Re: PPPoE w/ nat auto fragmentation hack?

2000-11-14 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 07:35:57PM -0800, Renaud Waldura wrote: I wrote an article about this setup. Should be published soon enough. http://renaud.waldura.com/doc/freebsd-pppoe/ I'd like to get your feedback on the section making use of tcpmssd: it doesn't seem to work when the link is

RE: Legacy ethernet cards in FreeBSD

2000-11-14 Thread Koster, K.J.
Ok, "seem to have lost support" is about the vaguest thing you could have said. I've killed people for less. I'm too young to die. Sorry for the lack of detail. I should have known better. Please explain in detail how you arrived at the conclusion that the card was no longer supported.

Re: zero copy TCP

2000-11-14 Thread Jeroen C. van Gelderen
"Jin Guojun (DSD staff)" wrote: I heard that zero copy TCP is already in FreeBSD, isn't it? I could not find any information in searching the entire website. Before I am going to spend some silly time working on it, I would like to know what is the status for "ZERO COPY TCP" in FreeBSD

New US CVSup mirror

2000-11-14 Thread John Polstra
I've been getting some reports lately that our US CVSup mirror sites are increasingly hard to get into. I've just added a new one, cvsup10.FreeBSD.org, which should help matters. There are a couple of additional mirrors in the pipeline, too. This has become possible because we replaced the

Re: USB-to-SCSI converter

2000-11-14 Thread James FitzGibbon
* Chris Dillon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [001113 08:22]: Since you can select the LUN and not the ID, maybe they've mapped SCSI ID0:LUN0 to ID0:LUN0 (duh), ID1:LUN0 to ID0:LUN1, ID2:LUN0 to ID0:LUN2, and so on, which would explain why we only see a device at ID0:LUN0 if we aren't looking at the

Re: PPPoE w/ nat auto fragmentation hack? (use tcpmssd port)

2000-11-14 Thread Renaud Waldura
Dear hackers, What exactly does not work? What does the option -l do? When launched automatically by ppp, tcpmssd doesn't get any of the packets and is useless. When I start it manually from the command line, it works fine. I realize this isn't much in the way of helpful debugging

C and C++ on FreeBSD

2000-11-14 Thread Thierry
Hi, We are implementing our OS modem on FreeBSD, but lot of our sources have writen in C++. Is it possible to compile the FreeBSD kernel in C++ to include our driver ? Thanks in Advance. Thierry ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )

Re: C and C++ on FreeBSD

2000-11-14 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thierry writes: : We are implementing our OS modem on FreeBSD, but lot of our sources : have writen in C++. Is it possible to compile the FreeBSD kernel in : C++ to include our driver ? Yes and No. If you use only the bare minimal subset of features for the C++ and

Re: C and C++ on FreeBSD

2000-11-14 Thread Peter Dufault
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thierry writes: : We are implementing our OS modem on FreeBSD, but lot of our sources : have writen in C++. Is it possible to compile the FreeBSD kernel in : C++ to include our driver ? Yes and No. If you use only the bare minimal subset of features for the

Re: PPPoE w/ nat auto fragmentation hack? (use tcpmssd port)

2000-11-14 Thread FengYue
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Renaud Waldura wrote: -Dear hackers, - - What exactly does not work? - What does the option -l do? - -When launched automatically by ppp, tcpmssd doesn't get any of the packets -and is useless. When I start it manually from the command line, it works -fine. - -I realize

I wanna help

2000-11-14 Thread Raymond Hicks
I am Raymond Hicks and consider myself to be fairly knowledgable when it comes to BSD UNIX and your lovely OS FreeBSD.. I would like to help out by offering my time and technical knowhow to your development team.. If you would like specific information about my skills I can email you a

Re: patches for 4.x devrandom so that bind works

2000-11-14 Thread Mark Murray
Yes, it is this simple :-). Can you get it ready for 4.2? I'd like to see us be able to run bind9 in the next release. Sure. I'll see if I can do it in the next couple of hours. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

page fault question

2000-11-14 Thread Richard Hodges
I have been having a great time :-) debugging a device driver, and have run into a really fun way to panic. With one type of traffic, [something] happens and the kernel drops into DDB, just the way I want. Well, actually DDB seems to get trapped in some kind of loop that spews messages faster

Re: I wanna help

2000-11-14 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Raymond Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] [001114 10:14] wrote: I am Raymond Hicks and consider myself to be fairly knowledgable when it comes to BSD UNIX and your lovely OS FreeBSD.. I would like to help out by offering my time and technical knowhow to your development team.. If you would like

Re: C and C++ on FreeBSD

2000-11-14 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter Dufault writes: : C++ work in an embedded system. Exceptions had already been given : up on. The ctors/dtors are handled with "munch" style tools : (from vxWorks land) that generate construct/destruct : vectors that you'll probably then hook in with kernel

Re: iowait CPU state

2000-11-14 Thread Rik van Riel
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Terry Lambert wrote: Thank you! This gets the me disk %busy, which is one of the things I was looking for. Now, can anyone tell me how to tell what percentage of processor time is being spent waiting for disk I/O to complete? Uh, none? If there is disk I/O

Re: zero copy TCP

2000-11-14 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 09:37:35 -0400, Jeroen C. van Gelderen wrote: "Jin Guojun (DSD staff)" wrote: I heard that zero copy TCP is already in FreeBSD, isn't it? I could not find any information in searching the entire website. Before I am going to spend some silly time working on it,

looking for kernel hacking info

2000-11-14 Thread Paonia Ezrine
I am looking for info on programing in kernel land. System calls, howto's etc. I have not found anything that realy covers this stuff any and all help would be welcomed! thanks Paonia To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

RE: Best Gigabit ethernet for 4.x

2000-11-14 Thread Dennis
What is the adapter of choice for gigabit ethernet for 4.x FreeBSD? thanks. DB To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

libexec directory error ?

