Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-21 Thread Wes Peters
Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > At 12:45 AM -0700 12/21/99, Wes Peters wrote: > >Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > > [...] but I was wondering how much one has to fork out before you > > > get extra options like a port-mirroring capability... > > > >Lots more, in terms of dollars. For this, you need at

sk_buff vs mbuf

1999-12-21 Thread visi0n
Is there someone closer to a linux box, tell me if sk_buff is more fast than mbuf. I was reading these codes but I can't figure out the final result. === visi0n AUX Technologies [www.aux-tech.org] To Unsubscri

Re: Serial boot prompt messages and a modem

1999-12-21 Thread Mark Newton
On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 05:38:35PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > Hmm, last time I checked, they were just 'serial ports'. > > Nope. The significance is determined by the software, and you're stuck > with the fact that the first serial port is the console port. End of > story. (Note: if

firewall help

1999-12-21 Thread Eric Melville
i was told by a freebsd friend to ask you this question: can *bsd do kernel-space ip port forwarding? thanks. -E To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Serial boot prompt messages and a modem

1999-12-21 Thread Mike Smith
> > "Swapping them internally" would probably involve about 30 seconds of > > work. It's not hard, really. 8) > > Yes I know I could have done that. Then reconfigured my getty's, my > minicom etc. It's the principle of the thing - I prefer to bend the > software to my will rather than have to o

Re: Serial boot prompt messages and a modem

1999-12-21 Thread Justin Hawkins
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > "Swapping them internally" would probably involve about 30 seconds of > work. It's not hard, really. 8) Yes I know I could have done that. Then reconfigured my getty's, my minicom etc. It's the principle of the thing - I prefer to bend the software to

Re: Possible solution for USB Ethernet problem

1999-12-21 Thread Julian Elischer
we were usug both IHCI and UHCI which is why we didn't mention it. we DID have a problem one one of them (which seemed unrelated) but I can't remember which. It was reported by other people around the same time so we didn't connect it with our driver. On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Bill Paul wrote: > Pre

Re: Serial boot prompt messages and a modem

1999-12-21 Thread Mike Smith
> I've recently had .. ahem .. fun trying to get my headless FreeBSD box to > spit messages at the console. I've got the kernel doing it right, but not > the boot loaders. The boot loader will print to the serial device - but it > won't load my kernel :-( I haven't exhausted all oppurtunities here

Re: Possible solution for USB Ethernet problem

1999-12-21 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Bill Paul writes: | Previously I mentioned that I was having trouble sending full sized | ethernet frames (1500 bytes) over USB using my ADMtek AN986 Pegasus | eval board. The problem turned out to be in the uhci driver, however | I'm not certain exactly how to incorporate my fix. | | The problem

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-21 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:45 AM -0700 12/21/99, Wes Peters wrote: >Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > [...] but I was wondering how much one has to fork out before you > > get extra options like a port-mirroring capability... > >Lots more, in terms of dollars. For this, you need at least a managed >switch, and probably a

Possible solution for USB Ethernet problem

1999-12-21 Thread Bill Paul
Previously I mentioned that I was having trouble sending full sized ethernet frames (1500 bytes) over USB using my ADMtek AN986 Pegasus eval board. The problem turned out to be in the uhci driver, however I'm not certain exactly how to incorporate my fix. The problem I was seeing was that large f

Re: Serial boot prompt messages and a modem

1999-12-21 Thread Justin Hawkins
On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Justin Hawkins wrote: > > > > I understand it's not really a bug and perhaps is not worth the code > > effort. A note in the handbook might not go astray - I am sure a lot of > > people who need a COM2 console will have modem on COM1. > > A note o

Re: Serial boot prompt messages and a modem

1999-12-21 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Justin Hawkins wrote: > > I understand it's not really a bug and perhaps is not worth the code > effort. A note in the handbook might not go astray - I am sure a lot of > people who need a COM2 console will have modem on COM1. A note on the handbook and/or man pages can certainly be done. I'd be

Re: Practical limit for number of TCP connections?

