linux PF_PACKET compatibility

2011-02-10 Thread Da Rock
"In recent versions of the Linux kernel (post-2.0 releases) a new protocol family has been introduced, named PF_PACKET. This family allows an application to send and receive packets dealing directly with the network card driver, thus avoiding the usual protocol stack-handling (e.g., IP/TCP or I

Re: linux PF_PACKET compatibility

2011-02-11 Thread Da Rock
On 02/11/11 18:17, Julian Elischer wrote: On 2/10/11 11:22 PM, Da Rock wrote: "In recent versions of the Linux kernel (post-2.0 releases) a new protocol family has been introduced, named PF_PACKET. This family allows an application to send and receive packets dealing directly with the ne

Re: linux PF_PACKET compatibility

2011-02-11 Thread Da Rock
On 02/11/11 19:54, Vlad Galu wrote: On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Da Rock <mailto:freebsd-hack...@herveybayaustralia.com.au>> wrote: On 02/11/11 18:17, Julian Elischer wrote: On 2/10/11 11:22 PM, Da Rock wrote: "In recent versions of the Linux ke

Re: linux PF_PACKET compatibility

2011-02-11 Thread Da Rock
On 02/12/11 02:37, Julian Elischer wrote: On 2/11/11 1:36 AM, Da Rock wrote: On 02/11/11 18:17, Julian Elischer wrote: On 2/10/11 11:22 PM, Da Rock wrote: "In recent versions of the Linux kernel (post-2.0 releases) a new protocol family has been introduced, named PF_PACKET. This f

Re: linux PF_PACKET compatibility

2011-02-11 Thread Da Rock
On 02/12/11 02:48, Julian Elischer wrote: On 2/11/11 5:40 AM, Da Rock wrote: On 02/11/11 19:54, Vlad Galu wrote: On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Da Rock <mailto:freebsd-hack...@herveybayaustralia.com.au>> wrote: On 02/11/11 18:17, Julian Elischer wrote: On 2/10/11

Re: [maybe spam] Re: linux PF_PACKET compatibility

2011-02-11 Thread Da Rock
On 02/12/11 11:19, Julian Elischer wrote: On 2/11/11 4:03 PM, Da Rock wrote: On 02/12/11 02:37, Julian Elischer wrote: On 2/11/11 1:36 AM, Da Rock wrote: On 02/11/11 18:17, Julian Elischer wrote: On 2/10/11 11:22 PM, Da Rock wrote: "In recent versions of the Linux kernel (post-2.0 rel

Re: [maybe spam] Re: linux PF_PACKET compatibility

2011-02-12 Thread Da Rock
On 02/12/11 19:39, Gary Jennejohn wrote: On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:19:17 -0800 Julian Elischer wrote: On 2/11/11 4:03 PM, Da Rock wrote: Unfortunately this software uses this family instead of pcap or bpf. So when built it errors. I guess if I am to use this app I will have to

Re: [maybe spam] Re: linux PF_PACKET compatibility

2011-02-12 Thread Da Rock
On 02/13/11 06:15, Vlad Galu wrote: On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Da Rock <mailto:freebsd-hack...@herveybayaustralia.com.au>> wrote: On 02/12/11 19:39, Gary Jennejohn wrote: On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:19:17 -0800 Julian Elischermailto:jul...@freebsd.org

64bit build errors

2011-12-06 Thread Da Rock
I'm trying to build some newer versions of ffserver. But I keep getting asm build errors when I get to libavcodec/vp*. Error: `(%esi,%eax)' is not a valid 64 bit base/index expression If I set it to build static it fails at h264. "Error: `-1(%edi)' is not a valid 64 bit base/index expression"

Re: 64bit build errors

2011-12-07 Thread Da Rock
On 12/07/11 20:36, Tom Evans wrote: On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Da Rock wrote: I'm trying to build some newer versions of ffserver. But I keep getting asm build errors when I get to libavcodec/vp*. Error: `(%esi,%eax)' is not a valid 64 bit base/index expression If I set i

Re: 64bit build errors

2011-12-07 Thread Da Rock
On 12/07/11 21:29, Tom Evans wrote: On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Da Rock wrote: Cool! Thanks for that. I got a manual to read by the looks of it anyway, but can anyone give me the inside gos on the why it does what it does? (Or something like that.. :) ) This email explains it: http

Re: 64bit build errors

2011-12-07 Thread Da Rock
On 12/07/11 22:17, Tom Evans wrote: On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Da Rock wrote: I really hate sounding like an idiot, but if I don't ask I'll never know: The assembler in base is not up-to-date with the latest instruction sets for the cpu, and is causing an error because its t

Re: 64bit build errors

2011-12-07 Thread Da Rock
On 12/08/11 00:45, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Dec 7, 2011, at 6:22 AM, Tom Evans wrote: On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Dimitry Andric wrote: On 2011-12-07 01:40, Da Rock wrote: I'm trying to build some newer versions of ffserver. But I keep getting asm build errors when I get to libav

Re: 64bit build errors

2011-12-07 Thread Da Rock
On 12/08/11 05:47, Mike Meyer wrote: On Wed, 7 Dec 2011 12:17:57 + Tom Evans wrote: The way I understand it is that they use compiler/assembler features that did not exist in the version of binutils that is in base. Which begs the question - why isn't the new version of the tools (provided

Re: 64bit build errors

2011-12-07 Thread Da Rock
On 12/08/11 08:31, Da Rock wrote: On 12/08/11 05:47, Mike Meyer wrote: On Wed, 7 Dec 2011 12:17:57 + Tom Evans wrote: The way I understand it is that they use compiler/assembler features that did not exist in the version of binutils that is in base. Which begs the question - why isn&#

[SOLVED]Re: 64bit build errors - use gcc46

2011-12-07 Thread Da Rock
On 12/08/11 08:33, Da Rock wrote: On 12/08/11 08:31, Da Rock wrote: On 12/08/11 05:47, Mike Meyer wrote: On Wed, 7 Dec 2011 12:17:57 + Tom Evans wrote: The way I understand it is that they use compiler/assembler features that did not exist in the version of binutils that is in base

Re: [SOLVED]Re: 64bit build errors - use gcc46

2011-12-08 Thread Da Rock
On 12/08/11 19:58, Tom Evans wrote: On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 6:05 AM, Da Rock wrote: Just to let the list know, I changed as - ./configure --as=/usr/local/bin/as. I still had the exact same error oddly enough. I then had to install gcc46; and the error changed. I then had to update the

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-19 Thread Da Rock
On 01/20/12 09:13, John Kozubik wrote: On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, Dieter BSD wrote: John writes: - EOL 7 - mark 8 as legacy - mark 9 as the _only_ production release - release 10.0 in January 2017 Until a few days ago 8 was the latest, shinest release. So you want to suddenly demote it all the w

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-22 Thread Da Rock
On 01/22/12 15:49, Mark Linimon wrote: As I type this, there are 1122 ports PRs (6272 total PRs). On most days, around 40 come in. How do you get that number? I ran a search on pr's and only came up with around ~4k. Is there a trick I'm missing? ___ f

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-22 Thread Da Rock
On 01/22/12 22:44, Chris Rees wrote: On 22 Jan 2012 12:05, "Da Rock"<9phack...@herveybayaustralia.com.au> wrote: On 01/22/12 15:49, Mark Linimon wrote: As I type this, there are 1122 ports PRs (6272 total PRs). On most days, around 40 come in. How do you get that number? I

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-26 Thread Da Rock
On 01/20/12 09:13, John Kozubik wrote: I normally hate to dredge up old threads, but this is like getting halfway through a story and not finding out the ending... :) What is the answer? Is there a solution to this? I have a string of questions on this: 1. Incidentally, what exactly does co

Re: Moving on ...

