Re: IP Address Overtaking

2001-01-24 Thread Andreas Brodmann
Hi Dejvid, just a suggestion: In production environments it is a must to also take over the cluster partner's mac address. Something that would make a nice plus to your script. Regards, Andreas --- switch To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in

RE: if_fxp driver info

2001-01-24 Thread Koster, K.J.
2) I don't have any boards that don't work correctly. I have several. If you send me your surface-mail address, I can ship one to you. Kees Jan You are only young once, but you can stay immature all your life. To Unsubscribe:

interrupt handling routine!!!

2001-01-24 Thread Mohana Krishna Penumetcha
hi, we are writing a driver(FreeBSD 4.0) for a switch connected to a PCI port. the interrupt handling routine is not getting called. we checked the switch IRQ status register and find some interrupts to be pending. we have no clue about what is happening, can someone give a few ideas about what

Re: Patch to fix make buildkernel requires full obj directory mistake

2001-01-24 Thread Ben Smithurst
Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Dan Langille" writes: : http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html This change should do the trick if I'm reading things right. It's still KERNEL= in -stable though I think. I think I'll just add a note which says "in

Re: IP Address Overtaking

2001-01-24 Thread Andreas Brodmann
just a suggestion: In production environments it is a must to also take over the cluster partner's mac address. Something that would make a nice plus to your script. I was thinking about that I don't see that this is a must in production environment because when you assign a new

Re: driver help

2001-01-24 Thread David Rufino
* Mike Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I am currently trying to port the compatability layer of a linux kernel driver to FreeBSD 4.x. The bit I'm stuck on at the moment is, how do I map arbitrary physical address space to kernel virtual address space (ala ioremap() in linux) ? Thanks.

Re: IP Address Overtaking

2001-01-24 Thread Dejvid Zaninovic
On normal internetworking hosts, without the necessity of high availability this works fine. Not all hosts do update or even flush their arp cache with the same frequency though. Some have a cycle of less than one minute on routers on the other hand the default arp cache timeout is a lot

pthreads and kqueue

2001-01-24 Thread Kevin Mills
A little background: I have an application that uses kqueue to manage many, many sockets (and it works wonderfully, btw). I'm using non-blocking I/O, so my application can certainly work without threads. However, each incoming connection needs to access a back-end RADIUS or LDAP server

Re: FreeBSD doesn't recognize keyboard unless is plugged in at boot t ime.

2001-01-24 Thread Chris Shenton
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 23:21:46 -0800, Jos Backus [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Jos I have the same problem with a Win2k system and a FreeBSD system Jos connected to an OmniCube 4-port switch, at rev. 1.5 (see the Jos bottom of the unit). Belkin says it's fixed in rev. 1.9 and is Jos willing to exchange

RE: FreeBSD doesn't recognize keyboard unless is plugged in atbo ot t ime.

2001-01-24 Thread Matt Simerson
Heeey, thank you guys. That is very useful information. I just got off the phone with Belkin and my replacement KVM is on the way Thanks, Matt -Original Message- From: Chris Shenton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 10:11 AM To: Jos Backus Cc:

FreeBSD Linux emulation / arla 0.34.6

2001-01-24 Thread Chris
I have discovered a rather interesting bug with this combination, and was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction to help me track it down. The problem is that linux binaries which call getdirents on an afs directory do not report the last directory entry: /afs/whatever%

Re: FreeBSD Linux emulation / arla 0.34.6

2001-01-24 Thread Chris
Silly me--I forgot to mention, this is with FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE. Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Patch to fix make buildkernel requires full obj directory mistake

2001-01-24 Thread Dan Langille
Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Dan Langille" writes: : http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html This change should do the trick if I'm reading things right. It's still KERNEL= in -stable though I think. I think I'll just add a note which says

Re: Default users and the passwords

2001-01-24 Thread Matt Chew Spence
Another question in a similar vein: Which, if any (besides root and nobody, which are a given), of these default accounts are critical to the basic functionality of the box? Is there a list somewhere where I can match these phantom/daemon users to their functionality/dependencies? I'd just as

Re: driver help

2001-01-24 Thread Dennis
At 10:32 AM 01/24/2001, David Rufino wrote: * Mike Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I am currently trying to port the compatability layer of a linux kernel driver to FreeBSD 4.x. The bit I'm stuck on at the moment is, how do I map arbitrary physical address space to kernel virtual

