High Availability (Re: MAC takeover )

1999-09-07 Thread Andrzej Bialecki
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, David Sharp wrote: > > The i82559 (fxp) hardware supports it. I imagine most previous > versions of the chipset are also capable. For the software, > add an ioctl to fxp_ether_ioctl that changes the > fxp_init(sc). Add your new ioctl to ifconfig and you should be done. T

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-07 Thread Nick Hibma
> | PCI and CardBus to USB. Any one having seen a ISA or PCMCIA variant, > | please let me know. > > I thought I saw a PCMCIA -> USB at Fry's. Hm, I had a good look around, but couldn't find one. If you happen to end up at Fry's one day, let me know if you can find the name of the brand. Ch

Hardware Database (was: RE: Dell PERC LVD card (Power Edge Raid Controller))

1999-09-07 Thread Thomas Uhrfelt
It would be excellent if you had the time/resources to start such a site. I hope such a project can boost the development of new devicedrivers for FreeBSD, I always donate unneeded stuff to various computerclubs in my hometown. But if I knew that it could do some good to the FreeBSD project I would

Re: High Availability (Re: MAC takeover )

1999-09-07 Thread Mike Nowlin
> Another issue: I was recently involved in a project which required HA > solutions (that's why I asked]. I gathered a lot of ideas and materials > (and perhaps some code if that company agrees to release it). Is ther > someone else here who is interested in these issues, and using FreeBSD for >

Re: STABLE kern/13546: Too-verbose output from PCI probe at bootup

1999-09-07 Thread David Malone
> >The code which figures out the bushigh stuff for your machine > >probably needs a similar kludge, unless someone can say for certain > >that it isn't harful for the SMP case. > > Probably not worth the effort, since for this system at least, SMP works > just fine after probing for 253 non-exis

High Availability (Re: MAC takeover )

1999-09-07 Thread Andrzej Bialecki
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, David Sharp wrote: > > The i82559 (fxp) hardware supports it. I imagine most previous > versions of the chipset are also capable. For the software, > add an ioctl to fxp_ether_ioctl that changes the > fxp_init(sc). Add your new ioctl to ifconfig and you should be done.

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-07 Thread Nick Hibma
> | PCI and CardBus to USB. Any one having seen a ISA or PCMCIA variant, > | please let me know. > > I thought I saw a PCMCIA -> USB at Fry's. Hm, I had a good look around, but couldn't find one. If you happen to end up at Fry's one day, let me know if you can find the name of the brand. C

Re: 3.2-s nfsv3/udp server daily panic

1999-09-07 Thread Alex G. Bulushev
> : > :cvsuped 18 aug 1999 00:35 MSD > : > > I would definitely update it, but that may not be your problem. > > If you could email your mount setup (df output) and your kernel > configuration (dmesg output) I would appreciate it. > > If you are running softupdates, try turning i

Hardware Database (was: RE: Dell PERC LVD card (Power Edge Raid Controller))

1999-09-07 Thread Thomas Uhrfelt
It would be excellent if you had the time/resources to start such a site. I hope such a project can boost the development of new devicedrivers for FreeBSD, I always donate unneeded stuff to various computerclubs in my hometown. But if I knew that it could do some good to the FreeBSD project I woul

Re: MAC takeover

1999-09-07 Thread David Sharp
The i82559 (fxp) hardware supports it. I imagine most previous versions of the chipset are also capable. For the software, add an ioctl to fxp_ether_ioctl that changes the sc->arpcom.ac_enaddr to your new MAC address and calls fxp_init(sc). Add your new ioctl to ifconfig and you should be don

this is a test, please ignore

1999-09-07 Thread Daniel Ortmann
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Re: 3.2-s nfsv3/udp server daily panic

1999-09-07 Thread Alex G. Bulushev
> : > :cvsuped 18 aug 1999 00:35 MSD > : > > I would definitely update it, but that may not be your problem. > > If you could email your mount setup (df output) and your kernel > configuration (dmesg output) I would appreciate it. > > If you are running softupdates, try turning

