Re: Awful forwarding rate [7.2-Release, igb]

2009-05-11 Thread Michael Vince
Also make sure that the route for this specific test isn't going out on the Internet and coming back in at your outside link speed of around117kbits/sec? I had a similar problem once where I had 3 boxes hooked up and the speeds were blistering fast for 2 tests but the third test was horrid slo

Re: Use lagg(4) or Use Layer-4 Load Balancing?

2008-06-22 Thread Vince Hoffman
have a look at ng_one2many(4) I've never used it but it sounds like it could be what you are after according to the manpage. Vince On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 13:22 -0400, Andrew Thompson wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 04:32:03AM -0400, Martes G Wigglesworth wrote: Greetings all. I have

Re: ipfw can't be disabled for IPv56

2008-04-27 Thread Vince
Kevin Oberman wrote: Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:48:46 -0300 From: "Tobias P. Santos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kevin Oberman wrote: Running 7-STABLE of April 10, if I disable the firewall ('sysctl net.inet.ip.fw.enable=0'), IPv4 traffic passes, but IPv6 will not. I had to add a "allow ip from any to a

Re: VLAN problems

2008-01-30 Thread Vince Hoffman
Tom Judge wrote: > Andrei Kolu wrote: >>> Alexandre Biancalana wrote: This server is an Dell Power Edge 1950, QuadCore 2.83, 2Gb Ram, one bce gigabit interface connected to a gigabit port of a Cisco 4500 in trunk mode. >> >> Why you are using trunk mode? IIRC then "trunk" is used o

Re: rh0

2007-11-06 Thread Vince
nce 6.2 so a stock 6.2 will but updating using freebsd-update will patch it, 7 and -CURRENT wont. >From the Advisory: Support for IPv6 type 0 routing headers can be re-enabled if required by setting the newly added net.inet6.ip6.rthdr0_allowed sysctl to a non-zero v

Re: IPv6 <-> NAT <-> IPv4 ... possible?

2007-10-19 Thread Vince Hoffman
it like http://mucc.mahidol.ac.th/~ccvvs/KAME-NAT-PT-ENG.htm Hope thats useful, Vince > Thanks ... > > > Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) > Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROT

Re: Why can't I sendto() to 127.255.255.255

2007-04-30 Thread Vince
this form MUST NOT appear outside a host. I would interpret this as 127.0.0.0/8 are all loopback host addresses, but I'd be happy to be corrected. Vince > Could you please help me understand this? > > > sincerely > > Mathen > (Abraham K. M

Re: How to enable VLAN interface on normal interface

2007-02-27 Thread Vince
s Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps) status: associated vlan: 1 parent interface: an0 Vince ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: tuning tcp

2007-02-09 Thread Vince
tic TCP send and receive socket buffer sizing patches mentioned in the last status report? [http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-oct-2006-dec-2006.html#Automatic-TCP-Send-and-Receive-Socket-Buffer-Sizing] If not they might be worth a l

Re: FreeBSD NFS Client, Windows 2003 NFS server

2006-12-07 Thread Vince
gt; Same problem with FreeBSD to FreeBSD NFS. > Just out of interest since cygwin was mentioned, has anyone tried out the cygwin NFS server rather than the SFU one? If it were combined with cygwin's "managed mount" mode it should in theory support ':' or other similar name

Re: Sub-interfaces.

2006-10-22 Thread Vince Hoffman
odule if needed, then ifconfig fxp0.1 create should create a subinterface like fxp0.1: flags=8842 mtu 1500 ether 00:50:8b:03:6d:00 media: Ethernet 100baseTX status: active vlan: 1 parent interface: fxp0 Vince Should I us

Re: Intel PRO 3945ABG Wireless

2006-10-10 Thread Vince
Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On Tuesday, October 10, 2006 09:59:15 +0100 Vince <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> Just a a final note. The (discontinued) wpi driver that Damien started >> is still floating around and works for some people (although its a >> little

Re: Intel PRO 3945ABG Wireless

2006-10-10 Thread Vince
ce driver. > > Thanks for the info. > Just a a final note. The (discontinued) wpi driver that Damien started is still floating around and works for some people (although its a little flaky and only gives 6Mbps even for those where it does work.) I have a copy you can try

Re: Load balancing for web servers

2006-08-30 Thread Vince
t side. > > pf and sticky rdr. > > Use a shell script that pings the hosts on the backend, to insert/remove > them from a persistent table. > I'd probably go with that for a basic solutions myself, but also have a look at the results of c

Re: Gigabit ethernet questions?

