Re: Re/Fwd: freebsd specific search

2000-02-02 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Michael Bacarella wrote: > Not to start a flame-fest or anything (but who doesn't love em?), I hear > the above quite a lot. > > I'm under the firm belief that a decent sys admin can rub either system to > do whatever they want it to do. Not that I am questioning your abilit

Re: Removing interfaces

2000-02-02 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archie Cobbs writes: : With all the PCMCIA card stuff going on, is it now possible to : remove a networking interface in FreeBSD (from within the kernel)? : : If so could someone show me an example how. I'd like to implement : this in the ng_iface(8) netgraph node t

Re: Re/Fwd: freebsd specific search

2000-02-02 Thread Matthew Dillon
:On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 10:59:34AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: : :Re NFS stability. What version of the 3.x branch contained the updated NFS :code? 3.3? : :Thanks, :sk : :-- :[EMAIL PROTECTED] 3.3 got a big chunk of it but 3.4 has even more. 4.0 has all the bug fixes (there were so

Re: porting linux app. Syscalls

2000-02-02 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Marco van de Voort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000202 20:02] wrote: > > I'm new to the list (and to BSD development in general), and I'm developper > of the FreePascal project (www.freepascal.org) which is a bootstrapping > compiler, completely written in Pascal. > > Currently I started preparations

Re: porting linux app. Syscalls

2000-02-02 Thread Chuck Robey
On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Marco van de Voort wrote: > --- not related to the other 3 > 4. In the rare event that I get it finished this week; The ports howto doesn't seems >to > apply to bootstrapping stuff. (It assumes the apps are gcc based or created by > a gcc compiled app (like perl). > > Where

porting linux app. Syscalls

2000-02-02 Thread Marco van de Voort
I'm new to the list (and to BSD development in general), and I'm developper of the FreePascal project (www.freepascal.org) which is a bootstrapping compiler, completely written in Pascal. Currently I started preparations for a port of the linux version to FreeBSD. FreePascal (FPC) doesn't defa

Re: IBM releases JFS for Linux.

2000-02-02 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 2 February 2000 at 22:18:02 -0500, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > This came across the Linux/390 mailing list today, I thought it > might be interesting for people: > >> "IBM makes JFS technology available for Linux - Technology based on OS/2 >> Warp Journaled File System goes open

IBM releases JFS for Linux.

2000-02-02 Thread Thomas David Rivers
This came across the Linux/390 mailing list today, I thought it might be interesting for people: >"IBM makes JFS technology available for Linux - Technology based on OS/2 >Warp Journaled File System goes open source". See >http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/features/jfs_featur

Removing interfaces

2000-02-02 Thread Archie Cobbs
With all the PCMCIA card stuff going on, is it now possible to remove a networking interface in FreeBSD (from within the kernel)? If so could someone show me an example how. I'd like to implement this in the ng_iface(8) netgraph node type. Thanks, -Archie ___

Re: Re/Fwd: freebsd specific search

2000-02-02 Thread W Gerald Hicks
> > > What sort of quality-control measures does Slackware have? Where > > do I access their cvs tree? Where do I access their problem reports? > > Where do I subscribe to get every commit message? How long are > > their code freezes? How many committers do they have? What > > mechanism crea

Re: Suggestions for Gigabit cards for -CURRENT

2000-02-02 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 15:11:16 -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > "Kenneth D. Merry" wrote: > > > > On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 13:03:09 -0500, Thomas Stromberg wrote: > > > We're currently looking at upgrading several of our FreeBSD servers > > > (dual PIII-600's, 66MHz PCI) and some Sun Ultra's to Gigabi

Re: Suggestions for Gigabit cards for -CURRENT

2000-02-02 Thread Wes Peters
"Kenneth D. Merry" wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 13:03:09 -0500, Thomas Stromberg wrote: > > We're currently looking at upgrading several of our FreeBSD servers > > (dual PIII-600's, 66MHz PCI) and some Sun Ultra's to Gigabit Ethernet. > > We plan to hook these machines into our Cisco Cataly

Re: Re/Fwd: freebsd specific search

2000-02-02 Thread Stephen
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 10:59:34AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > Linux has made great strides in the performance area -- the are way ahead > of us on SMP issues, but they are definitely still behind in the > reliable department. They almost caught up when we were going through >

Re: Re/Fwd: freebsd specific search

2000-02-02 Thread Matthew Dillon
:On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Michael Bacarella wrote: :> Granted, a lot of Linux distributions are totally unsuited for a server :> environment. Compared to that, I could understand why the :> server-orientedness of FreeBSD is attractive, but I certainly couldn't put :> up a reasonable arguement for eith

Re: Re/Fwd: freebsd specific search

2000-02-02 Thread Michael Bacarella
> It's release structure means FreeBSD is a complete operating system (as > opposed to a kernel and one of several distributions) and machines are > maintainable and upgradable in production over long periods of time via > the STABLE branch. I can agree with you here, as our organization has

Re: Re/Fwd: freebsd specific search

2000-02-02 Thread Michael Bacarella
> What sort of quality-control measures does Slackware have? Where > do I access their cvs tree? Where do I access their problem reports? > Where do I subscribe to get every commit message? How long are > their code freezes? How many committers do they have? What > mechanism creates their re

