Re: cool feature of dmesg.boot file

2008-02-22 Thread soralx
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:31:36AM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > If you insist on writing a patch, then please make it > > default off. > > rink@ just provided one, and it does default to off. I fully agree with > defaulting it to off as well; those of us that want it on can set it as > such

Re: cool feature of dmesg.boot file

2008-02-22 Thread Rink Springer
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 02:46:31AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > I'll try out said patch this weekend. Assuming it works, and does get > committed, I'll be more than happy to submit a PR along with a patch to > update the loader.8 manpage, documenting kern.ignore_old_msgbuf. Sounds good to me.

Re: cool feature of dmesg.boot file

2008-02-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:31:36AM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > If you insist on writing a patch, then please make it > default off. rink@ just provided one, and it does default to off. I fully agree with defaulting it to off as well; those of us that want it on can set it as such in loader.conf

Re: cool feature of dmesg.boot file

2008-02-22 Thread Oliver Fromme
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > [...] > Either way, it's a feature with major security implications. So, for > those of us who are concerned about master.passwd changes via > mergemaster being stuffed into msgbuf, how do we disable said feature? > (Before answering, see bel

Re: cool feature of dmesg.boot file

2008-02-22 Thread Rink Springer
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 02:09:24AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Maybe I should look into writing a patch that does in fact clear the > buffer immediately before reboot, and tie it to a sysctl. I suggest just making a loader tunable to do this. I think the following should do it (untested): ---

Re: cool feature of dmesg.boot file

2008-02-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:52:54AM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > Upon a reboot, the kernel is usually loaded to the same > > > physical addresses in RAM where it was before, so the > > > dmesg buffer will be at the same location, too (unless

Re: cool feature of dmesg.boot file

2008-02-22 Thread Oliver Fromme
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Upon a reboot, the kernel is usually loaded to the same > > physical addresses in RAM where it was before, so the > > dmesg buffer will be at the same location, too (unless > > you built a new kernel, of course). So all the contents > > from

Re: cool feature of dmesg.boot file

2008-02-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 09:28:35AM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Bartosz Giza wrote: > > I have found quite interesting feature on one of router that lately i have > > taken to administer. > > What i knew was that file /var/run/dmesg.boot holds data from kernel > buffer > > that is taken rig

Re: cool feature of dmesg.boot file

2008-02-22 Thread Oliver Fromme
Bartosz Giza wrote: > I have found quite interesting feature on one of router that lately i have > taken to administer. > What i knew was that file /var/run/dmesg.boot holds data from kernel buffer > that is taken right after file system(s) are mounted. > Lately i have found that one router

Re: cool feature of dmesg.boot file

2008-02-21 Thread Bernd Walter
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:29:40PM +0100, Bartosz Giza wrote: > Hi, > > I have found quite interesting feature on one of router that lately i have > taken to administer. > What i knew was that file /var/run/dmesg.boot holds data from kernel buffer > that is taken right after file system(s) are m

Re: Cool script to update ports in cron..

2005-02-03 Thread Julio Capote
I also fixed a bug that didnt let it run in cron, because I wasnt using full paths (doh!)...so it should work fine from cron now On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 00:34 -0500, Timour Ezeev wrote: > On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Julio Capote wrote: > > > I guess the list doesnt like attachments, here's a link: > > htt

Re: Cool script to update ports in cron..

2005-02-02 Thread Julio Capote
Thanks! Merged into release. http://wonderland.hopto.org/~capotej/portsync.pl On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 00:34 -0500, Timour Ezeev wrote: > On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Julio Capote wrote: > > > I guess the list doesnt like attachments, here's a link: > > http://wonderland.hopto.org/~capotej/portsync.pl > >

Re: Cool script to update ports in cron..

2005-02-02 Thread Timour Ezeev
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Julio Capote wrote: I guess the list doesnt like attachments, here's a link: http://wonderland.hopto.org/~capotej/portsync.pl -Julio I think you have a small problem with cvs release entry, i.e. when you run your program you get *default release=cvs tag==cvs tag=. instead o

Re: Cool script to update ports in cron..

2005-02-02 Thread Timour Ezeev
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Julio Capote wrote: I guess the list doesnt like attachments, here's a link: http://wonderland.hopto.org/~capotej/portsync.pl -Julio I think you have a small problem with cvs release entry, i.e. when you run your program you get *default release=cvs tag==cvs tag=. instead o

Re: Cool script to update ports in cron..

2005-02-02 Thread Julio Capote
I guess the list doesnt like attachments, here's a link: http://wonderland.hopto.org/~capotej/portsync.pl -Julio On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 03:52 -0400, Leonardo Alfonzo Díaz Gamboa wrote: > I can't see the attachment you mentioned in your e-mail. (inlined) > > - Original Message - > From

Re: cool

2000-06-16 Thread Julian Elischer
Ben Smithurst wrote: > > Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > > > I looks to me like Julian's machine has the configuration problem. > > The dhcp client cannot get enough bpf's. > > So why did tcpdump work? Both dhclient and tcpdump need one bpf, no? I > initially thought the same as you but then ask

Re: cool

2000-06-16 Thread Ben Smithurst
Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > I looks to me like Julian's machine has the configuration problem. > The dhcp client cannot get enough bpf's. So why did tcpdump work? Both dhclient and tcpdump need one bpf, no? I initially thought the same as you but then asked myself that question. -- Ben Smit

Re: cool

2000-06-16 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: > [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] > > On Wednesday, 14 June 2000 at 1:00:27 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > > So, if you are in the Singapore Changi international airport, > > the internet center in the transit area will

Re: cool

2000-06-15 Thread Greg Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Wednesday, 14 June 2000 at 1:00:27 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > > So, if you are in the Singapore Changi international airport, > the internet center in the transit area will loan you for FREE, > a wavelan PC-CARD. > > So

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

2000-01-10 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Matthew Reimer wrote: > The Netgear FS105 five-port 100BaseTX switch is $84.95 at buy.com > (http://www.buy.com/comp/product.asp?SKU=10221960), though they are > back-ordered. And I hate to reply twice, but the switch I bought (EZXS55W) is listed at $76.95. Hmm. :) - alex

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

2000-01-10 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Matthew Reimer wrote: > The Netgear FS105 five-port 100BaseTX switch is $84.95 at buy.com > (http://www.buy.com/comp/product.asp?SKU=10221960), though they are > back-ordered. Sure, but these were in stock. :^) - alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

2000-01-10 Thread Matthew Reimer
The Netgear FS105 five-port 100BaseTX switch is $84.95 at buy.com (http://www.buy.com/comp/product.asp?SKU=10221960), though they are back-ordered. Matt Alex Zepeda wrote: > > On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > > > I have a good reason to revive this thread. I thought anyone who followe

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

2000-01-09 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > I have a good reason to revive this thread. I thought anyone who followed > this conversation might want to know that one of the switches we dicussed, > the Netgear FS-105, is on a special at CompUSA right now -- THROUGH TOMORROW. > The special is a $20 m

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

2000-01-07 Thread Ben Rosengart
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Matthew Dillon wrote: > BTW, Kudos to the KAME folk, the ipv6 and ipsec stuff looks like it's > going to turn into a winner! IPSEC is going to be one really good reason > for needing ever-faster cpu's :-). Maybe Intel should have been approached for financial as

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

2000-01-07 Thread Matthew Dillon
:We attacked Rich's switch in the lab. We plugged ports 1-4 into 4 10/100 :ports on a SmartBits 2000 test chassis and banged it with full-duplex bi- :directional streams between ports 1<->2 and 3<->4. I am happy to report :that it passed 100% of traffic at all packet sizes except 64 bytes, whe

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

2000-01-07 Thread Wes Peters
Pete Mckenna wrote: > > Wes, > Have you managed to test the switch and if so how did it do ? I have a > FS-108 on order. Yes. I bought two FS-105's, one for me and one for a co-worker. CompUSA had a $20 rebate on them from 12/26 - 1/1, making them $99. We attacked Rich's switch in the lab. W

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

2000-01-01 Thread Wes Peters
Sergey Babkin wrote: > > I don't think that you realy need a switch to achieve > this speed on an empty network. With two machines > connected to a 3Com 24-port 100Mbps hub (simplex) > I had no problems achieving ~8MB/s on one FTP transfer > and over 4MB/s on each of two FTP transfers running > i

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

2000-01-01 Thread Sergey Babkin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've got one currently and my FreeBSD box can do 3000-3300kBytes a second > without any complaints.. > > Full duplex has it's advantages, no doubt I don't think that you realy need a switch to achieve this speed on an empty network. With two machines connected to a

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-31 Thread ph0d
I've got one currently and my FreeBSD box can do 3000-3300kBytes a second without any complaints.. Full duplex has it's advantages, no doubt On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > Matthew Dillon wrote: > > Prices have fallen a lot in the last year. I'm happy to be able to > > get r

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-31 Thread Wes Peters
Matthew Dillon wrote: > Prices have fallen a lot in the last year. I'm happy to be able to > get rid of my HUBs, I was constantly having to deal with packet loss > when running saturation tests and never able to figure out what > was causing it. I have a good reason to revive thi

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-22 Thread Peter da Silva
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Louis A. Mamakos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I noticed another, smaller IC which had a hole blown out of the epoxy case >(which subsequently allowed the smoke to escape. [...] >In a "what the hell" move, I powered up the ethernet Netgear Ethernet switch >with it's

