Re: probs on 6.2-prerelease

2006-09-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
). -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB

Re: ffs snapshot lockup

2006-09-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
This problem sounds awfully like what I reported in a recent PR. Now I'm starting to have my doubts as to whether or not my hardware was indeed at fault... http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=103435 -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius

Re: probs on 6.2-prerelease

2006-09-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
anyone who wishes to solve it a new USB keyboard to test/debug with. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making

Re: probs on 6.2-prerelease

2006-09-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
with this multiplexer driver. The manpage for it implied that configuring the driver requires kbdcontrol. /etc/rc.d/syscons controls this during multiuser boot, but nothing's going to call this for single-user. Seems like a catch 22 of sorts... -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
thing to have watchdog timeouts. It means the interrupt is hung, or the card is hung. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
(bge driver as well), my guess is that it's not specific to the Ethernet drivers. I've seen some semi-recent commits pertaining to the APIC handling code -- could these explain what's happening? -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
in cases where this does not happen, a 1-2 second network outage can play havoc with some applications. Ouch! This is one of many reasons people don't use STP. (I did note the colos I don't have control over part -- frustrating eh?) -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
mention this is: The UP/SMP idea seems to be only of interest, because on an UP machine it's more likely to share interrupts than on SMP machines, it has nothing to do with the fact of UP or SMP itself. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
is getting deadlocked? Not sure). Has anyone tried rolling back to previous 6.2 builds to try and figure out timeframes when this was introduced? From my perspective, it happened sometime between August and the end of September. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
deploying STP and making a mess of network fail-over reliability. /opinion Regardless, this is totally off-topic for the list. I'll be more than happy to discuss all of this privately. :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: Intel se7230NH1-E, 6gb memory not working on FreeBSD 6.0

2006-09-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
+ upgraded to 6.2, building a kernel that has PAE enabled and then putting the extra RAM back in. Any other administrators have tips/comments? -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX

Re: Poor write performance with LSI 320-2 on 6.1-STABLE

2006-09-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
), it is sometimes *better* to disable SCSI disk caching on each individual SCSI drive and let the controller do it. Again, can't speak for LSI controllers... -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX

Re: Drives always come up dirty after shutdown on 6.2-PRERELEASE.

2006-10-01 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
to be checked. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP

RELENG_6 ntpd problems (PLL vs. FLL in SMP mode)

2006-10-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
restrict 192.168.1.0 mask 255.255.255.0 nomodify -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since

Re: Watchdog Timeout - bge devices

2006-10-03 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
). After you read it all, or most of it, you should probably partake in the convo there. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View

Re: Watchdog Timeout - bge devices

2006-10-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
put all comments of that nature into the template, to inform people that if they wish to use ULE, it's cool -- but expect things to break (and to report such breakage!) Just spouting off some ideas... ;-) -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius

Re: vmstat -i output after solving snd problems.

2006-10-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
make heads or tails of the code. (It's architecture-independant from what the code comments state...) Regardless, the strings look to be populated somewhere within kernel-land, not by vmstat. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

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

2006-10-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
via a crossover cable, and you still see the problems, then yes, there's something definitely amiss that needs investigating. :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems

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

2006-10-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
, especially so in 2006. There is absolutely no justified explanation for such a card costing US$1500, or even US$500. These are ICs and basic PCBs that at most cost US$20 per device -- the profit mark-up is appalling. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius

Re: Capture all incoming/outgoing email messages

2006-10-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
). -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB

Re: nfsmb survey

2006-10-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
to one of the two SMBus devices, when in fact nfsmb should bind to both? (Only after removing ichsmb from the kernel configuration did nfsmb bind to both). Just curious -- thanks! -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: Installing 6.1-R on Dell Powervault 745N

2006-10-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
Soren, do you have any ideas? -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977

Re: 6.2-PRE /boot/loader

2006-10-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
have ipv6_enable=yes) This feature probably needs its own rc.conf option. Maybe this is what the author had intended? -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator

Re: Runaway kernel? Or an attack?

2006-10-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
). Do not go with a WRT54G (because you won't know what version you get; Linux-based or VxWorks-based (which has other IP stack problems), nor a WRT54GS (same risk (Linux vs. VxWorks)). -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: em network issues

2006-10-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
discussed the date of the commit which supposedly broke this. Here is the exact post in the exact thread discussing this: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-October/029094.html -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: em network issues

2006-10-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
) while copying data over NFS (hence using em)? I could only get the problem to happen when there was both intense network usage **and** intense disk I/O (ata and em shared an interrupt in my case). -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: kernel ignores kenv comconsole_speed?

2006-10-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
not address my above request. The kernel still does something with the serial ports) -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA

Re: out of memory in restore?

