Re: Problems with Ethernet programming

1999-05-14 Thread Graham Wheeler
On Thursday, 13 May 1999 at 13:32:42 +0400, Pavel V. Antipov wrote: Now I want to send this packet into the Ethernet network and recieve it of destination computer. Please, tell me how can i write/read the Ethernet packet. Use the bpf device. You may have to recompile the kernels to

large master.passwd

1999-05-14 Thread Roar Thronæs
Hi On a site with 20k users in the master.passwd, and where NIS is not trusted, the master.passwd is distributed to each workstation. The pwd.db and spwd.db are sized around 10Mb. Sometimes, those .db files get corrupt. I suspect it has something to do with the machines being reset etc before

superblock corruption

1999-05-14 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
apropos the recent discussion on superblocks and whether they ever get corrupted, I just got a call from a friend. One of his cluster nodes had power-failed at a bad time, and fsck was indicating a superblock corruption problem. I told him about -b 32, which he had never had to use in four years

Re: modex support (again)

1999-05-14 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Kelly Yancey kby...@alcnet.com writes: Hmm. I sent this message a few days ago and it has been silently ignored. Should I consider that an OK to extern the get_mode_param function in vga_isa.c? Or should I take that as a mass go ahead, we're not going to commit the code anyway? :( Hmm, well,

Re: fsck and large file system

1999-05-14 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Mark J. Taylor mtay...@cybernet.com writes: The problem that we ran into in a system with several 130 MB RAID5 arrays is that the fsck was running out of RAM+swap. We had to add a vnode to swap to before the fsck would complete (basically added more swap space). We had to have over 100 MB

[Fwd: SYN floods against FreeBSD]

1999-05-14 Thread Ugen Antsilevitch
Well..this is just something i picked off BugTraq..worths looking into? If it's old news - pardon me... --Ugen ---BeginMessage--- Here's a quickie for the people who have been plagued with high bandwidth syn flood attacks, a kernel patch for FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE which rate limits SYN processing. Its

Re: modex support (again)

1999-05-14 Thread Kelly Yancey
On 14 May 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Kelly Yancey kby...@alcnet.com writes: Hmm. I sent this message a few days ago and it has been silently ignored. Should I consider that an OK to extern the get_mode_param function in vga_isa.c? Or should I take that as a mass go ahead, we're not

Re: modex support (again)

1999-05-14 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Kelly Yancey kby...@alcnet.com writes: What I don't get is how the memory is presented to apps using the driver. The best I could think of would be to present it a 256k linear frame buffer with the pixels in order (ie writes to consecutive pixels would result in the driver switching planes),

Re: large master.passwd

1999-05-14 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 14), Roar Thron?s said: On a site with 20k users in the master.passwd, and where NIS is not trusted, the master.passwd is distributed to each workstation. The pwd.db and spwd.db are sized around 10Mb. Sometimes, those .db files get corrupt. I suspect it has something

1GB, kvm issues.

1999-05-14 Thread Chuck Youse
It's been noted on several occasions that with large ( 256MB) of RAM, one has to be careful with the configuration (NMBCLUSTERS, MAXUSERS) to prevent the box from falling over every few days due to kvm problems. Can somebody be more specific? I'm just about to order a really, really expensive

Re: modex support (again)

1999-05-14 Thread Kelly Yancey
On 14 May 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: We already have that (libvgl), though it's in deperate need of maintenance. That what I meant by equivalent ;) Anyway, as you point out, then the modes are really only of use to splash screens (which is a minor feature in and of itself). So

Re: modex support (again)

1999-05-14 Thread Brian Feldman
On 14 May 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Kelly Yancey kby...@alcnet.com writes: What I don't get is how the memory is presented to apps using the driver. The best I could think of would be to present it a 256k linear frame buffer with the pixels in order (ie writes to consecutive

Re: 1GB, kvm issues.

1999-05-14 Thread David E. Cross
It's been noted on several occasions that with large ( 256MB) of RAM, one has to be careful with the configuration (NMBCLUSTERS, MAXUSERS) to prevent the box from falling over every few days due to kvm problems. Can somebody be more specific? I'm just about to order a really, really

Re: modex support (again)

1999-05-14 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Kelly Yancey kby...@alcnet.com writes: On 14 May 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: No, actually it has 1536 more pixels :) Mode Q is so named because the frame buffer is a cube of sorts (i.e. 256x256 pixels in 256 colors) Yeah, I've seen the DOS port of snes9x use that. I don't think it has

Re: 1GB, kvm issues.

1999-05-14 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Chuck Youse cyo...@cybersites.com writes: It's been noted on several occasions that with large ( 256MB) of RAM, one has to be careful with the configuration (NMBCLUSTERS, MAXUSERS) to prevent the box from falling over every few days due to kvm problems. It's not a problem as long as your

Re: modex support (again)

1999-05-14 Thread Kelly Yancey
On 14 May 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Kelly Yancey kby...@alcnet.com writes: On 14 May 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: No, actually it has 1536 more pixels :) Mode Q is so named because the frame buffer is a cube of sorts (i.e. 256x256 pixels in 256 colors) Yeah, I've seen the

dlopen failure

1999-05-14 Thread Damian Hamill
I have a program that is dumping core. --- Here's the gdb output; Program terminated with signal 6, Abort trap. #0 0x800b728 in _kill () (gdb) bt #0 0x800b728 in _kill () #1 0x800b34c in abort () #2 0x8004aa2 in __assert () #3 0x8003b4b in

Re: 1GB, kvm issues.

1999-05-14 Thread Rob Garrett
On Fri, 14 May 1999, David E. Cross wrote: It's been noted on several occasions that with large ( 256MB) of RAM, one has to be careful with the configuration (NMBCLUSTERS, MAXUSERS) to prevent the box from falling over every few days due to kvm problems. Can somebody be more

Re: 1GB, kvm issues.

1999-05-14 Thread David E. Cross
has to be careful with the configuration (NMBCLUSTERS, MAXUSERS) to prevent the box from falling over every few days due to kvm problems. Can somebody be more specific? I'm just about to order a really, really expensive machine and I want to be sure I can get it to work .. :)

Re: 1GB, kvm issues.

1999-05-14 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 11:55:49AM -0400, David E. Cross wrote: Well, this is my current config: Dual P2-400, 256M RAM, 256M SWAP, 3.2-BETA, maxusers 256. I have yet to have any wierdness. Note we also run servers based off of the late 3.1-STABLE branch and we *used* to see KVA problems

ifconfig: changing mac address

1999-05-14 Thread Steve Gailey
Hi guys, Does anyone know... Is it possible to change the mac address of an ethernet card using ifconfig? Does this depend upon the ioctls supported by the specific driver? Thanks. Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the

Re: MB86950 Support in the works?

1999-05-14 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Kris Kirby k...@airnet.net writes: I was wondering if any adventurous individual has looked into writing a driver for the MB86950 ethernet controller. I have quite a few cards that use this chip and would be more than willing to acid-test the driver. (Ever got 1MB/s over coax? :-)) Yes, I've

Re: dlopen failure

1999-05-14 Thread Nate Williams
- and here's the ld line for the shared object I am loading; ld -Bshareable -o $@ $ -u _floor ../../lib/libV.a /usr/local/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.a /usr/lib/libm.a This is probably unrelated to the bug (but it might be related). Are

Re: ifconfig: changing mac address

1999-05-14 Thread Nate Williams
Is it possible to change the mac address of an ethernet card using ifconfig? Not in any 'standard' card, no. Some cards (in SUN workstations) allow you to swap the EEPROM with the mac address, and I'll bet somewhere someone has designed a card with a programmable mac address, but normally

Re: modex support (again)

