Re: offloading ip checksum calculation to the NIC

2006-02-04 Thread Yar Tikhiy
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 03:07:03PM +0300, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: > On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 02:30:54AM -0800, kamal kc wrote: > k> so what do i need to do if i don't want to calculate > k> the ip checksum myself ? > k> > k> right now i am taking off packet from the kernel > k> and modifying some of

Re: if_bridge.ko requires INET6...

2006-02-04 Thread Max Laier
On Thursday 02 February 2006 14:37, Max Laier wrote: > On Thursday 02 February 2006 13:43, Yar Tikhiy wrote: > > > This needs to be fixed in pf then. > > > > Max Laier and I discussed this issue once, and Max had concern > > over possible performance degradation that might result from > > calling p

Re: freebsd 6.0 network card / route fail over question

2006-02-04 Thread Brian Candler
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 01:33:44PM -0600, Matthew Lineen wrote: > I'm trying to workout the specifics of NIC/route fail over on FreeBSD > 6.0 and hoped someone here could point me in the right direction. > > We have 2 ServerIron load balancers and each of our application servers > is plugged int

Polling for ath driver

2006-02-04 Thread Nate Nielsen
I've been working on polling for the FreeBSD ath wireless driver. On slow CPU's polling helps prevent (by supressing certain interrupts) livelock and increases throughput. This is true of Atheros cards on Soekris and other embedded hardware. Just thought I'd post something here in case anyone is

Wireless PCI for FreeBSD 6.0

2006-02-04 Thread Lukas Muehlethaler
I want to buy a wireless PCI adapter for a machine running FreeBSD 6.0. After reading the archives, man pages, etc. I realized that his is a tricky business. Some of the adaptors listed as supported have now a different chipset. For example, Netgear WG311T now has the AR5002G chipset and I gues