Re: FreeBSD ethernet on a Sun Ultra 20

2007-02-25 Thread Lars Tunkrans
Yes, Im not surprised really, New PCI DEVICE ID's is used all the time. The "Sun Ultra 20 M2" is just a few months old. Its a new motherboard compared to the "Sun Ultra20" which has been around for a year and is already obsolete. Maybe the real question is: When any new Motherboar

Re: improved TSO interface needed

2007-02-25 Thread Kip Macy
On 2/25/07, Andre Oppermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kip Macy wrote: > Evidently FreeBSD violates the LSO spec by sending down up to socket > buffer sized TSO segments to the network card. Is there a way to set > this other than reducing net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_max to a compliant value > (64k)? An

Re: improved TSO interface needed

2007-02-25 Thread Andre Oppermann
Kip Macy wrote: Evidently FreeBSD violates the LSO spec by sending down up to socket buffer sized TSO segments to the network card. Is there a way to set this other than reducing net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_max to a compliant value (64k)? And is there a way to for a device to communicate to the stack th

Re: improved TSO interface needed

2007-02-25 Thread Andre Oppermann
Kip Macy wrote: On 2/25/07, Andre Oppermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kip Macy wrote: > Evidently FreeBSD violates the LSO spec by sending down up to socket > buffer sized TSO segments to the network card. Is there a way to set > this other than reducing net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_max to a compliant

Re: kern/86848: [pf][multicast] destroying active syncdev leads to panic

2007-02-25 Thread Bruce M Simpson
Hi, Please try the attached patch which should hopefully fix this issue (untested). Regards, BMS ? .swp Index: if_pfsync.c === RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/contrib/pf/net/if_pfsync.c,v retrieving revision 1.32 diff -u -p -r1.3

Re: kern/100519: [netisr] suggestion to fix suboptimal network polling

2007-02-25 Thread Bruce M Simpson
Synopsis: [netisr] suggestion to fix suboptimal network polling State-Changed-From-To: feedback->open State-Changed-By: bms State-Changed-When: Sun Feb 25 16:18:13 UTC 2007 State-Changed-Why: Back to the net pool Responsible-Changed-From-To: bms->net Responsible-Changed-By: bms Responsible-Chan

Re: kern/86848: [pf][multicast] destroying active syncdev leads to panic

2007-02-25 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Whups. That needs 'int s' or the spl calls removed. I am under the weather today (dry flu type virus)... ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

LOR with divert sockets

2007-02-25 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I posted the following message to questions and Kris (which I thank) kindly suggested I should ask here wether someone is working on this. I'll also forward it for inclusion on the list at http://sources.zabbadoz.net/freebsd/lor.html. BTW, I don't think the hangs I'm experiencing depen

Need help with Broadcom wifi WLAN

2007-02-25 Thread Vincent Howell
Hello, I'm trying to get my Broadcom (BCM43XX-based) WNIC working in FreeBSD 6.2 but am unsuccessful. I've tried numerous Windows drivers with Ndisgen and none of them generate working kernel modules. I've tried csuping my install to 6.2-STABLE to get the latest NDIS patch (produced by someone

Re: Need help with Broadcom wifi WLAN

2007-02-25 Thread Kip Macy
Sam Leffler recently added a new entry in -CURRENT for the part. I think the change needs to MFC'd. Perhaps someone (Max?) could do that. -Kip On 2/25/07, Vincent Howell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I'm trying to get my Broadcom (BCM43XX-based) WNIC working in FreeBSD 6.2 but am un

Re: improved TSO interface needed

2007-02-25 Thread Kip Macy
LSO is MicroSlop's term for TSO :) As usual, they rename it, and next they do something non-standard to er 'differentiate' as the euphemism goes... Kinda what Sun's lawsuit back in the 90s against their Java strategy was all about :) Nevertheless, I don't understand Kip either, when we do TSO th

Re: improved TSO interface needed

2007-02-25 Thread Jack Vogel
On 2/25/07, Andre Oppermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kip Macy wrote: > On 2/25/07, Andre Oppermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Kip Macy wrote: >> > Evidently FreeBSD violates the LSO spec by sending down up to socket >> > buffer sized TSO segments to the network card. Is there a way to set >>

Re: improved TSO interface needed

2007-02-25 Thread Jack Vogel
On 2/25/07, Kip Macy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The stack will send down chains where pkthdr.len > 65536 bytes - I'm also seeing it send down mbuf chains of 66 mbufs or more. I don't think all cards can handle an arbitrary number of descriptors being used for a single packet. 64K is the max, a

Re: improved TSO interface needed

2007-02-25 Thread Kip Macy
64K is the max, and I believe that is taking into account the headers. What size are you seeing that is larger? Even if an mbuf chain comes down that large, it does NOT form a single packet, it is packetized by the hardware into MTU size, as I said, on the wire, ie as the receiver sees it, its ju