Re: FreeBSD Linux emulation / arla 0.34.6

2001-01-24 Thread Marco van de Voort
I have discovered a rather interesting bug with this combination, and was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction to help me track it down. The problem is that linux binaries which call getdirents on an afs directory do not report the last directory entry: Hmm. Could it

Re: FreeBSD Linux emulation / arla 0.34.6

2001-01-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 3A6F4748.15758.2090E6@localhost, "Marco van de Voort" writes: I have discovered a rather interesting bug with this combination, and was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction to help me track it down. The problem is that linux binaries which call getdirents on

Re: Default users and the passwords

2001-01-24 Thread Lawrence Sica
Matt Chew Spence wrote: Another question in a similar vein: Which, if any (besides root and nobody, which are a given), of these default accounts are critical to the basic functionality of the box? Is there a list somewhere where I can match these phantom/daemon users to their

buffer headers in FreeBSD Linux

2001-01-24 Thread Zhiui Zhang
I am wondering why FreeBSD has fixed number of buffer headers (nbuf) while Linux can grow the number of buffer headers on the fly. In FreeBSD, we have a lofreebuffers count. I think this is a reserve for avoiding deadlock when the buffer headers are low. But Linux does not seem to have such a

IDE CDRW

2001-01-24 Thread Felix-Antoine Paradis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Just a simple question, FreeBSD doesn't support/emulate any IDE CDRW? Thank's . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Felix-Antoine Paradis. cell:1-418-261-0865 . . IRC: reel @ DALnet . job:Idemnia Network . .

Re: if_fxp driver info

2001-01-24 Thread Dennis
I'll look into the Linux driver, however, and see if it has anything useful in it. Historically the Linux Pro/100+ driver has totally sucked and was chalk-full of magic numbers being anded and ored. That's "chock full", and you're confusing the Becker driver (bad) with the

Re: IDE CDRW

2001-01-24 Thread Chris Faulhaber
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 05:04:23PM -0500, Felix-Antoine Paradis wrote: Just a simple question, FreeBSD doesn't support/emulate any IDE CDRW? Not sure if that is a question or not, but you probably want to look over ata(4) and burncd(8). -- Chris D. Faulhaber - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL

Re: IDE CDRW

2001-01-24 Thread Felix-Antoine Paradis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I don't have theses installed here, not even in my port tree... you know where i could get them? Thank's On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Chris Faulhaber wrote: On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 05:04:23PM -0500, Felix-Antoine Paradis wrote: Just a simple question, FreeBSD

Re: IDE CDRW

2001-01-24 Thread Mikko Tyolajarvi
In local.freebsd.hackers you write: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Just a simple question, FreeBSD doesn't support/emulate any IDE CDRW? See burncd(1). I know for a fact that it works with: acd0: CD-RW LG CD-RW CED-8083B at ata1-master using WDMA2 Don't think you can use IDE CD/RW with

Divert Sockets Fragmentation

2001-01-24 Thread Alwyn Goodloe
I have been using divert sockets for a while sending small ( MTU) UDP packets and everything worked fine. Now that the UDP packets are larger (MTU = 1500) and hence fragmentation is taking place there seems to be a problem. tcpdump tells me that the fragmented packets arrive but it seems that

Re: Divert Sockets Fragmentation

2001-01-24 Thread Luigi Rizzo
it depends on what template do you use for matching. the firewall acts before reassembly, so for the fragments you will not be able to see the port numbers. cheers luigi I have been using divert sockets for a while sending small ( MTU) UDP packets and everything worked fine.

Re: Divert Sockets Fragmentation

2001-01-24 Thread Alwyn Goodloe
I was originally diverting udp packets heading to a particular port then I flushed the ipfw and tried: ipfw add 6 divert 4422 ip all from any to any in and still no packets are received by recvfrom(). Would the port numbers matter for this case. Alwyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 24

Re: if_fxp driver info

2001-01-24 Thread David Greenman
I'll look into the Linux driver, however, and see if it has anything useful in it. Historically the Linux Pro/100+ driver has totally sucked and was chalk-full of magic numbers being anded and ored. That's "chock full", and you're confusing the Becker driver (bad) with the

Re: Divert Sockets Fragmentation

2001-01-24 Thread Luigi Rizzo
I was originally diverting udp packets heading to a particular port then I flushed the ipfw and tried: ipfw add 6 divert 4422 ip all from any to any in and still no packets are received by recvfrom(). Would the port numbers matter for this case. probably not but better check if you

Re: if_fxp driver info

2001-01-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Greenman writes: "drivers for every major OS"? They have drivers for Windows, Window/NT, and Linux. Of those Linux is the closest to FreeBSD, but that's like saying that a penguin is similar to a human because they are both mammals. Pinguins are birds...