2006-08-09 Thread Michael Vince
JICUDN, I have been using nc,dd and systat to check TCP performance on my servers, the good thing about it is it requires little setup and gives results fast. For example on host A start the nc server. nc -4kl 3000 > /dev/null Then start another one on hostb sending data via nc from /dev/zero c

Re: VPN with FAST_IPSEC and ipsec tools

2006-06-26 Thread Michael Vince
David DeSimone wrote: - -- David DeSimone == Network Admin == [EMAIL PROTECTED] I got it going! Its working like a dream now. I don't have a for sure reason why it wasn't working but my best guess is it was one that actually boiled down to a silly mistake as you suggested. I feel quite si

Re: VPN with FAST_IPSEC and ipsec tools

2006-06-26 Thread Michael Vince
David DeSimone wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David DeSimone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hmm... In examining my kernel configuration I found these options: options IPSEC options IPSEC_ESP options IPSEC_DEBUG # options IPSEC_FILTERGIF # opt

Re: VPN with FAST_IPSEC and ipsec tools

2006-06-25 Thread Michael Vince
David DeSimone wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Vince <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The main reason to use IPSEC tunnel mode and avoid GIF is that such a config is interoperable with other IPSEC implementations, and thus is much more useful in the real

Re: VPN with FAST_IPSEC and ipsec tools

2006-06-22 Thread Michael Vince
David DeSimone wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian Candler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ah, I guess this means you're following the instructions in the FreeBSD handbook, which last time I looked gave a most bizarre and unnecessary way of setting up IPSEC (GIF tunneling

Re: FAST_IPSEC and NAT-T

2006-06-20 Thread Michael Vince
VANHULLEBUS Yvan wrote: On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 11:26:15PM +1000, Michael Vince wrote: Hey All, When installing the ipsec-tools it says if you want NAT-T you need to install this patch, http://ipsec-tools.sourceforge.net/freebsd6-natt.diff Can any one tell me if this patch works with

FAST_IPSEC and NAT-T

2006-06-20 Thread Michael Vince
Hey All, When installing the ipsec-tools it says if you want NAT-T you need to install this patch, http://ipsec-tools.sourceforge.net/freebsd6-natt.diff Can any one tell me if this patch works with Fast_ipsec or is it just for the other ipsec? Cheers, Mike

Re: VPN with FAST_IPSEC and ipsec tools

2006-06-19 Thread Michael Vince
Brian Candler wrote: On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 01:43:54PM +1000, Michael Vince wrote: I have setup the GRE tunneling and that is working fine doing pings and tracerts when I disable ipsec and ipsec-tools, its just the encryption side thats the problem. Ah, I guess this means you&#x

VPN with FAST_IPSEC and ipsec tools

2006-06-15 Thread Michael Vince
Hey all. I have been trying to setup a VPN between 2 FreeBSD hosts, but I can't get any IKE exchange activity via ipsec tools happening. I used this script http://thebeastie.org/projects/vpnsetup/vpnsetup.pl which I created for my self to help me remember all the knobs, its been about a year

Re: PAM + radius

2006-03-27 Thread Vince Hoffman
_first_pass to the relevent pam file. I use it so I can authenticate against an RSA ACE server. Do you know a good documentation about that? A good read of man radius.conf and man pam_radius should be enough. otherwise google is your friend. cheers, Vince

Re: packet drop with intel gigabit / marwell gigabit

2006-03-19 Thread Michael Vince
I use netperf which is a pure network traffic tester I also just use basic 'ab/apache' tests which would also test HD/IO if getting large files. For the 'em' driver I have seen some posts/cvs commit updates to the driver saying it now works better without polling then with polling. I think this

Re: vr0: rx packet lost

2006-03-06 Thread Vince Hoffman
tes.uiuc.edu/network/autosense.html or use google for more info) Vince I've looked in the archives and in bug reports and I've seen someone has reported this too, but found no solutions. Someone says that the same board connected to a different switch behaves correctly. I can only add that a

Re: socket / bind - specific address

2006-02-25 Thread Vince Hoffman
usly. I seem to recall openntpd can be but I dont think the standard freebsd ntpd can. I have never tried openntpd on freebsd though (it is in ports.) http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ntpd.conf&sektion=5&arch=&apropos=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Cu

Re: Router + ADM64

2006-01-10 Thread Michael Vince
On FreeBSD amd64 if you compile in FAST_IPSEC and even regular IPSEC and do something like run setkey you get a panic. VPN on AMD64 FreeBSD has never worked. Mike Gleb Smirnoff wrote: On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 02:38:02PM +1100, Michael Vince wrote: M> >What is there to gain in perfo

