Re: Connect to barak 013 through cable (PPTP)

2005-08-18 Thread Offer Kaye
On 8/17/05, Ilia K. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I very want, that this girl will stay with linux, but internet connection seems to be the bottle neck. I'll appreciate any feedback, especially helpful one :) PPTP is set up by executing: [...snip...] I don't know a thing about routing, instead

Re: Connect to barak 013 through cable (PPTP)

2005-08-18 Thread Noam Meltzer
Hi, One year ago in my previous apartment I had connection problems to the cables. After lot of misery I have found that the problem had consisted of two elements: 1. The cable connection is not very stable. In their underlying protocol they lose many packets, resulting sometimes in losing *your*

Re: OT: Reversing the linker's action

2005-08-18 Thread Efraim Yawitz
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, guy keren wrote: the process is not reversible, because 'linking' is not a reversible function - it only takes part of the objects and places them in the binary (especially if we're talking about objects taken from static libraries). also, (here i am half-guessing)

Re: OT: Reversing the linker's action

2005-08-18 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 09:59:26AM +0300, Efraim Yawitz wrote: On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, guy keren wrote: the process is not reversible, because 'linking' is not a reversible function - it only takes part of the objects and places them in the binary (especially if we're talking about

Re: Program like wget that opens multiple connections.

2005-08-18 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 23:18, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Someone mentioned a program like wget that opened multiple connections when discussing their multiple connection routing programs. I thought I had saved their email and a web search has come up with nothing. Obviously I don't

Gcc 4 in Debian Testing?

2005-08-18 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi, My workplace desktop is Debian testing, I try to keep it up to date. Last week or so gcc 4.0.1 and friends (g++, cpp etc) turned up and wanted to replace good old 3.x. I wonder if anyone has experience with these packages - are they reliable? Do they produce good code? Should I upgrade? I

Re: Gcc 4 in Debian Testing?

2005-08-18 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
It really depends if you care about binary compatibility for your binaries. (specially if you spread binaries). I belive that people who use Fedora Core 4 could tell you about their experience with GCC 4 (I'm using QEMU and GCC 4 cannot compile it). Thanks, Hetz On 8/18/05, Amos Shapira [EMAIL

Re: Strange Networking Problem on my ADSL-connected Home LAN

2005-08-18 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Tuesday 16 August 2005 15:01, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Shachar Shemesh wrote: Shlomi Fish wrote: I've checked it on the desktop machine with both Win98 and Mandriva 2006 LE Linux - both exhibited the problem. I tried disabling all listening ports and other downloads on Linux - it didn't

Re: Gcc 4 in Debian Testing?

2005-08-18 Thread Baruch Even
Amos Shapira wrote: Hi, My workplace desktop is Debian testing, I try to keep it up to date. Last week or so gcc 4.0.1 and friends (g++, cpp etc) turned up and wanted to replace good old 3.x. I wonder if anyone has experience with these packages - are they reliable? Do they produce good

Re: Gcc 4 in Debian Testing?

2005-08-18 Thread Amos Shapira
On 8/18/05, Baruch Even [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You will find that some programs that compiled with earlier gccs do not compile any more. The fixes are simple, but if you don't care about gcc 4, you probably don't want the mess, however small it is. OK, I'll wait with this then. You can

Re: Gcc 4 in Debian Testing?

2005-08-18 Thread Gilboa Davara
I'm using GCC 4.01 on both FC4/i386 and FC4/x86-64. Seems to be working just fine. I had some problems debugging libraries under gdb when libraries were compiled against gcc 4.0. But I've yet to try gdb with gcc 4.01. Gilboa On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 20:27 +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: Hi, My

Re: Gcc 4 in Debian Testing?

2005-08-18 Thread Baruch Even
Amos Shapira wrote: On 8/18/05, Baruch Even [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can always use alternatives to keep gcc 3.3 as your default. That's actually the original source of my question - aptitude lists gcc 4 as REPLACING the current gcc 3.x, not as coming in addition to it, (possibly

Re: Strange Networking Problem on my ADSL-connected Home LAN

2005-08-18 Thread Peter
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Shlomi Fish wrote: Then again, it may be a faulty NIC, like Baruch pointer out. OK. I've already switched from one Ethernet card to the other here, because the previous one stopped functioning. Is it possible that my computer serially damages the Etherenet cards it is

Re: It's about time: a delay of 1 microsec in a user space

2005-08-18 Thread Peter
Use SCHED_FIFO and it will work. Peter = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Connect to barak 013 through cable (PPTP)

2005-08-18 Thread Aaron
Hey this is exactly my problem, I called the cable company and they couldn't help so I suffer from my connection getting bumped a number of times a day. so how do I change the LCP configuration? I am using debian sarge. Thanks Aaron On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 09:21:22AM +0300 or thereabouts,

