Re: Very High Speed TCP Session ... How I can achieve ?

2002-01-08 Thread Manish Jain
hello, I tried setting socket buffer to 300 k and and am able to do it. What error do you get when you try to set socket buffer larger than 256 k. What is the version of freebsd u r using ? manish http://www.cis.udel.edu/~jain On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Giovanni Pau wrote: > I would like to have a ve

Very High Speed TCP Session ... How I can achieve ?

2002-01-08 Thread Giovanni Pau
I would like to have a very High Throughput TCP session Between two Free-BSD but I'm unable to get Socket buffer larger than 256 Kbytes. My test scenario is a bulk FTP in a (totally empty) test Pipe of 1 Gbit/s and 170 ms of delay so my pipe size over 2 Mbytes. Thanks for any suggestion or refer

Re: Which ftpd for proxy ?

2002-01-08 Thread Casey T . Zednick
On Tuesday 08 January 2002 10:00 am, Julian Stacey wrote: > Hi all, > Any reccomendations what to install (or avoid) on my firewall, > from 4.4 /usr/ports/ftp/ to be a proxy ftpd server ? > > My Background: > - I'm not looking for high performance, > (it's not a big company, just my home site

console becomes unusable after screensaver -- who is to blame?

2002-01-08 Thread BOUWSMA Beery
[replies sent directly to me may timeout and bounce, since I'm not online as often as I should be, but I'll check the list archives] Howdy This is something that normally hasn't been a problem -- with a different video card, I've loaded the green saver, done all my work on the sc consoles, the

FreeBSD Floppy driver needs enhancement...

2002-01-08 Thread Terry Lambert
Julian Stacey wrote: > Doubtless some will have bad sectors by now. Here's a rescue tool: > http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/src/bsd/jhs/bin/public/valid/valid.c & valid.1 > > `Valid' runs on FreeBSD, but only rescues when running on MSDOS ! > (because read() on DOS3.2 returns the intact buffer e

Re: Which ftpd for proxy ?

2002-01-08 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 12:22:21AM +0100, Julian Stacey wrote: > > > TO AVOID: > > > ncftpd: commercial=20 > > > > Just because it's commercial doesn't mean that it's no good. It is > > actually quite cheap, and we used it a lot at Pavilion Internet. > > I wrote: > > >> (it's not a

Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!

2002-01-08 Thread Julian Stacey
Nils Holland wrote: > I should probably dedicate a weekend to find out if these 200+ C64 disks in > my collection are still working (that is, if I get my 1541-II's properly > alaigned again...) Doubtless some will have bad sectors by now. Here's a rescue tool: http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/sr

Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!

2002-01-08 Thread Julian Stacey
Mats Lofkvist wrote: > > Still have my SWTPc clone built around -83. Wire-wrapped from > > Never went beyond FLEX and a pair of floppies though, and cheated I was part of a 4 man team for a better DOS for the SWTPC M6800 in 79/80, I still have email contact with one of the fellow students w

Re: Which ftpd for proxy ?

2002-01-08 Thread Julian Stacey
> > TO AVOID: > > ncftpd: commercial=20 > > Just because it's commercial doesn't mean that it's no good. It is > actually quite cheap, and we used it a lot at Pavilion Internet. I wrote: >> (it's not a big company, just my home site with some internal hosts) I want a proxy ftpd

Re: Which ftpd for proxy ?

2002-01-08 Thread Julian Stacey
Terry Lambert wrote: > Julian Stacey wrote: > > Hi all, > > Any reccomendations what to install (or avoid) on my firewall, > > from 4.4 /usr/ports/ftp/ to be a proxy ftpd server ? > > man libalias > > Then install natd. I don't believe that's the solution I'm looking for. I may be wrong, or th

Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!

2002-01-08 Thread Garance A Drosihn
Okay. Could we move the trip(s) down memory lane to some other mailing list? I'm certainly old enough to wax nostalgic about many things, but somehow freebsd-hackers doesn't seem to be an appropriate place to do that. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems P

Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!

2002-01-08 Thread Bruce A. Mah
If memory serves me right, Matthew Dillon wrote: > But, do you know what '02' does? On an original 6502? The 6502 > was a hardwired processor, which means that even the hex codes that > didn't have an official instruction did things. Weird things to be > sure, but things non

Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!

2002-01-08 Thread Iain Templeton
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Matthew Dillon wrote: > I had wired in an extra 16K of dynamic ram, giving me 48K > total (bank selected) (imagine piggy-backing a bank of 14 > or 16 pin DIPs on another bank and soldering each lead, > except for the select, to the one below). Yes, now imagine

Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!

