On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 12:42:12AM +0100, Joao Barros wrote:
...
I patched and recompiled the kernel.
After booting I notice that no messages from ppp are logged by syslog
(messages|ppp.log)
What is your OS version ?
i hit a similar problem some time ago, and it seems that
the syslog client
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 11:38:51AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
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: If the machine is a PXE-compliant device [2], it should have a GUID/
: UUID [1]
Hi,
Is there a tool to produce a dependency graph for C headers ?
If that matters (i.e. someone has already studied it),
i am interested in the header situation in the FreeBSD kernel.
It may be a well known thing, but i just realized
that sys/systm.h is entagled with sys/libkern.h and both bring
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 03:09:35PM +0200, Ulf Lilleengen wrote:
... discussion on Hybrid vs. GEOM as a suitable location for
... pluggable disk schedulers
However, I'd hate to see the Hybrid effort go to waste :) I was hoping some
of the authors of the project would reply with their thoughts,
I don't seem to see support for GRE (IP-in-IP encaspulation) in FreeBSD
(although I might be blind)...anyone working on support it or is there
already an implementation?
Yes, I've grabbed the GRE support from NetBSD, and have it working
here (as far as I can tell). I'll commit it in
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that i can hook into
moused and so the problem is a little bit easier to deal with.
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I'm not asking any of you to prepare a resume - we're starting JUST with
the core team bios and pictures here. :)
i knew you were not humans...
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lseek _is_ used also on char devices.
And how else would you do it?
ok, stupid observation!
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Does anyone know an inexpensive algorithm (O(1)) to go from an number to
the next (lower or higher) power of two.
1 - 1
2,3 - 2
4,5,6,7 - 4
8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15 - 8
etc.
So %1101 should become either %1 or %1000.
The
With a non-functioning route over isdn (i4b) I'm observing
that mbufs allocated soon reach the limit and then I'm getting
'no buffer space' available. I'm not sure whether
'no buffer space' often comes when the output IFQ is full, which is
between 20 and 50 buffers. Are you sure you are
What I would really like to do is to increase the number of
partitions allowed in a disklabel. I really dislike having to
mess with fdisk.
The system defaults to 8. sys/diskslice.h seems to imply that
you can compile up a kernel with a higher number.
it looks you also
'no buffer space' often comes when the output IFQ is full, which is
between 20 and 50 buffers. Are you sure you are seeing more than those
mbufs in use ?
It occurs when about 105/128 mbufs (94%) are used.
ok, that's reasonable, with 50 bufs in the output queue and perhaps a
matching
My clerk just started reading down the names. When I heard walnut
you should have asked him to read both names and rates, complete the
list and then "oh yes, mine was the 19.95 per night..."
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Hi,
There is a bug in the PicoBSD build shell script in and I have no idea
how to fix it. As a result, build errors are not caught.
It is all to do with Exit Status of programs called from a shell script.
Please help.
The code fragment from /usr/src/release/picobsd/build/build is
Timer
restart at a given time of the day.
none of them is satisfactory especially for picoBSD things such as
routers or firewalls where an UPS is overkill...
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as well
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Is there a way to force a Freebsd system to route to the same logican IP
network rather than send a redirect?
The situation occurs with segmented bridges where customers on the same
logical IP network are on separate bridge groups. When trying to reach one
another, they are getting
just
trying to come up with an easy solution to free up addtional IP space so
customers with only 2 address dont have to get a whole subnet.
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all,
I'm using the following call to set the ttl value (after doing a
successful
socket call)
--
ttl=5;
if (setsockopt(sockfd, IPPROTO_IP, IP_MULTICAST_TTL,
(char *)ttl, sizeof(ttl)) 0)
check the type of "ttl". On Unix it should be char;
on
tween disk and the NIC.
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There is however some validity in implimenting particular aspects on the
NIC. Specifically the TCP checksum off loading that a number of gigabit
NIC's have in silicon.
absolutely, as it is useful that the NIC is able to follow linked list
of arbitrarily aligned/sized blocks etc, but that is
Is there any possibility to limit speed of the Network Card (I have
Intel Ether Express card - fxp driver)?
I need to limit speed with only 19200 Kbps, not 10Mbps.
Or if it is not posible at all, what I have to do if I have LAN and want
to limit speed of the part of this LAN with only
have too many data copies.
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The attached patch prevents switching into promiscuous mode when
running in "Network secure mode" (securelevel 3 or higher).
What happens with yout patch if i need
to run an mrouted on such a machine ?
