Marvell Yukon msk/msi problem

2007-04-12 Thread Danny Braniss
hi, The if_msk works fine under -current, but under -stable it does not use the MSI capability, and since it's a shared IRQ, it works less than optimal under heavy cpu load. Pyun YongHyeon suggested to search for help here :-) from the if_msk: ...

Re: Making /var/mail mode 1777 (was Re: Installing sendmail SUID installworld suggestion)

2007-03-15 Thread Danny Braniss
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 11:35:45AM +0100 I heard the voice of Oliver Fromme, and lo! it spake thus: What's the best way to prevent that? I tried editing the appropriate mtree file, but that feels like a hack rather than a clean solution. Well, I did it by the hack of stuffing a

Re: Migrating from x86 (32) to amd64

2007-03-10 Thread Danny Braniss
Yoshihiro Ota wrote: About one year ago, I was able to do the regular procedure after enabling i386 compat. It was just another make world for me. options COMPAT_IA32 What I mean is: # 1. `cd /usr/src' (or to the directory containing your source tree). #

Re: Boot prompt for Intel AMT

2007-03-06 Thread Danny Braniss
On Mar 6, 2007, at 1:04 PM, Jack Vogel wrote: Yes, my bad, I spoke too quickly, it does use IP, sorry, I still find SOL much more descriptive of what I think about the whole apparatus however :) :-) Personally, I really like the Sun ILOM processors, even though they do boot an

Re: 6.2-PRE: Fatal Trap?

2006-12-30 Thread Danny Braniss
i think this is related: panic: mtx_lock() of spin mutex (null) @ /r+d/6.2/src/sys/netinet/in_pcb.c:217 cpuid = 0 KDB: enter: panic [thread pid 715 tid 100055 ] Stopped at kdb_enter+0x2b: nop db ps pid ppid pgrp uid state wmesg wchancmd 715 71043 0 R+

Re: 6.2-PRE: Fatal Trap?

2006-12-30 Thread Danny Braniss
patch applied and panic gone! nice quick work!! Happy New Year danny ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: BREAK TO DDB over SSH (Was: Re: panic: sleeping thread)

2006-12-12 Thread Danny Braniss
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Tuesday, December 12, 2006 20:43:07 -0400 Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'k, I'm updating my kernel/world to todays, removed KDB_UNATTENDED and changed BREAK_TO... to ALT_BREAK_TO... to see if its escape sequence

Re: bug on BTX

2006-10-20 Thread Danny Braniss
Hi all, FYI, this change adds 32 bytes to btx leaving 139 bytes free, according to btxld(8). As you probably all know, and just as a reminder, size in boot2 is at a premium -- it can't go over 8192 bytes as this is the boot-sector limit in the BSD disk-label. Dominic Marks wrote:

Re: BSD/Linux slices like Solaris' Solstice DiskSuite

2006-10-20 Thread Danny Braniss
r00t_0101 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how to create a true slice on a BSD/Linux node. I know that Solaris uses Solstice DiskSuite or some type of volume management where you are able to reboot to a particular partition through command-line instead of manual reboot. So

Re: BSD/Linux slices like Solaris' Solstice DiskSuite

2006-10-20 Thread Danny Braniss
Danny Braniss wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: To change the active slice to, say, the third one, use the command fdisk -a 3 /dev/yourdisk. That will request for confirmation interactively. To do it non-interactively (e.g. in a script), use echo a 3 | fdisk -f - /dev/ I

6.2-PRERELEASE em still not working

2006-10-17 Thread Danny Braniss
reposting. with the latest cvsup'ed, the em is sending packets but not receiving. the last working version that i have is from 3rd. Oct. host is S2466 TIGER MPX, but have seen the problem on PIII/STL2 too. o- there is no if_em changes that i can see. o- smp/up has no effect o- there is no

