gratuituous arp for multiple IP addresses

2000-05-04 Thread Rahul Dhesi
-- connectivity to the primary IP addresses was observed to be intact after the reboot.) Please correct me if I am making any wrong assumptions. -- Rahul Dhesi [EMAIL PROTECTED] (spam-filtered with RSS and ORBS) See my ORBS faq: http://www.rahul.net/dhesi/orbs.faq.txt To Unsubscribe

Re: gratuituous arp for multiple IP addresses

2000-05-07 Thread Rahul Dhesi
By "gratuituous arp" I was really saying "gratuitous arp reply". The machine needs to send a packet of the type arp reply 1.2.3.5 is-at 0:40:5:42:d6:de Rahul On Sun, 7 May 2000, Bill Fenner wrote: fenestro# ifconfig de1 1.2.3.5 alias 18:35:47.269471 0:40:5:42:d6:de Broadcast arp 42: arp

Re: gratuituous arp for multiple IP addresses

2000-05-07 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Ok, I stand corrected. Rahul On Sun, 7 May 2000, Bill Fenner wrote: By "gratuituous arp" I was really saying "gratuitous arp reply". The machine needs to send a packet of the type arp reply 1.2.3.5 is-at 0:40:5:42:d6:de The ARP processing specified in RFC 826 says that if you have

Re: gratuituous arp for multiple IP addresses

2000-05-08 Thread Rahul Dhesi
I stand corrected again, as needed. The gratuituous arp should be formatted in whatever the correct way is. The machine that encountered loss of connectivity due to interface IPs being swapped is running 3.4-STABLE that was cvsup'd on January 7, 2000. If in fact some change was made in the

Re: HEADS UP: /etc/rc.shutdown calls local scripts now

2000-07-06 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Thomas Gellekum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /etc/rc.shutdown in -current has been changed to call the scripts in ${local_startup} with the `stop' option. This allows packages like databases to call their own shutdown methods and clean up after themselves This will make it a bit harder to

Re: HEADS UP: /etc/rc.shutdown calls local scripts now

2000-07-07 Thread Rahul Dhesi
I recently wrote: It's not the green that's important, it's the 'OK'. The way Redhat Linux boots, you can see at a glance which start-up commands failed and which ones succeeded. The way FreeBSD boots, it's all one big blur. Also, in the Linux scheme, there is a standard mechanism to keep

Re: sh(1) -- exec vs. fork

1999-02-19 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Many years ago I posted a shell script to Usenet in which I prepended a line with 'exec', in an attempt to avoid having a shell process hanging around doing a wait(). David Korn himself (of Korn shell fame) responded saying this was not necessary, as the shell would do exec() anyway. I check

please don't check mail for root logins

1999-02-24 Thread Rahul Dhesi
I have a suggestion for the FreeBSD maintainers. In /bin/login, please don't check for mail when the user is root. And in the case that the mail filesystem is mounted via NFS from a non-responding server, it hangs root logins. Root logins on machine A should never ever ever require machine B to

Re: please don't check mail for root logins

1999-02-25 Thread Rahul Dhesi
for some reason, so I reinstalled sshd without --with-login . Drat! I hate it when software bypasses standard system routines. Rahul Date: Wed, 24 Feb 99 23:26:47 PST From: Matthew Dillon dil...@apollo.backplane.com To:Rahul Dhesi dh...@rahul.net Cc:freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Message

Re: please don't check mail for root logins

1999-02-25 Thread Rahul Dhesi
-current@FreeBSD.ORG Message-Id: 19990225105101.a15...@osfmail.isc.rit.edu Subject: Re: please don't check mail for root logins On Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 04:15:30AM -0800, Rahul Dhesi wrote: Good idea, thanks, and I now realize that it won't work, and neither will changing /bin/login -- because

Re: please don't check mail for root logins

1999-02-26 Thread Rahul Dhesi
be forwarded to a non-root user anyway. Rahul Date: Thu, 25 Feb 99 21:31:36 +0100 From: Ollivier Robert robe...@keltia.freenix.fr To:freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Message-Id: 19990225213136.b12...@keltia.freenix.fr Subject: Re: please don't check mail for root logins According to Rahul Dhesi

Re: lockmgr panic with mmap()

1999-02-28 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Please forgive me if this is a silly question. Since bugs do happen, deadlock can occur in the kernel. Is it not possible in such cases to simply detect the deadlock, and kill one of the user processes involved in the deadlock, thus releasing one of the resources involved in the deadlock? Then

Re: lockmgr panic with mmap()

1999-03-01 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Admittedly detecting deadlock is not trivial in general. But if we are about to panic because of deadlock, then we have already detected something. The question now is: Do we crash the whole system, or just one or two user processes? Rahul :Since bugs do happen, deadlock can occur in the

Re: Possible fix for rc.conf

1999-03-20 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Scot W. Hetzel hetz...@westbend.net writes: if [ $0 != $i ]; then A more generic fix is for each script to set an environment variable, and check to make sure that variable was not set already. Analogous to how C include files prevent recursive inclusion. -- Rahul Dhesi dh

rc.conf issues: host identity vs host config

1999-03-25 Thread Rahul Dhesi
The current rc.conf system doesn't seem to allow for separating out host identity from host configuration. As a result I'm not able to create a site-wide rc.conf file and rdist it to multiple machines, configured identically except for having distinct own host names. I think some very basic

Re: nfs problems

1999-03-30 Thread Rahul Dhesi
NFS server is down. (Even if my current directory is not NFS-mounted.) This might be a problem specific to 'df', though. Ideally 'df' should check to make sure a remote NFS server is responding (via the NFS null procedure) before trying to get any filesystem info for that filesystem. -- Rahul

showing full host names in output from who/finger/last

1999-04-10 Thread Rahul Dhesi
For some years I have been using patched utilities under SunOS to show full host names in the output from the 'who', 'finger', and 'last' commands. (Traditional UNIXes truncate host names to about 16 characters.) I have been thinking of patching FreeBSD programs to do the same, but since I have

Re: showing full host names in output from who/finger/last

1999-04-12 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Robert Watson rob...@cyrus.watson.org writes: I'd actually like to see wtmp only use IP addresses, never hostnames. Spoofed names are fairly easy to arrange; with IP filtering on border routers, spoofed IPs are harder This of course sticks you with the task of DNS lookups when viewing