Re: ARPs on a bridge

1999-10-05 Thread Luigi Rizzo
> >> Is there a way to force a Freebsd system to route to the same logican IP > >> network rather than send a redirect? > >> > >> The situation occurs with segmented bridges where customers on the same > >> logical IP network are on separate bridge groups. When trying to reach one > >> another, t

bind(2) sets errno to undocumented EAGAIN?

1999-10-05 Thread Charles Randall
Under what conditions does bind(2) set errno to EAGAIN? The 3.2R bind(2) manual page does not list that as a valid value for errno when bind returns -1. This came up when using http_load (http://www.acme.com/software/http_load) to stress-test a local web server. In other words, using http_load to

Re: Developer assessment (was Re: A bike shed ...)

1999-10-05 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Darryl Okahata wrote: > > > That's actually a good idea. Tell you what, you read the previous > > threads and prepare a good FAQ entry in docbook, send me the patches > > and I'll commit it. > > I'll take you up on this, if you can guarantee that it'll show up > on the FreeBSD web page FAQ

Re: Non-standard FFS parameters

1999-10-05 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Hi, : :The system in question (3.3-stable) needs to use a large FS (ca. 40GB). :The defaults for such filesystem are ridiculous, given that it will hold :at most couple of hundred big data files. So, my question is: : :* should I change the cpg (default 16) to some bigger value? No, let newf

Request for hardware (drivers for Mylex, AMI, DELL, HP RAID controllers)

1999-10-05 Thread Mike Smith
In brief: I'm developing drivers for the Mylex DAC960/1100 and AMI MegaRAID/Dell PERC/HP whatever families of RAID controllers, and I need some more hardware to test with. Details below. Current status: - Mylex DAC960 driver works with P/PL/PD/PU controllers. Support

Re: On pthreads [Was: Re: I was accepted to LokiHack '99 at AtlantaLinux Showcase]

1999-10-05 Thread Brian F. Feldman
What do you all think about http://www.FreeBSD.org/~green/OpenBSD.libc_r.cancel.patch ? I isolated the set of commits that added cancelling to OpenBSD's libc_r, and it seems (since they took it from us originally :) it should be relatively simple to port :/ -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman

Re: Netscape Bus Error

1999-10-05 Thread David G Andersen
It most likely is. I've found a pretty reliable way to crash Netscape 4.6 and 4.7-freebsd (either us or export): Open two windows, and visit slashdot in both of them. Don't ask me _why_ it works, but it does. :) It causes the BSDI version to hang and chew CPU. The linux and windoze versions o

Re: Apple's planned appoach to permissions on movable filesystems

1999-10-05 Thread David Scheidt
On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Pat Dirks wrote: > as "local". As part of this "adoption" process the users is prompted to > choose one of two ways to handle the existing permissions on the disk: > > * Retain them as-is (useful for cases where you have external > reasons to believe >the nume

Re: Non-standard FFS parameters

1999-10-05 Thread Kevin Day
> > Hi, > > The system in question (3.3-stable) needs to use a large FS (ca. 40GB). > The defaults for such filesystem are ridiculous, given that it will hold > at most couple of hundred big data files. So, my question is: > > * should I change the cpg (default 16) to some bigger value? > * is

3.3-R: if_lnc driver problems

1999-10-05 Thread Michael Borowiec
Greetings - I have installed FBSD 3.3-R on an HP Kayak XU, and have run into some interesting problems with the AMD PCNet-Fast (if_lnc) driver. This machine has an HP combo card (PN #5183-2725 or #5064-3616) with NCR SCSI and AMD PCNet-Fast chipsets. While booting up, I get the following kernel m

Re: Proposal for the kill-list (userland nfs)

1999-10-05 Thread Alec Wolman
> Digital Unix, aka Compaq Tru64 Unix, formerly know as DEC OSF/1 > supports this syntax. In fact, this is the only syntax it supports, > IIRC, so FreeBSD is not the only OS to use it. You are not correct when you state that this is the only syntax it supports. Digital Unix does support the ho