1999-05-14 Thread Mike Smith
To summarize, it seems like a lot of trouble just to get 40 additional scanlines and square pixels on obsolete hardware - anything that doesn't support 'options VESA' was already obsolete five years ago. Unfortunately, it's the trend these days to _not_ support anything at all interesting in

Re: ifconfig: changing mac address

1999-05-14 Thread Luigi Rizzo
Is it possible to change the mac address of an ethernet card using ifconfig? Not in any 'standard' card, no. Some cards (in SUN workstations) allow you to swap the EEPROM with the mac address, and I'll bet somewhere someone has designed a card with a programmable mac address, but

Re: large master.passwd

1999-05-14 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Hi : :On a site with 20k users in the master.passwd, and where NIS is not :trusted, the master.passwd is distributed to each workstation. :The pwd.db and spwd.db are sized around 10Mb. : :Sometimes, those .db files get corrupt. :I suspect it has something to do with the machines being reset etc

Re: ifconfig: changing mac address

1999-05-14 Thread Larry Lile
Some day I will most likely need to deal with this for the Token-ring drivers. In token-ring having a UAA and LAA (Universally/Locally Administered Address) is very common especially in high-availibility situations. Larry Lile l...@stdio.com On Fri, 14 May 1999, Luigi Rizzo wrote: Is it

Re: ifconfig: changing mac address

1999-05-14 Thread sthaug
Not in any 'standard' card, no. Some cards (in SUN workstations) allow you to swap the EEPROM with the mac address, and I'll bet somewhere someone has designed a card with a programmable mac address, but normally it's not settable. while ifconfig might miss this functionality, i

Re: ifconfig: changing mac address

1999-05-14 Thread Daniel Eischen
Is it possible to change the mac address of an ethernet card using ifconfig? Not in any 'standard' card, no. Some cards (in SUN workstations) allow you to swap the EEPROM with the mac address, and I'll bet somewhere someone has designed a card with a programmable mac address, but

what happened to that m68k port?

1999-05-14 Thread Alfred Perlstein
Just out of curiousity, what ever happened with the port that was brought up on -questions? Was it a joke? -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: modex support (again)

1999-05-14 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Mike Smith wrote: To summarize, it seems like a lot of trouble just to get 40 additional scanlines and square pixels on obsolete hardware - anything that doesn't support 'options VESA' was already obsolete five years ago. Unfortunately, it's the trend these days to _not_ support

Re: ifconfig: changing mac address

1999-05-14 Thread Mark J. Taylor
One of the purposes of changing the MAC address is for server redundancy. Suppose that one of your important servers went down. Wouldn't it be nice for the alternative server (a mirror) to get the important server's MAC address (and IP address(es), and AppleTalk address, etc.), so the client's

Re: ifconfig: changing mac address

1999-05-14 Thread Daniel Eischen
One of the purposes of changing the MAC address is for server redundancy. Suppose that one of your important servers went down. Wouldn't it be nice for the alternative server (a mirror) to get the important server's MAC address (and IP address(es), and AppleTalk address, etc.), so the

Seti project / stats reset, new version available

1999-05-14 Thread Matthew Dillon
For people who have idle cpu to spare, this is a good time to start putting those cycles to good use with the Seti project! The project has been running a beta test for a while, but as of May 13th 1999 they reset the stats and introduced new clients for Unix, Windows, and the Mac.

Re: Seti project / stats reset, new version available

1999-05-14 Thread Nate Williams
For people who have idle cpu to spare, this is a good time to start putting those cycles to good use with the Seti project! Where would would find informatio on said project? Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the

Re: Seti project / stats reset, new version available

1999-05-14 Thread Matthew Dillon
: : For people who have idle cpu to spare, this is a good time to start : putting those cycles to good use with the Seti project! : :Where would would find informatio on said project? : : :Nate Oops! I'm sorry! http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/

Re: Seti project / stats reset, new version available

1999-05-14 Thread Mike Smith
: For people who have idle cpu to spare, this is a good time to start : putting those cycles to good use with the Seti project! : :Where would would find informatio on said project? : : :Nate Oops! I'm sorry! http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ They're not responding

Re: BSD, GPL, the world today.

