Hello Rob, Friday, November 18, 2005, 3:23:10 PM, you wrote:
> Xin LI wrote: >> On 11/18/05, Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>Hi, >>> >>>The sk device has no polling support, >>>neither in 5 nor in 6. >>>Is there a particular reason (maybe >>>because it's a Gigabit device) ? >>> >>>Or is polling not supported because it >>>simply has not yet been coded? If so, would >>>it be straightforward to add the code? >> >> >> That would not be very hard if you own some > hardware, >> so if you have the hardware, give it a try! :-) > I do have the hardware: an sk integrated on the > motherboard, but this is on a production server. > Also, I don't know anything about coding the > polling stuff; I use it on other PCs (rl, xl) > and was wondering why not with sk. > If I have a piece of code that is 99.9 % sure > to work, then in that case I could try it out on > the production server in a test over the weekend. well if you want to make it work then feel free to ask any developer who willing spent their time to write the code and it will be great if you can donate the hardware also. i think ru@ and glebius@ is the guy who currently proactive develope the polling(4) code. the recent work for polling was additional support to bge(4) which have been merged to RELENG_6 (work done by glebius), we've been used it on our production router seems pretty robust. >> BTW. Since glebius@ has some recent work on >> polling(4), you may want to ask him for some >> in-depth advises. > Who is glebius? finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] honestly he is my FreeBSD network hero :) netgragph improvement , carp stuff , recent em(4) fix , new design of polling code and many more. thanks a lot gleb ! > Rob. > > > __________________________________ > Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 > http://mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- cheers, hsa _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
