From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 19 09:58:26 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04E4D16A452 for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2005 09:58:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tataz@tataz.chchile.org) Received: from postfix3-2.free.fr (postfix3-2.free.fr [213.228.0.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99A5143D46 for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2005 09:58:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tataz@tataz.chchile.org) Received: from tatooine.tataz.chchile.org (vol75-8-82-233-239-98.fbx.proxad.net [82.233.239.98]) by postfix3-2.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBE0EC110; Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:58:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: by tatooine.tataz.chchile.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 24F414080; Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:58:53 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:58:53 +0200 From: Jeremie Le Hen To: Uwe Doering Message-ID: <20050819095852.GX659@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> References: <200508181717.j7IHHaxW044139@manor.msen.com> <4304FB69.3000500@geminix.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4304FB69.3000500@geminix.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reducing dummynet pipe size hangs system X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 09:58:26 -0000 Hi Michael, > > If it should work, was it broken back in 4.8 and, if so, when > > was it corrected? I'd rather not take the time up upgrade the > > box to 4.11 if I'll then be forced to move to 5.4. > > There were changes in dummynet's configuration functions that, among > other things, dealt with protecting certain code sequences with the > proper SPL. They went into the CVS repository after 4.8. I can't tell > whether these fixes would help in your case but you may want to look at > rev. 1.24.2.22 and 1.24.2.25 (RELENG_4) in any case: Be warned that the last import of IPFilter 3.4.35 in FreeBSD 4.11 broke dummynet/ipnat interaction one step further. You can use RELENG_4, it works very well (I use it as my own router), but if you are using IPFilter in addition to DUMMYNET, you have to use the old IPFilter. You can check how to do this on this thread, this is fairly easy [1]. This thread also (confusely) explain what is broken. Regards, [1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2005-January/006363.html -- Jeremie Le Hen < jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >