Re: FreeBSD 2.2.x ISO images.

2002-06-24 Thread dak
Hi, You can find many old images here: http://www.freebsdmirrors.org/FBSDsites.php3?showi386ISO=do (I don't have checked the links yet :p) -- dak On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 12:03:39AM -0600, John Nielsen wrote: - Original Message - From: Jefferson Harlough [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: bug in pw, -STABLE [patch]

2002-06-24 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 05:14:58PM -0700 I heard the voice of Paul Herman, and lo! it spake thus: Clearly, at the root of our disagreement is what we both perceive the problem to be. Oh, certainly; that's what makes it fun :) I don't see problems in the current implementation, aside

Re: bug in pw, -STABLE [patch]

2002-06-24 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 05:07:40PM -0700 I heard the voice of Terry Lambert, and lo! it spake thus: The problem with your proposed patch is that it breaks the ability to allow authentication against the database while it is undergoing modification, which may be a prolonged period. Would it?

smbalert# hook for smbus childs

2002-06-24 Thread Willem van Engen
Hello, there already is some code for smbalert# handling on intpm (ENABLE_ALART), but there is no support for handling it in a driver. O2 AudioDJ (OZ162) chips use this signal to indicate that a button was pressed. So I need a way for a driver to be notified when smbalert# occurs. Of course I

Re: bge driver not working in Dell 2650

2002-06-24 Thread John Polstra
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lai Yiu Fai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone get the Broadcom BCM5701 gigibit ethernet working on new Dell 2650? I noted it has been fixed in latest STABLE branch from freebsd-hacker list.

Re: Re: bge driver issue

2002-06-24 Thread John Polstra
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John. Thanks for the tip. I changed ETHER_ALIGN to 0 and the driver started to work. I'm glad to hear it. Thanks for the report. I am not sure about the performance since I seem to get only 50 Mbit over a 100 Mbit line. However

Re: bug in pw, -STABLE [patch]

2002-06-24 Thread Paul Herman
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Geoffrey C. Speicher wrote: So we either need to have a compelling solution or get a committer to step in and make up our minds for us. I think the best thing to do is file a PR for this. -Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: Re: bge driver issue

2002-06-24 Thread Mark Peek
At 9:45 AM -0700 6/24/02, John Polstra wrote: I agree with you about the noise. I think I'd rather spend the day in a room with a swarm of hornets than with the Dell 2650. When I was working with that machine I wore a pair of industrial-strength ear-protecting headphones, and my ears were still

Re: Cyrus vs. UW IMAP (was: Re: I Volunteer)

2002-06-24 Thread Pat Lashley
--On Saturday, June 22, 2002 02:36:44 PM +0200 Neil Blakey-Milner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is always the option to use SSL, which is my preference, but unfortunately neither SSL nor SASL have widespread IMAP client support yet. Most IMAP clients I know of support SSL. Outlook,

Re: (jail) problem and a (possible) solution ?

2002-06-24 Thread Patrick Thomas
Terry, I made an initial change to the kernel of reducing maxusers from 512 to 256 - you said that 3gig is right on the border of needing extra KVA or not, so I thought maybe this unnecessarily high maxusers might be puching me over the top. However, as long as I was changing the kernel, I

Re: Re: bge driver issue

2002-06-24 Thread Andrew Gallatin
John Polstra writes: On the i386, living with the misalignment is probably the best solution, unfortunately. The only alternatives I can think of are: - bcopy the packet up by 2 bytes after reception to align the payload, or - disable PCI-X mode on the bus If

Re: (jail) problem and a (possible) solution ?

2002-06-24 Thread Matthew Dillon
Well, it should be noted that there are two things going on with swap. What I adjusted was the size of the swap_zone, which holds swblocks. These structures hold the VM-SWAP block mappings for things that are swapped out. The swap zone eats a lot more KVA then the radix tree

Re: Re: bge driver issue

2002-06-24 Thread John Polstra
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew Gallatin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the bge's API allows it, you could setup a receive descriptor with a length of 14 bytes (size of ethernet header), and start the next descripter 2 bytes after it (at a 16 byte offset from the front of the mbuf).

