Re: Awful forwarding rate [7.2-Release, igb]

2009-05-11 Thread Michael Vince
Also make sure that the route for this specific test isn't going out on the Internet and coming back in at your outside link speed of around117kbits/sec? I had a similar problem once where I had 3 boxes hooked up and the speeds were blistering fast for 2 tests but the third test was horrid slo

FAST_IPSEC vs IPSEC performanc

2004-11-23 Thread Michael Vince
Hey all. I have been googling around the Internet for information about IPSEC and FAST_IPSEC for freebsd on the Internet and wondered what gives best performance when I came across this http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/netperf/ It has some nice graphs / figures on performance of IPSEC and FAST_IPS

Re: IPMI doesn't work...

2005-03-14 Thread Michael Vince
Just out of interest has any one got serial console to work with this IPMI stuff? I was looking at regular 9pin serial alternatives since Dell machines normally only have 1 serial port and I prefer 2. Regards, Mike Bruce M Simpson wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 04:26:16PM -0800, Jeff wrote: I

Re: cisco vpn experience?

2005-04-18 Thread Michael Vince
Yeah I hooked up 5.3 BSD box with to a big mobile phone companies $60,000 Cisco VPN piece of equipment, I got Cisco cert my self but I prefer FreeBSD :) Used Racoon/ipsec tools and FastIPSec compiled into the kernel. IPs are spoofed ,but just to give you the idea. Mar 31 16:02:54 mord racoon: IN

VPN setup script

2005-04-26 Thread Michael Vince
Hey all, I have created a VPN setup script for FreeBSD, check it out here http://roq.com/projects/vpnsetup/index.html http://www.roq.com/projects/vpnsetup/vpnsetup.pl Its still in its testing phase but as far as I can see its reasonably complete. If any one tries it out I would appreciate feed ba

Re: Some notes on FAST_IPSEC...

2005-05-13 Thread Michael Vince
Yeah, Does any one know if some one is going to add ipsec-tools to the ports tree? Cheers, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Thu, 12 May 2005 05:25:24 + (UTC), Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: On Thu, 12 May 2005, Qing Li wrote: Hi, I'd like to volunteer for Tasks to updat

Network performance 6.0 with netperf

2005-10-14 Thread Michael VInce
Hey all, I been doing some network benchmarking using netperf and just simple 'fetch' on a new network setup to make sure I am getting the most out of the router and servers, I thought I would post some results in case some one can help me with my problems or if others are just interested to

Re: Network performance 6.0 with netperf

2005-10-19 Thread Michael VInce
Robert Watson wrote: On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Michael VInce wrote: I been doing some network benchmarking using netperf and just simple 'fetch' on a new network setup to make sure I am getting the most out of the router and servers, I thought I would post some results in case some on

Re: Network performance 6.0 with netperf

2005-10-20 Thread Michael VInce
nce with the right sysctls. Needs more testing but it appears using AMD64 FreeBSD might be better then i386 for Apache2 network performance on SMP kernels. Single interface speeds tests from the router with polling enabled and with 'net.isr.direct=1' appears to affect performance. Regards

Re: Network performance 6.0 with netperf

2005-10-20 Thread Michael VInce
nce with the right sysctls. Needs more testing but it appears using AMD64 FreeBSD might be better then i386 for Apache2 network performance on SMP kernels. Single interface speeds tests from the router with polling enabled and with 'net.isr.direct=1' appears to affect performance. Regards

Re: Network performance 6.0 with netperf

2005-10-20 Thread Michael VInce
Sten Daniel Sørsdal wrote: Michael VInce wrote: I reinstalled the netperf to make sure its the latest. I have also decided to upgrade Server-C (the i386 5.4 box) to 6.0RC1 and noticed it gave a large improvement of network performance with a SMP kernel. As with the network setup ( A

Re: Network performance 6.0 with netperf

2005-10-20 Thread Michael VInce
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 04:26:31PM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote: At 10:49 PM +1000 2005-10-20, Michael VInce wrote: > The 4 ethernet ports on the Dell server are all built-in so I am assuming > they are on the best bus available. In my experience, the terms "Dell

Re: em(4) patch for test

2005-10-22 Thread Michael VInce
Gleb Smirnoff wrote: Colleagues, since the if_em problem was taken as a late showstopper for 6.0-RELEASE, I am asking you to help with testing of the fixes made in HEAD. Does your em(4) interface wedge for some time? Do you see a lot of errors in 'netstat -i' output? Does these errors inc

Re: IPSec tcp session stalling

2005-10-22 Thread Michael VInce
Try sending different sized pings or other packet size control utils to really make sure its not MTU related. Maybe there is an upstream router thats blocking ICMP fragment packets, have you ever seen them? try forcing the creation of some. Mike Volker wrote: Still having the same problem wi

Re: IPSec tcp session stalling

2005-10-22 Thread Michael VInce
he fragmented packets coming in properly. If that's a reliable check for MTU than the problem should not be MTU related. Is there any other way to check MTU problems by using `ping'? Thanks, Volker On 2005-10-22 20:16, Michael VInce wrote: Try sending different sized pings or ot

Re: em(4) patch for test

2005-10-23 Thread Michael VInce
Here is my second round of my non scientific benchmarking and tests, I hope this is useful. I been having fun benchmarking these machines but I am starting to get sick of it as well :) but I find it important to know that things are going to work right when they are launched to do their real wor

Re: em(4) patch for test

2005-10-23 Thread Michael VInce
I just have to point out that below I made a statement that proved I should of gone to bed earlier instead of doing benchmarks :). The 901 http States and ssh state have nothing to do with each other as there on different pf rules. Mike Michael VInce wrote: I did watch the gateway (B) pf

Re: WG511T problem using dhcp

2005-11-09 Thread Michael Vince
dennis binder wrote: hello, i'm trying to get a wlan card WG511T from netgear to work and connect to the internet via an accesspoint. The accesspoint has an SSID= "WLAN" and provides DHCP. dmesg bings up the following: ath0: mem 0x8800-0x8800 irq 9 at device 0.0 on cardbus0 ath0: mac

Re: em interrupt storm

2005-11-23 Thread Michael Vince
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 08:54:49PM -0800, John Polstra wrote: On 23-Nov-2005 Kris Kennaway wrote: I am seeing the em driver undergoing an interrupt storm whenever the amr driver receives interrupts. In this case I was running newfs on the amr array and em0 was not

Re: em interrupt storm

2005-11-23 Thread Michael Vince
Scott Long wrote: Michael Vince wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 08:54:49PM -0800, John Polstra wrote: On 23-Nov-2005 Kris Kennaway wrote: I am seeing the em driver undergoing an interrupt storm whenever the amr driver receives interrupts. In this case I was

Re: Routing SMP benefit

2006-01-01 Thread Michael Vince
Andre Oppermann wrote: Markus Oestreicher wrote: Currently running a few routers on 5-STABLE I have read the recent changes in the network stack with interest. You should run 6.0R. It contains many improvements over 5-STABLE. A few questions come to my mind: - Can a machine tha

Re: tcp performance

2006-01-01 Thread Michael Vince
Zongsheng Zhang wrote: Hi, *, For testing throughput of a TCP connection, the following topology is used: Host-A ---GB Ethernet--- Dummynet ---GB Ethernet--- Host-B Host-A/B use FreeBSD v6.0. Sysctl parameters of Host-A/B are: kern.ipc.nmbclusters=32768 net.inet.tcp.inflight.enable=0 net.i

Re: Router + ADM64

2006-01-04 Thread Michael Vince
Jon Otterholm wrote: Hi! What is there to gain in performance choosing AMD64 on a Dell PE1850 (Xeon EMT64) when used as router? /Jon I have one running under Amd64 FreeBSD. When polling is enabled I do get transfer speeds of up to 112megabytes/sec, the only real down side as far as I am

