Re: status of bridge code

2001-01-25 Thread Rogier R. Mulhuijzen
personally I use the netgraph bridging code and I think (though I'm biased) that you should look at using htat rather than the hardwired bridging code that it was derived from. Now that I've read up on it I can tell you you and and Archie have every right to be biased =) I've had a netgraph

Re: Bootstrapping issues with groff(1)

2001-01-25 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
Hi! Attached is the patch for RELENG_4. It works but I don't like how it pollutes the Makefile.inc1. Anyone with a better idea? On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 09:43:55AM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: Ruslan Ermilov wrote: Let me rephrase the question: Did you modify the manpages to get it

TI-RPC, IPv6 and NFS (was: Re: strong recommendation re: NFS)

2001-01-25 Thread Ronald van der Pol
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: :On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: : : Concentrate on making the general network stack (aka TCP) and : filesystems SMP aware. Leave NFS alone for now. Please. : :If I understand correctly another item on the wishlist is TI-RPC :(so

Re: status of bridge code

2001-01-25 Thread Vitaly V. Belekhov
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Julian Elischer wrote: ... my dc cards. No problems so far - as long as I don't use DUMMYNET with it. I really wish I could use DUMMYNET as I need to put bandwidth limits on a few of the computers on my network. ... Rate limitting is one thing that isn't there

Re: (KAME-snap 3972) TI-RPC, IPv6 and NFS (was: Re: strong recommendation re: NFS)

2001-01-25 Thread Feico Dillema
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 02:40:22PM +0100, Ronald van der Pol wrote: On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: (I have cc-ed [EMAIL PROTECTED]) This came up about half a year ago in the KAME snap mailing list. I think the conclusion was: a migration from "old" RPC to TI-RPC is a

Re: HEADS UP: libc/libc_r changes require rebuild of threaded apps

2001-01-25 Thread Carlos A. M. dos Santos
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Maxim Sobolev wrote: It's not a very accurate estimate, as the magic can be in the distfile itself, i.e. properly written configure script or makefile may know that FreeBSD need a -pthread and -D_THREAD_SAFE. For some unknown reason, math.h needs _REENTRANT in

parallel port zip+ fix

2001-01-25 Thread j mckitrick
Hi all, I have been working with Nicholas Souchu to fix a few issues with the parallel port zip, especially the zip+ (250 meg version). I know this is deprecated hardware, but I would like to know if it helps. The driver should now work correctly in PS2 transfer mode, which in theory should be

Re: (KAME-snap 3972) TI-RPC, IPv6 and NFS (was: Re: strong recommendation re: NFS)

2001-01-25 Thread itojun
I don't think this is within the KAME-project scope. On NetBSD, the NetBSD crowd has done this almost a year ago (I believe) and NFS over IPv6 works just great on NetBSD. I'd guess FreeBSD could borrow a lot from the NetBSD work, reducing the major-ness of the task? The above is

Re: (KAME-snap 3974) Re: TI-RPC, IPv6 and NFS (was: Re: strongrecommendation re: NFS)

2001-01-25 Thread Ronald van der Pol
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think this is within the KAME-project scope. On NetBSD, the NetBSD crowd has done this almost a year ago (I believe) and NFS over IPv6 works just great on NetBSD. I'd guess FreeBSD could borrow a lot from the NetBSD work, reducing the

Re: (KAME-snap 3974) Re: TI-RPC, IPv6 and NFS (was: Re: strong recommendation re: NFS)

2001-01-25 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: It is not impossible to support IPv6 NFS without switching to TI-RPC, INRIA IPv6 has the code (IIRC). = this code was ported to FreeBSD 4.2. I'll give more details as soon as I am back to my office (ie. next week). However, if you

Re: (KAME-snap 3976) Re: TI-RPC, IPv6 and NFS (was: Re: strong recommendation re: NFS)

2001-01-25 Thread itojun
The above is correct. NetBSD NFS-over-IPv6 (actually RPC over IPv6) is TI-RPC based, and it was done by NetBSD guys not KAME guys. Sorry, I was not clear. The question about moving towards TI-RPC was directed to freebsd-current. Just out of interest. No critisism intended.

