TCP SACK

1999-07-17 Thread Geoff Rehmet
I was wondering if anyone was busy looking at implementing TCP SACk (selective ack) on FreeBSD. Thanks, Geoff. -- Geoff Rehmet, The Internet Solution - Infrastructure tel: +27-11-283-5462, fax: +27-11-283-5401 mobile: +27-83-292-5800 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.is.co.za

Re: best time for cvsup?

1999-07-30 Thread Geoff Rehmet
1.1, the tree was often broken in the European / South African morning, which meant that a I was sometimes doing patches before a make world would work again. I think the maturity of the FreeBSD development process has changed somewhat since then. :-) Geoff. -- Geoff Rehmet, The Internet Solution

RE: ATA - Trouble mounting secondary master

1999-08-11 Thread Geoff Rehmet
lto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 August 1999 08:53 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ATA - Trouble mounting secondary master It seems Geoff Rehmet wrote: Brian McGroarty writes : In using the ATA driver, I'm unable to automatic

RE: ATA - Trouble mounting secondary master

1999-08-11 Thread Geoff Rehmet
I just rebooted on an August 11 kernel. My system still is happy with the disks. Hmm. I can't remember exactly where my tracing went, before I left off before, but the message you are seeing comes from /sys/i386/isa/diskslice_machdep.c, line 200 (version 1.35). What you will probably find, is

RE: Dropping connections without RST

1999-08-17 Thread Geoff Rehmet
Geoff Rehmet writes: : Not that easily.. how are you going to make ipfw dynamically know : which ports have listeners and which don't? By filtering all RST packets? My view was that this is much simpler than filtering packets - never generate the packet. My guess

Re: UP kernel performance and Matt Dillon's patches

2000-03-28 Thread Geoff Rehmet
ED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ok, I'll take a look at it... the most likely cause is that I somehow broke need_resched. Not impossible, I'll check it out. I'm seeing the same symptoms while doing a make - my console performance is very jumpy and sluggish. Geoff. -- Ge

RE: src/sys/i386/isa/ipl.s rev 1.35 should fix boot lockups

2000-03-29 Thread Geoff Rehmet
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-current TCP performance hosed?

2001-09-14 Thread Geoff Rehmet
I was just wondering if anyone has been experiencing problems with TCP performance on -current -- my box built on 11 Sept is dog slow - max 60kbps over 10baseT. I'm going to try and revert to an older kernel and see if there is a difference. Geoff. -- Geoff Rehmet, Internet Solutions tel: +27

Re: -current TCP performance hosed?

2001-09-14 Thread Geoff Rehmet
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 04:13:37PM -0400, Bosko Milekic wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 09:57:24PM +0200, Geoff Rehmet wrote: I was just wondering if anyone has been experiencing problems with TCP performance on -current -- my box built on 11 Sept is dog slow - max 60kbps over 10baseT

ACPI??? was - Re: -current TCP performance hosed?

2001-09-14 Thread Geoff Rehmet
; set debug.acpi.disable=timer at the loader prompt. If this works, please let me know (with ACPI in the subject line so I don't miss it). Tried that, also tried set hint.acpi.0.disable=1 - neither had any effect. The kernel is not compiled with apm... Geoff. -- Geoff Rehmet, Internet

Re: ACPI??? was - Re: -current TCP performance hosed?

2001-09-15 Thread Geoff Rehmet
On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 09:43:57AM -0400, Bosko Milekic wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 01:08:28AM +0200, Geoff Rehmet wrote: You said this happens with a few-day-old kernel. Is this an implication that it didn't happen before? Can you say, with a certain level

Re: ACPI??? was - Re: -current TCP performance hosed?

2001-09-17 Thread Geoff Rehmet
) and at the hub during data transfer. If everything looks OK, try putting a different card into that machine. My ethernet card is definitely running half duplex. Also, as I mentioned, as a client, the box behaves fine, but not as a server. Geoff. -- Geoff Rehmet, Internet Solutions tel: +27-11

Re: ACPI??? was - Re: -current TCP performance hosed?

2001-09-17 Thread Geoff Rehmet
whether this is a driver problem or something else. I intend to change my NIC. That will just take a little more time to arrange. Geoff. -- Geoff Rehmet, Internet Solutions tel: +27-11-283-5462, fax: +27-11-283-5401 mobile: +27-83-292-5800 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.is.co.za

Re: ACPI??? was - Re: -current TCP performance hosed?

2001-09-17 Thread Geoff Rehmet
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 02:55:16PM +0200, Geoff Rehmet wrote: On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 11:55:48AM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: Well, duplex mismatch can result in asymmetric behaviour. It could be a problem with the transmit part of the driver. You didn't mention what kind of NIC

Re: Mandating USA_RESIDENT

2000-01-18 Thread Geoff Rehmet
he crypto code ? Hmm, i would also look at something similar - rather generalise towards countries that are crypto-unfriendly (like the USA, France, etc.) g. -- Geoff Rehmet, The Internet Solution [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +27-83-292-5800 To Unsubscribe: send

Building a new system to current

1999-01-19 Thread Geoff Rehmet
to go back on that!   Apart from the comments in src/UPDATING, Peter Wemm's ELF day web page, and Robert Nordiers page on the new bootblocks, can anyone think of anything I should take into account?   regards, Geoff (hoping to be hacking again soon!) -- Geoff Rehmet, The Internet Solution

