Really? Couldn't the Port WWN change and the Node WWN stay constant? I
mean, yes, for FC controllers that have WWN in the 0x2 range,
the Node WWN is 0x20... and the Port is 0x22... but it seems like this is
a soft relationship- you *could* have Port Node unique for each
anybody done any work on a utility for growing ufs filesystems?
aaron
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there are several
greg lehey has been collecting them.
julian
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Aaron Smith wrote:
anybody done any work on a utility for growing ufs filesystems?
aaron
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Are there enough bytes available in the BIOS NVRAM? That would do
nicely as a place to store it.
If you want this to be widely adoped across the free OS community
(hell, even if you want both of FreeBSD's platforms
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 16:18:04 -0600
Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Whose BIOS NVRAM?
The host system BIOS NVRAM. I thought we were looking for a per-host
ID here, right?
I think Matt meant "which vendor's BIOS?"
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Matthew Jacob wrote:
Whose BIOS NVRAM?
The host system BIOS NVRAM. I thought we were looking for a per-host
ID here, right?
Yes, but this kind of NVRAM isn't available on an Alpha, or a Sparc.
On the SPARC you can put it in the OpenBoot environment. I dunno
about the
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Jason Thorpe wrote:
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999 15:02:25 -0700 (PDT)
Matthew Jacob mja...@feral.com wrote:
I was talking about this on linux-kernel, but it also applies to *BSD...
What're folks' motions of a settable system unique identifier, available
prior to
On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 10:56:07PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
Alan Cox has just started passing around some code that starts on the
breakdown of the GKL
I suggest that all intersted parties go to the SMP list
if they wish to take part in this action.
You mean freebsd-...@freebsd.org ?
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999 23:41:34 -0700 (PDT)
Matthew Jacob mja...@feral.com wrote:
More generally a system unique identifier available early (pre mountroot)
could be useful for a number of things. Why're you asking?
The intended usage:
(1) Could influence where it is stored.
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Arun Sharma wrote:
You mean freebsd-...@freebsd.org ? I've been reading the list for a while,
but haven't seen any code there. Am I missing something ?
I've just redirected some stuff there, and
there's some stuff that will be sent there shortly.
-Arun
On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 06:39:07PM -0700, Jaye Mathisen wrote:
I see it's supported, but I'm curious if anybody is using it. If so, I'd
like to ask a few questions off-line of somebody...
Soren S. Jorvang so...@t.dk is working on a NetBSD driver for the
ATM25 version ... he claims it should
On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 09:18:53AM +0200, Jesper Skriver wrote:
On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 06:39:07PM -0700, Jaye Mathisen wrote:
I see it's supported, but I'm curious if anybody is using it. If so, I'd
like to ask a few questions off-line of somebody...
Soren S. Jorvang so...@t.dk is
Hello !
Driver for Efficient Networks lanai based NIC is available at
ftp://ftp.uninet.ee/pub/ATM/.
This is just brute force port of original NetBSD driver written by
john.c.hayw...@wheaton.edu.
Jeremie Kass jere...@umich.edu is working on OpenBSD port.
Driver should be reviewed (cleaned
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999 19:53:08 -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
Here's one possibility, it adds a a wrap/nowrap field that goes beside the
wait/nowait field, so you would have:
ftp stream tcp nowait wrap root /usr/libexec/ftpd ftpd
-l
hi John,
I think I prefer the
This may have some bearing on FreeBSD...
http://www.lwn.net/daily/cyclic.html
--
Dom Mitchell -- Palmer Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Administrator
Always think very hard before messing with TCP. And then don't. -- MC
--
Wes Peters w...@softweyr.com wrote:
Bill Fumerola wrote:
On 22 Jun 1999, Jesus Monroy wrote:
vi(1) is for whimps
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/1986/viforwhimps.html
As long as you're critiquing people for what you called (paraphrased) a
smiley that made you sound
I find myself looking back at some of the ridiculous mail that found its
way into freebsd-hackers (instead of freebsd-chat or /dev/null) this
week and I wonder how on earth people without my li'l dethread script
survive. No, NO! Don't tell me, publically or privately, I don't care.
I'd like to
Hi there!
