Re: MACs vs Hash fns. and collision resistance

2000-09-01 Thread Scott Michel
You could just as easily use a CRC function, which has the nice property of having a collision rate of 2^l, where l is the length of the CRC. CRCs are also pretty low-cost to compute relative to other methods. -scooter At 09:47 PM 8/25/00 -0400, you wrote: [I see my post made it] To expand

Re: Odd TCP glitches in new currents

1999-12-25 Thread B. Scott Michel
RFC-1075 and don't really understand it.--Glen Gross On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, B. Scott Michel wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Jonathan Lemon wrote: On Dec 12, 1999 at 11:37:42AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: I had a Netgear FS509 switch here that would eat packets transmitted through

Re: TCP Oddities followup

1999-12-23 Thread B. Scott Michel
Scott Michel wrote: - tcpdump-ing the pn0 interface shows that the host thinks that it's sending data. tcpdump-ing elsewhere in the network shows that pn0 isn't actually transmitting anything into the wire. The host appears to be doing retransmissions but nothing goes out on the wire

TCP Oddities followup

1999-12-23 Thread Scott Michel
As I'd recently posted on -current, I've been noticing TCP oddities in 3.3 and 3.4. I've got a pn card (NetGear FA310tx) and a few new things to report: - Invariably, a TCP connection will freeze with something in the send queue. Connections don't freeze even if there's something in the

Re: Odd TCP glitches in new currents

1999-12-22 Thread B. Scott Michel
On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Jonathan Lemon wrote: On Dec 12, 1999 at 11:37:42AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: I had a Netgear FS509 switch here that would eat packets transmitted through the GigE port under certain conditions. Netgear shipped me a new one, and I've been happy with it, until the

oops: 894

1999-09-28 Thread Scott Michel
I've got a slightly hosed -current at the moment that complains with this error message: # make oops: 894 followed by a very healthy looking notice about a segfault and because I'm root in single user mode, core dumps are abounding. Since I'm DITW at the moment, anyone got a clue? This Windows

Extra characters?

1999-07-28 Thread Scott Michel
At line 71 in i386/isa/clock.c, there is the following: #include machine/md_var.h #include machine/psl.h XXX #ifdef APIC_IO #include machine/segments.h #endif I'd say, and this is only a SWAG mind you, that the 'XXX' is extraneous. Right? -scooter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Panic in spec_strategy()

1999-07-07 Thread Scott Michel
-current kernel as of 1700 PST (or thereabouts): spec_strategy+0x31: movl0x28(%eax), eax Note: %eax = 0 Traceback: -- spec_strategy(c3d27dd0,c3d27dac,c01cbe1,c3d27dd0,c3d27ddc) at spec_strategy+0x31

Re: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ?

1999-06-05 Thread Scott Michel
This wouldn't help the poor sod whose connection gets shot down every eight days while he's not there and doesn't know what hit him. One thing that no one points out is that this idle connection is potentially a security threat. Even if the physical connection is iced and is reconnected later

Re: More compiler option comparisons

1999-05-26 Thread Scott Michel
I don't recall that the FreeBSD version of egcs is built with Haifa turned on, which is supposed to improve optimizations as the level is increased (more aggressive instruction scheduling.) With egcs, the '-O' flag doesn't specify the optimization level like it does in GCC. It specifies

Problems with -current gdb

1999-05-06 Thread Scott Michel
Current's gdb cannot read core files today (cvsup'd on Monday and installed Monday). It reports: % gdb foobar foobar.core Register %s not found in core file. % The error emanates in gdb/gdb/core-aout.c. I was going to try to diagnose the problem this weekend but unfortunately I have USNR duty.

Re: Problems with -current gdb

1999-05-06 Thread Scott Michel
% gdb foobar foobar.core Register %s not found in core file. ^^ Should read: Register eax not found in core file. Silly me... :-) -scooter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: Our routed - Vern says it's old and buggy.

1999-04-28 Thread Scott Michel
Open (according to Lenny Kleinrock) meant available; thus OSPF was supposed to mean Available, shortest path first. But, then again, these meanings get changed with time. Open is now a codeword for GNU/GPL/intellectual rights unencumbtered software. For OSPF, it was simply a description of an

YP/NIS and passwd weirdness

1999-04-02 Thread Scott Michel
I didn't see anything along these lines the the archive, so here goes... (something different to the other threads running these days.) In 3.3.1 and 4.0-current, if one puts the following in /etc/passwd to enable NIS logins: +:*: then logins (console or ssh) of ordinary users don't

Re: YP/NIS and passwd weirdness

1999-04-02 Thread Scott Michel
Umm- it's never supposed to have been with a '*' in it for this YP implementation, I believe. Fixing the security check would be a good thing. Going to pam/nsswitch.conf would be even better. Been that way for years, ever since I started supporting a SCO box oh these many years ago with a

Re: DEVFS, the time has come...

1999-01-28 Thread Scott Michel
Not true IMO. You still need to know what hardware you have before you can build your own kernels etc etc. Also the eth[0..x] thing means you can replace your ethernet card with a new one of a different type without having to look through your config code for references to ed0 or

Re: DEVFS, the time has come...

1999-01-27 Thread Scott Michel
I think Solaris (?) requires you to do this, it's called plumbing your interfaces or something (according to Julian). Solaris requires interface plumbing as the result of STREAMS; you have to push IP on top of the interface driver. For all intents and purposes, the device name identifies a