netpfil/pf -- review request

2024-04-12 Thread Lexi Winter
hello, if someone had a chance to review this change to netpfil/pf: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/1157 i would appreciate that. thanks, lexi. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

removing RIP/RIPng (routed/route6d)

2024-04-15 Thread Lexi Winter
[note: this is a copy of a mail i sent this to arch@, but someone suggested also asking net@ about this.] hello, currently FreeBSD ships routed(8) and route6d(8) which implement the RIP resp. RIPng routing protocols. many years ago, it was fairly common for hosts to run these protocols to get th

Re: ixl(4) bhyve(8) SR-IOV with Transparent VLAN associated w/ VF's

2024-04-17 Thread Lexi Winter
Paul Procacci: > I'm assigning VF's to bhyve with pci passthru. [...] > Given this, I figured the best option would be to set the VLAN on the VF on > the host prior to handing it off to the bhyve instance effectively enabling > transparent vlans. [...] > Has anyone done this? Does anyone have any

IPv6 neighbour solicitations being sent from wrong address?

2024-05-04 Thread Lexi Winter
hi, running: FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT #35 lf/main-n269047-3466614a5454: Tue Apr 30 03:48:53 BST 2024 srcma...@daphne.eden.le-fay.org:/src/obj/src/freebsd/lf/main/amd64.amd64/sys/LF i have a host with a single vnet jail. the host has an epair interface: # ifconfig epair0a epair0a: flags=1008843 metr

review request: changing the default ifconfig(8) address format to CIDR

2024-05-04 Thread Lexi Winter
hi, i've just submitted this PR: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/1216 which contains this commit: commit 57d273c90ee1c17446236aba25ed0bd291c4f126 (HEAD -> lf/main, hemlock/lf/main) Author: Lexi Winter Date: Sat May 4 16:11:21 2024 +0100 ifconfig(8): change de

Re: review request: changing the default ifconfig(8) address format to CIDR

2024-05-04 Thread Lexi Winter
Jessica Clarke: > On 4 May 2024, at 16:34, Lexi Winter wrote: > Do we need to care about supporting (/ do we currently support) > historical non-contiguous netmasks? At a glance the CIDR code doesn’t > handle that and will stop at the first 0, so changing to that by > default w

Re: removing RIP/RIPng (routed/route6d)

2024-05-16 Thread Lexi Winter
Scott: > I use RIPv2 for it's simplicity and small memory and CPU requirements. It > has its place and shouldn't be considered "legacy" despite its shortcomings. > It's not uncommon for vendors like Cisco to produce "basic" feature sets of > IOS that do not include any link-state protocols.

Re: removing RIP/RIPng (routed/route6d)

2024-05-16 Thread Lexi Winter
Scott: > I'm never sure whether to respond to sophistry and rhetoric, but why not, > let's play: my intention with this post was not to engage in sophistry, but to explain (or justify) the reasoning behind my proposal to remove RIP/RIPng, since you seemed to be asking for more details on that. i

Chelsio / cxlv(4): strange messages, SR-IOV interface does not work

2024-10-22 Thread Lexi Winter
hello, i'm trying to configure a cxlv(4) device, which is a VF of a Chelsio T540-CR on a host running bhyve. host: FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT #3 lf/main-n269068-2cff93ced1d: Wed Oct 23 02:48:20 BST 2024 guest: FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT #2 lf/main-n269067-56dd459904b: Sat Oct 19 18:36:40 BST 2024 the

Re: slow network performance in bhyve with freebsd guests compared with any other guest os

2024-09-29 Thread Lexi Winter
On 29/09/2024 07:58, void wrote: Surprisingly, freebsd guest performance is about 1/3rd of the line speed. Do some sysctls need to be tuned in freebsd specifically for when it is in a guest context? i tested this here and cannot reproduce the problem: 1023!ragweed ~% iperf3-darwin -c iris.ede

Re: Chelsio / cxlv(4): strange messages, SR-IOV interface does not work

2024-10-25 Thread Lexi Winter
On 24/10/2024 00:43, Navdeep Parhar wrote: On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 11:21 PM Lexi Winter <mailto:l...@le-fay.org>> wrote: however, trying to assign an IP address causes immediate problems: root@lily:~ # ifconfig cxlv0 inet6 2001:8b0:aab5:7::10/64 root@lily:~ # Oct 23 06:1