Devic polling

Leoandru

I enabled device polling from the advance menu of the web gui. When I checked sysctl -a I get kern.polling.enable: 0
how do I know if polling is really working? I have 3 Nics in my pfSense box. 2 use dc driver and 1 use xl driver so I know all support kernel polling.

sullrich

ifconfig -a and look for the polling flag.

Leoandru

still dont think its working. I did ifconfig -a didnt see any polling flags whats interesting is what I did next. I enabled kernel polling at shell but I didnt see the polling flag instead I saw it under options for the interfaces. What does this mean?

ifconfig -a

dc0: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>mtu 1500
options=8 <vlan_mtu>inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffffc0 broadcast 192.168.1.63
inet6 fe80::208:a1ff:fe96:5917%dc0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
ether 00:08:a1:96:59:17
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
status: active
xl0: flags=8802 <broadcast,simplex,multicast>mtu 1500
options=9 <rxcsum,vlan_mtu>ether 00:50:04:86:c8:3a
media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
status: no carrier
dc1: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>mtu 1500
options=8 <vlan_mtu>inet6 fe80::212:17ff:fe42:a2d8%dc1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
inet 10.0.70.13 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.70.255
ether 00:12:17:42:a2:d8
media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT/UTP)
status: active
lo0: flags=8049 <up,loopback,running,multicast>mtu 16384
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
pflog0: flags=100 <promisc>mtu 33208
pfsync0: flags=41 <up,running>mtu 2020
pfsync: syncdev: lo0 maxupd: 128

sysctl -n kern.polling.handlers

0

sysctl kern.polling.enable=1

kern.polling.enable: 0 -> 1

ifconfig -a

dc0: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>mtu 1500
options=48 <vlan_mtu,polling>inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffffc0 broadcast 192.168.1.63
inet6 fe80::208:a1ff:fe96:5917%dc0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
ether 00:08:a1:96:59:17
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
status: active
xl0: flags=8802 <broadcast,simplex,multicast>mtu 1500
options=49 <rxcsum,vlan_mtu,polling>ether 00:50:04:86:c8:3a
media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
status: no carrier
dc1: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>mtu 1500
options=48 <vlan_mtu,polling>inet6 fe80::212:17ff:fe42:a2d8%dc1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
inet 10.0.70.13 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.70.255
ether 00:12:17:42:a2:d8
media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT/UTP)
status: active
lo0: flags=8049 <up,loopback,running,multicast>mtu 16384
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
pflog0: flags=100 <promisc>mtu 33208
pfsync0: flags=41 <up,running>mtu 2020
pfsync: syncdev: lo0 maxupd: 128

sysctl -n kern.polling.handlers

3
#</up,running></promisc></up,loopback,running,multicast></vlan_mtu,polling></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast></rxcsum,vlan_mtu,polling></broadcast,simplex,multicast></full-duplex></vlan_mtu,polling></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast></up,running></promisc></up,loopback,running,multicast></vlan_mtu></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast></rxcsum,vlan_mtu></broadcast,simplex,multicast></full-duplex></vlan_mtu></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>

sullrich

Did you try rebooting after changing it? Perhaps its a reboot bug.

Leoandru

yeah rebooted twice, still no polling flags on the interfaces. Only when kern.polling.enable is enabled I see polling under options as per my last post.

Im using 1.0-BETA1-TESTING-SNAPSHOT-2-8-06

sullrich

kern.polling.enable
Legacy MIB, that was used to enable or disable polling globally.
Currently if set to 1, polling is enabled on all capable inter-
faces. If set to 0, polling is disabled on all interfaces.

I'll check it out, its possible that I just left out that interface type from the supported list.

Leoandru

cool. 8)

in the mean time I'll just set the option in sysctl.conf since I want to manipulate other polling options as well.

Leoandru

Im running the new testing snapshot TESTING-SNAPSHOT-02-15-06. I removed the kern.polling.enable variable from my /etc/sysctl.conf file to see if the web gui option for enabling and disabling polling would work. Well the option didn't work and polling seem to be enabled by default on reboot, even after manually disabling it at shell.

sullrich

Okay, hopefully its fixed now. If you like, update pfsense-utils.inc to http://cvs.pfsense.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/pfSense/etc/inc/pfsense-utils.inc?rev=1.316.2.63;content-type=text%2Fplain;only_with_tag=RELENG_1 to test.

Leoandru

:D

Thanks, thats fix it. Enabling and disabling polling with the web gui now works.