Re: Route next-hop interface behaviour

2013-04-01 Thread Doug Ambrisko
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 08:32:19PM +0100, Richard Tector wrote: | Hi, | | I'm not sure if it is expected behaviour but when configuring a static | route (default or otherwise) the outbound interface recorded in the | table does not update when the system's IP changes interface, even when | remo

Re: bce(4) on the Dell PE 2950

2013-04-15 Thread Doug Ambrisko
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 02:09:04PM -0700, Xin Li wrote: | (Added David to Cc) | | On 04/12/13 13:56, Sean Bruno wrote: | > A note from cluster...@freebsd.org | > | > It looks like there is some amount of instability or bugginess in | > some of the Broadcom firmware(management) on the bce(4) chipe

Re: problem with vlan interfaces tagging/untagging in a simulated switch box

2012-03-13 Thread Doug Ambrisko
saeedeh motlagh writes: | i think i have similar problem too. you want to have tagged and | untagged traffic at the same time on the trunk port, right? | in your topology the vlans and trunk port are bridged and the tagged | traffic is passed through the trunk port and every thing works fine. | the

IPv6 ifconfig down/up issue versus IPv4

2011-05-18 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Recently, I ran into a problem in which IPv4 works fine but IPv6 doesn't. I use a trick to "fail-over" NICs via ifconfig down the bad link and then ifconfig up the good link. Both NICs have the same IP. The 2nd IP is assigned when the 1st NIC is down. This works fine with IPv4 since on down i

Re: svn commit: r198994 - in stable/6/sys/dev: bce mii

2009-11-30 Thread Doug Ambrisko
pluknet writes: [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] | 2009/11/6 Doug Ambrisko : | > Author: ambrisko | > Date: Fri Nov ?6 17:58:44 2009 | > New Revision: 198994 | > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/198994 | > | > Log: | > ?MFC: Merge in minimal 5709/

Re: Vimage virtual networking and 7.0

2007-06-25 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Bruce M. Simpson writes: [snip] | My concern is that vimage may be a very intrusive change indeed where | these matters are concerned, unless the vimage patches are being kept | up-to-date and regression tested as issues are resolved and new features | added. Just like it was mostly wor

Re: Question about bce driver

2007-07-12 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Tom Judge writes: | Julian Elischer wrote: | > Tom Judge wrote: | >> Josh Paetzel wrote: | >>> On Wednesday 11 July 2007, Tom Judge wrote: | Hi Paul, | | From the testing that I have been doing for the last few months | the driver in 6.2 is stable if you are not using jumbo fra

Re: Panic in rt_check

2007-09-28 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Ivan Voras writes: -- Start of PGP signed section. [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ] | Hi, | | I have a machine that panics almost daily in route.c, in rt_check(). | This panic has been reported by several users, including Marcel | Moolenaar for a machine in freebsd.org. | | The prob

Re: I/OAT ... Coming Soon ?

2007-11-15 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Scott Ullrich writes: [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] | On 11/15/07, Doug Ambrisko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > FWIW, several of us should have motherboards that support it now. | > For example the Dell PE29XX/PE1950 line now has support if you upgrade | > ol

Re: I/OAT ... Coming Soon ?

2007-11-15 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Julian Elischer writes: | Jack Vogel wrote: | > On Nov 14, 2007 5:01 PM, Wilkinson, Alex | > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | >> Hi all, | >> | >> Curious, is I/OAT [http://www.intel.com/go/ioat/] coming to FreeBSD soon | >> ? | > | > LOL, I did a driver for the first version of I/OAT more than a year

vlan & bridging broken since if_vlan directly calls the driver

2005-01-21 Thread Doug Ambrisko
I found a bug with vlan, netgraph, ipfw and ipfw bridging. The vlan driver directly calls the HW driver it is associated with on out packets. If you have a bridge setup it will only send out on the NIC that the vlan is attached to. It should go out to the bridge and each NIC. Input works okay. W

Re: IPMI doesn't work...

2005-03-16 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Julian Elischer writes: | Jeff wrote: | > I'm not sure what you mean by in band. The IP address of the BMC is | > assigned via the bios and is different from what the OS later | > assigns. With imiptool we can turn on/powercycle/monitor via the BMC | > assigned address up until the point where

Re: IPMI doesn't work...