Re: bw limit in netgraph (Was: status of bridge code)

2001-01-25 Thread Rogier R. Mulhuijzen
Since I currently have high workload, I dont have time to port it to 4.x or 5-CURRENT... Conclusion: volunteer required for this work... and I can consult him/her. Shouldn't be too hard. I'll gladly volunteer for this project. Quick question for the netgraph guru's. I haven't looked

4GB with NFS?

2001-01-25 Thread Matthew Jacob
I came across an embarrassing comparison last night- FreeBSD NFS clients (well, i386) stop writing files at 4GB. Solaris, with O_LARGEFILE options in the open arguments, does not. Does anyone here know what FreeBSD ought to be doing about this? Or have I missed something? There is no

Re: 4GB with NFS?

2001-01-25 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 25), Matthew Jacob said: I came across an embarrassing comparison last night- FreeBSD NFS clients (well, i386) stop writing files at 4GB. Solaris, with O_LARGEFILE options in the open arguments, does not. Does anyone here know what FreeBSD ought to be doing

Re: 4GB with NFS?

2001-01-25 Thread Matthew Jacob
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jan 25), Matthew Jacob said: I came across an embarrassing comparison last night- FreeBSD NFS clients (well, i386) stop writing files at 4GB. Solaris, with O_LARGEFILE options in the open arguments, does not. Does

Re: 4GB with NFS?

2001-01-25 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 25), Matthew Jacob said: On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Dan Nelson wrote: Make sure you're using NFSv3 mounts (should be the default, but if not, add "nfsv3" to the options column in fstab). I cross-mount FreeBSD, Tru64, and Solaris boxes via NFS and can access large files

Re: 4GB with NFS?

2001-01-25 Thread Matthew Jacob
To be fair, I should say that the server is a 'specical' box. But an lmdd writing to a file in 250GB partition that I started from Solaris last night is still going. The NetBSD FreeBSD writes both stopped at 4GB. I suppose it still could be the server, but, well, it's hard to sell against

Re: 4GB with NFS?

2001-01-25 Thread Matthew Jacob
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jan 25), Matthew Jacob said: On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Dan Nelson wrote: Make sure you're using NFSv3 mounts (should be the default, but if not, add "nfsv3" to the options column in fstab). I cross-mount FreeBSD, Tru64, and

Re: 4GB with NFS?

2001-01-25 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Matthew Jacob [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010125 09:18] wrote: On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jan 25), Matthew Jacob said: On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Dan Nelson wrote: Make sure you're using NFSv3 mounts (should be the default, but if not, add "nfsv3" to the

Re: status of bridge code

2001-01-25 Thread Archie Cobbs
Rogier R. Mulhuijzen writes: But from my list of wishes I'd say the first 3 are gone. All that's left is spanning tree. I'm probably going to need this pretty soon, so once more I'm asking if anyone is working on it. If not I'll start on it. Do you have references for how to do this? As I

Re: bw limit in netgraph (Was: status of bridge code)

2001-01-25 Thread Archie Cobbs
Rogier R. Mulhuijzen writes: Quick question for the netgraph guru's. I haven't looked yet, but is there an explanation of the NG_ macros I see used in the netgraph nodes' code? Yes, but it's not documented :) Actually the daemonnews article does document these somewhat. The main ones are

Re: 4GB with NFS?