Re: bug in pw, -STABLE [patch]

2002-06-24 Thread Geoffrey C. Speicher
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Paul Herman wrote: On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Geoffrey C. Speicher wrote: So we either need to have a compelling solution or get a committer to step in and make up our minds for us. I think the best thing to do is file a PR for this. With or without a patch? Geoff To

status of portalfs

2002-06-24 Thread Harry Newton
LINT says that the portal filesystem is 'known to buggy'. I'm having a look at it, but can't get it to break ! Could someone give me an idea of the status of it, or where I could look ? Cheers, - Harry, who apologises if this isn't the right list. -- Harry Newton harry_newton at telinco . co

Re: bug in pw, -STABLE [patch]

2002-06-24 Thread Terry Lambert
Matthew D. Fuller wrote: Terry Lambert, and lo! it spake thus: The problem with your proposed patch is that it breaks the ability to allow authentication against the database while it is undergoing modification, which may be a prolonged period. Would it? For starters, this locks

Re: (jail) problem and a (possible) solution ?

2002-06-24 Thread Patrick Thomas
A few items that deserve mention, and two questions: a) this problem occurred back when the machine had 2gigs in it - I actually (naively) added the third gig of physical ram to try to fix the problem. b) another machine of mine is now exhibiting the same bahavior - it has far fewer processes

Re: (jail) problem and a (possible) solution ?

2002-06-24 Thread Terry Lambert
Patrick Thomas wrote: I made an initial change to the kernel of reducing maxusers from 512 to 256 - you said that 3gig is right on the border of needing extra KVA or not, so I thought maybe this unnecessarily high maxusers might be puching me over the top. However, as long as I was changing

Re: (jail) problem and a (possible) solution ?

2002-06-24 Thread Matthew Dillon
:questions: : :1) How do I give you an entire `ps` output from DDB ? Is there a way to :output it to a floppy or something ? Or are you suggesting to copy down :by hand ~1000 lines of ps output ? If you have a couple of machines you can use a null-modem cable and make the target

Re: (jail) problem and a (possible) solution ?

2002-06-24 Thread Terry Lambert
Patrick Thomas wrote: 1) How do I give you an entire `ps` output from DDB ? Is there a way to output it to a floppy or something ? Or are you suggesting to copy down by hand ~1000 lines of ps output ? Serial console + terminal program with capture. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: status of portalfs

2002-06-24 Thread Terry Lambert
Harry Newton wrote: LINT says that the portal filesystem is 'known to buggy'. I'm having a look at it, but can't get it to break ! Could someone give me an idea of the status of it, or where I could look ? From the man page of mount_portal: The portal daemon provides an open service.

tunings for many httpds...

2002-06-24 Thread Patrick Thomas
As a splinter to the ongoing KVA/crash/memory discussion, I am wondering: - given a machine that will run 250+ httpds and another ~800 misc. processes, what system tunings would any of you suggest other than the ones I have done: In my kernel: maxusers=256 (was 512, change to 256

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2002-06-24 Thread R.S.R
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Re: (jail) problem and a (possible) solution ?

2002-06-24 Thread Patrick Thomas
It's obvious that you are running a large number of httpd's; the Yes, we are running a lot of httpd's: ps auxw | grep httpd | wc -l = 288 The way to cross-check this would be to run a continuous netstat -m, e.g.: Funny you should ask :) I was already doing that. Here is the

Re: tunings for many httpds...

2002-06-24 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Patrick Thomas wrote: Two things about this interested me: a) watching `top` output anytime of the day, i see several httpd processes in sbwait - granted I can only see 40 lines of processes or so in `top`, but usually at least two show sbwait. Worrisome ? sbwait is

need some help on ibm whistler = interjetII

2002-06-24 Thread KitCat
hi! i´ve an interjetII and i´ve heard, that it´s possible toget root-access via telnet on the freebsd operating system by pressing a special combination of keys. i´m just a student and i can´t spend my money on a special corporation to get this hepl. and i was just a lucky

Re: status of portalfs

2002-06-24 Thread Matthew Dillon
Actually Terry is wrong here :-) Sorry Terry. The portal filesystem is not really a filesystem. All it can do is intercept open()s and return descriptors. It isn't like NULLFS. The portal filesystem does not do any layering at all. open() does not return a portalfs

Re: need some help on ibm whistler = interjetII

2002-06-24 Thread Julian Elischer
u if you have an IJ-II then you must be leasing it from IBM. And IMB is ending all teh leases and recalling them. They never sold them as far as I know.. no wait you are in .de.. hmmm that may be different.. the best way is to take out the disk. put it on a freeBSD system edit /etc/tty to