Re: Question on runing STABLE on old Intel SMP boards

2006-10-12 Thread Danny Braniss
Hello, Stable! Do anyone have running RELENG_6 branch on old Intel SMP boards? I have two of them: SCB2 and SDS2. Both are on RELENG_4_11 today. Thinking on proposed EoL of RELENG_4 branch I'v tryed to move one of them (SCB2) onto 6.1-RELEASE. That was very problematic - ethernet

6.2-PRERELEASE em not working

2006-10-11 Thread Danny Braniss
with the latest cvsup'ed, the em is sending packets but not receiving. the last working version that i have is from 3rd. Oct. host is S2466 TIGER MPX, but have seen the problem on PIII/STL2. o- there is no if_em changes that i can see. o- smp/up has no effect - the kernel is smp, just

Re: Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY?

2006-10-06 Thread Danny Braniss
... So what do I buy to replace this thing? Well, looking at the serial hardware claimed supported, I seem to have a problem finding anything I can actually purchase! I don't need real high performance - a 16550 based multiport card is fine. I also don't want a $1500 solution - this isn't

6.2-PRERELEASE/amd64 boot kernel.gz failes

2006-09-27 Thread Danny Braniss
originally posted to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, While trying to figure out why boot/pxeboot failes on some kernels/hosts, I think i've come up with one solid nogo, if the kernel is gzipped it always fails. Can someone confirm this? or am i suffering from some local problem?

Re: 6.2-PRERELEASE/amd64 boot kernel.gz failes

2006-09-27 Thread Danny Braniss
--3uo+9/B/ebqu+fSQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 05:09:16PM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote: originally posted to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: =20 Hi, While trying to figure out why

Re: 6.2-PRERELEASE/amd64 boot kernel.gz failes

2006-09-27 Thread Danny Braniss
Danny Braniss wrote: originally posted to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, While trying to figure out why boot/pxeboot failes on some kernels/hosts, I think i've come up with one solid nogo, if the kernel is gzipped it always fails. Can someone confirm this? or am i suffering from

Re: probs on 6.2-prerelease

2006-09-26 Thread Danny Braniss
[...] Hey all, I don't know if this is pre 6.2 specific but I changed my /etc/tty for device ttyd0 to 'on' from 'off' and when I rebooted the pc I couldn't login via regular KVM console, just don't get a login. The more alarming thing was that while it appeared everything was booting

Re: probs on 6.2-prerelease

2006-09-26 Thread Danny Braniss
On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 04:54:36PM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote: I don't know if this is pre 6.2 specific but I changed my /etc/tty for device ttyd0 to 'on' from 'off' and when I rebooted the pc I couldn't login via regular KVM console, just don't get a login. The more alarming thing

Re: probs on 6.2-prerelease

2006-09-25 Thread Danny Braniss
Hey all, I don't know if this is pre 6.2 specific but I changed my /etc/tty for device ttyd0 to 'on' from 'off' and when I rebooted the pc I couldn't login via regular KVM console, just don't get a login. The more alarming thing was that while it appeared everything was booting up from

6.2/pxe blues, was Re: pxe boot size limit?

2006-09-19 Thread Danny Braniss
it seems that pxeboot has a limit with respect to the kernel size, which prevents the kernel to get loaded, the error printed is slightly misleading. the solution is to make a kernel with loadable modules, instead of compiled in. not entirely true :-( but changing kernel size has different

Re: iSCSI HBAs

2006-09-16 Thread Danny Braniss
Matthew Jacob wrote: Why do you think an iSCSI HBA would be of any benefit to anything other than the target mode side as a server? Mostly for deploying servers that are diskless, quickly. No need to depend on another server (other than the iSCSI target) to get servers up without a

Re: tcp/udp performance

2006-09-05 Thread Danny Braniss
Jack Vogel wrote: On 8/30/06, Danny Braniss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ever since 6.1 I've seen fluctuations in the performance of the em (Intel(R) PRO/1000 Gigabit Ethernet). motherboard OBN (On Board NIC

tcp/udp performance

2006-08-30 Thread Danny Braniss
ever since 6.1 I've seen fluctuations in the performance of the em (Intel(R) PRO/1000 Gigabit Ethernet). motherboard OBN (On Board NIC) -- 1- Intel SE7501WV2S Intel 82546EB::2.1 2-

Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-18 Thread Danny Braniss
2006/8/18, Patrick M. Hausen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 01:23:15PM +0200, Martin Horcicka wrote: Unfortunately, I don't know how it works exactly. In our case when the autodetection is disabled and there is e.g. 100/full configured manually on both, switch and the

Re: mountd changed?

