Re: Why do soft interrupt coelescing?

2001-10-17 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 11:35:51 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > "Kenneth D. Merry" wrote: [ ... ] > > > This is actually very bad: you want to drop packets before you > > > insert them into the queue, rather than after they are in the > > > queue. This is because you want the probability of the dr

Re: SIC: New Patch (context diff)

2001-10-17 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 10:50:09 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > OK, I will rediff and generate context diffs; expect them to > > > > be sent in 24 hours or so from now. > > > > > > It's been longer than that... > > > > Sorry; I've been doing a lot this weekend. I will

Re: arp: is using my IP address 0.0.0.0! ??!?!?

2001-10-17 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Wednesday 17 October 2001 11:11 am, Julian Elischer wrote: > I've seen this when DHCP fails to allocate an address. > > On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Jose M. Alcaide wrote: > > After rebuilding the kernel two days ago (Oct 15), I am getting lots of > > messages like these: > > > > arp: 00:30:65:de:99:32

Accton EN2242 MiniPCI 10/100 (dc0) not working.

2001-10-17 Thread Trent Nelson
I have a Sharp AR50 laptop. It has an Accton EN2242 MiniPCI 10/100 NIC that's producing the following: pci0: at device 7.3 (no driver attached) dc0: irq 11 at device 11.0 on pci0 dc0: couldn't map ports/memory device_probe_and_attach: dc0 attach returned 6 I've read through the m

NIS client does perform Ok when my duplex is right (Was: Re: NIS client performance seems very poor under network load)

2001-10-17 Thread Thyer, Matthew
It was my problem. My network interface was in 100Mbps half-duplex instead of 100Mbps full-duplex (the switch was in 100 full). I was using DHCP to configure the interface and for some reason it came up as half (even though a 4.3-BETA box elsewhere around here comes up in full-duplex). It seems

Re: NIS client does perform Ok when my duplex is right (Was: Re: NIS client performance seems very poor under network load)

2001-10-17 Thread Mike Smith
> Should the below work ? > > ifconfig_xl0="DHCP media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex" I don't think so. Try using the start_if script stuff to pre-set your media options before DHCP gets hold of the interface; I'm pretty sure that'll work. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, every

RE: NIS client does perform Ok when my duplex is right (Was: Re:

2001-10-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 17-Oct-2001 Thyer, Matthew wrote: > P.S. I would still like to try using DHCP but *NOT* autonegotiating. > > Is this possible ? Either hack the startup script, or man 5 dhclient.conf :) (Look for medium) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.

Re: applix 5.0 and current

2001-10-17 Thread Jacques A. Vidrine
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 12:43:13PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > I've been trying to get applix 5.0 to work and I've been running into > some intresting problems. The first one was that current has the > getresuid syscall and the gtk12 build detects and uses it. Unfortuatly > FreeBSD 3.x and 4.x

rc.diskless2 fails to create /var/log/lastlog

2001-10-17 Thread Harti Brandt
Hi, /var/log/lastlog is not in /etc/newsyslog.conf and is for this reason no created upon boot. This gives an error message each time one logs into the system. The append patch creates the file. harti Index: rc.diskless2 === RCS f

Re: rc.diskless2 fails to create /var/log/lastlog

2001-10-17 Thread Brian Dean
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 04:07:28PM +0200, Harti Brandt wrote: > Hi, > > /var/log/lastlog is not in /etc/newsyslog.conf and is for this reason no > created upon boot. This gives an error message each time one logs into > the system. The append patch creates the file. Committed. Thanks! -Brian

Re: NIS client does perform Ok when my duplex is right (Was: Re:

2001-10-17 Thread Peter S. Housel
At Wed, 17 Oct 2001 18:32:15 +0900 (JST), Daniel O'Connor wrote: > Either hack the startup script, or man 5 dhclient.conf :) > (Look for medium) And then use "media" instead, because dhclient.conf(5) is wrong. -Peter- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-curr

arp: is using my IP address 0.0.0.0! ??!?!?