Re: MAC takeover

1999-09-07 Thread David Sharp
The i82559 (fxp) hardware supports it. I imagine most previous versions of the chipset are also capable. For the software, add an ioctl to fxp_ether_ioctl that changes the sc->arpcom.ac_enaddr to your new MAC address and calls fxp_init(sc). Add your new ioctl to ifconfig and you should be do

this is a test, please ignore

1999-09-07 Thread Daniel Ortmann
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RE: TCP sequence numbers

1999-09-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Geoff Rehmet wrote: > > I'd expect Yarrow to be (perhaps quite a bit) slower than our existing > > PRNG - it's a more conservative design and uses primitives > > like SHA-1 (for > > yarrow-160). I don't know how much of an impact this would be for > > network performance. > >

RE: TCP sequence numbers

1999-09-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Geoff Rehmet wrote: > > How do OpenBSD do it? > > They use arc4random(), to add a random increment. And you do ISN = C + f(state) where C is a 250KHz counter and f is your cut-down MD5? And state = {random secret, src addr, src port, dst addr, dst port, ?} I haven't had time

Re: Tulip device driver question

1999-09-07 Thread Jason Thorpe
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999 21:13:22 -0400 (EDT) Bill Paul wrote: > Well, the older chipsets make it even harder on you: you have to know > just the right way to twiddle the bits in the GPIO register in order to > program the media settings, and to figure that out you're supposed to > read the media

RE: TCP sequence numbers

1999-09-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Geoff Rehmet wrote: > > I'd expect Yarrow to be (perhaps quite a bit) slower than our existing > > PRNG - it's a more conservative design and uses primitives > > like SHA-1 (for > > yarrow-160). I don't know how much of an impact this would be for > > network performance. >

RE: TCP sequence numbers

1999-09-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Geoff Rehmet wrote: > > How do OpenBSD do it? > > They use arc4random(), to add a random increment. And you do ISN = C + f(state) where C is a 250KHz counter and f is your cut-down MD5? And state = {random secret, src addr, src port, dst addr, dst port, ?} I haven't had time

Re: Tulip device driver question

1999-09-07 Thread Jason Thorpe
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999 21:13:22 -0400 (EDT) Bill Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, the older chipsets make it even harder on you: you have to know > just the right way to twiddle the bits in the GPIO register in order to > program the media settings, and to figure that out you're supposed

Re: Tulip device driver question

1999-09-07 Thread Bill Paul
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Jason Thorpe had to walk into mine and say: > [ snip ... all the quirks ] > > ...I'm well aware of all of these :-) > > Amusingly, these are the same kinds of quirks you have to deal with for > a unified *genuine DEC Tulip* driver. E.g.

Re: Tulip device driver question

1999-09-07 Thread Bill Paul
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Jason Thorpe had to walk into mine and say: > [ snip ... all the quirks ] > > ...I'm well aware of all of these :-) > > Amusingly, these are the same kinds of quirks you have to deal with for > a unified *genuine DEC Tulip* driver. E.g.

Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD

1999-09-07 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote: > Wilko (confused...) No, I already committed the change to comment it out in -STABLE. I will investigate further, but I will definitely not have it in by -RELEASE time. No problem has been noticed before because XFree86 has not supported MTRRs until recentl

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-07 Thread Warner Losh
In message <199909072255.paa10...@whistle.com> Doug Ambrisko writes: : | PCI and CardBus to USB. Any one having seen a ISA or PCMCIA variant, : | please let me know. : : I thought I saw a PCMCIA -> USB at Fry's. Mobile Planet has PC Card <-> USB cards that are not CardBus cards. Warner To Uns

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-07 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Nick Hibma writes: | > And USB? This reference says that you can (now? soon?) buy a | > laptop docking station with all of the usual ports, connected | > only by USB... | > | | PCI and CardBus to USB. Any one having seen a ISA or PCMCIA variant, | please let me know. I thought I saw a PCMCIA

Re: Limit of bus hierarchies (was Re: PCI modems do not work???)