Re: adding DHCP client to src/contrib/

1999-02-08 Thread Geoff Rehmet
personally would prefer to see DHCP left a port. But, OTOH, more and more people are using dynamic IP address assignment on their networks. (Not an easy one.) Geoff. -- Geoff Rehmet, The Internet Solution geo...@is.co.za; ge...@rucus.ru.ac.za; c...@freebsd.org tel: +27-83-292-5800 To Unsubscribe

Re: adding DHCP client to src/contrib/

1999-02-08 Thread Geoff Rehmet
in the distribution going out into the world with bpf enabled. Geoff. -- Geoff Rehmet, The Internet Solution geo...@is.co.za; ge...@rucus.ru.ac.za; c...@freebsd.org tel: +27-83-292-5800 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: adding DHCP client to src/contrib/

1999-02-08 Thread Geoff Rehmet
IP number. I would really not like DHCP to require FreeBSD being shipped with bpf enabled. Geoff. -- Geoff Rehmet, The Internet Solution geo...@is.co.za; ge...@rucus.ru.ac.za; c...@freebsd.org tel: +27-83-292-5800 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd

Re: adding DHCP client to src/contrib/

1999-02-08 Thread Geoff Rehmet
a quick look around - it would be a good idea to look at the code which already exists in libstand (/usr/src/lib/libstand/bootp.c). I haven't had an exhaustive look through the code, but this should give the necessary material to work out another way of doing things. Geoff. -- Geoff Rehmet

RE: adding DHCP client to src/contrib/

1999-02-09 Thread Geoff Rehmet
-Original Message- From: David O'Brien [mailto:obr...@nuxi.com] Sent: 09 February 1999 10:54 To: Geoff Rehmet Cc: curr...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adding DHCP client to src/contrib/ It may even be necessary to use bpf initially, but there must be a more elegant way

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..

1999-03-02 Thread Geoff Rehmet
, and run the same test to see what it did. Geoff. -- Geoff Rehmet, The Internet Solution geo...@is.co.za; ge...@rucus.ru.ac.za; c...@freebsd.org tel: +27-83-292-5800 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

ATA driver

1999-03-02 Thread Geoff Rehmet
. -- Geoff Rehmet, The Internet Solution - Infrastructure tel: +27-11-283-5462, fax: +27-11-283-5401 mobile: +27-83-292-5800 email: geo...@is.co.za URL: http://www.is.co.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

RE: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..

1999-03-02 Thread Geoff Rehmet
On 02-Mar-99 SXren Schmidt wrote: Its in the works, together with the tagged queuing some of the newer drives supports. Wow! :) Is there any chance od adding the ability to 'wire' devices a la SCSI? :) I'll think about it, but lots of things has higher priority... -Søren

Re: Printing is vvveeerrryyy slow

1999-03-03 Thread Geoff Rehmet
(lptcotnrol -p) is probably your best bet at the moment. Geoff. -- Geoff Rehmet, The Internet Solution geo...@is.co.za; ge...@rucus.ru.ac.za; c...@freebsd.org tel: +27-83-292-5800 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

RE: Printing is vvveeerrryyy slow

1999-03-03 Thread Geoff Rehmet

ATA driver

1999-03-05 Thread Geoff Rehmet
1177 7.1 3064 60.2 3189 9.6 56.5 2.1 The only significant diference is on Sequential block inputs and random seeks where, notably the CU times have gone down. (I have taken no account of other changes in the kernel.) Geoff. -- Geoff Rehmet, The Internet Solution - Infrastructure tel: +27

Re: Having trouble with the new ATAPI driver

1999-04-20 Thread Geoff Rehmet
- a second swapon -a, and everything worked - that slice has however since become my /tmp, as I already had enough swap. I have only been getting device not configured errors on ad2 though. Geoff. -- Geoff Rehmet, The Internet Solution geo...@is.co.za; ge...@rucus.ru.ac.za; c...@freebsd.org tel: +27-83

newbus - kernel compile failure (old + new PCI drivers)

1999-04-22 Thread Geoff Rehmet
--- 596,602 } } } + #endif #endif/* NPCI 0 */ } -- Geoff Rehmet, The Internet Solution - Infrastructure tel: +27-11-283-5462, fax: +27-11-283-5401 mobile: +27-83-292-5800 email: geo...@is.co.za URL: http://www.is.co.za To Unsubscribe: send mail

Today's kernel crashes on starting X

1999-05-12 Thread Geoff Rehmet
I'm currently running into a problem, that when I start my system, it spontaneously reboots when starting X. Has anyone else run into this? -- Geoff Rehmet, The Internet Solution - Infrastructure tel: +27-11-283-5462, fax: +27-11-283-5401 mobile: +27-83-292-5800 email: geo...@is.co.za URL

Re: panic ! panic ! panic !

1999-05-12 Thread Geoff Rehmet
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RE: panic ! panic ! panic !

1999-05-12 Thread Geoff Rehmet
login! Geoff. -Original Message- From: Poul-Henning Kamp [mailto:p...@critter.freebsd.dk] Sent: 12 May 1999 05:56 To: Geoff Rehmet Cc: lu...@watermarkgroup.com; curr...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: panic ! panic ! panic ! At least put DDB in your kernel, type trace when

Re: X crashing under current

1999-05-13 Thread Geoff Rehmet
-CVSuped this morning, and am now working again. (Trust me not to enable crash dumps when I installed my system - back in the old days, it was default) Anyhow, I'm now waiting to catch the bastard when it falls! Geoff. -- Geoff Rehmet, The Internet Solution geo...@is.co.za; ge...@rucus.ru.ac.za; c