From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Dec 20 19:10:43 2002 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 00EA837B401; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 19:10:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D3D443ED8; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 19:10:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from house.sentex.net (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBL3AYub015964; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 22:10:34 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20021220220748.064b9598@192.168.0.12> X-Sender: mdtancsa@192.168.0.12 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 22:10:38 -0500 To: Dan Lukes From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: VLAN v.s. NIC with VLAN hardware support bug. Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3E03C7BC.9060900@obluda.cz> References: <5.2.0.9.0.20021220164307.060dd470@marble.sentex.ca> <5.2.0.9.0.20021220164307.060dd470@marble.sentex.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 02:45 AM 12/21/2002 +0100, Dan Lukes wrote: >> > At 10:22 PM 20/12/2002 +0100, Dan Lukes wrote: >> >> > If there somebody failing to configure vlans on a nic with >> > vlan-hardware support - read the PR 46405 (patch attached). > > > Mike Tancsa wrote, On 12/20/02 22:46: > > Does this bug show up in the trunk ports statistics as runt > > packets ? > > > Did you mean the statistics on switch ? Yes Output queue 0/40, 0 drops; input queue 0/75, 0 drops 5 minute input rate 6031000 bits/sec, 877 packets/sec 5 minute output rate 3104000 bits/sec, 1160 packets/sec 1631516276 packets input, 4237296754 bytes Received 161839 broadcasts, 212836721 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles 212836725 input errors, 0 CRC, 4 frame, 0 overrun, 84223 ignored 0 watchdog, 0 multicast 0 input packets with dribble condition detected 194910163 packets output, 3947790078 bytes, 0 underruns 0 output errors, 0 collisions, 0 interface resets 0 babbles, 0 late collision, 0 deferred 0 lost carrier, 0 no carrier 0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out > No, it doesn't affect the switch statistic because bug is in > receive part of FreeBSD driver - it doesn't affect packets sent out to switch. It doesnt seem to affect performance. When I did some benchmarks way back with netperf, the difference in vlan performance vs native fxp performance was barely significant. ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message