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2001-07-17 Thread rootx11
Hello. I am reading TCP/IP Illustrated and it is making references to variables in the BSD4.4 code. I would like to use these same variables, specifically the variable ifnet, which was declared in BSD4.4 as a struct ifnet *ifnet, according to TCP/IP Illustrated. The name of the variable has

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2001-07-17 Thread Louis Kowolowski
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2001-07-17 Thread Bruce Dang
look in /usr/include/net/if_var.h [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I am reading TCP/IP Illustrated and it is making references to variables in the BSD4.4 code. I would like to use these same variables, specifically the variable ifnet, which was declared in BSD4.4 as a struct ifnet *ifnet,

disabling reboot on kernel panic

2001-07-17 Thread Eugene L. Vorokov
Hello, maybe it's a bit offtopic, but still: how can I disable reboot on kernel panic in 15 seconds, so that it just hangs and I'm able to see what happened when I come ? Regards, Eugene To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Really simple patch...

2001-07-17 Thread Harti Brandt
Could please somebody make this little, trivial and obviuos patch, I requested it a while ago, or should I make a PR for it?? Hi, ()s are missing around the macro argument in cv_waitq_empty. The call if(!(cv_waitq_empty(sc-foo_cv))) ... will otherwise fail to compile.

Re: Really simple patch...

2001-07-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
fixed. In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Harti Brandt writes: Could please somebody make this little, trivial and obviuos patch, I requested it a while ago, or should I make a PR for it?? Hi, ()s are missing around the macro argument in cv_waitq_empty. The call

Re: pagedaemon + vmdaemon

2001-07-17 Thread Bernd Walter
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 04:34:52PM -0700, Dan wrote: ya it seems it is running into swap abit. hmmm watching apache with truss i see alot of error #35's in the sys callswhat is that related to again? /usr/include/errno.h says: #define EAGAIN 35 /* Resource

Re: disabling reboot on kernel panic

2001-07-17 Thread Dima Dorfman
Eugene L. Vorokov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, maybe it's a bit offtopic, but still: how can I disable reboot on kernel panic in 15 seconds, so that it just hangs and I'm able to see what happened when I come ? Set PANIC_REBOOT_WAIT_TIME to -1. Regards, Eugene To Unsubscribe:

Re: Weird named problem - IN A for nameservers being lost!

2001-07-17 Thread Len Conrad
If you look at the cache dumps and dig output below, you can clearly see the timeout for fuji.jamcracker.com is less then the timeout for jamcracker.com AFTER we've looked up other elements for fuji, which means that when it timed out, that IN A record will be gone. But

RE: pagedaemon + vmdaemon

2001-07-17 Thread John Baldwin
On 16-Jul-01 Dan wrote: ya it seems it is running into swap abit. hmmm watching apache with truss i see alot of error #35's in the sys callswhat is that related to again? From sys/errno.h: /* non-blocking and interrupt i/o */ #define EAGAIN 35 /* Resource

Re: NatSemi DP83820 gigE driver kit for 4.2 and 4.3

2001-07-17 Thread Terry Lambert
Richard Hodges wrote: On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Bill Paul wrote: They're okay. The NatSemi chip has one flaw, which is that RX buffers must be aligned on a 64-bit boundary. None of the more expensive NICs have this restriction. Go ahead and beat me up if you have to :-) But why is there

Re: NatSemi DP83820 gigE driver kit for 4.2 and 4.3

2001-07-17 Thread Terry Lambert
Bill Paul wrote: Now, before any of you armchair geniuses out there start chiming in with your incredibly brilliant solutions for this problem which you just made up on the spot, forget it. This issue has been discussed to death and there's just no easy way around it. Terry Lambert and

Re: Weird named problem - IN A for nameservers being lost!

2001-07-17 Thread Len Conrad
Here´s an explanation from today´s BIND-users traffic: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Path: not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: comp.protocols.dns.bind Subject: Re: Am I wrong? References: 9j1i3n$[EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Genuity, Cambridge, MA Higher-level servers

Re: math library difference between linux emulation and native freebsd (and native linux)

2001-07-17 Thread Terry Lambert
Albert D. Cahalan wrote: There are only two shared libaries in common (libc and libm) and both are the same on FreeBSD (in /compat/linux) and Linux. So any ideas on where the program is going wrong? man fpsetround That won't change a thing. Both systems round to nearest. Look at

x86 unaligned access followup.

2001-07-17 Thread Matthew Jacob
Actually, since the 486, it's been possible for us to turn on unaligned access exceptions on the x86. We should probably consider doing this, to ensure better performance, and to avoid the unnecessary bus overhead we eat for unaligned access today... not to mention how it could shake out

Re: NatSemi DP83820 gigE driver kit for 4.2 and 4.3

2001-07-17 Thread Richard Hodges
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: Richard Hodges wrote: Go ahead and beat me up if you have to :-) But why is there _any_ issue with RX buffer alignment? I get some mbufs and set the data pointer to any point I want, or I get a cluster, which is always on a 2k boundary.

