Re: pipe dropping lots of packets

2006-11-30 Thread Tobias P. Santos
Hello! Alex Povolotsky wrote: Hello! I'm trying to set up FreeBSD-based router, and got troubles with bandwidth limiting. My queues drops lots of packets. [23:38] gw:~ # ipfw pipe 200 config bw 30mbit/s queue 100 You should use 30Mbit/s (with capital M). [23:42] gw:~ # ipfw add 600 pip

Broadcom (bce) support and POLLING

2006-11-30 Thread Kirk Davis
Hi, We have just upgraded to a Dell 2950 for our main BGP router. With the constant rise in traffic through the box, I have started to notice some dropped packets so I figured I would take a look at putting the interfaces into polling more to squeeze a little more packets through them.

RE: Broadcom (bce) support and POLLING

2006-11-30 Thread David Christensen
Polling is not currently supported in the bce driver. Dave > Hi, > We have just upgraded to a Dell 2950 for our main BGP router. > With the constant rise in traffic through the box, I have started to > notice some dropped packets so I figured I would take a look > at putting > the interfa

Re: pipe dropping lots of packets

2006-11-30 Thread Alex Povolotsky
Tobias P. Santos wrote: Hello! Alex Povolotsky wrote: Hello! I'm trying to set up FreeBSD-based router, and got troubles with bandwidth limiting. My queues drops lots of packets. [23:38] gw:~ # ipfw pipe 200 config bw 30mbit/s queue 100 You should use 30Mbit/s (with capital M). [23:42

RE: Broadcom (bce) support and POLLING

2006-11-30 Thread Kirk Davis
Hi, > Polling is not currently supported in the bce driver. OK. That would explain it. The man page for polling lists the bce interface as a supported interface so I just assumed that it would work. Does anyone know if someone is working on polling support for the bce interfaces in a

Re: re(4) needs promisc to work properly

2006-11-30 Thread Bill Paul
> > On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 08:46:00PM +0100, Ed Schouten wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE on my new desktop. It has the > > > following hardware: > > > > > > - Intel Core 2 Duo 6400 > > > - Asus P5B motherboard > > > - On-board Realtek NIC (8168B/8111B)

Re: re(4) needs promisc to work properly

2006-11-30 Thread Ed Schouten
* Bill Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's more likely a problem with the multicast filter programming. > > IPv6 is all about the multicasting (neighbord discovery depends on it > > to work correctly). I can't explain why it's not working though. > > I've tested the sample 8168B/8111B cards th

What does the net.inet.ip.fastforwarding sysctl do?

2006-11-30 Thread Kirk Davis
Hi, I have am setting up a router that needs to handle a lot of traffic. I am using a Dell 2950 that I have added Intel Gig cards into (em). This server will be running quagga (for BGP) and also use a couple of IPFW FWD rules to forward packets to another host. In order to get th

Re: What does the net.inet.ip.fastforwarding sysctl do?

2006-11-30 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 02:16:33PM -0700, Kirk Davis wrote: > Hi, > I have am setting up a router that needs to handle a lot of > traffic. I am using a Dell 2950 that I have added Intel Gig cards into > (em). This server will be running quagga (for BGP) and also use a > couple of IPFW FWD r

RE: What does the net.inet.ip.fastforwarding sysctl do?

2006-11-30 Thread Kirk Davis
> From: Ruslan Ermilov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 02:16:33PM -0700, Kirk Davis wrote: > > Hi, > > I have am setting up a router that needs to handle a lot of > > traffic. I am using a Dell 2950 that I have added Intel > Gig cards into > > (em). This server will b

Re: re(4) needs promisc to work properly

2006-11-30 Thread Bill Paul
> * Bill Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It's more likely a problem with the multicast filter programming. > > > IPv6 is all about the multicasting (neighbord discovery depends on it > > > to work correctly). I can't explain why it's not working though. > > > I've tested the sample 8168B/8111