1999-09-07 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Mike Smith writes: | > > USB doesn't present a 16550A interface to the host, so I don't think | > > that sio would have a USB attachment. | > | > So there's going to be manufacturer-specific terminal/serial port drivers | > to talk to the serial ports on USB-attached laptop docking stations, like

Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD

1999-09-07 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote: > Wilko (confused...) No, I already committed the change to comment it out in -STABLE. I will investigate further, but I will definitely not have it in by -RELEASE time. No problem has been noticed before because XFree86 has not supported MTRRs until recent

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-07 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Doug Ambrisko writes: : | PCI and CardBus to USB. Any one having seen a ISA or PCMCIA variant, : | please let me know. : : I thought I saw a PCMCIA -> USB at Fry's. Mobile Planet has PC Card <-> USB cards that are not CardBus cards. Warner To Unsubscribe: send

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-07 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Nick Hibma writes: | > And USB? This reference says that you can (now? soon?) buy a | > laptop docking station with all of the usual ports, connected | > only by USB... | > | | PCI and CardBus to USB. Any one having seen a ISA or PCMCIA variant, | please let me know. I thought I saw a PCMCI

Re: Limit of bus hierarchies (was Re: PCI modems do not work???)

1999-09-07 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Mike Smith writes: | > > USB doesn't present a 16550A interface to the host, so I don't think | > > that sio would have a USB attachment. | > | > So there's going to be manufacturer-specific terminal/serial port drivers | > to talk to the serial ports on USB-attached laptop docking stations, like

Re: Tulip device driver question

1999-09-07 Thread Jason Thorpe
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999 03:11:24 -0400 (EDT) Bill Paul wrote: > The SiS 900 only has one combined status/control word in its > descriptor structure (some of the bits mean different things depending > on whether the descriptors are in the RX ring or TX ring) instead of a > separate status and

Re: Tulip device driver question

1999-09-07 Thread Jason Thorpe
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999 03:11:24 -0400 (EDT) Bill Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The SiS 900 only has one combined status/control word in its > descriptor structure (some of the bits mean different things depending > on whether the descriptors are in the RX ring or TX ring) instead of a >

Re: STABLE kern/13546: Too-verbose output from PCI probe at bootup

1999-09-07 Thread Parag Patel
On Tue, 07 Sep 1999 19:48:59 BST, David Malone wrote: > >The code which figures out the bushigh stuff for your machine >probably needs a similar kludge, unless someone can say for certain >that it isn't harful for the SMP case. Probably not worth the effort, since for this system at least, SMP wor

Re: The infamous dead alternate system clock

1999-09-07 Thread Andrzej Bialecki
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > * does the problem affect anything else? I'm not at the console, so I > can't be sure, but the machine appears to be very sluggish over the net. It seems the sluggishness was caused by two Midnight commanders spinning like crazy and eating 200% of CPU

Re: STABLE kern/13546: Too-verbose output from PCI probe at bootup

1999-09-07 Thread David Malone
On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 10:24:53AM -0700, Parag Patel wrote: > So I think my patch for simply wrapping the "Probing PCI bus" message > with an "if (bootverbose)" is the right solution/workaround for systems > like mine running STABLE. Not that it's a big deal - it's easy enough > for me to patch

Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD

1999-09-07 Thread Wilko Bulte
As Peter Wemm wrote ... > Wilko Bulte wrote: > > As Brian F. Feldman wrote ... > > > On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Randall Hopper wrote: > > > ... > > > corrupt other memory...) For now, it's unsafe. > > > > Maybe I'm missing the point here, but as a AMD user I'm interested anyway: > > 'should be disabled'

The infamous dead alternate system clock

1999-09-07 Thread Andrzej Bialecki
Hi, ASUS SMP motherboard (if it matters) with two Pentium IIIs, running SMP kernel 3.3-RC. Running an UP kernel instead is not an option (i.e. I can try it out, but I need both CPUs eventually). Any ideas? I looked in the archives, and found Tor Egge's fix. So, here are my questions: * does the

Re: STABLE kern/13546: Too-verbose output from PCI probe at bootup

1999-09-07 Thread Parag Patel
On Tue, 07 Sep 1999 19:48:59 BST, David Malone wrote: > >The code which figures out the bushigh stuff for your machine >probably needs a similar kludge, unless someone can say for certain >that it isn't harful for the SMP case. Probably not worth the effort, since for this system at least, SMP wo

Re: Web based passwd changing program

1999-09-07 Thread Christopher T. Griffiths
So everyone can take a look: here is the url, I meant to put it in the original: ftp://win.co.nz/web-pwd/v0.3/ On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Christopher T. Griffiths wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > I found a very nice web enable password changing scri