Re: It's about time: a delay of 1 microsec in a user space

2005-08-18 Thread guy keren
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Rafi Gordon wrote: Hello, Is there a way to create a delay of 1 microsec in a user space applcation in 2.4 or 2.6 kernel? If you really meant 1 microsecond (as opposed to 1 millisecond) then the answer is to do a busy wait loop forthe

Re: It's about time: a delay of 1 microsec in a user space

2005-08-18 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Rafi Gordon wrote: Hello, Is there a way to create a delay of 1 microsec in a user space applcation in 2.4 or 2.6 kernel? What you want is posix high resolution timers kernel patch. http://high-res-timers.sf.net -- Matan Ziv-Av. [EMAIL

Re: Gcc 4 in Debian Testing?

2005-08-18 Thread Amos Shapira
On 8/18/05, Baruch Even [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amos Shapira wrote: On 8/18/05, Baruch Even [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can always use alternatives to keep gcc 3.3 as your default. That's actually the original source of my question - aptitude lists gcc 4 as REPLACING the current gcc

Re: It's about time: a delay of 1 microsec in a user space

2005-08-18 Thread Amos Shapira
On 8/19/05, guy keren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: actually, it _looks_ like gettimeofday() sometimes takes less then a micro-second to execute. i tested it a few years ago on redhat 7.3, on a pentium 1.8MHz and an AMD athlon 2200+, and on both of them running gettimeofday in a tight loop very

Re: It's about time: a delay of 1 microsec in a user space

2005-08-18 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 08:09:57AM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: I'm not sure this is a correct way to measure - gettimeofday(2)'s *interface definition* is to count nanoseconds, but that doesn't mean that the system's clock can measure at this resolution. Don't forget that clock interupts are

Re: Strange Networking Problem on my ADSL-connected Home LAN

2005-08-18 Thread Amos Shapira
On 8/18/05, Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK. I've already switched from one Ethernet card to the other here, because the previous one stopped functioning. Is it possible that my computer serially damages the Etherenet cards it is using? :-( Also try to replace the cable itself. --Amos

Re: Strange Networking Problem on my ADSL-connected Home LAN

2005-08-18 Thread Amos Shapira
On 8/19/05, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check the grounding of your computer case and of the modem. I have seen cable installations that would input 5Vac into the cable ground from ground fault currents plus scary glitch voltages when A/C was switched on and off. I dunno where you live but

Re: It's about time: a delay of 1 microsec in a user space

2005-08-18 Thread guy keren
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Amos Shapira wrote: On 8/19/05, guy keren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: actually, it _looks_ like gettimeofday() sometimes takes less then a micro-second to execute. i tested it a few years ago on redhat 7.3, on a pentium 1.8MHz and an AMD athlon 2200+, and on both ofthem

Re: exim4 SMTP AUTH

2005-08-18 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
Peter wrote: On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Shaul Karl wrote: method. Which reminds me: how come using cables has to do with authentication to the ISP mail server? All the people in a cable segment are in the same 'pool' and they could masquerade as each other afaik. Not running a firewall on

Re: exim4 SMTP AUTH

2005-08-18 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
Peter wrote: On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Shaul Karl wrote: method. Which reminds me: how come using cables has to do with authentication to the ISP mail server? All the people in a cable segment are in the same 'pool' and they could masquerade as each other afaik. Not running a firewall on

Re: Connect to barak 013 through cable (PPTP)

2005-08-18 Thread Ilia K.
Hi! On 8/18/05, Noam Meltzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, One year ago in my previous apartment I had connection problems to the cables. After lot of misery I have found that the problem had consisted of two elements: 1. The cable connection is not very stable. In their underlying

Re: Connect to barak 013 through cable (PPTP)

2005-08-18 Thread Ilia K.
Hi All again! Thanks to all guys, who have replied me! However, nobody have told me yet, whether I've missed some point in the configuration. I want to emphasize the fact, that even under very low load (one ssh connection only), _half_ of pings are lost when pinging the PPTP server or some public

RE: Connect to barak 013 through cable (PPTP)

2005-08-18 Thread Tzahi Fadida
Ready yourself for a long process. The first, second and maybe third guys are usually contract techies who usually replace your modem or check wall connections and maybe change in house cables. Only after they can't solve your problem the expert guy will come to check your stairs and building

Re: It's about time: a delay of 1 microsec in a user space

2005-08-18 Thread Amos Shapira
On 8/19/05, guy keren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Amos Shapira wrote: On 8/19/05, guy keren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: actually, it _looks_ like gettimeofday() sometimes takes less then a micro-second to execute. i tested it a few years ago on redhat 7.3, on a