Friday, June 15, 2012

Don't let anyone tell you that FreeBSD doesn't "do" 802.11n:

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This is from my FreeBSD-HEAD 802.11n access point, currently doing ~ 130MBit/s TCP: # athstats -i ath0 41838297 data frames rec...
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Monday, June 11, 2012

A tale of two sequence numbers, or "when QoS seqno and CCMP PN don't match up"..

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Many moons ago (say, 3 or 4 weeks - so hm, most-of-a-moon-ago actually) I found a rather curious failure condition in the ath(4) TX aggregat...
Wednesday, June 6, 2012

FreeBSD, Netflix, CDN

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The big news this week is the Netflix Openconnect platform , which was just announced . It uses off the shelf hardware - and FreeBSD + nginx...
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Fixing BAR handling and handle corner cases of things..

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Part of the general 802.11n requirements is correctly handling TX aggregation and failures - where we need to pause the TX queue, send a BAR...
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FreeBSD/arm -

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I've just found out that FreeBSD/armv6 now runs on this: http://www.embeddedartists.com/products/kits/lpc3250_kit.php This is ex...
Sunday, April 8, 2012

And the winner of the most committing committer to src/sys over the last 12 months is ..

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.. well, it was me. Up until last week. marius@ snuck in to take my place. I guess all of those commits I did about this time last year to s...
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Thursday, April 5, 2012

The initial introduction into "it's the NIC, stupid!"

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I've finally hit that dreaded condition which hardware guys hate - where a NIC is behaving badly. In my case, an IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad T60...