2002-01-08 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 02:36:55PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :Hm. 2 months ago I removed a SMD multifunction I/O chip from a dual > :CPU slot 1 mainboard. And put a new (well, had to desolder that one > :from a donor mainboard) chip back on. It *is* doable, but you need a > :stereo microsc

Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!

2002-01-08 Thread Matthew Dillon
:... :> in a wire select to an unused bank, which meant the screen was spaghetti :> on power-up until i LOAD'd a copy of the character set. : :UGH. You didn't load the RAM from the ROM at power on?!? No extra rom slots. Had to load from tape or floppy. :We had the "high resolution

Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!

2002-01-08 Thread D J Hawkey Jr
On Jan 08, at 02:58 PM, Terry Lambert wrote: > > 8-). Quick, what are "A0", "A2", and "A4", and what are their > operands? What's the difference between "4C" and "6C"? 8-) 8-). LDY imm, LDX imm, LDY zpg. JMP abs vs. JMP ind. HA! > -- Terry Dave -- __

Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!

2002-01-08 Thread Matthew Dillon
:UGH. You didn't load the RAM from the ROM at power on?!? : :We had the "high resolution graphics" board in one machine; it's :where I did my first ray tracing code, for an Optics class. Now :*that* was a cool third party board, replacing the character :generator output with bitmapped graphics,

Re: Which ftpd for proxy ?

2002-01-08 Thread Terry Lambert
Oliver Fromme wrote: > I thought that natd just parsed the PORT and PASV commands > and replies, respectively, and changed them accordingly, > while just passing on everything else. That's not what I > call an application-level proxy. It's a packet-level proxy > with some hacks. ;-) What do yo

Re: Which ftpd for proxy ?

2002-01-08 Thread Oliver Fromme
Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Maybe I'm wrong, but it sounded like he is searching for an > > application-level proxy, not a packet-level one. > > The natd program has application level proxy code (natd is an > application level program) that supports F

Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!

2002-01-08 Thread Terry Lambert
Matthew Dillon wrote: > Ah yes. By the time I was ready to throw my PET away the hardware > inside was so hacked up I don't think anybody but me could boot the > thing. I had replaced the character generator ROM with a RAM and wired > in a wire select to an unused bank, which mea

Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!

2002-01-08 Thread Bruce A. Mah
If memory serves me right, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 01/08/2002 2:11:05 PM Eastern Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Miguel Mendez wrote: > > > Now that I'm subscribed to c64-hackers let's do some lda's here an > there. > > I > > > even have some Oxyron dem

Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!

2002-01-08 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Hm. 2 months ago I removed a SMD multifunction I/O chip from a dual :CPU slot 1 mainboard. And put a new (well, had to desolder that one :from a donor mainboard) chip back on. It *is* doable, but you need a :stereo microscope, a Weller fine-pointed thermocontrolled soldering iron and :lots of pa

Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!

2002-01-08 Thread D J Hawkey Jr
On Jan 08, at 01:38 PM, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > Ah yes. By the time I was ready to throw my PET away the hardware > inside was so hacked up I don't think anybody but me could boot the > thing. > >[SNIP] > > -Matt I've never been much of a hardware hacker, but

Re: Which ftpd for proxy ?

2002-01-08 Thread Terry Lambert
Oliver Fromme wrote: > Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Julian Stacey wrote: > > > Any reccomendations what to install (or avoid) on my firewall, > > > from 4.4 /usr/ports/ftp/ to be a proxy ftpd server ? > > > > man libalias > > Then install natd. > > Maybe I'm wrong, but it so

Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!

2002-01-08 Thread TD790
In a message dated 01/08/2002 2:11:05 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Miguel Mendez wrote: > > Now that I'm subscribed to c64-hackers let's do some lda's here an there. > I > > even have some Oxyron demo disks around :) > > > > How about BSD for the 6510? ;-P > Ca

Re: A Helping Hand

2002-01-08 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2002-01-04 23:00:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Whichever hacker, > > Upon reading section 3.1 in > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.4-RELEASE/floppies/README.TXT, > I learned that you can always use a helping hand. I, however, do not > know how to program just yet. The proj

Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!

2002-01-08 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 01:38:15PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :Those were the days, my friends... > :Dave > > Ah yes. By the time I was ready to throw my PET away the hardware > inside was so hacked up I don't think anybody but me could boot the > thing. I had replaced the char

Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!