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I have a YMF719E card (that's on the chip itself) that works on a week-old
-current (on an Alpha no less):
by "works" i mean work in full duplex. Most reports i got for the '719
is that audio capture seems not to work. I seem to remember the problem
is in the mi
i think dummynet(4) already does things you need ?
cheers
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Hi,
I am trying to modify the "ipfw" code to do some additional processing
on receiving a packet. I needed to generate some specific delays
intentionally.
Schedular should process a packet and it should
cases.
Of course we tried to preserve the advantages of clustering etc
(so we don't bother going through compression if many adjacent
pages go to disk anyways).
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e of ${proto}_{input|output}.c, as
you end up doing protocol-specific things...
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the
former case) is very very easy to share, while i see much more
difficulty in maintaining a single unified filter for all protocols.
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fy packets) but at least understanding the ruleset is
rather easy, and the places in the kernel where the match is done
are more limited.
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and assumed I wanted the
source code to their windows driver. My reply explaining that I really
just wanted documentation went unanswered. Sigh.
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a machine identity, and from
there rc.conf.local and rc.firewall have a switch() to decide
what to do and all the rest.
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This is good in theory, however the intel 82586 ethernet chip
(and 596 in 586 mode) will overwrite anything you put there anyhow
as it treats the header specially and fabricates it.
(unless you are running in some mode that is not usually used).
can you clarify this ? Looong ago i used the
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 13:42:11 +0100, Arnout Boer wrote:
But for the ISO images... IS it a problem to gzip
them
Well, I can think of at least one problem. Think of the extra disk
space folks would need for the gunzip step. :-)
and compression ratio would not be that much. The
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like
ssh. Is it possible to disable automatic timeouts or make long timeouts on
a rule-by-rule basis? Or perhaps a way to keep the dynamic rule alive as
long as the connection is alive?
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I believe I may have found a solution. If I set net.inet.tcp.keepidle
net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_ack_lifetime, this appears to work. The defaults for
yes, though this assumes thay you can set the keepalive interval
on at least one end, and you know the lifetime of dynamic rules on
the firewall,
I've got a machine I'm trying to use to break a /24 into a few smaller
groups. I've got it options BRIDGE in the kernel, four ethernet cards
(mx0, pn0, ed0, ed1), and need to figure out the right way to do this:
sysctl -w net.link.ether.bridge=1 is necessary to enable
bridging, and you need
Speaking of which, I'd really like to see bridge support getting added to
all new NIC drivers from now on. However, the current bridge interface
leaves something to be desired...
hopefully things will improve if someone finds the time to
extend ether_input() as suggested by archie Cobbs and
Nick,
are you sure the problem does not depend upon having bridge_ipfw=1 ?
I don't think there is anything else IPv4-specific in the bridging
code, if it was we would also have problems with IPv4/IPX
and other non-ip protocols.
cheers
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Alas,
IPv6 does not appear to work
to sidestep bugs in the hw itself) than board's quality.
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this helps
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fi
done
done
At which point $main_ether contains the ethernet address of your
first ethernet interface and you can base decisions on that...
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talking through
a freebsd gateway when you are using 2 100mbit interfaces, but it seems to
kernel panic the system after a few minutes.
can you quantify the "drastically" ?
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Another coupla hundred kilobytes per second?
from what to what ? sounds like a 5% improvement or even less...
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Andrew
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
Hi All,
I posted this a coupla days ago and just thought I would ask again in the
hope
The question is not "how fast is fast forwarding?", but
"why is it crashing?" I can imagine small timing changes
speeding up a session between other boxes.
yes, the original poster was concerned about crashes,
i was mainly concerned on the gains in fastforwarding
(as fastforwarding does not
It kinda sounds to me like the improved speed you are getting is
from reduced latency rather then from higher available bandwidth.
right, i got the same feeling. only 550KB on a 10MBit ethernet is
kind of slow anyways.
cheers
luigi
You may be able to get the same
it depends on what template do you use for matching.
the firewall acts before reassembly, so for the fragments you will
not be able to see the port numbers.
cheers
luigi
I have been using divert sockets for a while sending small ( MTU) UDP
packets and everything worked fine.
have any former rule which
matches fragments
luigi
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it depends on what template do you use for matching.
the firewall acts before reassembly, so for the fragments you will
not be able to see the port
I agree that breaking coherence is bad, though I find fcntl is the kind of
functions to use when you don't have a more specific one:)
do we have (or could we design) a generic mechanism for machine-specific
syscalls which are not available on all OS ?
basically i am thinking of something like
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 10:37:16AM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
do we have (or could we design) a generic mechanism for machine-specific
syscalls which are not available on all OS ?
basically i am thinking of something like
generic_syscall("fdcloseall", );
Do you
hi,
i have to admit i am not too much into theory of hashing, but i am
unclear on how a perfect hash function can be simpler than "the
obvious method" when the namespace is changing dynamically because
modules are added or deleted.
