Re: Another kernel newbie

2002-03-14 Thread Julian Elischer
check how the modules do this.. also, look at the example device driver in -current /usr/share/examples/drivers/make_device_driver.sh that makes and then compiles a driver. On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Kreider, Carl wrote: I've been tasked with a driver for a video capture card. I've been

Re: Interesting sysctl variables in Mac OS X with hw info

2002-03-13 Thread Julian Elischer
On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Brooks Davis wrote: On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 04:25:00PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: This was actually discussed a while back (a month or two ago). It got really bogged down when someone pointed out that they were running CPUs with different clock rates in their

Re: Userland Hacker Task: divert socket listener...

2002-03-12 Thread Julian Elischer
nice idea.. procmail for packets. On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Here is something I miss a lot: I would like a small program which can listen to a specified divert(4) socket and act on the incoming packets. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Performance of FreeBSD vs NetBSD (was: Re: Performance of -currentvs -stable)

2002-03-11 Thread Julian Elischer
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Hiten Pandya wrote: --- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As you are no doubt aware there are significant infrastructural changes in -current relating to SMP scalability. It's in a very interim state at the moment, and one of the downsides is increased

Where are the TCP patches for 4.4?

2002-03-08 Thread Julian Elischer
I remember someone saying that they were going to make a repository for patches for releases. In particular I[m looking at teh TCP patches that fixed the slow transfers in some situations. Thes changes were put in before 4.5 so I want to find them to upgrade some production 4.4 machines. I

Re: Where are the TCP patches for 4.4?

2002-03-08 Thread Julian Elischer
sure I can get them, I'm just trying to find who it was that said they were compiling a set of good patches for 4.4 Ken On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Julian Elischer wrote: I remember someone saying that they were going to make a repository for patches for releases. In particular I[m looking

Re: Where are the TCP patches for 4.4?

2002-03-08 Thread Julian Elischer
yes, thanks.. he recognised it too :-) On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Garance A Drosihn wrote: http://www.visi.com/~hawkeyd/freebsd-backports.html Is that what you're thinking of? -- Garance Alistair Drosehn= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Programmer or [EMAIL

Re: Where are the TCP patches for 4.4?

2002-03-08 Thread Julian Elischer
YES! Thanks On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, D J Hawkey Jr wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I remember someone saying that they were going to make a repository for patches for releases. In particular I[m looking at teh TCP patches that fixed the slow

Re: in_pcblookup_hash() called multiple times

2002-03-07 Thread Julian Elischer
what would be even nicer is if ipfw found the cached entry and passed it back to ip_input so it didn't need to :-) On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Bill Fumerola wrote: On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 05:07:55PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: There are redundant calls to the in_pcblookup_hash() in the

Re: Swapping performance

2002-03-07 Thread Julian Elischer
he said -stable.. what are the malloc options on -stable? maybe we should make sure that they are null ln -s /etc/malloc.conf (I hope that helps) :) On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Dimitar Peikov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020307 00:45] wrote: I start some performance tests on

Re: A question of VM page ownership

2002-03-07 Thread Julian Elischer
which one does the data come from? On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Zhihui Zhang wrote: Is there any fundamental reason why a page can not be owned by more than one VM object? If that was the case, the bogus page stuff in vfs_bio.c could be made cleaner IMHO. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: please remove blank line

2002-03-06 Thread Julian Elischer
The coding style guide for freebsd says that a blank line shalll be above the code and below teh variable declarations.. most peopple take this to read that the blank line still appears if there are no variables. I'm sorry if this offends your personal style, but a group has to have SME style

Re: A weird disk behaviour

2002-03-06 Thread Julian Elischer
disks don't work in 512 byte blocks. they work inTRACKS these days.. if you ask for an entire track to be written, that is almost certainly quicker than if you ask for every 2ns block in that track to be written because the second option requires that it read the track first. ALso the seek may

Re: in_pcblookup_hash() called multiple times

2002-03-06 Thread Julian Elischer
sounds good.. can you send us a patch to look at? On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: There are redundant calls to the in_pcblookup_hash() in the ip_fw_chk() function called via (*ip_fw_chk_ptr)() in the ip_input path. Would it be useful to modify the (*pr_input) function pointer

Re: Help! serious problem.

