Re: netmap support removed from ixl?

2016-01-12 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 09:08:17PM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote: >I see from various searches that netmap support was added to ixl(4) -- >*but* the code isn't there in 10.2. I'd like to be able to use it for >packet capture, because regular BPF on this interface (XL710) isn't

Re: TCP ECN patch to be committed

2008-07-29 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 02:04:52AM +0100, Rui Paulo wrote: After some chat with other TCP folks I'm going to commit the TCP ECN patch I asked for review a couple months ago with some changes. Most notably is the new padding fields added to the syncache struct. Um, what is TCP

Re: Freebsd IP Forwarding performance (question, and some info) [7-stable, current, em, smp]

2008-06-30 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 03:44:48PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: OK, I setup 2 boxes on either end of a RELENG_7 box from about May 7th just now, to see with 2 boxes blasting across it how it would work. *However*, this is with no firewall loaded and, I must enable ip fast

Re: Freebsd IP Forwarding performance (question, and some info) [7-stable, current, em, smp]

2008-06-30 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 03:00:31AM +0200, Ingo Flaschberger wrote: Dear Alex, OK, I setup 2 boxes on either end of a RELENG_7 box from about May 7th just now, to see with 2 boxes blasting across it how it would work. *However*, this is with no firewall

Re: how to identify a PHY?

2008-05-14 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Mon, May 12, 2008 at 01:19:58PM +0200, Marius Strobl wrote: If the system is running the simplest thing in order to identifiy the PHYs is to check the oui= and model= output of `devinfo -v`. Otherwise boot verbose and check the OUI and model output of ukphy(4). Curious,

Fwd: [networking-discuss] uperf - A network benchmark tool

2008-05-07 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
FYI - Forwarded message from Neelakanth Nadgir [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 17:34:23 -0700 From: Neelakanth Nadgir [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Neelakanth Nadgir [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [networking-discuss] uperf - A network benchmark tool [apologies if

Re: named.root

2008-02-07 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 06:45:13PM +0200, Petri Helenius wrote: Any chance the recent root zone changes would make it to 7.0? Erm, curious, what where these changes in the first place ? -aW IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of the Australian Defence Organisation and is

I/OAT ... Coming Soon ?

2007-11-14 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
Hi all, Curious, is I/OAT [http://www.intel.com/go/ioat/] coming to FreeBSD soon ? Seems to be in the works for Linux [http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Net:I/OAT] and OpenSolaris [http://blogs.sun.com/markusflierl/entry/what_s_going_on_in]. -aW IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of

Re: wireless recommendations ...

2007-10-11 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 10:18:34PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: ... but, I haven't used wireless at all under FreeBSD ... what do we support *well*? The machine(s) are going to be remote, so I'd like to go with something that is generally felt to be 'consistently reliable'

Re: RFC: Capability addition for IEEE 1588

2007-10-04 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 02:47:37PM +0800, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: 0n Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 10:52:43AM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: I am adding support into the em driver for PTP PTP ? Found http://ptpd.sourceforge.net/. Sorry for the noise. -aW IMPORTANT

Re: RFC: Capability addition for IEEE 1588

2007-10-04 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 10:52:43AM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: I am adding support into the em driver for PTP PTP ? -aW IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of the Australian Defence Organisation and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the CRIMES ACT 1914. If you

Re: LAGG handbook entry

2007-08-19 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 02:48:32PM +1200, Andrew Thompson wrote: I have been putting together a chapter on 'Link Aggregation and Failover', any feedback/corrections/additions would be appreciated. http://nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/nzfug/HandbookUpdates/NetworkAggregation Awesome.

Re: freebsd6 utilities and proxy

2007-07-18 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 11:01:11PM -0400, Dave wrote: I've got a FreeBSD 6.2 machine now behind a squid nontransparent authenticating proxy. The proxy use to be transparent and didn't require authentication, those requirements now changed, so it now utilizes a dedicated ip

Re: netstat patch..

2007-06-05 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 01:56:10PM -0400, Randall Stewart wrote: Weongyo Jeong sent me a nice netstat patch that allows netstat access to SCTP stuff :-D And for those that don't know much about SCTP, the benefit is ? -aW IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of the

Re: New driver coming soon.

