1000BaseSX 1000BaseLX confusion?

2005-08-08 Thread Steve Shorter
Howdy! I was wondering how come the listed media types supported by sk(4) and em(4) is only 1000BaseSX. Even for single mode 1000BaseLX NICs such as sk 9841 and Intel PWLA8490LX, ifconfig show the media type as 1000BaseSX. Though the NIC appears to operate in single mode connected to a LX

Re: Max NFSD processes

2004-05-21 Thread Steve Shorter
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 01:06:41PM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: > > > > Disk design issues matter cause it is the ultimate > >bottleneck. RAID is you friend. > > > > Just curious - what RAID level/configuration do you use? I've typically > used RAID5, but RAID0+1 might be acceptable. >

Re: Max NFSD processes

2004-05-21 Thread Steve Shorter
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 10:44:14AM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: > > > > That's good to hear. Did you do any other tweaks? sysctl settings? > mbufs? net.inet.udp.recvspace=524288 kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=1048576 net.inet.icmp.drop_redirect=1 net.inet.icmp.log_redirect=1 Telus-nfs1:# w 12:41PM up

Re: kern/54383: NFS root configuration without dynamic protocols: dhcp, bootp, etc ...

2003-11-28 Thread Steve Shorter
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 04:35:25PM +, omestre wrote: > On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Steve Shorter wrote: > > Hello! > Well, when i did and post that patch, i have mentioned about "It's not a > good/normal diskless solution"... but "it's still a solution! :

kern/54383: NFS root configuration without dynamic protocols: dhcp, bootp, etc ...

2003-11-25 Thread Steve Shorter
Howdy! I only boot from Intel cards that support PXE. This greatly simplifies the administration of large numbers of diskless machines. It makes kernel changes trivial. If your going to go diskless you may as well go all the way for the base/root system and kernel. If yo

arp "bug" ?

2003-06-18 Thread Steve Shorter
Howdy! I have a nfs booted server (FreeBSD 4.5p24) with local disk for data/swap. It has 2 network interfaces configured as follows Jun 18 08:16:18 <14.6> db0 /kernel: fxp0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 Jun 18 08:16:18 <14.6> db0 /kernel: inet 192.168.10.11 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192

Re: TCP stuck in LAST_ACK in 4.5 and 4.6??

2003-02-21 Thread Steve Shorter
This is PR kern/25986 which is still open. Apparently, it can be interpreted as a bug in the TCP protocol. Is there work around this or do I just have to crank up maxsockets and reboot the machine every now and then like my old NT server :-) -steve T

TCP stuck in LAST_ACK in 4.5 and 4.6??

2003-02-21 Thread Steve Shorter
Howdy! I have an ftp server that became sporadically inaccessable over the network. I did some poking around and found that there were about 8k TCP connections that were in the state "LAST_ACK". The limit for maxsockets is about 8k for this machine so the reason that new connections were

netstat -s shows udp packets dropped ?

2002-02-04 Thread Steve Shorter
Howdy! The following is from netstat -s on a busy NFS client (udp mounts) I was wondering about the line 172764 dropped due to full socket buffers in the "udp" section. Will increasing kern.ipc.maxsockbuf: 262144 help with this? Also will increasing

netstat shows 192.168.60.5 on lo0 ???

2001-10-01 Thread Steve Shorter
Howdy! I just went to setup some ifpw on server and it broke dns lookups, which are on 192.168.60.5. So based on the ipfw logs I was prompted to do a netstat -rn and this is what it shows 192.168.60.5 is on lo0??. 0:e0:81:1:bd:70 is the MAC for fxp1, but what is it doing showing

rfc1323: rc.conf and tuning(7) contradiction?

2001-09-13 Thread Steve Shorter
Howdy! I recently installed 4.4RC. In this release rfc1323 extensions are turned on by default which is a change from 4.3. However, tuning(7) says that rfc1323 extensions should be off unless "you absolutely have to" turn them on. I was wondering if the change in defau

4.3 RELEASE "bug" status and patches?

2001-08-31 Thread Steve Shorter
Howdy! There is a reference to a networking code bug in 4.3 RELEASE on http://www.daemonnews.org/200108/benchmark.html in the footnote at the bottom. It also references a patch. I can find no other information about this issue. Can someone point me to the patch or oth

Tuning UDP for NFS

2001-08-31 Thread Steve Shorter
Howdy! I am interested in tuning UDP for NFS over a 100Mbs LAN. Specifically, to tune UDP, what are guidelines/restrictions for setting the sysclt variables net.inet.udp.maxdgram net.inet.udp.recvspace I assume that increasing both of these wil