2005-03-16 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Jeff Behl writes: | that's not the way it's supposed to work, afaik. it'd be silly to tie | the BMC address and the OS assigned address together. you give the BMC | an ip address via a little program that comes from IBM and this address | is independent of the ip address that whatever os you use

Re: SIOCGIFMEDIA problems

2005-05-26 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Sebastien Petit writes: | Hi -net hackers, | | A little question about SIOCGIFMEDIA ioctl: | Somebody reports me that some interfaces (bge / em but anothers perhaps) | seem to discard packet(s) during SIOCGIFMEDIA ioctl, Is it true and why ? Doing status checks will cause input/output errors to

bge BCM5721/BCM5750 fixes to work with IPMI

2005-10-14 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Here are some first pass patches to make the bge driver not break IPMI. This was tested on a Dell PE850: bge0: mem 0xfe6f-0xfe6f irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci4 miibus1: on bge0 brgphy0: on miibus1 brgphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, 1000baseTX-FD

Re: 8021x on wired Ethernet

2018-05-28 Thread Doug Ambrisko
On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 02:17:21PM +0300, Zeus Panchenko wrote: | Bengt Ahlgren wrote: | > Is there a standard "rc.conf" way to configure 8021x authentication on | > wired ethernet? | | looks like it's to be something like: ifconfig_em0="WPA" Yes for example; ifconfig_em0="WPA " We use

Re: Etherboot 4.6.1 and FreeBSD 4.2 Release

2000-12-11 Thread Doug Ambrisko
John Fitzgibbon writes: | For the benefit of fellow-sufferers: | | I figured it out. It was a plain old DOS problem rather than | Etherboot/FreeBSD. | | I took the following lines out of my boot floppy's config.sys: | | device=himem.sys /testmem:off | dos=high,umb | stacks=9,256 | | ... and th

Re: etherboot on a hard disk howto ?

2001-02-15 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Luigi Rizzo writes: | Hi, | does anyone know how to install etherboot onto a hard disk instead | of a floppy ? | | Plainly copying the floppy image into a slice does not seem | to work (the boot manager does not even let you choose it, despite | it lists the slice as accessible). Unfortunately t

Re: broadcast and aironet PCI4800

2001-05-07 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Radoslav Vasilev writes: | Hello, I wonder is there a way to connect two phisical networks on ethernel level in |a situation like this: | I have two subnets(subnet1,2) connected through 2 aironet PCI4800 NICs(Cisco Aironet |340 Series) working on gateway1 and 2.(FreeBSD 3.3 and 4.3 machines) | -

Re: Problem with Cisco Aironet 340 series 11mbs Wireless Card

2001-06-28 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Eric Parker writes: | > Eric Parker said: | > > I tried that, no dice. It appears that the problem is that the | > > interface card isn't initalized yet to accept the ancontrol commands. | > | > Hmmm... I put an ifconfig an0 up in the first line and that let | > things go just fine. I call the

Re: anyone know where the etherboot page is?

2001-10-30 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Alfred Perlstein writes: | I'm looking for that site that makes custom etherboot images | via CGI. Anyone have the url? Don't try Sears or late night info-mercials try the one and only rom-o-matic: www.rom-o-matic.net or your local ports tree. Doug eh? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMA

Re: pcap_open_live() takes 1 sec to complete?

2001-12-06 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Marco Molteni writes: | I am writing a small program that does a pcap_open_live() on the | Aironet an device, PCMCIA mode. System is a recent -stable on a | Toshiba Portege 7200 laptop. | | Now, pcap_open_live() takes more than 1 sec to return. Is this long | time expected? Hmm, don't seem to rec

Re: USB ethernet problem

2001-12-28 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Thomas Zenker writes: | the situation changed, I have tried to install the new release now | on the final embedded hardware. It is to mention, that this hardware | is working with fbsd 4.3 from july without any problems in about | 50 equipments. Upgrade from the previous fbsd 4.3 works flawlessly

Re: pptp + mschap

2002-02-01 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Brian Somers writes: | I don't know a great deal about PPTP, but as it happens, I recently | looked for a radius server that'd talk MSCHAPv2 - so that I could teach | ppp to do it. | | I couldn't find any support in the ports, and then our [potential] | client backed out, so I never got any fu

