Re: kernel level multilink PPP and maybe (re)porting FreeBSD netgraph

2010-01-29 Thread Masao Uebayashi
What you need is something like npppd/pipex which OpenBSD has just imported? Masao

Re: kernel level multilink PPP and maybe (re)porting FreeBSD netgraph

2010-01-29 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:43:38 -0600, David Young wrote: Subject: Re: kernel level multilink PPP and maybe (re)porting FreeBSD netgraph > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 02:56:31PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote: > > I need advanced kernel-level multilink PPP (MLPPP) support, including > > the ability to cre

Re: blocksizes

2010-01-29 Thread Bill Stouder-Studenmund
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 02:37:24PM +0100, Michael van Elst wrote: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:16:05PM +1030, Brett Lymn wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 01:09:10PM +0100, Michael van Elst wrote: > > > > > > Keeping DEV_SIZE at 512 bytes avoids lots of changes. > > > > > > > Won't that mean th

Re: blocksizes

2010-01-29 Thread Bill Stouder-Studenmund
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:30:20PM +, Michael van Elst wrote: > Hello, > > > disk devices are accessed in units of 'blocks', a block can be > any size, however NetBSD makes assumptions in many places that > a block is 512 bytes or DEV_BSIZE bytes which makes it impossible > to use devices wit

Re: blocksizes

2010-01-29 Thread Bill Stouder-Studenmund
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 02:28:07PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote: > Date:Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:07:03 +0100 > From:Michael van Elst > Message-ID: <20100122070702.ga10...@serpens.de> > > | except that there a lot of assumptions that > | physical block size is the same as DE

Re: kernel level multilink PPP and maybe (re)porting FreeBSD netgraph

2010-01-29 Thread David Young
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 02:56:31PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote: > I need advanced kernel-level multilink PPP (MLPPP) support, including > the ability to create bundle links via UDP (and maybe TCP) over IP. Why do you need "kernel-level multilink PPP" support? Do you need to interoperate with exist

kernel level multilink PPP and maybe (re)porting FreeBSD netgraph

2010-01-29 Thread Greg A. Woods
I need advanced kernel-level multilink PPP (MLPPP) support, including the ability to create bundle links via UDP (and maybe TCP) over IP. We currently don't have a direct need for PPPoE or tunnelling via PPTP, L2TP, or direct use of async and sync devices, but of course such features would likely

Re: blocksizes

2010-01-29 Thread Izumi Tsutsui
> > >FYI, Windows XP creates MBR in the first sector even on a removable > > >2KB/sec MO disk and it seems to use physical block numbers. > > > > I haven't found an official spec for MBR on non-512byte blocks, but > > so far everyone seems to use the first 512 bytes from LBA 0. > > That is my sus

Re: blocksizes

2010-01-29 Thread Izumi Tsutsui
> >The design of FFS is independent from design of our buffercache(9) > >or all disk drivers, so if FFS has its own "disk block size" value > >in its superblock, we have to check and convert (or reject) > >the "FFS disk block size value" for our native I/O size > >whichever we will choose DEV_BSIZE