Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 09:29:57 +0400 From: rihad <rihad@mail.ru> To: Sergey Kandaurov <pluknet@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slow Intel 10GbE CX4 adapter behaviour Message-ID: <4D5377D5.80305@mail.ru> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimpkP64tjq1ex0nX%2Bs0sxGFJEkkUE=sSYpW6CR6@mail.gmail.com> References: <4D522657.10500@mail.ru> <4D52603D.4070604@mail.ru> <AANLkTikb28NjnFu3xf8m%2BeWPOWRtVaXt%2BJQ13K9f_iCV@mail.gmail.com> <4D52AFAB.2030103@mail.ru> <AANLkTimpkP64tjq1ex0nX%2Bs0sxGFJEkkUE=sSYpW6CR6@mail.gmail.com>
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On 02/09/2011 07:27 PM, Sergey Kandaurov wrote: > On 9 February 2011 18:15, rihad<rihad@mail.ru> wrote: >> On 02/09/2011 05:47 PM, Sergey Kandaurov wrote: >>> >>> On 9 February 2011 12:37, rihad<rihad@mail.ru> wrote: >>>> >>>> Problem solved, I'm so embarrassed :) The issue on 7.2 mentioned above >>>> with >>>> ixgbe (tons of "fragmentation failed" errors) was real. The issue in >>>> 8.3-RC3 >>>> was because dummynet wasn't being loaded at all... so no traffic could >>>> pass >>>> on it, despite dummynet_load="YES" being set in /boot/loader.conf. So I >>>> turned it on in /etc/rc.conf : dummynet_enable="YES" and loaded it >>>> "kldload >>>> dummynet" in order to do without a reboot. Works like a charm so far. >>>> Thanks >>>> to all! >>> >>> Looks like loading dummynet.ko via /boot/loader.conf doesn't work because >>> dummynet.ko depends on dummynet.ko but of the different version. >>> >> Would dummynet_enable="YES" in rc.conf still work? We haven't yet had a >> chance to reboot to test that. >> > > Yes, it would. > Note that it depends on firewall_enable="YES" also present in rc.conf. > Thanks, I see. Now I think that changing through rc.conf is the "official", or "supported", way of enabling dummynet upon reboot, but loader.conf is a little way under the hood. I always asked myself why it was settable in two places, and not one. But now I know. The fact that dummynet can be set to load in loader.conf is more like an undesired effect of generality.
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