Introduction of fsyscall

2013-05-01 Thread Tomohiko Sumi
I am trying the idea to transfer system call request from application on FreeBSD to another machine. I am expecting mainly to use FreeBSD applications without any modifications on non-FreeBSD platforms such as Android. I named this system as fsyscall. If you got interested in this project,

GSoC introduction

2009-04-25 Thread Zach Riggle
Hello all! My name is Zach Righle, and I'm a sophomore at Michigan State University. I'll be working with George Neville-Neil this summer on TCP regression testing, to provide a suite of tests that FreeBSD can use to... prevent regression errors. Http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZachRiggle for

Re: introduction

2008-04-30 Thread Rene Schickbauer
Hi, James! I'm working on the embedded FreeBSD project; I find embedded development to be difficult and extremely enjoyable. It covers a lot of bases, while also hearkening back to days when there were fewer resources available on any system, so that I feel like I'm working in an environment

Re: Introduction

2008-04-26 Thread Yoshihiro Ota
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:46:02 -0400 David Forsythe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, My name is David Forsythe and I'll be working on allowing parallel builds in the ports collection for Summer of Code this year. I'm a second year student at the University of Maryland, College

Re: Introduction

2008-04-25 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:46:02 -0400 David Forsythe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My name is David Forsythe and I'll be working on allowing parallel builds in the ports collection for Summer of Code this year. This would definitely be of benefit! Good luck. --- Gary Jennejohn

Re: Introduction

2008-04-25 Thread Wilko Bulte
Quoting David Forsythe, who wrote on Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 07:46:02PM -0400 .. Hello everybody, My name is David Forsythe and I'll be working on allowing parallel builds in the ports collection for Summer of Code this year. I'm a second year student at the University of Maryland, College

Introduction

2008-04-24 Thread Anders Nore
Hello everyone, my name is Anders Nore, I'm in my second year studying Computer Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. I've been selected to work on adding .db support to the pkg_* tools. The first time I was introduced to FreeBSD was on an irc channel called

Re: Introduction

2008-04-24 Thread rae l
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Anders Nore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, my name is Anders Nore, I'm in my second year studying Computer Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. I've been selected to work on adding .db support to the pkg_* tools. The

Introduction

2008-04-24 Thread Johannes Maximilian K�hn
Hello everyone, I'm one of the GSoC students. My name is Johannes Maximilian Kuehn and my project is the reference implementation of the SNTP protocol. I was exposed to FreeBSD about 6 years ago and I'm using it since then as my primary operating system. Similar to Anders I started with Linux

Introduction

2008-04-24 Thread Johannes Maximilian K
Hello everyone! I'm one of the GSoC students. My name is Johannes Maximilian Kuehn and my project is the reference implementation of the SNTP protocol. I was exposed to FreeBSD about 6 years ago and I'm using it since then as my primary operating system. Similar to Anders I started with Linux

Re: Introduction

2008-04-24 Thread Martin Wilke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 06:47:08AM +0900, Johannes Maximilian K wrote: Hello everyone, I'm one of the GSoC students. My name is Johannes Maximilian Kuehn and my project is the reference implementation of the SNTP protocol. I was exposed to

Introduction

2008-04-24 Thread David Forsythe
Hello everybody, My name is David Forsythe and I'll be working on allowing parallel builds in the ports collection for Summer of Code this year. I'm a second year student at the University of Maryland, College Park studying computer science. I'm extremely excited to work on this project over

introduction

2008-04-22 Thread James
Hi folks, my name is James Harrison; I'm a computer science student at the University of New Mexico, studying mostly at the Los Alamos branch. I'm also a Unix systems administrator/developer at Los Alamos National Lab, where I've been working with embedded linux for a while. I've been working

Re: introduction

2008-04-22 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 6:55 PM, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, my name is James Harrison; I'm a computer science student at the University of New Mexico, studying mostly at the Los Alamos branch. I'm also a Unix systems administrator/developer at Los Alamos National Lab, where

Re: Okay, I think I need some serious introduction ;-) (fwd)

2003-02-09 Thread Friedemann Becker
On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: Friedemann Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I _really_ want to help, I think of myself as a quite potentially usefull programmer, but I need someones help here. If someone could please divert my unused engergies to the right direction :)

Introduction on ADSL

2002-04-04 Thread aaltktazd
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Re: Hello,developer,introduction on ADSL

2002-03-02 Thread Developer
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ADV: Introduction to Marblejar

2001-10-24 Thread Marblejar_Recruiter
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Re: ipfilter (was: RE: Introduction)

1999-06-21 Thread Luigi Rizzo
this might ease life to those who want to replace ipfw with ipfilter for dummynet or similar things, if nothing else. Thank you, Luigi. Could you please help me with some basics? ... what i do in dummynet is to queue the packet (wheter it comes from ip_input() or ip_output() makes no

