Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-03-01 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2012-02-28 21:06, Alexander Lesle wrote: Hello Robin Axelsson, please send the links to that blogs. Thx. On Januar, 27 2012, 13:51 wrote in [1]: Try "man ifconfig", "man ipmpstat", "man if_mpadm". Those should be reasonable starting points. Thanks, these man pages exists. I saw in the i

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-02-28 Thread Alexander Lesle
Hello Robin Axelsson, please send the links to that blogs. Thx. On Januar, 27 2012, 13:51 wrote in [1]: Try "man ifconfig", "man ipmpstat", "man if_mpadm". Those should be reasonable starting points. >>> Thanks, these man pages exists. I saw in the ifconfig that there is some >>> inf

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-27 Thread James Carlson
Robin Axelsson wrote: > On 2012-01-27 16:45, James Carlson wrote: >> Robin Axelsson wrote: >>> On 2012-01-27 15:32, James Carlson wrote: What NWAM is supposed to do is configure only one usable interface (guided by user selection criteria) for the system. The fact that you got multi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-27 Thread Gary
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:03 AM, James Carlson wrote: >> I'll see if there is something more up-to-date. There are no man entries >> for 'ipmp' in OI and 'apropos' doesn't work for me. > > Try "man ifconfig", "man ipmpstat", "man if_mpadm".  Those should be > reasonable starting points. The man

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-27 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2012-01-27 16:45, James Carlson wrote: Robin Axelsson wrote: On 2012-01-27 15:32, James Carlson wrote: What NWAM is supposed to do is configure only one usable interface (guided by user selection criteria) for the system. The fact that you got multiple interfaces configured is indeed an ano

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-27 Thread James Carlson
Robin Axelsson wrote: > On 2012-01-27 15:32, James Carlson wrote: >> What NWAM is supposed to do is configure only one usable interface >> (guided by user selection criteria) for the system. The fact that you >> got multiple interfaces configured is indeed an anomaly, and one I can't >> explain.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-27 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2012-01-27 15:32, James Carlson wrote: On 01/27/12 08:28, Robin Axelsson wrote: One way to make the system user-friendly is to make nwam automatically configure IPMP when it detects two properly working ethernet connections within the same subnet. My recollection is that automatic configurat

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-27 Thread James Carlson
On 01/27/12 08:28, Robin Axelsson wrote: > One way to make the system user-friendly is to make nwam automatically > configure IPMP when it detects two properly working ethernet connections > within the same subnet. My recollection is that automatic configuration of IPMP was on the list of things t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-27 Thread James Carlson
On 01/27/12 08:37, Robin Axelsson wrote: > If VirtualBox and OpenIndiana did what they promised without hickups I > wouldn't even need two network interfaces to ensure the operation of the > system. But when bugs occur we try to get around them until they are > fixed, and that requires at least som

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-27 Thread Open Indiana
a zone on the global zone before the zone can use it. Ooops, sorry -Original Message- From: Robin Axelsson [mailto:gu99r...@student.chalmers.se] Sent: vrijdag 27 januari 2012 14:38 To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues On 2012-0

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-27 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2012-01-26 14:05, James Carlson wrote: Open Indiana wrote: Please skip the whole ifconfig and plumb this or that discussion. Virtualbox works on any interface that is "plumbed" since only then the interface is visible in the menu. Oh, yuck. It should be using the libdlpi interfaces (see dl

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-27 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2012-01-26 09:32, Open Indiana wrote: Please skip the whole ifconfig and plumb this or that discussion. Virtualbox works on any interface that is "plumbed" since only then the interface is visible in the menu. A working IP-adress is not necessary. Please put your interfaces on manual IP-assig

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-27 Thread James Carlson
On 01/27/12 07:51, Robin Axelsson wrote: > On 2012-01-25 21:50, James Carlson wrote: >> By default, the first IP layer object created on a given datalink layer >> object has the same name as that datalink layer object -- even though >> they're distinct ideas. The second and subsequent such objects

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-27 Thread Al Slater
On 26/01/2012 08:32, Open Indiana wrote: Please skip the whole ifconfig and plumb this or that discussion. Virtualbox works on any interface that is "plumbed" since only then the interface is visible in the menu. That is untrue. All interfaces are visible in VB regardless of whether they are

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-27 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2012-01-25 21:50, James Carlson wrote: Robin Axelsson wrote: I'm confused. If VirtualBox is just going to talk to the physical interface itself, why is plumbing IP necessary at all? It shouldn't be needed. Maybe I'm the one being confused here. I just believed that the IP must be visible t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-26 Thread James Carlson
Open Indiana wrote: > Please skip the whole ifconfig and plumb this or that discussion. > > Virtualbox works on any interface that is "plumbed" since only then the > interface is visible in the menu. Oh, yuck. It should be using the libdlpi interfaces (see dlpi_walk(3DLPI)), at least on OpenIndi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-26 Thread Open Indiana
Please skip the whole ifconfig and plumb this or that discussion. Virtualbox works on any interface that is "plumbed" since only then the interface is visible in the menu. A working IP-adress is not necessary. Please put your interfaces on manual IP-assignment and disable nwam. Give an IP-address

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-25 Thread James Carlson
Robin Axelsson wrote: >> I'm confused. If VirtualBox is just going to talk to the physical >> interface itself, why is plumbing IP necessary at all? It shouldn't be >> needed. > > Maybe I'm the one being confused here. I just believed that the IP must > be visible to the host for VirtualBox to b