2001-01-25 Thread Matthew Jacob
But I won't let it go! I was hoping to replace my Solaris box with either FreeBSD or NetBSD as my main home directory server. FreeBSD 4.2 panics part way through the first LADDIS runs I was using to test it with and I can't get NetBSD to start as a LADDIS client (I hadn't got the auth

Re: panic in netgraph (caught by WITNESS) in custom UP kernel

2001-01-25 Thread Julian Elischer
"Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" wrote: FYI: Full source CVSupped on the 18th or 19th Panic came about when I did a 'ls' in ngctl(8). Kernel config attached, gdb of core follows below: This GDB was configured as "i386-unknown-freebsd"... IdlePTD 5300224 initial pcb at 31c4e0 panicstr:

Re: status of bridge code

2001-01-25 Thread Patrick Bihan-Faou
Hi, But from my list of wishes I'd say the first 3 are gone. All that's left is spanning tree. I'm probably going to need this pretty soon, so once more I'm asking if anyone is working on it. If not I'll start on it. Do you have references for how to do this? As I understand it, there

Re: 4GB with NFS?

2001-01-25 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Matthew Jacob writes: I came across an embarrassing comparison last night- FreeBSD NFS clients (well, i386) stop writing files at 4GB. Solaris, with O_LARGEFILE options in the open arguments, does not. Does anyone here know what FreeBSD ought to be doing about this? Or have

Re: 4GB with NFS?

2001-01-25 Thread Matthew Jacob
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Andrew Gallatin wrote: Matthew Jacob writes: I came across an embarrassing comparison last night- FreeBSD NFS clients (well, i386) stop writing files at 4GB. Solaris, with O_LARGEFILE options in the open arguments, does not. Does anyone here

Re: status of bridge code

2001-01-25 Thread Julian Elischer
"Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" wrote: personally I use the netgraph bridging code and I think (though I'm biased) that you should look at using htat rather than the hardwired bridging code that it was derived from. Now that I've read up on it I can tell you you and and Archie have every right to

Re: 4GB with NFS?

2001-01-25 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Matthew Jacob writes: Same code compiled on Solaris is happy. Perhaps there's some braindamage in it. I'm afraid of something like: #ifdef Solaris typedef filefoo u_int64_t; #else typedef filefoo u_int32_t; #endif ;) Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: 4GB with NFS?

2001-01-25 Thread Matthew Jacob
Matthew Jacob writes: Same code compiled on Solaris is happy. Perhaps there's some braindamage in it. I'm afraid of something like: #ifdef Solaris typedef filefoo u_int64_t; #else typedef filefoo u_int32_t; #endif I'll try with dd then,... let y'all know... To

TI-RPC, IPv6 and NFS (was: Re: strong recommendation re: NFS)

2001-01-25 Thread Martin Blapp
Hi, Alfred Perlstein and I have ported TI-RPC to FreeBSD Current. You can find the latest snapshot here: http://www.attic.ch/rpc.diff_01114001.tgz Patches and bugfixes are welcome. Martin Martin Blapp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Improware AG, UNIX

Re: Bootstrapping issues with groff(1)

2001-01-25 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
[I don't know why -current is CC'd this is clearly about -stable] Ruslan Ermilov wrote: Attached is the patch for RELENG_4. It works but I don't like how it pollutes the Makefile.inc1. Anyone with a better idea? Allow me to sidetrack for a moment: I just ugraded a machine from 4.1 to

Re: status of bridge code

2001-01-25 Thread Julian Elischer
Archie Cobbs wrote: Rogier R. Mulhuijzen writes: Also, a quick question for you netgraph guys. Why is it that ng_one2many send a packet only out of one hook? I can see use for an algorithm that sends packets from the 'one' hook to all the 'many' hooks (that are up) and keep the

Re: TI-RPC, IPv6 and NFS (was: Re: strong recommendation re: NFS)

2001-01-25 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Martin Blapp [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010125 11:07] wrote: Hi, Alfred Perlstein and I have ported TI-RPC to FreeBSD Current. You can find the latest snapshot here: http://www.attic.ch/rpc.diff_01114001.tgz Patches and bugfixes are welcome. Can you post a summary of how you've done it

[loader?] secret to setting root elsewhere?.

