Re: suggestions ?

2004-06-02 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Saber ZRELLI wrote: Erich Dollansky wrote: if my browser is connected to google and yahoo , then i need to distinguish what data is coming from whish server , so it can be treated correctly ... It will not work for google or yahoo how they work currently. I think i'm missing something ... Yes.

Re: Network config on FreeBSD 5.1 - Help!

2004-06-02 Thread zera holladay
Have you read this yet? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config-network-setup.html -zh --- aussie gal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi - I'm trying to configure my network card on a > newly installed freebsd 5.1. > BUT - I can get the system to come on line. It > recogin

Re: ipfw cached ucred patch

2004-06-02 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 03:14:43PM -0700, Christian S.J. Peron wrote: > > I understand what you are saying. The only real other choice > would be to copy out the entire cr_groups array. Do you know > if this copy would be more expensive then the mutex lock/unlock > associated with grabbing a refe

Re: ipfw cached ucred patch

2004-06-02 Thread Christian S.J. Peron
I understand what you are saying. The only real other choice would be to copy out the entire cr_groups array. Do you know if this copy would be more expensive then the mutex lock/unlock associated with grabbing a reference to the ucred? -- Christian S.J. Peron [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD Committe

Network config on FreeBSD 5.1 - Help!

2004-06-02 Thread aussie gal
Hi - I'm trying to configure my network card on a newly installed freebsd 5.1. BUT - I can get the system to come on line. It recoginizes the hardware as being UP ... I've been hitting several TCP/IP how-tos on the web and doing lots of reading and tweaking to no avail. Please advise. Does

Re: ipfw cached ucred patch

2004-06-02 Thread Andre Oppermann
Christian S.J. Peron wrote: Agreed, This was a concern for me as well, I was pretty carefull about managing the reference counts, I am currently testing this patch with a variety of rule types to check for ucred leaks. If/before this patch gets committed, I plan on doing another carefull scrutiniz

Re: ipfw cached ucred patch

2004-06-02 Thread Christian S.J. Peron
Agreed, This was a concern for me as well, I was pretty carefull about managing the reference counts, I am currently testing this patch with a variety of rule types to check for ucred leaks. If/before this patch gets committed, I plan on doing another carefull scrutinization of the ipfw code to

Re: ipfw cached ucred patch

2004-06-02 Thread Andre Oppermann
Christian S.J. Peron wrote: On 2 Jun 2004 Andre Oppermann wrote: Christian S.J. Peron wrote: All, Currently, when you have any rules which contain UID/GID constraints, ipfw will lock the pcb hash and do a lookup to find the pcb associated with that packet -- One for each constraint. I have writt

Re: suggestions ?

2004-06-02 Thread Saber ZRELLI
Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > Saber ZRELLI wrote: > >> >> Erich Dollansky wrote: > > >>> If multiple servers provide the data, it should not matter which server >>> provides it. >> >> >> >> >> I see what you mean , you are talking at higher level , > > > It does not have to be at a high

Re: suggestions ?

2004-06-02 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Saber ZRELLI wrote: Erich Dollansky wrote: If multiple servers provide the data, it should not matter which server provides it. I see what you mean , you are talking at higher level , It does not have to be at a higher level. when i mentioned Robust TCP/IP i meant TCP connections in the kerne

Re: suggestions ?

2004-06-02 Thread Aniruddha Bohra
I'll get my self informed by reading those papers then i'll have some comments and questions if you dont mind. Questions are always welcome although ,i want to know , when you said If you mean network level, then TCP provides that, maybe you are talking about timeouts in TCP/IP ? TCP retransmi

Re: suggestions ?

2004-06-02 Thread Saber ZRELLI
Thank y ouvery much Mr.Bohra , I have here a lot of materials a interesting all new issues for me to discover ... I'll get my self informed by reading those papers then i'll have some comments and questions if you dont mind. although ,i want to know , when you said > If you mean network level

Re: suggestions ?

2004-06-02 Thread Aniruddha Bohra
Hello, I see what you mean , you are talking at higher level , when i mentioned Robust TCP/IP i meant TCP connections in the kernel network stack level , the architecture you are talking about is like a middle ware handeling all TCP/IP connections for a client to multiple servers. the mechanism is

Re: suggestions ?

2004-06-02 Thread Saber ZRELLI
Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > Saber ZRELLI wrote: > >> >> Erich Dollansky wrote: >> >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Saber ZRELLI wrote: >>> >>> Hello Dear Seniors , i was looking for some interesting issue related to FreeBSD networking , to make it my master thesis , but i couldn't fi

Re: suggestions ?

2004-06-02 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Saber ZRELLI wrote: Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, Saber ZRELLI wrote: Hello Dear Seniors , i was looking for some interesting issue related to FreeBSD networking , to make it my master thesis , but i couldn't find such a topic , certainly because i'm not a FreeBSD expert ( but i will be =) ) , s

Re: suggestions ?

2004-06-02 Thread Saber ZRELLI
Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > Saber ZRELLI wrote: > >> Hello Dear Seniors , >> i was looking for some interesting issue related to FreeBSD networking , >> to make it my master thesis , but i couldn't find such a topic , >> certainly because i'm not a FreeBSD expert ( but i will be =) ) , >>

Re: suggestions ?

