Re: What good PII/PIII Motherboards for FreeBSD and Celeron CPU's

1999-07-21 Thread Chris Dillon
tion. I've found the ASUS P2B series to be very solid. I've also used many ATrend BX boards for Winblows95 boxes (simply because they were cheaper than the ASUS boards), and haven't had a bit of trouble with them. YMMV. -- Chris Dillon - cdil...@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdil...@inte

Re: VMWare: porting kernel modules to FreeBSD

1999-08-18 Thread Chris Dillon
ive you or whoever else decides to tackle this some monetary compensation? It would also help to bring us a step closer to a native FreeBSD version of VMWare, since some (most?) of the work would already be done for them (the porting of vmmon and vmnet). -- Chris Dillon - cdil...@wolves.k12.mo.u

Re: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs

1999-08-18 Thread Chris Dillon
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Bill Studenmund wrote: > On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Brian C. Grayson wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 07:17:45PM -0700, Wilfredo Sanchez wrote: > > > A group of us at Apple are trying to figure out how to handle > > > situations where a filesystem with "foreign" user ID's a

Re: sysinstall, GJOURNAL and ZFS

2009-06-10 Thread Chris Dillon
. I would love to put ZFS on this system so that I could have finer grained snapshots, but I need user quota support which our ZFS currently lacks. -- Chris Dillon - NetEng/SysAdm Reeds Spring R-IV School District Technology Department 175 Elementary Rd. Reeds Spring, MO 65737 Voice: 417-272

Re: P5 vs Celeron vs PII

1999-06-10 Thread Chris Dillon
, for instance), even though it runs at a higher clock rate. Last time I looked, the price difference was enough that the Celeron gives you more bang for the buck. -- Chris Dillon - cdil...@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdil...@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. Fo

Re: CVSup7.FreeBSD.org is back in service

2001-02-02 Thread Chris Dillon
my mirror I noticed nothing was changing, which is very unusual. :-) A nice feature would be to add multiple cvsup servers to use as fallbacks with some way of knowing if the server you've just fallen back to has a later copy of the tree than you do. -- Chris Dillon - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module

2001-02-08 Thread Chris Dillon
where I have two bonded channels from a server, each port shows a different MAC address. Any idea how that would work? It would be really cool if you could choose either the EtherChannel method or some other non-EtherChannel method that will work with other switches, if we can figure out how it works. :-)

Re: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module

2001-02-09 Thread Chris Dillon
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Feb 08), Chris Dillon said: > > > The channel bonding is done using the Cisco fast etherchannel > > > mechanism. The default hashing mechanism uses the MAC address, > > > however you can select IP address

Re: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module

2001-02-09 Thread Chris Dillon
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Alex Pilosov wrote: > On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Chris Dillon wrote: > > > Cool, if thats all it will take, I'll give it a try. But, whatever > > method Compaq/Intel is using doesn't require me to set up the ports on > > the switch as being part

Re: Machines are getting too damn fast

2001-03-05 Thread Chris Dillon
to back it up? The higher real-world latency of RDRAM over SDRAM is what makes the benefits of its higher bandwidth so questionable. PC2100 DDR-SDRAM -- which has higher latencies than regular SDRAM but still lower than RDRAM -- should have it beat soundly, though we'll have to wait for some sys

Re: Missing support in FreeBSD for large file sizes?

2001-03-05 Thread Chris Dillon
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Matthew Jacob wrote: > Very annoying. And Maxtor also missed that Networker is available > for FreeBSD as well. And Veritas NetBackup BusinesServer/DataCenter. -- Chris Dillon - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS

Re: Machines are getting too damn fast

2001-03-05 Thread Chris Dillon
e only thing I don't like about this baby is the IBM IDE hard drive's > write performance. I only get 10-12 MBytes/sec. Read performance is > incredible, though... I get 37MB/sec dd'ing from /dev/ad0s1a to > /dev/null. > > ad0: 58644MB [119150/16/63] at

Re: Machines are getting too damn fast

2001-03-05 Thread Chris Dillon
even be using -march/-mcpu=pentiumpro, since I only recently changed it to =pentium to allow me to do buildworlds for another Pentium-class machine. I did wonder the same thing a while back and did the same test with and without the optimizations, and with pentiumpro opts the big block size transfe

Re: ecc kld for FreeBSD 4.2

2001-03-13 Thread Chris Dillon
+ } + printf("ECC: Total\t%dM\n", (int)mem_end / 1048576); } attached = 1; break; I also have something that I can hopefully just plug the bits into to get this working for the ServerWorks III chips

