Re: [9fans] auth server with two NICs

[Akshat Kumar <akumar@mail.nanosouffle.net>]

nevermind, it's the network... or hardware...

I tried just the very basic setup at the top of

http://www.9grid.fr/www.9grid.fr/wiki/plan9/Drawterm_to_your_terminal/

and I get the same poor performance. network
sux!

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Akshat Kumar
<akumar@mail.nanosouffle.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:30 AM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>> a bad network?
>
> I thought so at first, but if instead of using separate /net and /net.alt
> mountpoints for the two networks, I simply, as I said before,
>
> bind -b '#l1' /net
> bind -b '#I1' /net
>
> and start auth service, etc., afterwards (so that they start only on
> the external interface), then from testing last night, there is no such
> lag in drawterm or dropped packets on ping. now, it could just be
> the timing of things (like, when I tested, etc.)... but if I drawterm to
> a remote network, it's *much* faster, and pinging around to other
> things doesn't cause dropped packets.
>
> So, I'm lead to believe that the problem is in a configuration of
> two network interfaces, where the default is the internal network,
> which is bound to /net, and the external network is bound to /net.alt
> is there some reason or way that incoming calls could be confused,
> or it might take time for the server to find the right place to reply
> from? I dunno... but the performance is killing me.
>