Re: em, bge, network problems survey.

2006-10-06 Thread Michal Mertl
Michal Mertl wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 05:14:27PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: All, I'm seeing some patterns here with all of the network driver problem reports, but I need more information to help narrow it down further. I ask all of you who are having

Re: Linux Stable

2006-10-06 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Friday 06 October 2006 07:57, Norberto Meijome wrote: On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 00:40:14 +0200 Albert Shih [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now my question what can I do ? Are there any kind of technics to _downgrad_ a STABLE ? Hi Albert, this was discussed in -questions@ on September 27th.

Re: ffs snapshot lockup

2006-10-06 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 10:01:07AM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote: On Oct 5, 2006, at 4:30 AM, Kostik Belousov wrote: The network load was minimal at the time. I had everyone log out and close mail etc. What were the symptoms of locked system ? Could you log in on console, or do

Re: /dev/null

2006-10-06 Thread Ivan Voras
Brent Casavant wrote: Not with FreeBSD in particular. However, from time to time I've run across a piece of software that makes bad assumptions about deleting various input or output files. If run as root, the program/library might accidentally delete a character special device such as

Re: Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY?

2006-10-06 Thread Danny Braniss
... So what do I buy to replace this thing? Well, looking at the serial hardware claimed supported, I seem to have a problem finding anything I can actually purchase! I don't need real high performance - a 16550 based multiport card is fine. I also don't want a $1500 solution - this isn't

Panics on IBM Bladecenter HS20/amd64 blades

2006-10-06 Thread Daniel Bond
Hi, FreeBSD has been running rock solid on the older i386/HS20's, but the newer ones with amd64 configuration keeps panicing, and I can't quite figure out why. Help tracking this issue down, is greatly appreciated. The panics happen randomly, average once every 2 days, sometimes just

Re: em, bge, network problems survey.

2006-10-06 Thread O. Hartmann
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 11:17:33PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 05:14:27PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: All, I'm seeing some patterns here with all of the network driver problem reports, but I need more information to help narrow

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4, 6.0 EoLs coming soon

2006-10-06 Thread Eugene Grosbein
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 08:13:15PM -0400, Jung-uk Kim wrote: It's definetely a regression from 4.11-STABLE that runs fine on this system with ACPI fully enabled Hmm, I was wrong about 4.11 using ACPI - it does not use it here really, it uses good old APM. It would be interesting

Re: em, bge, network problems survey.

2006-10-06 Thread Bill Blue
All, I'm seeing some patterns here with all of the network driver problem reports, but I need more information to help narrow it down further. I ask all of you who are having problems to take a minute to fill out this survey and return it to Kris Kennaway (on cc:) and myself. Thanks. 1. Are

Re: Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY?

2006-10-06 Thread Hans Lambermont
Bob Johnson wrote: I have used USB-to-serial converters with no problem. All the control signals (at least the ones my applications need) seem to work correctly. I have one with a Prolific PL-2303 chipset: ucom0: Prolific Technology Inc. USB-Serial Controller, rev 1.10/3.00, addr 5 It works

Re: Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY?

2006-10-06 Thread Henrik Brix Andersen
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 05:04:41PM -0400, Bob Johnson wrote: I have used USB-to-serial converters with no problem. All the control signals (at least the ones my applications need) seem to work correctly. I don't remember any brands or models off hand, I bought what was cheap as I needed them

Re: Patch available for shared em interrupts (Re: em, bge, network problems survey.)

2006-10-06 Thread Guy Brand
Kris Kennaway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on 05/10/2006 at 22:34 wrote: Based on successful testing on a machine with shared em interrupt, the following patch should work around the problem *in that case*. [...] Please let Scott and I know whether or not this patch works for you (in addition to the

Re: Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY?

2006-10-06 Thread Pete French
The FTDI devices keep the device descriptors etc. in an EEPROM, so my approach to the 'which port is which' problem was to change the textual part of the descriptor - usbdevs -d then immediately tells you what is going on. The EEPROM is writable over the USB connection - I have a program to

Re: Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY?

2006-10-06 Thread Andrew Gordon
On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Karl Denninger wrote: On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 05:04:41PM -0400, Bob Johnson wrote: I have used USB-to-serial converters with no problem. All the control signals (at least the ones my applications need) seem to work correctly. I don't remember any brands or models off

Re: Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY?

2006-10-06 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 11:33:13AM +1000, Greg Black wrote: On 2006-10-05, Brooks Davis wrote: On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 07:09:56PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 04:04:47PM -0500, Brooks Davis wrote: On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 03:21:44PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote:

pcmcia bluetooth card?

