Re: 6.2 mtu now limits size of incomming packet

2007-07-21 Thread Artyom Viklenko
Artem Belevich wrote: Here's one example where MTU!=MRU would be useful. Think of asymmetric bandwith-limited ADSL links. Lower MTU would allow lower TX latency for high priority packets when upstream is saturated, yet large MRU on the downstream would be great for downloads. Right now with 6.2

Re: 6.2 mtu now limits size of incomming packet

2007-07-21 Thread Artyom Viklenko
Eli Dart wrote: The networks that are apparently working fine are most likely misconfigured, IMHO. Others have made a case for permitting an interface to accept as large a packet as it can, regardless of configured MTU. That's fine for theory. My operational experience leads me to a diffe

Re: 6.2 mtu now limits size of incomming packet

2007-07-21 Thread Stephen Clark
Eli Dart wrote: see below... Julian Elischer wrote: Eli Dart wrote: Stephen Clark wrote: So was any decision reached on this issue - will FreeBSD changed to accept a packet on an interface that is larger than the mtu on that interface? If possible, I'd like to see t

Re: 6.2 mtu now limits size of incomming packet

2007-07-21 Thread Stephen Clark
Artyom Viklenko wrote: Artem Belevich wrote: Here's one example where MTU!=MRU would be useful. Think of asymmetric bandwith-limited ADSL links. Lower MTU would allow lower TX latency for high priority packets when upstream is saturated, yet large MRU on the downstream would be great for do

Re: 6.2 mtu now limits size of incomming packet

2007-07-21 Thread David DeSimone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eli Dart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The networks that are apparently working fine are most likely > misconfigured, IMHO. > > Others have made a case for permitting an interface to accept as large > a packet as it can, regardless of configured MTU.

Re: 6.2 mtu now limits size of incomming packet

2007-07-21 Thread Mike Karels
> Any two hosts, connected to single Layer2 network MUST use > same MTU. Any other cases lead to hard-to-solve problems. I'd have to disagree. In fact, I'd say that any two hosts on the same L2 network must use the same MRU. In particular, if a host choses to use a lower MTU, if that also lowers

Re: kern/112654: [pcn] Kernel panic upon if_pcn module load on a Netfinity 5000

2007-07-21 Thread Andy Farkas
The following reply was made to PR kern/112654; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Andy Farkas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Re: kern/112654: [pcn] Kernel panic upon if_pcn module load on a Netfinity 5000 Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 03:28:33 +1000 Panic

Re: Max NFS mounts for a FreeBSD client?

2007-07-21 Thread Robert Watson
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Eric L. Anderson wrote: On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 10:45:25AM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:07:37 +0100 (BST) Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sounds a bit like something is running out of reserved ports to use -- the credentials error may mea

Re: Max NFS mounts for a FreeBSD client?

2007-07-21 Thread Robert Watson
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Eric L. Anderson wrote: I can not change lowfirst to any higher amount. I did change lowlast from 600 to 1 and now I can mount more than 1000 NFS mounts. This is great but what kind of side effects am I introducing by making this change? The risk, btw, is that those reser

Re: FreeBSD 7 TCP syncache fix: request for testers

2007-07-21 Thread Peter Wemm
On Tuesday 10 July 2007, Mike Silbersack wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Eygene Ryabinkin wrote: > > Can't say that I am pushing much traffic through my box, but after > > applying your patch and rebuilding the kernel I am still seeing the > > messages like > > - > > TCP: [209.132.176.NNN]:NNN to

Re: FreeBSD 7 TCP syncache fix: request for testers

2007-07-21 Thread Xin LI
I was unable to apply Mike's patch so I have manually applied it. Here is a new one that should apply against today's -CURRENT. Cheers, Index: tcp_syncache.c === RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/netinet/tcp_syncache.c,v retrieving revi