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Date:      Sun, 3 May 2009 13:27:48 -0700
From:      Payam Chychi <pchychi@gmail.com>
To:        Fabian Wenk <fabian@wenks.ch>
Cc:        freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IPFW MAX RULES COUNT PERFORMANCE
Message-ID:  <f08c15d10905031327k73fbf459ke9c4486dff09b86a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <49FDA98B.6020105@wenks.ch>
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On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 7:26 AM, Fabian Wenk <fabian@wenks.ch> wrote:
> Hello Daniel
>
> On 27.04.09 18:19, Daniel Dias Gon=E7alves wrote:
>>
>> What may be happening ? I'm with polling enabled on all interfaces, can
>> you influence ?
>
>> If I disable the polling, no network interface work, begins to display
>> "em4 watchdog timeout".
>
> If you are using polling on the Ethernet interfaces you need to increase =
the
> HZ to around 2000 - 5000 (more details in the polling(4) manpage). Set it
> either in the /boot/loder.conf with "kern.hz=3D5000" and reboot or in the
> kernel config with "options HZ=3D5000" and rebuild kernel and reboot.
>
>
> bye
> Fabian
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what i never understood is why run acl and accounting on the same box
and kill your network? run one box for acl building and another on a
span (monitor port) to do accounting on the site.  For your span port,
do both RX/TX so you can see bi-directional and since this is done on
the network layer, you will not have as much latency... maybe 10%, if
even that.

--=20
Payam Tarverdyan Chychi
Network Security Specialist / Network Engineer



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