bpf kernel module

2006-11-14 Thread Vlad GURDIGA
Hello, I posted the same question on freebsd-questions list but did not get an exact answer, so, I'm going on with my research. :) I'm trying to keep very close touch with 6.1_STABLE cvsupping sources once a week or even more often. I'm thinking of removing as much as possible devices from the

Re: bpf kernel module

2006-11-14 Thread Julian Elischer
Vlad GURDIGA wrote: Booting a kernel with no bpf support, and with ng_bpf_load=YES in my loader.conf [which, I found on the questions list that is not what I need], the pflogd fails to start with this error: ng_bpf is a netgraph node that uses bpf.. not what you need [...] Is there any way

Need help in solving a crash when doing ping flood

2006-11-14 Thread pnallimelli
Hi, When i m doing ping flood , i m getting crash after 15 mins. The debug messages are like this: NU gdb 5.18 (FreeBSD) Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or

Re: Need help in solving a crash when doing ping flood

2006-11-14 Thread Andre Oppermann
pnallimelli wrote: Hi, When i m doing ping flood , i m getting crash after 15 mins. The debug messages are like this: NU gdb 5.18 (FreeBSD) Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change

Re: SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA for sparse files any takers?

2006-11-14 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 02:38:36AM +0100, Pedro F Giffuni wrote: Hi; From http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/date/200512 At this writing, SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA are Solaris-specific. I encourage (implore? beg?) other operating systems to adopt these lseek(2) extensions verbatim (100% tax-free)

ipv6 connection hash function wanted ...

2006-11-14 Thread Max Laier
Hello, this one is something for people who know their math. Input: 2x128bit of address (lower ~80bit selectable by user) and 2x16bit of ports (more or less selectable by user). Note that the flow_id is not useable as several broken stack implementations do not set it consistently - and it

Re: ipv6 connection hash function wanted ...

2006-11-14 Thread Paul Twohey
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Max Laier wrote: this one is something for people who know their math. Input: 2x128bit of address (lower ~80bit selectable by user) and 2x16bit of ports (more or less selectable by user). Note that the flow_id is not useable as several broken stack implementations do

Re: bpf kernel module

2006-11-14 Thread Oliver Fromme
Vlad GURDIGA wrote: I'm trying to keep very close touch with 6.1_STABLE cvsupping sources once a week or even more often. You mean RELENG_6_1? I don't think that makes sense, because not many changes happen to that branch. You should only cvsup if necessary, i.e. when a security fix (or

Re: bpf kernel module

2006-11-14 Thread Vlad GURDIGA
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Re: SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA for sparse files any takers?

2006-11-14 Thread pfgshield-freebsd
--- Pawel Jakub Dawidek [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: ... I've some starting code for this and I'm planning to implement them, at least for ZFS. Thanks! I recall from previous postings on this list that it's a feature desired on UFS + BSDtar too. Pedro.

Re: net/mpd causes a kernel freeze

2006-11-14 Thread Ulrich Spoerlein
Gonzalo Arana wrote: Hi, When I open a pptp tunnel with net/mpd, my PC freezes (numlock stops responding, for instance). I am using 6.1-RELEASE with GENERIC kernel. I've recompiled removing USB, SCSI/RAID controllers, with the same result. The freeze occurs right after the tunnel is

Re: ipv6 connection hash function wanted ...

2006-11-14 Thread David Malone
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 05:09:20PM +0100, Max Laier wrote: Any ideas? Any papers that deal with this problem? Assuming you don't want to use one of the standard cryptographic ones (which I can imagine being a bit slow for something done per-packet), then one option might be to use a simpler

Re: bpf kernel module

2006-11-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
Oliver Fromme wrote: Vlad GURDIGA wrote: I'm trying to keep very close touch with 6.1_STABLE cvsupping sources once a week or even more often. You mean RELENG_6_1? I don't think that makes sense, because not many changes happen to that branch. You should only cvsup if necessary, i.e. when

Re: ipv6 connection hash function wanted ...

2006-11-14 Thread Max Laier
On Tuesday 14 November 2006 20:09, David Malone wrote: On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 05:09:20PM +0100, Max Laier wrote: Any ideas? Any papers that deal with this problem? Assuming you don't want to use one of the standard cryptographic ones (which I can imagine being a bit slow for something done

Re: [Patch] sys/kern/kern_descrip.c: remove double limit check in fcntl()

2006-11-14 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday 09 November 2006 14:33, Ed Schouten wrote: * Ed Schouten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The patch below prevents this by performing this check by do_dup(). It will prevent fcntl() from PROC_LOCK()'ing twice. It also fixes the return value of fcntl(). The manual page states that it

FreeBSD on DVD

2006-11-14 Thread D . Mella
Good Afternoon, I'm new to freebsd, and I'm really excited about this whole new world. I've been reading, and looking on the internet, and I'm wondering why there isn't a freebsd downloadable version in DVD. -- David Mella [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Fwd: FreeBSD on DVD

2006-11-14 Thread grodzix
Hello, I thought first about the same but I came to conclusion that there is no really need for it. As far as I know the aim is to provide you basic framework which you can customize as you like. The first CD is more than you need to have fully runable FreeBSD system and second is basically only

Re: FreeBSD on DVD

2006-11-14 Thread Julian H. Stacey
D.Mella wrote: Good Afternoon, I'm new to freebsd, and I'm really excited about this whole new world. I've been reading, and looking on the internet, and I'm wondering why there isn't a freebsd downloadable version in DVD. Bandwidth costs money to net providers. Lots of a DVD would not be

Re: FreeBSD on DVD

2006-11-14 Thread John Birrell
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 04:32:09PM -0400, D. Mella wrote: I'm new to freebsd, and I'm really excited about this whole new world. I've been reading, and looking on the internet, and I'm wondering why there isn't a freebsd downloadable version in DVD. The FreeBSD release process doesn't build

Ramdisk support

2006-11-14 Thread Aditya Godbole
Hi, Is there any ramdisk support in freebsd, as there is in netbsd? If there is no such functionality right now, is anyone working on it? What are the alternatives if I want to mount a root filesytem from ram? Thanks. -- aditya ___

Re: Ramdisk support

2006-11-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 12:35:06PM +0530, Aditya Godbole wrote: Hi, Is there any ramdisk support in freebsd, as there is in netbsd? If there is no such functionality right now, is anyone working on it? What are the alternatives if I want to mount a root filesytem from ram? man mdconfig Kris