RE: Changes in the network interface queueing handoff model

2006-08-02 Thread Bruce Evans
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, John Polstra wrote: I question whether you need a fallback software if_snd queue at all for modern devices such as the Intel and Broadcom gigabit chips. The hardware transmit descriptor rings typically have sizes of the order of 256 descriptors. I think if the ring fills u

TCP Retransmit counts

2006-08-02 Thread Peter Jeremy
I often need to move my laptop around the house and have temporary network outages (no wireless). I've noticed that any active TCP connections drop out fairly quickly - some checking with tcpdump shows that there is only 60 seconds between the first transmit attempt and the last re-transmit. This

Re: kern/60293: FreeBSD arp poison patch

2006-08-02 Thread Bruce M Simpson
Synopsis: FreeBSD arp poison patch State-Changed-From-To: analyzed->suspended State-Changed-By: bms State-Changed-When: Wed Aug 2 13:01:22 UTC 2006 State-Changed-Why: Not ready for prime time, IMHO. Responsible-Changed-From-To: bms->freebsd-net Responsible-Changed-By: bms Responsible-Changed-Wh

Re: i386/63721: [if_vr] VT6103 NIC broken since 5.2

2006-08-02 Thread Bruce M Simpson
Synopsis: [if_vr] VT6103 NIC broken since 5.2 Responsible-Changed-From-To: bms->freebsd-net Responsible-Changed-By: bms Responsible-Changed-When: Wed Aug 2 13:06:56 UTC 2006 Responsible-Changed-Why: Disowned... reorganising http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=63721 ___

Re: kern/19875: A new protocol family, PF_IPOPTION, to handle IP options at socket interface

2006-08-02 Thread Bruce M Simpson
Synopsis: A new protocol family, PF_IPOPTION, to handle IP options at socket interface Responsible-Changed-From-To: bms->freebsd-net Responsible-Changed-By: bms Responsible-Changed-When: Wed Aug 2 13:23:39 UTC 2006 Responsible-Changed-Why: ENOTIME http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=1987

Re: kern/31686: Problem with the timestamp option when flag equals zero

2006-08-02 Thread Bruce M Simpson
Synopsis: Problem with the timestamp option when flag equals zero Responsible-Changed-From-To: bms->freebsd-net Responsible-Changed-By: bms Responsible-Changed-When: Wed Aug 2 13:28:14 UTC 2006 Responsible-Changed-Why: Back to the free pool. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=31686 _

Re: conf/23063: [PATCH] for static ARP tables in rc.network

2006-08-02 Thread Bruce M Simpson
Synopsis: [PATCH] for static ARP tables in rc.network Responsible-Changed-From-To: bms->freebsd-net Responsible-Changed-By: bms Responsible-Changed-When: Wed Aug 2 13:30:40 UTC 2006 Responsible-Changed-Why: ENOTIME. If big ARP changes happen, then this should probably be taken on again and looked

netgraph with 10Gig interfaces

2006-08-02 Thread mark
I cannot get netgraph to work with 10Gig interfaces on FreeBSD 6.1. No errors, but no traffic seen. Config works with 1 Gig interfaces. Anyone know why? ngctl mkpeer . eiface hook ether ngctl mkpeer ngeth0: one2many lower one ngctl connect $if1: ngeth0:lower lower many0 ngctl connect $if2: ngeth

Can't create proxy-arp entries for subnet

2006-08-02 Thread Matthew Hudson
Hello everybody, I believe I may have stumbled across a bug in the arp program and the reproduction is simple (and should be easy to verify) so I'll just jump to the point. This is on 6.1-RELEASE-p3 i386 I discovered this while trying to create proxy-arp entries for a subnet of a network I was

Intel PRO/1000 EB, 82563EB and 82564EB.

2006-08-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
When is FreeBSD going to support the 82563EB/82564EB? Do we have anything yet? http://www.intel.com/design/network/products/lan/docs/82563_64_docs.htm -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/ ___ freebsd-net@f

Re: Intel PRO/1000 EB, 82563EB and 82564EB.

2006-08-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/2/06, Deuskar, Prafulla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >When is FreeBSD going to support the 82563EB/82564EB? Do we have anything >yet? > >http://www.intel.com/design/network/products/lan/docs/82563_64_docs.htm > Have you tried the 6.0.5 driver from Intel's website? http://downloadfinder.int

Re: Intel PRO/1000 EB, 82563EB and 82564EB.

2006-08-02 Thread Mike Jakubik
Nikolas Britton wrote: No I have not tired this, I didn't even know Intel made FreeBSD drivers... I went looking on the site early but couldn't find anything. Do you know if they are any good?... I'll check it out, thanks. It is essentially the same driver that FreeBSD uses, but the one provid

Plans to port OpenBSD trunk(4)?

2006-08-02 Thread Antony Mawer
Hi list, Is there any interest or plans underway to port the trunk(4) feature from OpenBSD? OpenBSD's trunk(4) appears to be exactly what I'm looking for, but there doesn't appear to be anything I can find on a port to FreeBSD. http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=trunk&sektion=4