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-21 Thread Wes Peters
Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > At 12:45 AM -0700 12/21/99, Wes Peters wrote: > >Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > > [...] but I was wondering how much one has to fork out before you > > > get extra options like a port-mirroring capability... > > > >Lots more, in terms of dollars. For this, you need at

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-21 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:45 AM -0700 12/21/99, Wes Peters wrote: >Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > [...] but I was wondering how much one has to fork out before you > > get extra options like a port-mirroring capability... > >Lots more, in terms of dollars. For this, you need at least a managed >switch, and probably a

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-21 Thread Doug White
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Michael R. Wayne wrote: > On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 10:46:37PM -0600, Tim Tsai wrote: > > > > Best bang for the buck category: HP ProCurve 4000M. 40 switched 10/100 > > ports (that's with the chassis half filled). > > Note that HP's pricing on additional cards is silly.

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-21 Thread Michael R. Wayne
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 10:46:37PM -0600, Tim Tsai wrote: > > Best bang for the buck category: HP ProCurve 4000M. 40 switched 10/100 > ports (that's with the chassis half filled). Note that HP's pricing on additional cards is silly. It's cheaper to buy 2 4000Ms and throw the second chassi

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-21 Thread Chris Sedore
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > > > At 11:18 PM -0700 12/18/99, Wes Peters wrote: > > >Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > > Prices have fallen a lot in the last year. I'm happy to be able to > > > > get rid of my HUBs, I was constantly having to deal wit

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-21 Thread Doug Rabson
On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Tim Tsai wrote: > > hub. It works fine except that it hangs occasionally (can be > > reset by power-cycling). > > Most of these can be attributed to the crappy wall wart they call a > power supply. If it's plugged into an UPS or replace it with your own DC > power supply

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-21 Thread Wes Peters
Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > At 11:18 PM -0700 12/18/99, Wes Peters wrote: > >Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > Prices have fallen a lot in the last year. I'm happy to be able to > > > get rid of my HUBs, I was constantly having to deal with packet loss > > > when running saturation tests

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-20 Thread Oliver Fromme
On the topic of switches... Does anyone have experience (good or bad) with the CNet CNSH-1601 or CNSH-2401? Those are unmanaged 19" switches (10/100) with 16 and 24 ports, respectively, and a 100BaseFX (fibre) uplink port. And they're suspiciously cheap over here [1]. We might get one of those

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-20 Thread Tim Tsai
> something like this (which is fine...), but I was wondering how > much one has to fork out before you get extra options like a > port-mirroring capability... You usually find this capability on managed switches (fairly obvious, since you need a management interface to configure port mirroring

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-20 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:18 PM -0700 12/18/99, Wes Peters wrote: >Matthew Dillon wrote: > > Prices have fallen a lot in the last year. I'm happy to be able to > > get rid of my HUBs, I was constantly having to deal with packet loss > > when running saturation tests and never able to figure out what > >

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-20 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Yes. The nice thing about modern swithcing power supplies are that if :you DO hear any vibration, you know you have big problems and are :courting disaster. At least that's my experience in homebrewing a 12V :-> 16V converter for my Sony VAIO 505TS. The original magnetics I :chose easily over

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-20 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Matthew Dillon writes: : :or higher, which makes things a whole lot easier. No 60Hz humm, no : :vibration - hell, you can even run the frequency up past 100 MHz and : : Needless to say I

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-20 Thread Matthew Dillon
:or higher, which makes things a whole lot easier. No 60Hz humm, no :vibration - hell, you can even run the frequency up past 100 MHz and Needless to say I meant 100 KHz here, not 100 MHz.

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-20 Thread Matthew Dillon
:> :"everyone" here). :> :> This is not true at all. : :Oh, and how many products have you passed through FCC/EC/Japanese environmental :certification? None, apparently. Four in the last 15 years. I've been involved with in-home electronic management systems and believe me, all t

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-20 Thread Wes Peters
Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :> I really hate these switching regulated DC wall plugs. They always use > :> cheap caps in them to save money and then don't bother adding any > :> protection to the motherboard. I prefer AC wall plugs or unregulated DC > :> wall plugs and then a smal

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-19 Thread Matthew Dillon
:> I really hate these switching regulated DC wall plugs. They always use :> cheap caps in them to save money and then don't bother adding any :> protection to the motherboard. I prefer AC wall plugs or unregulated DC :> wall plugs and then a small switching regulator on the mot

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-19 Thread Matthew Dillon
:> Heh heh. Indeed, they are LNE100TX V2.0 cards. :> :> I'll try adding 'dc' in. If it works, can I add a comment about :> 'LNE100TX' cards to the comments in LINT for 'dc'? : :Sure, if you like, however note that "man 4 dc" should also yield a :list of supported cards, including t

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-19 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
> "Matthew" == Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matthew> :At work I've got experience with 32-port D-Link 10/100 Matthew> switched :hub. It works fine except that it hangs Matthew> occasionally (can be :reset by power-cycling). So we Matthew> don't buy them any more.

