Re: fastforwarding?

2001-07-01 Thread Wes Peters
Ruslan Ermilov wrote: BTW, Wes, I'm still waiting for a working example of an indirect route with also indirect gateway. Any indirect route via the opposite end of a point-to-point connection. Right? -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters

Re: fastforwarding?

2001-07-01 Thread Wes Peters
Bakul Shah wrote: IMHO you are better off using a recent route lookup algorithm than messing with caches. The PATRICIA tree algorithm is what 33 years old now? Not true. Any routing algorithm takes longer because they are by definition a fuzzy match. The fastforward algorithm is not, it

Re: fastforwarding?

2001-06-29 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:32:50PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The description there isn't very forthcoming. fastforwarding caches the results of a route lookup for destination addresses that are not on the local machine, and uses the cached

Re: fastforwarding?

2001-06-28 Thread Wes Peters
Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The description there isn't very forthcoming. fastforwarding caches the results of a route lookup for destination addresses that are not on the local machine, and uses the cached route to short-circuit the normal

Re: fastforwarding?

2001-06-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The description there isn't very forthcoming. fastforwarding caches the results of a route lookup for destination addresses that are not on the local machine, and uses the cached route to short-circuit the normal (relatively slow) route lookup process

Re: fastforwarding?

2001-06-27 Thread Wes Peters
the fastforwarding option do that the normal forwarding option doesn't? See inet(4). The description there isn't very forthcoming. fastforwarding caches the results of a route lookup for destination addresses that are not on the local machine, and uses the cached route to short-circuit

Re: fastforwarding?

2001-06-26 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 06:47:41PM -0400, Deepak Jain wrote: sysctl -A |grep forward net.inet.ip.forwarding: 1 net.inet.ip.fastforwarding: 0 machdep.forward_irq_enabled: 1 machdep.forward_signal_enabled: 1 machdep.forward_roundrobin_enabled: 1 What does the fastforwarding option do

Fastforwarding

2000-06-12 Thread lists
Hi All, I posted this a coupla days ago and just thought I would ask again in the hope that someone had encounted something since then. Has anyone here tried setting net.inet.ip.fastforwarding on in a high traffic enviroment? This setting DRASTICALLY speeds up transfers between boxes talking

Re: Fastforwarding

2000-06-12 Thread Luigi Rizzo
Hi All, I posted this a coupla days ago and just thought I would ask again in the hope that someone had encounted something since then. Has anyone here tried setting net.inet.ip.fastforwarding on in a high traffic enviroment? This setting DRASTICALLY speeds up transfers between boxes

Re: Fastforwarding

2000-06-12 Thread lists
Another coupla hundred kilobytes per second? Andrew On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Luigi Rizzo wrote: Hi All, I posted this a coupla days ago and just thought I would ask again in the hope that someone had encounted something since then. Has anyone here tried setting

Re: Fastforwarding

2000-06-12 Thread Luigi Rizzo
Another coupla hundred kilobytes per second? from what to what ? sounds like a 5% improvement or even less... cheers luigi Andrew On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Luigi Rizzo wrote: Hi All, I posted this a coupla days ago and just thought I would ask again in the hope

Re: Fastforwarding

2000-06-12 Thread lists
Another couple of 100k/sec per connection. When I was running as follows: 10mbit network - pix - freebsd gateway - internal network (100mbit) with 100mbit ethernet on the fbsd gateway, 10mbit up to the gateway (there are routers inbetween the pix and the gateway), and 100mbit on the internal

Re: Fastforwarding

2000-06-12 Thread Julian Elischer
Luigi Rizzo wrote: Another coupla hundred kilobytes per second? from what to what ? sounds like a 5% improvement or even less... This setting DRASTICALLY speeds up transfers between boxes talking through a freebsd gateway when you are using 2 100mbit interfaces, but it

Re: Fastforwarding

2000-06-12 Thread lists
I will take a look and see if I can get a panic message later on, unfortunatly the one box that I have running forwarding is a highly important system that I cant afford downtime on, and most of the time when it panics Im working on it remotely, but it definatly panics and the box reboots. I

Re: Fastforwarding

2000-06-12 Thread Reinier Bezuidenhout
Has anyone here tried setting net.inet.ip.fastforwarding on in a high traffic enviroment? This setting DRASTICALLY speeds up transfers between boxes talking through a freebsd gateway when you are using 2 100mbit interfaces, but it seems to kernel panic the system after a few

Re: Fastforwarding

2000-06-12 Thread Luigi Rizzo
The question is not "how fast is fast forwarding?", but "why is it crashing?" I can imagine small timing changes speeding up a session between other boxes. yes, the original poster was concerned about crashes, i was mainly concerned on the gains in fastforwarding (as

Re: Fastforwarding

2000-06-12 Thread Luigi Rizzo
It kinda sounds to me like the improved speed you are getting is from reduced latency rather then from higher available bandwidth. right, i got the same feeling. only 550KB on a 10MBit ethernet is kind of slow anyways. cheers luigi You may be able to get the same