Re: Router + ADM64

2006-01-04 Thread Michael Vince
Jon Otterholm wrote: Hi! What is there to gain in performance choosing AMD64 on a Dell PE1850 (Xeon EMT64) when used as router? /Jon I have one running under Amd64 FreeBSD. When polling is enabled I do get transfer speeds of up to 112megabytes/sec, the only real down side as far as I am

Re: tcp performance

2006-01-01 Thread Michael Vince
Zongsheng Zhang wrote: Hi, *, For testing throughput of a TCP connection, the following topology is used: Host-A ---GB Ethernet--- Dummynet ---GB Ethernet--- Host-B Host-A/B use FreeBSD v6.0. Sysctl parameters of Host-A/B are: kern.ipc.nmbclusters=32768 net.inet.tcp.inflight.enable=0 net.i

Re: Routing SMP benefit

2006-01-01 Thread Michael Vince
Andre Oppermann wrote: Markus Oestreicher wrote: Currently running a few routers on 5-STABLE I have read the recent changes in the network stack with interest. You should run 6.0R. It contains many improvements over 5-STABLE. A few questions come to my mind: - Can a machine tha

Re: em interrupt storm

2005-11-23 Thread Michael Vince
Scott Long wrote: Michael Vince wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 08:54:49PM -0800, John Polstra wrote: On 23-Nov-2005 Kris Kennaway wrote: I am seeing the em driver undergoing an interrupt storm whenever the amr driver receives interrupts. In this case I was

Re: em interrupt storm

2005-11-23 Thread Michael Vince
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 08:54:49PM -0800, John Polstra wrote: On 23-Nov-2005 Kris Kennaway wrote: I am seeing the em driver undergoing an interrupt storm whenever the amr driver receives interrupts. In this case I was running newfs on the amr array and em0 was not

Re: WG511T problem using dhcp

2005-11-09 Thread Michael Vince
dennis binder wrote: hello, i'm trying to get a wlan card WG511T from netgear to work and connect to the internet via an accesspoint. The accesspoint has an SSID= "WLAN" and provides DHCP. dmesg bings up the following: ath0: mem 0x8800-0x8800 irq 9 at device 0.0 on cardbus0 ath0: mac

Re: em(4) patch for test

2005-10-23 Thread Michael VInce
I just have to point out that below I made a statement that proved I should of gone to bed earlier instead of doing benchmarks :). The 901 http States and ssh state have nothing to do with each other as there on different pf rules. Mike Michael VInce wrote: I did watch the gateway (B) pf

Re: em(4) patch for test

2005-10-23 Thread Michael VInce
Here is my second round of my non scientific benchmarking and tests, I hope this is useful. I been having fun benchmarking these machines but I am starting to get sick of it as well :) but I find it important to know that things are going to work right when they are launched to do their real wor

Re: IPSec tcp session stalling

2005-10-22 Thread Michael VInce
he fragmented packets coming in properly. If that's a reliable check for MTU than the problem should not be MTU related. Is there any other way to check MTU problems by using `ping'? Thanks, Volker On 2005-10-22 20:16, Michael VInce wrote: Try sending different sized pings or ot

Re: IPSec tcp session stalling

2005-10-22 Thread Michael VInce
Try sending different sized pings or other packet size control utils to really make sure its not MTU related. Maybe there is an upstream router thats blocking ICMP fragment packets, have you ever seen them? try forcing the creation of some. Mike Volker wrote: Still having the same problem wi

Re: em(4) patch for test

2005-10-22 Thread Michael VInce
Gleb Smirnoff wrote: Colleagues, since the if_em problem was taken as a late showstopper for 6.0-RELEASE, I am asking you to help with testing of the fixes made in HEAD. Does your em(4) interface wedge for some time? Do you see a lot of errors in 'netstat -i' output? Does these errors inc

Re: urgent: RELENG_5 ipfw/nat/IPSEC Problem..