Re: ecc kld for FreeBSD 4.2

2001-03-13 Thread Chris Dillon
who actually use ECC systems. :-) -- Chris Dillon - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For IA32 and Alpha architectures. IA64, PPC, and ARM under development. http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PR

Re: ecc kld for FreeBSD 4.2

2001-03-14 Thread Chris Dillon
t. Splitting it into OS-specific and OS-independant parts would be a good idea, I think. > I'm not sure how kld's are distributed as there don't seem to be > any in the ports collection. And I wouldn't mind cleaning it up a > bit. Actually, I can think of at least two -- p

Re: if_fxp - the real point

2001-03-29 Thread Chris Dillon
er vendors supply. This, to me, actually makes the Alteon Tigon Gigabit Ethernet chipsets a far, far BETTER product than the Intel Gigabit Ethernet chipsets. Intel in this case is the "lesser" hardware vendor which also happens to be a pain in the ass when it comes to getting prog

Re: /etc/rc.network and natd_enable

2001-05-03 Thread Chris Dillon
bin/natd} ${natd_flags} ${natd_ifarg} fi ;; -- Chris Dillon - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For IA32 and Alpha architectures. IA64, PPC, and ARM un

Re: FreeBSD 4.3 crashing with USB hub attached...

2001-05-14 Thread Chris Dillon
ately, though FreeBSD was happy with it when I tried a few months ago. -- Chris Dillon - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For IA32 and Alpha architectures. IA64, PPC, and ARM under development. http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscr

Re: FreeBSD 4.3 crashing with USB hub attached...

2001-05-14 Thread Chris Dillon
n only explain as EMI/RFI problems with my on-board USB controller). I'll be going to my friend's place this weekend, so I can get details on what is happening with the joystick in question. -- Chris Dillon - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable

Re: FreeBSD 4.3 crashing with USB hub attached...

2001-05-17 Thread Chris Dillon
houldn't be a big problem (I'll set MAXMEM on the debug kernel to a much more reasonable amount than 256MB, too). :-) -- Chris Dillon - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For IA32 and Alpha architectures. IA64, PPC,

Re: Seeking recommendations for backup system

2001-05-24 Thread Chris Dillon
. :-) If you call up Veritas, they should be more than happy to send you a time-limited (90 days, IIRC) demo. I asked for one before we decided to buy it and they shipped the CDs and demo license keys to me next-day. :-) -- Chris Dillon - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD: The f

Re: smartmontools vs HP Smart Array 642 controller

2005-02-24 Thread Chris Dillon
u did. It appears to be a driver-specific problem. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon(at)wolves.k12.mo.us FreeBSD: The fastest, most open, and most stable OS on the planet - Available for IA32, IA64, AMD64, PC98, Alpha, and UltraSPARC architectures - PowerPC, ARM, MIPS, and S/390 under development -

Re: smbfs-1.3.0 released

2000-10-27 Thread Chris Dillon
ackages packages: No such file or directory. root@tech43 [/smb/rsisfs1/d/REB98]# cd PACKAGES root@tech43 [/smb/rsisfs1/d/REB98/PACKAGES]# So... the case-insensitivity only happens at the root of the mount. Should it happen everywhere? It'd be nice if it did. :-) -- Chris Dillon - [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: USB-to-SCSI converter

2000-11-09 Thread Chris Dillon
river disk)? I doubt I'll ever attach multi-lun devices to it either, but I don't like my options limited. :-) -- Chris Dillon - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For IA32 and Alpha architectures. IA64 an

Re: USB-to-SCSI converter

2000-11-10 Thread Chris Dillon
7;t work. If it only works with devices set to ID 0, it will never work with a SCSI ZIP drive which only has settings for ID 5 or 6 (which is one thing I would use it with). Do the Shuttle-based USB-SCSI adapters have the same limitation? -- Chris Dillon - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fr

Re: USB-to-SCSI converter

2000-11-13 Thread Chris Dillon
ng able to use ID0 with it. -- Chris Dillon - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For IA32 and Alpha architectures. IA64 and PowerPC under development. http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with &q

Re: ONTOPIC - FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT - Not a bunch oflicence Jihad crap

2000-12-28 Thread Chris Dillon
sourced software for Windows is very rare indeed. The Windows-programmer mindset that is still very prevalent, even in this "open-source" day and age, is "I'll make this proprietary piece of software, of which there are forty different other pieces of software almost like it, no

Re: GATEKEEPER.MCAST.NET again (unexpected traffic)