1999-05-14 Thread Matt Curtin
On Thu, 13 May 1999 10:25:21 -0400, Dennis den...@etinc.com said: Dennis All software has bugs TeX has no bugs. But it's the exception, not the rule. -- Matt Curtin cmcur...@interhack.net http://www.interhack.net/people/cmcurtin/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with

Re: BSD, GPL, the world today.

1999-05-14 Thread Wes Peters
Matt Curtin wrote: On Thu, 13 May 1999 10:25:21 -0400, Dennis den...@etinc.com said: Dennis All software has bugs TeX has no bugs. TeX has no *known* bugs. To the best of my knowlege, even Dr. Knuth has not yet been able to *prove* it is correct. But it's the exception, not the rule.

Re: BSD, GPL, the world today.

1999-05-14 Thread Andrew Kenneth Milton
+[ Matt Curtin ]- | On Thu, 13 May 1999 10:25:21 -0400, Dennis den...@etinc.com said: | | Dennis All software has bugs | | TeX has no bugs. | | But it's the exception, not the rule. You cannot test for the abscence of bugs. -- Totally Holistic

Re: Seti project / stats reset, new version available

1999-05-14 Thread David Greenman
: : For people who have idle cpu to spare, this is a good time to start : putting those cycles to good use with the Seti project! : :Where would would find informatio on said project? : : :Nate Oops! I'm sorry! http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Now available at

Re: Seti project / stats reset, new version available

1999-05-14 Thread Matthew Dillon
:http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ : : Now available at ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/setiathome/ : :-DG : :David Greenman :Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org :Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Yah, but I

Re: Seti project / stats reset, new version available

1999-05-14 Thread Matthew Jacob
So do I. I would like them to make the source available. I have *lots* of machines available that are sitting doing nothing. But they don't run FreeBSD (yet). I have at least 3 alpha 8200s and 4 Alpha 4100s that are running NetBSD now and mostly quiescent. On Fri, 14 May 1999, Matthew Dillon

Re: Native Applixware for FreeBSD -- When?

1999-05-14 Thread Nik Clayton
On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 08:07:41PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: On Thu, 13 May 1999, Nik Clayton wrote: Your XML aware web browser could then also read in these ATLL files and do something useful with them too, *without you needing to convert them to HTML first*. This is where the XML Style

Re: ifconfig: changing mac address

1999-05-14 Thread Justin C. Walker
[Apologies if this is duplicated, sort of; I inadvertently lost power as I was sending a reply to this, and I don't have a record that it was sent]. From: Nate Williams n...@mt.sri.com Date: 1999-05-14 10:11:52 -0700 To: steve.gai...@db.com Subject: Re: ifconfig: changing mac address Cc:

Re: ifconfig: changing mac address

1999-05-14 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 14 May 1999 at 15:43:15 -0400, Mark J. Taylor wrote: On 14-May-99 Daniel Eischen wrote: Is it possible to change the mac address of an ethernet card using ifconfig? Not in any 'standard' card, no. Some cards (in SUN workstations) allow you to swap the EEPROM with the mac address,

Re: ifconfig: changing mac address

1999-05-14 Thread David Scheidt
On Sat, 15 May 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: : :It seems there's a need, and the possibility. Would somebody like to :suggest a syntax? : ifconfig interface ether ab:cd:ef:fe:dc:ab [options] makes sense to me. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe

Re: ifconfig: changing mac address

1999-05-14 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 14), David Scheidt said: On Sat, 15 May 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: :It seems there's a need, and the possibility. Would somebody like :to suggest a syntax? ifconfig interface ether ab:cd:ef:fe:dc:ab [options] makes sense to me. And the next step would be to make