2002-03-05 Thread Julian Elischer
It actually did a jmp 0 (or call 0) do you have any out-of date modules loaded? maybe an out of date firewall module? (it happens when you are doing some firewall code) On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, ICA Canada Online wrote: Running FreeBSD 4.5 and it keeps rebooting around the same time late during

Re: A weird disk behaviour

2002-03-05 Thread Julian Elischer
more writes fit in the disk's write cache? On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Zhihui Zhang wrote: I am doing some raw I/O test on a seagate SCSI disk running FreeBSD 4.5. This situation is like this: +-++++++++++---+-- | ||||||

Re: RFC: style(9) isn't explicit about booleans for testing.

2002-03-05 Thread Julian Elischer
On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Read the man page to try and decide if you should write if (x) or if (x != 0). Fix: Apply the attached page to the style(9) man page. [...] the one that I stop to think about is: if (!(flags FLAGSET)) or should that be if

Re: A weird disk behaviour

2002-03-05 Thread Julian Elischer
On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Lars Eggert wrote: Zhihui Zhang wrote: Several times slower! The point is that writing less data performs worse. So I call it weird. Huh? You originally said: (1) Write each block fully and sequentially, ie. 8192 bytes. (2) I still write these blocks

Re: Myson drivers for 4.x

2002-02-28 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Andre Oppermann wrote: On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Julian Elischer wrote: If its actually a Realtek clone with a few differences it wouldn't make sense to add a whole new driver to the system. Just a side note; the Realtek driver isn't entirely up to date. The chip

Re: Missing PT_READ_U

2002-02-28 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Bakul Shah wrote: Zap 'ptrace(PT_READ_U, ...)' and 'ptrace(PT_WRITE_U, ...)' since they are a really nasty interface that should have been killed long ago when 'ptrace(PT_[SG]ETREGS' etc came along. The entity that they operate on (struct user) will not be around

Re: Missing PT_READ_U

2002-02-28 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Bakul Shah wrote: Zap 'ptrace(PT_READ_U, ...)' and 'ptrace(PT_WRITE_U, ...)' since they are a really nasty interface that should have been killed long ago when 'ptrace(PT_[SG]ETREGS' etc came along. The entity that they operate on (struct user) will not be around

Re: Myson drivers for 4.x

2002-02-26 Thread Julian Elischer
Is it possible that by adding the correct PCI ID teh realtek driver might handle them? (I'm just wondering if we alreay have a driver that is equivalent to the myson driver...?) On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Julian Elischer wrote: did you say

Re: Are there periodic GOOD tags in CVS for -CURRENT?

2002-02-26 Thread Julian Elischer
I was suggesting this at the kernel meeting To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: Myson drivers for 4.x

2002-02-26 Thread Julian Elischer
there were no changes needed for network drivers resulting from KSE (or maybe a single word change) What errors do you get? On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, David O'Brien wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 11:49:07AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my0@pci0:11:0: class=0x02 card=0x08031516

Re: Myson drivers for 4.x

2002-02-26 Thread Julian Elischer
I have been speaking with the author. he is adding a BSD copyright. also he says we can KNFify (style(9)ify?) as it doesn't have to remain compatible with anything else. On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, David O'Brien wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 11:49:07AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Myson drivers for 4.x

2002-02-26 Thread Julian Elischer
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Julian Elischer wrote: I have been speaking with the author. he is adding a BSD copyright. also he says we can KNFify (style(9)ify?) as it doesn't have to remain compatible with anything else. It might be nice

Re: Myson drivers for 4.x

2002-02-25 Thread Julian Elischer
www.myson.com.tw: Unable to reolve. On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found: http://www.myson.com.tw/mtd/driver/803/mtd80x-freebsd.tgz.TGZ to work splendidly with 4.5. Would be nice to see them rolled in. Dw To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel Debugging over the Ethernet?