2004-05-10 Thread Chris Dillon
It just dawned on me that you are connected to your ISP when you see this, and those packets are probably coming from someone _else_ (you were probably not 129dial.supernet.kz when you saw these). Depending on your ISP's network configuration, you may see multicast and broadcast packets gen

Re: GATEKEEPER.MCAST.NET again (unexpected traffic)

2004-05-09 Thread Chris Dillon
nt any H.323-enabled applications installed and running. Use sockstat to look for anything listening on the 224.0.1.41 (gatekeeper.mcast.net) address. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon(at)wolves.k12.mo.us FreeBSD: The fastest, most open, and most stable OS on the planet - Available for IA32, IA64, AMD64, PC

Re: Request for Review: UFS2 Snapshot Management Environment

2004-09-06 Thread Chris Dillon
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: ... | $ cat /snap/home:hourly.1/rse/foo.txt /snap/home:hourly.0/rse/foo.txt foo.txt Now you just need to hack sys/kern/vfs_lookup.c to do the right thing when you ask for /path/.snapshot. I recently set up a

Re: Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /"

2004-10-05 Thread Chris Dillon
asking to rm foo redundant). How about checking if there is more than one argument, and if one of those arguments is "/", fail. If there is only one argument, even if it is "/", assume the user knows what he is doing and proceed normally. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon(at)wolve

Re: Why two cards on the same segment...

2001-07-26 Thread Chris Dillon
sure they don't. Except for my edge router, my other routers could care less that I'm using RFC1918 addresses and in fact they don't know any better. I could just as easily stick my 207.160.213 network, another "real" network, on there right alongside the 207.160.214 netwo

Re: Why two cards on the same segment...

2001-07-26 Thread Chris Dillon
on-alias address of the closest physical interface, be it a public address or whatever, but I've not tried that. -- Chris Dillon - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet - Available for IA32 (Intel x86) and Alpha architectures -

Re: fxp patch - bundling receive interrupts

2001-10-24 Thread Chris Dillon
ut 600 interrupts were generated), so it definately worked. If I get real brave I might try it on my router which has mostly 82558B's but also an 82559 or two. -- Chris Dillon - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet - Availab

Re: system halt

2001-12-11 Thread Chris Dillon
ne or the other. I'm not sure exactly why this causes FreeBSD to freeze, but I have come across the problem as well. It is definately a hardware problem with an unfortunate software side-effect. -- Chris Dillon - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD: The fastest and most stabl

Re: Ugly Huge BSD Monster

2003-09-01 Thread Chris Dillon
ut of a particular piece of software into separate distribution packages with their own dependency chains. The FreeBSD ports/packages system just happens to already do this to a high degree, because it is a good idea. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon(at)wolves.k12.mo.us FreeBSD: The fastest and most s

Re: USB "Memorybird" quirks

2002-02-09 Thread Chris Dillon
y tried it yet, but many motherboard vendors have added the ability to boot from USB ZIP drives and probably other USB mass storage devices to their BIOSes, so it at least should be possible. -- Chris Dillon - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the

Re: Cyrus vs. UW IMAP (was: Re: I Volunteer)

2002-06-21 Thread Chris Dillon
ther than authentication (the shells are just /sbin/nologin). All in all, I love the Cyrus design, and it hasn't given me a bit of trouble in over 6 years. It makes doing a secure "black-box" mail server very easy. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon(at)wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon(at)inter-li

Re: FreeBSD on a MaxAttach?

2002-06-21 Thread Chris Dillon
etter than the newer MaxAttach boxes which are now running a form of Win2K and have much heftier hardware. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon(at)wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon(at)inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet - Available for IA32 (Intel x86) and Alpha architectures -

Re: Cyrus vs. UW IMAP (was: Re: I Volunteer)

2002-06-21 Thread Chris Dillon
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > Chris Dillon wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > It has functionality that can not be implemented without adding to > > > how UNIX does things. Basically, it needs to be able to hook the > >

Re: FreeBSD on a MaxAttach?

2002-06-21 Thread Chris Dillon
mething to run in the JVM that is on them, and I can't find any API documentation on setting file ownership or ACLs, not to mention I don't know Java well enough to write such a thing in the first place. :-) -- Chris Dillon - cdillon(at)wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon(at)inter-linc.net FreeB

Re: Cyrus vs. UW IMAP (was: Re: I Volunteer)

2002-06-22 Thread Chris Dillon
On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > On Sat 2002-06-22 (00:06), Chris Dillon wrote: > > Yes, but this is the case with any IMAP server and doesn't really > > have anything to do with Cyrus in particular. Unlike other IMAP > > servers, however, Cyrus support

Re: how to control tagged queueing?