Re: ifconfig: changing mac address

1999-05-14 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 14 May 1999 at 21:15:33 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (May 14), David Scheidt said: On Sat, 15 May 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: :It seems there's a need, and the possibility. Would somebody like :to suggest a syntax? ifconfig interface ether ab:cd:ef:fe:dc:ab [options]

Re: ifconfig: changing mac address

1999-05-14 Thread David Scheidt
On Sat, 15 May 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: :On Friday, 14 May 1999 at 21:15:33 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: : : And the next step would be to make the kernel realize that two cards : ifconfig'd with the same MAC address are meant to be bonded together as : one route (lots of switches support this). I

Re: ifconfig: changing mac address

1999-05-14 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 15), Greg Lehey said: And the next step would be to make the kernel realize that two cards ifconfig'd with the same MAC address are meant to be bonded together as one route (lots of switches support this). I have some machines that I'd love to be able to get

Re: ifconfig: changing mac address

1999-05-14 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 14 May 1999 at 21:41:23 -0500, David Scheidt wrote: On Sat, 15 May 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: :On Friday, 14 May 1999 at 21:15:33 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: : : And the next step would be to make the kernel realize that two cards : ifconfig'd with the same MAC address are meant to be

Re: ifconfig: changing mac address

1999-05-14 Thread David Scheidt
On Sat, 15 May 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: : :If you have two different nets, why do you need the same Ethernet :address? : Transparent redundancy. With them both up on the same MAC address, if one fails, you have no loss of connection, though you may drop some packets, of course. Most of the

Re: ifconfig: changing mac address

1999-05-14 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 14 May 1999 at 21:54:02 -0500, David Scheidt wrote: On Sat, 15 May 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: : :If you have two different nets, why do you need the same Ethernet :address? : Transparent redundancy. With them both up on the same MAC address, if one fails, you have no loss of

Re: ifconfig: changing mac address

1999-05-14 Thread David Scheidt
On Sat, 15 May 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: :OK, now maybe I'm missing something here. But an Ethernet address is :used to identify a board. Arp binds it to an IP address. An IP :address is bound to a network. So if you're on a different network, :you get a different IP address. Why do you need

Re: ifconfig: changing mac address

1999-05-14 Thread Steve Rubin
You need a switch to do this. If your clients are on the same ethernet as your server, they can only talk to one MAC address. That means you only get the bandwidth of one interface. If you have a switch that can bond ports together, you can use both cards at the same time,

Re: ifconfig: changing mac address

1999-05-14 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 15), Greg Lehey said: OK, now maybe I'm missing something here. But an Ethernet address is used to identify a board. Arp binds it to an IP address. An IP address is bound to a network. So if you're on a different network, you get a different IP address. Why do you

Re: ifconfig: changing mac address

1999-05-14 Thread John Milford
You have to have the capibility on the switch, and enable it first. It is called EtherChannel by Cisco, and it is 2 or 4 ports that all have the same MAC addr plugged into the switch, and the switch treats them as one interface. --John Steve Rubin s...@tch.org

Re: ifconfig: changing mac address

1999-05-14 Thread Wes Peters
Greg Lehey wrote: On Friday, 14 May 1999 at 15:43:15 -0400, Mark J. Taylor wrote: One of the purposes of changing the MAC address is for server redundancy. Yes, and in fact Tandem^H^H^H^H^H^HCompaq use this for their NonStop Ethernet. The machine has two ethernet boards. If one goes

Re: ifconfig: changing mac address

1999-05-14 Thread Wes Peters
Greg Lehey wrote: OK, now maybe I'm missing something here. But an Ethernet address is used to identify a board. Arp binds it to an IP address. An IP address is bound to a network. So if you're on a different network, you get a different IP address. Why do you need the same Ethernet

Re: ifconfig: changing mac address

1999-05-14 Thread Wes Peters
David Scheidt wrote: On Sat, 15 May 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: :OK, now maybe I'm missing something here. But an Ethernet address is :used to identify a board. Arp binds it to an IP address. An IP :address is bound to a network. So if you're on a different network, :you get a different