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-25 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2012-01-25 19:03, James Carlson wrote: Robin Axelsson wrote: On 2012-01-24 21:59, James Carlson wrote: Well, unless you get into playing tricks with IP Filter. And if you do that, then you're in a much deeper world of hurt, at least in terms of performance. Here's what the virtualbox manul

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-25 Thread James Carlson
Robin Axelsson wrote: > On 2012-01-24 21:59, James Carlson wrote: >> Well, unless you get into playing tricks with IP Filter. And if you do >> that, then you're in a much deeper world of hurt, at least in terms of >> performance. > Here's what the virtualbox manul says about bridged networking: >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-25 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2012-01-24 21:59, James Carlson wrote: Robin Axelsson wrote: If you have two interfaces inside the same zone that have the same IP prefix, then you have to have IPMP configured, or all bets are off. Maybe it'll work. But probably not. And was never been supported that way by Sun. The idea

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-24 Thread James Carlson
Robin Axelsson wrote: >> If you have two interfaces inside the same zone that have the same IP >> prefix, then you have to have IPMP configured, or all bets are off. >> Maybe it'll work. But probably not. And was never been supported that >> way by Sun. > The idea I have with using two NICs is to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-24 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2012-01-24 19:14, James Carlson wrote: Robin Axelsson wrote: On 2012-01-24 16:52, Gary Mills wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 04:39:42PM +0100, Robin Axelsson wrote: ifconfig -a returns: ... e1000g1: flags=1004843mtu 1500 index 2 inet 10.40.137.185 netmask ff00 broadcast 10.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-24 Thread James Carlson
Robin Axelsson wrote: > On 2012-01-24 16:52, Gary Mills wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 04:39:42PM +0100, Robin Axelsson wrote: > ifconfig -a returns: > ... > e1000g1: flags=1004843 mtu > 1500 index 2 > inet 10.40.137.185 netmask ff00 broadcast 10.40.137.255 >>>

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-24 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2012-01-24 16:52, Gary Mills wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 04:39:42PM +0100, Robin Axelsson wrote: ifconfig -a returns: ... e1000g1: flags=1004843 mtu 1500 index 2 inet 10.40.137.185 netmask ff00 broadcast 10.40.137.255 e1000g2: flags=1004843 mtu 1500 index 3 inet 1

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-24 Thread James Carlson
Robin Axelsson wrote: > I looked into the /var/adm/messages and found the > > nwamd[99]: [ID 234669 daemon.error] 3: nwamd_door_switch: need > solaris.network.autoconf.read for request type 1 > > errors during the time. I'll look more carefully next time and see if > the time-stamps of these entr

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-24 Thread Gary Mills
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 04:39:42PM +0100, Robin Axelsson wrote: > >>ifconfig -a returns: > >>... > >>e1000g1: flags=1004843 mtu > >>1500 index 2 > >> inet 10.40.137.185 netmask ff00 broadcast 10.40.137.255 > >>e1000g2: flags=1004843 mtu > >>1500 index 3 > >> inet 10.40.137.196

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-24 Thread Robin Axelsson
ed while running ZFS on Ubuntu, and I'm pretty new to OI. On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 16:17, Open Indiana wrote: What happens if you disable nwam and use the basic/manual ifconfig setup? -Original Message- From: Robin Axelsson [mailto:gu99r...@student.chalmers.se] Sent: maandag 23

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-23 Thread Robbie Crash
ana-discuss@openindiana.org > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues > > No, I'm not doing anything in particular in the virtual machine. The media > file is played on another computer in the (physical) network over CIFS. > Over > the network I also access the serve

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-23 Thread Open Indiana
What happens if you disable nwam and use the basic/manual ifconfig setup? -Original Message- From: Robin Axelsson [mailto:gu99r...@student.chalmers.se] Sent: maandag 23 januari 2012 15:10 To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-23 Thread Robin Axelsson
NIC<->montherboard side or at the montherboard<-> harddiskcontroller side. Do your extra NIC's and the LSI share the same PCI-x settings? Do they both support all settings? B, Roelof -Original Message- From: Robin Axelsson [mailto:gu99r...@student.chalmers.se] Sent:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-23 Thread Open Indiana
you using? -Original Message- From: Robin Axelsson [mailto:gu99r...@student.chalmers.se] Sent: zondag 22 januari 2012 23:38 To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues I don't understand what you mean with PCI-x settings and whe

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-22 Thread Robin Axelsson
the same PCI-x settings? Do they both support all settings? B, Roelof -Original Message- From: Robin Axelsson [mailto:gu99r...@student.chalmers.se] Sent: zondag 22 januari 2012 19:38 To: OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues In the past,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-22 Thread Open Indiana
ari 2012 19:38 To: OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues In the past, I used OpenSolaris b134 which I then updated to OpenIndiana b148 and never did I experience performance issues related to the network connection (and that was when using two of the &qu

[OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-22 Thread Robin Axelsson
In the past, I used OpenSolaris b134 which I then updated to OpenIndiana b148 and never did I experience performance issues related to the network connection (and that was when using two of the "infamous" RTL8111DL OnBoard ports). Now that I have swapped the motherboard and the hard drive and l