(the obvious method would be a cheap hash on 2-4 chars of
the
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And, this mechanism would be explicitly used for "non portable" or
experimental functions (such as the closeall() which started the
thread, or next time someone comes up with a start_http_ser
The generic method would basically have the same interface as ioctl()
or fcntl(), with the fd replaced by a pointer to the function name.
Actually, the easiest way if to make a sysctl that exports the syscall
number to useland.
mysubsystem.foosyscall: 188
but there is a problem with
Of course it can, and the manual page doesn't even suggest what you
say. It says:
There is no way to simulate system calls that have multiple return values
such as pipe(2).
ok, sorry for the confusion then (though, how does one tell from
the manpage for pipe(2) what is going on
what card is that and what is broken ?
both the ne and the rl driver works reasonably well with the 8029
and 8139 chips.
luigi
I have two RealTek network cards that I'm willing to send to someone who is
going to update the FreeBSD realtek driver to support them.
I know it's
characters (braces, brackets, accent-grave)
move around.
isn't so for ASCII chars 128 as well ?
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The BIOS trace says the PXE is revision 2.0, build 68 : is there some other,
perhaps better version of it ? (the on-board NIC on the machine is an fxp)
Build 068 is a disaster; you ideally want 082 or later.
is there some standard way to upgrade the pxe code on the cards ?
in case, where
I haven't tracked these changes, and am still using some slightly older
rc files. I've updated my rc.diskless stuff to use mdconfig now though;
if there's interest I'll put it up for review.
yes please... i'd like to fix things as needed so that
diskless scripts work correctly in our next
Hi,
I'm writing a character device driver in which each minor device can be
opened more than once. When a device is opened is there a way to associate
some private data for each opened instance ? Thanks.
allocation is easy -- what is complex is looking up the private data
on each system
: No. You only get one close call and in the kernel all instances of a
: minor device are treated identically.
:
: this is not true anymore, there is some special flag you can
: specify in cdevsw or so which passes all close calls to the driver.
It is only half untrue. There's a
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ATAPI ones and of course the SCSI drives, in both whole-disk and
sliced (as from the factory) modes.
"whole-disk" and "sliced" ... sounds like salami :)
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I have spent some time trying to put etherboot[1] code onto the
hard disk so that it can be selected using the FreeBSD boot
manager. I ended up doing it with a small amt of modifications
to the "boot1" code, for which a patch is attached.
Mayb
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: Is it possible to have something like the 'camcontrol rescan' that
: the SCSI CAM subsystem has?
NO. These cards are not hot pluggable. I've blown out two IDE
Controllers hot plugging them. DO NOT TRY TO HOTPLUG THEM OR YOU WILL
BE
| NO. These cards are not hot pluggable. I've blown out two IDE
| Controllers hot plugging them. DO NOT TRY TO HOTPLUG THEM OR YOU WILL
| BE SORRY.
...
| I hate to shout like that, but after the second IDE controller fried,
| I got real conservative.
...
And Warner uses these TAPR
having to worry about
creating a filesystem.
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: If we had it, we could just 'dd' the boot code and the kernel onto
: a compactflash and boot from it without having to worry about
: creating a filesystem.
We'd also be able to load the kernel out of ROM :-)
the whole issue is the size
How do I compile a a kernel without ipfw, and a ipfw.ko module with
dummynet support?
not sure how well is this supported -- i guess you should look
at the makefile for the ipfw module to make sure it includes
dummynet. But:
I have to add some features to the dummynet code, so instead of
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What : no more dc multiport board ? are you sure of this ? if so, it may
be wise to buy some D-link 570-TX boards in advance for my project.
maybe some producer switch to the tulip clones -- i just do not
know who sells them (i'd love to know!)
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Could you tell the exact models ? I know that the SMC cards
it was actually the Linksys NC100, whose chipset is strangely
labeled but it is recognised by the "dc" driver.
I could not find a NetGear with the tulip chipset or clone.
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and some others are using the
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What about having the first few tracks, ie. the boot area, 18 sectors,
and the rest of the disk 21 sectors, and have the boot code/kernel do
the right thing? Isn't this easier?
It has all sorts of problems: neither the bios nor the disklabel
nor the kernel can handle variable length tracks,
It would be possible to teach the floppy driver that cyl 0-9 has
18 sectors while cyl10-81 has 21.
this would only work after the kernel has control, and the kernel
needs far more than 10 cylinders...
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this would only work after the kernel has control, and the kernel
needs far more than 10 cylinders...