2002-02-25 Thread Julian Elischer
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Bakul Shah wrote: The value of network debugging to me is not that I can avoid buying a serial cable (big deal), it's that I can do the debugging remotely. Agreed. If I'm going to ssh into a local machine and debug from there, then I can use a serial cable.

Re: Myson drivers for 4.x

2002-02-25 Thread Julian Elischer
did you say that there are other cards apparently OEM'd from these? On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found: http://www.myson.com.tw/mtd/driver/803/mtd80x-freebsd.tgz.TGZ to work splendidly with 4.5. Would be nice to see them rolled in. Dw To Unsubscribe:

Re: Kernel Debugging over the Ethernet?

2002-02-23 Thread Julian Elischer
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Bakul Shah wrote: Without TCP, you have to implement your own version of retry and ack (equivalent to negotiating a window size of 1), and so you have to redo what's already there. Would be nice to have a reliable channel but in our experience not having this was

Re: PCI Probing Utility?

2002-02-22 Thread Julian Elischer
try man pciconf On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Frost, Stephen C wrote: Oh FreeBSD Gurus... I tried throwing this out to the 'Questions' listserver and got zero reply. So Is there some quick, down dirty way of assessing the bus-speeds of PCI slots/busses on a given box? I have a whole

Re: Kernel Debugging over the Ethernet?

2002-02-21 Thread Julian Elischer
This is cool. As people talk about this it seems that more and more of the needed parts are already available from one source or another.. On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Michael Smith wrote: 1) Easy to write a very minimal, outside the stack, IP/UDP layer. One (very nasty) already exists in

Re: Kernel Debugging over the Ethernet?

2002-02-21 Thread Julian Elischer
Ok, so now George has so many choices to choose from that I'm expecting 3 different implementations from him, with no common components :-) On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Benedikt Schmidt wrote: Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Julian Elischer wrote: On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Michael Smith wrote

Re: Kernel Debugging over the Ethernet?

2002-02-20 Thread Julian Elischer
using tcp for this is I think wrong.. Use UDP or maybe even an special protocol on IP. On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: George V. Neville-Neil wrote: Now that Luigi has put in polling support for some ethernet drivers I was wondering how much work it would be to make the

Re: fork launch

2002-02-20 Thread Julian Elischer
1/ can you say whay you want to do this? 2/ check the code that creates kernel threads, (kthread_create()) On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Jonathan BENSAMOUN wrote: Hi I coded a syscall which fork inside kernel and launch a new process. The unique problem I got is when the father is waiting the

Re: Kernel Debugging over the Ethernet?

2002-02-20 Thread Julian Elischer
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Bakul Shah wrote: I may have forgotten a few things but this is the gist of how it worked. Credit for all this work goes to someone else. We had meant to give this back to the FreeBSD community but didn't get around to it in time and now it is not possible. Why

Re: Serverworks ATA controller data corruption

2002-02-20 Thread Julian Elischer
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: FWIW, Julian had to fix a similar problem by programming the heck out of a Cyrix MediaGX chipset via a custom BIOS. *snort* (wakes up).. wha? wha? what is the problem? The one I had to program around was bad DMA for transfers not on a 16 byte

Re: Serverworks ATA controller data corruption

2002-02-20 Thread Julian Elischer
basically yes. there is a CRC on the disk block right? On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Andrew Gallatin wrote: Terry Lambert writes: So.. Is PIO safe? Is there any sort of CRC being done on PIO data? He just said: if your chipset is programmed correctly by the BIOS, then there will not

Re: Kernel Debugging over the Ethernet?