1999-12-21 Thread Jonathan Lemon
On Dec 12, 1999 at 03:55:18PM -0800, Jason Nordwick wrote: > > >In article >[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > you write: > >>In my case, load is reasonably distributed. Is poll() really that much > >>better than select()? I thought that, excepting bit flag manipulations, > >>it worked basically the same wa

Re: Serial boot prompt messages and a modem

1999-12-21 Thread Justin Hawkins
On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > I'd say this is an expected result, not a known problem. It is doing > exactly what it is being told to (gibberish). Junk in, junk out. :-) Sure. > > Is there enough room in there for some code, which checks for this? IE if > > the first line outp

Re: Serial boot prompt messages and a modem

1999-12-21 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Justin Hawkins wrote: > > I think (I am not positive on this) that if the boot loader talks to a > modem in command mode with echo on, it gets confused and won't boot any > further. Is this a known problem? I'd say this is an expected result, not a known problem. It is doing exactly what it is b

RE: modifying an object file

1999-12-21 Thread Thomas David Rivers
David - The man page for the ELF linker says: ld accepts Linker Command Language files to provide ex- plicit and total control over the linking process. This man page does not describe the command language; see the `ld' entry in `info', or the manual ld: the

Re: Preliminary Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit driver for FreeBSD-current

1999-12-21 Thread Matthew Jacob
> Performance is abysmal (~130Mbit). That's next to figure out > what's up and what I've done stupidly. Feel free to comment.. I should note, btw, that this is, in fact, better than I could get the Linux released Intel driver to do, so far all I know it's just the cards I have. -mat

Re: Odd TCP glitches in new currents

1999-12-21 Thread Jonathan Lemon
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 12:50:50 -0800 (PST), Matthew Dillon wrote: > What happens when you specify a 1-tick timeout and the tick interrupt > occurs a microsecond later? For that matter what happens when you want > 1.5 ticks worth of timeout? Do you get only 1? What happens is that >

Re: Anybody know if there is any way to make ports use differentwork dir?

1999-12-21 Thread Ben Rosengart
On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Chris Costello wrote: >The authors of bsd.port.mk have. Try this: Oh, that's great! I've wanted for a long time to have a way of building ports without being root. Thank you. -- Ben Rosengart UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group StarMedia Network, Inc. To Unsubscr

Re: Practical limit for number of TCP connections?

1999-12-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 09:22:04 -0600 (CST), Jonathan Lemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In article >[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > you write: >>In my case, load is reasonably distributed. Is poll() really that much >>better than select()? I thought that, excepting bit flag manipulations, >>it worked basical

RE: modifying an object file

1999-12-21 Thread David Quattlebaum
> -Original Message- > From: John Baldwin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 3:26 PM > To: David Quattlebaum > Cc: FreeBSD Hackers > Subject: RE: modifying an object file > > > > On 21-Dec-99 David Quattlebaum wrote: > > Anyone, > > > > I have an object file:

RE: modifying an object file

1999-12-21 Thread John Baldwin
On 21-Dec-99 David Quattlebaum wrote: > Anyone, > > I have an object file: foo.o > > In foo.o I have a call to bar(). > > Now, I want foo.o to actually call yo() instead of bar() and say I don't have > the source > for foo.c (so recompiling is out of the question). I want to change the > objec

Re: modifying an object file

1999-12-21 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> David Quattlebaum writes: : Has anyone accomplished this without having to dissect the ELF object, change it : and reconstruct the pieces? Change the string table. This is the time honored way of kludging binaries to do things that the original .o's were never int

modifying an object file

1999-12-21 Thread David Quattlebaum
Anyone, I have an object file: foo.o In foo.o I have a call to bar(). Now, I want foo.o to actually call yo() instead of bar() and say I don't have the source for foo.c (so recompiling is out of the question). I want to change the object file foo.o to call yo() instead of bar(). Has anyone ac

Re: Preliminary Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit driver for FreeBSD-current

1999-12-21 Thread Jonathan Lemon
On Dec 12, 1999 at 11:50:20AM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > I did coordinate with you- you didn't offer to share any technical > information with me and seemed to indicate that the driver would have > trouble being released with source. You also said "I haven't written a > NetWork driver either".

Re: Preliminary Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit driver for FreeBSD-current

1999-12-21 Thread Matthew Jacob
I did coordinate with you- you didn't offer to share any technical information with me and seemed to indicate that the driver would have trouble being released with source. You also said "I haven't written a NetWork driver either". See correspondence below. Hey- if your driver is cleaner and bet

Re: Preliminary Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit driver for FreeBSD-current

1999-12-21 Thread Jonathan Lemon
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >I've copied a first cut of an Intel Pro/1000 Gigabit driver for freebsd to: > >http://www.freebsd.org/~mjacob/FreeBSD_Intel_Gige.patch.gz Um, no offense, but why didn't you coordinate with me earlier about this? I did tell you that I was working on t

Re: wchar support?

