Re: 4.4-RC NFS panic

2001-08-20 Thread Julian Elischer
etni oops I mean inte (as in integer Looks like a string has gotten spammed across a data structure or a weird pointer, etc. From the previous panic: fault virtual address = 0x33693d55 3i=U That one looks more suspicious,

Re: Kernel level inet socket handling

2001-08-23 Thread Julian Elischer
use netgraph there is a netgraph node for iternal manipulation of sockets. if you make your module netgrah compatible, then you can just use it.. Jo nappat.. On 23 Aug 2001, Foldi Tamas wrote: Cheers! My problem is the following: I want to do high level network handling from a kernel

Re: mmap MAP_INHERIT question.

2001-08-23 Thread Julian Elischer
exec gives you an new vm space.. inherrit only applies to forks On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Bernd Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010823 06:16] wrote: I do the following: buf = (char*)mmap(NULL, BUFSIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_ANON | MAP_INHERIT |

Re: Kernel level inet socket handling

2001-08-23 Thread Julian Elischer
The netgraph 'accept' handling IS implemented by someone.. I can find it and add it if needed.. On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Sandeep Joshi wrote: I believe the functions you need are in kern/uipc_socket.c (socreate, sosend, soreceive, soclose, sosetopt..) Alternately, you could also do as

Re: mmap MAP_INHERIT question.

2001-08-23 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Bernd Walter wrote: On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 10:38:31AM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote: MAP_INHERIT is broken and always has been. That's a good argument. If it's true it awards an entry in the manpages BUGS section. Btw. I just tested on NetBSD 1.5U sparc with the

Re: Kernel level inet socket handling

2001-08-23 Thread Julian Elischer
If you send me the files I can diff them and commit them. (of course you are welcome to do it yourself at your own pace if you wish) On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, John Polstra wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The netgraph 'accept' handling

Re: totally weirdass problem, Squid-2.3-4 and FreeBSD

2001-08-23 Thread Julian Elischer
the paranoid answer is that someone is replacing your squid and rebooting the system to cover their tracks... On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Jim Mercer wrote: [ i'm not on hackers or questions lists, so a Cc: would be appreciated on any replies ] i have a squid server in pakistan that is

Re: Kernel level inet socket handling

2001-08-24 Thread Julian Elischer
John Polstra wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [concerning my fixes for ng_ksocket nodes to handle TCP operations] If you send me the files I can diff them and commit them. (of course you are welcome to do it yourself at your own pace

Re: running diff on huge files

2001-08-24 Thread Julian Elischer
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Rob wrote: Rob wrote: I am trying to run diff on two huge files (220M) and I run out of swap space. Is there another alternative? I have a Python script that does something similar, but works on huge files, but it is much slower than diff. Thanks, Rob.

Re: Proposed Utility - detach(1)

2001-08-24 Thread Julian Elischer
I thought that nohup() did that? I guess it's abit different... On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Ben Smithurst wrote: Chris Costello wrote: On Friday, August 24, 2001, Mike Barcroft wrote: I would appreciate comments on the usefulness of a utility which would allow one to detach a process from a

Re: Possible race in i386/i386/pmap.c:pmap_copy()

2001-08-24 Thread Julian Elischer
wouldn't Giant be protecting this? On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: Alfred, DG, could you take a look at pmap_copy() in i386/i386/pmap.c and tell me if what I think I'm seeing is what I'm seeing? My read of this code is that a global, APTDpde, is being set, and

Re: Possible race in i386/i386/pmap.c:pmap_copy()

2001-08-24 Thread Julian Elischer
Thinking about this a bit more doesn't each process ahve it's own PTD?, so a process could sleep and another could run but it would have a differnt PTD so they could change that PTDE with impunity because when teh current process runs again it get's its own ptd back again.. On Fri, 24 Aug

Re: Possible race in i386/i386/pmap.c:pmap_copy()

2001-08-25 Thread Julian Elischer
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Re: Proposed Utility - detach(1)

2001-08-25 Thread Julian Elischer
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Re: ata0-master: non aligned DMA transfer attempted

2001-08-27 Thread Julian Elischer
VA address. -- ++ __ _ __ | __--_|\ Julian Elischer | \ U \/ / hard at work in | / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--x USA\ a very strange | ( OZ)\___ ___ | country ! +- X_.---._/presently in San

ports (audio) candidate

2001-09-01 Thread Julian Elischer
"wavesurfer" program. -- ++ ______ _ __ | __--_|\ Julian Elischer | \ U \/ / hard at work in | / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--x USA\ a very strange | ( OZ)\___ ___ | country ! +- X_.---._/presently in San Franci

Re: Clock speedup on 4.X FreeBSD SMP and serverworks chipset

2001-08-31 Thread Julian Elischer
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, does -current even need clkintr_pending anymore? What is its purpose? There is a problem if i8254_get_timecount locks clock_lock right before a rollover but reads the timer right afterwards. In that case, a too low value can be

Re: Clock speedup on 4.X FreeBSD SMP and serverworks chipset

2001-08-31 Thread Julian Elischer
tor, will you commit this? On Fri, 31 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wrote: The problem here is that CPU#1 fails to hold clock_lock while setting clkintr_pending, causing i8254_offset to be stepped twice, first due to clkintr_pending, then due to i8254_lastcount being larger

Re: Clock speedup on 4.X FreeBSD SMP and serverworks chipset

2001-08-31 Thread Julian Elischer
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Leo Bicknell wrote: On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 12:48:12PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: value) although the result will still be monotonous. hmm monotonus? That explains the sudden bursts of sleepiness I occasionally get when seated in front of the terminal

Re: Firewire driver available

2001-09-03 Thread Julian Elischer
Katsushi Kobayashi wrote: I have uploaded the updated driver at: ftp://ftp.uec.ac.jp/pub/firewire/beta/firewire-bsd-5.0-20010903 This url fails for me.. -- ++ __ _ __ | __--_|\ Julian Elischer | \ U \/ / hard at work

Re: Firewire driver available

2001-09-03 Thread Julian Elischer
Julian Elischer wrote: Katsushi Kobayashi wrote: I have uploaded the updated driver at: ftp://ftp.uec.ac.jp/pub/firewire/beta/firewire-bsd-5.0-20010903 This url fails for me.. found it at: ftp://ftp.uec.ac.jp/pub/firewire/beta/firewire-freebsd-5.0-20010903

Re: Firewire driver available

2001-09-03 Thread Julian Elischer
what the modes mean might make it easier to review the driver. I'm tempted to add a netgraph interface to it :-) -- ++ __ _ __ | __--_|\ Julian Elischer | \ U \/ / hard at work in | / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--x USA

Re: What is VT_TFS?

2001-09-04 Thread Julian Elischer
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Re: What is VT_TFS?

2001-09-04 Thread Julian Elischer
instead so that we don't need to modify sys/vnode.h just to add a filesystem. AMEN -- ++ ______ _ __ | __--_|\ Julian Elischer | \ U \/ / hard at work in | / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--x US

Re: What is VT_TFS?

2001-09-04 Thread Julian Elischer
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Which reminds me, Adrian still oves us his story about ref :-) Yeah, the REAL one... To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: kernel ddb help

2001-09-05 Thread Julian Elischer
you can gdb -k mykernel /dev/mem and do list bqrelse+0x25 (I think) alternatively, in ddb you can do: x/iii bqrelse and work out what is wrong by reading the machine instructions WHen I have one machine I usually debug by running the new kernel within a VMWARE virtual

Re: kernel ddb/gdb help

2001-09-05 Thread Julian Elischer
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Zhihui Zhang wrote: On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Julian Elischer wrote: WHen I have one machine I usually debug by running the new kernel within a VMWARE virtual machine. Using the nmdm driver you can run gdb in the main machine to debug it, all within one machine

Re: local changes to CVS tree

2001-09-05 Thread Julian Elischer
As a workaround, people could just gat the source each week and do an cvs import into the vendor branch via script.. (of course with doing it correctly you could have matching version numbers on the vendor branch) On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, John Polstra wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nate

Re: KSE: mount_msdosfs works again !!

2001-09-06 Thread Julian Elischer
probably better in -current than hackers :-) hmm I can't think of a change that would have done that... I gotta get to smbfs and nwfs... On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Carlo Dapor wrote: Dear KSE guinnea-pigsters The msdos partition mounts again under a KSE kernel. I applied the diff file straight

Re: Interest Contributing to the FreeBsd

2001-09-07 Thread Julian Elischer
rs" in the body of the message -- ++ __ _ __ | __--_|\ Julian Elischer | \ U \/ / hard at work in | / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--x USA\ a very strange | ( OZ)\___ _

Re: Compiling source code

2001-09-07 Thread Julian Elischer
Assuming it is in /usr/src (where it gets put by default) cd /usr/src make or cd /usr/src/ make buildworld make installworld or cd /usr/src/usr.bin/yourfavouriteutility make depend make maek install If you do not hav ethe source, see the many places in th online handbook that tell you

Re: How to force small TCP packets?

2001-09-10 Thread Julian Elischer
just set the MTU on the sender to something really small (120 byres) On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Jonathan Lemon wrote: In article local.mail.freebsd-hackers/[EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alfred Perlstein) writes: there's a setsockopt for this called TCP_NODELAY in

Re: Major number request

2001-09-11 Thread Julian Elischer
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Andy Schweig wrote: Actually, it will be a Netgraph node. The idea is to use the character device interface for configuration. Each of these cards has a 6-byte MAC address programmed into it which can be used as a unique ID for the card.s We would like to be able

cvsup14 (cvsup.above.net) not up to date

2001-09-11 Thread Julian Elischer
It seems to be not updating.. maybe they didn't get the new version of cvsup (or installed the wrong one like I did to start with) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: storing routine code in kernel memory using kvm interface

2001-09-15 Thread Julian Elischer
use KLD for that, but i'm still curious.. why not use thw snoop interface? -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- ++ __ _ __ | __--_|\ Julia

Re: bug in sshd - signal during free()

2001-09-17 Thread Julian Elischer
signale interrupying 'free' is ok.. Free is not 'signal-safe' so no malloc/free can be done in a signal.. set the malloc config that catches recursive freesmalocs. On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: sshd died on one of our machines today. The traceback seems to indicate that a

Re: CAN bus

2001-09-17 Thread Julian Elischer
Ok so I have to ask... what is CAN bus? (besides a piece of string between 2 cans.). On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, [iso-8859-1] Gavin Kenny wrote: Hi, Is there a CAN bus driver for FreeBSD? please cc me your answer many thanks Gavin

Re: where to set hw.ata.wc

2001-09-18 Thread Julian Elischer
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Douglas Egan wrote: I want to run with 'soft updates' on ATA-100 Western Digital drives, so I want to make sure that hw.ata.wc=0 I am looking for the definitive solution for modifying this sysctl value. Previous threads talked about a couple of places:

Re: JKH Project: x86: pcb_ext

2001-09-18 Thread Julian Elischer
this is already on my list of non 1:1 fixes needed On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, John Baldwin wrote: Here's a Junior Kernel Hacker project for someone: - Move pcb_ext and pcb_ldt out of the pcb of struct thread and into struct mdproc; I.e., you probably want to do something like this: -

Re: JKH Project: x86: pcb_ext

2001-09-18 Thread Julian Elischer
it's fine by me On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, John Baldwin wrote: On 18-Sep-01 Julian Elischer wrote: this is already on my list of non 1:1 fixes needed Heh, it was on my todo list for the past few months. :) Andrew Reiter has expressed interest in doing this. Do you object to him

Re: Compiling top in SMP

2001-09-18 Thread Julian Elischer
you don't say what version On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Hassan Halta wrote: Hello, I hope some person will be able to help in this problem. I have a SMP enviorment with 2 CPUs, and things are working just fine, and the kernel recognizes everything. But The only problem that's top is

Re: JKH Project: x86: pcb_ext

2001-09-18 Thread Julian Elischer
we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- +----+ __ _ __ | __--_|\ Julian Elischer | \ U \/ / hard at work in

Re: JKH Project: x86: pcb_ext

2001-09-19 Thread Julian Elischer
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Re: bug in shell `` expansion code?

2001-09-21 Thread Julian Elischer
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Re: Conclusions on... was Re: More on the cache_purgeleafdirs() routine

2001-09-23 Thread Julian Elischer
nificantly. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- ++ __ _ __ | __--_|\ Julian Elischer | \

testig request for your code..

2001-09-17 Thread Julian Elischer
As many FreeBSD users know, a large set of changes was committed to -current recently, as part of the development of real threading support. Most parts of the kernel were changed to a greater or lesser extent. Some parts have not been able to be tested fully however. If you have a section of

Re: VM Corruption - stumped, anyone have any ideas?

2001-09-24 Thread Julian Elischer
remember that we hit almost this problem with the KSE stuff during debugging? The pointers in the last few entries of the vm_page_buckets array got corrupted when an agument to a function that manipulated whatever was next in ram was 0, and it turned out that it was 0 because of some PTE

Re: VM Corruption - stumped, anyone have any ideas?

2001-09-24 Thread Julian Elischer
not, I believe in 4.x we do in 5.x On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: :The pointers in the last few entries of the vm_page_buckets array got :corrupted when an agument to a function that manipulated whatever was next :in ram was 0, and it turned out that it was 0 because : of some

Re: VM Corruption - stumped, anyone have any ideas?

2001-09-24 Thread Julian Elischer
stack can be somewhat sparse depending on execution path, but it's not a bad idea.. On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: :In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matt Dillon writes: : :Hmm. Do we have a guard page at the base of the per process kernel :stack? : :As I understand it, no.

Re: Patch to test kstack usage.

2001-09-25 Thread Julian Elischer
D]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 -- ++ ______ _ __ | __--_|\ Julian Elischer | \ U \/ / hard at work in | / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--x US

Re: VM Corruption - stumped, anyone have any ideas?

2001-09-25 Thread Julian Elischer
userland doesn't notice it. -Matt So, Matt, does this solve the original question? (VM Corruption) or is it just a fruitful red-herring? -- ++ __ _ __ | __--_|\ Julian Elischer

Re: KSE next steps...

2001-09-30 Thread Julian Elischer
julian -- ++ __ _ __ | __--_|\ Julian Elischer | \ U \/ / hard at work in | / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--x USA\ a very strange | ( OZ)\___ ___ | country ! +- X_.---._/presently i

Re: precise timing

2001-10-01 Thread Julian Elischer
the REALLY best answer was the suggestion to use teh speaker output.. (ANDED with anuother bit.. you don;t want the bios BEEP to move teh drill.. alrternatively you can also use the tiemrs.. remember that the pcaudio device runs the available clock chip up to 16,000 Hz.. and changes teh duty

Re: setjmp/longjmp

2001-10-02 Thread Julian Elischer
On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Peter Pentchev wrote: On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 10:56:24AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Friday, 28 September 2001 at 10:12:14 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Gersh wrote

pkg_create help needed.

2001-10-02 Thread Julian Elischer
I need to take a directory of 'stuff' which includes a script install.sh and make it into a package.. I have had some success but it's not quite right.. What I'd like to make it do is: unpack the 'stuff' into a temporary directory somewhere. run the install script delete the install

Re: setjmp/longjmp

2001-10-03 Thread Julian Elischer
basically it's just that pre-emtion just muddies the waters more.. On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Anjali Kulkarni wrote: Right, that was my question too, doesent seem connected with pre-emptive kernels... - Original Message - From: Greg Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Julian Elischer [EMAIL

odd behaviour from loader/kernel

2001-10-04 Thread Julian Elischer
Running 4.4-RELEASE I have a kernel with the cyclades driver (cy) which I want to use on several machines. On on eof the machines however, having that kernel with no cyclades card results in a page fault in cyprobe(). The simple answer is to just disable the cy driver.. (I really don't want a