2006-07-07 Thread Danny Braniss
something has changed wrt nmount(2)/mountd(8)/exports(5): cat /etc/exports /h -alldirs -network 132.65.0.0 -mask 255.255.0.0 cat /etc/fstab /dev/da1s1d /h ufs rw 1 1 and all is fine, the filesystem is exported and accesible. # /etc/rc.d/mountd reload Reloading

mountd changed?

2006-07-05 Thread Danny Braniss
something has changed wrt nmount(2)/mountd(8)/exports(5): cat /etc/exports /h -alldirs -network 132.65.0.0 -mask 255.255.0.0 cat /etc/fstab /dev/da1s1d /h ufs rw 1 1 and all is fine, the filesystem is exported and accesible. # /etc/rc.d/mountd reload Reloading mountd config

Re: NFS Locking Issue

2006-07-04 Thread Danny Braniss
Michel Talon wrote: Using Ubuntu as the server I connected a FreeBSD 5.4 and 6-stable box as clients on a 100Mb/s network. The time trial used a dummy 100Meg file transfered from the server to the client. I have similar experiences here. With FreeBSD-6.1 as client (using an

Re: NFS Locking Issue

2006-07-02 Thread Danny Braniss
John Hay writes: I only started to see the lockd problems when upgrading the server side to FreeBSD 6.x and later. I had various FreeBSD clients, between 4.x and 7-current and the lockd problem only showed up when upgrading the server from 5.x to 6.x. It confirms the same we are

Re: hp-dx5150/panic on boot

2006-06-23 Thread Danny Braniss
hi, this box (HP-dx5150/amd dual core) panics with panic: ohci_add_done: addr 0x000cdc30 not found in both 32/64bit mode with a very resent 6.1. the verbose boot is in: ftp://ftp/users/danny/freebsd/hp-dx5150.cons sould be:

Re: hp-dx5150/panic on boot

2006-06-23 Thread Danny Braniss
hi, this box (HP-dx5150/amd dual core) panics with panic: ohci_add_done: addr 0x000cdc30 not found in both 32/64bit mode with a very resent 6.1. the verbose boot is in: ftp://ftp/users/danny/freebsd/hp-dx5150.cons sould be:

hp-dx5150/panic on boot

2006-06-21 Thread Danny Braniss
hi, this box (HP-dx5150/amd dual core) panics with panic: ohci_add_done: addr 0x000cdc30 not found in both 32/64bit mode with a very resent 6.1. the verbose boot is in: ftp://ftp/users/danny/freebsd/hp-dx5150.cons thanks, danny

Re: hp-dx5150/panic on boot

2006-06-21 Thread Danny Braniss
hi, this box (HP-dx5150/amd dual core) panics with panic: ohci_add_done: addr 0x000cdc30 not found in both 32/64bit mode with a very resent 6.1. the verbose boot is in: ftp://ftp/users/danny/freebsd/hp-dx5150.cons sould be:

acpi: bad write to port

2006-06-18 Thread Danny Braniss
hi, some recent acpi changes seem to have provoked this: Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #7: Fri Jun 16

Re: acpi: bad write to port

2006-06-18 Thread Danny Braniss
--nextPart1464934.38S1oUu9Sa Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 18 June 2006 11:02, Danny Braniss wrote: hi, some recent acpi changes seem to have provoked this: Copyright (c) 1992

Re: pxeboot with amd64 vs i386

2006-05-18 Thread Danny Braniss
I have my first SMP amd64 box at the office now to work with, and thought it was all going to be easy. Sadly not, or at least, not yet. :-) I configured dhcpd, tftpd, and nfs to export the 6.1 install CD from my notebook. All good so far. The problem is as follows: if I insert the 6.1

Re: pxeboot with amd64 vs i386

2006-05-18 Thread Danny Braniss
On Thu, 18 May 2006, Danny Braniss wrote: DB At that point, lsdev shows the disk devices, but not the pxeboot disk, which DB leaves me without a kernel, etc. So something is different between the i386 DB and amd64 disks, or maybe there's a problem with my BIOS. I was wondering

rijndael_set_key missrepresented

2006-05-07 Thread Danny Braniss
the include /usr/include/crypto/rijndael.h seems to belong to src/sys/crypto/rijndael.h while the one in /usr/lib/libssh.a seems to want src/crypto/openssh/rijndael.h unless, ofcource, im wrong :-) danny ___

Re: cc can't build 32-bit executables on amd64

2006-05-02 Thread Danny Braniss
I tend to get snippy towards the end of release cycles, and I apologize to those I've offended or have been needlessly rude to. But please hear me out on what I have to say here ... The release process is about balancing the need to get it done with the need to get it as good as

failing PXE boot/HP-DL145

2006-04-17 Thread Danny Braniss
I can boot this HP Proliant DL145/amd64 box from the CD, but fails when booting via PXE. My guess the problem is in the pxeboot, but comparing to an older pxeboot that works (around Nov, 1005) the diffs seem cosmetic. The current pxeboot works fine with other diskless hosts. danny

Re: a place for configuration files

2006-03-24 Thread Danny Braniss
Andrzej Cuber wrote: ... In RedHat and Fedora distributions all configuration files are located at /etc. I am very new to FreeBSD but I found it difficult. After installing desired package I have to add it to /etc/rc.conf in order to start it as a service and then I have to look for

pxe booting a Proliant DL145 (dual core amd) (fwd)

2006-03-24 Thread Danny Braniss
] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 13:53:16 +0200 From: Danny Braniss [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: pxe booting a Proliant DL145 (dual core amd) X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List

Re: Adaptec AIC9410

2006-03-15 Thread Danny Braniss
On Mar 15, 2006, at 2:31 AM, Scott Long wrote: The MPT driver has prototype support for SAS enabled LSI Logic chips. Sounds like what you would find in a Sunfire X4100 system... Yes! and indeed, it works like a charm. I did the MFC to 6.1; well, actually, just copied the -current

Re: New 'amr' driver and linux MegaMGR

2006-03-02 Thread Danny Braniss
Cristiano Deana writes: [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] | 2006/3/1, Paul Saab [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | works fine | | I got: | Failed to open driver node /dev/megadev0 Make sure you have amr_linux. kldload amr_linux.ko. Then you should get a /dev/megadev0. It also

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/

2006-03-02 Thread Danny Braniss
seems to me not very updated ... danny ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/

2006-03-02 Thread Danny Braniss
This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --enigC03FD5EDB0109CEF19212707 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 03/02/06 02:58, Danny Braniss wrote: seems to me not very updated ... I assume you

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/

2006-03-02 Thread Danny Braniss
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 09:58:42AM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: seems to me not very updated ... Yes it is. Please provide evidence if you think otherwise. Kris it might be a matter of 'interpretation' but: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/boot/i386/boot2/ says that boot2.c

bge stopped working with latest 6.0-stable

2006-01-31 Thread Danny Braniss
with the latest cvsup - this morning - the bge stopped working. ... bge0: Broadcom BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x4001 mem 0xefcf-0xefcf irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci2 miibus0: MII bus on bge0 brgphy0: BCM5750 10/100/1000baseTX PHY on miibus0 brgphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX,

Re: bge stopped working with latest 6.0-stable

2006-01-31 Thread Danny Braniss
At 10:29 AM 31/01/2006, Danny Braniss wrote: with the latest cvsup - this morning - the bge stopped working. There was other breakage at the same time that got commited. Can you add Rev 1.292.2.7 of pci.c ? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/pci/pci.c BINGO! thanks