2001-10-17 Thread Jose M. Alcaide
After rebuilding the kernel two days ago (Oct 15), I am getting lots of messages like these: arp: 00:30:65:de:99:32 is using my IP address 0.0.0.0! arp: 00:0a:27:b0:a7:06 is using my IP address 0.0.0.0! arp: 00:30:65:d1:2f:cc is using my IP address 0.0.0.0! arp: 00:30:65:e9:57:5e is using my IP a

Re: NIS client does perform Ok when my duplex is right (Was: Re:

2001-10-17 Thread John Baldwin
On 17-Oct-01 Mike Smith wrote: >> Should the below work ? >> >> ifconfig_xl0="DHCP media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex" > > I don't think so. Try using the start_if script stuff to pre-set your > media options before DHCP gets hold of the interface; I'm pretty sure > that'll work. Yes, thi

Re: NIS client does perform Ok when my duplex is right (Was: Re: NIS client performance seems very poor under network load)

2001-10-17 Thread Bernd Walter
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 06:00:42PM +0930, Thyer, Matthew wrote: > It was my problem. > > My network interface was in 100Mbps half-duplex instead of > 100Mbps full-duplex (the switch was in 100 full). > > I was using DHCP to configure the interface and for some > reason it came up as half (even t

Re: NIS client does perform Ok when my duplex is right (Was: Re:

2001-10-17 Thread Andrew Gallatin
John Baldwin writes: > > On 17-Oct-01 Mike Smith wrote: > >> Should the below work ? > >> > >> ifconfig_xl0="DHCP media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex" > > > > I don't think so. Try using the start_if script stuff to pre-set your > > media options before DHCP gets hold of the interfa

Re: Some interrupt coalescing tests

2001-10-17 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: > The one thing I _would_ add -- though I'm waiting for it to > be a problem before doing it -- is to limit the total number > of packets processed per interrupt by keeping a running count. > > You would have to be _AMAZINGLY_ loaded to hit this, though;

Re: arp: is using my IP address 0.0.0.0! ??!?!?

2001-10-17 Thread Julian Elischer
I've seen this when DHCP fails to allocate an address. On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Jose M. Alcaide wrote: > After rebuilding the kernel two days ago (Oct 15), I am getting lots of > messages like these: > > arp: 00:30:65:de:99:32 is using my IP address 0.0.0.0! > arp: 00:0a:27:b0:a7:06 is using my IP

Re: applix 5.0 and current

2001-10-17 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 07:13:54AM -0500, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > A workaround that I used previously is to compile up getresuid.so and > run Applix with e.g. `env LD_PRELOAD=/PATH/TO/getresuid.so applix'. Thanks for the tip. I was able to get the olefilter working with a similar hack. I m

kerberos5/libexec/telnetd build fails in -current

2001-10-17 Thread Vincent Poy
===> libexec/telnetd cc -O -pipe -DLINEMODE -DUSE_TERMIO -DDIAGNOSTICS -DOLD_ENVIRON -DENV_HACK -DAUTHENTICATION -DENCRYPTION -I/usr/src/kerberos5/libexec/telnetd/../../../crypto/telnet -DINET6 -Wall -I/usr/src/kerberos5/libexec/telnetd/../../include -I/usr/src/kerberos5/libexec/telnetd/../../inc

Re: arp: is using my IP address 0.0.0.0! ??!?!?

2001-10-17 Thread Jose M. Alcaide
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 12:11:45PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > I've seen this when DHCP fails to allocate an address. > But I am not using DHCP. Maybe there are other machines in the LAN (it is a *big* LAN) trying to get their addresses using DHCP, and now -CURRENT shows a message whenever d

Kernel seems to hang on acpi

2001-10-17 Thread Jan Knepper
Hi! I just cvsup'ed to a later CURRENT and seems to have problems booting my Dell Inspiron 5000e. The kernel seemed to hang on ACPI detection. Turning setting acpi_load=NO did not seem to make a difference. Renaming the module to ~.ko- solved the boot problem for now, however, the 3Com Megahe

RE: Kernel seems to hang on acpi

2001-10-17 Thread John Baldwin
On 17-Oct-01 Jan Knepper wrote: > Hi! > > I just cvsup'ed to a later CURRENT and seems to have problems booting my > Dell Inspiron 5000e. The kernel seemed to hang on ACPI detection. > Turning setting acpi_load=NO did not seem to make a difference. Renaming > the module to ~.ko- solved the bo

Re: newfs fails to build small file systems.

2001-10-17 Thread Harti Brandt
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Bruce Evans wrote: BE>On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Harti Brandt wrote: BE> BE>> since version 1.41 of newfs.c newfs fails to build 2MByte md-based BE>> file systems. We use these file systems in our diskless pc's. BE> [patch snipped] Thanks, the patch worked. However: BE>The probl