Re: Web based passwd changing program

1999-09-07 Thread Christopher T. Griffiths
Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit. here is the url: ftp://win.co.nz/web-pwd/v0.3/ On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Christopher T. Griffiths wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > I found a very nice web enable password changing script written in c that > > curre

Re: Web based passwd changing program

1999-09-07 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Christopher T. Griffiths wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I found a very nice web enable password changing script written in c that > currently works in linux and solaris. It seems to be laid out very nicely > and I would like to know if anyone would care to take a crack at getting

Re: The infamous dead alternate system clock

1999-09-07 Thread Andrzej Bialecki
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > * does the problem affect anything else? I'm not at the console, so I > can't be sure, but the machine appears to be very sluggish over the net. It seems the sluggishness was caused by two Midnight commanders spinning like crazy and eating 200% of CP

Re: src/etc/rc.sysctl installation

1999-09-07 Thread Warner Losh
In message <199909071105.maa71...@keep.lan.awfulhak.org> Brian Somers writes: : I wasn't suggesting we should do it from installworld - just from : src/etc/Makefile (used by ``make release''). Yes. IT should be, but isn't right now. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org wi

Re: STABLE kern/13546: Too-verbose output from PCI probe at bootup

1999-09-07 Thread David Malone
On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 10:24:53AM -0700, Parag Patel wrote: > So I think my patch for simply wrapping the "Probing PCI bus" message > with an "if (bootverbose)" is the right solution/workaround for systems > like mine running STABLE. Not that it's a big deal - it's easy enough > for me to patch

Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD

1999-09-07 Thread Wilko Bulte
As Peter Wemm wrote ... > Wilko Bulte wrote: > > As Brian F. Feldman wrote ... > > > On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Randall Hopper wrote: > > > ... > > > corrupt other memory...) For now, it's unsafe. > > > > Maybe I'm missing the point here, but as a AMD user I'm interested anyway: > > 'should be disabled

Web based passwd changing program

1999-09-07 Thread Christopher T. Griffiths
Hi everyone, I found a very nice web enable password changing script written in c that currently works in linux and solaris. It seems to be laid out very nicely and I would like to know if anyone would care to take a crack at getting it to work on FBSD. It also uses shadow passwords so hacking a

The infamous dead alternate system clock

1999-09-07 Thread Andrzej Bialecki
Hi, ASUS SMP motherboard (if it matters) with two Pentium IIIs, running SMP kernel 3.3-RC. Running an UP kernel instead is not an option (i.e. I can try it out, but I need both CPUs eventually). Any ideas? I looked in the archives, and found Tor Egge's fix. So, here are my questions: * does the

STABLE kern/13546: Too-verbose output from PCI probe at bootup

1999-09-07 Thread Parag Patel
Hello. I recently submitted this kernel PR (13546) against STABLE, and Sheldon Hearn suggested forwarding this note to freebsd-hackers to ask for opinions. The PCI probe code is much too verbose when it probes for PCI busses that do not exist. On this (4xPPro) system, I get this message: Pr

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-07 Thread Peter Wemm
Nate Williams wrote: > > "Matthew N. Dodd" wrote: > > > On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > > > > Might be a good time have a sys/dev/sio and have pccard, cardbus, pci > > > > and isa attachments there. Yes, I did say cardbus, since I have seen > > > > cardbus PCI modems that are NOT winmodem

Re: Web based passwd changing program

1999-09-07 Thread Christopher T. Griffiths
So everyone can take a look: here is the url, I meant to put it in the original: ftp://win.co.nz/web-pwd/v0.3/ On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Christopher T. Griffiths wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > I found a very nice web enable password changing scr

Re: Web based passwd changing program

1999-09-07 Thread Christopher T. Griffiths
Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit. here is the url: ftp://win.co.nz/web-pwd/v0.3/ On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Christopher T. Griffiths wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > I found a very nice web enable password changing script written in c that > > curr

Re: Web based passwd changing program

1999-09-07 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Christopher T. Griffiths wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I found a very nice web enable password changing script written in c that > currently works in linux and solaris. It seems to be laid out very nicely > and I would like to know if anyone would care to take a crack at gettin

