Re: Large UIDs (65536)

2000-06-10 Thread Mike Smith
Hi, I was just wondering if anyone has considered allowing larger UIDs (unsigned long) on a FreeBSD system? What would this require changing? From what I can tell, the code is typedefed so if you go recompile everything, you should be ok. Am I missing anything here? How about this

Re: Large UIDs (65536)

2000-06-10 Thread Yann Ramin
Good point :) I just got a little freaked by these friendly warning messages from pwd_mkdb: "/etc/pw.Z26392" 15 lines, 319 characters chpass: updating the database... pwd_mkdb: 14 recommended max uid value (65535) chpass: done I know the many UNIXes still have a cap at 65535 (is

Re: Large UIDs (65536)

2000-06-10 Thread Mike Smith
Good point :) I just got a little freaked by these friendly warning messages from pwd_mkdb: "/etc/pw.Z26392" 15 lines, 319 characters chpass: updating the database... pwd_mkdb: 14 recommended max uid value (65535) chpass: done I know the many UNIXes still have a cap at 65535

Re: Mbuf waiting mfc to 3

2000-06-10 Thread Bosko Milekic
[re-directed to --hackers, as more appropriate there, also [EMAIL PROTECTED] is in the CC, make _SURE_ to remove him from there before you post ANY replies!!!] Mike, your patch looks fine. However, I found a bug in /sys/netkey code. (and it's related to the wait stuff, although I don't

Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought..

2000-06-10 Thread Doug Rabson
On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote: On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 09:39:53AM +0100, Doug Rabson wrote: On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote: I'm considering buying an Athlon based machine. Before shelling out the $ (well, fl ) I'd like to know what experiences have with Athlon and

Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought..

2000-06-10 Thread Kevin M Geraci
The Athlon architecture is changing from slot-A to socket-A, so you might want to wait for the new chips. -Kevin On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Doug Rabson wrote: On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote: On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 09:39:53AM +0100, Doug Rabson wrote: On Thu, 8 Jun 2000,

Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought..

2000-06-10 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 05:06:33PM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: Wilko Bulte wrote: And a horrible way to loose valuable PCB real estate that could have housed a PCI/ISA slot. A modem line interface on an L-shaped 'blech' with a cable to the mom board would be better IMHO. Would allow the

IrDA InfraRed Drivers. Would anyone use them?

2000-06-10 Thread Roger Hardiman
Hi, I'm thinking about porting some IrDA Infra Red drivers to FreeBSD. However, I'd like to know how many people would use this, if it is even worth it, and what devices you want to get to talk to each other. IrDA allows data exchange with the wide range of infra-red devices on the market

Re: uidinfo has many race conditions.

2000-06-10 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000609 16:45] wrote: hi, Is it just me or does the fact that uidinfo structures (see kern/kern_proc.c) are allocated with M_WAITOK after finding them fails and then inserted into the uidhash structure a

[Fwd: Re: Queries about Netgraph]

2000-06-10 Thread Julian Elischer
I include an email from Benno Rice who has done quite a bit of work on IrDA using Netgraph. You two should talk. julian -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( OZ) World tour 2000 --- X_.---._/ presently in: Perth v On Tue, May 30, 2000

Re: uidinfo has many race conditions.

2000-06-10 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Brian Fundakowski Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000610 09:13] wrote: On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000609 16:45] wrote: hi, Is it just me or does the fact that uidinfo structures (see kern/kern_proc.c) are allocated with

Re: IrDA InfraRed Drivers. Would anyone use them?

2000-06-10 Thread Kelly Yancey
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Roger Hardiman wrote: Hi, I'm thinking about porting some IrDA Infra Red drivers to FreeBSD. See http://www.posi.net/freebsd/drivers. There is supposedly some work already underway that may be able to use your assistance. Kelly -- Kelly Yancey - [EMAIL

Re: uidinfo has many race conditions.

2000-06-10 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Brian Fundakowski Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000610 09:13] wrote: On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000609 16:45] wrote: hi, Is it just me or does the fact that uidinfo structures

Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought..

2000-06-10 Thread Kent Stewart
Wilko Bulte wrote: On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 05:06:33PM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: Wilko Bulte wrote: And a horrible way to loose valuable PCB real estate that could have housed a PCI/ISA slot. A modem line interface on an L-shaped 'blech' with a cable to the mom board would be

Re: uidinfo has many race conditions.

2000-06-10 Thread Doug Rabson
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Brian Fundakowski Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000610 09:13] wrote: On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000609 16:45] wrote: hi, Is it just me or does the fact that uidinfo structures

Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought..

2000-06-10 Thread Kent Stewart
Mike Smith wrote: Ah, the K7V already has as many PCI slots as you can drive off the existing bridge, and who wants ISA slots these days? Oh, there is the WaveLan ISA card I need... Right, that is exactly what I mean. I rather see a ISA/PCI combo slot that I might use

Re: Non-promiscuous tcpdump on 4.0-STABLE doesn't see outgoingtraffic

2000-06-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, 9 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tcpdump -p does *not* show outgoing traffic in 4.0-STABLE. Incoming is fine. Is this intended? Actually I think I've seen the same thing in 5.0 on a PPP (tun) interface. Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate.

Re: uidinfo has many race conditions.

2000-06-10 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Doug Rabson wrote: Well if we get an atomic_t it could be done that way, even if we fail the race for updating and go beyond our rlimit slightly it's much cheaper than a spinlock from my PoV. The only problem is that afaik on some archs atomic_t can be quite small,

What, exactly, does this mean?

2000-06-10 Thread Dave Hayes
[ Please CC me on responses. Thank you. ] On 3.3-STABLE the following kernel message appeared recently: pmap_collect: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC Is there a place I can get more specific information as to what this means, so I can perhaps embark on the road

Promise Fasttrack RAID controller

2000-06-10 Thread Julian Elischer
Does anyone KNOW of these working under the new drivers? What about setup? I've seen plenty about people failing (in 98-99) to get tehm going but the archives are silent on the topic after that period. The hardware support lists don't mention them either. -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer

Re: What, exactly, does this mean?

2000-06-10 Thread Kelly Yancey
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Dave Hayes wrote: [ Please CC me on responses. Thank you. ] On 3.3-STABLE the following kernel message appeared recently: pmap_collect: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC Is there a place I can get more specific information as to what