Arp table size - any adjustments?

2012-12-13 Thread Karl Pielorz
Hi, I have an FreeBSD amd64 9-STABLE system running as a router for various bits and pieces - this has a 'lot' of hosts on it's LAN (literally thousands) - most are NAT end points etc. Looking at the output from 'arp -a -n' it regularly lists 2,000-3,000 entries. Is there anything I need to

Re: Arp table size - any adjustments?

2012-12-13 Thread Gleb Smirnoff
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 09:47:12AM +, Karl Pielorz wrote: K> I have an FreeBSD amd64 9-STABLE system running as a router for various K> bits and pieces - this has a 'lot' of hosts on it's LAN (literally K> thousands) - most are NAT end points etc. K> K> Looking at the output from 'arp -a -n'

ng_ether naming

2012-12-13 Thread Andriy Gapon
ng_ether uses if_xname for naming its nodes. This could be troublesome for mapping interface names to their ng_ether companions in the face of interface renaming capability. Especially given that interface renaming and ng_ether _module_ loading may happen in an arbitrary order. I am not sure ho

Re: ng_ether naming

2012-12-13 Thread Alexander V. Chernikov
On 13.12.2012 15:46, Andriy Gapon wrote: ng_ether uses if_xname for naming its nodes. This could be troublesome for mapping interface names to their ng_ether companions in the face of interface renaming capability. Especially given that interface renaming and ng_ether _module_ loading may happ

igb issues

2012-12-13 Thread Daniel Braniss
hi, I'm trying out a 4way Dell PowerEdge C5125/AMD server with onboard Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection version - 2.3.1 when running FreeBsd 8.3 (from sometime around Nov 2) all is ok. with latest (at least Fridays') 9.1-PRERELEASE it's getting 'constipated'. It seems that NFS writes

Re: ng_ether naming

2012-12-13 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 13/12/2012 14:08 Alexander V. Chernikov said the following: > On 13.12.2012 15:46, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> >> ng_ether uses if_xname for naming its nodes. >> This could be troublesome for mapping interface names to their ng_ether >> companions >> in the face of interface renaming capability. Es

Re: igb issues

2012-12-13 Thread Jack Vogel
Try putting the driver from 9.1 back onto 8.3 and see if you still see a problem. That will indicate if its in the driver or the stack/OS. If you have any question about doing this send me email. Is NFS using UDP or TCP? Regards, Jack On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Daniel Braniss wrote: >

Re: ng_ether naming

2012-12-13 Thread Ermal Luçi
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 13/12/2012 14:08 Alexander V. Chernikov said the following: > > On 13.12.2012 15:46, Andriy Gapon wrote: > >> > >> ng_ether uses if_xname for naming its nodes. > >> This could be troublesome for mapping interface names to their ng_ether >

Re: ipv6 route ignores MTU.

2012-12-13 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote this message on Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 22:50 -0500: > FreeBSD virtual.accountingreality.com 9.1-RC2 FreeBSD 9.1-RC2 #6 r241240: > Sat Oct 6 01:43:35 EDT 2012 > r...@virtual.accountingreality.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/VRA > amd64 > > I have set a high MTU: > > em0: flags=884

Re: ipv6 route ignores MTU.

2012-12-13 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 2:31 PM, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > > The MTU in this case is set in the ifconfig_em0 rc.conf entry and the > > machine has been rebooted. > > Are you sure that the mtu is set before the ipv6 address is assigned > to the interface? The route inherits what ever MTU was on