2000-11-14 Thread visi0n
I've a box with FreeBSD 4.1 installed and when I ls -l /usr I saw something weird... anthrax# ls -la total 35 drwxr-xr-x 18 root wheel512 Oct 17 02:55 . drwxr-xr-x 15 root wheel512 Oct 8 02:23 .. drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel512 Oct 10 19:06 X11R6

RE: kernel boot question

2000-11-14 Thread John Baldwin
On 14-Nov-00 Steve Price wrote: This may seem like a strange request but ... I'm trying to rebuild my Alpha box with the latest 4.2RC bits so I can start and new package build with the new libc (with version no. bump). The box is two hours North of here and everyone that is at the office

What is the cost of a simlink?

2000-11-14 Thread Nicole
Greetings I have a disk load problem I was hoping to solve by using an added disk and simlinking a number of directories over to the new disk. These are directories to be accessed by apache and there may be as many as 40-60 simlinks to the new drive for the data directories. My question

Re: kernel boot question

2000-11-14 Thread Steve Price
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 02:26:49PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote: # # WARNING: / was not properly dismounted # panic: kmem_malloc(536887296): kmem_map too small: 5685248 total allocated # # syncing disks... 8 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 # giving up on 3 buffers # Uptime: 2m4s #

Re: KLDs and PCI?

2000-11-14 Thread Julian Elischer
Try use the newest version of /usr/share/examples/drivers/make_device_driver.sh I just added PCI support (but I have't tested it much yet) Hopefully I'll get feedback it it's too radically wrong. I am working on a KLD for a PCI device. My problem is I can't find how to call the probe and

Re: looking for kernel hacking info

2000-11-14 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 14 November 2000 at 16:32:49 -0500, Paonia Ezrine wrote: I am looking for info on programing in kernel land. System calls, howto's etc. I have not found anything that realy covers this stuff any and all help would be welcomed! The system calls are described in section 2 of the

Re: What is the cost of a simlink?

2000-11-14 Thread void
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 02:34:54PM -0700, Nicole wrote: Greetings I have a disk load problem I was hoping to solve by using an added disk and simlinking a number of directories over to the new disk. These are directories to be accessed by apache and there may be as many as 40-60

Re: PPPoE w/ nat auto fragmentation hack? (use tcpmssd port)

2000-11-14 Thread Brian Somers
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Renaud Waldura wrote: -Dear hackers, - - What exactly does not work? - What does the option -l do? - -When launched automatically by ppp, tcpmssd doesn't get any of the packets -and is useless. When I start it manually from the command line, it works -fine. -

Re: looking for kernel hacking info

2000-11-14 Thread visi0n
The THC have a documentation about freebsd kernel space. packetstorm.securify.com/groups/thc/bsdkern.htm === visi0n AUX Technologies [www.aux-tech.org] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Moused doesn't reinitialize mouse after removal and reinsertion...

2000-11-14 Thread Dave Howland
Here's a puzzle for someone who has a little free time... I've got a manual switchbox to switch my mouse, keyboard, and monitor between to computers. It's a manual switchbox, so it doesn't send a constant signal to both systems (like those fancy - and expensive - automatic ones). Here's the

Re: looking for kernel hacking info

2000-11-14 Thread Paonia Ezrine
On Tuesday, 14 November 2000 at 16:32:49 -0500, Paonia Ezrine wrote: I am looking for info on programing in kernel land. System calls, howto's etc. I have not found anything that realy covers this stuff any and all help would be welcomed! The system calls are described in section 2 of

Porting Linux to FreeBSD

2000-11-14 Thread Steveb 99
How different is Linux from FreeBSD when it comes to porting code. Nothing specific just in general, are there major differences or small differences. Assuming same hardware just OS is different. Device driver vs applications. What areas are the gottcha's? Steve B. To Unsubscribe: send

Re: looking for kernel hacking info

2000-11-14 Thread Greg Black
Paonia Ezrine wrote: The system calls are described in section 2 of the manual. thanks. do you mean handbook? No, he meant what he said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: looking for kernel hacking info

2000-11-14 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 14 November 2000 at 21:14:25 -0500, Paonia Ezrine wrote: On Tuesday, 14 November 2000 at 16:32:49 -0500, Paonia Ezrine wrote: I am looking for info on programing in kernel land. System calls, howto's etc. I have not found anything that realy covers this stuff any and all help

Re: looking for kernel hacking info

2000-11-14 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 15 November 2000 at 10:08:45 +, visi0n wrote: The THC have a documentation about freebsd kernel space. packetstorm.securify.com/groups/thc/bsdkern.htm Repeating the full URL for the benefit of mutt users, this is

Re: Moused doesn't reinitialize mouse after removal and reinsertion...

2000-11-14 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dave Howland writes: : pain, albeit not completely unbearable. Anyone have any theories on how we : could get moused to a) detect the mouse being unplugged and reinserted and : b) reinitialize the mouse after this happens? Here's some fun info type : stuff (in case