Re: How to Update and recompile an device driver

2002-02-08 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Brooks Davis writes: | On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 02:44:31PM -0800, W Alexander Hagen wrote: | > | >Is is possible to cvsup only a device driver. I have tried copying the | >source of the driver and then rebuilding the kernel, but it allways | >seems to invoke dependencies that are assum

Adding support for Netgear GA621 (TBI interface)

2002-02-18 Thread Doug Ambrisko
I've been working on adding support for Netgears GA621 Gigabit Fiber card. I basically have it working. I'm still trying to refine the link detection code. I have been able to connect it to some other fiber card via a cross-over cable and send packets back and forth. I have some more testing to

Re: bootp tags used in FreeBSD ?

2002-03-12 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Luigi Rizzo writes: | Hi, | does anyone have up-to-date information on which bootp/dhcp | tags are used by FreeBSD ? | I am asking because of two reasons: | | + I would like to pass some info from the bootp/dhcp server |to userland, so they can be used at runtime to customize |system's b

Re: recent change to netinet/in.c panics bootp kernels w/ >1 interface

2002-03-15 Thread Doug Ambrisko
| "SIOCDIFADDR, error=%d", error); | | On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 01:00:30PM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote: | > The part shown below of a recent commit to in.c (1.60->1.61, | > MFC'ed as 1.44.2.7 -> 1.44.2.8) always causes a panic when | > using

Review for BOOTP/DHCP Vendor identifier

2002-04-08 Thread Doug Ambrisko
I put together a patch that adds option 60 to the FreeBSD kernel BOOTP code. I fill in the vendor indentifier string as: :: partially based on how NetBSD does it. However, NetBSD uses this format: ::kernel: I wonder how usefull the "kernel" part is. Should we just do it to follow

Re: vlan traffic over ipsec tunnel

2002-04-19 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Archie Cobbs writes: | Terry Lambert writes: | > Bridging doesn't work with the vlanX interface currently in FreeBSD. | | Why not? | | I believe you, I've just never used vlans and always assumed | that they acted like normal Ethernet interfaces. Same here: a21p# ngctl list There are 5 tot

Re: Fwd: mbuf chain

2002-09-25 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Luigi Rizzo writes: | On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 04:15:56PM -0700, Prafulla Deuskar wrote: | > Sorry for the cross-posting. | > | > | > All, | > | > Is there a pre-set limit on maximum number of fragments in a | > mbuf chain ? | > | > I see 64 fragments with jumbofra

Re: Fwd: mbuf chain

2002-09-25 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Luigi Rizzo writes: | On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 12:39:45PM -0700, Doug Ambrisko wrote: | ... | > Various drivers have code to deal with this when the structure | > it is putting the frags into runs out :-( See a recent bug fix to | > the ste(4) gleaned from the fxp(4). This type of p

Re: Configure wireless connection using Cisco aironet 350

2005-12-01 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Imrani writes: [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] | Hi, | | I am trying to configure Cisco Aironet 350 wireless PCI card but I | get an error which I am unable to find much details for that. Following | is description of ifconfing: | | > ifconfig an0 | an0: flags=884

Re: Hey everyone

2005-12-01 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Andre Oppermann writes: | Jack Vogel wrote: | | Dear Jack, | | > I wanted to introduce myself to the list. I am now the primary contact | > at Intel for our drivers. There was some earlier email I saw in the archive | > about 82571/2 support, and I want to confirm that that code is coming. | | f

Re: bge BCM5721/BCM5750 fixes to work with IPMI

2006-01-13 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Doug Ambrisko writes: | Here are some first pass patches to make the bge driver not break IPMI. | This was tested on a Dell PE850: | bge0: mem 0xfe6f-0xfe6f irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci4 | miibus1: on bge0 | brgphy0: on miibus1 | brgphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX

Re: em driver + VLAN's

2006-01-18 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Dave Raven writes: | FreeBSD 4.9 - char em_driver_version[] = "1.7.16"; | | I've tried multiple bridge configurations - from bridging just em0,em1 to | bridging two vlan's attached to each card. Unfortunately I don't have access | to the box at the moment - if its still necessary I will fetch the

Re: em driver + VLAN's

2006-01-18 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Sten Spans writes: | On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Doug Ambrisko wrote: | > Dave Raven writes: | > | FreeBSD 4.9 - char em_driver_version[] = "1.7.16"; | > | | > | I've tried multiple bridge configurations - from bridging just em0,em1 to | > | bridging two vlan's att

Re: Default gateway - wrong interface. !

2006-02-27 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Gleb Smirnoff writes: | On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 03:14:35PM +, Josef Karthauser wrote: | J> I'm guessing that this is a bug (or feature!). | | This is not a bug, nor a feature. This is a feature, that hasn't | been implemented to the end. | | Historically, the routes in kernel were static. And

Re: IPMI During Boot

2006-03-15 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Julian Elischer writes: | Working with intel (TM) motherboards using the Intel Gb chips, | and talking to the intel reps last year (for my previous employer) I was | led to believe that | these chips supported IPMI by giving the BMC a back door into the same | NIC that the | OS was using. | (usin

Re: IPMI and bge (again)

2006-03-28 Thread Doug Ambrisko
help here. | > | > Or should I ask the frequent committers to the driver directly? | > | > Thank you. | > | > PR: | > kern/79143 | > kern/88741 | > ___ | | Could you please test attached patch (RELENG_6 version)? It's

Re: IPMI and bge (again)

2006-03-28 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Oleg Bulyzhin writes: | On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 12:38:42PM -0800, Doug Ambrisko wrote: | | > I don't see it attached. I'd like to see your changes and I'd like know | > of your plans about getting it in. | | I didnt test it under load yet (server i've used moved

Re: IPMI and bge (again)

2006-03-29 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Oleg Bulyzhin writes: | On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 02:51:48PM -0600, Stephen P. Cravey wrote: | > I don't see the patch either. Does it require pxe booting like Dougs? | > I actually have pulled a system out of service specifically to use for | > testing BGE patches, so it's fairly easy for me to te

Re: IPMI and bge (again)

2006-03-29 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Hi guys, Could you try this latest version. It incorporates Oleg change sort-of. It was a good hint. The issue is that we can't move the detection after the "reset" dance. Since it needs to know if ASF is active. What we can do is just do the bge_reset, look for ASF and then do the dance.

Re: Marvell 88E8053 lan controller support

2006-04-25 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Brad writes: | On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 11:36:17AM -0700, Paul Saab wrote: | > Brad wrote: | > > | > >Source exists for newer Broadcom Gig chips (575x and derivatives) yet | > >there is no documentation available for that either. | > | > Documentation does exist, just not publically. | | Ya, just

Re: IPMI and bge (again)

2006-05-03 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Robert Wojciechowski writes: | > Could you try this latest version. It incorporates Oleg | > change sort-of. It was a good hint. The issue is that | > we can't move the detection after the "reset" dance. Since | > it needs to know if ASF is active. What we can do is just | > do the bge_reset,

Re: IPMI and bge (again)

2006-05-06 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Oleg Bulyzhin writes: | On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 08:54:09PM -0700, Doug Ambrisko wrote: | > Robert Wojciechowski writes: | > | > Could you try this latest version. It incorporates Oleg | > | > change sort-of. It was a good hint. The issue is that | > | > we can't mo

Re: vlan/bridge problems..

2006-05-12 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Evren Yurtesen writes: | I tried to bridge vlan with ethernet but I am having troubles. | | net.link.ether.bridge_cfg: fxp0:2,fxp3:2,fxp2:3,vlan0:3 | net.link.ether.bridge: 1 | net.link.ether.bridge_ipfw: 0 | net.link.ether.bridge_ipf: 0 | net.link.ether.bridge_ipfw_drop: 0 | net.link.ether.bridge

Re: vlan/bridge problems..

2006-05-12 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Julian Elischer writes: | Evren Yurtesen wrote: | > Doug Ambrisko wrote: | > | >> Evren Yurtesen writes: | >> | I tried to bridge vlan with ethernet but I am having troubles. | >> | | net.link.ether.bridge_cfg: fxp0:2,fxp3:2,fxp2:3,vlan0:3 | >&

patch to not route on down interfaces

2006-09-07 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Hi guys, We "hack" a feature to have 2 NIC's configured with the same IP and netmask. We down one and up the other to bounce between then. We also set the MAC's to be the same. This fixes a few routing problems in which the route would be tied to the down interface and not the up one :-( --- .

