fxp+bridge: highly suspect syndrom.

2001-04-15 Thread Remy Nonnenmacher
I'm looking for any idea about a very strange problem: Context: I'm using an interposed machine (TRACER) running bridge between to interfaces. There is two other machines (UA and OS) connected via the interposed machine: (All machines are 4.2-REL) UA --- TRACER --- OS All machi

Re: fxp+bridge: highly suspect syndrom.

2001-04-15 Thread Luigi Rizzo
> I'm looking for any idea about a very strange problem: Remy, bridging has been highly broken in 4.x from last summer to approx the beginning of february. Most of the times the breakage came out when using dummynet, but there were some nasty race conditions related, among other things, to passin

Re: fxp+bridge: highly suspect syndrom.

2001-04-15 Thread Remy Nonnenmacher
On 15 Apr, Luigi Rizzo wrote: >> I'm looking for any idea about a very strange problem: > > Remy, > bridging has been highly broken in 4.x from last summer to approx > the beginning of february. Most of the times the breakage came out > when using dummynet, but there were some nasty race conditio

Re: fxp+bridge: highly suspect syndrom.

2001-04-15 Thread Dmitry Samersoff
Remy Nonnenmacher wrote: >- Switching from the regular 4.2-RELEASE fxp driver to the Jonathan > Lemon's one (applied patchset and rebuilt kernel). Sorry for question, I also have problem with 4.2 and fxp driver. Time-to-time my server stop responding. It sends SYN+ACK packets for each SYN an

diskless stuff

2001-04-15 Thread Luigi Rizzo
Hi, i just gave a shot at diskless support in RELENG_4, and I am attaching some code to help setting things. The first one (a shell script called clone_root) helps you create a shared readonly root partition for the diskless clients. The second piece of code is a set of patches for /etc/rc and /