Re: tcp troughput weirdness

2005-07-11 Thread Luigi Rizzo
we need more data points - did you test tcp or udp ? who is sourcing data ? are the bandwidth symmetric (i.e. A-> same as B -> A ? cheers luigi On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 09:21:13AM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote: > while checking out the quality of a switch, I came about a very disturbing > dicovery: F

fdisk on mounted disks ?

2006-01-16 Thread Luigi Rizzo
the other day i was trying to create a new freebsd slice on the same disk i booted from (on a freshly updated RELENG_6) and both fdisk and sysinstall failed with some error (i think they could not write on the disk, or something similar). boot -s did not seem to help, either. I remember vaguely so

fdisk, bsdlabel and hidden tricks

2006-01-31 Thread Luigi Rizzo
recently i was playing with fdisk and bsdlabel to create a new FreeBSD slice (?) in the MBR on the same disk i booted from, and later to create a slice and create partitions on it on a second disk. In both cases i had a hard time figuring out that kern.geom.debugflags was needed to let fdisk work

frequent freeze on 6.0-STABLE at startup when loading iwi firmware

2006-02-02 Thread Luigi Rizzo
yesterday upgraded my laptop (Dell X1 with iwi wireless card) running 6.0 to a fresh version of stable and the newest iwi-firmware, and since then it frequently hangs at boot time right after loading the iwi firmware - in fact, it booted ok only 2 times out of the last 10. The last msg i see on th

/sbin/init permissions

2006-02-03 Thread Luigi Rizzo
this is an old issue which i already brougth up some 5-6 years ago but probably got forgotten... /sbin/init is installed with very restrictive permissions: rizzo2# ls -l /sbin/init -r-x-- 1 root wheel 474696 Feb 2 12:27 /sbin/init rizzo2# which is terribly annoyin

Re: BRIDGE breaks ARP?

2001-02-05 Thread Luigi Rizzo
> > can you repeat exactly what the problem was (bridge machine not > > responding to ARP requests ?) and what is your exact setup (i ... > The problem is that the bridge machine can not communicate any > other machines unless net.link.ether.bridge=0. That is no response > from/to any other mach

Re: BRIDGE breaks ARP?

2001-02-12 Thread Luigi Rizzo
the bridge box can send them to another > ethernet card. > > Thanks for listening and best regards, > Antonio Carlos Pina > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > - Original Message - > From: "Luigi Rizzo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Vincen

Re: 4.3-BETA available for FTP

2001-03-08 Thread Luigi Rizzo
> It already appears as if dummynet has been broken in 4.3 and is > causing panics. At least 3 reports I have seen so far of people > who have had to disable DUMMYNET. can you point me to these reports ? I'd love to have a look at them and see what is wrong (especially because after the last bat

Re: 4.3-BETA available for FTP

2001-03-08 Thread Luigi Rizzo
> > It already appears as if dummynet has been broken in 4.3 and is > > causing panics. At least 3 reports I have seen so far of people > > who have had to disable DUMMYNET. > > can you point me to these reports ? I'd love to have a look i actually found one in the freebsd-stable mailing list a

Re: 4.3-S: No buffer space available [SOLVED: dummynet]

2001-05-06 Thread Luigi Rizzo
> On Sat, 5 May 2001, Pekka Savola wrote: > > Ok. This was caused by the dummynet rule, either directly or indirectly. > > The symptoms: > 1) 'No buffer space available' > 2) hard crashes: does not respond to ping, closole goes blank, ethernet > link led in the switch goes off etc (about 3-4 ti

HEADS UP: a bunch of ipfw MFC in the next 1-2 days

2001-10-31 Thread Luigi Rizzo
cur. cheers luigi --+--------- Luigi RIZZO, [EMAIL PROTECTED] . ACIRI/ICSI (on leave from Univ. di Pisa) http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ . 1947 Center St, Berkeley CA 94704 P

problem building smbfs module, any hint ?

2001-11-01 Thread Luigi Rizzo
nk the issue is picobsd-specific because the same thing works for CURRENT-based tree, and other modules also build ok. Any ideas ? cheers luigi --+----- Luigi RIZZO, [EMAIL PROTECTED] . ACIRI/ICSI (on leave fro

HEADS-UP: polling code removed.

2001-12-07 Thread Luigi Rizzo
[Bcc to [EMAIL PROTECTED]] FYI ... cheers luigi - Forwarded message from Luigi Rizzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 16:04:16 -0800 (PST) From: Luigi Rizzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: cvs commit: src/sys/conf options.i386 src/sys/dev/

HEADS UP: device polling code merged into -stable

2002-02-09 Thread Luigi Rizzo
o will be here. cheers luigi --+----- Luigi RIZZO, [EMAIL PROTECTED] . ICSI (on leave from Univ. di Pisa) http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ . 1947 Center St, Berkeley CA 94704 Phone: (510) 666 2927 --+- To Uns

NEW SCHEDULER available (was Re: proposed changes to kern_switch.c and kern_synch.c)

2002-07-18 Thread Luigi Rizzo
is trivial to fix, i just haven't had time to look at that). Have fun, and please if you use it let me know of any bugs and possibly suggestions to adapt it to -current. cheers luigi On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 11:52:16PM -0700, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > Hi, > we have implemente

Re: major problems with recent if_fxp commit

2002-08-11 Thread Luigi Rizzo
if_fxp is fine, the bug is in kern/uipc_mbuf.c. Just update it, or change the default value of mcl_pool_max to 0 and rebuild your kernel. A more complete fix will follow today. cheers luigi On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 05:07:13PM +1000, Gregory Bond wrote: > I have a system with buil

Re: 4.0-STABLE and sound

2000-05-16 Thread Luigi Rizzo
> Thanks to Luigi for the work on the new sound system. it is not my baby, you have to thank Cameron Grant i think cheers luigi > sbc1: at port 0x220-0x22f,0x330-0x331,0x388-0x38b > irq 5 drq 1,3 on isa0 > sbc1: setting card to irq 5, drq 1, 3 > pcm0: on sbc1 > > I was not

Re: 'stalls' from ipfw-stateful box on network connects

2000-05-31 Thread Luigi Rizzo
> I am testing a FreeBSD-4.0 stable machine as a firewall, and > have a reasonably complex ipfw ruleset that probably does > invoke some stateful rules. "probably" ??? > ssh and telnet sessions to this box appear to go into a stalled > state, where there is a 30sec pause before they re-awake and

Re: dc19 fructration.

2000-06-30 Thread Luigi Rizzo
ic set of ports, and when i found that BDG_MAX_PORTS was 128 i thought "ok, this is surely enough..." thanks for the fix. cheers luigi ---+----- Luigi RIZZO, [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Dip. di Ing. dell&

Re: Ethernet MTUs > 1500?

2000-07-06 Thread Luigi Rizzo
s are not like GRE (which might be the confusion) > ... they are simply part of the ethernet header. not fully sure about that. How could you possibly prevent a frame from being untagged multiple times if the frame has an appropriate bit pattern ? cheers luigi --

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/net bridge.c

2000-07-21 Thread Luigi Rizzo
> Could someone at least, take a look at the kern/19551? It is about > bridging and filtering the bridged packets. This used to work in 4.0 all > the way up to April 27. Somewhen between April 27 and June 20 it broke > and no longer works. Is 4.1 going to be less stable/functional then 4.

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