Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 10:21:54 +1200 From: Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org> To: Raymond Owens <owensr@comcast.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: if_bridge.c question Message-ID: <20060704222154.GA1954@heff.fud.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <001701c69f7b$1e6b2550$0301a8c0@LAPPY2> References: <001701c69f7b$1e6b2550$0301a8c0@LAPPY2>
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On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 11:04:16AM -0400, Raymond Owens wrote: > I am running 6.1 release on some systems. I have a question about the > bridging changes in if_bridge.c which were made in the stable branch. > I am having a problem bonding two heavily loaded network interfaces > for IDS purposes. There is greatly increased packets droppage when > using 'ifconfig bridge0 monitor' to merge the two sniff interfaces > under 6.1 release. (I am trying to get around using two concurrent > Snort processeses) > > Is it expected that the new bridge monitor function introduced in the > stable branch will have much less packet droppage in identical > situations when bonding busy interfaces? If so is there a way to get > this without upgrading whole system to 6.1 stable? Will binary upgrade > using 6.1 stable ISO provide this functionality also? You can just grab src/sys/net/if_bridge.c from the stable branch and build it on 6.1. You can either rebuild the kernel or if you are using modules then make && make install in src/sys/modules/if_bridge. Let me know if you get stuck. cheers, Andrew
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