Re: [answer] odd behaviour from loader/kernel

2001-10-04 Thread Julian Elischer
oh hell.. now that I posted this I remembered how it's done in 4.x (kernel.conf) ignore this.. On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Julian Elischer wrote: Running 4.4-RELEASE I have a kernel with the cyclades driver (cy) which I want to use on several machines. On on eof the machines however, having

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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: ng_bridge

2001-09-27 Thread Julian Elischer
well, maybe if you told us what you modified, and what happenned. On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Robert Hough wrote: Yesterday, I used a script on my bridge that pretty much brought down the entire network segment it was connected to. The script in question, was found in

Re: ng_bridge

2001-09-27 Thread Julian Elischer
: On Thu, Sep 27, 2001, Julian Elischer wrote: well, maybe if you told us what you modified, and what happenned. $ diff /usr/share/examples/netgraph/ether.bridge ~/eth_bridge.sh 41,42c41,42 BRIDGE_IFACES=ed0 fxp0 fxp1 LOCAL_IFACE=fxp0 --- BRIDGE_IFACES=vx0 vx1 LOCAL_IFACE

Re: TCPIP cksum offload on FreeBSD 4.2

2001-09-27 Thread Julian Elischer
be no use.. you need to know what the correct packet contents should be.. -- ++ __ _ __ | __--_|\ Julian Elischer | \ U \/ / hard at work in | / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--x USA\ a very strange | ( OZ

Re: calling open() from inside kernel

2001-09-28 Thread Julian Elischer
The stack-gap is a bug waiting to happen (we discovered while doing KSE stuff) linux-threads programs that open files in 2 threads at the same time will over-write each other's filenames.. On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Robert Watson wrote: Generally speaking, you don't want to invoke system call

Re: setjmp/longjmp

2001-09-28 Thread Julian Elischer
Yeah but it would probably be a pretty bad idea to use it without very careful thought. Especialy with the kernel becoming pre-emptable in the future.. On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Gersh wrote: Look at sys/i386/i386/db_interface.c On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Bernd Walter wrote: On Fri, Sep 28, 2001

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: 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: 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: (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

Patch to allow 4.2 driver .o to run on 4.4

2001-10-11 Thread Julian Elischer
Sorry about the crosspost but I estimate that this reaches those who need to see this.. There was a change in the 4.x kernel.h on June 15 that broke backwards compatibility for binary distributed driver files (distributed as .o files) It was an MFC of a patch by peter.. but we didn't

Sound driver non backward compatible? (voice recog)

2001-10-11 Thread Julian Elischer
The voice recognition software we use has suddenly stopped working when we moved from 4.1.1 to 4.4 Lookig at the ktraces (it's proprietary code so we can't look at the code) we see the following differences: in 4.1.1 we see 5015 hapitest CALL ioctl(0x5,SNDCTL_DSP_GETISPACE,0x85e385c) 5015

RE: FYI

2001-10-16 Thread Julian Elischer
On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Doug Hass wrote: The hardware API or the actual register interface code, is a binary-only module that is snapped in to SAND. SAND is GPL and is similar to the FreeBSD Netgraph module - it provides all the higher-level protocol stuff, like Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC,

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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:

gcc problem/openoffice failure

2003-05-27 Thread Julian Elischer
For the last month (more actually)(and after completely rebuilding my system and all the ports on it) I have not been able to compile the openoffice port due to gcc failures. (I have posted the message earlier several times) Has anyone been able to compile the openoffice port recently?

Re: gcc problem/openoffice failure

2003-05-27 Thread Julian Elischer
On Tue, 27 May 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bruce R. Montague [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : : Julian Elischer wrote: : : ... I have not been able to compile the openoffice port ... : : ... Has anyone else seen this? : : : I tried

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