From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 12 22:10:30 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3105E16A41C for ; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 22:10:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [204.156.12.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F9A143D45 for ; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 22:10:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D253C46B2C; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 18:10:28 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 23:10:28 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson X-X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Ed Maste In-Reply-To: <20050712220452.GB38249@sandvine.com> Message-ID: <20050712230952.U70082@fledge.watson.org> References: <42CEF0EB.4000107@borderware.com> <42D006DB.8080108@errno.com> <20050712150224.GA38249@sandvine.com> <20050712162332.Q79478@fledge.watson.org> <20050712220452.GB38249@sandvine.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what to replace splnet in FreeBSD 5.x? X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 22:10:30 -0000 On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Ed Maste wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 04:30:18PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: > >> I'm concerned about the multicast address list problems you've been >> experiencing, but haven't yet had a chance to investigate. If you >> could provide a code fragment that exercises this problem, that would >> probably get me started a lot more quickly. > > Thanks Robert. So far we've reproduced it only within our test lab > environment and with our product executables -- a large amount of code > and infrastructure. I've attempted to reduce it to a small amount of > code that demonstrates the problem but have had no success yet. I've done SMP-based stress-testing with the regular address lists, but not with the multicast address lists. I'll try to take a look this upcoming weekend. Thanks, Robert N M Watson