2002-11-12 Thread Chris Dillon
e's a > nicer interface in 4.7, I'll install it immediately!) man camcontrol Specifically: camcontrol tags [device id] [generic args] [-N tags] [-q] [-v] camcontrol negotiate [device id] [generic args] [-T enable|disable] -- Chris Dillon - cdillon(at)wolves.k12.mo.us FreeBSD: The fast

Re: What good PII/PIII Motherboards for FreeBSD and Celeron CPU's

1999-07-21 Thread Chris Dillon
tion. I've found the ASUS P2B series to be very solid. I've also used many ATrend BX boards for Winblows95 boxes (simply because they were cheaper than the ASUS boards), and haven't had a bit of trouble with them. YMMV. -- Chris Dillon - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: VMWare: porting kernel modules to FreeBSD

1999-08-18 Thread Chris Dillon
ive you or whoever else decides to tackle this some monetary compensation? It would also help to bring us a step closer to a native FreeBSD version of VMWare, since some (most?) of the work would already be done for them (the porting of vmmon and vmnet). -- Chris Dillon - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [

Re: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs

1999-08-18 Thread Chris Dillon
ials of the mountpoint after you have mounted the foreign filesystem? Should the mappings follow the new credentials, or stay as they were when first mounted? Even if I have no idea what I'm talking about and this was the stupidest idea anyone has ever heard of, I hope that I at least sparked of

Re: Concept check: iothreads addition to pthreads for MYSQL+FreeBSD.

2000-01-10 Thread Chris Dillon
the work you do will apply to -STABLE since you're running a production server. :-) This box only gets an average load most of the time, but will see an occasional high peak, so it should be a fair test subject. -- Chris Dillon - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD: Th

Re: looking for victims, err, uh, 'volunteers'

2000-01-15 Thread Chris Dillon
e-third of my Squid cache, /usr/obj, and a copy of the FreeBSD CVS repository), I can hold off replacing it for a while if it needs to be used as a test subject. -- Chris Dillon - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For Intel x8

Re: looking for victims, err, uh, 'volunteers'

2000-01-16 Thread Chris Dillon
up on the hot-swap disk tray like it does on the NT boxen? *duck* :-) On a similar note, I guess, how exactly _would_ you query a drive about its SMART status in FreeBSD? It would be neat to have the status LEDs on the drive trays reflect the health of the drive. If I read your description of th

Re: Bad memory suspected

2000-02-01 Thread Chris Dillon
in a regular old Pentium processor that I knew the board could support, it worked flawlessly for weeks. When I put the Pentium-MMX into a newer board that supported it, it worked flawlessly as well. So, other than memory, you should check out both your motherboard and CPU. Try underclocking the CP

Re: Bad memory suspected

2000-02-01 Thread Chris Dillon
On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 05:01:55PM -0600, a little birdie told me > that Chris Dillon remarked > > > > The last time I had a problem like this, it was because I put a P54C > > (Pentium-MMX) into a board only designed for

PROBLEM FOUND (sort of): Re: lpr: order of print requests

2000-05-02 Thread Chris Dillon
input) 2 bytes 7throot 85 (standard input) 2 bytes The print queue is sorted by qsort(), so this wouldn't have anything to do with the magic number "7" I see in lib/libc/stdlib/qsort.c, would it? (ignore me... its probably just a co

Re: PROBLEM FOUND (sort of): Re: lpr: order of print requests

2000-05-03 Thread Chris Dillon
On Tue, 2 May 2000, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (May 02), Chris Dillon said: > > On Tue, 2 May 2000, Konrad Heuer wrote: > > > Hmm, I've never seen such a strange behaviour. Lpd should do FIFO. > > > Could you give some more infos about your envi

Re: PROBLEM FOUND (sort of): Re: lpr: order of print requests

2000-05-03 Thread Chris Dillon
lpd/lpq > > or pick up the update from: > ftp://freefour.acs.rpi.edu/pub/bsdlpr/lpr_qfix.diff This is excellent. I beat on it with my test-case and it works fine. Could someone please commit this to 5-CURRENT, 4-STABLE and even 3-STABLE? I imagine even 2.2-STABLE users wouldn&#

Re: changed pci bus probe order from 3.2 to 4.0 -- ideas?

2000-06-01 Thread Chris Dillon
PCI bus all by itself, then I believe there are three separate PCI busses of three slots each for a total of 9 PCI slots (or it could be 4x2 and 1x1). I can just imagine a physical to logical mapping nightmare of 2-3-4-7-8-9-1-2-3 now. :-) -- Chris Dillon - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]