What about /boot/loader? Does that use the bios also? Can't we build
one with a modified fd0 in it?
yes it uses the bios, and it is large enough (100+ KB compressed if
you include
So how about a options flag on the floppy driver which translates
block addresses beyond 1440K into the "extra" sectors? I don't
know that there's a "clean" way insert that into the driver, just
glancing at the code..
that is another possibility, yes. But it still remains the challenge
of
(moreover, the dc(4)
driver which is used for your NIC has some interesting performance
improvements in the forthcoming 4.3-Release)
like what ?
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I'm using the de driver. Alas, the NICs seems quite old. They are 21140's.
I've only got one 21143. I think there is a 3COM 3c905b in the lab too.
Would it be better to use the 21143 + 3com than two 21140s?
definitely : in my packet blaster, I get an order of magnitude less
packet drops
[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
I currently have a Sharp pc ax20 laptop with an inbuilt rtl8139 nic. It works
i have an AX10, similar design i suppose, and it works fast and fine for me
at 10megs. Are you sure the card isn't autoconfiguring for full duplex or
something
Hi,
the packet scheduler is invoked by dummynet at every packet arrival
and then at multiple of 1/HZ intervals. If you use the default
kernel setting, HZ=100 so you have most times rounded to multiples
of 10ms. I have been running my kernels with HZ=1000 for the past
4-5 years so the resolution
}P.S. To anyone who wants to cleanup the rc.diskless files,
}please be my guest! I wrote them originally and they worked
}'ok', but then some people mangled them and ever since they
}haven't worked right. I don't have time to clean them up
}myself. They could use a
8) For a firewall, ipfw blows the doors off of Linux's
iptables/ipchains/ipmasq/whatever.
If you want a stateful firewall, look at ipf (also very very
very very very nice!!!) I'm waiting for ipf to get bridging support
FreeBSD's ipfw is stafeful as well, and there are no plans
(at
One gentleman has netbooted FreeBSD into the Apple AirPort. I haven't been
able to find the dmesg he posted, but I'll keep looking.
hmmm... apart from pride, what would be the point given
the lack of docs on how to properly operate the wavelan
to do bridging ?
cheers
luigi
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: Hrm... I'm sorry then. I have no idea why the Handbook asks you to zero
: out the device, it consumes a lot of time and really isn't necessary. I
: wonder if that could be the source of your problem.
The handbook should say that only
viewing ifconfig shows the new address. HOWEVER, pinging 100.1.1.99, the
freebsd machine sends out 100.1.1.1, the OLD address.
Is this cached/saved somewhere and not getting cleaned up?
in the routing table, apparently. If you do a "route -n get"
for the destination address you see the old
Hello,
I'm using 4.2 release and i need bridging.
Luigi tells in the manpage that the option
to select specific devices for bridging is
still in development.
Does anybody know how far this work is done
in 4.3 stable ?
it works on 4.3-RELEASE
cheers
luigi
I need this
I have a bunch of old floppy disks with some text files I'd like to
recover. Many of them have errors and are unreadable past a certain point
in the disk. Others I can't read from at all.
The ones I can't read, period, are all 1.44MB-size floppies. I've tried
dd'ing from /dev/fd0c,
Hi,
I got some VAXen 6420, big machines. Mine has 6 CPUs. I was planning
to boot myself with Ultrix, and then go on with NetBSD. Even
you need heaters for the winter, right :)
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Cool! We were just commenting that it's too bad dummynet/ALTQ really
couldn't help the interactive response for us dial-up users. Anyway, I
i haven't seen the beginning of the thread but surely both altq
and dummynet can help, with the CBQ/WFQ support.
In the case of dummynet, you can pace
Hello
I have a user who needs to store a large amount of small html files. Like
around 2 million...
that sounds insane! Because a name is a name, why dont they call
those files xx/yy/zz/tt.html and the like, to get down to a more
reasonable # of files per directory.
Or use a single file
the idea.. But what is a reasonable number? 10K 100K etc.
i would not go above 1K, probably even below so that a directory fits in
1-2 pages.
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I tried to change smth in my interfaces and now receive such message in
/var/log/messages
/kernel: arp: IP_number is on rl2 but got reply from MAC_ADDRESS an ed1
presumably you have bridging enabled ?
cheers
luigi
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Hi,
i believe there are two things here that you need to consider before
you can see any queue build up in ipq:
1. you should generate packets (way) faster than the card is able
to handle them;
2. the network card itself might be able to queue multiple packets in
the "transmit ring";
In your case, you should use a "bridging" firewall, where ony one of the
ethernet interfaces has an IP address (you can then set up your firewall
in a "stealth" config, where it does not touch the TTL in the IP
packets)
a "stealth" router is still different from a bridge, it
requires a
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