Re: tcp troughput weirdness

2005-07-12 Thread Danny Braniss
> > > Are the window sizes on Linux bigger or smaller? > > > TCP window size: 16.0 KByte (default) > > smaller :-(, but increasing it does not make any change > > Hmmm... Various things that you could try (I'd try them > one by on, rather than all together): > > 1) sysctl net.inet.tcp.inflight_e

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2005-07-12 Thread Mile
Hi, I am using FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #2: Tue Jun 7 23:41:06 CEST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/mobila i386 and i have one big problem with lan... If i use mpd then some sites dont work on lan (www.hp.com www.najdi.si .) but if i use ppp then everything wor

DNS caching example

2005-07-12 Thread Garrett Mackey
Hi there Anyone got a example of how they set up their freebsd host as a caching-only nameserver. I have followed the procedure in the handbook but am still having problems. I would be particularly interested in sample localhost.rev and named.conf files. I'm new enough to freebsd and would ap

Re: DNS caching example

2005-07-12 Thread Phil Regnauld
Garrett Mackey (garrett.mackey) writes: > Hi there > > Anyone got a example of how they set up their freebsd host as a > caching-only nameserver. > I have followed the procedure in the handbook but am still having problems. Which problems ? > I would be particularly interested in sample

Re: tcp troughput weirdness

2005-07-12 Thread David Malone
> did the trick! now can someone remind me what inflight does? and could > someone explain why increasing sendspace alone did not do the trick? > (i had it at 64k, which got things better, but not sufficient). TCP inflight limiting is supposed to guess the bandwidth-delay product for a TCP connect

Re: tcp troughput weirdness

2005-07-12 Thread Noritoshi Demizu
> combining > sysctl net.inet.tcp.sendspace=131072 > and > sysctl net.inet.tcp.inflight.enable=0 > > did the trick! Congratulations! But I wonder why the throughput of FreeBSD=>Linux was almost equal to that of Linux=>FreeBSD. If the settings above improves the throughput of FreeBSD=

Re: DNS caching example

2005-07-12 Thread Ivailo Tanusheff
Better use djbdns, it's part of the ports. There is a lot of documentation and also is an easy to maintain dns server Ivailo Tanusheff Senior System administrator ProCredit Bank (Bulgaria) AD tel. +359 2 921 7161 fax +359 2 921 7110 http://www.procreditbank.bg Disclaimer: The information conta

Re: tcp troughput weirdness

2005-07-12 Thread Noritoshi Demizu
(I am sorry if you have received this e-mail. I'm resending this because it seems the previous one was lost.) > TCP inflight limiting is supposed to guess the bandwidth-delay > product for a TCP connection and stop the window expanding much > above this. (Just to clarify..) TCP inflight limitin

Re: tcp troughput weirdness

2005-07-12 Thread Danny Braniss
> > combining > > sysctl net.inet.tcp.sendspace=131072 > > and > > sysctl net.inet.tcp.inflight.enable=0 > > > > did the trick! > > Congratulations! But I wonder why the throughput of FreeBSD=>Linux > was almost equal to that of Linux=>FreeBSD. If the settings above > improves the throug

Re: DNS caching example

2005-07-12 Thread Alec Berryman
Garrett Mackey on 2005-07-12 10:54:12 +0100: > Anyone got a example of how they set up their freebsd host as a > caching-only nameserver. > I would be particularly interested in sample localhost.rev and > named.conf files. You should edit /etc/namedb/named.conf, remove the example.com and examp

GRE problems

2005-07-12 Thread Lourik Malan
Hi there I'm running FreeBSD 4.11 and some gre tunnels. It works fine on 4.11. But when i try the same thing on FreeBSD 5.4. It drops 90% of the packets. Can anyone please give me some advice. PC1 gif_interfaces="gre0" gifconfig_gre0=" 18.1.2.118.1.2.2link1" ifconfig_gre0="

ping delay, initial request

2005-07-12 Thread Roman Kurakin
Hi, I am starting to investigate some net problem and I wonder if this problem seen/known. The problem was observed with ce(4) (Cronyx Tau32-PCI/Lite, it is not in the tree yet, but similar to cp(4)/ctau(4) devices) and sppp(4). If you run usual ping you will see normal delay which is much

Re: ipfw+dummynet only getting half bandwidth when using routed interfaces.