2002-02-20 Thread Julian Elischer
yes but we might as well be protocol compatible if possible :-) If only to re-use what they did in gdb :-) On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, George V. Neville-Neil wrote: I was talking to Louis Gerbarg about this topic at the BSDCon last week. Apparently Darwin already has this functionality, so I

Re: Kernel Debugging over the Ethernet?

2002-02-20 Thread Julian Elischer
you mean they use the same protocol? On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Greg Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 20 February 2002 at 16:52:48 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, George V. Neville-Neil wrote: I was talking to Louis Gerbarg about this topic at the BSDCon last week. Apparently

Re: Clearcase and FreeBSD

2002-02-20 Thread Julian Elischer
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Danny J. Zerkel wrote: Maybe cvs is an academic toy. Most real development requires a real configuration management system. Why do you think there is work being done on FreeBSD in Perforce? The sooner FreeBSD and Linux can escape the clutches of cvs, the better.

Re: Task activation delays: FreeBSD versus Linux?

2002-02-19 Thread Julian Elischer
define a task activation delay and maybe we can discuss it.. it's a rather broad definition. and is that RTlinux? (which is a completly differnt kettle of fish..) On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Eugene Panchenko wrote: gretings. As seen on kerneltrap.org: --- Andrew Morton: Ingo Molnar broke the

Re: Kernel Debugging over the Ethernet?

2002-02-19 Thread Julian Elischer
Hi George. There was someone recently that posted that they had some sort of remote debuging working over an ethernet (or at least that they ALMOST had it working.). I remember thinking Cool. I have however had good success with the serial crossover cables needed for the curren serial debugger.

Re: Kernel Debugging over the Ethernet?

2002-02-19 Thread Julian Elischer
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Julian Elischer wrote: Hi George. There was someone recently that posted that they had some sort of remote debuging working over an ethernet (or at least that they ALMOST had it working.). I remember thinking Cool. I have however had good success with the serial

Re: In-Kernel HTTP Server (name preference)

2002-02-18 Thread Julian Elischer
will it be able to send pages from the filesystem or just preloaded pages? How will you configure it? I can suggest using a netgraph module for the work as it can be connected to a netgraph ksocket node to receive the requests (jdp made all the changes needed to allow this to be done). It also

Re: Odd ipfw behaviour

2002-02-18 Thread Julian Elischer
that patch is an MFC of a fix that went into -current. it allows teh 'fwd' ing of packets from the 'input' filter to external machines.. i.e. this doesn't work without this patch: ipfw add 100 fwd 1.2.3.4 tcp from any to 1.2.3.5 80 in recv fxp0 On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Luigi Rizzo wrote: On

Re: in-kernel HTTP Server for FreeBSD?

2002-02-17 Thread Julian Elischer
there is one. Written by [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think it's proprietary but maybe not.. (CC'd) On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Dominic Marks wrote: Hey, On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 06:33:43AM -0800, Hiten Pandya wrote: hi all, [ I am not currently subscribed to -questions, please CC a copy to me,

Re: in-kernel HTTP Server for FreeBSD?

2002-02-17 Thread Julian Elischer
now all we need is to connnect it to sysctl remote configuration of your kernel via web interface (runs screaming from room) On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, John Polstra wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there is one. Written by [EMAIL PROTECTED] I

Re: in-kernel HTTP Server for FreeBSD?

2002-02-17 Thread Julian Elischer
the netgraph ng_ksocket is the basis of how it was done. On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Hiten Pandya wrote: On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 11:05:04AM -0800, John Polstra wrote: Yes, I wrote one. Yes, it's proprietary. One obvious example is as part of a testbed for performance testing various kinds

Re: in-kernel HTTP Server for FreeBSD?

2002-02-17 Thread Julian Elischer
there is a netgraph module in standard systems (ng_ksocket) that does the socket part but youstill need to write the http node.. John Polstra's one is proprietary. On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Rogier R. Mulhuijzen wrote: At 14:59 17-2-2002 +, Dominic Marks wrote: On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at

Re: in-kernel HTTP Server for FreeBSD?

