Re: Phobos 4-port NIC

2002-01-05 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Eric Busto wrote: Howdy, I have recently acquired a pair of Phobos 4-port NIC's, the P430TX model. On it, it has 4 Intel 21143TD chips, and one larger Intel 21152AB chip. Hello, this seems similar to the DLINK D570-TX 4-port NIC, which works very well with the dc driver -- Thierry

Bug in /bin/sh's handling of case ... esac?

2002-01-05 Thread Jos Backus
While working with the apache-2.0 source I encountered the following construct in a config.status file, generated using autoconf 2.52: lizzy:/usr/src/bin/sh# cat /tmp/esac case $foo in esac lizzy:/usr/src/bin/sh# /bin/sh /tmp/esac /tmp/esac: 3: Syntax

RE: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors?

2002-01-05 Thread C J Michaels
Greg, One question... are you using the latest mobo BIOS? My friend purchased that board and threw a 1.2GHz TBird in it. It was quite unstable until he upgraded the BIOS. When I purchased my board, it was the 1st thing I did and I haven't have any trouble with it yet. I've got a 1.1GHz and 3

Re: what slice did I boot from?

2002-01-05 Thread Doug White
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: I've got one of the litle soekris net4501 boards that I use as a router/firewall/NAT box, and it works really good. I have a stripped down FreeBSD system that I run in a 16MB partition on an 32MB Compact Flash card plugged into the net4501.

Re: sessionlimit

2002-01-05 Thread Doug White
On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Thomas Wahyudi wrote: Hi all, if I want to change behavior of sessionlimit behavior in login.conf, where I should look first since I can't find it in /usr/src/libutil thx before. In a lot of cases, the capabilities have been defined but not actually implemented anywhere.

Re: Overriding ARG_MAX

2002-01-05 Thread Terry Lambert
David Miller wrote: Probably, you are doing something whic you aren't telling us, like saying ls *.c | wc -l or otherwise using globbing that the shell expands to too large a list. The easy answer is use ``find'' instead of ``ls''. Indeed, but it doesn't answer the basic questions,

Re: path_mtu_discovery

2002-01-05 Thread Terry Lambert
M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rogier R. Mulhuijzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : Out of curiosity, where do MTUs ~512 occur? Old slip links that used it to reduce latency. I suspect that there aren't too many of them left in the world. PPPOE over modem

Re: path_mtu_discovery

2002-01-05 Thread Guido van Rooij
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 03:11:45PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: I knew that I could multiply the number of packets sent by a factor of 5... I was pointing out a flaw in the idea of allowing path MTU ICMP back in, unconditionally... Thre is nothing 'unconditionally' in ipfilter. The IP

About the MAKEDEV script

2002-01-05 Thread Hiten Pandya
hi all, is it true, that the MAKEDEV script only appears if the DEVFS option in the kernel is not enabled, or I am talking nuts..? The reason I am asking is because, when I built my first CURRENT, the MAKEDEV script disappeared out of the blue. If I am right, will this be like that in the 4.5

Re: About the MAKEDEV script

2002-01-05 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hiten Pandya w rites: hi all, is it true, that the MAKEDEV script only appears if the DEVFS option in the kernel is not enabled, or I am talking nuts..? if DEVFS is in the kernel, it mounts over /dev and consequently you cannot see the MAKEDEV script. /dev/MAKEDEV

about sysinstall(8) package managment

2002-01-05 Thread Hiten Pandya
hi all, I was wondering that, the sysinstall(8) utility doesn't have package managment facilities designed for people to view even if they don't have some kind of connection to the media. Example: When you select the 'packages' option, it will ask you about your media type. If someone doesn't

Re: what slice did I boot from?

2002-01-05 Thread Louis A. Mamakos
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: I've got one of the litle soekris net4501 boards that I use as a router/firewall/NAT box, and it works really good. I have a stripped down FreeBSD system that I run in a 16MB partition on an 32MB Compact Flash card plugged into the net4501.

psm weird on 4.5-PRERELEASE?

2002-01-05 Thread Wilko Bulte
I just lost my mouse (well, it is a Kensington Orbit trackball) in the middle of an X session. The console says: pid 1597 (communicator-lin), uid 1000: exited on signal 10 (core dumped) psm0: failed to disable the device (psmclose). psm0: failed to get status (psmclose). psm0: failed to enable

Re: path_mtu_discovery

2002-01-05 Thread Jesper Skriver
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 06:02:10PM -0500, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: One possibility is that the code in icmp_input() processing the PMTU discovery-induced ICMP message could verify that the returned header in fact is associated with a connection on the host and maybe even has sane sequence

Five Dollar Reports

2002-01-05 Thread smr1tks
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Re: what slice did I boot from?

2002-01-05 Thread Doug White
On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: Hmm.. I'm running a 4.4-STABLE based system on the hardware, and don't seem to have any problem booting off the other slice. Right now, it's runnong on the second slice of ATA Compact Flash disk: # kenv LINES=24 console=vidconsole

Re: path_mtu_discovery

2002-01-05 Thread Nate Williams
: Out of curiosity, where do MTUs ~512 occur? Old slip links that used it to reduce latency. I suspect that there aren't too many of them left in the world. You'd be suprised. I measure SLIP's effeciency (in throughput) to be about 5-15% more effecient than PPP in older versions of

Re: Bug in /bin/sh's handling of case ... esac?