Re: Router + ADM64

2006-01-10 Thread Michael Vince
On FreeBSD amd64 if you compile in FAST_IPSEC and even regular IPSEC and do something like run setkey you get a panic. VPN on AMD64 FreeBSD has never worked. Mike Gleb Smirnoff wrote: On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 02:38:02PM +1100, Michael Vince wrote: M> >What is there to gain in perfo

Re: packet drop with intel gigabit / marwell gigabit

2006-03-19 Thread Michael Vince
I use netperf which is a pure network traffic tester I also just use basic 'ab/apache' tests which would also test HD/IO if getting large files. For the 'em' driver I have seen some posts/cvs commit updates to the driver saying it now works better without polling then with polling. I think this

VPN with FAST_IPSEC and ipsec tools

2006-06-15 Thread Michael Vince
Hey all. I have been trying to setup a VPN between 2 FreeBSD hosts, but I can't get any IKE exchange activity via ipsec tools happening. I used this script http://thebeastie.org/projects/vpnsetup/vpnsetup.pl which I created for my self to help me remember all the knobs, its been about a year

Re: VPN with FAST_IPSEC and ipsec tools

2006-06-19 Thread Michael Vince
Brian Candler wrote: On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 01:43:54PM +1000, Michael Vince wrote: I have setup the GRE tunneling and that is working fine doing pings and tracerts when I disable ipsec and ipsec-tools, its just the encryption side thats the problem. Ah, I guess this means you&#x

FAST_IPSEC and NAT-T

2006-06-20 Thread Michael Vince
Hey All, When installing the ipsec-tools it says if you want NAT-T you need to install this patch, http://ipsec-tools.sourceforge.net/freebsd6-natt.diff Can any one tell me if this patch works with Fast_ipsec or is it just for the other ipsec? Cheers, Mike

Re: FAST_IPSEC and NAT-T

2006-06-20 Thread Michael Vince
VANHULLEBUS Yvan wrote: On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 11:26:15PM +1000, Michael Vince wrote: Hey All, When installing the ipsec-tools it says if you want NAT-T you need to install this patch, http://ipsec-tools.sourceforge.net/freebsd6-natt.diff Can any one tell me if this patch works with

Re: VPN with FAST_IPSEC and ipsec tools

2006-06-22 Thread Michael Vince
David DeSimone wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian Candler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ah, I guess this means you're following the instructions in the FreeBSD handbook, which last time I looked gave a most bizarre and unnecessary way of setting up IPSEC (GIF tunneling

Re: VPN with FAST_IPSEC and ipsec tools

2006-06-25 Thread Michael Vince
David DeSimone wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Vince <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The main reason to use IPSEC tunnel mode and avoid GIF is that such a config is interoperable with other IPSEC implementations, and thus is much more useful in the real

Re: VPN with FAST_IPSEC and ipsec tools

2006-06-26 Thread Michael Vince
David DeSimone wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David DeSimone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hmm... In examining my kernel configuration I found these options: options IPSEC options IPSEC_ESP options IPSEC_DEBUG # options IPSEC_FILTERGIF # opt

Re: VPN with FAST_IPSEC and ipsec tools

2006-06-26 Thread Michael Vince
David DeSimone wrote: - -- David DeSimone == Network Admin == [EMAIL PROTECTED] I got it going! Its working like a dream now. I don't have a for sure reason why it wasn't working but my best guess is it was one that actually boiled down to a silly mistake as you suggested. I feel quite si

Re: Gigabit ethernet questions?

2006-08-09 Thread Michael Vince
JICUDN, I have been using nc,dd and systat to check TCP performance on my servers, the good thing about it is it requires little setup and gives results fast. For example on host A start the nc server. nc -4kl 3000 > /dev/null Then start another one on hostb sending data via nc from /dev/zero c