Re: 10/100/1000 Fast Ethernet CardBus for openbsd

[Iain R. Learmonth]

Hi,

On 15/05/2020 13:37, man Chan wrote:
> Is there anyone using a gigabps cardbus for your laptop ?  I am trying to 
> setup a router/VPN router using my old thinkpad under openbsd 6.6.   I found 
> D-Link DGE-660TD 10/100/1000 Gigabit Cardbus Adapter in the internet.  Is it 
> supported by openbsd ?

This should be supported by the re(4) driver. https://man.openbsd.org/re.4

A trick is to google for "site:man.openbsd.org DGE-660TD" and see what
man pages come up as containing the model number you're looking for.

Thanks,

Iain.

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Re: using aggr interface instead of trunk

[Iain R. Learmonth]

Hi,

On 13/05/2020 13:10, mabi wrote:

> I am currently running OpenBSD 6.5 as firewall with two ix interfaces inside 
> a trunk interface with LACP protocol. On top of that I have a few vlan 
> interfaces so it's basically (ix -> trunk -> vlan).
>
> Now I saw that OpenBSD has a new interface specifically for LACP which is 
> called aggr. As I will soon be upgrading to OpenBSD 6.6 I was wondering if it 
> is the right time to switch from trunk to the new aggr interface?

More details are at: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs=156229058006706=2

> From what I understand the new aggr interface has mainly 2 advantages: it is 
> multi-processor safe and it should be faster than the tun interface. Is this 
> correct?

Assuming you mean trunk, not tun, yes.

> And last point because aggr is pretty new, is it already safe to use it for a 
> production firewall?

I don't see mention of any aggr fixes in the 6.7 changelog, so I guess it 
didn't have any disasters in it. Others are using it on production systems.

Thanks,
Iain.

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