2002-01-08 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Unix! : :I've got _all_ the original CBM stuff for the VIC-20 and C-64, hardware :and hardcopy. Even some aftermarket FDDs. : :I poked a _lot_ of stuff from Compute!, including the assembler, and :have several of their wire-bound books, too. : :I've got the 6502 monitor and 300bps modem cartridg

Re: Overriding ARG_MAX

2002-01-08 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:54 PM -0500 1/4/02, David Miller wrote: >What I usually want to do is something more like ls *.out |wc -l, >or grep something *.data or cat *.foo | grep something. > >I have rebuilt the system in the past after greatly expanding >ARG_MAX, and that does what I want. I'm just looking for an e

Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!

2002-01-08 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Julian Stacey wrote: >You may want to look at > http://www.vintage.org & http://www.vcf.orgVintage Computer Fest > http://www.vcfe.org Vintage Computer Fest Europa, > http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/vcfe/ A BSD box designed by Bill Jollitz. Add to that a frie

Re: Is there anyway from userspace to get the 'enum vtagtype v_tag' for a vnode for an open file?

2002-01-08 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Richard Sharpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020108 13:55] wrote: > Richard Sharpe wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I want to find out the file system type from userspace for an open file. > > > > Can I get at this info? the stat call does not give it to me. > > Hmmm, getfsspec seems to fill the need. Sorry f

Re: Is there anyway from userspace to get the 'enum vtagtype v_tag' for a vnode for an open file?

2002-01-08 Thread Richard Sharpe
Richard Sharpe wrote: > Hi, > > I want to find out the file system type from userspace for an open file. > > Can I get at this info? the stat call does not give it to me. Hmmm, getfsspec seems to fill the need. Sorry for the noise. -- Richard Sharpe, [EMAIL PROTECTED], LPIC-1 www.samba.org, w

Re: Which ftpd for proxy ?

2002-01-08 Thread Oliver Fromme
Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Julian Stacey wrote: > > Any reccomendations what to install (or avoid) on my firewall, > > from 4.4 /usr/ports/ftp/ to be a proxy ftpd server ? > > man libalias > Then install natd. Maybe I'm wrong, but it sounded like he is searching for an appl

Is there anyway from userspace to get the 'enum vtagtype v_tag' for a vnode for an open file?

2002-01-08 Thread Richard Sharpe
Hi, I want to find out the file system type from userspace for an open file. Can I get at this info? the stat call does not give it to me. -- Richard Sharpe, [EMAIL PROTECTED], LPIC-1 www.samba.org, www.ethereal.com, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours, Special Edition, Using Samba To Un

Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!

2002-01-08 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :That brings back memories. We wrote our own firmware for the 1541 since :the commodore DOS was so slow. I forget what transfer rate we managed but :it was much better than the standard code. Bit of a sod to debug though. : :-- :Doug RabsonMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!

2002-01-08 Thread Terry Lambert
Miguel Mendez wrote: > Now that I'm subscribed to c64-hackers let's do some lda's here an there. I > even have some Oxyron demo disks around :) > > How about BSD for the 6510? ;-P There's no GCC for it, and some idiot keeps converting things to ANSI C, so I have an incredibly hard time compiling

Re: Which ftpd for proxy ?

2002-01-08 Thread Terry Lambert
Julian Stacey wrote: > > Hi all, > Any reccomendations what to install (or avoid) on my firewall, > from 4.4 /usr/ports/ftp/ to be a proxy ftpd server ? man libalias Then install natd. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of th

Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!

2002-01-08 Thread Miguel Mendez
On Tuesday 08 January 2002 19:45, Terry Lambert wrote: > Doug Rabson wrote: > > That brings back memories. We wrote our own firmware for the 1541 since > > the commodore DOS was so slow. I forget what transfer rate we managed but > > it was much better than the standard code. Bit of a sod to debug

Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!

2002-01-08 Thread Terry Lambert
Doug Rabson wrote: > That brings back memories. We wrote our own firmware for the 1541 since > the commodore DOS was so slow. I forget what transfer rate we managed but > it was much better than the standard code. Bit of a sod to debug though. Fastest I ever saw with a firmware hack was 53k... -

Re: Issues with /stand & sysinstall

2002-01-08 Thread Jordan Hubbard
There is no way, currently. It's done by the crunchgen scripts as part of making a release but there's no way to do it for the purposes of repopulating /stand. > > Tried -questions, no response. Verified issue on 4.5 PRERELEASE. > > Going to >/usr/src/release/sysinstall > and doing >

Is this TCP tuning information true?