2001-01-25 Thread Julian Elischer
Ok so I have tried the settings in teh loader conf.. I have: #autoboot_delay="10"# Delay in seconds before autobooting #console="vidconsole" # Set the current console currdev="disk1s1a" # Set the current device module_path="/boot/kernel;/boot/modules"

Re: status of bridge code

2001-01-25 Thread Rogier R. Mulhuijzen
this would be a REALLY easy node to write...maybe your first? (see how 'ng_tee' works and ng_one2many, and write one that does something in between. I was thinking adding an algorithm to one2many. DocWilco To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: status of bridge code

2001-01-25 Thread Rogier R. Mulhuijzen
At 09:37 25-1-01 -0800, Archie Cobbs wrote: Rogier R. Mulhuijzen writes: But from my list of wishes I'd say the first 3 are gone. All that's left is spanning tree. I'm probably going to need this pretty soon, so once more I'm asking if anyone is working on it. If not I'll start on it. Do

Re: [loader?] secret to setting root elsewhere?.

2001-01-25 Thread Mike Smith
Ok so I have tried the settings in teh loader conf.. I have: #autoboot_delay="10"# Delay in seconds before autobooting #console="vidconsole" # Set the current console currdev="disk1s1a" # Set the current device module_path="/boot/kernel;/boot/modules"

Re: 4GB with NFS?

2001-01-25 Thread Nathan Parrish
knowing NFS in general far better than *BSD in specific, I would guess the best thing to do (if you suspect server/client communication anomaly) is to grab a snoop/tcpdump of the failure. I'm trying to think of a clever way to cause the failure immediately, so you're not tracing 4GB of writes...

Re: 4GB with NFS?

2001-01-25 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Nathan Parrish [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010125 13:19] wrote: knowing NFS in general far better than *BSD in specific, I would guess the best thing to do (if you suspect server/client communication anomaly) is to grab a snoop/tcpdump of the failure. I'm trying to think of a clever way to cause the

Re: status of bridge code

2001-01-25 Thread Archie Cobbs
Rogier R. Mulhuijzen writes: Hmm.. you could also get that affect using log2(n) ng_tee(4) nodes.. I don't see how though. Lets say I link only to left, right and left2right. Now when data enters left it will go to both right and left2right. When data enters right it goes to left. But when

Re: status of bridge code

2001-01-25 Thread Julian Elischer
"Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" wrote: At 09:37 25-1-01 -0800, Archie Cobbs wrote: Rogier R. Mulhuijzen writes: But from my list of wishes I'd say the first 3 are gone. All that's left is spanning tree. I'm probably going to need this pretty soon, so once more I'm asking if anyone is

Re: 4GB with NFS?

2001-01-25 Thread Matthew Jacob
knowing NFS in general far better than *BSD in specific, I would guess the best thing to do (if you suspect server/client communication anomaly) is to grab a snoop/tcpdump of the failure. I'm trying to think of a clever way to cause the failure immediately, so you're not tracing 4GB of

Re: status of bridge code

2001-01-25 Thread Rogier R. Mulhuijzen
What I want to know is can I just link tap0.upper to a new bridge hook? It seems to me that is the case. yes I believe so.. you can hook as many interfaces as you want to the bridge node. (but you probably don't want to BRIDGE to your cable modem, but to ROUTE to it ) Don't worry =) I

Re: status of bridge code

2001-01-25 Thread Julian Elischer
"Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" wrote: What I want to know is can I just link tap0.upper to a new bridge hook? It seems to me that is the case. yes I believe so.. you can hook as many interfaces as you want to the bridge node. (but you probably don't want to BRIDGE to your cable modem, but to

Re: [loader?] secret to setting root elsewhere?.

2001-01-25 Thread Julian Elischer
Mike Smith wrote: Ok so I have tried the settings in teh loader conf.. I have: #autoboot_delay="10"# Delay in seconds before autobooting #console="vidconsole" # Set the current console currdev="disk1s1a" # Set the current device

Re: [loader?] secret to setting root elsewhere?.