2004-06-02 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Aniruddha Bohra wrote: i was thinking about implementing Robust TCP/IP connections .. but somebody told me that is not very consistent , and i think so also , Did you consider fault-tolerant TCP/IP connections to multiple servers? See these : This one is heavy-weight, whole process wrappin

Re: suggestions ?

2004-06-02 Thread Aniruddha Bohra
i was thinking about implementing Robust TCP/IP connections .. but somebody told me that is not very consistent , and i think so also , Did you consider fault-tolerant TCP/IP connections to multiple servers? See these : This one is heavy-weight, whole process wrapping etc. Also the implemen

Re: suggestions ?

2004-06-02 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Saber ZRELLI wrote: Hello Dear Seniors , i was looking for some interesting issue related to FreeBSD networking , to make it my master thesis , but i couldn't find such a topic , certainly because i'm not a FreeBSD expert ( but i will be =) ) , so could any member here , especially contributors

Re: suggestions ?

2004-06-02 Thread Saber ZRELLI
I read about netgraph when i was looking for the Netfilter equivalent in FreeBSD . and u r right , that's the orientation i wannta take. Vlad GALU wrote: > Saber ZRELLI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > |Hello Dear Seniors , > |i was looking for some interesting issue related to FreeBSD networki

Re: general Darwin imports (was Re: Darwin cmd import?)

2004-06-02 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 07:55:21PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote: > > The FreeBSD Core Team took a look at the APSL a while back, and decided > > that similar to LGPL/GPL, it was an acceptable license for use in > > userspace for stand-alone tools, but th

Re: suggestions ?

2004-06-02 Thread Vlad GALU
Saber ZRELLI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: |Hello Dear Seniors , |i was looking for some interesting issue related to FreeBSD networking |, to make it my master thesis , but i couldn't find such a topic , |certainly because i'm not a FreeBSD expert ( but i will be =) ) , |so could any member here ,

suggestions ?

2004-06-02 Thread Saber ZRELLI
Hello Dear Seniors , i was looking for some interesting issue related to FreeBSD networking , to make it my master thesis , but i couldn't find such a topic , certainly because i'm not a FreeBSD expert ( but i will be =) ) , so could any member here , especially contributors , i'm sure you have ver

Re: ifconfig.c developer manual

2004-06-02 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 11:42:27AM +0800, Aldinson C. Esto wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I know most of you here already have extreme knowledge about freeBSD's > ins and outs. I just want to ask specifically regarding FreeBSD's > ifconfig.c's functions and what does each function do. > > No one c

Re: [HEADS-UP] mbuma is in the tree

2004-06-02 Thread Bosko Milekic
> Bosko, [deletia] > are you going to convert mbuf tag allocator to UMA? Now >tags are allocated with malloc(). AFAIK, tags are used heavily in pf, >and forthcoming ALTQ. Moving to UMA should affect their performance >positively. First off, malloc() *is* UMA. With mbuma in the tree, I don'

general Darwin imports (was Re: Darwin cmd import?)

2004-06-02 Thread Michael W. Lucas
On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 07:55:21PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote: > The FreeBSD Core Team took a look at the APSL a while back, and decided > that similar to LGPL/GPL, it was an acceptable license for use in > userspace for stand-alone tools, but that similar protections to LGPL/GPL > would be require

Re: ipfw cached ucred patch

2004-06-02 Thread Christian S.J. Peron
On 2 Jun 2004 Andre Oppermann wrote: > Christian S.J. Peron wrote: > >All, > > > >Currently, when you have any rules which contain UID/GID > >constraints, ipfw will lock the pcb hash and do a lookup > >to find the pcb associated with that packet -- > >One for each constraint. > > > >I have writte

Re: [HEADS-UP] mbuma is in the tree

2004-06-02 Thread Gleb Smirnoff
Bosko, On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 02:51:01PM -0700, Bosko Milekic wrote: B> mbuma is an Mbuf & Cluster allocator built on top of a number of B> extensions to the UMA framework, all included herein. are you going to convert mbuf tag allocator to UMA? Now tags are allocated with malloc(). AFAIK, t

ifconfig.c developer manual

2004-06-02 Thread Aldinson C. Esto
Hello Everyone, I know most of you here already have extreme knowledge about freeBSD's ins and outs. I just want to ask specifically regarding FreeBSD's ifconfig.c's functions and what does each function do. No one can give me a developer's manual for such and I really need someone to interpre

Re: Good Information about ipfw

2004-06-02 Thread W. D.
At 21:59 6/1/2004, Martes G Wigglesworth, wrote: >Is there a good, definitive, source of information for implementing ipfw >firewall rules. I am familiar with the man pages, howerver, a list of >arbitrary functionality, without any clue as to how to actually empliment >them is of no use to me. >

Re: ipfw cached ucred patch

2004-06-02 Thread Andre Oppermann
Christian S.J. Peron wrote: All, Currently, when you have any rules which contain UID/GID constraints, ipfw will lock the pcb hash and do a lookup to find the pcb associated with that packet -- One for each constraint. I have written a patch in attempt to minimize the impact of PCB related lookup