2002-01-08 Thread Jin Guojun[ITG]
Hi, Fund a URL for TCP tuning at http://www.csm.ornl.gov/~dunigan/net100/auto.html At the bottom of the page, it says: OpenBSD/FreeBSD saved ssthresh/cwnd info for a path in the kernel routing table, as I recall? That info could be used to "prime" subsequent connections on the same pa

Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!

2002-01-08 Thread PSI, Mike Smith
> > Ancient google archives might be better on chat@ not hackers@ , however, > You may want to look at > http://www.vintage.org & http://www.vcf.orgVintage Computer Fest > http://www.vcfe.org Vintage Computer Fest Europa, Old people don't do chat. Don't worry. Most of us can

Re: Which ftpd for proxy ?

2002-01-08 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 05:00:58PM +, Julian Stacey wrote: > TO AVOID: > ncftpd: commercial Just because it's commercial doesn't mean that it's no good. It is actually quite cheap, and we used it a lot at Pavilion Internet. Joe msg30801/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP sig

Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!

2002-01-08 Thread Julian Stacey
Re. > PET 2001-8 etc Ancient google archives might be better on chat@ not hackers@ , however, You may want to look at http://www.vintage.org & http://www.vcf.orgVintage Computer Fest http://www.vcfe.org Vintage Computer Fest Europa, http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/vcf

Which ftpd for proxy ?

2002-01-08 Thread Julian Stacey
Hi all, Any reccomendations what to install (or avoid) on my firewall, from 4.4 /usr/ports/ftp/ to be a proxy ftpd server ? My Background: - I'm not looking for high performance, (it's not a big company, just my home site with some internal hosts). - I will have the usual security concerns

Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!

2002-01-08 Thread Jan Grant
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, PSI, Mike Smith wrote: > Those of you out there whose memories include CHANGING diapers not > WEARING them might appreciate this. Heh, yeah, I'm having real nostalgia pangs reading this. Maybe we sould take this to "freebsd-oldfarts@". the amazing nostalgia man (which the in

Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!

2002-01-08 Thread Diane Bruce
PSI, Mike Smith says: > Those of you out there whose memories include CHANGING diapers not > WEARING them might appreciate this. > > At the Smithsonian they have an exhibit on the history of computers. ... > > What's pathetic is that my wife (who is also in this field) and I walked > down the EN

Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!

2002-01-08 Thread Mats Lofkvist
Wilko Bulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > In those days I built my own SWTPc/09 clone system, running TSC FLEX > and later TSC UniFlex. I still have it! Started off with 2 floppys, > later grew a Miniscribe 3012, 10Mb @ 155ms average access time. 1Mbyte RAM. > Motorola 6809 at 2 MHz. 2 years ago i

Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!

2002-01-08 Thread PSI, Mike Smith
Those of you out there whose memories include CHANGING diapers not WEARING them might appreciate this. At the Smithsonian they have an exhibit on the history of computers. They have all of the old, and I use the term loosely, systems on display, most still working. What's pathetic is that my wif

[PATCH] Fix endianness bug in YP

2002-01-08 Thread John Baldwin
YP didn't work on my sparc64 testbox here until I crafted this patch. It's a simple combination of an endian problem on an arch where sizeof(long) != sizeof(IPv4 address). The patch can be found at http://www.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/yp.patch and below: I've tested it on both sparc64 and i386.

Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!

2002-01-08 Thread Nils Holland
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 05:04:44AM -0600, D J Hawkey Jr stood up and spoke: > Heh. And I thought I was the only micro-micro-hacker that grew up into > Unix! > > I've got _all_ the original CBM stuff for the VIC-20 and C-64, hardware > and hardcopy. Even some aftermarket FDDs. Well, I have three

Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!

2002-01-08 Thread Doug Rabson
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Matthew Dillon wrote: > Oh my god. I don't even *remember* writing this one! This was when > I was 18. Google's archive isn't complete but they've done an incredible > job getting as much as they have. > > Pet, C64, DMail, Shell (for the amiga), backup/resto

Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!

2002-01-08 Thread D J Hawkey Jr
Heh. And I thought I was the only micro-micro-hacker that grew up into Unix! I've got _all_ the original CBM stuff for the VIC-20 and C-64, hardware and hardcopy. Even some aftermarket FDDs. I poked a _lot_ of stuff from Compute!, including the assembler, and have several of their wire-bound boo

Re: Should pam_ssh and xdm work?

2002-01-08 Thread Mark Murray
> I've uncommented the entries for pam_ssh in /etc/pam.conf, and am trying > to log in via xdm on my local machine. I can type in my SSH passphrase > into the password box, and it authenticates me, and runs my .xsession. > So far, no problems. But it's not setting up the ssh-agent properly. Y