2006-10-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
doing the restore session, though. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977

Re: Gmirror performanc (was Re: Gmirror question)

2006-10-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
size gies down. When round-robin is used, the transaction size is 128Kb/s, but the number of transaction per second goes down.). Do not use dd to benchmark disks. It's not a viable method of benchmarking. Consider installing ports/benchmarks/bonnie++. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: panic: kmem_map too small

2006-10-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
using limits(1). # kern.maxdsiz=805306368 kern.dfldsiz=805306368 kern.maxssiz=134217728 Adjusting kern.maxfiles and kern.maxfilesperproc might also help. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com

Re: partioning failed

2006-10-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
in IMMINENT FAILURE status). Informing the administrator of problems (by being verbose) before the system completely fails is a Good Thing, and is one of the many ad hoc benefits of present-day *IX operating systems versus Windows. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc

Re: SATA 500Gb disk problem

2006-10-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
on pci0 ata2: ATA channel 0 on atapci1 ata3: ATA channel 1 on atapci1 Additionally, please provide the output of `vmstat -i` to see if there's any shared interrupts with the ATA controller. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: SATA 500Gb disk problem

2006-10-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
), and should be avoided. Do these systems have a native SATA controller of some kind, such as the Intel ICH5/6/7/8 or nVidia nForce? For your sake, I hope so. If so, use them instead. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: new em-driver still broken

2006-10-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
scheduler are you using? 4BSD or ULE? Please check. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard

Re: bind9 trouble in -PRERELEASE

2006-11-01 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
with sysctl as well. Be sure to specify an absolute path that the 'bind' account has write access to, and is big enough to fit a decent-sized coredump. If you have a large /var filesystem, /var/tmp is an OK place. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius

Re: New em driver - still watchdog timeouts

2006-11-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
, the paragraph doesn't make sense. I call for clarification! ;-) -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life

Re: New em driver - still watchdog timeouts

2006-11-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 10:39:16AM -0800, Jack Vogel wrote: So, is that somewhat clearer? Very much so! Thank you for the concise answer. This makes much more sense. (The description, I mean -- the actual problem is still a mystery.) -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc

Re: netstat -ni - A lot of collisions...

2006-11-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
child and should be avoided. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977

Re: netstat -ni - A lot of collisions...

2006-11-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
is going on with auto-neg in that particular case. :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard

Re: problems compiling stable

2006-11-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
= ^^ ^ ^ ^ Could this character be causing the problem? -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius

Re: em driver testing

2006-11-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
of the woodwork with ME TOO comments who may in fact be suffering from other problems, and are looking for a scapegoat thread. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems

Re: Trouble: NFS via TCP

2006-11-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
head on the table for several hours, but I can't find the source of the problem. :-( Is this machine using pf/pfil? If so, are you using scrub at all? If so, don't. :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: Compiler Options

2006-11-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
, or any other type) will not change this behaviour. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others

Re: Cruel and unusual problems with Proliant ML350

2006-11-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
reason USB is useful on servers. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977

Re: Cruel and unusual problems with Proliant ML350

2006-11-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
, these products are big bucks. I can afford to shell out US$4500 for a KVM-over-IP box, but the vendor had better be licking my boots if I need any sort-of support, and had better be giving me free firmware upgrades. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com

Re: Problems with man and less/more

2006-11-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
by the default in /etc/profile and /etc/csh.cshrc for people who don't override it? -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making

Re: help identifying gmirror, ata, or motherboard problem (Tyan S2865G2NR)

2006-11-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
pounding, in RAID arrays and in single systems. This kind-of bug should've been caught immediately, and never made it to the consumer market. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX

Re: kernel crash ...

2006-11-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
not use mailwrapper. How can I know it You use mailwrapper whether or not sendmail_enable is set to NONE or any other value. mailwrapper is the framework used to make migrating to another MTA (postfix, exim, etc.) easier. It's what makes /etc/mail/mailer.conf work. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: SunFire X4100 MPT Issues 6.2 RC1

2006-11-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
with was to use the onboard SATA controller instead of my Promise controller. :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA

Re: grep: memory exhausted

2006-11-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 11:41:23PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: Try increasing this. I think grep mmaps the file, so the large file could be exceeding your limit. According to the manpage, grep uses read(2) unless you specify --mmap which then (obviously) uses mmap(2). -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: bge Ierr rate increase from 5.3R - 6.1R

2006-12-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
Email says two 2.8GHz Xeons, but it looks as if you have one physical 3.0GHz Xeon that has dual cores. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator

Re: Poor NFS performance after recent update

2006-12-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
scp'd stuff, etc.), as well as ifconfig -a output? -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others

Re: Poor NFS performance after recent update

2006-12-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
rather than using autonegotiate), or try a different switch. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard

ntpd flipping between PLL and FLL mode

2006-12-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
I guess my post here is to ask if anyone has extensive experience with this, and what the implications are. With ntpdate being phased out soon, most people will be expected to run ntpd, and therefore more support mails will be sent to the lists asking about this... -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: ntpd flipping between PLL and FLL mode

2006-12-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
to 10 (1,024 s), but can be increased by the maxpoll option to an upper limit of 17 (36.4 h). The minimum poll interval defaults to 6 (64 s), but can be decreased by the minpoll option to a lower limit of 4 (16 s). -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: ntpd flipping between PLL and FLL mode

2006-12-21 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
. Very cool. Thank you very much for this recommendation. :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life

Re: Duplicate IPFW rules

2006-12-21 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
15 of those deny statements). So please, do not change this behaviour -- it's a useful feature. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain

Re: burncd 'blank' not terminating ?

