Re: Duplicate Acks and Fast Retransmit

2002-02-07 Thread Mike Silbersack
n show specific behaviors in a tcpdump that you're interested in, I'm sure that many people would be willing to help answer your questions. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: Duplicate Acks and Fast Retransmit

2002-02-07 Thread Mike Silbersack
reciver, tcpdump reported > drops and some packets seem to have been dropped... You tend to drop less packets if you use tcpdump's -w option, then use -r later. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: ~40 DupAcks And No Fast Retransmit !!

2002-02-15 Thread Mike Silbersack
th Fast Retransmit > earlier in Nov 2001 - that sender was resorting to > the costly Retransmission timeout even after receiving > many DupAcks. Ok, I'll look at this in depth when I get some time. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with &q

Re: network buffer problem

2002-02-18 Thread Mike Silbersack
er space available" problems due to the ep driver. It has been commmitted to -current, but not -stable as of yet. I suspect Warner will MFC the change in a few days. In the meantime, you could try manually applying this diff to your system: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys

Re: network buffer problem

2002-02-18 Thread Mike Silbersack
I believe that someone was looking into that. If he manages to find the bottleneck and fix it, I suspect you'll see the announcement here. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: network buffer problem

2002-02-18 Thread Mike Silbersack
n out of mbuf clusters that one time may very well also run you out of mbuf clusters even at MAXUSERS=96; mbuf clusters tend to get eaten pretty quickly. Either way, adding ram sounds like a good idea. :) Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: SACK (and older TCP stack) availability?

2002-02-20 Thread Mike Silbersack
sults, that would be highly helpful in getting it on the road to being committed. Unadvocated patches ususally don't get committed. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: SACK (and older TCP stack) availability?

2002-02-21 Thread Mike Silbersack
en't checked in detail) they are a no-go > unless someone puts significant work on them. > > cheers > luigi Whee! Ok, good to know. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: dc TX underrun message

2002-02-25 Thread Mike Silbersack
There have been patches to up the default buffer size and/or enable features to work around the problem on certain chipsets, but everything works well enough that I haven't been motivated to give them a serious look. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: dc TX underrun message, again

2002-02-26 Thread Mike Silbersack
your system is quite busy. However, it's still not anything to worry about. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

NFS odditiy

2002-03-03 Thread Mike Woods
into /Store/Mp3 and /Store/Filter... but, i cant read/write into /Store itself although i can browse /Store, thus far all the literature ive read seems to say i shouldnt be having this problem. Any ideas ? -- Mike Woods WoA SE Webmonkey & General Dogsbody Amiga North Thames Webmaster &

Re: Apache/TCP stack issues

2002-03-12 Thread Mike Silbersack
running a version of FreeBSD that does not include Jonathan Lemon's syncache/syncookie implementation. This was added just shortly before 4.5-release, and should help your situation greatly. If you are running 4.5, then I'm stumped. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: Apache/TCP stack issues

2002-03-12 Thread Mike Silbersack
ue length (via a sysctl I've now forgotten), or update to 4.5-stable. If this is just a load test and not real usage, you could also ignore the problem for now; you'll have to make the determination. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: Freebsd REL_ENG 4.3 p28 freezes every 30 minutes.

2002-03-18 Thread Mike Silbersack
5 (and current, > for that matter). > > Greg Which PRs describe the problems encountered? Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: Freebsd REL_ENG 4.3 p28 freezes every 30 minutes.

2002-03-18 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Greg Black wrote: > Mike Silbersack wrote: > > | Which PRs describe the problems encountered? > > I have not submitted a PR yet. I have raised the problems on > the FreeBSD mailing lists several times since 4.4-RELEASE and > have had some correspond

Re: Freebsd REL_ENG 4.3 p28 freezes every 30 minutes.

2002-03-19 Thread Mike Silbersack
ither case, you can then run "trace" to get a backtrace of where the problem occured. From that, we should be able to help you. If you can't even break into DDB whenever your computer crashes, then something is seriously wrong, _probably_ bad hardware of some sort. Mike "Silby&quo

ephemeral port allocation - time for a change?