2002-01-05 Thread Jos Backus
On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 12:32:25AM -0800, Jos Backus wrote: case $foo in esac case word in [(] pattern1) compound-list;; [[(] pattern[ | pattern] ... ) compound-list;;] ... [[(] pattern[ | pattern] ... ) compound-list] esac

Re: Overriding ARG_MAX

2002-01-05 Thread Oliver Fromme
David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I usually want to do is something more like ls *.out |wc -l ls | grep '\.out$' | wc -l or grep something *.data ls | grep '\.data$' | xargs grep something or cat *.foo | grep something. ls | grep '\.foo$' | xargs cat | grep something In

Re: path_mtu_discovery

2002-01-05 Thread Terry Lambert
Jesper Skriver wrote: On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 06:02:10PM -0500, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: One possibility is that the code in icmp_input() processing the PMTU discovery-induced ICMP message could verify that the returned header in fact is associated with a connection on the host and maybe

SA_NODEFER and signal nesting

2002-01-05 Thread Fernando P. Schapachnik
Hello: I'm trying to do Async I/O using O_ASYNC on sockets and handling SIGIO. My testing shows that even if I unblock SIGIO at the begining of the handler the kernel only delivers one level of nested signals. Ie: while the first SIGIO is being handled a second might arrive, but a third

Re: Overriding ARG_MAX

2002-01-05 Thread Leo Bicknell
Ok, there are several issues here that I just have to point out. :-) In a message written on Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 09:48:40PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: ls | grep '\.out$' | wc -l One process shorter: find -name *.out -maxdepth 0 | wc -l ls | grep '\.data$' | xargs grep something Two

oddness in aio_procrundown?

2002-01-05 Thread Alfred Perlstein
ok: at about line 498 in vfs_aio.c: aiocbn = TAILQ_NEXT(aiocbe, plist); fp = fdp-fd_ofiles[aiocbe-uaiocb.aio_fildes]; /* * Under some circumstances, the aio_fildes and the file * structure don't match. This

Re: SA_NODEFER and signal nesting

2002-01-05 Thread Terry Lambert
Fernando P. Schapachnik wrote: I'm trying to do Async I/O using O_ASYNC on sockets and handling SIGIO. My testing shows that even if I unblock SIGIO at the begining of the handler the kernel only delivers one level of nested signals. Ie: while the first SIGIO is being handled a second

Re: Overriding ARG_MAX

2002-01-05 Thread Oliver Fromme
Leo Bicknell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message written on Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 09:48:40PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wro te: ls | grep '\.out$' | wc -l One process shorter: find -name *.out -maxdepth 0 | wc -l OK, but I tried to be as portable as possible, while -maxdepth is not

Re: Overriding ARG_MAX

2002-01-05 Thread Oliver Fromme
Sorry for replying to myself, but this just came to my mind ... Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I usually want to do is something more like ls *.out |wc -l ls | grep '\.out$' | wc -l A smaller solution would be: echo *.out | wc -w

Re: what slice did I boot from?

2002-01-05 Thread Louis A. Mamakos
On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: Hmm.. I'm running a 4.4-STABLE based system on the hardware, and don't seem to have any problem booting off the other slice. Right now, it's runnong on the second slice of ATA Compact Flash disk: # kenv LINES=24 console=vidconsole

Re: Phobos 4-port NIC

2002-01-05 Thread TD790
In a message dated 01/04/2002 10:54:51 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have recently acquired a pair of Phobos 4-port NIC's, the P430TX model. On it, it has 4 Intel 21143TD chips, and one larger Intel 21152AB chip. The driver (binary only) provided by Phobos is

Re: Tell gcc I have a i686

2002-01-05 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 12:02:03PM -0600 I heard the voice of Stephen Montgomery-Smith, and lo! it spake thus: I want to create a Makefile for a C program that includes some Pentium II specific inline assembler code. How do I tell the compiler whether we are compiling on a i686? Dunno, how

Re: Tell gcc I have a i686

2002-01-05 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Matthew D. Fuller wrote: On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 12:02:03PM -0600 I heard the voice of Stephen Montgomery-Smith, and lo! it spake thus: I want to create a Makefile for a C program that includes some Pentium II specific inline assembler code. How do I tell the compiler whether we are

Re: path_mtu_discovery

2002-01-05 Thread Crist J. Clark
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 07:08:16PM -0500, Leo Bicknell wrote: In a message written on Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 01:14:45AM +0100, Rogier R. Mulhuijzen wrote: If we're on the internet yes. If you're in an environment other than one connected to the internet (do those even exist grin/) no.

Re: oddness in aio_procrundown?

2002-01-05 Thread Alan L. Cox
Alfred Perlstein wrote: ok: at about line 498 in vfs_aio.c: aiocbn = TAILQ_NEXT(aiocbe, plist); fp = fdp-fd_ofiles[aiocbe-uaiocb.aio_fildes]; /* * Under some circumstances, the aio_fildes and the file