I am using the em driver included with OpenBSD 3.8. I will be
replacing the system with OpenBSD 4.0 shortly. Good link. I'll
investigate furhter after I recover from the 2600 meetying I am at
right now. :o)
Thanks !
Mike
Quoting Joshua Penix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Nov 3, 2006, at 2:49 PM, Michael J McCafferty wrote:
OK, I have a firewall that gets hammered with interrupts when under
DoS attacks. The system is a Celeron 2.8GHz socket 775, Intel 865
chipset, Intel dual-port Gig server card. At no time does the
system suffer any load at all from disk IO, or CPU system time or
user time.
What driver are you running for that Intel card? It might be able to
offload some of that work if you're using the correct driver. I know
this is the case under Linux, and Intel does provide BSD drivers as
well:
http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/File_Filter.aspx?Filename=em-
Worth a shot.
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