From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 11 03:52:56 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A774C16A4CE; Wed, 11 May 2005 03:52:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ace.botka.homeunix.org (3.77.broadband2.iol.cz [83.208.77.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D573343D7F; Wed, 11 May 2005 03:52:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vlado@botka.homeunix.org) Received: by ace.botka.homeunix.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 44E9F411; Wed, 11 May 2005 05:52:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: from srv (ac.botka.homeunix.org [192.168.1.5]) by ace.botka.homeunix.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44B8E3FC; Wed, 11 May 2005 05:52:50 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 05:52:50 +0200 (CEST) From: Vladimir Botka X-X-Sender: vlado@localhost To: Rob In-Reply-To: <20050511023425.23313.qmail@web54007.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20050511054451.E3375@localhost> References: <20050511023425.23313.qmail@web54007.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on ace.botka.homeunix.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.0.3 cc: FreeBSD Stable cc: FreeBSD current cc: ru@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: xl(4) & polling X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 03:52:56 -0000 Hi, just one experience of mine with Realtek 8139. I was not able to FTP upgrade Suse 9.2. Data transfer was crashing. After some *research* I changed the 8139 and problem was solved. The server was on 3c905B. Cheers, Vlado. On Tue, 10 May 2005, Rob wrote: > Ruslan Ermilov wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> Those of you wishing to try your xl(4) card under >> polling(4) are welcome to test this patch: >> > > Ruslan, > > Yesterday I discovered that polling of the xl > interface randomly disrupts an ssh-tunnel of mine. > I think there's still a subtle, yet critical problem > with xl polling. > > I cannot locate the details of the problem, so I > will describe the symptoms that I see in my network, > and why I suspect xl polling. > > Here is a sketch of my two private networks: > > PC1 - GW1 ~~~~ GW2 - PC2 > > PC1 = PC on private network, Intel Pro/100 (fxp) > GW1 = Dual-homed Gateway, 2 x 3Com 3c905B-TX (xl) > GW2 = Dual-homed Gateway, 2 x RealTek 8139 (rl) > PC2 = PC on private network, RealTek 8139 (rl) > ~~~~ = Internet > > All computers are running 5-Stable, as of May 10. > All, but PC1 with fxp, use polling, with: > options DEVICE_POLLING > options HZ=1000 > > > GW2 redirects (with natd) port 2200 to PC2. > > PC1 establishes an ssh-tunnel to PC2: > PC1$ ssh -p 2200 -N -f -R 2000:localhost:22 GW2 > > Then on PC2, I can use this tunnel to connect > directly to PC1, for example to run xbiff: > PC2$ ssh -Y -p 2000 localhost xbiff > > This works beautifully, but every now and then the > ssh-tunnel connection is 'closed' for no reason > (the ssh-tunnel itself remains, but the connection > is closed). > This happens at least once an hour, seemingly at > random. > > After some trial and error, I discovered that the > polling of the xl devices (GW1) is the culprit. > > As soon as I disable the polling for the xl devices > on GW1, the ssh-tunnel connection is not disrupted > anymore. > > ----- > > GW1 is also a production server, so experimenting > is rather limited. However, I can run tests, if that > would help resolve the problem. > > Here you can find some relevant info on GW1 with the > xl devices: > > dmesg output: > http://surfion.snu.ac.kr/~lahaye/dmesg.boot > kernel configuration: > http://surfion.snu.ac.kr/~lahaye/MYKERNEL > /boot/loader.conf: > http://surfion.snu.ac.kr/~lahaye/loader.conf > > Regards, > Rob. > > > > __________________________________ > Yahoo! Mail Mobile > Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. > http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > >