Re: Compatible NIC

2004-11-01 Thread TM4526
In a message dated 11/1/04 4:37:09 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Don't use 5.x because its slow IS technical help. You guys just dont want anyone to say it. You guys? I wasn't aware that I was representing anyone but myself. It seems all you want to do is contradict

Re: dummynet

2004-11-02 Thread TM4526
yeah, I also didn't notice his return address at first. That already explains much :). I think I actually sorta, kinda got it working. I'll do some tests and update if my observations are valid. Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 10/28/2004 9:30 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why don't you

Re: Compatible NIC

2004-11-03 Thread TM4526
In a message dated 11/3/04 12:42:27 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1) Wasted my time and everyone elses who read this crap. 2) Tried to give certain freebsd developers a bad name. 3) Discredited several others on the list. 4) Contributed NO facts or hard evidence to back

Re: Don't feed the (your word here): (was: Compatible NIC)

2004-11-04 Thread TM4526
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A member of the Gustapo said: This is offensive. get over it already. Nobody really cares anyway. Its easy to dismiss people who ask hard questions as trolls. Its a lot more difficult to answer the questions credibly. I don't think we should dignify

Re: Mac Address Spoofing(!)

2004-11-06 Thread TM4526
In a message dated 11/6/04 4:59:05 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello guys, I've set out to spoof my gateway's mac address so that I can get a new ip address from my cable ISP without having to unplug my modem for 24 hours as they suggested (and is understandable, thats

Re: difference between releases

2004-11-08 Thread TM4526
In a message dated 11/8/04 5:46:59 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Releases are fixed points in time. They are marked on their respective branch of development and that's it. A x.y-RELEASE version is effectively a symbolic name for a specific moment in time. Wow, thats

Re: re bittorrent

2004-11-08 Thread TM4526
In a message dated 11/8/04 2:22:59 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lets do the math... you'll note that http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/ at this moment says there's been 1978 completed downloads. Lets pick an arbitrary average size for each file downloaded: 388MB 388 *

Re: difference between releases

2004-11-08 Thread TM4526
In a message dated 11/8/04 10:12:47 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In a message dated 11/8/04 5:46:59 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Releases are fixed points in time. They are marked on their respective branch of development and that's it. A

Re: re bittorrent

2004-11-08 Thread TM4526
Its become widely used for sharing in the same way as Kazaa and other point to point as they're called protocols. Many ISPs block it, or at least substantially slow it down. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: difference between releases

2004-11-08 Thread TM4526
In a message dated 11/8/04 10:49:14 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How discouraging for you not to understand that. Its discouraging, because a Release should be a completed set of features that have been tested and thought to be bug-free You know that this isn't

Re: difference between releases

2004-11-08 Thread TM4526
In a message dated 11/8/04 11:54:37 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: on the release, which should be a known, completed code base. All part of the experience I suppose. The whole world is in beta. Get over it. Only the open-source world. I notice the same 3 losers

Re: re bittorrent

2004-11-08 Thread TM4526
In a message dated 11/8/04 11:33:41 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Its become widely used for sharing in the same way as Kazaa and other point to point as they're called protocols. Many ISPs block it, or at least substantially slow it down. Well. Of course it can be

Re: difference between releases

2004-11-08 Thread TM4526
In a message dated 11/8/04 2:41:38 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As far as open-open source being the only one in beta, I work in development where our code is closed-source. Even we have to admit that our releases fit better into the category of BETA than RELEASE. Which is

Re: Integrated NIC support

2004-11-08 Thread TM4526
In a message dated 11/8/04 1:49:35 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the Gigabytes K8NSNXP-939 motherboard have the Marvell 8001 Gigabit Ethernet controller and the ICS 1883 LAN PHY chip integrated. Are they supported?

Re: re bittorrent

2004-11-08 Thread TM4526
In a message dated 11/8/04 1:23:40 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Its not a legal/illegal issue. Its a using more bandwidth than you are paying for issue. Im sure if you were running bittorrent all day long your ISP would be very glad to see you go. I'm paying for a

Re: difference between releases

2004-11-08 Thread TM4526
In a message dated 11/8/04 5:31:33 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So when will you switch to decaf? Seriously though, in case you didn't notice this IS an open source discussion list, FreeBSD 5 is not just another snapshot it has undergone qualification and is in my

Re: re bittorrent

2004-11-08 Thread TM4526
In a message dated 11/8/04 4:59:07 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is a technical forum? Yikes! Is it, Mr./Ms. [EMAIL PROTECTED]? Well then why don't you fill Mr. I pay my ISP so I should be able to use all the bandwidth I want how things really work, because I don't

Re: difference between releases

2004-11-08 Thread TM4526
In a message dated 11/8/04 4:46:25 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So we went from three losers to four bozos Well I had to add you now, didn't I, Mrs. Butterworth? Now this is something we can discuss. What is more insulting, being called a Loser or a Bozo?

Re: re bittorrent

2004-11-09 Thread TM4526
In a message dated 11/9/04 1:10:57 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: don't believe in democracy but in this case it could come handy. Somebody could propose like: let's get this fuck off the list and we'd say ... well ... I say YES! wow, i think both name-calling and using 4

Re: difference between releases

2004-11-09 Thread TM4526
In a message dated 11/8/04 4:46:24 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: By the way, Ive tested our competitions printers. HPs printers are far better designed than anything else Ive worked with. The point is programming and computer technologies are very young fields. Youre

Re: Two NICs with one IP address each on the same subnet

2004-11-10 Thread TM4526
In a message dated 11/9/04 9:58:07 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a FreeBSD 5.x box with two NICs that I'd like to set up on the same subnet. The purpose is to run separate services on each NIC. I have the box set up with my rc.conf containing the following lines:

Re: difference between releases

2004-11-10 Thread TM4526
In a message dated 11/9/04 5:24:53 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm not saying that's how it works, but when this thread started, that's how it was depicted. It most certainly wasn't. SInce it was me who said that releases are 'points in time', which is what you have

FreeBSD 5.3 Network performance tests

2004-11-11 Thread TM4526
As promised, I've tested the basic network stack for 5.3 -RELEASE The results follow: Hardware: Celeron 1.7Ghz processor Dual onboard Intel NICs, fxp driver Intel 845G chipset 256MB Ram, 120MB allocated to the kernel. Setup: Traffic Generator - FreeBSD System - Server The FreeBSD system is

Re: Squid+Privoxy or Snort?

2004-11-12 Thread TM4526
In a message dated 11/12/04 9:38:59 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to investigate some potential solutions to escape from different microsoft specific malware (like gator's software). The two mentioned in subject were found after some Google search. Wonder what

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 Network performance tests

2004-11-12 Thread TM4526
In a message dated 11/11/04 5:38:34 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given these results, I would conclude that the raw routing stack in 5.3 is 35-40% slower than its 4.x counterpart. The tests are easy enough to duplicate, so

Re: Squid+Privoxy or Snort?

2004-11-12 Thread TM4526
In a message dated 11/12/04 1:22:56 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The issue with proxies is that they are a drag on your network; using squid as a firewall only isnt very smart. If you are already using it fine. But on a large network you are better off using a firewall

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 Network performance tests

2004-11-12 Thread TM4526
In a message dated 11/11/04 1:36:28 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FreeBSD 4.10: 42% interrupt usage FreeBSD 5.3: 58% interrupt usage Thanks for your test results. Was DEVICE_POLLING enables in the kernel and the sysctl? No, it wasnt