mbuf size and NFS

2006-06-07 Thread Martin Karsten
Some time ago I wanted to do experiments with a reduced mbuf size, just for the sake of it. Changing MSIZE (to 128 in this case) and recompiling the kernel seemed to do the job, although I only tested fairly standard functionality. This was on a 5.4-RELEASE system. However, I noticed one probl

Re: RSVP on recent FreeBSD?

2005-10-12 Thread Martin Karsten
I have an unsupported patch for up to gcc 4.0. I'll send it as separate email to you and will eventually put it on my web page. Martin Thomas Quinot wrote: All, Is anyone running any RSVP daemon on a FreeBSD release >= 5? I would like to do RSVP with ALTQ, but the KOM RSVP daemon (3.0f) won't

problems with D-Link DFE-580 NIC (ste driver)

2003-07-26 Thread Martin Karsten
I am using FreeBSD4.8-RELEASE with a D-Link DFE-580 4-port FastEthernet NIC (ste driver). I seem to have problems with packet losses despite the system is far from being fully loaded. I have found the following comment in the CVS repository of if_ste.c (Revision 1.33): "This card still has seeming

Re: ECN support in FreeBSD4.5

2003-02-28 Thread Martin Karsten
TCP/ECN and RED/ECN are available as part of ALTQ 3.1 http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/kjc/programs.html Best, Martin > I would like to know if ECN support is provided in FreeBSD 4.5. If not > then how can I do it? > > Thanks > > Rahul Chaudhary > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PR

Re: Router alert option

2001-12-07 Thread Martin Karsten
> I have seen Mr.Ping Pan's implementation of this. This seems to be just > for receiving a packet with some IP option through a raw IP socket. This I haven't carefully looked into the code, but it seems enable to receive as well as intercept (and send through a socket to the user-level) packets

Re: Router alert option

2001-12-06 Thread Martin Karsten
Ping Pan has implemented a complete IP options package for FreeBSD versions up to 4.0. Maybe it's easy to port it to newer versions. See http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~pingpan/software_list.htm Martin > Could anyone tell me if Router Alert option processing is implemented in > FreeBSD 4.1 ip(v4) st

Re: NEW CODE: polling support for device drivers.

2001-11-09 Thread Martin Karsten
Thanks, this is fantastic! On all FreeBSD 4.x versions, the performance of end systems receiving large amounts of small packets used to be much worse than on FreeBSD 3.4. I'm not a driver expert, but as you described, the vanilla systems seem to spend too much time in the interrupt context, such t

Re: MPLS

2001-07-20 Thread Martin Karsten
MPLS has been implemented for FreeBSD in the Nistswitch project http://www.antd.nist.gov/itg/nistswitch/ but I don't know the current project status. I've added rudimentary MPLS signalling support to RSVP (label distribution and explicit routing according to draft-ietf-mpls-rsvp-lsp-tunnel-07.txt

Re: UDP packet loss on FreeBSD 4.x

2001-07-13 Thread Martin Karsten
Thanks for this hint, but it doesn't seem to help. Here's the output of netstat -m after a test with packet losses: 386/608/8192 mbufs in use (current/peak/max): 385 mbufs allocated to data 1 mbufs allocated to packet headers 384/494/2048 mbuf clusters in use (current/peak/max) 11

UDP packet loss on FreeBSD 4.x

2001-07-11 Thread Martin Karsten
Greetings, I have observed the following behaviour on FreeBSD 4.x platforms (4.0 till 4.3 seem to be affected). When receiving a sufficiently fast stream of UDP packets (the borderline seems to be around 3,500 packets/sec for e.g. the 'xl' driver on a 450MHz Pentium), an application on the recei