Re: PXE Installation

2006-01-22 Thread Danny Braniss
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 03:36 +0100, Karel Miklav wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.0 to a sub-notebook without floppy or optical unit. Please give me a hand, I'm playing with this for whole week. nice game aint it? sure of your friends is tcpdump :) steps to follow

Re: lsof on 6.0

2005-12-23 Thread Danny Braniss
On Thursday 22 December 2005 16:27, Danny Braniss wrote: Do you have a mount which is a symlink? no, but many nfs. minbari mount 132.65.16.100:/d/6 on / (nfs) Breakpoint 1 at 0x402779: file dmnt.c, line 159. (gdb) run Starting program: /home/pobj/r+d/ports

lsof on 6.0

2005-12-22 Thread Danny Braniss
i keep getting: lsof: can't determine user device random seed. is it only me? danny ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: em bad performance

2005-12-22 Thread Danny Braniss
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 06:55:29PM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: hi, this particular mb, intel sr1435vp2, has 2 ethernets, one is an Intel '82547EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller', the other is a Marvell (which seems that the driver is around the corner). the em performance under 6.0

Re: em bad performance

2005-12-22 Thread Danny Braniss
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 06:55:29PM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: Dthis particular mb, intel sr1435vp2, has 2 ethernets, D one is an Intel '82547EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller', the other is D a Marvell (which seems that the driver is around the corner). D D the em performance under 6.0

Re: em bad performance

2005-12-22 Thread Danny Braniss
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 12:24:42PM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: D D Server listening on TCP port 5001 D TCP window size: 64.0 KByte (default) D D [ 4] local 132.65.16.100

Re: em bad performance

2005-12-22 Thread Danny Braniss
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 12:37:53PM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: D On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 12:24:42PM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: D D D D Server listening on TCP port 5001 D D TCP window size: 64.0 KByte (default) D D

Re: lsof on 6.0

2005-12-22 Thread Danny Braniss
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 10:12:17 +0200 Danny Braniss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i keep getting: lsof: can't determine user device random seed. is it only me? You'll have to be more specific: do you get that by doing only 'lsof' or are you using any parameters? _Do you run as a normal

Re: lsof on 6.0

2005-12-22 Thread Danny Braniss
On Thursday 22 December 2005 12:36, Danny Braniss wrote: On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 10:12:17 +0200 Danny Braniss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i keep getting: lsof: can't determine user device random seed. is it only me? both as a normal user and as root. I don't see

Re: lsof on 6.0

2005-12-22 Thread Danny Braniss
On Thursday 22 December 2005 14:51, Danny Braniss wrote: On Thursday 22 December 2005 12:36, Danny Braniss wrote: On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 10:12:17 +0200 Danny Braniss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i keep getting: lsof: can't determine user device random seed

Re: em bad performance

2005-12-22 Thread Danny Braniss
On 12/22/05, Gleb Smirnoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 12:37:53PM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: D On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 12:24:42PM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: D D D D Server listening on TCP port 5001 D

em bad performance

2005-12-21 Thread Danny Braniss
hi, this particular mb, intel sr1435vp2, has 2 ethernets, one is an Intel '82547EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller', the other is a Marvell (which seems that the driver is around the corner). the em performance under 6.0-stable is half of any other box i have, and a similar mb running linux

Re: GENERIC and DEFAULTS

2005-10-31 Thread Danny Braniss
I've seen that 'GENERIC' file has been modified, moving some lines to 'DEFAULTS': device isa device mem # Memory and kernel memory devices device io # I/O device Why? What does it mean? Should we include 'DEFAULTS' in our

Re: GENERIC and DEFAULTS

2005-10-31 Thread Danny Braniss
You've clearly never spent much time on the FreeBSD support forums, where every few days someone posts for help 1) with an error caused by removing one of those Do not remove this! lines, and 2) for help on getting X working when they forgot to add /dev/io and /dev/mem to their kernel.