We've got a fast computer for our database
(Intel SC450NX, 2xXeon/500MHz,
1G RAM, SymBios U2W SCSI onboard,
2xPCI, 3x18G Seagate Cheetah,
OS - FreeBSD 3.2-R).
At first, we had to patch NCR driver - then it worked fine for some time.
When we started to load our new server with data
Hi Hackers!
I am not a professional programmer as you are or I know much about
debug skills. But here I have a large multiprogramming program that I need
to hack into. The program can be divided into several functional modules
and a kernel module which handles all messages needed for every
hello all ~
I never posted to this list - maybe once, but I learned. I follow
threads of brilliant minds at work and I read - and I am amazed by
creative and complex issues which are resolved by a group of geeky
greats. So - before I begin to drag this out - I wanted to share in
agreement with
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:14:48 +0200, Sheldon Hearn writes:
I think I prefer the suggestion I saw from someone else, which would
allow
ftpstream tcp nowait/10/10/wrap root ...
This can be done in such a way as to be backward compatible. Looks like
something for the week-end, if I can
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 05:44:06 MST, Aaron Smith wrote:
could you please restate the argument for this? i still haven't heard a
decent reason for this sort of conf format perturbation.
I'm so tempted to say me too. :-)
John Baldwin has suggested that he had functionality with inetd + tcpd
that
Couple of notes:
o Taavi has done work on the FreeBSD port
o The driver at ftp://ftp.wheaton.edu has several bugs
in it which I think both Soren and Taavi have adjuste for.
johnh...
Quoting Soren S. Jorvang so...@t.dk:
On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 09:18:53AM +0200, Jesper Skriver wrote:
On Thu,
On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 02:50:34PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 05:44:06 MST, Aaron Smith wrote:
could you please restate the argument for this? i still haven't heard a
decent reason for this sort of conf format perturbation.
I'm so tempted to say me too. :-)
John
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 09:31:26 -0400, Keith Stevenson wrote:
What is possible now that wasn't possible with tcpd from the ports
collection? Why incorporate libwrap (and make our inetd functionally
different from everyone else's) instead of bringing tcpd into the base
system?
If we _don't_
On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 04:05:05PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 09:31:26 -0400, Keith Stevenson wrote:
What is possible now that wasn't possible with tcpd from the ports
collection? Why incorporate libwrap (and make our inetd functionally
different from everyone
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote:
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Dan Seguin wrote:
[snip]
I use the calling proc's table as it is passed to the system call, and am
trying to call socket and connect as if the user process originally called
them one by one (from userland syscall 97
-Original Message-
From: Dan Seguin [SMTP:d...@texar.com]
Sent: Friday, June 25, 1999 5:26 PM
To: Brian F. Feldman
Cc: FreeBSD Hackers
Subject: Re: Connect and so on..
As I said earlier in this post, I need to open a connection to the
outside
(presumably) from the
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Ladavac Marino wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Dan Seguin [SMTP:d...@texar.com]
Sent: Friday, June 25, 1999 5:26 PM
To: Brian F. Feldman
Cc: FreeBSD Hackers
Subject:Re: Connect and so on..
As I said earlier in this post, I need to open
static struct sockaddr_in servaddr;
This needs to be a valid structure in USER space, not kernel.
OK. I suspected as much. Question is: how do I open a connection from
KERNEL space?
You don't.
If you're really desperate to do this, you'll have to patch _all_ of
the system calls
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Eduardo E. Horvath wrote:
We've been hashing this issue out quite a bit. Since a Fibre Channel card
is by definition a fibre channel controller, each card should have a
unique WWN that is used for the node WWN. If you swap a controller, the
node WWN should change.
I've
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999 23:41:34 -0700 (PDT)
Matthew Jacob mja...@feral.com wrote:
More generally a system unique identifier available early (pre mountroot)
could be useful for a number of things. Why're you asking?
The intended usage:
(1) Could influence where it is stored.
Hi,
I believe someone working on NEWBUS-ifying ISA-PnP.
How will they implement it?
I think current framework is like this.
