SMP and networking under FreeBSD 5.3

[Joe]

I haven't tried 5.4 yet.  To build a 5.4 could take a couple of
days on these old machines.  

Joe

--- Dmitry Mityugov <dmitry.mityugov at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6/14/05, Joe <josepha48 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> >     Not sure if this is the place to ask this.  But this is
> a
> > freebsd question.
> > 
> >     I've been running FreeBSD since about 4.6.  I have 2
> > machines running FreeBSD.  One is used as a router, its an
> SMP
> > machine, and the other is used to build the source code.
> > 
> >     I'm having a problem with the SMP machine.  When the
> machine
> > boots, dmesg shows two messages, that the UP does not show.
> > 
> > WARNING: debug.mpsafenet forced to 0 as ipsec requires Giant
> > WARNING: MPSAFE network stack disabled, expect reduced
> > performance.
> > 
> >    In v52a I did not get these messages.  After doing some
> > research, I understand that this has to do with the kernel
> > locking.
> > 
> >    It seems that now my networking is not working on the SMP
> > machine.  I know others have asked about this, and saw the
> > release notes, about setting debug.mpsafenet=0, but my
> > networking is still not working right.
> > 
> >    Also /dev/kmem and /dev/mem are missing so netstat -ar
> does
> > not work either.
> > 
> >    Where do I start to find a solution to this?
> 
> Does FreeBSD 5.4 exhibit the same behavior?
> 
> -- 
> Dmitry
> 
> "We live less by imagination than despite it" - Rockwell Kent,
> "N by E"
> 



		
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