2005-10-20 Thread Vince Hoffman
rt = isakmp to any -> ($ext_if) \ port 500 Not sure about the same for ipfw/natd but i'm sure its doable. Vince The FreeBSD Box is out of reach (around 50km from here), I can't access the hosts on the inside network and I dont't have access to the cisco concentrator, so I can&#x

Re: Network performance 6.0 with netperf

2005-10-20 Thread Michael VInce
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 04:26:31PM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote: At 10:49 PM +1000 2005-10-20, Michael VInce wrote: > The 4 ethernet ports on the Dell server are all built-in so I am assuming > they are on the best bus available. In my experience, the terms "Dell

Re: Network performance 6.0 with netperf

2005-10-20 Thread Michael VInce
Sten Daniel Sørsdal wrote: Michael VInce wrote: I reinstalled the netperf to make sure its the latest. I have also decided to upgrade Server-C (the i386 5.4 box) to 6.0RC1 and noticed it gave a large improvement of network performance with a SMP kernel. As with the network setup ( A

Re: Network performance 6.0 with netperf

2005-10-20 Thread Michael VInce
nce with the right sysctls. Needs more testing but it appears using AMD64 FreeBSD might be better then i386 for Apache2 network performance on SMP kernels. Single interface speeds tests from the router with polling enabled and with 'net.isr.direct=1' appears to affect performance. Regards

Re: Network performance 6.0 with netperf

2005-10-20 Thread Michael VInce
nce with the right sysctls. Needs more testing but it appears using AMD64 FreeBSD might be better then i386 for Apache2 network performance on SMP kernels. Single interface speeds tests from the router with polling enabled and with 'net.isr.direct=1' appears to affect performance. Regards

Re: Network performance 6.0 with netperf

2005-10-19 Thread Michael VInce
Robert Watson wrote: On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Michael VInce wrote: I been doing some network benchmarking using netperf and just simple 'fetch' on a new network setup to make sure I am getting the most out of the router and servers, I thought I would post some results in case some on

Network performance 6.0 with netperf

2005-10-14 Thread Michael VInce
Hey all, I been doing some network benchmarking using netperf and just simple 'fetch' on a new network setup to make sure I am getting the most out of the router and servers, I thought I would post some results in case some one can help me with my problems or if others are just interested to

RE: Free memory

2005-07-05 Thread Vince
t all realy means.) I do my memory monitoring localy (based on the scripts at http://www.ag0ny.com/graphs/) and just assumed that net-snmp would "just work". My best suggestion now would be to either ask on questions@ or on the net-snmp mailing lists. Vince > -Original M

Re: Free memory

2005-07-01 Thread vince
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys, I am trying to find out what mib value I can use to get the free memory. I am running FreeBSd5.4 on a pc compatible machine (FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE i386 GENERIC). MIB-2 gives me the total memory. I can get the free memory from a sun box using sun's mib(.1.3.6.1.4.

Re: Some notes on FAST_IPSEC...

2005-05-13 Thread Michael Vince
Yeah, Does any one know if some one is going to add ipsec-tools to the ports tree? Cheers, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Thu, 12 May 2005 05:25:24 + (UTC), Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: On Thu, 12 May 2005, Qing Li wrote: Hi, I'd like to volunteer for Tasks to updat

VPN setup script

2005-04-26 Thread Michael Vince
Hey all, I have created a VPN setup script for FreeBSD, check it out here http://roq.com/projects/vpnsetup/index.html http://www.roq.com/projects/vpnsetup/vpnsetup.pl Its still in its testing phase but as far as I can see its reasonably complete. If any one tries it out I would appreciate feed ba

Re: cisco vpn experience?

2005-04-18 Thread Michael Vince
Yeah I hooked up 5.3 BSD box with to a big mobile phone companies $60,000 Cisco VPN piece of equipment, I got Cisco cert my self but I prefer FreeBSD :) Used Racoon/ipsec tools and FastIPSec compiled into the kernel. IPs are spoofed ,but just to give you the idea. Mar 31 16:02:54 mord racoon: IN

Re: FreeBSD Firewall + NAT Traversal + IPsec

2005-04-09 Thread Vince Hoffman
tunnel, see: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/checkpoint/ its a little old and you need to do some config on the checkpoint, but its a good starting point. Vince John Mok Vince wrote: I do this with the cisco VPN client (to PIX), I am firewalling with pf. Client --- FreeBSD firewall+NAT

RE: FreeBSD Firewall + NAT Traversal + IPsec

2005-04-09 Thread Vince
nat rules are: nat on $ext_if inet proto { tcp, udp } from $int_net port = 500 \ to any -> ($ext_if:0) port 500 nat on $ext_if from $int_net to any -> $ext_addr1 Havent tried checkpoint though. Vince > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAI

Re: IPMI doesn't work...