2001-01-25 Thread Leif Neland
If you mean "it loads the kernel from the wrong place", that's one thing. If you mean "it mounts / from the wrong filesystem", then you should be aware that the loader reads /etc/fstab, and the kernel will mount whatever you've put in there. Just curious, but isn't there a checken-and-egg

buildworld failed and PERL_THREADED=true dead...

2001-01-25 Thread Sergey A. Osokin
Hello. I tried make buildworld after cvsuped my source and it failed in perl area. I remove PERL_THREADED=true and tried again and it failed. === usr.bin/kdump cc -O -pipe -march=pentium -I/usr/src/usr.bin/kdump/../ktrace -I/usr/src/usr.bin/kdump/../.. -I/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/include -c

Re: TI-RPC, IPv6 and NFS (was: Re: strong recommendation re: NFS)

2001-01-25 Thread Jun Kuriyama
At 25 Jan 2001 19:08:14 GMT, Martin Blapp wrote: http://www.attic.ch/rpc.diff_01114001.tgz I cannot fetch it. Gone into attic? :-) -- Jun Kuriyama [EMAIL PROTECTED] // IMG SRC, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] // FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: TI-RPC, IPv6 and NFS (was: Re: strong recommendation re: NFS)

2001-01-25 Thread Martin Blapp
Hi, I'll place a new version tomorrow on the server. be patient untill then. Martin Martin Blapp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Improware AG, UNIX solution and service provider Zurlindenstrasse 29, 4133 Pratteln, Switzerland Phone: +41 79 370 26 05, Fax:

Re: 4GB with NFS?

2001-01-25 Thread Mike Smith
VLF-incapable utilities. (on a related note, is there a need for vlfread()/vlfwrite() in the BSD's, or is VLF support native in the read/write calls? The standard off_t is 64 bits in all of the BSDs. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and

Re: [loader?] secret to setting root elsewhere?.

2001-01-25 Thread Mike Smith
#autoboot_delay="10"# Delay in seconds before autobooting #console="vidconsole" # Set the current console currdev="disk1s1a" # Set the current device module_path="/boot/kernel;/boot/modules"# Set the module search path

Re: [loader?] secret to setting root elsewhere?.

2001-01-25 Thread Mike Smith
If you mean "it loads the kernel from the wrong place", that's one thing. If you mean "it mounts / from the wrong filesystem", then you should be aware that the loader reads /etc/fstab, and the kernel will mount whatever you've put in there. Just curious, but isn't there a

buildworld failed with sysinstall

2001-01-25 Thread Farid Hajji
Hello, 'make buildworld' failed while trying to comple sysinstall: cc -O -pipe -Wall -I/usr/src/usr.sbin/sysinstall/../../gnu/lib/libdialog -I. -I/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/include -c /usr/src/usr.sbin/sysinstall/keymap.c In file included from /usr/src/usr.sbin/sysinstall/keymap.c:40:

about ppp..

2001-01-25 Thread Idea Receiver
One of my current machines here are running PPPoE.. for some reason, it will some times become extramly lag of its PPPoE connection. (for example, from 25ns ping time become 2500ns ping time). And will back to normal in few mins.. However, i do not see the same problem on my 4.2 stable system.

Re: buildworld failed and PERL_THREADED=true dead...

2001-01-25 Thread Mark Murray
Hi I see no perl failure below... M Hello. I tried make buildworld after cvsuped my source and it failed in perl area. I remove PERL_THREADED=true and tried again and it failed. === usr.bin/kdump cc -O -pipe -march=pentium -I/usr/src/usr.bin/kdump/../ktrace

Re: VN bug or pilot error ?

2001-01-25 Thread John Baldwin
On 22-Jan-01 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Hay write s: But while you're at it, migrate to md(4) instead of vn(4), it does vn(4) will be deprecated RSN. mdconfig(8) configures the md(4) devices So why not change the release process to use md instead of