Re: RFI: Ethernet driver ported from Linux

2007-04-19 Thread Yar Tikhiy
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 12:14:50PM +1000, Alan Garfield wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 11:44 +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote: Anyway, back to figuring out arp. UGH! As a rule, an Ethernet driver needn't worry about ARP by itself because ARP has own separate module in the network stack. Does

Re: RFI: Ethernet driver ported from Linux

2007-04-19 Thread Alan Garfield
On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 11:56 +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote: Apart from using fake MAC addresses, I don't think so. I don't understand the concept of a fake MAC address, sorry. The classic Ethernet is a broadcast medium by design, so a very primitive NIC can just receive all traffic and let the

Re: diskless/rm causing deadlock?

2007-04-19 Thread Danny Braniss
--opJtzjQTFsWo+cga Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 11:55:10AM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote: I stumbled on this in -current, but it's also true for 6.2. /(root) is mounted diskless,

Re: prebind support status

2007-04-19 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Tyrael [EMAIL PROTECTED] (from Sat, 14 Apr 2007 17:24:16 +0300): Has anyone started working on porting 'prebind' from OpenBSD? We are not aware of such work. Has there been any discussion over this matter; as to how much work this would require ? I would be interested into looking

Re: Floppy detection probems with 6.2

2007-04-19 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thursday 19 April 2007 11:57, M. Warner Losh wrote: : That'd be a nice fall back but it surely it can't be too hard to reserve : some memory for stuff like this? I think that there is a way... We only need ~20k for this... Is it perhaps that the loader puts the kernel low down in memory

Re: fixing IRQ storms (sort of solved)

2007-04-19 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:47 PM 4/5/2007, Mike Tancsa wrote: Using http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2007-March/022753.html I have been able to get my GPRS card to be recognized in FreeBSD. However, the IRQ it has picked, seems to conflict with the irq of the cardbus causing an interrupt storm.

Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

2007-04-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 10:14:13AM +1000, Murray Taylor wrote: Server: IBM X3850 (88633SM) CPU X 4: 40K2522 HDD X 6: 40K1051 IBM ServeRAID 8i: 39R8729 We are attempting to install FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE onto this machine and are running into a problem getting the operating system to

Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

2007-04-19 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Murray Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We are attempting to install FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE onto this machine and are running into a problem getting the operating system to recognise the RAID controller. As a result not finding any disks when it comes to installing the O/S. We have attempted

Re: prebind support status

2007-04-19 Thread Roman Divacky
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 05:24:16PM +0300, Tyrael wrote: Has anyone started working on porting 'prebind' from OpenBSD? Has there been any discussion over this matter; as to how much work this would require ? I would be interested into looking over this and see if i can implement it, so any

Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

2007-04-19 Thread Mark Tinguely
If you can either install without ACPI, or remove two of the CPUs during installation, this should be fairly easy to fix: change the definition of NLAPICS in /usr/src/sys/{amd64,i386}/acpica/madt.c and rebuild your kernel, then boot with ACPI enabled and report back to us. DES

Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

2007-04-19 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Mark Tinguely [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I suggested that in email too, but looking closer, I think the MAXCPU needs to be increased because the cpu number uses the apic_id. Or could that be changed with a logical CPU to APIC ID lookup? Isn't the APIC IDs programmable? not that I am suggesting

Ipv6 mbuf vulnerability

2007-04-19 Thread Subhash Gopinath
Hello folks, Does anyone know if FreeBSD 4.x or 5.x is affected by the Ipv6 mbuf vulnerability just like OpenBSD? http://www.coresecurity.com/index.php5?module=ContentModaction=itemid=1703 Thanks, Subhash ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: RFI: Ethernet driver ported from Linux

2007-04-19 Thread Julian Elischer
Alan Garfield wrote: On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 11:56 +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote: Apart from using fake MAC addresses, I don't think so. I don't understand the concept of a fake MAC address, sorry. The classic Ethernet is a broadcast medium by design, so a very primitive NIC can just receive all

Re: Ipv6 mbuf vulnerability

2007-04-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 12:17:19PM -0700, Subhash Gopinath wrote: Hello folks, Does anyone know if FreeBSD 4.x or 5.x is affected by the Ipv6 mbuf vulnerability just like OpenBSD? http://www.coresecurity.com/index.php5?module=ContentModaction=itemid=1703 As discussed on the security@

Re: Ipv6 mbuf vulnerability

2007-04-19 Thread James Anderson
On 4/19/07, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if FreeBSD 4.x or 5.x is affected by the Ipv6 mbuf vulnerability just like OpenBSD? As discussed on the security@ list at the time, no. Here is a mirror I found of the original thread:

serial help ?

2007-04-19 Thread Alfred Perlstein
I'm working on some custom hardware and I'm getting garbled console output. I noticed that siocntxwait looks like this: static void siocntxwait(iobase) Port_t iobase; { int timo; /* * Wait for any pending transmission to finish. Required to avoid

Re: serial help ?

2007-04-19 Thread Sergey Babkin
I'm working on some custom hardware and I'm getting garbled console output. I noticed that siocntxwait looks like this: static void siocntxwait(iobase) Port_t iobase; { int timo; /* * Wait for any pending transmission to finish. Required to avoid *

RE: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

2007-04-19 Thread Murray Taylor
Thanks Jerry, We have determined that our problem is related to the god-awful mess known as ACPI. With a single processor installed, it all boots fine, including finding PCI busses 1 and 2 and the raid on the aac driver is peachy! With 2 or more processors installed, and ACPI enabled, it

RE: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

2007-04-19 Thread Murray Taylor
Thanks all, We will look into the code editting and see what we can get however we are on an very short time frame so may not be able to slot it in before a maintenance slot where we need to be able to drop in the box 'seamlessly' . But I have noted the proposed fix provided on these lists