Re: if_fxp driver info

2001-01-24 Thread David Greenman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Greenman writes: "drivers for every major OS"? They have drivers for Windows, Window/NT, and Linux. Of those Linux is the closest to FreeBSD, but that's like saying that a penguin is similar to a human because they are both mammals. Pinguins are birds...

Pthreads with sprintf/dtoa

2001-01-24 Thread Kevin Day
After upgrading to FreeBSD 4.2(from 4.1) and MySQL 3.23.32 (from 3.22.32), I kept seeing mysqld crashes after a few minutes of heavy load. I traced it down to one rather situation. Every time it crashed, I was getting a segfault inside __dtoa (which was called by sprintf). If I looked at other

Re: Pthreads with sprintf/dtoa

2001-01-24 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Kevin Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010124 16:30] wrote: After upgrading to FreeBSD 4.2(from 4.1) and MySQL 3.23.32 (from 3.22.32), I kept seeing mysqld crashes after a few minutes of heavy load. I traced it down to one rather situation. Every time it crashed, I was getting a segfault inside

SMP Project Status (24 January 2001)

2001-01-24 Thread Jason Evans
A lot of good progress has been made on the SMP project in the past couple of weeks. We are on the verge of being able to move portions of the kernel out of under the Giant lock, which will be the first improvement in performance due to our work, following a long string of developments over the

Re: if_fxp driver info

2001-01-24 Thread Sergey Babkin
David Greenman wrote: supporting it if someone ported it over to freebsd? they have drivers for just about every other major OS except BSD. it would be nice if the driver was updated BEFORE cards and MBs that dont work started showing up on the loading dock. Every time I get a shipment we

Re: if_fxp driver info

2001-01-24 Thread David Greenman
David Greenman wrote: supporting it if someone ported it over to freebsd? they have drivers for just about every other major OS except BSD. it would be nice if the driver was updated BEFORE cards and MBs that dont work started showing up on the loading dock. Every time I get a shipment we

Re: Running FreeBSD off of CDROM

2001-01-24 Thread Chris Costello
On Wednesday, January 24, 2001, Dave Hayes wrote: I was asked recently if it was possible to run a FreeBSD server entirely off of CDROM. Now I know that things like /var need to be writable, and that the initial question as worded was rather naive. However, modulo writable filesystems which

Re: Default users and the passwords

2001-01-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 11:12:24AM -0800, Matt Chew Spence wrote: Another question in a similar vein: Which, if any (besides root and nobody, which are a given), of these default accounts are critical to the basic functionality of the box? Is there a list somewhere where I can match

Re: FreeBSD Linux emulation / arla 0.34.6

2001-01-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:50:29PM -0600, Chris wrote: Silly me--I forgot to mention, this is with FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE. How recent -stable? A bug like this was fixed recently. If it's older than a week, Try upgrading :-) Kris -- NOTE: To fetch an updated copy of my GPG key which has not

Re: IDE CDRW

2001-01-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 05:04:23PM -0500, Felix-Antoine Paradis wrote: Just a simple question, FreeBSD doesn't support/emulate any IDE CDRW? It supports them just fine.. Perhaps your question was really "does FreeBSD emulate a SCSI interface to ATAPI drives?", in which case the answer is "no".

Re: Running FreeBSD off of CDROM

2001-01-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 04:53:39PM -0800, Dave Hayes wrote: I was asked recently if it was possible to run a FreeBSD server entirely off of CDROM. Now I know that things like /var need to be writable, and that the initial question as worded was rather naive. However, modulo writable

Re: Running FreeBSD off of CDROM

2001-01-24 Thread Dave Hayes
Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When you boot into your CD, and after the CD is mounted as /, mount the disk as a union with the CD /. The result is that you'll have the executables on the CD, but any data being written will go to the disk. Hmm, I had considered that strategy.