Re: src/etc/rc.sysctl installation

1999-09-07 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Brian Somers writes: : I wasn't suggesting we should do it from installworld - just from : src/etc/Makefile (used by ``make release''). Yes. IT should be, but isn't right now. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hacke

Web based passwd changing program

1999-09-07 Thread Christopher T. Griffiths
Hi everyone, I found a very nice web enable password changing script written in c that currently works in linux and solaris. It seems to be laid out very nicely and I would like to know if anyone would care to take a crack at getting it to work on FBSD. It also uses shadow passwords so hacking

STABLE kern/13546: Too-verbose output from PCI probe at bootup

1999-09-07 Thread Parag Patel
Hello. I recently submitted this kernel PR (13546) against STABLE, and Sheldon Hearn suggested forwarding this note to freebsd-hackers to ask for opinions. The PCI probe code is much too verbose when it probes for PCI busses that do not exist. On this (4xPPro) system, I get this message: P

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-07 Thread Peter Wemm
Nate Williams wrote: > > "Matthew N. Dodd" wrote: > > > On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > > > > Might be a good time have a sys/dev/sio and have pccard, cardbus, pci > > > > and isa attachments there. Yes, I did say cardbus, since I have seen > > > > cardbus PCI modems that are NOT winmode

Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-07 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
>But, unfortunately, putting the console on a serial port creates >vulnerabilities when DDB is enabled. You are, essentially, creating >an unintentional backdoor into the system. Hence the problem. ports/*/conserver is your friend! -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-07 Thread Nate Williams
> : But, they should be PCI/non-Winmodem, as Kevin pointed out, so we > : shouldn't need cardbus seperately from pci. > > Just the attachment... Ahh, OK. I'm not familiar enough with the new code to know how exactly it's organized. :) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org w

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-07 Thread Nate Williams
> "Matthew N. Dodd" wrote: > > On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > > > Might be a good time have a sys/dev/sio and have pccard, cardbus, pci > > > and isa attachments there. Yes, I did say cardbus, since I have seen > > > cardbus PCI modems that are NOT winmodems. > > > > And MCA and EISA at

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-07 Thread Warner Losh
In message <199909071558.jaa21...@mt.sri.com> Nate Williams writes: : But, they should be PCI/non-Winmodem, as Kevin pointed out, so we : shouldn't need cardbus seperately from pci. Just the attachment... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hacker

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-07 Thread Nate Williams
> : I'd really like to see the sio driver code being able to support PCI > : devices... > > Might be a good time have a sys/dev/sio and have pccard, cardbus, pci > and isa attachments there. Yes, I did say cardbus, since I have seen > cardbus PCI modems that are NOT winmodems. But, they should

Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-07 Thread Matthew Dillon
: >generated, DDB is the only way to figure out what is going on. : >securelevel is a mechanism which attempts to guarentee data security, : >at least to a degree. These two items do not clash. : > : :Anyway, as soon as you can physically access the PC, youD loose anyway, :independe

Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-07 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
>But, unfortunately, putting the console on a serial port creates >vulnerabilities when DDB is enabled. You are, essentially, creating >an unintentional backdoor into the system. Hence the problem. ports/*/conserver is your friend! -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-07 Thread Nate Williams
> : But, they should be PCI/non-Winmodem, as Kevin pointed out, so we > : shouldn't need cardbus seperately from pci. > > Just the attachment... Ahh, OK. I'm not familiar enough with the new code to know how exactly it's organized. :) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-07 Thread Nate Williams
> "Matthew N. Dodd" wrote: > > On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > > > Might be a good time have a sys/dev/sio and have pccard, cardbus, pci > > > and isa attachments there. Yes, I did say cardbus, since I have seen > > > cardbus PCI modems that are NOT winmodems. > > > > And MCA and EISA a

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-07 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Nate Williams writes: : But, they should be PCI/non-Winmodem, as Kevin pointed out, so we : shouldn't need cardbus seperately from pci. Just the attachment... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-07 Thread Nate Williams
> : I'd really like to see the sio driver code being able to support PCI > : devices... > > Might be a good time have a sys/dev/sio and have pccard, cardbus, pci > and isa attachments there. Yes, I did say cardbus, since I have seen > cardbus PCI modems that are NOT winmodems. But, they should

Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-07 Thread Matthew Dillon
: >generated, DDB is the only way to figure out what is going on. : >securelevel is a mechanism which attempts to guarentee data security, : >at least to a degree. These two items do not clash. : > : :Anyway, as soon as you can physically access the PC, youD loose anyway, :independ

Re: mbuf shortage situations

1999-09-07 Thread Don Lewis
On Sep 5, 9:18pm, Matthew Dillon wrote: } Subject: Re: mbuf shortage situations } : The only reason that I see for which we would actually panic() in } :this situation (as opposed to suffer the packet loss) is if we get to the } :point where we're losing packets because some script kid starts

RE: Dell PERC LVD card (Power Edge Raid Controller)

1999-09-07 Thread Kelly Yancey
This is indeed a good idea. If nobody else has stepped up to the challenge, I will try to have such a site up by the end of the week (Well, let's make it Sunday...gives me the weekend to work on it too :) ). I'll keep everyone posted. Kelly ~kby...@posi.net~ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve -

Re: mbuf shortage situations

1999-09-07 Thread Don Lewis
On Sep 5, 9:18pm, Matthew Dillon wrote: } Subject: Re: mbuf shortage situations } : The only reason that I see for which we would actually panic() in } :this situation (as opposed to suffer the packet loss) is if we get to the } :point where we're losing packets because some script kid starts

RE: Dell PERC LVD card (Power Edge Raid Controller)

1999-09-07 Thread Kelly Yancey
This is indeed a good idea. If nobody else has stepped up to the challenge, I will try to have such a site up by the end of the week (Well, let's make it Sunday...gives me the weekend to work on it too :) ). I'll keep everyone posted. Kelly ~[EMAIL PROTECTED]~ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-07 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > Well, it seems Bruce objects to this.. I don't know why though. If > he's concerned about loosing the tightly integrated sio<->isa stuff > then I guess there could be an "osio" (old sio) or "isasio" or > something driver that remains isa-specific. I could

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-07 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > Well, it seems Bruce objects to this.. I don't know why though. If > he's concerned about loosing the tightly integrated sio<->isa stuff > then I guess there could be an "osio" (old sio) or "isasio" or > something driver that remains isa-specific. I could

Re: src/etc/rc.sysctl installation

1999-09-07 Thread Brian Somers
> In message <199909070023.baa29...@keep.lan.awfulhak.org> Brian Somers writes: > : Is it time to install src/etc/rc.sysctl now ? I certainly think it's > : a good idea :-] > > No. I don't think we want to install rc.sysctl for an installworld. > It would spam changes that others make to them.

Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD

1999-09-07 Thread Peter Wemm
Wilko Bulte wrote: > As Brian F. Feldman wrote ... > > On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Randall Hopper wrote: > > > > > Mike Smith: > > > |> Also, I wonder if you've seen/heard of an MTRR patch for 3.2-RELEASE > > > | > > > |You could try to backport the two sets of commits I just made to the > > > |-stab

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-07 Thread Peter Wemm
"Matthew N. Dodd" wrote: > On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > > Might be a good time have a sys/dev/sio and have pccard, cardbus, pci > > and isa attachments there. Yes, I did say cardbus, since I have seen > > cardbus PCI modems that are NOT winmodems. > > And MCA and EISA attachments. We

Re: src/etc/rc.sysctl installation

1999-09-07 Thread Brian Somers
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Brian Somers writes: > : Is it time to install src/etc/rc.sysctl now ? I certainly think it's > : a good idea :-] > > No. I don't think we want to install rc.sysctl for an installworld. > It would spam changes that others make to them. I wasn't suggesting we s

Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-07 Thread KATO Takenori
Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > That's an excellent idea - it shouldn't be too hard to add a kernel > option (say, DDB_RESTRICTED) and #ifndef the "dangerous" commands. To achieve both higher security and kenel hackers convenience, I'd submit following idea: - If securelevel > 1, DDB is in restr

BSD-like license rationale

1999-09-07 Thread Mike Smith
Following through on something that Doug mentioned, I ran into this very worthwhile discussion of the BSD and BSD-like licenses. I would commend this to anyone that's ever been even vaguely interested in licenses, as it puts a number of issues very well. http://gel.urstudios.com/rationale.h

