Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux

2000-10-23 Thread Tony Finch
Dag-Erling Smorgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Housley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I believe a correct and true statement is "FreeBSD is a direct decendant of Unix(TM). Based on the BSD sources" I don't think there's all that much left of the original BSD sources... at least not in the

Re: burncd utility for atapi burners

2000-10-23 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Terry Lambert wrote: I would like to communicate the proposed changes to the author but I did not find his address. Could somebody provide his email to me? [ ... ] This is going to be a problem in getting your changes accepted: +/*- + * t.h. changes copyright (c) 2000

Cache Questions

2000-10-23 Thread Christopher Harrer
Hello All, We're working on a driver for a PCI card, we're currently running into a problem that's symptomatic of a cache coherency problem. We have a area of memory that we manipulate and pass a physical address to our card. In other OS's (Linux, NT), before we manipulate this memory area, we

Re: Cache Questions

2000-10-23 Thread Johan Karlsson
At Mon, 23 Oct 2000 08:33:04 EDT, "Christopher Harrer" wrote: Hello All, We're working on a driver for a PCI card, we're currently running into a problem that's symptomatic of a cache coherency problem. We have a area of memory that we manipulate and pass a physical address to our card.

Re: smbfs-1.3.0 released

2000-10-23 Thread Joseph Scott
When is this going to be brought into -current? Boris Popov wrote: Hello, At first, I'm want to say 'thank you' for everybody who provided me with feedback on my work. So, here is a records from the HISTORY file for last two releases: 20.10.2000 1.3.0

Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux

2000-10-23 Thread Dennis
At 05:25 PM 10/21/2000, Sergey Babkin wrote: Frederik Meerwaldt wrote: We need this information in order to determine which of these two OS to choose from to drive our website. Choose FreeBSD. It's faster. Also if some things don't work or work strangely or are poorly documented,

Re: Boot off USB SanDisk?

2000-10-23 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 10:11:09PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] David Miller writes: : SanDisk makes a IDE-like flash card one could plug into a $30 USB : flashcard reader. : : Would FreeBSD have any idea how to boot off such a beast? Alternatively, : anyone

Understanding what happens on open() within the kernel

2000-10-23 Thread d_f0rce
Hi, i'm currently working on understanding the FreeBSD kernel. Therefore I read the book "The design and implementation of the 4.4BSD OS". As I know that most of the things described in this book are probably no longer up to date, I think that the basics should be the same. As I would like to

Re: Cache Questions

2000-10-23 Thread Mike Smith
Hello All, We're working on a driver for a PCI card, we're currently running into a problem that's symptomatic of a cache coherency problem. We have a area of memory that we manipulate and pass a physical address to our card. In other OS's (Linux, NT), before we manipulate this memory

gateway on different subnet

2000-10-23 Thread Marko Ruban
Summary of the problem: Can't assign cable modem gateway (10.17.56.12) to interface ed0 with assigned IP (208.59.162.242) - "network unreachable". I called RCN (my cable provider) and asked them to give me a gateway on the same subnet; they said they "don't do that". Part of solution: I set

Re: DMA in drivers?

2000-10-23 Thread mark tinguely
"This register is used to establish the PCI address for data moving from the the Host Computer Memory to the card. It consists of a 30 bit counter with the low-order 2 bits hardwired as zeros. The address stored may be any nonzero byte length that is a multiple of 8, since 8 bytes are

Re: gateway on different subnet

2000-10-23 Thread Fred Clift
Hm -- how about using proxy-arp style routing? If their router has has proxy-arp support turned on, then you can set yourself (ie your own IP) as the default and will arp for _all_ addreeses of _all_ remote boxes you try to connect to. Then their router sends a response to the arp-request and

Re: gateway on different subnet

2000-10-23 Thread Les Biffle
Hm -- how about using proxy-arp style routing? Here's what I've done in the past: 1. Have a friend out in the net ping your address 208.59.162.242 2. Run tcpdump and look for someone ARPing for you. That someone will very likely be your default gateway as seen from your site. If that

Re: gateway on different subnet

2000-10-23 Thread Nick Rogness
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Les Biffle wrote: Hm -- how about using proxy-arp style routing? Here's what I've done in the past: 1. Have a friend out in the net ping your address 208.59.162.242 2. Run tcpdump and look for someone ARPing for you. That someone will very likely be your

Re: gateway on different subnet

2000-10-23 Thread Kherry Zamore
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Mike Smith wrote: Summary of the problem: Can't assign cable modem gateway (10.17.56.12) to interface ed0 with assigned IP (208.59.162.242) - "network unreachable". I called RCN (my cable provider) and asked them to give me a gateway on the same subnet; they

How to install BootEasy?

2000-10-23 Thread Bob Bishop
Hi, Apologies for this, I'm sure I've seen the answer recently but I'm *^%ed if I can find it in the archives[1]. I have an installed FreeBSD hard disk that I want to use as the second drive on a machine with other stuff on the first drive. How do I install BootEasy on the first drive? TIA [1]