Re: Running FreeBSD off of CDROM

2001-01-24 Thread Fred Clift
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Dave Hayes wrote: I was asked recently if it was possible to run a FreeBSD server entirely off of CDROM. Now I know that things like /var need to be writable, and that the initial question as worded was rather naive. However, modulo writable filesystems which can be

Re: Pthreads with sprintf/dtoa

2001-01-24 Thread Mike Smith
After upgrading to FreeBSD 4.2(from 4.1) and MySQL 3.23.32 (from 3.22.32), I kept seeing mysqld crashes after a few minutes of heavy load. I traced it down to one rather situation. Every time it crashed, I was getting a segfault inside __dtoa (which was called by sprintf). If I looked at

Re: if_fxp driver info

2001-01-24 Thread Jonathan Lemon
In article local.mail.freebsd-hackers/[EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: I'll look into the Linux driver, however, and see if it has anything useful in it. Historically the Linux Pro/100+ driver has totally sucked and was chalk-full of magic numbers being anded and ored. That's "chock

Re: if_fxp driver info

2001-01-24 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 24 January 2001 at 17:08:16 -0500, Dennis wrote: I'll look into the Linux driver, however, and see if it has anything useful in it. Historically the Linux Pro/100+ driver has totally sucked and was chalk-full of magic numbers being anded and ored. That's "chock full", and

Re: if_fxp driver info

2001-01-24 Thread Matthew Jacob
I've come in in the middle of this discussion, so maybe there's something I don't know, but on the same hardware and running FreeBSD, I had no problems. Why should we want to replace the driver with something which doesn't work well? There's been a hint of 'vendor supported' To

Re: if_fxp driver info

2001-01-24 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 24 January 2001 at 21:07:45 -0800, Matt Jacob wrote: I've come in in the middle of this discussion, so maybe there's something I don't know, but on the same hardware and running FreeBSD, I had no problems. Why should we want to replace the driver with something which doesn't

Re: Running FreeBSD off of CDROM

2001-01-24 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chris Costello writes: :What you'd need is a writable medium, preferable a hard disk, : with whatever file system you want to use on it, and a CD with a : stripped-down FreeBSD installation, complete with a kernel that : matches your hardware. You don't need a

Re: if_fxp driver info

2001-01-24 Thread Matthew Jacob
On Wednesday, 24 January 2001 at 21:07:45 -0800, Matt Jacob wrote: I've come in in the middle of this discussion, so maybe there's something I don't know, but on the same hardware and running FreeBSD, I had no problems. Why should we want to replace the driver with something which

Re: Running FreeBSD off of CDROM

2001-01-24 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fred Clift writes: : When you figure it out and get it working, make a web page giving the : step-by-step guide to how to do it... :) We get pretty far by having root_rw_mount=NO diskless_mount=/etc/rc.diskless2 varsize=8192 update_motd=NO in rc.conf and a

Re: Running FreeBSD off of CDROM

2001-01-24 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jordan Hubbard writes: : You don't even need a disk if you have enough memory. You can come up : with an MFS and put everything you need to write on in that (via union : mount or symlinks or whatever). At timing solutions we found union mount to be a non-starter.

Re: Running FreeBSD off of CDROM

2001-01-24 Thread Chris Costello
On Wednesday, January 24, 2001, Warner Losh wrote: You don't need a writable medium to run FreeBSD. Well, I take that back, you do need a writable partition, but that can be mfs. We run off CF which is mounted read only with the usual rc.diskless tricks for creating /var and /dev. Similar

Re: pthreads and kqueue

2001-01-24 Thread Doug White
On 24 Jan 2001, Kevin Mills wrote: My question: Is it considered "safe" to have a number of threads each waiting on a call to kevent() using the same kqueue? Or do I need to have one thread waiting on the kevent() call and have it dispatch jobs to the waiting threads? You should

Pseudo ethernet interface

2001-01-24 Thread Suma H R
Hi, Is it possible to provide pseudo ethernet interfaces? Can we associate an IP and MAC address with a psuedo ethernet interface to facilitate data packet transmission reception through that? If so, how does it work? Pointers to any documentation in this regard will be appreciated.