Re: : 6.x, 4.x ipfw/dummynet pf/altq - network performance issues

2007-02-17 Thread Justin Robertson
Sack was never enabled, the packets in the flood had sack set. rtmaxcache was default, what made you think I had changed it? I was not running SMP, as I explained. More over suggestions to do ether.ipfw result in terrible performance, etc. A 4.11 bridge and 4.11 router in series move all

Re: 6.x, 4.x ipfw/dummynet pf/altq - network performance issues

2007-02-15 Thread Justin Robertson
Freddie Cash wrote: On Thursday 15 February 2007 01:29 pm, Justin Robertson wrote: Send a flood of 60 byte syn packets with the tcp sack option thru it and check out what happens. It's pretty weird and I can't explain why. If you block the packets on the box via ipfw it's fin

Re: 6.x, 4.x ipfw/dummynet pf/altq - network performance issues

2007-02-15 Thread Justin Robertson
indow, it seems. There's 100% packet loss on all protocols. I'm not using NAT, there are real IPs in different C classes on the other side of the box. Freddie Cash wrote: On Thursday 15 February 2007 11:43 am, Justin Robertson wrote: Playing with these sysctl values made 0 difference -

Re: 6.x, 4.x ipfw/dummynet pf/altq - network performance issues

2007-02-15 Thread Justin Robertson
l be using 4.11 for a while. ;P Justin Robertson wrote: Clockrate is based off of my device_polling setup, which is configured to 4000. burst_max has a hard limit, can't go higher than it already is at 1000 Could I get an explanation as to what the queue and isr sysctl values are act

Re: 6.x, 4.x ipfw/dummynet pf/altq - network performance issues

2007-02-13 Thread Justin Robertson
x increase for high rate of small packets on GE Alessandro Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 01:37:00 -0800 From: Justin Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: 6.x, 4.x ipfw/dummynet pf/altq - network performance issues To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECT

6.x, 4.x ipfw/dummynet pf/altq - network performance issues

2007-02-07 Thread Justin Robertson
It was suggested I post this to freebsd-performance, it's already in questions, isp, and net. I've been running some tests with using FreeBSD to filter and rate limit traffic. My first thoughts were to goto the latest stable release, which was 6.1 at the time. I've since done the same test un