From: "Andy Willis" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (HELO mail.2rosenthals.com) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTP id 1984279 for virtualized_ecs_users@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:32:44 -0500 Received: from secmgr-va.randr ([192.168.200.201] helo=mail2.2rosenthals.com) by (none) with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.43) id 1NIcZs-00015P-Qw for virtualized_ecs_users@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:32:44 -0500 Received: from mail-yw0-f185.google.com ([209.85.211.185]:46119) by mail2.2rosenthals.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NIcZn-0005j1-16 for virtualized_ecs_users@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:32:35 -0500 Received: by ywh15 with SMTP id 15so7872334ywh.5 for ; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:32:33 -0800 (PST) X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A020203.4B209603.00F3,ss=1,fgs=0 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ATcTqERBi8jKELUUDOplX5S31DuixhkGYFQCPGL/ShU=; b=qkcaOEojeusNOo6crLqO3XzsKGB7/WaQKAh1Xs9Zf1W7pg73ly6aIYPkz3d3Tnq4xF 9Bq1cKx1pDkDeYSlZLbLIC4m84cYSCo9iI8GajEkN8uZd1ft+JQQf1LXv0+p9FZcEo5r Uk31h9doq7HFZXyp6ZscjUO/OVAywp4Vg21ZE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=aE8zV6QlN/hu9Mzg5oa2fJcdokkEVU7lKOQ6Ihx4Z87NEw8lgnumRcHnORGWEBJsIc zT24Z2TYeJ1g7mLQKhCNTQBnIXpq6m8fMNOD7VAJXat+9hFogTCW5tlPa2b4/S+XzQO6 B9917Zrj0SnC0/GRxXfOuZRAWldfP0xpXDSJs= Received: by 10.150.5.35 with SMTP id 35mr752940ybe.84.1260426753522; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:32:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.0.3? (75-166-36-81.hlrn.qwest.net [75.166.36.81]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 9sm240746ywe.56.2009.12.09.22.32.32 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:32:32 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B2095FF.6080006@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:32:31 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091028 SeaMonkey/2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Virtualized eCS Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [Virtualized eCS] TAP driver killing TCP/IP bandwidth References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 1.0 (+) X-Spam-Report: 1.0 RCVD_BY_IP Received by mail server with no name Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: > Hey... > > On 12/10/09 01:09 am, Andy Willis thus wrote : >> Cliff Scott wrote: >>> ** Reply to message from "Lewis G Rosenthal" >>> on Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:01:33 >>> -0500 >>> >>>> Has anyone else seen this type of performance hit caused by the TAP >>>> driver? >>> >>> I don't know if this qualifies as a performance hit, but with the TAP >>> driver >>> my entire external network goes dead. I've spent many hours trying >>> all kinds >>> of stuff and finally gave up. I also have a Broadcom B57 nic, but am >>> using >>> the native driver. >>> >> You don't have it tied to a wireless as well do you? If I connect to >> wireless it knocks out my whole network, wired and wireless. > Hmmm... > > I don't think so, as I've never been able to get wireless to work (aside > from your hack of routing through the wired interface)... > > Isn't the binding done in VBox itself and not in PROTOCOL.INI? > PROTOCOL.INI says: > > [TAP_nif] > > DriverName = TAP$ > HandleArps = 1 > > And if no VM is running, then it shouldn't matter, should it? That > configuration is stored in the xml for the VM. I ran all of my tests > with nothing else (in terms of networking apps) running. > I was thinking more of the problem Cliff was having, but yes, I only loose the network if VBOX is running and I have wireless turned on in there.