2005-03-14 Thread Michael Vince
Just out of interest has any one got serial console to work with this IPMI stuff? I was looking at regular 9pin serial alternatives since Dell machines normally only have 1 serial port and I prefer 2. Regards, Mike Bruce M Simpson wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 04:26:16PM -0800, Jeff wrote: I

FAST_IPSEC vs IPSEC performanc

2004-11-23 Thread Michael Vince
Hey all. I have been googling around the Internet for information about IPSEC and FAST_IPSEC for freebsd on the Internet and wondered what gives best performance when I came across this http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/netperf/ It has some nice graphs / figures on performance of IPSEC and FAST_IPS

Re: Bridge

2004-11-02 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody! I'm try configure bridge on FreeBSD box. Box configuration: %uname -srp FreeBSD 5.3-RC1 i386 %ifconfig xl0: flags=8943 mtu 1500 options=9 ether 00:04:79:68:02:e6 media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: n

Re: Networking/Security Question...

2004-09-11 Thread Vince Hoffman
# Enable ICMP: remove type 8 if you don't want your host to be pingable > $fwcmd add allow icmp from any to any icmptypes 0,3,8,11,12,13,14 > > # Deny all the rest. > $fwcmd add deny log ip from any to any > > How's this? > > Obviously, for each there'd be differe

Re: FreeBSD VPN performance

2004-09-07 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Omer Faruk Sen wrote: > Hi, > > I have given a work to test VPN performance of FreeBSD IPSEC subsystem. I am > not that familiar with ipsec terms. (just started to read IPSEC documents > about 5 days ago)I wanted to share my observations: > > My hardware is : P IV 2.8, 256 MB

Re: FreeBSD and Hotspots

2004-07-09 Thread Vince Vielhaber
l which) is selling the 200mw SMC or Senao card with the prism chipset for $30-$40 in pcmcia. Another solution, although not FreeBSD, is StarOS. It'll do hostap on the orinoco and has the captive portal and radius stuff built in for $40. Vince. -- Fast, inexpensive internet service 5

Re: Cascading qmail servers

2003-05-28 Thread Vince Vielhaber
et. And also I want to keep part of the e-mail accounts on the > main server for the whatever.com domain itself. Look at smtproutes. You'll find info on it in: man qmail-remote Vince. -- Fast, inexpensive internet service 56k and beyond! http://www.pop4.net/ http://www.meanstrea

Re: Trouble with wi (prism2.5_pci) in bridge

2003-03-31 Thread Vince Vielhaber
and > reload bridge.ko. > > -- > Maxim Konovalov, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ___ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL

Re: Can't get sendmail to masquerade

2001-08-06 Thread Vince Vielhaber
ic, but isn't that also the recommended domain for internal > networks? I was under the impression that .int as a public TLD was > deprecated. http://hq.nato.int/ I seem to recall recently that .local was for internal/local networks. Vince. -- ====

Re: PPPoE latency

2001-07-03 Thread Vince Vielhaber
d patch to ppp) but the network cards are both CNET 100Base-TX cards. The below ping times are pretty much normal, even tho I'm in the middle of a file transfer. round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 24.203/28.876/35.084/4.076 ms One thing you might want t

Re: Firewalling a PPPoE, any easy workaround to MTU on lan stations?

2001-02-04 Thread Vince Vielhaber
It didn't make 4.2 - it was MFC'd on December 18 :-( > > Brian, may I quote you from a different thread? =) > > "I think I've figured out the problem though... can you try the latest > version of ppp - shou

Re: problems compiling raw socket program

2001-01-25 Thread Vince Vielhaber
compile, but the link fails with: undefined reference to `csum' missing library, but I didn't bother looking to see what. Vince. > > bash-2.03$ gcc -o rawsocket rawsocket.c > In file included from rawsocket.c:7: > /usr/include/netinet/ip.h:152: parse error before >

icmp-response bandwidth limit?

2001-01-20 Thread Vince Vielhaber
Today I'm suddenly getting these messages: Jan 20 18:44:48 chives /kernel: icmp-response bandwidth limit 230/200 pps Is someone trying to pingflood me or something? Vince. -- == Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSHemail: [

Re: Looking for tiny DNS server

2000-12-18 Thread Vince Vielhaber
ack to named when you get the public interface up. It's probably in ports/packages but as easy as it is to set up you're probably better off from sources. Vince. -- == Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSHemail: [EMAIL PROTE

RE: Strange fragmentation needed message

2000-12-14 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Patrick Bihan-Faou wrote: > I think that it was added in the last 2 weeks. It is in the HEAD for sure. > It has not been commited in 4-STABLE yet. Ok, that explains why I didn't see it in 4.2. Th

Re: Strange fragmentation needed message

2000-12-14 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Patrick Bihan-Faou wrote: > Hi, > > You probably need to use tcpmssd from the ports (net/tcpmssd) or use the > recently added tcpmss option of PPP for you ADSL link. How long ago was this added to