Re: poor ethernet performance?

1999-07-18 Thread Leif Neland
On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Vincent Poy wrote: Ah, you have a point there. The problem is we have so many wires, we don't know which port goes to what on the Catalyst so we had it on autodetect and FreeBSD does boot up with fxp0 showing 100Mbps Full Duplex. Cisco's can show you which

Re: poor ethernet performance?

1999-07-18 Thread sthaug
Ah, you have a point there. The problem is we have so many wires, we don't know which port goes to what on the Catalyst so we had it on autodetect and FreeBSD does boot up with fxp0 showing 100Mbps Full Duplex. Cisco's can show you which mac-adresses are on which port. Probably

Re: poor ethernet performance?

1999-07-18 Thread Vincent Poy
On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Leif Neland wrote: On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Vincent Poy wrote: Ah, you have a point there. The problem is we have so many wires, we don't know which port goes to what on the Catalyst so we had it on autodetect and FreeBSD does boot up with fxp0 showing 100Mbps Full

Re: poor ethernet performance?

1999-07-18 Thread sthaug
I'm not sure if it shows the mac address of the cisco's port or the actual device connected to it... FastEthernet0/1 is up, line protocol is up Hardware is Fast Ethernet, address is 0090.abea.3bc1 (bia 0090.abea.3bc1) FastEthernet0/2 is up, line protocol is up Hardware is

Re: poor ethernet performance?

1999-07-18 Thread Vincent Poy
On Sun, 18 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure if it shows the mac address of the cisco's port or the actual device connected to it... FastEthernet0/1 is up, line protocol is up Hardware is Fast Ethernet, address is 0090.abea.3bc1 (bia 0090.abea.3bc1)

Re: poor ethernet performance?

1999-07-18 Thread sthaug
Please read the documentation. This is hard since the actual machines and switches are almost 6000 miles away from me and the last time I checked, it didn't come with manuals. I know my way around the Cisco routers but the switches is still a mystery... All of the Cisco

Re: All this and documentation too? (was: cvs commit: src/sys/isa sio.c)

1999-07-18 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Greg Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mdoc.samples(7). Now tell me that that's not intuitive. It would seem mdoc.samples(7) does not teach by example :) des@des ~% man -t mdoc.samples | lpr -Plex Usage: .Rv -std sections 2 and 3 only DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To

Re: Setting up a firewall with dynamic IPs

1999-07-18 Thread Jonathan M. Bresler
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote: I was checking out the firewall setup in /etc/rc.firewall, and noticed that the simple example relied on a fixed IP address for the external interface. I don't know ahead of time what IP address is going to

Re: poor ethernet performance?

1999-07-18 Thread Doug
Tim Baird wrote: I hope everyone is benefitting by these simple facts *chuckle* "Simple facts.." You sound like my physics professor. I for one am benefitting very much from the discussion. I got hired at my current job as a software person, but I have a background in hardware so I

Re: Determining the return address

1999-07-18 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 18 Jul 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This looks like what you are doing is trying to grab the data on the stack before "log" which is the return address. Yes. It actually works :) I

Re: Determining the return address

1999-07-18 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 18 Jul 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 18 Jul 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I doubt this is at all portable and may fail because of

Re: Devloper

1999-07-18 Thread Doug White
Just to remind everyone where the actual logic is contained... Check out swap_pager.c line 1135 (in version $Id: vm_pageout.c,v 1.129.2.6 1999/03/18 23:28:39 julian Exp $). FreeBSD is not 100% indiscriminant. It favors procs with PID 48 as targets. You could tune this to discriminate against

Re: telnetd

1999-07-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What purpose is served by the twisty maze of ifdefs in telnetd? Probably for portability. I'd like to unifdef many of them. I'm trying to track down a bug and the twisty maze makes it very hard to follow. Comments? There's nothing stopping you unifdefing

tee option on ipfw?

1999-07-18 Thread Jaye Mathisen
The man page says the tee option on ipfw is not yet supported. I'm wondering if that is still the case as of 3.2-stable, or if the doc is just out of date. I would like to make a copy of incoming UDP packets to a specific port for some testing. tee seems like an easy way to go. To

glibc

1999-07-18 Thread Per Lundberg
Has anybody done a port of glibc to FreeBSD? (I'm not interested in opinions about how poor it is or how evil the FSF are; I'm only asking to avoid duplicate work. Thanks.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: telnetd

1999-07-18 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter Jeremy writes: : There's nothing stopping you unifdefing telnetd on your system. I : have no opinion as to the merits (or otherwise) of leaving the : ifdef's in the main code tree. True, but since some of what I'm doing is making sure that there are no

Re: poor ethernet performance?

