Re: Freebsd IP Forwarding performance (question, and some info) [7-stable, current, em, smp]

2008-06-30 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 03:44:48PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: >OK, I setup 2 boxes on either end of a RELENG_7 box from about May >7th just now, to see with 2 boxes blasting across it how it would >work. *However*, this is with no firewall loaded and, I must enable >ip fast

Re: Freebsd IP Forwarding performance (question, and some info) [7-stable, current, em, smp]

2008-06-30 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 03:00:31AM +0200, Ingo Flaschberger wrote: >Dear Alex, > >>>OK, I setup 2 boxes on either end of a RELENG_7 box from about May >>>7th just now, to see with 2 boxes blasting across it how it would >>>work. *However*, this is with no fire

Re: Freebsd IP Forwarding performance (question, and some info) [7-stable, current, em, smp]

2008-06-30 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:41:36PM -0400, Paul wrote: >All the NIC drivers in 7 pretty much use interrupt moderation so it can >never lock the machine anyway.. This effectively kills polling and it >really no longer has any use except to be able to have a fraction of the >c

Re: TCP ECN patch to be committed

2008-07-29 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 02:04:52AM +0100, Rui Paulo wrote: >After some chat with other TCP folks I'm going to commit the TCP ECN patch >I asked for review a couple months ago with some changes. Most notably is >the new padding fields added to the syncache struct. Um, what is "TCP

Re: Firewall

2007-04-30 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 10:58:18AM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: >One of the big selling points of IPFW is integration with DUMMYNET, which >offers bandwidth management facilities not present in the other systems. I >understand there may be efforts afoot to add DUMMYNET support

Re: Firewall

2007-04-30 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Tue, May 01, 2007 at 11:31:58AM +0800, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: >0n Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 10:58:18AM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: > >>One of the big selling points of IPFW is integration with DUMMYNET, which >>offers bandwidth management faci

Re: Unix friendly network testbench for FreeBSD?

2007-05-02 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Wed, May 02, 2007 at 09:48:52AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi, > I'm looking for a network testbench / simulator to stimulate known > networking conditions to test out a component for a product at work. > I was wondering if there was a network simulator a

Re: asymetric speeds over gigE link

2007-05-21 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Mon, May 21, 2007 at 07:39:06PM +0100, Tom Judge wrote: > I have also seen 700Mb/s sustained FreeBSD - FreeBSD using the openssh HPN > patch set and no extra tuning of the network stack. Which makes me > think that maybe the linux stack needs some tuning? What is the "HPN pa

Re: two public ip addresses on one interface

2007-05-27 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Fri, May 25, 2007 at 01:17:39PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > If your aliases are part of the same subnet as the "primary" or first configured IP, then you want to > use the all-1's netmask. In your case, however, the second IP is part of a completely different subnet, > an

Re: two public ip addresses on one interface

2007-05-28 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Mon, May 28, 2007 at 11:43:21AM +0400, Eygene Ryabinkin wrote: >Alex, good day. > >Sun, May 27, 2007 at 07:07:41PM +0800, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: >> > If your aliases are part of the same subnet as the "primary" or first con

Re: driver packet coalesce

2007-05-31 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Wed, May 30, 2007 at 04:45:05PM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: > Does any driver do this now? And if a driver were to coalesce > packets and send something up the stack that violates mss > will it barf? erm, what is meant by "coalesce" ? -aW IMPORTANT: This email remains the prop

Re: New driver coming soon.

2007-06-03 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Thu, May 31, 2007 at 03:19:44PM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: > FreeBSD customer base has been miniscule so not much has > been done to the code, maybe someday in my spare time :) "miniscule" ? That's scary to hear :( -aW IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of the Australian

Re: netstat patch..

2007-06-05 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 01:56:10PM -0400, Randall Stewart wrote: > Weongyo Jeong sent me a nice netstat patch that allows > netstat access to SCTP stuff :-D And for those that don't know much about SCTP, the benefit is ? -aW IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of the Austra

Re: Network stack virtualization for FreeBSD 7.0

2007-06-05 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 12:10:36PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > I have two different versions of the talk on video. > The audio is a bit hard to hear but can still be understood. > When my RealWork(TM) lets up I will finish transcribing them to downloadable form. Can you plea

Re: freebsd6 utilities and proxy

2007-07-18 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 11:01:11PM -0400, Dave wrote: >I've got a FreeBSD 6.2 machine now behind a squid nontransparent >authenticating proxy. The proxy use to be transparent and didn't require >authentication, those requirements now changed, so it now utilizes a >dedicated

Re: LAGG handbook entry

2007-08-19 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 02:48:32PM +1200, Andrew Thompson wrote: >I have been putting together a chapter on 'Link Aggregation and >Failover', any feedback/corrections/additions would be appreciated. >http://nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/nzfug/HandbookUpdates/NetworkAggregation Awesome. Gr

Re: RFC: Capability addition for IEEE 1588

2007-10-04 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 02:47:37PM +0800, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: >0n Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 10:52:43AM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: > >>I am adding support into the em driver for PTP > >PTP ? Found http://ptpd.sourceforge.net/. Sorry for the noise

Re: RFC: Capability addition for IEEE 1588

2007-10-04 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 10:52:43AM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: >I am adding support into the em driver for PTP PTP ? -aW IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of the Australian Defence Organisation and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the CRIMES ACT 1914. If you ha

Re: wireless recommendations ...