2002-03-19 Thread Mike Silbersack
the usable port range as mentioned above. (For example, even with such code we'd still hit a limit when establishing multiple connections to a single service on a single box, as is probably done when benchmarking.) Thanks, Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send

Re: ADD TO(NEW Info): Apache/TCP stack issues

2002-03-20 Thread Mike Silbersack
received this amazing stats: > > Current listen queue sizes (qlen/incqlen/maxqlen) > Listen Local Address > 193/0/128 216.65.107.31.81 (queue len >> queue maxlen) !!! That's entirely expected, and the reason why is visible in the source. Mike "Silby"

Re: Getting rid of maxsockets.

2002-03-20 Thread Mike Silbersack
;re going through and UMAing everything, I think it'd be best if you kept the limits the same for now. Once everything's UMA'd, then we can develop new sizing parameters. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: Getting rid of maxsockets.

2002-03-20 Thread Mike Silbersack
ion below the current value; right now sockets > maxfiles with large maxuser values. Whether or not this is a necessary differential, I'm not sure. (With TIME_WAIT and FIN_WAIT_2 sockets, I believe that maxsockets should exceed maxfiles.) Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe:

Re: Getting rid of maxsockets.

2002-03-20 Thread Mike Silbersack
cvsup'd in the last two weeks, so I have yet to play around with UMA. I was going to ask some more questions here, but it's probably best that I actually look at the code first. :) Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Unnumbered IP Interface

2002-03-21 Thread Cambria, Mike
Hi, Can an unnumbered IP interface be configured on FreeBSD (4.5-Stable)? Will Zebra and/or GateD (or RouteD) handle it properly? Thanks, MikeC To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

RE: Unnumbered IP Interface

2002-03-21 Thread Cambria, Mike
with it. Thanks again, MikeC -Original Message- From: Julian Elischer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 4:05 PM To: Cambria, Mike Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject:Re: Unnumbered IP Interface Unnumbered interfaces are not supported offi

Re: Getting rid of maxsockets.

2002-03-21 Thread Mike Silbersack
pps would always have free files available, even once sockets were depleted. In short, I think that it's advantageous having seperate limits, given that doing so is easy. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: Getting rid of maxsockets.

2002-03-21 Thread Mike Silbersack
ocator the benefits would be huge. Have you discussed doing this with Bosko yet? Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: Getting rid of maxsockets.

2002-03-21 Thread Mike Silbersack
functionality. > > -- > Bosko Milekic Expanding is good, contracting is better. :) Whatever rate you want to do the switchover at would be best; I don't see any urgent need to rush the work. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

RE: Unnumbered IP Interface

2002-03-25 Thread Cambria, Mike
bs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 1:19 AM To: Julian Elischer Cc: Cambria, Mike; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject:Re: Unnumbered IP Interface Julian Elischer writes: > A while ago it was possible to use 'route' to add a rout eto a p2p > interf

RE: Unnumbered IP Interface

2002-03-26 Thread Cambria, Mike
d wanted to get some hints. For example, Archie's answer for unnumbered interfaces isn't in the route manpage. I'm glad I asked. MikeC -Original Message- From: Julian Elischer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 9:49 PM To: Cambria, M

Re: TCP Timestamp option?

2002-04-10 Thread Mike Silbersack
today's computers on today's networks. At the same time, the reality of 32 bit sequence numbers being relatively small and timestamps being needed to track wraparound is setting in. Although we don't use the various rfc 1323 options to their full extent yet, keeping them enabled is a

Re: What does FreeBSD do when listen queue is full ?

2002-04-14 Thread Mike Silbersack
, you're best off spending time upgrading to RELENG_4_5. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: What does FreeBSD do when listen queue is full ?

2002-04-14 Thread Mike Silbersack
ing to not accept() all connections ASAP, a backlog will build up, and RSTs will be sent to incoming connections. This should be true under 4.4 or 4.5. The listen manpage looks to be pretty accurate in its description. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: What does FreeBSD do when listen queue is full ?

