RE: Gig-E performance with FreeBSD

2001-08-31 Thread Charles Richmond
I am the manager of the kernel group at Sitara Networks and we have tested both Netgear and Intel GigE cards. The Tigon based Netgear card is not as good as the Intel 543 based card. The Tigon chip maxes out at 200k packets/second. The Intel 543 does better by about 30%. Charles Richmond Or

Help with IPSec VPN

2001-08-31 Thread Matthew Emmerton
Hi all, I've been trying to get an IPSec tunneling VPN between two boxes working without much success. I've read the FAQs and HOWTOs on www.freebsd.org, www.freebsddiary.org, www.daemonnews.org and www.kame.net and they all have helped me get closer to where I want to be, but I'm still missing s

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

Tuning UDP for NFS

2001-08-31 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > net.inet.udp.maxdgram > net.inet.udp.recvspace > I assume that increasing both of these will improve performance. Neither of these have any impact on UDP performance. In fact, there really are no UDP performance parameters to be tweaked; the UDP protocol doesn't hav

Re: Tuning UDP for NFS

2001-08-31 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Steve Shorter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010831 12:14] wrote: > 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.

Re: Tuning UDP for NFS

2001-08-31 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Using UDP is usually a bad idea, I would use tcp, I find that these > flags make for a decent mount point that's quite fast: > rw,tcp,intr,nfsv3,-w=32768,-r=32768 FreeBSD's "src/etc/amd.map" file still has "vers=2

Re: Tuning UDP for NFS

2001-08-31 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* John Polstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010831 15:03] wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Using UDP is usually a bad idea, I would use tcp, I find that these > > flags make for a decent mount point that's quite fast: > > rw,tcp,intr,nfsv3,

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

Re:

2001-08-31 Thread Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino
>By the way, RFC2893 has the following text: (snip) >Thus, people would say that KAME (FreeBSD) is not compliant to RFC >2893. i guess you did not check the original question. itojun To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

PATCH: if_tap device cloning (final)

2001-08-31 Thread Maksim Yevmenkin
Hackers, Attached some patches that implements device cloning (with devfs(5) support) for tap(4). The implementation is based on resource manager (see tun(4) and gif(4)). Brooks Davis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) took a quick look at the patch and seems has no objection. Please review,