Re: [ANNOUNCE] ESFQ --> SFQ patches for Linux 2.6.24

2008-02-09 Thread David Miller
From: "Brock Noland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 20:30:58 -0600 > Is this going to be merged anytime soon? If it gets submitted to the proper mailing list, it might. 'linux-net' is for user questions, it is not where the networking developers hang out, 'netdev' is. And you have to

Re: [NET/IPv6] Race condition with flow_cache_genid?

2008-02-05 Thread David Miller
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Re: [PATCH] IPV4: fix compile error building without CONFIG_FS_PROC

2008-02-05 Thread David Miller
From: Li Zefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:16:24 +0800 > compile error building without CONFIG_FS_PROC: > > net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c: In function 'fib_net_init': > net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c:1032: error: implicit declaration of function > 'fib_proc_ > init' > net/ipv4/fib_frontend.

Re: memory leakage in bridge(kernel-2.6.23.14)

2008-01-16 Thread David Miller
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:04:53 +0800 > In SMP, if a bridge fdb is being created when another CPU at the same time > delete the bridge, this newly created fdb may incur a leakage: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (CC:'d) is the proper place to report things like this. 'linux-net' is o

Re: IP header alignment

2008-01-15 Thread David Miller
From: "Vladimir Kondratiev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:32:12 +0200 > Thus, I believe, for IP stack it is wise to have IP header aligned by > drivers. I warn once, so it do not flood system log with messages. It is wise only on systems that need it, and most can (albeit expensiv

Re: Multiple unicast MACs on the same interface

2007-12-21 Thread David Miller
From: "Jeff Haran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:16:08 -0800 > I don't know of NICs that would support this. Many NICs support multiple unicast MAC addresses, we even have driver APIs for this in the Linux kernel. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-n

Re: reading the tcp headers within the write queue

2007-12-13 Thread David Miller
From: Gavin McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:56:26 + > I'm trying to hack together something which will run through the > retransmit queue looking at the tcp headers. The packets in the retransmit queue are headerless, the header only gets added to clones of the retrans

Re: zero-copy udp

2007-12-03 Thread David Miller
From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:08:09 -0800 > Yes, doing UDP in user space is trivial. Only if you also filter out the ICMP port unreachable's the kernel is going to generate. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body

Re: Difference between BSD sockets and Linux sockets

2007-11-06 Thread David Miller
From: "Mateus Interciso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 08:58:41 -0200 > The main reason I'm reading this book is that my final paper on > university is about the AntNet algorithm for routing, and I would VERY > like to implement it This is not a mailing list where you get help writing

Re: [BUG] in inet6_create

2007-11-02 Thread David Miller
From: Roel Kluin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:31:28 +0100 > I got this bug recently, I am not sure whether this is related to > any previously reported ones. It was on a 2.6.24 or 2.6.24-rc1 > git-pulled kernel. The network developers do no listen on this mailing list. Please re

Re: Non-linear SKBs

2007-10-11 Thread David Miller
From: Kristian Evensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:54:37 +0200 > I have developed a small patch for the TCP code in 2.6.19 and it works > flawlessly. A couple of days ago I decided to make it compatible with > 2.6.22.5 and have stumbled upon a problem I cannot solve. > > In 2.

Re: UDP error handling inconsistencies

2007-09-16 Thread David Miller
From: Gabriel Paubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:39:01 +0200 > On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 11:12:06AM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > > A patch to restore pre-2.3.41 behaviour for IPv4 follows (and the > > logic becomes much clearer IMO, not only because it avoids a goto), > > bu

Re: In search of 10gbps cards/shootout in Linux?

2007-09-14 Thread David Miller
From: Bill Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:02:50 -0400 > I haven't done any comparisons with other vendor offerings, but I can > highly recommend the Myricom PCI-Express (8x) 10-GigE NICs. They only > cost about $900 and can do full unidirectional 10-GigE line rate. And > as a

Re: [PATCH 0/2][RFC] Update network drivers to use devres

2007-07-24 Thread David Miller
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Re: [PATCH] Netfilter Kconfig: Expose IPv4/6 connection tracking options by selecting NF_CONNTRACK

2007-07-23 Thread David Miller
Any reason you're not sending this to the netfilter developer list mentioned in MAINTAINERS, or it's chief maintainer Patrick McHardy? NETFILTER/IPTABLES/IPCHAINS P: Rusty Russell P: Marc Boucher P: James Morris P: Harald Welte P: Jozsef Kadlecsik P: Patrick McHardy

Re: tc with netem on 64bit systems

2007-06-20 Thread David Miller
From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:19:01 -0700 > It is a fine if that is how the distro chooses to do it. > Is it part of the LSB? It's even part of platform ELF ABI specifications. > My preference is to get rid of the hard coded path and add an environment >

Re: tc with netem on 64bit systems

2007-06-20 Thread David Miller
From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:45:17 -0700 > On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:15:23 +0100 > "Oliver Cook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > In trying to run tc with netem to introduce latency in the lab on a > > 64bit system I discovered the following bug

Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm2: Assigning IP address fails

2007-06-07 Thread David Miller
From: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 08:54:52 +1000 > On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 03:06:53PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > I'm not able to bring an ethernet interface down and back up again > > > with this if avahi-autoipd is installed on my Ubuntu boxes. I've seen >