2002-04-15 Thread Mike Silbersack
behavior in 4.4, and the syncache isn't a queue.) Maybe I can word that better when I go through and make sure all the comments in the source are up to date. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: What does FreeBSD do when listen queue is full ?

2002-04-17 Thread Mike Silbersack
yn cookie is returned, or the syn is silently dropped (depending on whether or not syn cookies are enabled.) With the pre-syncache code, yes, a RST was sent at that time. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: What does FreeBSD do when listen queue is full ?

2002-04-17 Thread Mike Silbersack
, sendmail) do it? Would that behavior be defeated with your proposed changes? I'm not opposed to your idea, I'd just like to fully understand the implications before any changes are made. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: What does FreeBSD do when listen queue is full ?

2002-04-17 Thread Mike Silbersack
ead and make the changes that Bill proposes, it should be possible to add a sysctl that would cause a RST to be emitted rather than the connection to be returned to the syncache. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: What does FreeBSD do when listen queue is full ?

2002-04-17 Thread Mike Silbersack
gnoring the ACK and waiting for it to be retransmitted is the better idea. After that is done, adding a sysctl which enables the RST functionality wouldn't be a problem if you think that it may be beneficial for those using load balancers. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: se

Re: Problems with nge driver and copper GbE cards

2002-04-23 Thread Mike Makonnen
igured" > I don't have trouble to issue command "ifconfig nge0 media 1000baseTX > mediaopt full-duplex". > This I can help you with. the correct way of doing it is disabling full-duplex: # iconfig nge0 media 1000baseTX -mediaopt full-duplex cheers, Mike

Re: Putting all PCBs into sysctl?

2002-04-25 Thread Mike Silbersack
ld uniquely identify a socket. (It wouldn't be nice to kill the wrong socket because they switched out from under you.) Maybe a procfs like filesystem for sockets would be better. :) Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: Junior network hacker tasks...

2002-05-06 Thread Mike Silbersack
e lines for a while), but I'd be more than happy to defer to some unknown lurker on the mailing list who wants to make a name for his/her self. :) Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: Junior network hacker tasks...

2002-05-06 Thread Mike Silbersack
ould be a pre-computed (global) scaling > factor as well. > > -GAWollman I looked over both our and Linux's tcp stack to double-check, and it appears that my memory was faulty. You are correct, no PAWS checks are done during TIME_WAIT recycling. Initializing to zero is probably t

Re: HEADS UP: ALTQ integration developer preview

2002-05-17 Thread Mike Silbersack
make a patch for -current. Personally, I hope we keep ECN support out of the tree; it's unlikely to provide any benefit over the internet in general, and will just make integrating other TCP changes more difficult. I haven't looked over the ALTQ patches, but integration of those changes so

Re: High volume proxy server configuration.

2002-05-21 Thread Mike Silbersack
to commit such a feature if it was implemented well; other people with busy servers might find it useful. I've been pondering various methods to handle out of mbuf cluster situations better, but handling your case seems especially difficult. I'll have to think more. Mike "Silby"

Re: Interface statistic

2002-05-22 Thread Mike Tancsa
MTRG in conjunction with snmpd. It will gather the data you require. Also, you can safely run SNMPD as a non root user for this purpose and I strongly advise that. Both programs are in the ports tree. ---Mike On Tue, 21 May 2002 14:58:22 +0300, in sentex.lists.freebsd.net you wrote

Re: ng_eiface hangs on 4.6RC

2002-05-24 Thread Mike Tancsa
problem. Do a complete buildworld first so you really do update to 4.6 and try again. ---Mike Mike Tancsa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP

zebra + gif

2002-05-27 Thread Mike Futerko
, OSPF packets start appears on gif5 interface, and so on... I could provide more useful information, if required. What is wrong with my zebra configuration? Thanks in advance for any help... Regards, Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: Bug in net/route.[ch] with rmx_pksent while cloning

2002-05-30 Thread Mike Silbersack
t; Andre Sure, I'll take a look at in the next day or two. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: Bug in net/route.[ch] with rmx_pksent while cloning

