On Tue, 4 May 1999, Tony Finch wrote:
> Matthew Dillon wrote:
> >
> >(fanfair!)
>
> :-)
>
> >NFS attempts to realign packet buffers and trods all over the underlying
> >mbufs. For TCP connections, several RPC's may be present in an mbuf
> >chain. The realignment of one of the
:>remainder of the packet - the ip payload - to NOT be 4-byte aligned.
:
:We're planning to try replacing some Solaris web servers with FreeBSD
:machines in the near future. The documents are on a read-only NFS
:filestore connected to the web servers with CDDI. (Updates will stay
:on a Sun box.
Matthew Dillon wrote:
>
>(fanfair!)
:-)
>NFS attempts to realign packet buffers and trods all over the underlying
>mbufs. For TCP connections, several RPC's may be present in an mbuf
>chain. The realignment of one of them may destroy the others. This does
>not occur with
:For parts that don't support arbitrary alignment, you have to copy.
:Now, in some of the drivers that I ported to the alpha, I only copied
:the first small section of the packet in order to get the IP header
:aligned (since failing to do this causes an unaligned access trap in
:the IP code). This
On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Bill Paul wrote:
> Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Matthew Dillon
> had to walk into mine and say:
>
> > (fanfair!)
>
> (Darth Vader's imperial march theme)
>
> > NFS Patch #8 for -current is now available. This patch fixes serious
> -Original Message-
> From: Bill Paul [mailto:wp...@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu]
> Sent: 28 April 1999 14:27
> To: dil...@apollo.backplane.com
> Cc: hack...@freebsd.org; curr...@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: NFS Patch #8 for current available - new TCP fixes
>
>
> O
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Matthew Dillon
had to walk into mine and say:
> (fanfair!)
(Darth Vader's imperial march theme)
> NFS Patch #8 for -current is now available. This patch fixes serious bugs
> w/ NFS/TCP. Probably not *all* the failure
(fanfair!)
NFS Patch #8 for -current is now available. This patch fixes serious bugs
w/ NFS/TCP. Probably not *all* the failure conditions, but hopefully
most of them.
http://www.backplane.com/FreeBSD4/
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