Re: Suggestions for Gigabit cards for -CURRENT

2000-02-02 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 13:03:09 -0500, Thomas Stromberg wrote: > We're currently looking at upgrading several of our FreeBSD servers > (dual PIII-600's, 66MHz PCI) and some Sun Ultra's to Gigabit Ethernet. > We plan to hook these machines into our Cisco Catalyst 5000 server. They > will most like

Re: Re/Fwd: freebsd specific search

2000-02-02 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Michael Bacarella wrote: > Granted, a lot of Linux distributions are totally unsuited for a server > environment. Compared to that, I could understand why the > server-orientedness of FreeBSD is attractive, but I certainly couldn't put > up a reasonable arguement for either si

Suggestions for Gigabit cards for -CURRENT

2000-02-02 Thread Thomas Stromberg
We're currently looking at upgrading several of our FreeBSD servers (dual PIII-600's, 66MHz PCI) and some Sun Ultra's to Gigabit Ethernet. We plan to hook these machines into our Cisco Catalyst 5000 server. They will most likely move to be running FreeBSD 4.x by the time that we actually get our b

Re: Re/Fwd: freebsd specific search

2000-02-02 Thread Geoff Buckingham
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 11:18:23AM -0500, Michael Bacarella wrote: > > > systems have the highest availability rate possible. Over the last few > > years, I have replaced almost all of our Linux-based servers with FreeBSD, > > due to the quality-control measures that the FreeBSD development team

Re: Re/Fwd: freebsd specific search

2000-02-02 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
On Wed 2000-02-02 (11:18), Michael Bacarella wrote: > > systems have the highest availability rate possible. Over the last few > > years, I have replaced almost all of our Linux-based servers with FreeBSD, > > due to the quality-control measures that the FreeBSD development team have > > implemen

Re: NMBCLUSTERS

2000-02-02 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 02), Egervary Gergely said: > hmm right. well I've just compiled with 4096, my statistics after 9 > minutes uptime: > > 2308/3182/4096 mbuf clusters in use (current/peak/max) I'd say you need to raise it a bit more then if you're at 75% capacity after only 9 minutes :)

Re: NMBCLUSTERS

2000-02-02 Thread Egervary Gergely
> Interface type/speed is less important than number of open sockets. > I've got an NFS server with a 100mbit card in it that is pretty heavily > used the whole day, and after 22 days of uptime, netstat -m shows: > > 72/596/2112 mbuf clusters in use (current/peak/max) > > That's just using what

Re: Re/Fwd: freebsd specific search

2000-02-02 Thread Michael Bacarella
> systems have the highest availability rate possible. Over the last few > years, I have replaced almost all of our Linux-based servers with FreeBSD, > due to the quality-control measures that the FreeBSD development team have > implemented. Not to start a flame-fest or anything (but who doesn'

Re: NMBCLUSTERS

2000-02-02 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 02), Egervary Gergely said: > what size of $SUBJECT should be used on a box with two _extremely_ > busy 100baseTX interfaces? Interface type/speed is less important than number of open sockets. I've got an NFS server with a 100mbit card in it that is pretty heavily used

Re: Kernel modules

2000-02-02 Thread Chris D. Faulhaber
On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Derek White wrote: > Hey folks, > > I just wanted to know if anyone could point out a good > online resource like a tutorial or developer guide > that explains kernel module development under FreeBSD. See http://thc.pimmel.com/files/thc/bsdkern.html Although not necessarily

Re: downed IP addresses/redundancy

2000-02-02 Thread Benjamin Black
It's actually slightly more complicated than this as you must be able to specify *per IP* which MAC should be used, not simply per interface. That was the barrier which stopped my VRRP implementation as well. > On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Joe Abley wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 01:19:53AM +

Re: Bad memory suspected

2000-02-02 Thread Willem Jan Withagen
Good hints, Well actually it is a Cyrix 266 (aka 200Mhz CPU) on an ASUS board. (I'm not sure about the numbers since it is at home, but it does SCSI, no network) And I did upgrade the bios, and looked for support, and it seems suported, since the BIOS recognises the CPU and speed. I'll again che

NMBCLUSTERS

2000-02-02 Thread Egervary Gergely
hello, what size of $SUBJECT should be used on a box with two _extremely_ busy 100baseTX interfaces? -- mauzi To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: FreeBSD-specific extension of struct mtget breaks dump(8) from Solaris

2000-02-02 Thread Seigo Tanimura
[Added Oren Sela, the originator of the PR] On Tue, 1 Feb 2000 23:28:17 -0800 (PST), Matthew Jacob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> rmt(8) returns the result of MTIOCGET filled into struct mtget in >> response to the 'S' command, issued by dump(8) of some certain OSs >> including Solaris. (FreeBSD

Re: FreeBSD-specific extension of struct mtget breaks dump(8) fromSolaris

2000-02-02 Thread Matthew Jacob
> > > > Yes. This is definitely an issue. Didn't this come up before and was a PR > > filed that I somehow forgot to own? After all, I probably broke things. > > I wonder if this has been broken for a long time, likely by the > FreeBSD-specific things in struct mtget. (They first show up in re

Re: FreeBSD-specific extension of struct mtget breaks dump(8) from Solaris

2000-02-02 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 23:28:17 -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > rmt(8) returns the result of MTIOCGET filled into struct mtget in > > response to the 'S' command, issued by dump(8) of some certain OSs > > including Solaris. (FreeBSD's one seems to not issue the 'S' command) > > Due to the e