Re: Apple's planned appoach to permissions on movable filesystems

1999-10-05 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Pat Dirks wrote: > Hi, > > I'm the File Systems Tech Lead at Apple in the Mac OS X Core OS group. > We've been struggling with the question of how best to handle permissions > on disks that are moved between systems for Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server: > the problem is that

Re: Apple's planned appoach to permissions on movable filesystems

1999-10-05 Thread David Wolfskill
>Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 14:19:22 -0700 >From: Pat Dirks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >[Lots of interesting, useful stuff elided -- dhw] >ADOPTING "FOREIGN" FILESYSTEMS >... >Note that one interesting option might be to provide a one-time-only >"adoption" which has no permanent effect; when the disk is

Re: Stupid Newbie questions (was re: developer assessment)

1999-10-05 Thread Chris Costello
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Might the following be helpful? Or, does it exist somewhere on the net now? > > http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~dispatch/stupid-bsd-questions.txt > > If it is of any use, I'll clean it up for general consumption. This is a very interesting a

Re: Proposal for the kill-list (userland nfs)

1999-10-05 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Not many people are aware that our userland mount_nfs(8) and umount(8) :support the following NFS-URL-syntax: : :mount /some/path/to/directory@nfs-server /mntpoint : :This, however, seems to be BSD-specific. Neither Solaris, Linux, Irix :... : :I propose to remove the '@' feature because of the a

Non-standard FFS parameters

1999-10-05 Thread Andrzej Bialecki
Hi, The system in question (3.3-stable) needs to use a large FS (ca. 40GB). The defaults for such filesystem are ridiculous, given that it will hold at most couple of hundred big data files. So, my question is: * should I change the cpg (default 16) to some bigger value? * is it safe to run prod

Re: ARPs on a bridge

1999-10-05 Thread Pierre Beyssac
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 10:21:36AM -0400, Dennis wrote: > Is there a way to force a Freebsd system to route to the same logican IP > network rather than send a redirect? Uhm, did you try this? sysctl -w net.inet.ip.redirect=0 BTW, whether or not sending redirects, the original packet is

Apple's planned appoach to permissions on movable filesystems

1999-10-05 Thread Pat Dirks
Hi, I'm the File Systems Tech Lead at Apple in the Mac OS X Core OS group. We've been struggling with the question of how best to handle permissions on disks that are moved between systems for Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server: the problem is that numeric IDs in inodes (or their moral equivalent)

RE: Proposal for the kill-list (userland nfs)

1999-10-05 Thread John Baldwin
On 05-Oct-99 Martin Blapp wrote: > Not many people are aware that our userland mount_nfs(8) and > umount(8) > support the following NFS-URL-syntax: > > mount /some/path/to/directory@nfs-server /mntpoint > > This, however, seems to be BSD-specific. Neither Solaris, Linux, Irix > or any other Ope

Re: Proposal for the kill-list (userland nfs)

1999-10-05 Thread Doug White
On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Martin Blapp wrote: > > If you want to do this, I suggest a round of releases that have mount > > complain about the @ syntax before you kill it. POLA, you know. > > > > A complaint such as: > > > > WARNING: path@server syntax is deprecated, use server:path > > > > would be

Re: zalloci/pv_entry problem (Was: Weird sockname errors with-current and apache)

1999-10-05 Thread Doug
On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Luoqi Chen wrote: > If you have a crash dump, could you look at the 4 longwords starting > at address 0xc02698c0? It seemed to be an accouting problem. Do you > by any chance use any kld module? zalloc() calls from within a module > do not lock the vm_zone data structure, whic

Re: ARPs on a bridge

1999-10-05 Thread Dennis
>what kind of broken bridges do you have in mind which do not pass >broadcast traffic ? (and if the answer is FreeBSD 3.2R, yest this is a >known bug with some cards, and i have a fix ready for commit as soon as >i get a chance to breath). this is not your bridge code, btw, this is our implement