2002-02-17 Thread Julian Elischer
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: Fourth, I think the reason he made the joke about MSCE's was that there are ways of doing true zero copy, using DMA directly between devices. There are a couple of people that have done this by, for example, rewriting the Tigon II firmware to

Re: a daemon C skeleton

2002-02-15 Thread Julian Elischer
try daemon(args..); . (man 3 daemon) On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Magdalinin Kirill wrote: Hello, can anyone, please, point out a C skeleton for FreeBSD daemon. Is the following simple example correct for FreeBSD? if (getppid() != 1) { signal(SIGTTOU, SIG_IGN);

Re: chroot+su idea

2002-02-15 Thread Julian Elischer
check out 'jail' start the daemon within the startup script of the jail. On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Walter Hop wrote: Hi all, just like many people, I want to run my dangerous daemons as a non-root user in a chroot environment. Now, I would usually use the ``su'', or ``chroot'' tools from

Re: Zones

2002-02-09 Thread Julian Elischer
well he may speak for only himself.. as for me I have no idea what a 'zone' is in Linux.. timezone? memory zone allocator in the kernel? routing zones? On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Anjali Kulkarni wrote: Thanks for your reminder. I guess I didnt realize they would consider simple and easy beneath

Re: Re: MAC address

2002-02-08 Thread Julian Elischer
Network Interface Card On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Vladislav V. Anikiev wrote: Hello Brian, The MAC address - I meen The Media Access Control address (i.e., ethernet hardware address, not IP address). I want to use the default hardware (not current physical ) address in my license

Re: requesting guidance for updating the RocketPort driver

2002-02-08 Thread Julian Elischer
he infrastructure needed for a new driver can be taken from the sample driver in /usr/share/examples/drivers/make_device_driver.sh IN -CURRENT. (use cvdweb on the website to get it) that will at least get rid of the 'shims' stuff. On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, John wrote: *** Please reply directly,

Re: porting multithreaded app from linux to FreeBSD

2002-02-06 Thread Julian Elischer
use the linuxthreads port.. that will give you exact linux-threads compatibility.. On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Umesh Krishnaswamy wrote: Hi Folks, Are there any gotchas about porting over from Linux a multi-threaded application? FreeBSD version that I am using is 4.2. Thanks. Umesh. To

Re: kernel fork execve

2002-01-30 Thread Julian Elischer
check where init is called from.. On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Jonathan BENSAMOUN wrote: Hi, I would like to add a new syscall in my kernel which execute an execve in a forked process. I call the fork1 function and hook inside it to execute my execve. Has anyone an example of calling execve

ANyone seen a touch screen on BSD?

2002-01-22 Thread Julian Elischer
says it all. If you know of a touch screen that can be interfaced to FreeBSD let me know.. thanks.. Julian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: ANyone seen a touch screen on BSD?

2002-01-22 Thread Julian Elischer
that showed up at FreeBSDCon 99 (I think). My memory fails me on the name of the person that brought it but I'm sure he's on -hackers (maybe) :) -Bill On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 10:12:01AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: says it all. If you know of a touch screen that can be interfaced

Re: mbuf chains

2002-01-21 Thread Julian Elischer
On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Skye Poier wrote: Word on the street is that Julian Elischer said: My confusion is around splitting/concatenating - When splitting an mbuf chain, the two resultant chains must be as above (heads have M_PKTHDR and mbuf.m_pkthdr.len set) right

Re: ftpd patch that saves me a lot of hassle

2002-01-19 Thread Julian Elischer
if you make your incoming Write-only then they will hav elottle point in puting stuff there.. We do this, in several places, and have a script move the incoming stuff elsewhere at regular intervals too. (not that I disagree with your patch but I often mode 'dot files' e.g. .cshrc, or even CVS #

Re: mbuf chains

2002-01-18 Thread Julian Elischer
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Skye Poier wrote: What are the rules around mbuf chain construction? (I've read man mbuf, doesnt go into much detail) In particular, I'm assuming: - all mbufs must be same type - the head mbuf must have M_PKTHDR set - the head mbuf.m_pkthdr.len must be the len of