Re: GENERIC and DEFAULTS

2005-10-31 Thread Danny Braniss
[...] Many users who build custom kernels do not build modules, since they want to compile everything they (think they) need into the kernel statically. you probably know many scenarios that i - thankfully - am no aware of, but by creating the magic DEFAULTS file the problem still exits! What

Re: GENERIC and DEFAULTS

2005-10-31 Thread Danny Braniss
At 11:18 AM +0200 2005-10-31, Danny Braniss wrote: you probably know many scenarios that i - thankfully - am no aware of, but by creating the magic DEFAULTS file the problem still exits! What will prevent from Joe Shootmyfoot to comment out the lines in DEFAULTS? chflags

Re: MNT_NOEXEC flag set on / when PXE booting diskless on 5.4-R?

2005-08-20 Thread Danny Braniss
Hi all, I've just been trying to switch one of my FreeBSD work stations over to PXE booting and running diskless (the system drive has died). However, I've run into a problem in that it appears that the root mount gets marked with MNT_NOEXEC for some reason, which causes ld-elf.so.1 to

f77 abort

2005-08-04 Thread Danny Braniss
hi, this 11k lines of fortran compile and run under Linux, on FreeBSD 5.4, compiling with f77 produces a binary, apparently without errors, but executing it, inmediately gives 'Abort', ldd gives signal 6 ktrace is not very helpful :-) 36372 ktrace RET ktrace 0 36372 ktrace

Re: f77 abort

2005-08-04 Thread Danny Braniss
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 11:00:46AM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote: this 11k lines of fortran compile and run under Linux, on FreeBSD 5.4, compiling with f77 produces a binary, apparently without errors, but executing it, inmediately gives 'Abort', ldd gives signal 6 ktrace

Re: Machine Replication

2005-07-22 Thread Danny Braniss
Just as a point of note, I'm not trying to roll out squeeky-clean new machines. Let's say I've got ten-fifteen sets of clusters, I need to be able to just rip a copy and blast it to another machine. Thanks for all the responses so far. you should invest some time to set up a diskless/pxe

Re: tcp troughput weirdness

2005-07-14 Thread Danny Braniss
In the last episode (Jul 12), Danny Braniss said: [...] You might want to apply the patch at the bottom of http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/75122 ; without it, new connections get a random initial bandwidth. how far 'bottom' should i go? Search for Final patch

tcp troughput weirdness

2005-07-12 Thread Danny Braniss
while checking out the quality of a switch, I came about a very disturbing dicovery: FreeBSD - Linux througput is MUCH better than FreeBSD - FreeBSD Setup: 2 blades in the same bladeserver, A running FreeBSD 5.4, B running Linux C is running FreeBSD 5.4 all are connected

Re: tcp troughput weirdness

2005-07-12 Thread Danny Braniss
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 09:21:13AM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote: while checking out the quality of a switch, I came about a very disturbing dicovery: FreeBSD - Linux througput is MUCH better than FreeBSD - FreeBSD Setup: 2 blades in the same bladeserver, A running FreeBSD 5.4, B

Re: tcp troughput weirdness

2005-07-12 Thread Danny Braniss
Are the window sizes on Linux bigger or smaller? TCP window size: 16.0 KByte (default) smaller :-(, but increasing it does not make any change Hmmm... Various things that you could try (I'd try them one by on, rather than all together): 1) sysctl net.inet.tcp.inflight_enable=0

Re: tcp troughput weirdness

2005-07-12 Thread Danny Braniss
combining sysctl net.inet.tcp.sendspace=131072 and sysctl net.inet.tcp.inflight.enable=0 did the trick! Congratulations! But I wonder why the throughput of FreeBSD=Linux was almost equal to that of Linux=FreeBSD. If the settings above improves the throughput of

Re: Dell PowerEdge 1855

2005-05-22 Thread Danny Braniss
Hi Doug, Sorry for taking so long to reply on this, been on 3 weeks leave... On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Doug White wrote: On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Carl Makin wrote: The boot sequence will hang if the USB drive is attached at boot. There It seems to be acting like Uthe USB controller isn't

Re: Dell PowerEdge 1855

2005-05-22 Thread Danny Braniss
Hi Doug, Sorry for taking so long to reply on this, been on 3 weeks leave... On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Doug White wrote: On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Carl Makin wrote: The boot sequence will hang if the USB drive is attached at boot. There It seems to be acting like Uthe USB

Re: Current status of nullfs and/or unionfs?