2006-10-06 Thread Michael Butler
Any ideas how I might be able to get this card recognized, or better, to function? ;-) Oct 6 10:17:37 toshi kernel: pccard0: unknown card (manufacturer=0x, product=0x, function_type=2) at function 0 Oct 6 10:17:37 toshi kernel: pccard0:CIS info: Bluetooth

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4, 6.0 EoLs coming soon

2006-10-06 Thread Philippe Pegon
Hi, for information, I tested the latest patch from bz@ : http://sources.zabbadoz.net/freebsd/patchset/20061005-01-carp-v6-scope-ipfw.diff and carp with IPv6 is working fine again ! More information in the PR (kern/98622) thanks a lot -- Philippe Pegon Bruce A. Mah wrote: If memory serves

Re: /dev/null

2006-10-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 10:03:11AM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: Brent Casavant wrote: Not with FreeBSD in particular. However, from time to time I've run across a piece of software that makes bad assumptions about deleting various input or output files. If run as root, the program/library

Re: /dev/null

2006-10-06 Thread Ivan Voras
Roland Smith wrote: The command 'devfs rule -s 2 apply 100' should fix it, I think. ? If I read devfs(8) correctly, this should apply rule 100 of ruleset 2. Since I have no rulesets or rules, it doesn't work. :) ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

Re: Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY?

2006-10-06 Thread Karl Denninger
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 01:10:37AM -0400, Matt Emmerton wrote: Karl Denninger wrote: So. I have an application that requires six serial ports, and would like ten. 5.x FreeBSD versions are being EOL'd per the announcement, forcing me to move to 6.x. The Comtrol driver for the Smart

Re: em, bge, network problems survey.

2006-10-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 11:21:32AM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: And so looks mine, FreeBSD 6.2-PRE/AMD64, high I/O on disks and I/O on net renders this box unusuable ... thor# vmstat -i interrupt total rate irq1: atkbd0 12437 1

Re: Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY?

2006-10-06 Thread Karl Denninger
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 02:25:31PM +0100, Andrew Gordon wrote: On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Karl Denninger wrote: On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 05:04:41PM -0400, Bob Johnson wrote: I have used USB-to-serial converters with no problem. All the control signals (at least the ones my applications need)

Re: ffs snapshot lockup

2006-10-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 10:39:50AM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 10:01:07AM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote: On Oct 5, 2006, at 4:30 AM, Kostik Belousov wrote: The network load was minimal at the time. I had everyone log out and close mail etc. What were

Re: ppp redial unsuccessful

2006-10-06 Thread Ulrich Spoerlein
Nick Gustas wrote: Oct 4 19:03:09 xxx ppp[55]: tun0: Phase: bundle: Authenticate Oct 4 19:03:09 xxx ppp[55]: tun0: Phase: deflink: his = PAP, mine = none Oct 4 19:03:09 xxx ppp[55]: tun0: Phase: Pap Output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oct 4 19:03:09 xxx ppp[55]: tun0: LCP:

Re: /dev/null

2006-10-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 06:09:09PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: Roland Smith wrote: The command 'devfs rule -s 2 apply 100' should fix it, I think. ? If I read devfs(8) correctly, this should apply rule 100 of ruleset 2. Since I have no rulesets or rules, it doesn't work. :) Are you

Re: ffs snapshot lockup

2006-10-06 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 02:11:05PM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote: On Oct 6, 2006, at 1:57 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: This is very strange. You 3 instances of getty where just reading the tty input, and all suspectible processes (like sshd) are waiting on net events. No processes are blocked on

Re: Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY?

2006-10-06 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 01:53 PM 10/6/2006, Karl Denninger wrote: Now, where the problem comes in is that THIS line doesn't reference an attached port. That sucks, but might not be hard to fix: If there is just one USB *serial* device, it will always be /dev/ttyU0. It doesnt matter if you have 1 or 3 other USB

Re: em, bge, network problems survey.

2006-10-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 08:54:35AM +0200, Michal Mertl wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 05:14:27PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: All, I'm seeing some patterns here with all of the network driver problem reports, but I need more information to help narrow it down

Re: ffs snapshot lockup

2006-10-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 02:11:05PM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote: On Oct 6, 2006, at 1:57 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: This is very strange. You 3 instances of getty where just reading the tty input, and all suspectible processes (like sshd) are waiting on net events. No processes are blocked on

Re: /dev/null

2006-10-06 Thread Ivan Voras
Roland Smith wrote: Are you sure that you have no rulesets? Yup. The command devfs rule showsets shows nothing. This is on somewhat old RELENG_6. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To

Re: ffs snapshot lockup

2006-10-06 Thread Vivek Khera
On Oct 6, 2006, at 2:20 PM, Kostik Belousov wrote: If it does lock up again, I'll be sure to let you know! Was this system patched by the stuff I submitted to you ? yes. i did not update anything except adding the xl driver to the kernel, so as to minimize changes. if this holds