Re[2]: need some help on ibm whistler = interjetII

2002-06-24 Thread KitCat
hi! ok, that may helps a little... i want the root access, because i´ve a dsl-internet-connection, and i isn´t supported by the ij-package at now. so i hope, that i can activate the dsl-feature with root access. i hope, you are not rolling over the floor laughing ;-)

Re: Re[2]: need some help on ibm whistler = interjetII

2002-06-24 Thread Julian Elischer
On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, KitCat wrote: hi! ok, that may helps a little... i want the root access, because i´ve a dsl-internet-connection, and i isn´t supported by the ij-package at now. so i hope, that i can activate the dsl-feature with root access. i hope, you are

Re: Re[2]: need some help on ibm whistler = interjetII

2002-06-24 Thread Julian Elischer
By the way.. IJ-II's in .de were leased from IBM via Deutche Telecom so theoretically it's stolen property.. IBM is recalling them and destroying them however.. pitty... nice product. On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, KitCat wrote: hi! ok, that may helps a little... i want the root access,

Re: 8 floppy drive anyone ?

2002-06-24 Thread Jim Durham
On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: I have a bunch of 8 floppies I need to try to recover contents from, is there anybody out there who has a 8 drive they'd be willing to part with for $$ ? If it comes with the magic SA800-PC cable it would be just perfect. I work in the TV

Re: m_cat() does not update m_pkthdr.len

2002-06-24 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Yahel Zamir wrote: Hi, During development of networking code in FreeBSD kernel, we noticed that m_cat(p1, p2) does NOT do some necessary things: p1-m_pkthdr.len += p2-m_pkthdr.len; p2-m_flags = ~M_PKTHDR; Thanks, Yahel. Please notify Luigi or Bosko. See the -net

Re: tunings for many httpds...

2002-06-24 Thread Terry Lambert
Patrick Thomas wrote: As a splinter to the ongoing KVA/crash/memory discussion, I am wondering: - given a machine that will run 250+ httpds and another ~800 misc. processes, what system tunings would any of you suggest other than the ones I have done: Can't comment. Best guess: whatever

Re: need some help on ibm whistler = interjetII

2002-06-24 Thread Terry Lambert
Julian Elischer wrote: u if you have an IJ-II then you must be leasing it from IBM. And IMB is ending all teh leases and recalling them. They never sold them as far as I know.. no wait you are in .de.. hmmm that may be different.. They sold them in Japan. They may have sold them

Re: need some help on ibm whistler = interjetII

2002-06-24 Thread Terry Lambert
KitCat wrote: i want the root access, because i´ve a dsl-internet-connection, and i isn´t supported by the ij-package at now. so i hope, that i can activate the dsl-feature with root access. i hope, you are not rolling over the floor laughing ;-) perhaps, you know a

Re: status of portalfs

2002-06-24 Thread Terry Lambert
Matthew Dillon wrote: Actually Terry is wrong here :-) Sorry Terry. The portal filesystem is not really a filesystem. All it can do is intercept open()s and return descriptors. It isn't like NULLFS. The portal filesystem does not do any layering at all. open() does

[hackers] Re: Limiting clients per source IP address (ftpd, inetd,etc.)

2002-06-24 Thread David Gilbert
Terry == Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually I was thinking more of ReGet and Godzilla-style software used by some users to play unfair and suck more bandwidth out of an FTP server, by opening a zillion sockets and downloading a single file in chunks. Terry What a clever hack!

Re: bug in pw, -STABLE [patch]

2002-06-24 Thread Geoffrey C. Speicher
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Paul Herman wrote: On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Geoffrey C. Speicher wrote: So we either need to have a compelling solution or get a committer to step in and make up our minds for us. I think the best thing to do is file a PR for this. More than one person has already

Re: bug in pw, -STABLE [patch]

2002-06-24 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 09:56:31AM -0700 I heard the voice of Paul Herman, and lo! it spake thus: On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Geoffrey C. Speicher wrote: So we either need to have a compelling solution or get a committer to step in and make up our minds for us. I think the best thing to do is

Re: m_cat() does not update m_pkthdr.len

2002-06-24 Thread Bosko Milekic
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 09:15:09PM -0500, Mike Silbersack wrote: On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Yahel Zamir wrote: Hi, During development of networking code in FreeBSD kernel, we noticed that m_cat(p1, p2) does NOT do some necessary things: p1-m_pkthdr.len += p2-m_pkthdr.len; p2-m_flags =