1999-07-18 Thread Jonathan M. Bresler
I guess I forgot about the overhead. I've tested between two FreeBSD machines using Intel Pro100+ NIC cards connected to a Cisco 2924XL Switch Full Duplex and never seen anything close to the speeds. using netperfv2pl3 and FreeBSD 2.2.8 on 300MHz PII with fxp cards (all from

Re: System unique identifier.....

1999-07-18 Thread Mike Smith
Mike Smith wrote: The loader will, at some stage in the future, grow a persistent data store in which items like this can be saved. Doesn't /boot/[defaults/]loader.conf[.local] qualify as persistent data storage? There is little or no chance that the loader will gain the ability to

Re: System unique identifier.....

1999-07-18 Thread Matthew Jacob
Mike Smith wrote: The loader will, at some stage in the future, grow a persistent data store in which items like this can be saved. Doesn't /boot/[defaults/]loader.conf[.local] qualify as persistent data storage? There is little or no chance that the loader will gain the

Re: System unique identifier.....

1999-07-18 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Mike Smith wrote: Mike Smith wrote: The loader will, at some stage in the future, grow a persistent data store in which items like this can be saved. Doesn't /boot/[defaults/]loader.conf[.local] qualify as persistent data storage? There is little or no

Re: All this and documentation too? (was: cvs commit: src/sys/isa sio.c)

1999-07-18 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
[trimming CC list] Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Greg Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mdoc.samples(7). Now tell me that that's not intuitive. It would seem mdoc.samples(7) does not teach by example :) des@des ~% man -t mdoc.samples | lpr -Plex Usage: .Rv -std sections 2 and 3 only

Re: glibc

1999-07-18 Thread Chris Costello
On Sun, Jul 18, 1999, Per Lundberg wrote: Has anybody done a port of glibc to FreeBSD? (I'm not interested in opinions about how poor it is or how evil the FSF are; I'm only asking to avoid duplicate work. Thanks.) Not that I know of, but what's the point? -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL

Re: Booting from vinum?

1999-07-18 Thread Greg Lehey
On Saturday, 17 July 1999 at 22:51:17 +0400, Alex Povolotsky wrote: Hello! Is it possible to have a root partition on vinum'ed disk and benefit from mirroring? If yes, how do I do it? Not yet. It's on the drawing board. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers

Re: vinum is cool. anyone bitten recently?

1999-07-18 Thread Greg Lehey
On Saturday, 17 July 1999 at 15:07:12 -0500, Craig Johnston wrote: Well, I'm looking into doing striping and mirroring on a new webserver I am bringing up (3.2-stable) and I have to say, vinum looks very cool. It took me like half an hour to get it going from first contact. Nice job Greg --

Re: implementing poll() in a device driver (fwd)

1999-07-18 Thread Vasudha Ramnath
I have a test driver that returns these values from the poll() function. However, the application that called the select() is not getting an error. Instead, the select is returning that the particular file descriptor is, in this case, 'readable' ! Take a look at "selscan"

Re: Determining the return address

1999-07-18 Thread Wes Peters
Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 17 Jul 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Is there any (evidently non-portable) way of determining a function instance's return address? I have an idea or two that involves the return address and dladdr(). The code I currently use looks like this: This looks

Re: tee option on ipfw?

1999-07-18 Thread Archie Cobbs
Jaye Mathisen writes: The man page says the tee option on ipfw is not yet supported. I'm wondering if that is still the case as of 3.2-stable, or if the doc is just out of date. You are correct, it's still not implemented.. -Archie

Re: poor ethernet performance?

1999-07-18 Thread Leif Neland
On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Vincent Poy wrote: Ah, you have a point there. The problem is we have so many wires, we don't know which port goes to what on the Catalyst so we had it on autodetect and FreeBSD does boot up with fxp0 showing 100Mbps Full Duplex. Cisco's can show you which

Re: poor ethernet performance?

1999-07-18 Thread sthaug
Ah, you have a point there. The problem is we have so many wires, we don't know which port goes to what on the Catalyst so we had it on autodetect and FreeBSD does boot up with fxp0 showing 100Mbps Full Duplex. Cisco's can show you which mac-adresses are on which port. Probably

Re: poor ethernet performance?

1999-07-18 Thread Vincent Poy
On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Leif Neland wrote: On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Vincent Poy wrote: Ah, you have a point there. The problem is we have so many wires, we don't know which port goes to what on the Catalyst so we had it on autodetect and FreeBSD does boot up with fxp0 showing 100Mbps Full

Cable quality (was: poor ethernet performance?)