2006-12-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
distros I've seen as of late, they use a SCSI-to-ATA conversion layer). Thus: why haven't we moved the front-end to the ATA subsystem into atapicam(4) then? Is it just the amount of work involved, or are there technical reasons? -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc

Re: system breach

2006-12-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
...). Why a PHP script would do this, I don't know, but it wouldn't surprise me. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA

Interrupt (SCSI?) hang on 4.x

2007-01-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
=0x00 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:16:0: class=0x01 card=0xe2209005 chip=0x00809005 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 I can include my kernel configuration if need be, but it's fairly standard. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp

Re: Interrupt (SCSI?) hang on 4.x

2007-01-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 04:39:51PM +, Gavin Atkinson wrote: On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 07:36 -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: # vmstat -i ata0 irq14 6 0 fxp0 irq10 14874 28 mux irq11 65028125 fdc0 irq6

Re: Shutdown problem Stray IRQ9

2007-01-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
in the above paragraph. PS: On the same machine, my gentoo can shutdown correctly. Thus I would conclude that this is not HW related. I agree. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX

Re: Temperature/fan monitoring on a Supermicro P8SCT

2007-01-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
to monitoring system (case/enclosure) temperature. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others

Re: 6.x loosing record of free space after filesystem fills?

2007-01-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-disk.html * http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html (this is debatable) If we need PRs + patches for this, I'll be more than happy to submit them. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc

Re: acpi_bus_number: can't get _ADR

2007-01-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
this. What it means and why it's printed, I don't know -- thus I've concluded, generally speaking, it's a harmless kernel message. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems

Re: Interrupt (SCSI?) hang on 4.x

2007-01-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 01:40:48PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: On Tuesday 02 January 2007 10:36, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Yes, I know 4.11 is EOL'd at the end of this month, but hopefully someone can shed some light on this problem anyways. I simply don't have the knowledge of what's going

Re: Interrupt (SCSI?) hang on 4.x

2007-01-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 04:47:17PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: On Thursday 11 January 2007 16:13, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: The kernel I'm using was built on the following date (thus, src-all for release=cvs tag=RELENG_4 was cvsup'd about an hour prior to this): FreeBSD pentarou.parodius.com

Re: Source MAC addresses when bridge(4) used

2007-01-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
flags=3LEARNING,DISCOVER Does tinkering with net.link.ether.bridge.config help at all? See bridge(4) manpage. (I haven't used this, I'm just brainstorming...) -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp

Re: 6.2-RELEASE em0 watchdog timeouts -- sometimes (w/ partial workaround)

2007-01-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
to know, too. Thanks, as always. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977

Re: 6.2: make buildworld fails at usr.bin/passwd

2007-01-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
installation, and you have not adopted (yes, this is the term used in the FAQ) your src tree to that pulled down via cvsup/csup. The cvsup FAQ addresses this here: http://www.cvsup.org/faq.html#caniadopt http://www.cvsup.org/faq.html#adopt -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc

Re: BTX issues when booting from a USB CD-ROM

2007-01-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
that as an alternative to btx. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB

Re: bge Ierr rate increase from 5.3R - 6.1R

2007-01-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB

Re: bge Ierr rate increase from 5.3R - 6.1R

2007-01-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
replacing the cabling the issue continues, then there's a chance the bge(4) driver may be obtaining statistics wrong for the particular chip revision being used (this is hearsay on my part; I'm just guessing...) -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius

Re: 'make depend' fails with 'device viapm'

2007-01-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
iicbb ## I2C bit-banging driver device iicsmb ## SMBus over I2C bridge -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator

Re: bge Ierr rate increase from 5.3R - 6.1R

2007-01-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 12:07:22PM +0100, Robin Gruyters wrote: Quoting Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [...] Set your Cisco configuration to use 100/full, and edit the ifconfig_bge0 line in rc.conf on your FreeBSD box to have media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex, then reboot the FreeBSD

Re: bge Ierr rate increase from 5.3R - 6.1R

2007-01-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
only for the -CURRENT not for 6.x releases. Definitely related, and probably the cause. I hope someone backports this to RELENG_6 once everything is tested thoroughly. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp

Re: Desired behaviour of ifconfig -alias

2007-02-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
. I'd argue that -alias doing what you described (removing the non-aliased IP bound to the iface) when no inet/inet6 arguments are suppied is indeed a bug. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com

Re: Desired behaviour of ifconfig -alias

2007-02-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
are for certain commands. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP

Re: Desired behaviour of ifconfig -alias

2007-02-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
entries when it comes to other parts of the networking stack, such as ipfw deny entries resulting in Permission denied when trying to do socket-level operations. Took me a while to figure out that it was ipfw inducing that. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com

Re: What is a good choice of sata-ii raid controller for freebsd?