2002-05-30 Thread Mike Silbersack
e); > + printf("%6ld %8lu ", rt->rt_refcnt, rt->rt_use); Also committed and slated for MFC. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: MPLS

2002-05-31 Thread Mike Silbersack
by 48 bytes. On a default free view of the Internet this > gives us a whopping 5.5 Mbytes in kernel memory savings (110k routes). > > -- > Andre Hrm. Once you've cut the route metrics out of the route entries, is there anything preventing you from doing away with cloned routes alltog

Re: Bug in net/route.[ch] with rmx_pksent while cloning

2002-05-31 Thread Mike Silbersack
e. What I'm thinking of doing is renaming the field to rt_unused with a comment indicating that it should be axed if anyone else has a good reason to change the structure. I'll look over your latest round of patches tomorrow. They're a bit more in depth, I can't evaluate t

Re: Problem with SYN cache in FreeBSD 4.5

2002-06-03 Thread Mike Silbersack
Accept filters act oddly on 4.5-release, you'll have to upgrade to 4.5-stable/4.6. 3. Could you use tcpdump to determine what exactly is going wrong and post a url to the log so that we can investigate what is going wrong? Thanks, Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: Problem with SYN cache in FreeBSD 4.5

2002-06-04 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, jayanth wrote: > Can you dump the output of netstat -s -p tcp ? > Checking for listen queue overflows and syncache bucket overflows. > > jayanth And "netstat -La" too, please. I'm interested in if you're accepting sockets fast enoug

Re: Problem with SYN cache in FreeBSD 4.5

2002-06-04 Thread Mike Silbersack
has run out of sockets. Is kern.ipc.numopensockets approaching kern.ipc.maxsockets? Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: Broken PMTUD in FreeBSD?

2002-06-11 Thread Mike Silbersack
wever, it's too late to MFC it in time for 4.6-release. Phil: In the future, please try a bit harder to notify someone if you believe that a bug is serious enough for posting to bugtraq. freebsd-net is a relatively busy list, and things do get missed. Mike "Silby" Silbersack On T

Re: Broken PMTUD in FreeBSD?

2002-06-11 Thread Mike Silbersack
So, if you do find a security issue in the future, please directly e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that it gets handled properly. If you find less serious bugs, feel free to drop me an e-mail if mail to the -net list falls on deaf ears. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: Broken PMTUD in FreeBSD?

2002-06-12 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Phil Dibowitz wrote: > Glad it's fixed, and thanks for the info. > > > Phil Well, it's not fixed yet, but it will be. (Probably a week at least, I don't have the time to devote to it right now, despite it being a simple change.) Mike "Si

Re: Broken PMTUD in FreeBSD?

2002-06-14 Thread Mike Silbersack
sent relates to the the ip_id field. I noticed that linux has moved to setting 0 in the ip_id field for all packets with DF set. This sounds like a good way to go for me, as it's a lot cheaper than some randomization scheme. However, if we don't set DF on syn-ack packets but do on o

Re: Broken PMTUD in FreeBSD?

2002-06-14 Thread Mike Silbersack
on the resend, would that be acceptable? /me has this bad feeling that he just roped himself into auditing the PTMU code. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

tracking down strange MTU issues with PPPoE)

2002-06-18 Thread Mike Tancsa
1 mppe deny deflate pred1 mppe set authname [EMAIL PROTECTED] set authkey thepassword set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 255.255.255.0 0.0.0.0 add default HISADDR ---Mike ---- Mike Tancsa,

Re: tracking down strange MTU issues with PPPoE)

2002-06-18 Thread Mike Tancsa
Hi, the mss fixup is enabled by default and is part of the stock PPP from what I understand. Also, this was all working just great when the other end was a redback. The problems only started when the telco moved the termination to the ERX. ---Mike At 04:34 PM 18/06/2002 -0500

Re: tracking down strange MTU issues with PPPoE)

