Re: [2.6 patch] the overdue eepro100 removal

2007-07-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
to support new cards for this chip. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: Big sized packets have been dropped strangly

2007-07-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
slow (it almost took 10 minutes to transfer 100KB files). I don't know why it is and how to solve it. Any suggestions are appreciated! http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/msg/4434f7c5d38d9292 I think that's relevant. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from

Re: [2.6 patch] the overdue eepro100 removal

2007-07-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
Please do not make unnecessary kernel changes which require changes in our systems. Kok, Auke wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch contains the overdue removal of the eepro100 driver. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] The hardware supported by this driver

Re: [2.6 patch] the overdue eepro100 removal

2007-07-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 12:01:56PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: Please do not make unnecessary kernel changes which require changes in our systems. If you think the e100 driver fixes your problems use it and be happy. But since you don't have to test system behavior

Re: [announce] iproute2 2.6.19-061214

2007-01-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
support for inverted selectors Add rule notification support to ip monitor - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-net in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Safe remote kernel install howto (Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 6613] New: iptables broken on 32-bit PReP (ARCH=ppc))

2006-05-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
monitor and reboot with a separate IP address for control. Worth its weight in gold! The latest will let you do remote console as well. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Obscure bug of 2004: BASH BUFFER OVERFLOW - if bash is being run by a normal user and is setuid root, with the vi line edit

Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled eepro100 removal

2007-03-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
servers and eepro100 did, but since I'm no longer responsible for those machines I can't retest. Perhaps someone will be able to provide data points. IBM current offerings as of about three years ago, I had a few dozen of them at one time. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear

Re: 2.6.17.1: fails to fully get webpage

2006-06-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
people to think you are running at dial-up speeds. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Obscure bug of 2004: BASH BUFFER OVERFLOW - if bash is being run by a normal user and is setuid root, with the vi line edit mode selected, and the character set is big5, an off-by-one errors occurs during

Re: [2.6 patch] the overdue eepro100 removal

2007-07-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 01:27:55PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: For how many years do you know that there's a new and actively maintained e100 driver for your hardware? And if you don't follow a stable line like the 2.6.16 kernel or a distribution kernel it's simply

Re: sk98lin for 2.6.23-rc1

2007-09-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
it in, but until other drivers are drop-in, I probably won't change. Separate but related: why keep skge and sky2? Are we going through this again in a year? Is the benefit worth the effort? Hope some of this is helpful. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing

Re: [PATCH] 2.6.22.6 NETWORKING [IPV4]: Always use source addr in skb to reply packet

2007-09-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
complex topic, and here we are definitely purposefully using the source address selected by the routing lookup for the reply. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from

Re: bnx2 dirver's firmware images

2007-09-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
as a module or built in? I've seen that behavior many time over the years, but it usually not deliberate. ;-) -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: [PATCH] sky2: jumbo frame regression fix

2007-10-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
moments when I saw all the tiny packets. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: [RFD] iptables: mangle table obsoletes filter table

2007-10-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
actions would take a major rethink at least. Perhaps you could avoid breaking all of the setups which currently work, rather than force everyone to do things differently because you feel that your way is better. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling

Re: [RFD] iptables: mangle table obsoletes filter table

2007-10-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
Bill Davidsen wrote: If not, then shouldn't the filter table be obsoleted to avoid confusion? That would probably confuse people. Just don't use it if you don't need to. That is a most practical suggestion. The problem is that people think they are safe with the filter table, when in fact

Re: [RFD] iptables: mangle table obsoletes filter table

2007-10-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
away, sometimes things change after PREROUTING, like NAT, and additional rules must be used. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [2.6.25 patch] the planned eepro100 removal

2007-10-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch contains the planned removal of the eepro100 driver. Are the e100 people satisfied that e100 now handles all known cases? I remember that there were corner cases e100 didn't handle, have they all been fixed? -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more

Re: sockets affected by IPsec always block (2.6.23)

2007-12-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
would hardly call this sentence detailed in terms of being a cookbook solution to the problem. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [PATCH 00/29] Swap over NFS -v15

2007-12-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
of this code over the two existing network swap approaches, swapping to NFS mounted file and swap to NBD device? I've used the NFS file when a program was running out of memory and that seemed to work, people in UNYUUG have reported that the nbd swap works, so what's better here? -- Bill