PXE boot images: 6.1 i386/amd64

2006-05-25 Thread Paul Civati
For those of you wishing to PXE boot 6.1 RELEASE I have made some boot images that work easily with pxelinux (syslinux) PXE set-up. They are around 30MB in size each and built from the -bootonly ISO images. Note these simply boot the whole image, and don't use the pxeboot binary. In fact I've t

PXE boot images: 5.5 i386/amd64

2006-05-25 Thread Paul Civati
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Civati) writes: > For those of you wishing to PXE boot 6.1 RELEASE I have made some boot > images that work easily with pxelinux (syslinux) PXE set-up. [..] > Download and a quick pxelinux set-up howto: > > ht

Tuning for router performance

2005-04-17 Thread Paul Civati
27;t really made any noticeable difference for me. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm sure I have read of other people getting better performance than this. -Paul- -- Paul Civati Rack Sense Ltd - Managed/Business hosting - www.racksense.com RackRed - Value SSL certificates and

Re: Tuning for router performance

2005-04-19 Thread Paul Civati
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("David Schwartz") writes: >> I'm starting to hit errors at 150Kpps. > I'm not sure why you're hitting errors at that speed. But here are > a few suggestions: Sorry - I left out a key piece of information, as I'm testing PPS rather than th

Re: Tuning for router performance

2005-04-19 Thread Paul Civati
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe Greco) writes: > No problems with high traffic rates. (For the purposes of this discussion, > all traffic except ssh to the router is traffic /thru/ the router). Yes sorry I should have also mentioned I was specifically using 64byte

Re: Tuning for router performance

2005-04-19 Thread Paul Civati
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("David Schwartz") writes: >> options HZ=1000 #for polling > That's too low. 2000 is the minimum you should consider. This alone has helped.. now up to 200Kpps at least but my click router has run out of puff since I haven

Re: Tuning for router performance

2005-04-20 Thread Paul Civati
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("David Schwartz") writes: >> options HZ=1000 #for polling > That's too low. 2000 is the minimum you should consider. Having fixed my traffic generator, I'm now hitting ~220Kpps as limit before errors. > kern.random.sys.ha

Re: Tuning for router performance

2005-04-20 Thread Paul Civati
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shunsuke SHINOMIYA) writes: > sysctl kern.random.sys.harvest.ethernet=0 > sysctl kern.random.sys.harvest.interrupt=0 > > affect to your router's performance? No effect for me. > and, disabling interrupt moderation of em(4) affects the

5.4 PXE network install and CDs

2005-06-05 Thread Paul Civati
if the c/h/s are really required but the memdisk documentation seems to imply so ] LABEL freebsd54 KERNEL memdisk APPEND initrd=fbsd54.img c=812 h=255 s=63 [ aforementioned notes from bsdlabel ] sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 1 sectors/cylinder: 63 cylinders: 812 -Paul- -- Paul Civati 0870

Re: 5.4 PXE network install and CDs

2005-06-05 Thread Paul Civati
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Civati) writes: > I *am* stuck on one minor point, I've coped CD1 and CD2 on to my > ftp server but sysinstall keeps prompting to change disks during > the package install. I've created a cdrom.inf (the ha

CARP and VLAN interfaces (5.4)

2005-06-14 Thread Paul Civati
Has anyone tested this? It doesn't seem to work for me (although from some brief googling I got the impression it should). In my testing the carp0 for em3 interface negotiates MASTER/BACKUP as it should, however the carp1 interface never leaves the 'INIT' state. From another host in the 111

Re: CARP and VLAN interfaces (5.4)

2005-06-14 Thread Paul Civati
Philippe PEGON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Has anyone tested this? > > yes, it doesn't work, carp with vlan aren't supported on FreeBSD. There is > a thread about that on freebsd-pf : > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-pf/2005-May/001033.html Thanks for the pointer, the patc

Re: CARP and VLAN interfaces (5.4)

2005-06-14 Thread Paul Civati
Philippe PEGON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I also tested it with em card and for me it only runs if I connect the > network card after the boot, otherwise I have the INIT symptom on carp's > interfaces. Did the patch apply cleanly? I applied it to 5.4-REL sources, part of the code was already i

Re: Running ethereal on FBSD

2003-07-13 Thread Paul Civati
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Fleck) writes: > When I try to find out what interfaces it can capture data from, I get > this: > > dcf>$ tethereal -D > tethereal: There are no interfaces on which a capture can be done > > I've tried as root, same response. You