2002-06-18 Thread Mike Tancsa
-endpoint and then connect again with the client... ifconfig tun0 on the client side does indeed show the MTU specified in the virt-template. ---Mike At 03:09 PM 6/18/2002 -0700, Tom Samplonius wrote: > Well, if you need to find the MTU, the ppp logs should tell you what the >remote

Re: tracking down strange MTU issues with PPPoE)

2002-06-18 Thread Mike Tancsa
Yes, that did it! Thanks very much! What is different about that, and me setting it on the other end as part of the virt-template ? ---Mike At 12:33 AM 6/19/2002 +0100, Brian Somers wrote: >Perhaps adding > > set mtu max 1452 > >will help ? > >On Tue, 18 Ju

Re: tracking down strange MTU issues with PPPoE)

2002-06-18 Thread Mike Tancsa
s suggestion of set max mtu did the trick. I am curious to know why this is necessary on the ERX and not on the SMSes. ---Mike ---- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications,

Re: tracking down strange MTU issues with PPPoE)

2002-06-18 Thread Mike Tancsa
Actually, I spoke too soon. The host I was testing against was the wrong one :( Its still broken with the set mtu max 1452 statement. ---Mike At 05:16 PM 6/18/2002 -0700, Tom Samplonius wrote: > Possibly. There is a PPPoE session to the Redback (or ERX), then >usually

Re: tracking down strange MTU issues with PPPoE)

2002-06-18 Thread Mike Tancsa
Actually, in your documentation you mention that its broken for the situation where the FreeBSD box acts as a gateway. In my case, its broken right from the FreeBSD box. But the same machine connected with Windows 98 does not have the problem. ---Mike At 04:18 PM 6/18/2002 -0700

Re: tracking down strange MTU issues with PPPoE)

2002-06-18 Thread Mike Tancsa
1898183196:1898183196(0) win 57344 (DF) 23:21:45.498440 204.152.184.112.80 > 64.7.134.131.1030: S 1924929184:1924929184(0) ack 1898183197 win 61440 and the speed is a few hundred bytes /s But, when I do the same from my connection at home, I see the same sorts of flags and speeds are as expe

Re: How cwnd is set after a loss in FreeBSD TCP?

2002-06-19 Thread Mike Silbersack
love to help, but I'm busy with other matters at the moment. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: Native PPPoE broken (4.6-STABLE), RP-PPPoE working?!

2002-06-23 Thread Mike Tancsa
lain to the manufacture is that it works with Windows 95,98, XP, 2000, Linux and a Cisco 827. It does not work with FreeBSD ---Mike Mike Tancsa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could se

Re: zero copy code checkin in 2 days, new snapshot

2002-06-23 Thread Mike Silbersack
ge shared by multiple processes? Will the page be shared? That could be a big reduction in mbuf cluster usage on some http/ftp systems, I'd guess. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: zero copy code checkin in 2 days, new snapshot

2002-06-24 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 01:17:03 -0500, Mike Silbersack wrote: > > On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > > > > I'm planning on checking in the zero copy sockets code Tuesday evening, > > > MDT. If

Re: zero copy code checkin in 2 days, new snapshot

2002-06-24 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Andre Oppermann wrote: > Mike Silbersack wrote: > > Cool, thttpd / others should benefit greatly then. > > The last time I checked thttpd didn't even use sendfile(2). It does > use accf_http(9). Maybe kqueue(2) could speed it up further. > &g

Re: tracking down strange MTU issues with PPPoE)

2002-06-24 Thread Mike Tancsa
the interface MTU. ---Mike At 09:49 PM 24/06/2002 +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: >Mike Tancsa wrote: >Re DSL ... > > > (Note, I have tried various MTU and MRU settings. > > Thanks for any pointers. > >Perhaps you need /usr/ports/net/tcpmssd > - T

Re: Native PPPoE broken (4.6-STABLE), RP-PPPoE working?!

2002-06-24 Thread Mike Tancsa
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 22:54:32 -0700 (PDT), in sentex.lists.freebsd.net you wrote: > > >On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Mike Tancsa wrote: > >> On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 18:53:32 -0700 (PDT), in sentex.lists.freebsd.net you >> wrote: >> >> After spending a couple of hours gettin

Re: tracking down strange MTU issues with PPPoE)

2002-06-25 Thread Mike Tancsa
o it no problem. ---Mike ---- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Providing Internet since 1994www.sente

Re: Native PPPoE broken (4.6-STABLE), RP-PPPoE working?!

2002-06-25 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 11:37 PM 24/06/2002 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: >On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > > > > > >It seems hard to understand how the pppoe node in the kernel can slow > > >things down. > > > > Here is an example > > > >I wasn;

Re: SOLVED! Native PPPoE broken (4.6-STABLE), RP-PPPoE working?!

2002-06-25 Thread Mike Tancsa
In short, VJ-Header Compression! Why, I dont know. The exact same config works agains the SMSes by Redback. But not the Unisphere ERX Here is what I did to get it to all work. a) On my radius server, I had to get rid of Framed-Compression = Van-Jacobsen-TCP-IP b) On the FreeBSD box, I had

Re: SOLVED! Native PPPoE broken (4.6-STABLE), RP-PPPoE working?!

2002-06-26 Thread Mike Tancsa
them with Unisphere's ERX boxes. The solution I found was to make sure that its also disabled and not offered in RADIUS either, so you might have to talk to your ISP if they have it configured, as we did. ---Mike *** Knowledge Database - Search Results Kno

Re: tune down recvspace for this ?

2002-06-27 Thread Mike Silbersack
ually, you usually use most of your mbuf (clusters) for sending, not receiving. Hence, sendspace is what you may wish to kick down in order to reduce usage. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: SOLVED! Native PPPoE broken (4.6-STABLE), RP-PPPoE working?!

2002-06-27 Thread Mike Tancsa
ment pppstats works for me cage# pppstats IN PACK VJCOMP VJUNC VJERR | OUT PACK VJCOMP VJUNC NON-VJ 0 0 0 0 0 |0 0 0 0 0 cage# ---Mike

Re: interface stalling on tx ?

2002-06-28 Thread Mike Silbersack
to this approach. If the card never locks up, then the change is superfluous. When it does, the change is a lifesaver. Apologies if parts of this message sound like babbling; I should be sleeping at this moment in time. :) Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: questions about TCP RST validity

2002-07-01 Thread Mike Silbersack
retransmitting. > > What collective wisdom do folks have about this? > > > Tom Pavel I'm not sure doubling the "RST window" is a good idea. With window sizes increasing as they are, that could become a significant issue as time goes on. How about one MSS worth of win

Re: questions about TCP RST validity

2002-07-02 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Tom Pavel wrote: > > >>>>> On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Mike Silbersack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > 09:05:36.961787 AA.80 > BB.61390: . 3568529946:3568531406(1460) ack 2597111 > > 261 win 4380 (DF) > > > 09:05:38.9

Re: the incredible shrinking socket

2002-07-07 Thread Mike Silbersack
aving > 28 bytes per socket on i386, and probably nearly double that on > any 64 bit platform. That's ~15%, which isn't too shabby. Unions are ooogly. Would it be possible to seperate listen-only structures out into a seperate struct instead with a pointer to it? Mike "Silby&q

Re: the incredible shrinking socket

2002-07-07 Thread Mike Silbersack
mpletely work I haven't proved it. :) > > > -- > -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Well, if it's not working I wouldn't worry too much about it. A TIME_WAIT cache or socket buffer autosizing would probably save a lot more memory. :) Mike "Silby" Silb

Re: the incredible shrinking socket

2002-07-07 Thread Mike Silbersack
urn motivated me enough to try something I've > been meaning to try. :) > > -- > -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Yes, it's amazing what competition will do to productivity. I may actually start getting things done again. :) Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: the incredible shrinking socket

2002-07-08 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Mike Silbersack wrote: > On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > * Jonathan Lemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020707 21:48] wrote: > > > > > > I do have a smaller TIME_WAIT structure done; it even throws the socket > > >