++ ++
...|ISA DEV | |ISA-hint|-This device provides
++ ++ what device is connected
| ||
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Matthew Jacob wrote:
Specifically in this case a Node WWN for fibre channel fabrics that does
not depend upon an assigned WWN in any particular Fibre Channel card
(multipathing might make it desirable to have a synthetic Node WWN that
can also be passed to partner
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 16:05:05 +0200, Sheldon Hearn writes:
We'll also end up with an inetd that _can_ wrap if it's told to (-w
and -ww). So we end up offering a better super-server than we had
before, with no backward compatibility problems, and no additional
incompatibilities with other systems (I
First of all, I would like to thank everyone who helped me with my NIS
problems(A few days back). It is up and running now. For anyone else
attempting to set up NIS, what really helped me was this website:
http://www.realtime.net/sculpture/nis-startup.html
For all those questioning the security
Lemme explain my situation.
I have a FreeBSD box sitting behind a Microsoft Proxy Server. I want the
FreeBSD box to be able to reach the internet via SOCKS. I have downloaded,
installed, and played a great deal with this software. I can't seem to get
it to work. Could someone help me out?
As Matthew Jacob wrote ...
Yes. The Solaris drivers use the 'localetheraddr' function, or's in 160
and then HBA instance # 48 to make a NAA_IEEE port identifier.
The main issue, I think, is that of persistence. How persistent do
you want it? I'd bet that no matter what source you
FYI: The Compaq HSG80 Fibrechannel RAID controllers have their
WWN in NVRAM. One is supposed to get the WWN from a label on the *cabinet*
into the HSG controller. This allows for easy hardware swap in case of
hardware grief.
Yes, if you want the WWN to stay constant.
-matt
To
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Aaron Smith wrote:
(also see http://www.arctic.org/~aaron/tips/freebsd-serial-console)
Great page, thank you. One suggestion I have is that you make the
distinction between getting a login prompt on the com console and getting
the boot messages to display on the com
On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 11:02:04AM -0700, Aaron Smith wrote:
i have no problem with -w options, but i am still surprised that you want
to go ahead with the conf format change.
This isn't so much a conf format change, as a conf format extension.
It is the same type of extension as was added to
Really? Couldn't the Port WWN change and the Node WWN stay constant? I
mean, yes, for FC controllers that have WWN in the 0x2 range,
the Node WWN is 0x20... and the Port is 0x22... but it seems like this is
a soft relationship- you *could* have Port Node unique for each
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 20:12:01 BST, David Malone writes:
This isn't so much a conf format change, as a conf format extension.
It is the same type of extension as was added to support max child
and max child per minute - which aren't a standard inetd feature.
All old inetd.conf files remain valid.
anybody done any work on a utility for growing ufs filesystems?
aaron
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there are several
greg lehey has been collecting them.
julian
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Aaron Smith wrote:
anybody done any work on a utility for growing ufs filesystems?
aaron
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As Matthew Jacob wrote ...
FYI: The Compaq HSG80 Fibrechannel RAID controllers have their
WWN in NVRAM. One is supposed to get the WWN from a label on the *cabinet*
into the HSG controller. This allows for easy hardware swap in case of
hardware grief.
Yes, if you want the WWN to
:anybody done any work on a utility for growing ufs filesystems?
:
:aaron
It has been brought up a couple of times but nobody has tried
to do actually it. Personally, I think it would be a doable
project if someone wanted to have a go at it - to allow a filesystem
to be grown or
:anybody done any work on a utility for growing ufs filesystems?
:
:aaron
It has been brought up a couple of times but nobody has tried
to do actually it. Personally, I think it would be a doable
project if someone wanted to have a go at it - to allow a filesystem
to be
In article 199906242353.taa06...@smtp4.erols.com you write:
Here's one possibility, it adds a a wrap/nowrap field that goes beside the
wait/nowait field, so you would have:
ftp stream tcp nowait wrap root /usr/libexec/ftpd ftpd -l
Breaking backwards compatability is evil.
Yes, you want the WWN to stay constant. That doesn't mean it should
necessarily be the same physical box. Nor does it mean it should be a
system that comes with a WWN assigned to by the manufacturer.
I think I'm confusing myself and people. I have a WWN. By definition it
should be unique value.
Aaron Smith wrote:
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999 20:14:19 CDT, Alfred Perlstein writes:
I'm not sure what you mean by the refernce to malloc types, I just
thought something along the lines of mutex_t with an API
for trying, allocating, freeing and initializing them.
i'd really like to implement
Matthew Jacob wrote:
I want it to persist until it's changed. Change doesn't mean a reboot.
