From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 12 1:24: 2 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 53A1D37BD34 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 01:23:58 -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 KAA14390; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 10:24:50 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from luigi) From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <200006120824.KAA14390@info.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: Fastforwarding In-Reply-To: <39448DE2.69D8BD19@elischer.org> from Julian Elischer at "Jun 12, 2000 00:14:42 am" To: Julian Elischer Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 10:24:50 +0200 (CEST) Cc: lists@security.za.net, 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 > The question is not "how fast is fast forwarding?", but > "why is it crashing?" I can imagine small timing changes > speeding up a session between other boxes. yes, the original poster was concerned about crashes, i was mainly concerned on the gains in fastforwarding (as fastforwarding does not support firewall, and has a max of 256 connections if i remember well... so i am unsure how deployable it is in large settings) cheers luigi > Andrew, when it crashes, what are the symptoms? > if it really panics, then there should be a panic message. > if not then you should include DDB in the kernel > (and not start X) so that you can get a stack trace/coredump. > (actually maybe you should have a coredump already) > > julian > > > -- > __--_|\ Julian Elischer > / \ julian@elischer.org > ( OZ ) World tour 2000 > ---> X_.---._/ presently in: Perth > v > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message