From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 12 0: 4:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from info.iet.unipi.it (info.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B27A837BB45 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 00:04:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luigi@info.iet.unipi.it) Received: (from luigi@localhost) by info.iet.unipi.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA13935; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 09:05:52 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from luigi) From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <200006120705.JAA13935@info.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: Fastforwarding In-Reply-To: from "lists@security.za.net" at "Jun 12, 2000 09:01:38 am" To: lists@security.za.net Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 09:05:52 +0200 (CEST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi All, > > I posted this a coupla days ago and just thought I would ask again in the > hope that someone had encounted something since then. > > Has anyone here tried setting net.inet.ip.fastforwarding on in a high > traffic enviroment? > > This setting DRASTICALLY speeds up transfers between boxes talking through > a freebsd gateway when you are using 2 100mbit interfaces, but it seems to > kernel panic the system after a few minutes. can you quantify the "drastically" ? luigi -----------------------------------+------------------------------------- Luigi RIZZO, luigi@iet.unipi.it . Dip. di Ing. dell'Informazione http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ . Universita` di Pisa TEL/FAX: +39-050-568.533/522 . via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) Mobile +39-347-0373137 -----------------------------------+------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message