Fwd: netmap-ipfw on em0 em1

2015-05-03 Thread Raimundo Santos
Clarifying things for the sake of documentation: To use the host stack, append a ^ character after the name of the interface you want to use. (Info from netmap(4) shipped with FreeBSD 10.1 RELEASE.) Examples: kipfw em0 does nothing useful. kipfw netmap:em0 disconnects the NIC from the usual

Problem reports for freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org that need special attention

2015-05-03 Thread bugzilla-noreply
To view an individual PR, use: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=(Bug Id). The following is a listing of current problems submitted by FreeBSD users, which need special attention. These represent problem reports covering all versions including experimental development code and

[Bug 193743] [re] RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller: doesn't work properly, problems getting UP automatically

2015-05-03 Thread bugzilla-noreply
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193743 Sean Bruno sbr...@freebsd.org changed: What|Removed |Added CC||sbr...@freebsd.org

[Bug 156667] [em] em0 fails to init on CURRENT after March 17

2015-05-03 Thread bugzilla-noreply
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=156667 mar...@blazingdot.com changed: What|Removed |Added Resolution|--- |FIXED

[Bug 199174] em tx and rx hang

2015-05-03 Thread bugzilla-noreply
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=199174 --- Comment #11 from Sean Bruno sbr...@freebsd.org --- Did a couple of tests via iperf. test 1 #1 set hw.em.txd=4096 #2 set hw.em.rxd=4096 #3 ran with TSO enabled -- ran into hangs and debug output from watchdog as reporter and stated. --

Re: Fwd: netmap-ipfw on em0 em1

2015-05-03 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 6:17 PM, Barney Cordoba via freebsd-net freebsd-net@freebsd.org wrote: Frankly I'm baffled by netmap. You can easily write a loadable kernel module that moves packets from 1 interface to another and hook in the firewall; why would you want to bring them up into user

Re: Fwd: netmap-ipfw on em0 em1

2015-05-03 Thread Barney Cordoba via freebsd-net
Frankly I'm baffled by netmap. You can easily write a loadable kernel module that moves packets from 1 interface to another and hook in the firewall; why would you want to bring them up into user space? It's 1000s of lines of unnecessary code. On Sunday, May 3, 2015 3:10 AM, Raimundo