Re: how to go about writing a device driver (built-in NIC for Toshibalaptop)

2002-01-16 Thread Julian Elischer
start with the * -current *** version of /usr/share/examples/drivers/make_device_driver.sh On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Fook Sheng Chan wrote: Hi I wish to learn to write a device driver for toshiba satellite 1800-A500. How do i go about doing it? Do i need info from Toshiba? i don't seem

Re: interesting open() issue

2002-01-16 Thread Julian Elischer
He's talking about the different 'group' setting.. I think. it's different because SYSV (linux is based on the semantics of sysV) and BSD have a differnt semantic on this and always have.. BSD makes the file get the same group as the directory. Linux gives it the primary group of the creator.

Re: New DOC/FAQ entry.. kernel contribution guidance

2002-01-16 Thread Julian Elischer
On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, K S Sreeram wrote: Hi My name is K.S.Sreeram, and i am very much interested in contributing to the [...] Sounds like you are ideally suited to this:-) here are some starting tips. Tip 1: no-one is going to ask you to do some particular thing. We are all

Re: dsl ppp

2002-01-15 Thread Julian Elischer
yes. man ppp On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Matthew wrote: is ADSL virtual dialing, ie, pppoe protocol supported in FreeBSD 4.3? I need to use my FreeBSD box to dial through ADSL to the net. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the

Re: How well does EVFILT_AIO work?

2002-01-13 Thread Julian Elischer
the threads package doesn't do file IO asynchronoulsy in fact there ahve been several people threatenning to use AIO to make the threads package to that asychronously too. On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Doug White wrote: On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, k Macy wrote: Has anybody used AIO in conjunction with

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-12-31 Thread Julian Elischer
the driver should return ENOBUFS and TCP should repect that.. I think it already does in fact.. On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Matthew Dillon wrote: :I'm talking about capping the maximum negotiable window size :over the USB adapter... : :How can this cause problems, since (1) the only thing we are

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-12-31 Thread Julian Elischer
my stupid :-) On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Matthew Dillon wrote: : :the driver should return ENOBUFS :and TCP should repect that.. :I think it already does in fact.. How does the client's driver returning ENOBUFS prevent the server from sending too many packets?

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-12-31 Thread Julian Elischer
On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: Matthew Dillon wrote: :the driver should return ENOBUFS :and TCP should repect that.. :I think it already does in fact.. How does the client's driver returning ENOBUFS prevent the server from sending too many packets? Matt:

Re: SOURCE ROUTING

2001-12-30 Thread Julian Elischer
unfortunatly Bill, he wants to combile it with bridging (policy bridging?) and luigi never installed fwd or divert on the bridge ipfw hook.. On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Bill Fumerola wrote: On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 04:36:25PM -0300, Joao Carlos wrote: Is there any way to create routes using only

Re: TAILQ

2001-12-28 Thread Julian Elischer
man queue man TAILQ_FIRST On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Aleksander Rozman wrote: Hi ! I have finally started with my work on that protocol I was telling you about (ax.25), but now I have come to a problem. Some of old structs for networking were changed and now they use TAILQ macros. There is

Re: Virtual memory and paging questions

2001-12-25 Thread Julian Elischer
On Tue, 25 Dec 2001, Barak Enat wrote: Hi all, Note: Please reply to this mail as well because I'm not subscribed to this mailing list. I have two questions regarding FreeBSD virtual memory and paging/swapping system: 1. When a page fault occurs does the entire system stalls, or

Re: Multilink DSL

2001-12-20 Thread Julian Elischer
I think both mpd and the normal ppp can do this. Certainly mpd can, (check with archie) but i doubrt that many ISPs can. On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Ted Sikora wrote: Anyone know how or a link for setting up MP 'multilink' PPPoe DSL on FreeBSD. I have PPPoe on FreeBSD-STABLE with 2 cards and DSL

Re: Instead of JFS, why not a whole new FS?