Re: device refcnt leak

2007-06-03 Thread David Miller
From: "Kiran Kumar Kella" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 11:41:22 +0530 > I am using linux version 2.6.14 > > Appreciate your help on this problem. Don't run such ancient kernels. There were at least a dozen or more device refcount leaks fixed since 2.6.14, any one of which could h

Re: ETHTOOL_GSET IOCTL on GigE links

2007-06-01 Thread David Miller
From: "Jeff Haran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 15:51:18 -0700 > OK, but my question remains. In the case where a device supports one set > of speeds via autonegotiation and another set via forcing, how does one > tell which speeds can be forced and which can be autonegotiated? Unfor

Re: [PATCH] tbf scheduler: TSO support

2007-05-10 Thread David Miller
From: Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 14:56:39 +0200 > Hirokazu Takahashi wrote: > > TBF --- Simple Token Bucket Filter --- packet scheduler doesn't > > work correctly with TSO on that it slows down to send out packets. > > TSO packets will be discarded since the size ca

Re: UDP Broadcasts not delivered to IP address

2007-05-02 Thread David Miller
From: Detlef Vollmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 08:18:29 +0200 > I'd like to bind to 192.168.2.0, i.e. to the "ANY" address of that > subnet. BSD sockets never allowed binding to subnets. Look, just end this thread, I'm not adding this stupid functionality. You can bind to inad

Re: ARP cache pollution?

2007-04-02 Thread David Miller
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Re: How to disable ping reply to our own IP address when the eth ifc is down ?

2007-03-29 Thread David Miller
From: Al Boldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 07:49:48 +0300 > David Miller wrote: > > From: Yanping Du <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > We got complaints on this Linux behavior, since > > > customers feel it confusing, and don't want to see &g

Re: How to disable ping reply to our own IP address when the eth ifc is down ?

2007-03-29 Thread David Miller
From: Yanping Du <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:41:46 -0700 (PDT) > We got complaints on this Linux behavior, since > customers feel it confusing, and don't want to see > ICMP replies for an eth ifc if it's down. We're not replying to the "eth interface" we're replying to the IP

Re: Problem with sockets an 2.6.21-rc5 kernel

2007-03-26 Thread David Miller
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Re: UDP Broadcasts not delivered to IP address

2007-03-05 Thread David Miller
From: Detlef Vollmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 07:52:56 +0100 > Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > > True, which in my case is 255.255.255.255 (local broadcast). > > > (which is internally 0.0.0.0), but not if bound to 192.168.100.100 >

Re: [BUG] 2.6.20 Oopses in xfrm_audit_log

2007-02-12 Thread David Miller
From: Joy Latten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:44:30 -0600 > This is similar to another bug reported last month. > Here is the patch I sent out then. Please let me know > how it goes. > > Signed-off-by: Joy Latten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This whole interface is a complete mess. Call

Re: [BUG] 2.6.20 Oopses in xfrm_audit_log

2007-02-12 Thread David Miller
From: Joy Latten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:44:30 -0600 > This is similar to another bug reported last month. > Here is the patch I sent out then. Please let me know > how it goes. > > Regards, > Joy > > Signed-off-by: Joy Latten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This one is my bad, I shou

Re: ESTABLISHED TCP connections missing from /proc/net/tcp

2007-01-08 Thread David Miller
From: Bill Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 01:57:53 -0500 > BTW, is it expected behavior that when I cat /proc/net/tcp, the > local_address and rem_address are byte swapped on a little endian > system (this just noticed on a 2.6.15.4 kernel)? They're not > byte swapped on a big end

Re: ESTABLISHED TCP connections missing from /proc/net/tcp

2007-01-06 Thread David Miller
From: Bill Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 22:26:48 -0500 > That seems like a bug to me. I'm running a 2.6.15-rc5 kernel and > my established TCP connections appear in /proc/net/tcp as expected. > And I do have IPv6 enabled (as a module), although I am not actually > using IPv6 for

Re: [resend] Problem with IP address deletion

2006-12-08 Thread David Miller
From: suzuki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 17:27:28 -0800 > But, the patch hasn't gone in and I am still seeing the problem on > 2.6.19 :(.. I have tested this patch on 2.6.19 and if fixes the issue there. The patch did go in, but it got reverted because I think it caused problems.

Re: [PATCH] netpoll: make arp replies through netpoll use mac address of sender

2006-12-08 Thread David Miller
From: Neil Horman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 14:45:53 -0500 > Back in 2.4 arp requests that were recevied by netpoll were processed in > netconsole_receive_skb, where they were responded to using the src mac of the > request sender. In the 2.6 kernel arp_reply is responsible for th

Re: Arp undo issue in all 2.4 and 2.6 kernel releases

2006-11-28 Thread David Miller
From: "Tim Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:19:39 -0800 > At the point where the system is responding, there should be no > interfaces with the given IP address and ifconfig confirms this. The IP > address is not associated with any interface and should not be > associated wit

Re: UDP packets loss

2006-11-16 Thread David Miller
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 23:10:08 +0200 (IST) > > > > BTW, TCP will be significantly faster than UDP because with UDP you > > incur an extra full context switch on every packet. > > > > Could you elaborate on this a bit more? What kind of context switch? TCP queues and take