flowtable usable or not

K. Macy kmacy at freebsd.org
Fri Mar 2 00:03:51 UTC 2012


> Yes, that was part of it. On the web and db systems we had what I can
> only describe as "general wackiness" with systems suddenly becoming
> unreachable, etc. This was with a moderately complex network setup with
> a combination of different VLANs, multiple interfaces, etc. The FreeBSD
> routers would just plain panic on a semi-regular interval. Removing
> flowtable made all this go away, and we've been quite stable since then.
>

I understand the switch. Uptime is important in any production
network. However, it seems like it may have been too easy to turn it
off because no one has made any effort to help me debug the issues. By
analogy your guidance for ports usability problems would be to install
Ubuntu.

Cheers


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