2001-12-17 Thread Julian Elischer
It is possible that Kirk may be thinking about doing this. He mumbled something about a new FS a while ago but it wasn't clear whether he was thinking of doing it, or he was just saying someone will eventually do it. On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Dave Reyenga wrote: How about writing a new filesystem

Re: help with loadable module PicoBSD

2001-12-12 Thread Julian Elischer
also look at (in current only!) /usr/share/examples/drivers/make_device_driver.sh is makes a driver with ISA, and PCI-based interfaces. On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Chuck T. wrote: I'm trying to write an ISA device driver from scratch and I'm also trying to make it a kernel loadable to make my

Re: Nat through two DSL

2001-12-07 Thread Julian Elischer
If you were using PPPoE for the DSL, then you could possibly use multilink ppp. The trick would be to see if the ppp server at the other end can recognise multilink PPP when it's getting it's ppp off ATM/PPPoE.. On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Lars Eggert wrote: rick norman wrote: What would be

Re: New PAM module question

2001-12-07 Thread Julian Elischer
Your first task would be to show that it is a generally useful and expected behaviour to end up in a login with a different username to that which you started out with. If you can prove that there are other useful reasons to do this, in addition to your own app, then certainly it would make

Re: gdb serial port

2001-12-05 Thread Julian Elischer
in 4.4 or 5.x you can set the flags in /boot/device.hints On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Zhihui Zhang wrote: While compiling a debug kernel, I forgot to set the flag of sio0 to 0x80. Is there anyway I can fix this quickly without recompiling the kernel? Thanks, -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send

Re: who is postmaster?

2001-12-01 Thread Julian Elischer
thanks.. That's quite amazing.. On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Peter Wemm wrote: Julian Elischer wrote: I've tried getting information about our (FreeBSD) mail system by mailing to postmaster but no-one answers.. so, who IS the postmaster at the moment? I have the .elischer.org domain

RE: Netgraph

2001-11-30 Thread Julian Elischer
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- If there is anything wrong with netgraph is that there's a lack of examples of setting up common configurations in the handbook, man pages, and other documents. /usr/share/examples/netgraph gives examples of some

who is postmaster?

2001-11-30 Thread Julian Elischer
I've tried getting information about our (FreeBSD) mail system by mailing to postmaster but no-one answers.. so, who IS the postmaster at the moment? I have the .elischer.org domain set up at Netowrk solutions with a contact address of [EMAIL PROTECTED] however whenever I try change anything

Re: (no subject)

2001-11-29 Thread Julian Elischer
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I mentioned above, we CAN license the driver code and the DDK for development. This means that you could produce FreeBSD drivers which we could then distribute in a binary form under a free end-user license. Frankly this is the only way

Re: Netgraph performance

2001-11-29 Thread Julian Elischer
it in ways we hadn't thought of and to make new modules to extend it. (also to avoid having a special control program for each new kind of node). On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, John Polstra wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Netgraph is a prototyping tool

re: netgraph

2001-11-29 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The concept that netgraph hooks are a leg up on say, ETs drivers that have integrated bandwidth management and prioritization, WAN bridging support, load balancing and a probably 25% performance advantage is a bit entertaining. Unless you

Re: Does FreeBSD support copy-on-write pages?

2001-11-28 Thread Julian Elischer
386BSD got it from the MACH Vm which was grafted into BSD some time in 1990 or the late 80's On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, setantae wrote: On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 06:31:31PM +0100, GĂ©rard Roudier wrote: On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, setantae wrote: On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 06:54:17PM -,

Re: BPF - Packet Reception

2001-11-27 Thread Julian Elischer
netgraph? On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Rajesh P Jain wrote: Thanks for all the replies. In linux, the packet reception can be done efficiently through the usage of ethernet sockets. In FreeBSD, one of the option is by using the BPF. But, as already commented, BPF is not a high

Re: BPF - Packet Reception

2001-11-26 Thread Julian Elischer
If it's an ethernet type device then you can attach to it via netgraph and either write a small netgraph node to do what you want or redirect the packets to a userland daemon that does what you want. On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Rajesh P Jain wrote: Hello, We are trying to use BPF (Packet

Re: Solution for panic: swap_pager_swap_init: swap_zone == NULL?

