Re: [ANNOUNCE] ESFQ -- SFQ patches for Linux 2.6.24

2008-02-09 Thread David Miller
From: Brock Noland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 20:30:58 -0600 Is this going to be merged anytime soon? If it gets submitted to the proper mailing list, it might. 'linux-net' is for user questions, it is not where the networking developers hang out, 'netdev' is. And you have to post

Re: [PATCH] IPV4: fix compile error building without CONFIG_FS_PROC

2008-02-05 Thread David Miller
From: Li Zefan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:16:24 +0800 compile error building without CONFIG_FS_PROC: net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c: In function 'fib_net_init': net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c:1032: error: implicit declaration of function 'fib_proc_ init' net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c: In

Re: [NET/IPv6] Race condition with flow_cache_genid?

2008-02-05 Thread David Miller
You'll get a better set of eyes on this if you post it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is where the networking developers hang out. linux-net is for user questions. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-net in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: memory leakage in bridge(kernel-2.6.23.14)

2008-01-16 Thread David Miller
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:04:53 +0800 In SMP, if a bridge fdb is being created when another CPU at the same time delete the bridge, this newly created fdb may incur a leakage: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (CC:'d) is the proper place to report things like this. 'linux-net' is only

Re: Multiple unicast MACs on the same interface

2007-12-21 Thread David Miller
From: Jeff Haran [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:16:08 -0800 I don't know of NICs that would support this. Many NICs support multiple unicast MAC addresses, we even have driver APIs for this in the Linux kernel. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-net in

Re: zero-copy udp

2007-12-03 Thread David Miller
From: Stephen Hemminger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:08:09 -0800 Yes, doing UDP in user space is trivial. Only if you also filter out the ICMP port unreachable's the kernel is going to generate. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-net in the body of a

Re: Difference between BSD sockets and Linux sockets

2007-11-06 Thread David Miller
From: Mateus Interciso [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 08:58:41 -0200 The main reason I'm reading this book is that my final paper on university is about the AntNet algorithm for routing, and I would VERY like to implement it This is not a mailing list where you get help writing your

Re: [BUG] in inet6_create

2007-11-02 Thread David Miller
From: Roel Kluin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:31:28 +0100 I got this bug recently, I am not sure whether this is related to any previously reported ones. It was on a 2.6.24 or 2.6.24-rc1 git-pulled kernel. The network developers do no listen on this mailing list. Please report

Re: Non-linear SKBs

2007-10-11 Thread David Miller
From: Kristian Evensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:54:37 +0200 I have developed a small patch for the TCP code in 2.6.19 and it works flawlessly. A couple of days ago I decided to make it compatible with 2.6.22.5 and have stumbled upon a problem I cannot solve. In 2.6.19

Re: UDP error handling inconsistencies

2007-09-16 Thread David Miller
From: Gabriel Paubert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:39:01 +0200 On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 11:12:06AM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: A patch to restore pre-2.3.41 behaviour for IPv4 follows (and the logic becomes much clearer IMO, not only because it avoids a goto), but I'm

Re: [PATCH 0/2][RFC] Update network drivers to use devres

2007-07-24 Thread David Miller
linux-net is for user questions and issues, developer discussion and patches belong on netdev, thank you - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-net in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: [PATCH] Netfilter Kconfig: Expose IPv4/6 connection tracking options by selecting NF_CONNTRACK

2007-07-23 Thread David Miller
Any reason you're not sending this to the netfilter developer list mentioned in MAINTAINERS, or it's chief maintainer Patrick McHardy? NETFILTER/IPTABLES/IPCHAINS P: Rusty Russell P: Marc Boucher P: James Morris P: Harald Welte P: Jozsef Kadlecsik P: Patrick McHardy

Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm2: Assigning IP address fails

2007-06-07 Thread David Miller
From: Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 08:54:52 +1000 On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 03:06:53PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: I'm not able to bring an ethernet interface down and back up again with this if avahi-autoipd is installed on my Ubuntu boxes. I've seen it on

Re: device refcnt leak

2007-06-04 Thread David Miller
From: Kiran Kumar Kella [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 11:41:22 +0530 I am using linux version 2.6.14 Appreciate your help on this problem. Don't run such ancient kernels. There were at least a dozen or more device refcount leaks fixed since 2.6.14, any one of which could have

Re: ETHTOOL_GSET IOCTL on GigE links

2007-06-01 Thread David Miller
From: Jeff Haran [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 15:51:18 -0700 OK, but my question remains. In the case where a device supports one set of speeds via autonegotiation and another set via forcing, how does one tell which speeds can be forced and which can be autonegotiated?