1999-12-21 Thread Kip Macy
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > -On [19991221 18:25], Nik Clayton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >I'm trying to compile OpenJade 1.3, a C++ application, for the Doc. Proj. > >The build fails with > > Bah, you beat me to it ;) > > >LangO

Re: wchar support?

1999-12-21 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
-On [19991221 18:25], Nik Clayton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >I'm trying to compile OpenJade 1.3, a C++ application, for the Doc. Proj. >The build fails with Bah, you beat me to it ;) >LangObj.cxx:15: wchar.h: No such file or directory >LangObj.cxx:16: wctype.h: No such file or

Preliminary Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit driver for FreeBSD-current

1999-12-21 Thread Matthew Jacob
I've copied a first cut of an Intel Pro/1000 Gigabit driver for freebsd to: http://www.freebsd.org/~mjacob/FreeBSD_Intel_Gige.patch.gz This is a patch against -current's /usr/src/sys as of today. I have run it on a 2xPPro Intel 440FX and a Alpha PC164 (432Mhz). This is a very first cut, but se

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-21 Thread Doug White
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Michael R. Wayne wrote: > On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 10:46:37PM -0600, Tim Tsai wrote: > > > > Best bang for the buck category: HP ProCurve 4000M. 40 switched 10/100 > > ports (that's with the chassis half filled). > > Note that HP's pricing on additional cards is silly.

Re: I'd like to help!

1999-12-21 Thread Wes Peters
Nathan Gould wrote: > > Hi, > > I'd like to contribute, if I may. Is there anything that high on the > wishlist that I may help with? > > A bit of background: I've been with FreeBSD since 2.1. previously > NeXTSTEP, SCO (don't laugh), HP-UX and SUNOS/Solaris. > > One thing I though about is

wchar support?

1999-12-21 Thread Nik Clayton
Folks, I'm trying to compile OpenJade 1.3, a C++ application, for the Doc. Proj. The build fails with LangObj.cxx:15: wchar.h: No such file or directory LangObj.cxx:16: wctype.h: No such file or directory gmake[2]: *** [LangObj.lo] Error 1 which is obvious enough. A hunt through /usr/include,

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-21 Thread Michael R. Wayne
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 10:46:37PM -0600, Tim Tsai wrote: > > Best bang for the buck category: HP ProCurve 4000M. 40 switched 10/100 > ports (that's with the chassis half filled). Note that HP's pricing on additional cards is silly. It's cheaper to buy 2 4000Ms and throw the second chassi

Re: Practical limit for number of TCP connections?

1999-12-21 Thread Jonathan Lemon
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >In my case, load is reasonably distributed. Is poll() really that much >better than select()? I thought that, excepting bit flag manipulations, >it worked basically the same way on the kernel end. Yes, it is better. Select uses the same backend as po

I'd like to help!

1999-12-21 Thread Nathan Gould
Hi, I'd like to contribute, if I may. Is there anything that high on the wishlist that I may help with? A bit of background: I've been with FreeBSD since 2.1. previously NeXTSTEP, SCO (don't laugh), HP-UX and SUNOS/Solaris. One thing I though about is the lack of an LVM equivalent - most com

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-21 Thread Chris Sedore
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > > > At 11:18 PM -0700 12/18/99, Wes Peters wrote: > > >Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > > Prices have fallen a lot in the last year. I'm happy to be able to > > > > get rid of my HUBs, I was constantly having to deal wit

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-21 Thread Doug Rabson
On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Tim Tsai wrote: > > hub. It works fine except that it hangs occasionally (can be > > reset by power-cycling). > > Most of these can be attributed to the crappy wall wart they call a > power supply. If it's plugged into an UPS or replace it with your own DC > power supply

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-21 Thread Wes Peters
Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > At 11:18 PM -0700 12/18/99, Wes Peters wrote: > >Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > Prices have fallen a lot in the last year. I'm happy to be able to > > > get rid of my HUBs, I was constantly having to deal with packet loss > > > when running saturation tests