Re: BSD / Firewall / 0 window size problem

2002-07-11 Thread Mike Silbersack
have been due to misbehaving duplex autodetect and bad cables.) Offhand, I can't see what the FreeBSD box is doing wrong, but I'd like something else to compare to. Thanks, Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

RE: xl checksum and dsniff

2002-07-12 Thread Cambria, Mike
> -Original Message- > From: Jonathan Lemon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> > > >My guess is that doing hw checksum by the nic could be the > issue. This is > >the only real difference I can see at present. > > > >Any ideas? > > Test your theory. Turn off hardware checksums with 'ifcon

RE: xl checksum and dsniff

2002-07-12 Thread Cambria, Mike
> #define XL905B_CSUM_FEATURES0 This worked. dsniff is behaving just fine now. Next I'll try to track down if this is this a libnet problem, libnids problem or dsniff problem, so I know which project I need to inform. Thanks, MikeC To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

RE: xl checksum and dsniff

2002-07-12 Thread Cambria, Mike
> -Original Message- > From: Andrew R. Reiter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > :Next I'll try to track down if this is this a libnet problem, libnids > :problem or dsniff problem, so I know which project I need to inform. > > IIRC, the problem is BPF b/c it doesn't know the checksum since the

mpd and bringing up routes at connect time

2002-07-16 Thread Mike Tancsa
to a different netgraph interface each time. Specifically, how do I add n routes to user X's connection on demand. Is it possible with mpd ? ---Mike Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651

Re: BSD / Firewall / 0 window size problem

2002-07-16 Thread Mike Silbersack
or timestamps of the other packets in the stream. On top of that, I see no reason why a win 0 should be sent when the previous window was ~24K in size. Is it possible that the NAT box is adding it in? Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: Tcp question.

2002-09-20 Thread Mike Silbersack
e delayed ack code isn't causing the problem somehow? Also, is C really a FreeBSD box? I didn't think we used window sizes of 24K. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: Tcp question.

2002-09-20 Thread Mike Silbersack
stack to account for Solaris... which I'm sure would cause problems with _everything_ else. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: Tcp question.

2002-09-20 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Mike Silbersack wrote: > On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > > > > Also, is C really a FreeBSD box? I didn't think we used window sizes > > > of 24K. > > > > No C is Solaris > > A and B are FreeBS

Re: Tcp question.

2002-09-20 Thread Mike Silbersack
. Problem found by Yoshihiro Tsuchiya ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Submitted by: Jayanth Vijayaraghavan Apply that to host B and see if it helps. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: NewReno implementation questions.

2002-09-24 Thread Mike Silbersack
n. You should drop him an e-mail to see if what he has developed so far will be helpful to your case. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: mbuf chain

2002-09-26 Thread Mike Silbersack
more than 10 or so fragments? Also, will overlapping fragments really ever be seen, or can we just assume that's a sign of abuse? Sorry for the sudden change of direction for this thread, I've been pondering how to improve our resistance to mbuf exhaustion through ip frags. Mike "Si

IPsec & Multiple WAN links

2002-10-01 Thread Cambria, Mike
Hi, I've been running FreeBSD on 2 boxes, each with their own WAN links for over 18 months or so. Each box has its own WAN link (one uses T1 leased line to a remote site, the other uses DSL to an ISP.) The ISP link runs IPsec and racoon The other end of the IPsec tunnel is a VPN appliance.

Re: Help with net.inet.ip.intr_queue_maxlen

2002-10-06 Thread Mike Silbersack
10ms every second until I recently committed Harti Brandt's changes to -current. Now it "only" takes 1ms, which is still too long, but hard to reduce further. The MFC will have to wait until after 4.7-release is tagged, unfortunately. Mike "Silby" Silbersack T

Re: High interrupt load on firewalls

2002-10-08 Thread Mike Silbersack
accounting is entirely accurate, so I'm going to postulate that the firewall itself could actually be the dominant consumer of CPU time. Are you using ipfw? If so, have you tried out Luigi's new IPFW2? It was MFC'd to 4.6-stable, and is supposed to be more efficient. Mike "

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