Re: [PATCH] tbf scheduler: TSO support

2007-05-10 Thread David Miller
From: Patrick McHardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 14:56:39 +0200 Hirokazu Takahashi wrote: TBF --- Simple Token Bucket Filter --- packet scheduler doesn't work correctly with TSO on that it slows down to send out packets. TSO packets will be discarded since the size can be

Re: UDP Broadcasts not delivered to IP address

2007-05-03 Thread David Miller
From: Detlef Vollmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 08:18:29 +0200 I'd like to bind to 192.168.2.0, i.e. to the ANY address of that subnet. BSD sockets never allowed binding to subnets. Look, just end this thread, I'm not adding this stupid functionality. You can bind to

Re: ARP cache pollution?

2007-04-02 Thread David Miller
You might have more luck on netdev@vger.kernel.org which is where the kernel networking developers actually subscribe. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-net in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: How to disable ping reply to our own IP address when the eth ifc is down ?

2007-03-29 Thread David Miller
From: Yanping Du [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:41:46 -0700 (PDT) We got complaints on this Linux behavior, since customers feel it confusing, and don't want to see ICMP replies for an eth ifc if it's down. We're not replying to the eth interface we're replying to the IP

Re: How to disable ping reply to our own IP address when the eth ifc is down ?

2007-03-29 Thread David Miller
From: Al Boldi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 07:49:48 +0300 David Miller wrote: From: Yanping Du [EMAIL PROTECTED] We got complaints on this Linux behavior, since customers feel it confusing, and don't want to see ICMP replies for an eth ifc if it's down. We're

Re: [BUG] 2.6.20 Oopses in xfrm_audit_log

2007-02-12 Thread David Miller
From: Joy Latten [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:44:30 -0600 This is similar to another bug reported last month. Here is the patch I sent out then. Please let me know how it goes. Regards, Joy Signed-off-by: Joy Latten [EMAIL PROTECTED] This one is my bad, I should have

Re: ESTABLISHED TCP connections missing from /proc/net/tcp

2007-01-06 Thread David Miller
From: Bill Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 22:26:48 -0500 That seems like a bug to me. I'm running a 2.6.15-rc5 kernel and my established TCP connections appear in /proc/net/tcp as expected. And I do have IPv6 enabled (as a module), although I am not actually using IPv6 for

Re: [resend] Problem with IP address deletion

2006-12-08 Thread David Miller
From: suzuki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 17:27:28 -0800 But, the patch hasn't gone in and I am still seeing the problem on 2.6.19 :(.. I have tested this patch on 2.6.19 and if fixes the issue there. The patch did go in, but it got reverted because I think it caused problems. I

Re: [PATCH] netpoll: make arp replies through netpoll use mac address of sender

2006-12-08 Thread David Miller
From: Neil Horman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 14:45:53 -0500 Back in 2.4 arp requests that were recevied by netpoll were processed in netconsole_receive_skb, where they were responded to using the src mac of the request sender. In the 2.6 kernel arp_reply is responsible for this

Re: Arp undo issue in all 2.4 and 2.6 kernel releases

2006-11-28 Thread David Miller
From: Tim Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:19:39 -0800 At the point where the system is responding, there should be no interfaces with the given IP address and ifconfig confirms this. The IP address is not associated with any interface and should not be associated with the

Re: UDP packets loss

2006-11-16 Thread David Miller
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 23:10:08 +0200 (IST) BTW, TCP will be significantly faster than UDP because with UDP you incur an extra full context switch on every packet. Could you elaborate on this a bit more? What kind of context switch? TCP queues and takes care of