2005-05-06 Thread Danny Braniss
Eirik Øverby writes: [...] What can I expect to see when trying nullfs and/or unionfs today? Has anything changed? Do I have even a remote chance of making it work - and if it doesn't work, what are my chances of anyone having time or energy to look into it? I'm an admin only, no

Re: Current status of nullfs and/or unionfs?

2005-05-06 Thread Danny Braniss
Interesting approach. Is this with 4.x or 5.x? How do you union-mount /etc (mount command/fstab entry)? been doing it since 4.x (i think x 9) in initdiskless (5.x) we have: if [ -e /conf/union ]; then kldload unionfs mount_md 4096 /conf/etc chmod 755 /conf/etc

Re: Current status of nullfs and/or unionfs?

2005-05-06 Thread Danny Braniss
On 06-05-05 09:25, Danny Braniss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting approach. Is this with 4.x or 5.x? How do you union-mount /etc (mount command/fstab entry)? been doing it since 4.x (i think x 9) Any idea how unionfs will behave if stacked (more mounts on top of each

Re: MFC pxe fixes

2005-05-04 Thread Danny Braniss
sorry if this looks like im highjacking hte thread, but i've submitted a PR http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=61239 which among other things, places ALL the dhcp variables in the environment. danny ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: MNT_USER?

2005-05-03 Thread Danny Braniss
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Danny Braniss writes: after doing a mount_nfs as root (from the console or via su), statfs reports that MNT_USER flags is set! this is also true with 5.4. It's a bug in the statfs reporting for NFS filesystems. It should be fixed now in -CURRENT (revision

MNT_USER?

2005-05-02 Thread Danny Braniss
after doing a mount_nfs as root (from the console or via su), statfs reports that MNT_USER flags is set! this is also true with 5.4. is this a bug or feature? the problem can be seen with: #include stdio.h #include fcntl.h #include sys/param.h #include sys/mount.h int main(int argc, char

Re: Can isp driver support Qlogic 2340 on FreeBSD5.x or later?

2005-05-02 Thread Danny Braniss
Yes, the 234X cards have been supported for quite a while. it seems not all of them: it's a QLA2342/ISP2312 and im getting: isp1: Qlogic ISP 2312 PCI FC-AL Adapter port 0x2400-0x24ff mem 0xfe8e-0xfe8e0fff irq 24 at device 8.0 on pci3 isp1: bad execution throttle of 0- using 16 isp2:

Re: Can isp driver support Qlogic 2340 on FreeBSD5.x or later?

2005-05-02 Thread Danny Braniss
On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 04:45:10PM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote.. Yes, the 234X cards have been supported for quite a while. it seems not all of them: it's a QLA2342/ISP2312 and im getting: isp1: Qlogic ISP 2312 PCI FC-AL Adapter port 0x2400-0x24ff mem 0xfe8e-0xfe8e0fff irq 24

hu?

2005-04-07 Thread Danny Braniss
Am I the only one seing this: this is from a cvsup from yesterday: FreeBSD shuttle-2 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #5: ... ** danny ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: WIFI access software

2005-03-26 Thread Danny Braniss
There is this thing I wrote, called the NAA (network authentication appliance) http://www.freebsd.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/bin/view/Freebsd/NetworkAuthenticationApp liance To my knowledge nobody outside of our site uses it. But we use it for all all wireless access at the University of

Re: supporting broadcom gig BCM5751

2004-09-25 Thread Danny Braniss
Can you try http://yogurt.org/FreeBSD/bge_5750.diff It got my 5751 working. it booted ok!, the real test will be tomorrow, (i can't move the rj45 from home :-) bge0: Broadcom BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x4001 mem 0xdfcf-0xdfcf irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2 miibus0: MII bus

Seagate 200GB/ST3200822A, was Re: problems with RAID0 ...