Re: ARPs on a bridge

1999-10-05 Thread Dennis
At 06:12 PM 10/5/99 +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote: >> Is there a way to force a Freebsd system to route to the same logican IP >> network rather than send a redirect? >> >> The situation occurs with segmented bridges where customers on the same >> logical IP network are on separate bridge groups. When

ARPs on a bridge

1999-10-05 Thread Dennis
Is there a way to force a Freebsd system to route to the same logican IP network rather than send a redirect? The situation occurs with segmented bridges where customers on the same logical IP network are on separate bridge groups. When trying to reach one another, they are getting redirects how

Re: Proposal for the kill-list (userland nfs)

1999-10-05 Thread Martin Blapp
> If you want to do this, I suggest a round of releases that have mount > complain about the @ syntax before you kill it. POLA, you know. > > A complaint such as: > > WARNING: path@server syntax is deprecated, use server:path > > would be sufficient. A good idea, but how can one make a differe

Re: ARPs on a bridge

1999-10-05 Thread Luigi Rizzo
> Is there a way to force a Freebsd system to route to the same logican IP > network rather than send a redirect? > > The situation occurs with segmented bridges where customers on the same > logical IP network are on separate bridge groups. When trying to reach one > another, they are getting re

Re: Proposal for the kill-list (userland nfs)

1999-10-05 Thread Doug White
On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Martin Blapp wrote: > 1. Parsing a NFS-Path with directory-components which include ':' > or '@' in their path gets difficult. To support it, > mount_nfs(8) and umount(8) have to handle several exceptions: > > - nfs-server:/some@stupid/p@th >

Re: Developer assessment (was Re: A bike shed ...)

1999-10-05 Thread Darryl Okahata
"Daniel C. Sobral" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why the hell does the clueless newbie hordes expects any answer when > posting a message to a list without reading the list charter and > without a single clue of how the list works is beyond me. No one's disputing this. In fact, I agree with

Stupid Newbie questions (was re: developer assessment)

1999-10-05 Thread mwlucas
Might the following be helpful? Or, does it exist somewhere on the net now? http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~dispatch/stupid-bsd-questions.txt If it is of any use, I'll clean it up for general consumption. ==ml (who prefers to curse the candle, as opposed to light the darkness) To Unsubscrib

Re: Release build

1999-10-05 Thread John Hay
> Last week the releases built fine, now i get the following error : > --- > cd /usr/src/kerberosIV/lib/libsl ; make install > DESTDIR=/R/stage/trees/krb SHARED=copies > ===> lib/libacl > cd /usr/src/kerberosIV/lib/libacl ; make install > DESTDIR

Proposal for the kill-list (userland nfs)

1999-10-05 Thread Martin Blapp
Not many people are aware that our userland mount_nfs(8) and umount(8) support the following NFS-URL-syntax: mount /some/path/to/directory@nfs-server /mntpoint This, however, seems to be BSD-specific. Neither Solaris, Linux, Irix or any other Operating System support this syntax. RFC 2224 does

Re: Developer assessment (was Re: A bike shed ...)

1999-10-05 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Darryl Okahata wrote: > > > There are things one can do to improve their chances of seeing the > > message answered. For example: > > ... excellent advice, which everyone should follow. > > ... however, how the H*LL are the clueless newbie hordes supposed > to know or learn this? As

Re: Developer assessment (was Re: A bike shed ...)

1999-10-05 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Darryl Okahata wrote: > > The "old-fashioned way"? While the "look before you leap" > philosophy, which is excellent advice, has been around Usenet since time > immemorial, I've yet to meet or hear about anyone that's actually done > it (when they were a newbie, that is), although people he

Release build

1999-10-05 Thread Johan Kruger
Last week the releases built fine, now i get the following error : --- cd /usr/src/kerberosIV/lib/libsl ; make install DESTDIR=/R/stage/trees/krb SHARED=copies ===> lib/libacl cd /usr/src/kerberosIV/lib/libacl ; make install DESTDIR=/R/stage/tree