Re: math library difference between linux emulation and native freebsd (and native linux)

2001-07-17 Thread Stefan Hoffmeister
: On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 09:45:29 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: One obvious reason that the Linux approach is wrong is that it ends up requiring the save and restore of FP registers on context switches, which is overhead they ate anyway, by doing TSS based context switching. The amount of state with

Re: math library difference between linux emulation and native freebsd

2001-07-17 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Terry Lambert writes: Albert D. Cahalan wrote: The defaults for the Linux emulator are different than the defaults for Linux. Linux sets some stuff up wrong, FreeBSD sets stuff up wrong. This is a choice between bad and worse, since the CPU does not support what you want. FreeBSD

SPARE_USRSPACE

2001-07-17 Thread Zhihui Zhang
Can anyone tell me why FreeBSD has 256 bytes of spare space in the user area? Thanks. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: Swapping in diskless ? (was :Re: [hackers] Re: getting rid of sysinstall)

2001-07-17 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Matt Dillon([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.07.13 15:27:08 +: Also, do performance testing with dynamic-linked verses static-linked binaries. Static-linked binaries may look larger, but they have a much lower dirty-page overhead then the dynamically linked equivalent. It depends

CTM is down again

2001-07-17 Thread Carlo Dapor
Dear fellow hackers I haven't received any CTMs since July 12th. Am I the only one ? My guess is that the main distribution point is malfunctioning. Can anybody with closer access to the 'feeder' check into it ? Thanks ! Ciao, dewrweil, -- Carlo To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

BIOS reading physical RAM

2001-07-17 Thread mark tinguely
Does anyone have a reference to the values of type field in the Intel BIOS physical system RAM mapping? I am curious why we are using only entries of type 0x01. --mark tinguely. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

RE: x86 unaligned access followup.

2001-07-17 Thread John Baldwin
On 17-Jul-01 Matthew Jacob wrote: Actually, since the 486, it's been possible for us to turn on unaligned access exceptions on the x86. We should probably consider doing this, to ensure better performance, and to avoid the unnecessary bus overhead we eat for unaligned access today...

Re: NatSemi DP83820 gigE driver kit for 4.2 and 4.3

2001-07-17 Thread Sergey Babkin
Julian Elischer wrote: The proble is that teh ethernet header is 14 bytes so you must choose to allighn either the whole packet, or the IP header, but you cannot do both. Hm, it seems to be a waste of CPU time memory bandwidth: only the IP and TCP headers have to be aligned but the payload

System unable to resolve hostnames

2001-07-17 Thread Magnus
FreeBSD Alpha.chello.no 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD I have a wierd problem, where the system is unable to resolve hostnames. Even though I have configured resolv.conf, here is the output of the file: search chello.no nameserver 212.186.255.29 nameserver 212.186.255.30 I have checked the addresses, and

Re: System unable to resolve hostnames

2001-07-17 Thread Ben Smithurst
Magnus wrote: What makes it even more wierd, is that I am able to resolv hostnames by using 'nslookup'. prompt # nslookup freebsd.org server: dnscache01.chello.no address: 212.186.255.29 Name:Freebsd.org address: 216.136.204.21 Wich means I am able to resolve hostnames, DNS is

Re: Network performance roadmap.

2001-07-17 Thread Bosko Milekic
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 04:37:46PM -0500, Mike Silbersack wrote: Jiangyi Liu has been working on mbuf limiting code for the past week or so. What he has is pretty complete, I expect to get most of it committed once Bosko gets back. Well, I'm back. I'm now going to bed but my INBOX

please confirm or deny - bridging possible between PC cards ?

2001-07-17 Thread Joesh Juphland
Ok, so I finally got two identical ep cards to come up at the same time and both work. Thanks. But when I run: sysctl -w net.link.ether.bridge=1 Nothing happens. They don't get put in promiscuous mode, and bridging does not get turned on, even though I have bridging in my kernel. Can

mail failed, returning to sender

2001-07-17 Thread daemon
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Details ... (please confirm or deny pccard bridging)

2001-07-17 Thread Joesh Juphland
/etc/rc.conf looks like this: pccard_enable=YES pccard_mem=DEFAULT pccardd_flags= -i 10 -i 15 removable_interfaces=ep0 ep1 network_interfaces=lo0 (I have tried with and without that last lo0 line) and /etc/defaults/pccard.conf looks like this: config auto ep0 10 config auto ep1 15 so

Re[2]: Flight of the rat, living wreck.....

2001-07-17 Thread Igor Podlesny
Igor Podlesny wrote: /* * Macro for finding the interface (ifnet structure) corresponding to one * of our IP addresses. */ #define INADDR_TO_IFP(addr, ifp) \ /* struct in_addr addr; */ \ /* struct ifnet *ifp; */ \ { \ register struct in_ifaddr *ia;

Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/lib/libdialog checklist.c menubox.c radiolist.c textbox.c tree.c yesno.c

2001-07-17 Thread Eric Melville
Modified files: gnu/lib/libdialogchecklist.c menubox.c radiolist.c textbox.c tree.c yesno.c Log: Improve the interface provided by libdialog. Move a cursor around over the components and trigger actions based on its position. This reduces the