nat and ipfw - divert or builtin

2007-09-22 Thread Randy Bush
freebsd-current i386 / soekris i used to use ipfw to divert to natd. so, when i went to configure a new nat box nat box today, i was 82.3% there when i hit a bunch of nat stuff in ipfw that i do not remember seeing before. it appears that ipfw will nat all on its own without natd and divert. wh

Re: TX Multiqueue?

2007-09-22 Thread Kip Macy
My ethng branch supports multiple rx and tx queues. -Kip On 9/22/07, Jack Vogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Our newest E1000 nic, the 82575, and the Oplin 10G hardware are capable of > multiple queues both on the receive and the send side. On the receive end for > the Oplin driver the queues ac

TX Multiqueue?

2007-09-22 Thread Jack Vogel
Our newest E1000 nic, the 82575, and the Oplin 10G hardware are capable of multiple queues both on the receive and the send side. On the receive end for the Oplin driver the queues actually help distribute interrupts and improve performance without any special support in the stack. I have been ask

Re: Inline/Bypass ethernet NIC for FreeBSD

2007-09-22 Thread Julian Elischer
Affan Basalamah wrote: Hi all, I just curious about the availability of inline/bypass ethernet NIC for FreeBSD. Maybe my google search skill is low, but I cannot find any information about that. The only thing that comes to me is this URL from Intel (http://www.intel.com/network/connectivity/pr

Re: Firewall and VPN considerations

2007-09-22 Thread Cristian KLEIN
Christer Hermansson wrote: > Hello > > I am planning on setting up a FreeBSD Firewall that will be used to > protect a LAN. > > The firewall will also act as a VPN-gateway for external workstations > running Windows XP Professional, I will use Microsoft's ipsec software > included in the Windows

BFD support

2007-09-22 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
Has anyone out there done any work on implementing BFD (thats bidirectional forwarding detection, not anything else you might be thinking :P) for BSD? I'm a little surprised, I can't even seem to find so much as a userland version of it, let alone anything resembling a proper kernel implementat

Re: Quagga as border router

2007-09-22 Thread Randy Bush
> I would like to see NOTHING running anything that looked too much like > 5.x. And I can't really think the 6.x (while much better that 5) would > be a good choice for a route processor. juniper merely uses freebsd as a framework. all route processing, and anything to do with routing, is extreme

Firewall and VPN considerations

2007-09-22 Thread Christer Hermansson
Hello I am planning on setting up a FreeBSD Firewall that will be used to protect a LAN. The firewall will also act as a VPN-gateway for external workstations running Windows XP Professional, I will use Microsoft's ipsec software included in the Windows XP. I will also use the firewall's

Re: Inline/Bypass ethernet NIC for FreeBSD

2007-09-22 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 05:07:52PM +0700, Affan Basalamah wrote: > Hi all, > > I just curious about the availability of inline/bypass ethernet NIC > for FreeBSD. Maybe my google search skill is low, but I cannot find > any information about that. I think there are few ethernet adapter that suppo

127.0.0.1 missing from the routing table

2007-09-22 Thread Edwin Groothuis
Hello, Since this behaviour happened on a lot of different OS releases (from i386 till amd64, from 4.10 till 6.2) I doubt that it is a FreeBSD specific issue, but I still would like to hear if somebody has ever seen this behaviour: We run Quagga with OSPFD on our FreeBSD machines to automatically

Inline/Bypass ethernet NIC for FreeBSD

2007-09-22 Thread Affan Basalamah
Hi all, I just curious about the availability of inline/bypass ethernet NIC for FreeBSD. Maybe my google search skill is low, but I cannot find any information about that. The only thing that comes to me is this URL from Intel (http://www.intel.com/network/connectivity/products/pro1000_quad_bypas