to and including the IP-layer when using ipfw)?. I do not assume that the firewall (ipfw) is explicitly configured to check for established sessions or any TCP specifics. Are t

Dummynet modification causes watchdog timeout

2009-01-24 Thread Per Hurtig (work)
Hi, I've recently modified the dummynet soure code to perform some additional tasks (e.g. deterministic reordering support). However, while testing my modification, the following kernel message occurs: xl1: watchdog timeout xl1: link state changed to DOWN xl1: link state changed to UP The thing