Re: ffs snapshot lockup

2006-10-06 Thread Vivek Khera
On Oct 6, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: I'm now convinced it was all stemming from some bug in bge driver (at least for my specific chipset.) Last night I put in an old spare 3c905 NIC and turned off the motherboard bge via BIOS. We'd be interested in diagnosing this problem

Capture all incoming/outgoing email messages

2006-10-06 Thread Dominik Zalewski
Hi, I have a gateway/firewall running FreeBSD 6.1 -release . I would like to capture all incoming and outgoing email messages to archive them. Is there is any tool available out there ? I mean a proxy,sniffer or any other solution. Thanks in advance, Dominik

Re: Capture all incoming/outgoing email messages

2006-10-06 Thread Dominik Zalewski
2006/10/6, Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dominik Zalewski wrote: Hi, I have a gateway/firewall running FreeBSD 6.1 -release . I would like to capture all incoming and outgoing email messages to archive them. Is there is any tool available out there ? I mean a proxy,sniffer or any other

Re: Capture all incoming/outgoing email messages

2006-10-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 10:11:17PM +0200, Dominik Zalewski wrote: I know most of MTAs can do it but I dont want users to use local MTA for outgoing emails, plus this solution is just for outgoing emails , what about pop3 ? I just want to capture all smtp/pop3 traffic in packets level. So

Re: Capture all incoming/outgoing email messages

2006-10-06 Thread Patrick Okui
On Friday 06 October 2006 23:11, Dominik Zalewski wrote: 2006/10/6, Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dominik Zalewski wrote: Hi, I have a gateway/firewall running FreeBSD 6.1 -release . I would like to capture all incoming and outgoing email messages to archive them. Is there is any

Re: Capture all incoming/outgoing email messages

2006-10-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 6, 2006, at 1:11 PM, Dominik Zalewski wrote: I just want to capture all smtp/pop3 traffic in packets level. OK: tcpdump -w /var/log/mailarchive.dump -s 0 port smtp or port pop3 But be aware that you should disclose the existence of this mail monitoring to all users, consult your

Re: Capture all incoming/outgoing email messages

2006-10-06 Thread Richard Arends
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 10:11:17PM +0200, Dominik Zalewski wrote: I know most of MTAs can do it but I dont want users to use local MTA for outgoing emails, plus this solution is just for outgoing emails , what about pop3 ? I just want to capture all smtp/pop3 traffic in packets level. Try

Re: ppp redial unsuccessful

2006-10-06 Thread cpghost
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 08:02:02PM +0200, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: I cranked up the debug logging, and compared my ppp login attempts with your logfile. I get multiple Oct 6 18:29:43 coyote ppp[67945]: tun0: IPCP: deflink: RecvConfigReq(12) state = Initial Oct 6 18:29:43 coyote

Re: NFS client slow on amd64 6.2-PRERELEASE #2

2006-10-06 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Jeremy Chadwick wrote this message on Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 09:08 -0700: The problem in that case turned out to be duplex-related. Both boxes were auto-negotiating with the Cisco switch correctly, and indeed the Cisco labelled them as auto-100/full, but as anyone who is familiar with Ciscos

Re: ppp redial unsuccessful

2006-10-06 Thread Ulrich Spoerlein
cpghost wrote: On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 08:02:02PM +0200, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: I cranked up the debug logging, and compared my ppp login attempts with your logfile. I get multiple Oct 6 18:29:43 coyote ppp[67945]: tun0: IPCP: deflink: RecvConfigReq(12) state = Initial Oct 6

Re: Capture all incoming/outgoing email messages

2006-10-06 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006, Dominik Zalewski wrote: Hi, I have a gateway/firewall running FreeBSD 6.1 -release . I would like to capture all incoming and outgoing email messages to archive them. Is there is any tool available out there ? I mean a proxy,sniffer or any other solution. If the

fsck_ufs: cannot alloc 2051395920 bytes for inoinfo

2006-10-06 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Server just crashed, rebooted and trying to do an fsck, reports the above ... Never seen that one before :( FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #0: Mon Sep 18 23:16:11 ADT 2006 Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fsck_ufs: cannot alloc 2051395920 bytes for inoinfo

2006-10-06 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Odd ... ran it a second time after posting this, and it ran through fine ... --On Saturday, October 07, 2006 02:13:11 -0300 Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Server just crashed, rebooted and trying to do an fsck, reports the above ... Never seen that one before :( FreeBSD

Re: Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY?

2006-10-06 Thread Karl Denninger
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 02:27:21PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 01:53 PM 10/6/2006, Karl Denninger wrote: Now, where the problem comes in is that THIS line doesn't reference an attached port. That sucks, but might not be hard to fix: If there is just one USB *serial* device, it will

Re: Capture all incoming/outgoing email messages

2006-10-06 Thread Karl Denninger
I have a commercial spam-blocking tool that runs on FreeBSD which can do this (along with interdicting all your spam for you.) Its not freeware tho - its a product. -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.netMy home on the