2007-06-03 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Thu, May 31, 2007 at 03:19:44PM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: FreeBSD customer base has been miniscule so not much has been done to the code, maybe someday in my spare time :) miniscule ? That's scary to hear :( -aW IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of the Australian

Re: driver packet coalesce

2007-05-31 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Wed, May 30, 2007 at 04:45:05PM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: Does any driver do this now? And if a driver were to coalesce packets and send something up the stack that violates mss will it barf? erm, what is meant by coalesce ? -aW IMPORTANT: This email remains the property

Re: two public ip addresses on one interface

2007-05-28 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Mon, May 28, 2007 at 11:43:21AM +0400, Eygene Ryabinkin wrote: Alex, good day. Sun, May 27, 2007 at 07:07:41PM +0800, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: If your aliases are part of the same subnet as the primary or first configured IP, then you want to use the all-1

Re: two public ip addresses on one interface

2007-05-27 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Fri, May 25, 2007 at 01:17:39PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: If your aliases are part of the same subnet as the primary or first configured IP, then you want to use the all-1's netmask. In your case, however, the second IP is part of a completely different subnet, and

Re: asymetric speeds over gigE link

2007-05-21 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Mon, May 21, 2007 at 07:39:06PM +0100, Tom Judge wrote: I have also seen 700Mb/s sustained FreeBSD - FreeBSD using the openssh HPN patch set and no extra tuning of the network stack. Which makes me think that maybe the linux stack needs some tuning? What is the HPN patch

Re: Unix friendly network testbench for FreeBSD?

2007-05-02 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Wed, May 02, 2007 at 09:48:52AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a network testbench / simulator to stimulate known networking conditions to test out a component for a product at work. I was wondering if there was a network simulator

Re: Firewall

2007-04-30 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 10:58:18AM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: One of the big selling points of IPFW is integration with DUMMYNET, which offers bandwidth management facilities not present in the other systems. I understand there may be efforts afoot to add DUMMYNET support to

Re: Firewall

2007-04-30 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Tue, May 01, 2007 at 11:31:58AM +0800, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: 0n Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 10:58:18AM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: One of the big selling points of IPFW is integration with DUMMYNET, which offers bandwidth management facilities not present

Network Emulation Software [recomendations please ?]

2005-01-20 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
Hi all, I would like to find some network simulation software that is similar but better than NIST Net [http://www-x.antd.nist.gov/nistnet/]. Can anyone recommend any network simulation software that is a general-purpose tool for emulating performance dynamics in IP networks. Cheers - aW

Re: Re: Network Emulation Software [recomendations pl ease ?]

2005-01-20 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 11:23:29AM +1030, Brooks Davis wrote: On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 11:14:48AM +1030, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: Hi all, I would like to find some network simulation software that is similar but better than NIST Net [http://www-x.antd.nist.gov

Re: TCP out-of-order packets.

2005-01-13 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 03:34:03PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: DeltaT SEQ-SRTR:SEQ_ENDpacket# -- 346853 2856:2920(64)1 370821 2920:4368(1448) 2 004410 8712:10160(1448) 6 007848

Re: vlan double tagging

2004-12-19 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 03:16:27AM -0500, James wrote: On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 03:03:49PM -0800, Mike Hunter wrote: On Dec 17, Brooks Davis wrote: On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 01:22:02PM +0200, Donatas wrote: hello, i'd like to ask if there's

Re: Dingo and PerForce

2004-12-19 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 02:50:09PM +0100, Andre Oppermann wrote: now a dingo branch, named dingo. The dingo branch contains all of src, not just sys, as I suspect there are userland bits we'll want to do. I know I'll be doing userland things.

Re: per-interface packet filters

2004-12-13 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 09:47:00PM +0300, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: Andre, I know your dislikes about Cisco, and I share it too. Idea of maintaining separate filter lists for each interface is handy, no matter that it is like in Cisco. Before writing this mail I have a lot of

Re: Initial review request for IPv6 Fast Forwarding and IP6STEALTH

2004-12-06 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 05:52:30PM +0100, Andre Oppermann wrote: Nice, needs some cleanup though. Once you have cleaned it up you can run it either through me or [EMAIL PROTECTED] He is more of a IPv6 fan than I am (in my book IPv6 is broken by design^TM). Why ? - aW

Re: polling(4) rocks!

2004-11-17 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
Why can some NIC use polling and others not ? eg I went to turn on polling on my BCM5782 Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Card. And bge(4) doesn't mention anything about polling. Is it a hardware feature of the NIC ? - aW 0n Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 09:13:51PM +0300, Yar Tikhiy