redundant firewall + vpn server howto

2002-12-20 Thread randall ehren
it's a bit of a work-in-progress, but if anyone is interested in setting up freebsd as a bridging ipfilter firewall + pptp vpn server, in rc.diskless2 mode, along with the option of having a redundant failover machine: http://isber.ucsb.edu/~randall/firewall/redundant/ despite the complexity at

Re: Bootable FreeBSD CD

2002-12-20 Thread Gary Thorpe
--- Garance A Drosihn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 7:12 PM -0800 12/20/02, Sean Hamilton wrote: > >Greetings, > > > >How does the kernel on the FreeBSD install CD know which device to > >mount as root? I'm assuming it hasn't got a ROOTDEVNAME config > >option, since that would make it fairly sp

Re: Bootable FreeBSD CD

2002-12-20 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 7:12 PM -0800 12/20/02, Sean Hamilton wrote: Greetings, How does the kernel on the FreeBSD install CD know which device to mount as root? I'm assuming it hasn't got a ROOTDEVNAME config option, since that would make it fairly specific to certain hardware. Mine always tries to mount fd0. You

Re: Syscall number.

2002-12-20 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 07:43:37PM +0100, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: +> Simple example (from kld module): +> +> sysent[SYS_chmod].sy_call = myfunction; +> sysent[SYS_open].sy_call = myfunction; +> sysent[SYS_execve].sy_call = myfunction; +> +> int +> myfunction(register struct proc *p, register v

Bootable FreeBSD CD

2002-12-20 Thread Sean Hamilton
Greetings, How does the kernel on the FreeBSD install CD know which device to mount as root? I'm assuming it hasn't got a ROOTDEVNAME config option, since that would make it fairly specific to certain hardware. Mine always tries to mount fd0. thanks, sh To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PRO

RE: panic: icmp_error: bad length

2002-12-20 Thread Patrick Soltani
Hello All, I wonder if any patch has been produced/committed for this problem? Best Regards, Patrick Soltani. >-Original Message- >From: Robert Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 7:19 PM >To: Ian Dowse >Cc: Luigi Rizzo; Alexander Langer; Patrick Soltani

Syscall number.

2002-12-20 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
Hello hackers... Simple example (from kld module): sysent[SYS_chmod].sy_call = myfunction; sysent[SYS_open].sy_call = myfunction; sysent[SYS_execve].sy_call = myfunction; int myfunction(register struct proc *p, register void *uap) { int syscallno; syscallno = ? return (

RE: 3COM PCI FaxModem with shared IRQ causes FBSD to freeze

2002-12-20 Thread jimmie james
The subject line is the same subject line as kern/28856 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/28856 The above PR refers to an issue, with a workaround, for 5.0-CURRENT circa July 2001. I have nearly the identical issue under 4.7-RELEASE. I see an additional symptom, however, under m

Re: Perl issue on freebsd 4.x?

2002-12-20 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 03:03:53AM +1100, Andrew wrote: > This is to maintain historical behaviour. Sys::Syslog never used to know > how to do unix sockets at all so to not change behaviour of old scripts > inet had to be the default. While of course only my opinion, but this

Re: Perl issue on freebsd 4.x?

2002-12-20 Thread Andrew
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Leo Bicknell wrote: > For some reason perl has chosen the opposite behavior as the default, This is to maintain historical behaviour. Sys::Syslog never used to know how to do unix sockets at all so to not change behaviour of old scripts inet had to be the default. Andrew

Re: Perl issue on freebsd 4.x?

2002-12-20 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 07:37:14AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > I've used syslogging with FreeBSD 4.4/4.5. Have not tried it lately. > > > > /usr/bin/perl as shipped on 4.4, 4.5, and 4.7. > > The perl-5.6.1 and perl-5.8.0 ports show exactly the same behaviour on > 4.7.

Re: Invalid FFC node allocation algorithm (Was: maxusers and randomsystem freezes)

2002-12-20 Thread Varshavchick Alexander
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :Hi, > : > :It seems that kern/32672 is not fixed yet on FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE. > : > :System 4Gb RAM, 4x700MHz > : > :When the system is not using all RAM, the FFS node memory grows up to a > :limit of 102400K which leads to a system deadlocking. > >

Re: Invalid FFC node allocation algorithm (Was: maxusers and randomsystem freezes)

2002-12-20 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Hi, : :It seems that kern/32672 is not fixed yet on FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE. : :System 4Gb RAM, 4x700MHz : :When the system is not using all RAM, the FFS node memory grows up to a :limit of 102400K which leads to a system deadlocking. Well, there was some further work done to the vnode reclamation

FEC doesn't build on 5.0

2002-12-20 Thread Attila Nagy
Hello, Neither of the original (http://people.freebsd.org/~wpaul/FEC/) nor the in tree FEC implementations build. In /usr/src/sys/modules/netgraph/fec change KMODDEPS to MODULES_DEPEND and type make: # make Warning: Object directory not changed from original /usr/src/sys/modules/netgrap h/fec @ -

Invalid FFC node allocation algorithm (Was: maxusers and randomsystem freezes)

2002-12-20 Thread Varshavchick Alexander
Hi, It seems that kern/32672 is not fixed yet on FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE. System 4Gb RAM, 4x700MHz When the system is not using all RAM, the FFS node memory grows up to a limit of 102400K which leads to a system deadlocking. *** Type InUse MemUse HighUse LimitRequests Limit Limit