Re: src/etc/rc.sysctl installation

1999-09-07 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 07 Sep 1999 10:12:23 +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > Possibly installing it as /etc/defaults/rc.sysctl? No. Sysctl.conf might belong in defaults, rc.sysctl doesn't. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of th

Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD

1999-09-07 Thread Peter Wemm
Wilko Bulte wrote: > As Brian F. Feldman wrote ... > > On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Randall Hopper wrote: > > > > > Mike Smith: > > > |> Also, I wonder if you've seen/heard of an MTRR patch for 3.2-RELEASE > > > | > > > |You could try to backport the two sets of commits I just made to the > > > |-sta

Re: src/etc/rc.sysctl installation

1999-09-07 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 09:31:01PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <199909070023.baa29...@keep.lan.awfulhak.org> Brian Somers writes: > : Is it time to install src/etc/rc.sysctl now ? I certainly think it's > : a good idea :-] > > No. I don't think we want to install rc.sysctl for an ins

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-07 Thread Peter Wemm
"Matthew N. Dodd" wrote: > On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > > Might be a good time have a sys/dev/sio and have pccard, cardbus, pci > > and isa attachments there. Yes, I did say cardbus, since I have seen > > cardbus PCI modems that are NOT winmodems. > > And MCA and EISA attachments. W

Re: /etc sh script cleanup ready for testing

1999-09-07 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 06 Sep 1999 23:00:18 +0200, Michael Reifenberger wrote: > While you are at it, could you please change rc.serial to be > consistent with the other rc* files? rc.serial should only implement > the functions and import all variable data from rc.conf... Careful. As pointed out to me by Br

Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-07 Thread KATO Takenori
Dag-Erling Smorgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's an excellent idea - it shouldn't be too hard to add a kernel > option (say, DDB_RESTRICTED) and #ifndef the "dangerous" commands. To achieve both higher security and kenel hackers convenience, I'd submit following idea: - If securelevel

BSD-like license rationale

1999-09-07 Thread Mike Smith
Following through on something that Doug mentioned, I ran into this very worthwhile discussion of the BSD and BSD-like licenses. I would commend this to anyone that's ever been even vaguely interested in licenses, as it puts a number of issues very well. http://gel.urstudios.com/rationale.

Re: src/etc/rc.sysctl installation

1999-09-07 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 07 Sep 1999 10:12:23 +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > Possibly installing it as /etc/defaults/rc.sysctl? No. Sysctl.conf might belong in defaults, rc.sysctl doesn't. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the m

Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Matthew Dillon writes: > So making DDB 'secure-level friendly' would be a useful thing > tgo do, I think. The idea is not to disable DDB, but to simply > limit the actions that can be performed within it if the securelevel > has been raised. The sysadmin would only be allowed to

Re: src/etc/rc.sysctl installation

1999-09-07 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 09:31:01PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Brian Somers writes: > : Is it time to install src/etc/rc.sysctl now ? I certainly think it's > : a good idea :-] > > No. I don't think we want to install rc.sysctl for an installworld. > It would spa

Re: /etc sh script cleanup ready for testing

1999-09-07 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 06 Sep 1999 23:00:18 +0200, Michael Reifenberger wrote: > While you are at it, could you please change rc.serial to be > consistent with the other rc* files? rc.serial should only implement > the functions and import all variable data from rc.conf... Careful. As pointed out to me by B

Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So making DDB 'secure-level friendly' would be a useful thing > tgo do, I think. The idea is not to disable DDB, but to simply > limit the actions that can be performed within it if the securelevel > has been raised. The sysadmin woul

Re: new kernel build, bad MSF image

1999-09-07 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Ben Williams: > wd0s1a") and it immediately complains about "panic: MFS image is > invalid!!" and forces me to reboot. This happens if I use kernel, Don't use the option MFS_ROOT_SIZE... -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- robe...@keltia.freenix.fr Free

Re: Tulip device driver question

1999-09-07 Thread Bill Paul
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Jason Thorpe had to walk into mine and say: > On Fri, 03 Sep 1999 16:23:00 -0600 > Wes Peters wrote: > > > > > See, for instance, the al, ax, mx, pn, vr, and wb drivers. ;^) > > > ^^ > > >