Re: Linux Vs. FreeBSD Networking Performance

2001-03-23 Thread Ashutosh S. Rajekar
Hi, Recently there was a culomn in byte.com by Moshe Bar, and his tests seemed to show that FreeBSD-4.1.1 could still beat the Linux 2.4.0 kernel. The test machine was a 2-way SMP machine, running the a giant locked FreeBSD-4.1.1 kernel and also a fine-locked 2.4.0 Linux kernel. Here's the link:

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Re: dhclient not setting IP ...

2001-03-23 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > I'm connected through cable to the 'Net, and the provider I go > > through, it appears, somehow has it setup that if I change nics, I hvae a > > bugger of a time re-acquiring a lease ... > > I presume dhclient is what you use to get your IP address

Re: Linux Vs. FreeBSD Networking Performance

2001-03-23 Thread Jonathan Lemon
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >I can confirm Linux 2.4 TCP/IP is faster than FreeBSD, they have >dynamic tuned TCP window, unlike we have a fixed max TCP window >set in SYSCTL. they have SACK and FACK, it is better in high speed line >than FreeBSD, it is also multi-threaded, better on

ttr: Shared-RAM (a.k.a. TROPIC) token ring adapter driver (beta) available

2001-03-23 Thread Nikolai Saoukh
The driver available at http://www.otdel-1.org/nms/tr/ttr.tar.gz One also need orm driver submitted as kern/22078. It available also at http://www.otdel-1.org/nms/tr/orm.tar.gz Installation for both drivers: Drivers where developed under 4.2-STABLE, but should run under -CURRE

Re: Linux Vs. FreeBSD Networking Performance

2001-03-23 Thread Steve Shah
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 02:21:24PM +0530, Ashutosh S. Rajekar wrote: > [FreeBSD TCP/IP is faster than Linux TCP/IP in Benchmark X] > > [Linux TCP/IP is faster than FreeBSD TCP/IP in Benchmark Y] There are lies, statistics, and benchmarks. And then there are the conclusions based on them. The con

Re: RTM_LOSING: Kernel Suspects Partitioning:

2001-03-23 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: >> This is perfectly natural. TCP will generate these messages whenever >> its retransmission timer goes off; they should correlate with packet >> losses. > Is it also natural that I cannot ftp from the box to anywhere > (eg. ftp.cdrom.com)? One goes in hand with the other. Your TCP

Re: dhclient not setting IP ...

2001-03-23 Thread Barney Wolff
I've heard folklore that power-cycling the cable-modem works - apparently it's the thing that remembers the MAC. Barney Wolff On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 08:55:14AM -0400, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > > > I'm connected through cable to the 'Net, and the

ppp(8) + ip forwarding doesn't work anymore

2001-03-23 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Hi, I noticed that after upgrading to 4-BETA something goes wrong with ip forwarding via ppp(8). I have a FreeBSD box (A) connected to Internet via network interface and this system also has a modem for dial-in and backup dial-up connection. Sometimes I need to route through this modem traffic to

RE: Linux Vs. FreeBSD Networking Performance

2001-03-23 Thread Jonathan Graehl
> Yes, we do. In fact, the difference between FreeBSD and Linux is > greater > than 2x. On equivalent processors, we demonstrated 1900 polygraph > req/sec > on FreeBSD 4.2 and 720 polygraph req/sec on a 2.2.14 Linux kernel. It's > also worth mentioning that the response time for FreeBSD at 1900

RE: 4.3-BETA netmask problem

2001-03-23 Thread Peter Blok
Right! A stupid dial-up connection I wasn't thinking of -Original Message- From: Ruslan Ermilov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 08:32 To: Peter Blok; Garrett Wollman Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 4.3-BETA netmask problem On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 09:45:12PM +0

Re: Linux Vs. FreeBSD Networking Performance

2001-03-23 Thread Alan L. Cox
Jonathan Graehl wrote: > > What would it take to get Linus to give the nod to an implementation conforming > to the kqueue API? I remember him saying that he only wanted it to work for > file descriptors, and to only allow one kqueue per process - neither of which I > agree with. The abstractio

3com pcmcia install

2001-03-23 Thread Satish Sambandham
Hi, I have a 3com 3CXFE575CT pcmcia network card and need some help having it recongnized on FreeBSD 4.2 on a Toshiba Tecra 8100. During the install, I picked the default address for the card, and irq 11. At which time the link light appeared for the card ( but did not make the usual "beep"

Re: 3com pcmcia install

2001-03-23 Thread Barney Wolff
IIRC, this is a cardbus card. Those are only supported in current, not 4.x. Get a cheap 16-bit pcmcia, for now. Barney Wolff On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 11:00:07PM -0500, Satish Sambandham wrote: > Hi, > > I have a 3com 3CXFE575CT pcmcia network card and need some help having > it recongnized o

Re: gif(4) question

2001-03-23 Thread JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2001 16:02:10 -0500, > "David E. Cross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Why is routing done via the ::1 and 127.0.0.1 network addresses? I notice > for "normal" interfaces it is bound directly to "link#2" and such. It's just a characteristic (or ristriction if you want to