Re: [RFD] iptables: mangle table obsoletes filter table

2007-10-20 Thread Al Boldi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 06:40:02 +0300, Al Boldi said: Sure, the idea was to mark the filter table obsolete as to make people start using the mangle table to do their filtering for new setups. The filter table would then still be available for legacy/special setups

Re: [RFD] iptables: mangle table obsoletes filter table

2007-10-19 Thread Al Boldi
Bill Davidsen wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: If not, then shouldn't the filter table be obsoleted to avoid confusion? That would probably confuse people. Just don't use it if you don't need to. That is a most practical suggestion. The problem is that people think they are safe with

Re: [2.6.20.21 review 12/35] TCP: Fix TCP handling of SACK in

2007-10-14 Thread Al Boldi
Ilpo Järvinen wrote: Willy Tarreau wrote: I agree with this. The impression I got from the description of the two patches I merged was that the problems they fix were quite annoying. But maybe I should take that with a grain of salt. No, it's not a grain of salt. I would say its utterly

Re: [RFD] iptables: mangle table obsoletes filter table

2007-10-12 Thread Al Boldi
Patrick McHardy wrote: Al Boldi wrote: Patrick McHardy wrote: Please send mails discussing netfilter to netfilter-devel. Ok. I just found out this changed to vger. But [EMAIL PROTECTED] is bouncing me. Seems to work, I got your mail on netfilter-devel. Looks like it works sometimes

Re: [RFD] iptables: mangle table obsoletes filter table

2007-10-12 Thread Al Boldi
Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Oct 12 2007 00:31, Al Boldi wrote: With the existence of the mangle table, how useful is the filter table? A similar discussion was back in March 2007. http://marc.info/?l=netfilter-develm=117394977210823w=2 http://marc.info/?l=netfilter-develm=117400063907706w=2

Re: [RFD] iptables: mangle table obsoletes filter table

2007-10-12 Thread Al Boldi
Patrick McHardy wrote: Al Boldi wrote: The problem is that people think they are safe with the filter table, when in fact they need the prerouting chain to seal things. Right now this is only possible in the mangle table. Why do they need PREROUTING? Well, for example to stop any

Re: [RFD] iptables: mangle table obsoletes filter table

2007-10-12 Thread Al Boldi
Patrick McHardy wrote: Al Boldi wrote: But can you see how forcing people into splitting their rules across tables adds complexity. And without ipt_REJECT patch, they can't even use REJECT in prerouting, which forces them to do some strange hacks. IMHO, we should make things

Re: [RFD] iptables: mangle table obsoletes filter table

2007-10-12 Thread Al Boldi
Patrick McHardy wrote: Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Oct 12 2007 16:30, Al Boldi wrote: With the existence of the mangle table, how useful is the filter table? A similar discussion was back in March 2007. http://marc.info/?l=netfilter-develm=117394977210823w=2 http://marc.info/?l=netfilter

[RFD] iptables: mangle table obsoletes filter table

2007-10-11 Thread Al Boldi
With the existence of the mangle table, how useful is the filter table? Other than requiring the REJECT target to be ported to the mangle table, is the filter table faster than the mangle table? If not, then shouldn't the filter table be obsoleted to avoid confusion? Thanks! -- Al - To

Re: [RFD] iptables: mangle table obsoletes filter table

2007-10-11 Thread Al Boldi
Patrick McHardy wrote: Please send mails discussing netfilter to netfilter-devel. Ok. I just found out this changed to vger. But [EMAIL PROTECTED] is bouncing me. Al Boldi wrote: With the existence of the mangle table, how useful is the filter table? Other than requiring the REJECT

Re: Distributed storage. Move away from char device ioctls.

2007-09-14 Thread Al Boldi
Jeff Garzik wrote: Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: Hi. I'm pleased to announce fourth release of the distributed storage subsystem, which allows to form a storage on top of remote and local nodes, which in turn can be exported to another storage as a node to form tree-like storages. This

[RFD] Layering: Use-Case Composers (was: DRBD - what is it, anyways? [compare with e.g. NBD + MD raid])

2007-08-12 Thread Al Boldi
Lars Ellenberg wrote: meanwhile, please, anyone interessted, the drbd paper for LinuxConf Eu 2007 is finalized. http://www.drbd.org/fileadmin/drbd/publications/ drbd8.linux-conf.eu.2007.pdf it does not give too much implementation detail (would be inapropriate for conference proceedings,

Re: [RFD] Layering: Use-Case Composers (was: DRBD - what is it, anyways? [compare with e.g. NBD + MD raid])

2007-08-12 Thread Al Boldi
Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: Al Boldi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Look at ZFS; it illegally violates layering by combining md/dm/lvm with the fs, but it does this based on a realistic understanding of the problems involved, which enables it to improve performance, flexibility, and functionality

Re: 2.6.20-2.6.21 - networking dies after random time

2007-08-06 Thread Al Boldi
Jean-Baptiste Vignaud wrote: Mmm, bad news, after 4 hours of intensive network stressing, one of the 2 3com card failed with the latest fedora kernel. Aug 6 22:31:09 loki kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth2: transmit timed out Aug 6 22:31:09 loki kernel: eth2: transmit timed out, tx_status 00