1999-07-18 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 16 July 1999 at 19:15:31 -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: : Actually, I was referring to *digital* Audio cables like those :used for CD Transports to Digital/Analog convertors such as Kimber Kable :would be higher grade compared to Monster Cable. You're correct about the :bit

Re: poor ethernet performance?

1999-07-18 Thread sthaug
I'm not sure if it shows the mac address of the cisco's port or the actual device connected to it... FastEthernet0/1 is up, line protocol is up Hardware is Fast Ethernet, address is 0090.abea.3bc1 (bia 0090.abea.3bc1) FastEthernet0/2 is up, line protocol is up Hardware is

Re: poor ethernet performance?

1999-07-18 Thread Vincent Poy
On Sun, 18 Jul 1999 sth...@nethelp.no wrote: I'm not sure if it shows the mac address of the cisco's port or the actual device connected to it... FastEthernet0/1 is up, line protocol is up Hardware is Fast Ethernet, address is 0090.abea.3bc1 (bia 0090.abea.3bc1)

Re: poor ethernet performance?

1999-07-18 Thread sthaug
Please read the documentation. This is hard since the actual machines and switches are almost 6000 miles away from me and the last time I checked, it didn't come with manuals. I know my way around the Cisco routers but the switches is still a mystery... All of the Cisco

Re: Determining the return address

1999-07-18 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Alfred Perlstein bri...@rush.net writes: This looks like what you are doing is trying to grab the data on the stack before log which is the return address. Yes. It actually works :) I doubt this is at all portable and may fail because of

Re: All this and documentation too? (was: cvs commit: src/sys/isa sio.c)

1999-07-18 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Greg Lehey g...@lemis.com writes: mdoc.samples(7). Now tell me that that's not intuitive. It would seem mdoc.samples(7) does not teach by example :) d...@des ~% man -t mdoc.samples | lpr -Plex Usage: .Rv -std sections 2 and 3 only DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To

Re: Setting up a firewall with dynamic IPs

1999-07-18 Thread Jonathan M. Bresler
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote: I was checking out the firewall setup in /etc/rc.firewall, and noticed that the simple example relied on a fixed IP address for the external interface. I don't know ahead of time what IP address is going

Re: poor ethernet performance?

1999-07-18 Thread Doug
Tim Baird wrote: I hope everyone is benefitting by these simple facts *chuckle* Simple facts.. You sound like my physics professor. I for one am benefitting very much from the discussion. I got hired at my current job as a software person, but I have a background in hardware so I

Re: Devloper

1999-07-18 Thread Doug
Assem Salama wrote: I am interested in helping in the development in FreeBSD. I'm not a hotshot programmer but I know how to program. Could someone please send me the available projects that I can work on and some info about them? Step one, ignore all those responses to the poster

Re: Determining the return address

1999-07-18 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 18 Jul 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Alfred Perlstein bri...@rush.net writes: This looks like what you are doing is trying to grab the data on the stack before log which is the return address. Yes. It actually works :) I doubt

Re: Determining the return address

1999-07-18 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Alfred Perlstein bri...@rush.net writes: On 18 Jul 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Alfred Perlstein bri...@rush.net writes: I doubt this is at all portable and may fail because of optimizations and ABI, such as archs that store the

Re: Determining the return address

1999-07-18 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 18 Jul 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Alfred Perlstein bri...@rush.net writes: On 18 Jul 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Alfred Perlstein bri...@rush.net writes: I doubt this is at all portable and may fail because of

Re: Devloper

1999-07-18 Thread Doug White
Just to remind everyone where the actual logic is contained... Check out swap_pager.c line 1135 (in version $Id: vm_pageout.c,v 1.129.2.6 1999/03/18 23:28:39 julian Exp $). FreeBSD is not 100% indiscriminant. It favors procs with PID 48 as targets. You could tune this to discriminate against

tee option on ipfw?

