Strange OpenBGPD Problem after MAC address change

2007-10-19 Thread Christian Plattner
Hi, I have a non-urgent problem with OpenBPGD and would like to know if anybody has a suggestion on what went wrong/I did wrong. Situation: I replaced an openbgpd based router (R1) with new hardware. Of course, the mac addresses of the interfaces changed. After the swap the BGP session with anot

Re: vic(4) on ESX 3.0.2

2007-10-15 Thread Christian Plattner
Sometimes it is very annoying that your settings in the .vmx won't be respected / changed back by the VI client. A very slow, but bullet-proof method is the following: 1.) Connect directly with the VI client to the ESX (I do not have virtual center) 2.) Stop the VM and remove it from the inven

Re: OpenBSD on ESX - Networking experiences

2007-10-14 Thread Christian Plattner
Just for the record: I upgraded to ESX 3.0.2 and... 1.) So far, I did not observe any stalls on the emulated e1000 (em) interfaces. Currently I am playing with the vmxnet driver as well. 2.) VGT mode seems to work correct, very short ethernet frames (i.e., ICMP ping packets produced by windows

Re: vr driver trouble on Soekris 5501

2007-10-12 Thread Christian Plattner
>For what it's worth, I experienced the same problem caused by >attaching and detaching a (short) crossover cable multiple times >on a vr interface in The cable used in the situation when things went wrong was also short, < 1m. >soekris net5501 running 4.1-stable. As it was on a production >fire

Re: vr driver trouble on Soekris 5501

2007-10-12 Thread Christian Plattner
Are these interfaces configured in "autoselect" mode? What happens when you configure them in fixed mode, e.g. 100Mb/full duplex? Sounds like a good idea. In the future, I will configure them in fixed mode, it won't hurt. Even though it may have something to do with the autoselect mode, the who

Re: vr driver trouble on Soekris 5501

2007-10-12 Thread Christian Plattner
Not sure if related, but something similar has been fixed in 4.2-current already. This was also the first thing that came into my mind, however, I don't think it is related. VR_STICKHW is only written erroneously during attach, and since my machine runs now for several weeks without any problem,

Re: OpenBSD on ESX - Networking experiences

2007-10-02 Thread Christian Plattner
> I've personally not had any issues with the vlance driver. Have two > 4.1 guests on ESX3.0.1, been running since around July without issues > well, ... > considering I haven't had any issues to date. I will admit they don't > get a lot of heavy use. In my case the pattern produced by executin

OpenBSD on ESX - Networking experiences

2007-10-02 Thread Christian Plattner
Dear all, I am seeking for people that run OpenBSD 4.1 on ESX servers and want to share their experiences =) To make sure that I won't provoke replies like 'idiot, virtualization subverts the safety of OpenBSD' I hereby declare that I do not want to use this for productive systems (...not).

Re: OpenOSPFd and kernel routing table (new variant)

2007-06-01 Thread Christian Plattner
I applied the diff manually to -stable (watch out for path_updateall/prefix_updateall), and now it works perfectly. Thanks, Claudio! And here is a preliminary diff for all the curious ones. bgpd needs to track changes of routes with F_NEXTHOP checked and report them to the RDE. The RDE will the

OpenOSPFd and kernel routing table (new variant)

2007-05-30 Thread Christian Plattner
Hi, I am testing OpenBGPD and OpenOSPFD on a couple of Soekris boxes. Even though I am using the latest code (-stable with ospfd kroute.c revision 1.48), I am having problems with the kernel routing table when OSPFD has to react to changes in the topology. I verified the problem on a virtual setu