ECMP support in FreeBSD 7.2 and 8.0 +

2010-01-28 Thread Balaji G
Hi Everybody I would like to know whether ECMP feature is supported in FreeBSD 7.2. I was able to infer that ECMP is supported in FreeBSD 8.0 because i was able to look into the SVN checkin logs and also found out that in FreeBSD 8.0 the ECMP code was wrapped under RADIX_MPATH macro. I was not ab

[PATCH] net:: ECMP Phase 1 Fixes for FreeBSD 7.2

2010-02-08 Thread Balaji G
Hi Everybody Please find attached the patch files which contains the backported code for ECMP for FreeBSD 7.2. I have back ported the code from 8.0. I have done some basic testing with these patches rolled in. These are the phase 1 fixes and i would continue to work on this and back port few other

Interested in contributing towards the items in Wiki

2010-02-09 Thread Balaji G
Hi Everybody I am interested in contributing towards some of the items mentioned in the wiki link. Though I am quite new to FreeBSD and have been reading the kernel networking part and in fact working on back porting ECMP fixes to 7.2 from 8.0. I have sent a patch to the Mailing List too and also

Re: [PATCH] net:: ECMP Phase 1 Fixes for FreeBSD 7.2

2010-02-09 Thread Balaji G
Hi Jhell > Delete keys get in the way some times ;) I am sorry i didn't understand your comment. Is it wrong or should i change something, please let me know so that i could create an other patch . PS: I had also sent an email to the list to take up some items mentioned in the Wiki Page under th

Re: Interested in contributing towards the items in Wiki

2010-02-10 Thread Balaji G
Balaji On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Leena M. wrote: > Balaji , you can take topic of your interest & start working on it. for > that > first you need to have a test setup for testing your code. > > Regards, > Onkar > > > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:40 PM, Bala

Re: [PATCH] net:: ECMP Phase 1 Fixes for FreeBSD 7.2

2010-02-10 Thread Balaji G
sorry didn't catch my eyes :) Thanks Cheers, - Balaji On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 1:39 PM, JASSAL Aman wrote: > Hi, > > > Le Mer 10 février 2010 07:53, Balaji G a écrit : > > Hi Jhell > > > > > >> Delete keys get in the way some times ;) > >&g

Re: [PATCH] net:: ECMP Phase 1 Fixes for FreeBSD 7.2

2010-02-10 Thread Balaji G
Hi Jhell Thanks yeah i got it. Jassal told me this :) sorry i didnt look at it. Will correct it when i generate the patches the next time as i am working on it Thanks for your feedback. I hope i get in touch with some on the task list soon :) Cheers, - Balaji On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:38 PM,

Re: ECMP enhancement

2010-02-11 Thread Balaji G
Hi Qing > I have a patch that addresses the above issues. The patch is available at: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~qingli/ecmp-linkstate-patch.diff Thanks for the reply. I had sent you an email to you on load balancing couple of

Re: Current best version for router use

2010-04-22 Thread Balaji G
Hi Paul > There seem to be a lot of issues that have appeared around 8.0 and the em code, and although patches have quickly appeared, I know that a lot of the forwarding and routing code in 8 is new - so whilst I would normally have just tested this with 8 > and not considered anything else, I am