Issues with USB wireless adapter in hostap mode

2007-11-24 Thread dormando
/0.01, addr 2 rum0: MAC/BBP RT2573 (rev 0x2573a), RF RT2528, address 00:0e:3b:09:81:65 Configured as: media autoselect mediaopt hostap nwid dormando mode 11g chan 3 txpower 95 up ... I've twiddled the mode (I think), txpower, channel, etc. I'm emptyheaded as far as wireless still. What should I try

Re: hardware needed for network stack performance work

2007-06-14 Thread dormando
nice to get the right equipment into the right hands. Take your accountant out to a nice lunch, they'll be more understanding of having to do the extra paperwork. In my case, these machines (unfortunately not ideal ones?) are in the wrong hands, my hands, and should probably change. -Dormando

Huge PF/BGP setups with OpenBSD

2006-10-24 Thread dormando
to manage? I'd much rather continue sending resources to OpenBSD instead of shelling out for a pair of huge, expensive routers. Any good input is greatly appreciated; trolling not so much. Yes I've read all of the PF docs, the PF series on undeadly, the OpenBGP slides, etc. Thanks, -Dormando

Re: Very high interrupts on a supermicro machine.

2005-10-20 Thread dormando
Did you make any other configuration changes? Right now my box is doing ~28,000pps per direction per interface (out public, in public, out internal, in internal), totalling around 112kpps. It doesn't seem to want to go any higher than that. I've just tried moving the internal connection off of

Re: Very high interrupts on a supermicro machine.

2005-10-19 Thread dormando
morning is switching the internal interface to one of the bge nics. The systems have two bge nics built-in, and one PCI-X 133mhz intel dual port 1000MT server nic. Right now the int/ext are on the intel card and the pfsync int is on bge1. -Dormando On 10/19/05, Henning Brauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Very high interrupts on a supermicro machine.

2005-10-18 Thread dormando
the congestion packets regardless? Thanks, -Dormando On 10/18/05, Schvberle Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was trying to bench routing pps with pf on and henning gave me some advice which I think might help you too. For my benching purposes it helped break the 200k pps barrier

Very high interrupts on a supermicro machine.

2005-10-17 Thread dormando
intel. SATA harddrive for what it's worth. Running OpenBSD 3.7 as a PF firewall. I've tried changing a bunch of BIOS options, disabling interrupts, etc. I haven't compiled my own kernel or built the OS or anything. Thanks, -Dormando [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/octet

Re: Very high interrupts on a supermicro machine.

2005-10-17 Thread dormando
On 10/17/05, dormando [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, [...] My apologies for mime'ing the dmesg :( I post here once a year or so. It looks like the latest snapshot from the FTP does a lot better with interrupts (about 150k pps before getting into the danger area), and interrupts never go