Re: patch to not route on down interfaces

2006-09-08 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Oleg Bulyzhin writes: | On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 11:30:55AM -0700, Doug Ambrisko wrote: | > Hi guys, | > | > We "hack" a feature to have 2 NIC's configured with the same IP and | > netmask. We down one and up the other to bounce between then. We | > also set the MAC

Re: em network issues

2006-10-25 Thread Doug Ambrisko
John Polstra writes: | On 19-Oct-2006 Scott Long wrote: | > The performance measurements that Andre and I did early this year showed | > that the INTR_FAST handler provided a very large benefit. | | I'm trying to understand why that's the case. Is it because an | INTR_FAST interrupt doesn't have

if_tap.c interaction bug with netgraph??

2003-01-07 Thread Doug Ambrisko
I've run into this bug since about 4.6-stable of some time. I use netgraph to connect to a tap device in vmnet mode since in vmnet mode it is persistan. In tap mode if comes and goes depending on whether or not I have the device open. Anyways I couldn't get data to come in the vmnet node through

Re: fxp0: device timeout | SCB already complete.

2003-06-09 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Palle Girgensohn writes: | Hi! | | When I run network backups, one of our FreeBSD machines (backup client) get | NIC timeouts and warnings from the scsi driver: | | Jun 3 14:50:12 melon /kernel: fxp0: device timeout | Jun 3 14:50:36 melon /kernel: fxp0: device timeout | Jun 3 14:51:03 melon /

Suggesting for fixing VLAN bridging the right way

2003-07-03 Thread Doug Ambrisko
I'm trying to bridge VLAN traffic to network that doesn't have that VLAN, something like: (vlan network) -> fxp0 -> vlan0 <- FreeBSD bridge -> rl0 (no tag) Both of the networks are the same except one side is tagged the other has no tag. It works fine in the "no tag" -> "tag" direction.

Re: Suggesting for fixing VLAN bridging the right way

2003-07-03 Thread Doug Ambrisko
onfig up' to make the VLAN work at all. That's a little odd. Also you can see the bug via tcpdumps. You see the packets come in on the NIC but never make to the vlan iface. Doug A. | On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Doug Ambrisko wrote: | | > I'm trying to bridge VLAN traffic to ne

Re: Question about bridging code

2003-07-10 Thread Doug Ambrisko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] | Hi Luigi, | | Thanks for response, the vmnet/tap stuff sounds like neat stuff. After reading | the description of tap (from the vtun site), the system seems to make a lot of | sense. However, I'm not sure how vmnet com

Re: Question about bridging code

2003-07-10 Thread Doug Ambrisko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | > It's just a naming issue, vmnetX is the network-device name of /dev/tapX. | > (the ip-equivalent thing, "tun", has the same name for both the network | > device and the device entry in the filesystem. As a matter of fact the | > latter is totally arbitrary so "tun" per

Re: CFR: bridge locking

2003-08-21 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Daniel C. Sobral writes: | Doug Ambrisko wrote: | > Daniel C. Sobral writes: | > | If you get bridge to send/receive packets to/from vlan interfaces | > | attached to them, I'll be forever grateful. | > | | > | I've been trying to configure a setup where a

Re: CFR: bridge locking

2003-08-21 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Daniel C. Sobral writes: | Err... ... I don't know what a vmnet is, and "apropos" told me no | tales. :-) man tap | Alas, I tried netgraph to. It suffers from about the same problem. | Packets on the bridge do not go to the vlan, and packets from the vlan | do not get sent to the bridged i

Re: ste(4) NIC's RX ring head may get ahead of the driver [PATCH]

2004-03-30 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Ruslan Ermilov writes: | To make the long story short, under a heavy RX load, the ste(4) NIC's | RX ring head may get ahead of what driver thinks, bringing all sort | of havoc like stuck traffic, disordered packets, etc. The NIC never | gets out of this state, and the only workaround is to reset t