Re: Fwd: default resolver(5) configuration and behavior of functions like gethostbyname(3)

2004-10-15 Thread Rostislav Krasny
--- Ryan Sommers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Rostislav Krasny said: > >> Please explain why developers of FreeBSD had chose 4 instead of 2? > >> Maybe they should change it to 2, as this default value is defined on > >> most of other systems, including NetBSD? > > Don't know why 4 was chosen i

Re: Fwd: default resolver(5) configuration and behavior of functions like gethostbyname(3)

2004-10-15 Thread Ryan Sommers
Rostislav Krasny said: >> Please explain why developers of FreeBSD had chose 4 instead of 2? Maybe >> they should change it to 2, as this default value is defined on most of >> other systems, including NetBSD? Don't know why 4 was chosen instead of 2, haven't had a chance to look at the commit lo

Fwd: default resolver(5) configuration and behavior of functions like gethostbyname(3)

2004-10-15 Thread Rostislav Krasny
Hello everybody. About two weeks ago I've sent following email to the freebsd-net mailing list but I didn't get any reply of it yet. Could someone of you answer to my questions those I've asked in my original email? Thank you. --- Rostislav Krasny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From Rostislav Krasn

Re: NFS + VM question

2004-10-15 Thread David Malone
> > Since the server could actually hand out different content depending > > on the mount instance, I don't think the NFS client could make these > > assumptions. > Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm not convinced that's true. > NFS is "file-handle" centric: there's no real concept of a "mount

Re: NFS + VM question

2004-10-15 Thread David Malone
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 04:27:38PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > On the other hand, the kernel should know that the mounts > come from the same NFS source, so it might actually be able > to handle it efficiently (i.e. share). But I really don't > know. Any FreeBSD kernel hacker can enlighten me?

Re: can WEP keys be set without resetting a wireless interface?

2004-10-15 Thread Sam Leffler
Phillip Crumpler wrote: Hi hackers, Can anyone tell me why setting WEP keys on a wireless interface must result in the interface being reset? I have a wireless authenticator that wants to set random WEP keys and send them out to connected stations. Setting a key results in the interface being r

NFS + VM question

2004-10-15 Thread Oliver Fromme
Hi, I'm currently trying to optimize some NFS mounts. I have a server machine (which is an NFS client) which contains multiple chroot environments. I'm mounting the same direc- tory from an NFS server multiple times at different mount points (i.e. one per chroot). There are daemons and other pr