Re: How broken is IBSS creation (wicontrol) these days ?

2001-10-23 Thread Leo Bicknell
I just got IBSS working on a 4.4-STABLE box (in the PCI carrier, for what it's worth). When using the Agere (aka Orinoco aka Lucent) drivers (latest) on a Windows box it finds the FreeBSD box as a 'Peer to Peer' network. It can detect the network name and channel, although it takes it a long

Duping a hard disk

2001-10-23 Thread PSI, Mike Smith
I am running a lab with 43 FreeBDS machines and will be adding about 20 more in the near future. ALL these machines are absolutely identical except for IP address and machine name. To speed up the adding of new machines, I envision making a duplication station, where I would add a new disk as a

Re: Duping a hard disk

2001-10-23 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 08:35:05AM -0400, PSI, Mike Smith wrote: I am running a lab with 43 FreeBDS machines and will be adding about 20 more in the near future. ALL these machines are absolutely identical except for IP address and machine name. To speed up the adding of new machines, I

Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/net rcmdsh.3 rcmdsh.c Makefile.inc rcmd.c

2001-10-23 Thread Jacques A. Vidrine
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 11:22:15PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: imp 2001/10/22 23:22:15 PDT Modified files: lib/libc/net Makefile.inc rcmd.c Added files: lib/libc/net rcmdsh.3 rcmdsh.c Log: Allow users to specify a command to use as remote command

Re: Duping a hard disk

2001-10-23 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 03:45:07PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 08:35:05AM -0400, PSI, Mike Smith wrote: I am running a lab with 43 FreeBDS machines and will be adding about 20 more in the near future. ALL these machines are absolutely identical except for IP

Re: Duping a hard disk

2001-10-23 Thread José Azevedo - INEGI
Norton Ghost v6.0 ou v7.0 will do... I am not on the Symantec payroll in any way... :) - Original Message - From: PSI, Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 1:35 PM Subject: Duping a hard disk I am running a lab with 43 FreeBDS machines

Re: Duping a hard disk

2001-10-23 Thread Leo Bicknell
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 08:35:05AM -0400, PSI, Mike Smith wrote: But alas, I cannot find any procedures for doing this. Does anyone know how to duplicate a master disk to a new slave disk??? It would REALLY make my life much easier. I've done this two ways before. 1) If your disks are

Re: Duping a hard disk

2001-10-23 Thread Kyle McPeek
Why not build a custom release of FBSD and use sysinstall's scripting abilities to install and configure automatically? Then to reinstall any of them just build/burn a boot floppy/cd and pop it in. kyle. On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, PSI, Mike Smith wrote: I am running a lab with 43 FreeBDS machines

Re: Duping a hard disk

2001-10-23 Thread Seth Kingsley
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 02:19:21PM +0100, José Azevedo - INEGI wrote: Norton Ghost v6.0 ou v7.0 will do... Norton Ghost will fallback to dd(1)-like behavior for file system types that it doesn't know how to read (anything other than FAT/NTFS). Thus it won't afford you any speed or size

Re: Duping a hard disk

2001-10-23 Thread Pete McKenna
We netboot via PXE and run sysinstall. It takes about 6 minutes. You can make packages out of your specialized stuff. This make it easy to keep up to date as well as build. You don't need to worry about the drives being the same size etc either, and different config scripts let you build

Re: Duping a hard disk

2001-10-23 Thread Ronald G Minnich
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Peter Pentchev wrote: Is there anything wrong with dd(1)? A lot. Best way I found was dump | restore, i.e. mkfs /dev/newdisk mount /dev/newdisk /newdisk dump 0f - / | (cd /newdisk; restore rf -) or equivalent ... - yes, you can use tar, but you have to remember all the

Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/net rcmdsh.3 rcmdsh.c Makefile.inc rcmd.c

2001-10-23 Thread Jacques A. Vidrine
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 07:16:38AM -0700, Seth Kingsley wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 07:56:26AM -0500, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: Yay! Does this mean one can use ssh with dump/restore now? Since when couldn't you just use: ssh host dump -b 8 -f - | dd bs=8k file and similar for

Re: Duping a hard disk

2001-10-23 Thread Greg Shenaut
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], PSI, Mike Smith cleopede: I am running a lab with 43 FreeBDS machines and will be adding about 20 more in the near future. ALL these machines are absolutely identical except for IP address and machine name. To speed up the adding of new machines, I envision making a

Fwd: user-level ppp and address range

2001-10-23 Thread Pavel Levshin
No one has answered to me, so I have to ask again. Anyone, help me! WBR, Pavel mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]icq:52216261 This is a forwarded message From: Pavel Levshin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, October 19, 2001, 5:15:40 PM Subject:

Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/net rcmdsh.3 rcmdsh.c Makefile.inc rcmd.c

2001-10-23 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jacques A. Vidrine writes: : Yay! Does this mean one can use ssh with dump/restore now? Yes. I need to verify that OpenBSD's version isn't too different than what I committed. I mostly wanted to get it out of my tree (since it has been three about 20 months.

Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/net rcmdsh.3 rcmdsh.c Makefile.inc rcmd.c

2001-10-23 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Seth Kingsley writes: : : --ALfTUftag+2gvp1h : Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii : Content-Disposition: inline : Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable : : On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 07:56:26AM -0500, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: : Yay! Does this mean one

CFS

2001-10-23 Thread Jesús Arnáiz
Hi! I want to install a cyphred partition on my system. I use FreeBSD, and I want to know what software is avaivle in order to do it. I heard about CFS and TCFS (but this is not still supported by FreeBSD), is there any better bet? If anyone know any good resource (sites, papers, ...) on these

Re: Duping a hard disk

2001-10-23 Thread Bill Swingle
This is the way I'd reccomend doing it. Getting the initial bits in place can be a pain but once that's done it's a cinch and very fast and easy to maintain. -Bill On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 09:11:10AM -0500, Pete McKenna wrote: We netboot via PXE and run sysinstall. It takes about 6 minutes.

getenv_foo and TUNABLE_FOO_FETCH change

2001-10-23 Thread John Baldwin
Currently getenv_quad() claims to return a quad_t, but it's actual return value is 1 if it found the environment variable in question and converted it ok and 0 if it didn't. getenv_int() has the same return value. I'd like to apply the same to TUNABLE_*_FETCH so that one can do: if

Re: getenv_foo and TUNABLE_FOO_FETCH change

2001-10-23 Thread Peter Wemm
John Baldwin wrote: Also, one final note about using do { } while(0). If you actually read style(9), you will see that you are supposed to use it for compound statement s, not just for any macro that happens to be more than one line long. If the macro's body is a single statement, it

Re: getenv_foo and TUNABLE_FOO_FETCH change

2001-10-23 Thread John Baldwin
On 23-Oct-01 Peter Wemm wrote: John Baldwin wrote: Also, one final note about using do { } while(0). If you actually read style(9), you will see that you are supposed to use it for compound statement s, not just for any macro that happens to be more than one line long. If the

sx_assert() vs. SX_ASSERT_*()

2001-10-23 Thread John Baldwin
Anyone object greatly to making a change to the sx(9) API to use an sx_assert() function similar to mtx_assert() for mutexes instead of having several SX_ASSERT_FOO macros? Here is what the new API would look like: sx_assert(foo_lock, SX_LOCKED); sx_assert(bar_lock, SX_SLOCKED);

Re: Duping a hard disk

2001-10-23 Thread Doug White
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, PSI, Mike Smith wrote: I am running a lab with 43 FreeBDS machines and will be adding about 20 more in the near future. ALL these machines are absolutely identical except for IP address and machine name. To speed up the adding of new machines, I envision making a

Re: Duping a hard disk

2001-10-23 Thread Willem van Engen
There was a discussion on -mobile about this: http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=9p26gi%241ehb%241%40FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw - Willem van Engen On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 08:35:05 -0400 PSI, Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running a lab with 43 FreeBDS machines and will be adding

IBSS creation - summary

2001-10-23 Thread John Kozubik
I have now successfully gotten IBSS creation under `wicontrol` to work in 4.4-RELEASE (using the -c 1 command line switch). This is my procedure: - configure interface wi0 with an address (through rc.conf or ifconfig) - wicontrol -c 1 -p 1 -n netname -q netname -s computername Note: the above

Re: IBSS creation - summary

2001-10-23 Thread Leo Bicknell
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 03:55:49PM -0700, John Kozubik wrote: output in FreeBSD will report No Carrier. Therefore, I thought I had For what it's worth, mine oscellates between aassociated and no carrier. Also, the 'signal' and 'noise' parameters from wicontrol on FreeBSD seem to accurately

Re: IBSS creation - summary

2001-10-23 Thread John Kozubik
For what it's worth, mine oscellates between aassociated and no carrier. Also, the 'signal' and 'noise' parameters from wicontrol on FreeBSD seem to accurately represent link quality (from my simple walk away, walk towards) testing. The lucent drivers on my windows box always show no

Re: IBSS creation - summary

2001-10-23 Thread Julian Elischer
There is some movement on this as the guy who was in charge of negotiating with lucent (it needs different firmware) recently started to spend more time on it. On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, John Baldwin wrote: On 23-Oct-01 Leo Bicknell wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 03:55:49PM -0700, John Kozubik

RE: A stupid question about pmap

2001-10-23 Thread Jonathan M. Slivko
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domain sockets question (don't laugh)

2001-10-23 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
While I've been coding for a long time, and am fairly decent at coding in the kernel, I've never really had a chance to get into sockets programming. So I thought I'd write a simple set of programs to see how things work. From what I understand, when you read on a socket, you have to do it in a

Re: domain sockets question (don't laugh)

2001-10-23 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Kenneth Wayne Culver [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011023 20:22] wrote: While I've been coding for a long time, and am fairly decent at coding in the kernel, I've never really had a chance to get into sockets programming. So I thought I'd write a simple set of programs to see how things work. From

Re: domain sockets question (don't laugh)

2001-10-23 Thread Anjali Kulkarni
Hi, You have said that reader exits when there is no more data to read, and that does not necessarily mean it has read all data being written by writer. And if the reader exits before writer finishes sending all data, it will give you a broken pipe. You have to either make the no. of bytes being

Re: IPSEC sucking up memory

2001-10-23 Thread Terry Lambert
Shoichi Sakane wrote: While investigating a problem, I noticed that the IPSEC code is initializing the sp -- even when no one is using IPSEC. It turns out that this really, really bloats the per socket memory requirements, with the only real result being a lot of extra processing that