Re: ipfilter (was: RE: Introduction)

1999-06-20 Thread Luigi Rizzo
This means that IP filters need to grab some of IP packets, process them on a specialized prosessor and then re-inject them into the IP packet stream. That is, the filter may decide to convert the packet, but it doesn't have it ready-to-go when it has to return. However, it may have it ready

RE: ipfilter (was: RE: Introduction)

1999-06-20 Thread Constantine Shkolny
On Sunday, June 20, 1999 7:22 AM, Luigi Rizzo [SMTP:lu...@labinfo.iet.unipi.it] wrote: This means that IP filters need to grab some of IP packets, process them on a specialized prosessor and then re-inject them into the IP packet stream. That is, the filter may decide to convert the packet,

Re: Introduction

1999-06-19 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Ruslan Ermilov r...@ucb.crimea.ua writes: * Clean the existing code (both userland and kernel) (10-20% done) * Re-design the ipfw's API * Port the existing functionality to the new API * Proceed with new features Pretty please with sugar on top, design an API that can be extended without

Re: Introduction

1999-06-19 Thread Doug Rabson
On 19 Jun 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Ruslan Ermilov r...@ucb.crimea.ua writes: * Clean the existing code (both userland and kernel) (10-20% done) * Re-design the ipfw's API * Port the existing functionality to the new API * Proceed with new features Pretty please with sugar on

Re: Introduction

1999-06-19 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Doug Rabson wrote: On 19 Jun 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Ruslan Ermilov r...@ucb.crimea.ua writes: * Clean the existing code (both userland and kernel) (10-20% done) * Re-design the ipfw's API * Port the existing functionality to the new API * Proceed

Re: Introduction

1999-06-19 Thread Doug Rabson
On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Doug Rabson wrote: On 19 Jun 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Ruslan Ermilov r...@ucb.crimea.ua writes: * Clean the existing code (both userland and kernel) (10-20% done) * Re-design the ipfw's API * Port the

Re: Introduction

1999-06-19 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Brian F. Feldman gr...@unixhelp.org writes: It might be worth (discussion of) making ipfilter the firewall of choice for 4.0. There would of course be rule conversion scripts/programs (ipfw-ipf(5)), and ipfilter would be converted to a KLD, cruft removed (I'm going to work on these), and

Re: Introduction

1999-06-19 Thread Doug Rabson
On 19 Jun 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Brian F. Feldman gr...@unixhelp.org writes: It might be worth (discussion of) making ipfilter the firewall of choice for 4.0. There would of course be rule conversion scripts/programs (ipfw-ipf(5)), and ipfilter would be converted to a KLD,

Firewalls (was Re: Introduction)

1999-06-19 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On 19 Jun 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Brian F. Feldman gr...@unixhelp.org writes: It might be worth (discussion of) making ipfilter the firewall of choice for 4.0. There would of course be rule conversion scripts/programs (ipfw-ipf(5)), and ipfilter would be converted to a KLD,

ipfilter (was: RE: Introduction)

1999-06-19 Thread Constantine Shkolny
Hi All, I'm now analyzing ipfilter in 3.2 and our goal is to port our IPSec/firewall. I'm still in the beginning of reading the code so, at this time, I can't yet tell how nice it fits our needs. I just have some concerns which I'd like the people who are going to re-design the ipfilter to hear.

Re: Firewalls (was Re: Introduction)

1999-06-19 Thread Ian West
On Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 11:12:07AM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: On 19 Jun 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Brian F. Feldman gr...@unixhelp.org writes: It might be worth (discussion of) making ipfilter the firewall of choice for 4.0. There would of course be rule conversion

Re: Introduction

1999-06-19 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Doug Rabson wrote: On 19 Jun 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Brian F. Feldman gr...@unixhelp.org writes: It might be worth (discussion of) making ipfilter the firewall of choice for 4.0. There would of course be rule conversion scripts/programs (ipfw-ipf(5)),

Re: Firewalls (was Re: Introduction)

1999-06-19 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Brian F. Feldman gr...@unixhelp.org writes: On 19 Jun 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Rewriting ipfw rules to ipfilter rules on the fly should be trivial; a simple Perl script should be sufficient. Not quite as trivial as you think. ipfw and ipf are completely backwards when it comes to

Re: Firewalls (was Re: Introduction)

1999-06-19 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On 19 Jun 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Brian F. Feldman gr...@unixhelp.org writes: On 19 Jun 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Rewriting ipfw rules to ipfilter rules on the fly should be trivial; a simple Perl script should be sufficient. Not quite as trivial as you think. ipfw and

Re: Firewalls (was Re: Introduction)

1999-06-19 Thread Jason Thorpe
On 19 Jun 1999 17:30:13 +0200 Dag-Erling Smorgrav d...@flood.ping.uio.no wrote: Divert sockets, dummynet and credential-based filtering would be sorely missed if they weren't ported to ipfilter. ...but if they were ported to IP Filter, then lots of other systems could use them, too.