[PATCH][v2] Netfilter Kconfig: Expose IPv4/6 connection tracking options by selecting NF_CONNTRACK_ENABLED

2007-07-25 Thread Al Boldi
Make NF_CONNTRACK_IPV4 and NF_CONNTRACK_IPV6 select NF_CONNTRACK_ENABLED. This exposes IPv4/6 connection tracking options for easier Kconfig setup. Signed-off-by: Al Boldi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Patrick McHardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Sam Ravnborg [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH][v2] Netfilter Kconfig: Expose IPv4/6 connection tracking options by selecting NF_CONNTRACK_ENABLED

2007-07-25 Thread Al Boldi
Patrick McHardy wrote: Al Boldi wrote: Make NF_CONNTRACK_IPV4 and NF_CONNTRACK_IPV6 select NF_CONNTRACK_ENABLED. One thought that occured to me after the last of many false bugreports that were actually caused by failure to configure the new options properly. Most people know they want

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

2007-07-24 Thread Al Boldi
Patrick McHardy wrote: Sam Ravnborg wrote: On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 08:36:33AM +0300, Al Boldi wrote: Replaces NF_CONNTRACK_ENABLED with NF_CONNTRACK and selects it for NF_CONNTRACK_IPV4 and NF_CONNTRACK_IPV6 This exposes IPv4/6 connection tracking options for easier Kconfig setup

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

2007-07-24 Thread Al Boldi
Patrick McHardy wrote: Al Boldi wrote: Patrick McHardy wrote: But I vaguely recall having tried this myself and it broke somewhere, maybe it was because of the NF_CONNTRACK_ENABLED option, I can't recall anymore. Al, if this also works without removal of NF_CONNTRACK_ENABLED, please resend

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

2007-07-24 Thread Al Boldi
Patrick McHardy wrote: Al Boldi wrote: Also, we could leave this as is, and select NF_CONNTRACK_ENABLED instead of NF_CONNTRACK. I guess so, and that would have to select NF_CONNTRACK. Should I resend, or can you take care of it? Thanks! -- Al - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: ZONE_NORMAL memory exhausted by 4000 TCP sockets

2006-11-07 Thread Al Boldi
Zhao Xiaoming wrote: The latest update: It seems that Linux kernel memory management mechanisms including buddy and slab algorisms are not very efficient under my test conditions that tcp stack requires a lot of (hundreds of MB) packet buffers and release them very frequently. Here

[BUG] tulip: promisc mode not restored after suspend

2006-09-07 Thread Al Boldi
The tulip driver is really great, but after suspending the device, the driver does not restore the promisc bit when resuming from S1/S3/S4. To work around this, an ifconfig eth0 up, on the already up device, restores it. Is there an easy way to fix this? Thanks! -- Al - To unsubscribe from

Re: [PATCH 2.6.15-git9a] aoe [1/1]: do not stop retransmit timer when device goes down

2006-01-27 Thread Al Boldi
Ed L. Cashin wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 01:04:37AM +0300, Al Boldi wrote: Ed L. Cashin wrote: This patch is a bugfix that follows and depends on the eight aoe driver patches sent January 19th. Will they also fix this? Or is this an md bug? No, this patch fixes a bug that would

Re: [PATCH 2.6.15-git9a] aoe [1/1]: do not stop retransmit timer when device goes down

2006-01-25 Thread Al Boldi
Ed L. Cashin wrote: This patch is a bugfix that follows and depends on the eight aoe driver patches sent January 19th. Will they also fix this? Or is this an md bug? It only happens with aoe. Also, why is aoe slower than nbd? md: bindetherd/e0.0 [ cut here ] kernel BUG

Re: [RFC] ip / ifconfig redesign

2005-12-14 Thread Al Boldi
Bernd Eckenfels wrote: Al Boldi wrote: The current ip / ifconfig configuration is arcane and inflexible. The reason being, that they are based on design principles inherited from the last century. Yes I agree, however note that some of the asumptions are backed up and required by RFCs

Re: [RFC] ip / ifconfig redesign

2005-12-05 Thread Al Boldi
John W. Linville wrote: Al Boldi wrote: Here specifically, ip/ifconfig is implemented upside-down requiring a link/dev to exist for an address to be defined, in effect containing layer 3 inside layer 2, when an address should be allowed to be defined w/o a link/dev much like an app

Re: [RFC] ip / ifconfig redesign

2005-12-03 Thread Al Boldi
Ben Greear wrote: Al Boldi wrote: Here specifically, ip/ifconfig is implemented upside-down requiring a link/dev to exist for an address to be defined, in effect containing layer 3 inside layer 2, when an address should be allowed to be defined w/o a link/dev much like an app is allowed

[RFC] ip / ifconfig redesign

2005-12-02 Thread Al Boldi
The current ip / ifconfig configuration is arcane and inflexible. The reason being, that they are based on design principles inherited from the last century. In a GNU/OpenSource environment, OpenMinds should not inhibit themselves achieving new design-goals to enable a flexible non-redundant