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-19 Thread Wes Peters
Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :with a *really* big heatsink attached -this is the "bridge on chip". And > :I noticed another, smaller IC which had a hole blown out of the epoxy case > :(which subsequently allowed the smoke to escape. > : > :It was than than I make the connection - Hmm.. SGI LCD moni

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-19 Thread Matthew Dillon
:> :> I'll try adding 'dc' in. If it works, can I add a comment about :> 'LNE100TX' cards to the comments in LINT for 'dc'? : :Sure, if you like, however note that "man 4 dc" should also yield a :list of supported cards, including the LNE100TX v2.0. : :-Bill Yup, but that assumes y

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-19 Thread Matthew Dillon
:with a *really* big heatsink attached -this is the "bridge on chip". And :I noticed another, smaller IC which had a hole blown out of the epoxy case :(which subsequently allowed the smoke to escape. : :It was than than I make the connection - Hmm.. SGI LCD monitor don't work. :Ethernet switch

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-19 Thread Bill Paul
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Matthew Dillon had to walk into mine and say: > :Uhm uhm uhm. You do *not* want to say things like that within earshot > :of me. Describe the cards better. Describe how you came to the > :conclusion that they aren't supported. What chip

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-19 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I have a D-Link DSH-5 5-port 10/100 dualspeed hub here at home, :and I'm reasonably happy with it. It certainly doesn't hang. One :of the machines here has trouble negotiating a working 100Mbit/s :link, but that's just as likely a problem of the Linux tulip driver. :... :Christian "naddy" Weisge

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-19 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Uhm uhm uhm. You do *not* want to say things like that within earshot :of me. Describe the cards better. Describe how you came to the :conclusion that they aren't supported. What chip is on them? If it's :the LC82C115 then these are the LNE100TX Version 2.0 with Wake On LAN, :and they *are* supp

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-19 Thread Bill Paul
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Matthew Dillon had to walk into mine and say: > :At work I've got experience with 32-port D-Link 10/100 switched > :hub. It works fine except that it hangs occasionally (can be > :reset by power-cycling). So we don't buy them any more. Al

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-19 Thread Peter Wemm
Tim Tsai wrote: > > hub. It works fine except that it hangs occasionally (can be > > reset by power-cycling). > > Most of these can be attributed to the crappy wall wart they call a > power supply. If it's plugged into an UPS or replace it with your own DC > power supply they generally hold up

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-19 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Sergey Babkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At work I've got experience with 32-port D-Link 10/100 switched > hub. It works fine except that it hangs occasionally (can be > reset by power-cycling). So we don't buy them any more. Also > at my pre-previous employer we had small 8-port 10Mpbs hubs

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-18 Thread Wes Peters
Matthew Dillon wrote: > > I picked up a nifty little D-Link DSS-5+ 5-port 10/100 switch today > CompUSA had a 5-port network kit labeled 'DFE-910' which had the > DSS-5+ and two DFE-530TX+ NIC Cards ('rl' driver), plus cables, for $130. Warehouse.com sells the Netgear FS105 for $99.9

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-18 Thread Louis A. Mamakos
> > hub. It works fine except that it hangs occasionally (can be > > reset by power-cycling). > > Most of these can be attributed to the crappy wall wart they call a > power supply. If it's plugged into an UPS or replace it with your own DC > power supply they generally hold up a lot better. >

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-18 Thread Tim Tsai
> hub. It works fine except that it hangs occasionally (can be > reset by power-cycling). Most of these can be attributed to the crappy wall wart they call a power supply. If it's plugged into an UPS or replace it with your own DC power supply they generally hold up a lot better. I have a N

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-18 Thread Matthew Dillon
:At work I've got experience with 32-port D-Link 10/100 switched :hub. It works fine except that it hangs occasionally (can be :reset by power-cycling). So we don't buy them any more. Also :at my pre-previous employer we had small 8-port 10Mpbs hubs from :D-Link and they had the same problem, s

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-18 Thread Sergey Babkin
Matthew Dillon wrote: > > I picked up a nifty little D-Link DSS-5+ 5-port 10/100 switch today > CompUSA had a 5-port network kit labeled 'DFE-910' which had the > DSS-5+ and two DFE-530TX+ NIC Cards ('rl' driver), plus cables, for $130. > > It appears to operate quite nicely. I