2001-11-26 Thread Julian Elischer
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Frost, Stephen C wrote: Greetings FreeBSD gurus - I am brand new to the OS. I test NIC drivers for Intel products and we are turning towards an emphasized support for FreeBSD. One of my test boxes produces the following error on bootup: panic:

Re: FreeBSD (as a Guest OS), VMware X11

2001-11-19 Thread Julian Elischer
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Glenn Gombert wrote: In case anyone is interested...I have X11 running with FreeBSD as a Guest operating system under Win2K..the current XFree86 server (v 4.101) that is in the ports collection, runs ok with the generic wm that comes with XFree86, when I try and

RE: FreeBSD on vmware

2001-11-12 Thread Julian Elischer
oh yeah there was a period where the lnc driver caused a crash of vmware. leave it out and try again On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Koster, K.J. wrote: Dear Rohit, Thanks for the response and your suggestion. Fatal trap 12: page fault in vm86 mode The following change helped me get

RE: FreeBSD on vmware

2001-11-12 Thread Julian Elischer
I have been running -current under vmware 2.x up until about August.. (it didn't stop working, but I vmware stopped running on -current due to KSE changes (patches now available I believe)).. i.e I was running -current under -current On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Koster, K.J. wrote: Dear Rohit,

Re: Skeleton pseudo device driver for 4.4-STABLE ?

2001-11-12 Thread Julian Elischer
Try the one from -current.. If it works maybe it should be MFC'd julian On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Ulf Zimmermann wrote: I looked at /usr/share/examples/drivers/make_pseudo_driver.sh but it seems to be a bit out of date. Running it, it creates a file files.devicename in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf,

Re: Skeleton pseudo device driver for 4.4-STABLE ?

2001-11-12 Thread Julian Elischer
errr try the 'device driver' you are making a real device driver, not a pseudo driver.. (the pseudo driver should go away I think...) On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Ulf Zimmermann wrote: On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 01:36:16PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: Try the one from -current.. If it works maybe

Re: debugging question

2001-10-31 Thread Julian Elischer
, Julian Elischer wrote: when the system is looping, hit CTLALTESC to drop into the debugger. On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Andrew R. Reiter wrote: On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Mark Santcroos wrote: :How can I see in what piece of the kernel it is looping? :(I know about where

Re: debugging question

2001-10-30 Thread Julian Elischer
when the system is looping, hit CTLALTESC to drop into the debugger. On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Andrew R. Reiter wrote: On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Mark Santcroos wrote: :How can I see in what piece of the kernel it is looping? :(I know about where it is, but not exactly) : Use ddb to set a break

Re: IBSS creation - summary

2001-10-23 Thread Julian Elischer
. You can talk to Julian Elischer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). I believe he worked for a company that was developing a binary only driver for the wavelans that would allow it to be a base station. You would have to purchase this driver I think, but it would be much cheaper than buying an access point

Re: netgraph one2many question

2001-10-20 Thread Julian Elischer
Bill Paul has written a specific NETGRAPH FEC module... he has failover as well.. (it is only PART a netgraph module as it doesn;t use the netgraph hooks to talk to teh ethernet driver.. (strange)) I suggest you look for it in the archives or on http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/ On Sat, 20 Oct

Re: FYI

2001-10-19 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Mike Smith wrote: Well, honestly, FreeBSD makes the life of the developers of third-party binary-only drivers fairly difficult. It does? On the whole, actually, I'd say we do a pretty good job of making it easy. The reason is that there are a lot of API

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