2004-07-13 Thread Danny Braniss
Is there any know problems with this disk (Seagate 200gb/ata) + FreeBSD + Promise/RAID0? Im asking, since a similar configuration but with smaller disk works fine. I keep getting - after several hours of populating a huge data base: /kernel: ad4: hard error reading fsbn 0 (ad4 bn 0; cn 0 tn 0 sn

Re: em driver

2002-06-28 Thread Danny Braniss
That is fine you don't have to go that route. Would it be possible for you put a driver before 1.2.7 again and see if DHCP still works ? I am still now convinced that it is a driver issue. this is what i did made a kernel without the em driver started testing with

Re: matlab6 /dev/ptmx

2002-05-15 Thread Danny Braniss
[...] You can LD_PRELOAD a library that replaces open() and catches the open(/dev/ptmx) special case, then does a BSD opentty() and returns the file descriptor of the tty. (Of course you'll have to compile this library on Linux for the LD_PRELOADing to work, and modify the Matlab startup

Re: pxeboot btx halted problem

2002-01-22 Thread Danny Braniss
On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Danny Braniss wrote: Before I posted my first message, I flashed the last Boot Agent onto the NIC, and after seeing your message, I hunted down and flashed the last BIOS for the motherboard which was from mid 97. Unfortunately, it is still crashing with exactly the same

Re: pxeboot btx halted problem

2002-01-21 Thread Danny Braniss
On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Ladislav Kostal wrote: On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Jason K. Fritcher wrote: I'm trying to get a machine to netboot with the pxeboot loader and a Intel PRO/100 S network card. I built pxeboot with tftp instead of nfs support, as I am only looking to load a kernel with a

union fs

2001-11-15 Thread Danny Braniss
hi, I've been running several dataless/diskless machines with union-fs (for the /etc stuff) with no - apparent - problems for several months now, so i was wondering if the commnet about it being buggy still holds? danny To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

pci/pcic cards

2001-09-17 Thread Danny Braniss
hi, I have 2 different cards: (pcmcia interface?) pci1: unknown card (vendor=0x16ab, dev=0x1103) at 7.0 irq 9 pci1: unknown card (vendor=0x8086, dev=0x1042) at 7.0 irq 9 any way i can get them to work? I also have an Orinoco/Lucent isa which is almost working - once i get a free irq

Re: Cross-building and mergemaster

2001-09-15 Thread Danny Braniss
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Danny Braniss writes: : i ran the following : mergemaster -D /v1/4.4 -m /v0/src/etc : and when asked to run MAKEDEV i said yes, it ran in /dev! Yuck! I ran into similar problems, so I did a boot into single user mode to run mergemaster. Warner well

4.3 BETA2/ports

2001-03-25 Thread Danny Braniss
hi all, I installed a machine from the beta cd (March 13), and now im trying to install some packages from the ports, so I copied a freshly cvsup'ed ports, but I guess I broke something, because now I get: cd /v0/ports/archivers/bzip2 make === Extracting for bzip2-1.0.1 Checksum OK

Re: lp0 and lo0

2000-12-25 Thread Danny Braniss
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED]you write: } $ grep lo0 /etc/defaults/rc.conf } ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1" # default loopback device configuration. } #ifconfig_lo0_alias0="inet 127.0.0.254 netmask 0x" # Sample alias en }try. so simple :-(, i remember grepping but i guess i didn't

Re: Dell C600/FreeBSD4.2-rel

2000-12-05 Thread Danny Braniss
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED]you write: }Danny Braniss stated: }: hi all, }: juts got a Dell C600-notebook (it gets too hot to be a laptop :-) }: }: with the GENERIC kernel it hangs on boot when the pccard is inserted. }: }: with the NEWCARD, things look better, apm, pccard are detected but i

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