Re: firewalling (Was Re: Introduction)

1999-06-19 Thread Julian Elischer
We use IPFW to great effect in the interjet whatever we end up with had better have the same features or we can't use it.. 1/ simple to use programatic API 2/ Divert sockets are a MUST. We do a lot of our filtering in userland. 3/ The ability to branch the rules using 'skipto' (goto?) is used

Re: Introduction

1999-06-19 Thread Julian Elischer
On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Doug Rabson wrote: On 19 Jun 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Brian F. Feldman gr...@unixhelp.org writes: It might be worth (discussion of) making ipfilter the firewall of choice for 4.0. There would of course

Re: Firewalls (was Re: Introduction)

1999-06-19 Thread Julian Elischer
As a contributor to ipfw, notice that I will be sticking my oar into the water when it comes to deleting it unless I'm very sure that the ipf stuff is better. Unless you're Danish you don't just get to delete bits of the tree without a lot of agreement, especially from those who are working on

Re: Firewalls (was Re: Introduction)

1999-06-19 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
is better. Unless you're Danish you don't just get to delete bits of the s/Unless/Especially if/ :-) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: Introduction

1999-06-19 Thread Brian F. Feldman
It has fwd stuff :) Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ gr...@freebsd.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!_ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: Firewalls (was Re: Introduction)

1999-06-19 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Julian Elischer wrote: As a contributor to ipfw, notice that I will be sticking my oar into the water when it comes to deleting it unless I'm very sure that the ipf stuff is better. Unless you're Danish you don't just get to delete bits of the tree without a lot of

Re: Introduction

1999-06-18 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
through any relevant PRs and make sure to have all the info we need before undertaking this. I hope this is the kind of thing Jordan wanted! John Birrell (IIRC). Everyone would always appreciate some introduction :) Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ gr

new-IPFW (was Re: Introduction)

1999-06-18 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
I also want new-IPFW to be modular. This would mean that, for instance, DUMMYNET would be just one plug-in to IPFW. More would be created in an extensible manner, rather than the current hack to do DUMMYNET. Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ gr...@freebsd.org

Re: Introduction

1999-06-18 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 01:50:09PM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 12:24:16PM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: Hello, I'm Brian Feldman, a new committer to the FreeBSD source tree! Some of the things

Re: Introduction

1999-06-18 Thread Nicolai Petri
On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: Let's join our efforts in this area! IPFW code is very ugly... Which is basically due to it being hacked on for years without a cleanup. Now's the time (between major versions) to do

Re: Introduction

1999-06-18 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Nicolai Petri wrote: On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: Let's join our efforts in this area! IPFW code is very ugly... implementation, what new features should be added, and where we should

Re: Introduction

1999-06-18 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 02:34:55PM -0400, Ugen Antsilevitch wrote: The part that obviously interests me is IPFW - if you guys are interested to put some effort in real i.e. stateful firewall to be developed i'd love to offer any help i can. Great! How we should proceed -- that's the

Re: Introduction

1999-06-18 Thread Darren Reed
In some email I received from Nicolai Petri, sie wrote: On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: Let's join our efforts in this area! IPFW code is very ugly... Which is basically due to it being hacked on for years without

Re: Introduction

1999-06-18 Thread Ugen Antsilevitch
Ok...i guess i would be the wrong person for cleaning the code since i kinda responsible for the damn thing being a mess in the first place. I can try:) I however have some ideas on how to make a better API (as in more hooks to userland, which btw now after i have read an FTP requests comment,

firewalling (Was Re: Introduction)

1999-06-18 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
How do you feel about (after getting it fixed in -CURRENT) helping with converting ipfw(8) to just a front-end to ipf? I think it's worth discussing whether it's actually worth it to rewrite IPFW or just work on improving ipfilter. (discussion moved to -hackers) Brian Fundakowski Feldman _

Re: firewalling (Was Re: Introduction)

1999-06-18 Thread Darren Reed
In some email I received from Brian Fundakowski Feldman, sie wrote: How do you feel about (after getting it fixed in -CURRENT) helping with converting ipfw(8) to just a front-end to ipf? I think it's worth discussing whether it's actually worth it to rewrite IPFW or just work on improving

Re: firewalling (Was Re: Introduction)

1999-06-18 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Darren Reed wrote: In some email I received from Brian Fundakowski Feldman, sie wrote: How do you feel about (after getting it fixed in -CURRENT) helping with converting ipfw(8) to just a front-end to ipf? I think it's worth discussing whether it's actually worth it to