2007-02-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
the manufacturers are testing them with. Most manufacturer documentation I've seen says for use with graphics applications. I'll add that I've only seen x1 and x16 cards until now -- the Areca cards are the first card I've seen using x8. Thoughts/comments? -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: install on USB flash memory

2007-02-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
is that FreeBSD's bootloader doesn't support booting off of such devices, thus you need to use GRUB or another bootloader. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator

Re: Desired behaviour of ifconfig -alias

2007-02-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
openvpn_configfile=/conf/ME/openvpn/openvpn.conf openvpn_dir=/conf/ME/openvpn openvpn_if=tap cloned_interfaces=bridge0 ifconfig_bridge0=addm em1 up -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX

Re: Desired behaviour of ifconfig -alias

2007-02-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 01:27:36PM -0600, Brooks Davis wrote: On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:07:39AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Does it support media and mediaopt arguments? These are very commonly used. I also rely on this, for what it's worth: openvpn_enable=yes openvpn_configfile

Re: Desired behaviour of ifconfig -alias

2007-02-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
the routing table seems to differentiate aliases from the primary IP; look at netstat -rn), but underlying socket calls probably pick the first entry in the address index table per interface when one is not defined, probably based on the routing table too. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: Intermittent network issues with Freebsd 6.2

2007-02-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
show this, or pciconf -l -v. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977

Re: Cannot obtain kernel dump in /var/crash

2007-02-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
or if you remove the -f flag from savecore_flags? It may be worth peeking through /etc/rc.d/dumpon and imitating some of the commands there to see if you can reproduce it. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp

Re: Cannot obtain kernel dump in /var/crash

2007-02-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
debugging info which might come in handy (lines ~288 of src/sbin/savecore/savecore.c). -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA

Re: Intermittent network issues with Freebsd 6.2

2007-02-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
at this time (soon, soon...), but can provide root. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since

Re: Intermittent network issues with Freebsd 6.2

2007-02-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
card and install it in our server, then disable the onboard Broadcom NICs. Amusingly, I'll point out that on all newer Supermicro boards (Intel chipset-based), Supermicro is using Intel NICs and PHYs, and no longer Broadcom. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc

Re: sysinstall creates corrupt filesystems after repartitioning

2007-03-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
corruption? If Eric's doing it and it's working fine, I'm left wondering if there's maybe sysinstall isn't handling something right. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems

Re: sysinstall creates corrupt filesystems after repartitioning

2007-03-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
. (I'm not denying the problem exists, I just want to reproduce it, and I think those steps would be useful to those who can fix the problem too.) -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX

Re: sysinstall creates corrupt filesystems after repartitioning

2007-03-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
used, 2301667 free (27 frags, 287705 blocks, 0.0% fragmentation) Is there something I'm missing? -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain

Re: Boot prompt for Intel AMT

2007-03-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
problem, yadda yadda.) Seems to me the only vendors who got this right were 1) HP/Compaq with their true iLO/iLO2, and 2) Sun. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems

Re: Boot prompt for Intel AMT

2007-03-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
that can -- and should -- be done at layer 1. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others

Re: Is SATA II supported in 6.2-stable?

2007-03-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
://www.seagate.com/support/disc/manuals/Desktop/Barracuda%207200.10/100402371e.pdf -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA

Re: Background process

2007-03-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
) and detach your program. http://dtach.sourceforge.net/ 3) Use GNU screen (ports/sysutils/screen) and run your program within that. http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp

Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.)

2007-03-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
of paranoia (the most common defence being fear nVidia/other competitors will steal their technology). Really sounds like the decision of a legal dept. and not a CEO. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp

Re: Openvpn tap uses 99% cpu time

2007-03-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
?? Ss3Feb07 2:18.63 /usr/local/sbin/openvpn --cd ... medusa# cat /var/run/openvpn.pid 849 -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator

Re: tap device at boot time

2007-03-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
down || true -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977

Re: rc.order wrong (ipfw)

2007-03-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
rules (ipfw or pf) are applied Do you realise that between steps #4 and steps #5 there is a small window of time where someone may be able to send packets to your machine and get responses which would normally be blocked by ipfw/pf? -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc

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