1999-07-18 Thread Jaye Mathisen
The man page says the tee option on ipfw is not yet supported. I'm wondering if that is still the case as of 3.2-stable, or if the doc is just out of date. I would like to make a copy of incoming UDP packets to a specific port for some testing. tee seems like an easy way to go. To

Re: telnetd

1999-07-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
Warner Losh i...@village.org wrote: What purpose is served by the twisty maze of ifdefs in telnetd? Probably for portability. I'd like to unifdef many of them. I'm trying to track down a bug and the twisty maze makes it very hard to follow. Comments? There's nothing stopping you unifdefing

glibc

1999-07-18 Thread Per Lundberg
Has anybody done a port of glibc to FreeBSD? (I'm not interested in opinions about how poor it is or how evil the FSF are; I'm only asking to avoid duplicate work. Thanks.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: telnetd

1999-07-18 Thread Warner Losh
In message 99jul19.084214est.40...@border.alcanet.com.au Peter Jeremy writes: : There's nothing stopping you unifdefing telnetd on your system. I : have no opinion as to the merits (or otherwise) of leaving the : ifdef's in the main code tree. True, but since some of what I'm doing is making

Re: poor ethernet performance?

1999-07-18 Thread Jonathan M. Bresler
I guess I forgot about the overhead. I've tested between two FreeBSD machines using Intel Pro100+ NIC cards connected to a Cisco 2924XL Switch Full Duplex and never seen anything close to the speeds. using netperfv2pl3 and FreeBSD 2.2.8 on 300MHz PII with fxp cards (all from

Re: System unique identifier.....

1999-07-18 Thread Mike Smith
Mike Smith wrote: The loader will, at some stage in the future, grow a persistent data store in which items like this can be saved. Doesn't /boot/[defaults/]loader.conf[.local] qualify as persistent data storage? There is little or no chance that the loader will gain the ability to

Re: System unique identifier.....

1999-07-18 Thread Matthew Jacob
Mike Smith wrote: The loader will, at some stage in the future, grow a persistent data store in which items like this can be saved. Doesn't /boot/[defaults/]loader.conf[.local] qualify as persistent data storage? There is little or no chance that the loader will gain the

Re: System unique identifier.....

1999-07-18 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Mike Smith wrote: Mike Smith wrote: The loader will, at some stage in the future, grow a persistent data store in which items like this can be saved. Doesn't /boot/[defaults/]loader.conf[.local] qualify as persistent data storage? There is little or no

Re: telnetd

1999-07-18 Thread Tim Vanderhoek
On Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 05:44:39PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: True, but since some of what I'm doing is making sure that there are no security implications to some of the paths, doing that would be useless, since that wouldn't be what is checked into the system. We really don't need the

Re: All this and documentation too? (was: cvs commit: src/sys/isa sio.c)

1999-07-18 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
[trimming CC list] Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Greg Lehey g...@lemis.com writes: mdoc.samples(7). Now tell me that that's not intuitive. It would seem mdoc.samples(7) does not teach by example :) d...@des ~% man -t mdoc.samples | lpr -Plex Usage: .Rv -std sections 2 and 3 only This

Re: glibc

1999-07-18 Thread Chris Costello
On Sun, Jul 18, 1999, Per Lundberg wrote: Has anybody done a port of glibc to FreeBSD? (I'm not interested in opinions about how poor it is or how evil the FSF are; I'm only asking to avoid duplicate work. Thanks.) Not that I know of, but what's the point? -- |Chris Costello

Re: Booting from vinum?

1999-07-18 Thread Greg Lehey
On Saturday, 17 July 1999 at 22:51:17 +0400, Alex Povolotsky wrote: Hello! Is it possible to have a root partition on vinum'ed disk and benefit from mirroring? If yes, how do I do it? Not yet. It's on the drawing board. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers

Re: vinum is cool. anyone bitten recently?

1999-07-18 Thread Greg Lehey
On Saturday, 17 July 1999 at 15:07:12 -0500, Craig Johnston wrote: Well, I'm looking into doing striping and mirroring on a new webserver I am bringing up (3.2-stable) and I have to say, vinum looks very cool. It took me like half an hour to get it going from first contact. Nice job Greg --

Re: implementing poll() in a device driver (fwd)

1999-07-18 Thread Vasudha Ramnath
I have a test driver that returns these values from the poll() function. However, the application that called the select() is not getting an error. Instead, the select is returning that the particular file descriptor is, in this case, 'readable' ! Take a look at selscan

Re: Determining the return address

1999-07-18 Thread Wes Peters
Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 17 Jul 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Is there any (evidently non-portable) way of determining a function instance's return address? I have an idea or two that involves the return address and dladdr(). The code I currently use looks like this: This looks

Re: glibc

1999-07-18 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Per Lundberg wrote: Has anybody done a port of glibc to FreeBSD? (I'm not interested in opinions about how poor it is or how evil the FSF are; I'm only asking to avoid duplicate work. Thanks.) Perhaps if you explain what it is you're trying to accomplish, there might be