The Linux folks (mostly Ted) helped me clarify some thinking about this so
that the basic original source of the seeded WWN doesn't have to come from
first principles in hardware that can be read
I want it to persist until it's changed. Change doesn't mean a reboot.
The Linux folks (mostly Ted) helped me clarify some thinking about this so
that the basic original source of the seeded WWN doesn't have to come from
first principles in hardware that can be read prior to
Matthew Jacob wrote:
I want it to persist until it's changed. Change doesn't mean a reboot.
The Linux folks (mostly Ted) helped me clarify some thinking about this so
that the basic original source of the seeded WWN doesn't have to come from
first principles in hardware that
Whose BIOS NVRAM?
The host system BIOS NVRAM. I thought we were looking for a per-host
ID here, right?
Yes, but this kind of NVRAM isn't available on an Alpha, or a Sparc.
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Wes Peters w...@softweyr.com wrote:
Are there enough bytes available in the BIOS NVRAM? That would do
nicely as a place to store it.
If you want this to be widely adoped across the free OS community
(hell, even if you want both of FreeBSD's platforms to
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 16:18:04 -0600
Wes Peters w...@softweyr.com wrote:
Whose BIOS NVRAM?
The host system BIOS NVRAM. I thought we were looking for a per-host
ID here, right?
I think Matt meant which vendor's BIOS?
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On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Mike Smith wrote:
It's stupid to tune everything for performance except for the web
server -- they should be using Zeus, not Apache.
The Zeus evaluation license prohibits its use for benchmarks, and the
Zeus folks failed to respond to any of my attempts to
Matthew Jacob wrote:
Whose BIOS NVRAM?
The host system BIOS NVRAM. I thought we were looking for a per-host
ID here, right?
Yes, but this kind of NVRAM isn't available on an Alpha, or a Sparc.
On the SPARC you can put it in the OpenBoot environment. I dunno
about the Alpha.
--
Matthew Jacob wrote:
Whose BIOS NVRAM?
The host system BIOS NVRAM. I thought we were looking for a per-host
ID here, right?
Yes, but this kind of NVRAM isn't available on an Alpha, or a Sparc.
On the SPARC you can put it in the OpenBoot environment. I dunno
about the
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 15:55:03 -0600
Wes Peters w...@softweyr.com wrote:
Are there enough bytes available in the BIOS NVRAM? That would do
nicely as a place to store it.
If you want this to be widely adoped across the free OS community
(hell, even if you want both of FreeBSD's
Can anyone please give me some clues as to how to build X with thread support
enabled. I think the right way to do it is to add the relevant options to
config/cf/FreeBSD.cf, something like
#define HasPosixThreads YES
#define ThreadedX YES
#define ThreadsLibraries
to do actually it. Personally, I think it would be a doable
project if someone wanted to have a go at it - to allow a filesystem
to be grown or shrunk on a cylinder-by-cylinder basis. The only real
complexity occurs when you are shrinking a filesystem - you have to locat
e
Can anybody recommend a good Type I Compact Flash ethernet card that
has a driver for one or more of FreeBSD, NetBSD or OpenBSD?
Please note, I'm not asking for a PC Card, PCMCIA, or CardBus. I have
a device that has a Type I Compact Flash slot. All the CF Ethernet
cards I've seen have shared
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On Friday, 25 June 1999 at 18:22:19 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
to do actually it. Personally, I think it would be a doable
project if someone wanted to have a go at it - to allow a filesystem
to be grown or
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 13:02:00 MST, Aaron Smith wrote:
hey, that's a pretty neat feature. i confess i wasn't aware of that. out
of curiosity, can old inetds read this without choking?
No, the extension would cause older inetd's to barf.
agreed; what i was trying to get at is the mental
Ville-Pertti Keinonen w...@iki.fi wrote:
m...@servo.ccr.org (Mike O'Dell) writes:
we published the best Unix SMP paper I've ever seen in Computing
Systems - from the Amdahl guys who did an SMP version of the kernel
by very clever hacks on SPLx() macros to make them spin locks and
a bit of
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