2007-10-11 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 10:18:34PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >... but, I haven't used wireless at all under FreeBSD ... what do we support >*well*? The machine(s) are going to be remote, so I'd like to go with >something that is generally felt to be 'consistently reliable

I/OAT ... Coming Soon ?

2007-11-14 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
Hi all, Curious, is I/OAT [http://www.intel.com/go/ioat/] coming to FreeBSD soon ? Seems to be in the works for Linux [http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Net:I/OAT] and OpenSolaris [http://blogs.sun.com/markusflierl/entry/what_s_going_on_in]. -aW IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of

Re: named.root

2008-02-07 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 06:45:13PM +0200, Petri Helenius wrote: >Any chance the recent root zone changes would make it to 7.0? Erm, curious, what where these changes in the first place ? -aW IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of the Australian Defence Organisation and is subj

Fwd: [networking-discuss] uperf - A network benchmark tool

2008-05-07 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
FYI - Forwarded message from Neelakanth Nadgir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 17:34:23 -0700 From: Neelakanth Nadgir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Neelakanth Nadgir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [networking-discuss] uperf - A network benchmark tool [apologies

Re: how to identify a PHY?

2008-05-13 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Mon, May 12, 2008 at 01:19:58PM +0200, Marius Strobl wrote: >If the system is running the simplest thing in order to identifiy >the PHYs is to check the oui= and model= output of `devinfo -v`. >Otherwise boot verbose and check the OUI and model output of >ukphy(4). Curiou

Re: anyone tried the Multi routing table code yet?

2008-05-23 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Fri, May 23, 2008 at 05:39:17PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: >subject says it all really.. No, but I would like to ... if you could hold my hand :) -aW IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of the Australian Defence Organisation and is subject to the jurisdiction of section

Re: polling(4) rocks!

2004-11-17 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
Why can some NIC use polling and others not ? eg I went to turn on polling on my BCM5782 Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Card. And bge(4) doesn't mention anything about polling. Is it a hardware feature of the NIC ? - aW 0n Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 09:13:51PM +0300, Yar Tikhiy w

Re: polling(4) rocks!

2004-11-18 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
Ahhnice ! Please send a HEADSUP when done. Thanks - aW 0n Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 07:38:15PM +1030, Christian Brueffer wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 03:54:17PM +1030, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: > Why can some NIC use polling and others not ? >

Re: Initial review request for IPv6 Fast Forwarding and IP6STEALTH

2004-12-06 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 05:52:30PM +0100, Andre Oppermann wrote: > Nice, needs some cleanup though. Once you have cleaned it up you can run > it either through me or [EMAIL PROTECTED] He is more of a IPv6 fan than I am (in my > book IPv6 is broken by design^TM). Why ? - aW

Re: per-interface packet filters

2004-12-13 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 09:47:00PM +0300, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: > Andre, I know your dislikes about Cisco, and I share it too. Idea > of maintaining separate filter lists for each interface is handy, no > matter that it is like in Cisco. Before writing this mail I have a lot > o

Re: vlan double tagging

2004-12-19 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 03:16:27AM -0500, James wrote: > On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 03:03:49PM -0800, Mike Hunter wrote: > > On Dec 17, "Brooks Davis" wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 01:22:02PM +0200, Donatas wrote: > > > > hello, > > > > i'd like to

Re: Dingo and PerForce

2004-12-19 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 02:50:09PM +0100, Andre Oppermann wrote: >> now a dingo branch, named "dingo". The dingo branch contains >> all of src, not just sys, as I suspect there are userland bits >> we'll want to do. I know I'll be doing userland things.

Re: TCP out-of-order packets.

2005-01-13 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 03:34:03PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: >DeltaT SEQ-SRTR:SEQ_ENDpacket# >-- >346853 2856:2920(64)1 >370821 2920:4368(1448) 2 >004410 8712:10160(1448) 6 >007848 12608:1405

Network Emulation Software [recomendations please ?]

2005-01-20 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
Hi all, I would like to find some network simulation software that is similar but better than NIST Net [http://www-x.antd.nist.gov/nistnet/]. Can anyone recommend any network simulation software that "is a general-purpose tool for emulating performance dynamics in IP networks". Cheers - aW ___

Re: Re: Network Emulation Software [recomendations pl ease ?]

2005-01-20 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 11:23:29AM +1030, Brooks Davis wrote: >On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 11:14:48AM +1030, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I would like to find some network simulation software that is similar >but >> be

Re: netmap support removed from ixl?

2016-01-12 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 09:08:17PM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote: >I see from various searches that netmap support was added to ixl(4) -- >*but* the code isn't there in 10.2. I'd like to be able to use it for >packet capture, because regular BPF on this interface (XL710) isn't