2005-07-12 Thread Philip Olsson
Jeremie Le Hen wrote: Hi Philip, both counters increase.. and the last one "allow ip from any to any" But I guess that is because it matches the rules two times. I have tried only having one rule but the same problem ( ofcourse only one way. ) I have also experimented with recv and xmit

Re: tcp troughput weirdness

2005-07-12 Thread Alexis Yushin
Hmm, Recently I've also been seeing less than what I'd expect tcp throughput on FreeBSD 5.4R machines. I've got six 5.4R boxes with dual Gigabit em interfaces. netperf gives me: Recv SendSend Socket Socket Message Elapsed Size SizeSize Tim

Re: ping delay, initial request

2005-07-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-07-12 16:38, Roman Kurakin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > >I am starting to investigate some net problem and I wonder if this > problem seen/known. >The problem was observed with ce(4) (Cronyx Tau32-PCI/Lite, > it is not in the tree yet, but similar to cp(4)/ctau(4) devices) an

Re: ping delay, initial request

2005-07-12 Thread Roman Kurakin
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-07-12 16:38, Roman Kurakin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I am starting to investigate some net problem and I wonder if this problem seen/known. The problem was observed with ce(4) (Cronyx Tau32-PCI/Lite, it is not in the tree yet, but similar to cp(4)/c

Re: ping delay, initial request

2005-07-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-07-12 17:55, Roman Kurakin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is it possible that flood ping hits an icmp rate-limiting watermark >> and then every subsequent icmp packet gets penalized with a delay >> until a fair amount of time passes? > Wasn't observed on ethernet iface. But this is good ide

Re: tcp troughput weirdness

2005-07-12 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 12), David Malone said: > > did the trick! now can someone remind me what inflight does? and > > could someone explain why increasing sendspace alone did not do the > > trick? (i had it at 64k, which got things better, but not > > sufficient). > > TCP inflight limiting is

Re: what to replace splnet in FreeBSD 5.x?

2005-07-12 Thread Ed Maste
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 10:18:19AM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote: > spl's lock execution threads. 5.x and later systems mostly lock data > structures using mtx's (there are a very few exceptions). Thus there > isn't necessarily a direct replacement, you usually need to rethink your > locking/synchr

Re: what to replace splnet in FreeBSD 5.x?

2005-07-12 Thread Roman Kurakin
Ed Maste wrote: On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 10:18:19AM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote: spl's lock execution threads. 5.x and later systems mostly lock data structures using mtx's (there are a very few exceptions). Thus there isn't necessarily a direct replacement, you usually need to rethink your

Re: what to replace splnet in FreeBSD 5.x?

2005-07-12 Thread Robert Watson
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Ed Maste wrote: On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 10:18:19AM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote: spl's lock execution threads. 5.x and later systems mostly lock data structures using mtx's (there are a very few exceptions). Thus there isn't necessarily a direct replacement, you usually need

Re: what to replace splnet in FreeBSD 5.x?

2005-07-12 Thread Ed Maste
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 04:30:18PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: > I'm concerned about the multicast address list problems you've been > experiencing, but haven't yet had a chance to investigate. If you could > provide a code fragment that exercises this problem, that would probably > get me sta

Re: what to replace splnet in FreeBSD 5.x?

2005-07-12 Thread Robert Watson
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Ed Maste wrote: On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 04:30:18PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: I'm concerned about the multicast address list problems you've been experiencing, but haven't yet had a chance to investigate. If you could provide a code fragment that exercises this problem,

RE: two 3C905B's in 5.4

2005-07-12 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
The 3c905 driver is not very good. These cards are fine under Windows but seldom work properly under FreeBSD. Most of the motherboards I've tried them in don't work right with them. We do both Windows and BSD so you know where I put these cards when I get them. I'll be happy to swap a pair of

Re: ntop binary for 5.x in existence ? (the real ntop, not the kitchen sink one...)

2005-07-12 Thread Joe Schmoe
Matt, --- Matt Emmerton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm working on it :) It's a bit hairy because of > the changes between 4.x > and 5.x, but I should have something by next week. Wow - this is really great of you. Just some trivia to pass on - I do believe that they made some major updates