Re: possible dos / wsize affected frozen connection length (was: Re: 2.6.17.1: fails to fully get webpage)

2006-07-05 Thread linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)
On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, CaT wrote: On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 08:50:39AM +1000, CaT wrote: Another datapoint to this is that I've had this my netcat web test running since 8:42pm yesterday. It's 8:37am now. It hasn't progressed in any way. It hasn't quit. It hasn't timed out. It just sits there,

Re: Linux kernel and laws

2006-06-05 Thread linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)
On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 08:52:35AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: ... Paying attention to proper reverse engineering is good. Being overzealous is not. Being overzealous about merging drivers without first checking the legal ramifications is a good way to

Re: Van Jacobson's net channels and real-time

2006-04-25 Thread linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Auke Kok wrote: linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Auke Kok wrote: Ingo Oeser wrote: On Saturday, 22. April 2006 15:49, Jörn Engel wrote: That was another main point, yes. And the endpoints should be as little burden on the bottlenecks as possible

Re: Van Jacobson's net channels and real-time

2006-04-24 Thread linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Auke Kok wrote: Ingo Oeser wrote: On Saturday, 22. April 2006 15:49, Jörn Engel wrote: That was another main point, yes. And the endpoints should be as little burden on the bottlenecks as possible. One bottleneck is the receive interrupt, which shouldn't wait for

Re: Van Jacobson's net channels and real-time

2006-04-24 Thread linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Rick Jones wrote: Thats right. This will be made a non issue with early demuxing on the NIC and MSI (or was it MSI-X?) which will select the right CPU based on hardware channels. MSI-X. with MSI you still have only one cpu handling all MSI interrupts and that doesn't

Re: Router stops routing after changing MAC Address

2006-03-14 Thread linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Bart Samwel wrote: linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Greg Scott wrote: Bst... Not! There are not any MAC addresses associated with any of the intercity links, usually not even in WANs! MAC is for Ethernet! Once you go to fiber, ATM, T-N, etc

Re: Router stops routing after changing MAC Address

2006-03-13 Thread linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Stephen Hemminger wrote: There still is a bug in the 3c59x driver. It doesn't include any code to handle changing the mac address. It will work if you take the device down, change address, then bring it up. But you shouldn't have to do that. Also, if the driver

RE: Router stops routing after changing MAC Address

2006-03-13 Thread linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Greg Scott wrote: But in a failover scenario you want two devices to have the same IEEE (station) Address (or MAC Address or hardware address). So many names for the same thing! When the primary unit fails, you want the backup unit to completely assume the failed

RE: Router stops routing after changing MAC Address

2006-03-13 Thread linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)
I have to spend some money with the IEEE soon to support lots and lots of rollouts. :) - Greg Scott -Original Message- From: Rick Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 3:50 PM To: linux-os (Dick Johnson) Cc: Greg Scott; Chuck Ebbert; linux-kernel; netdev

Re: [RFC] ip / ifconfig redesign

2005-12-02 Thread linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, 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. In a GNU/OpenSource environment, OpenMinds should not inhibit themselves achieving new