2012-02-09 Thread Da Rock
On 02/09/12 16:33, John Kozubik wrote: Hello, On Thu, 26 Jan 2012, Da Rock wrote: I normally hate to dredge up old threads, but this is like getting halfway through a story and not finding out the ending... :) What is the answer? Is there a solution to this? When I wrote the original

Re: OS support for fault tolerance

2012-02-20 Thread Da Rock
On 02/15/12 03:25, Brandon Falk wrote: On 2/14/2012 12:05 PM, Jason Hellenthal wrote: On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 08:57:10AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: On 2/14/12 6:23 AM, Maninya M wrote: For multicore desktop computers, suppose one of the cores fails, the FreeBSD OS crashes. My question is ab

Re: Graphical Terminal Environment

2012-03-08 Thread Da Rock
On 03/07/12 08:04, Dieter BSD wrote: Brandon writes: (If you haven't noticed, I'm going to keep finding excuses to write this as I really am kindof excited to learn/work on it) ideas: Display PostScript rio (from Plan 9) If you're mainly looking for a low-level graphics project, maybe revers

Kernel memory usage

2012-03-11 Thread Da Rock
I may be required to move this to embedded, but I am only looking for generalisation. Recently a thread came up on questions regarding memory usage, and a post was made regarding wired memory being nearly all kernel- something I was ready to dispute, but then I thought I'd better make sure.

Re: Kernel memory usage

2012-03-13 Thread Da Rock
mu before, but found VBox a bit more responsive (and, I will admit, easier...) On 3/11/12, Da Rock<9phack...@herveybayaustralia.com.au> wrote: I may be required to move this to embedded, but I am only looking for generalisation. Recently a thread came up on questions regarding me

iso2flash img

2012-03-21 Thread Da Rock
I'm doing some work for a client and I need to get a copy of ubuntu to demo for them. I can only use a usb disk (no cdrom), and unfortunately the guys at ubuntu are too lazy to create a flash img themselves and expect you to do it yourself. Of course the tools to do this are only available on W

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-21 Thread Da Rock
On 03/21/12 22:55, Vitaly Magerya wrote: Da Rock wrote: I googled a bit and found an old post here from Luigi (http://osdir.com/ml/freebsd-hackers/2008-11/msg00245.html) which had a script to do this, but I'm having trouble with it- is anyone familiar with this? I'm on a bit of

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-21 Thread Da Rock
On 03/21/12 23:06, Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, I've forwarded your question to a colleague who is an Ubuntu fan and he replied, that the creation of a booting Ubuntu USB key is possile with Ubuntu tools/methods only, i.e. booting the Ubuntu live CD and following the ways to install it onto the

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-21 Thread Da Rock
On 03/21/12 23:11, Da Rock wrote: On 03/21/12 22:55, Vitaly Magerya wrote: Da Rock wrote: I googled a bit and found an old post here from Luigi (http://osdir.com/ml/freebsd-hackers/2008-11/msg00245.html) which had a script to do this, but I'm having trouble with it- is anyone familiar

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-21 Thread Da Rock
On 03/21/12 22:55, Vitaly Magerya wrote: Da Rock wrote: I googled a bit and found an old post here from Luigi (http://osdir.com/ml/freebsd-hackers/2008-11/msg00245.html) which had a script to do this, but I'm having trouble with it- is anyone familiar with this? I'm on a bit of

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-22 Thread Da Rock
On 03/21/12 23:34, Andrzej Tobola wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:16:59PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On 03/21/12 23:06, Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, I've forwarded your question to a colleague who is an Ubuntu fan and he replied, that the creation of a booting Ubuntu USB key is possile

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-22 Thread Da Rock
On 03/23/12 04:46, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, The trick is called "isohybrid". Luigi Rizzo wrote: interesting. It does work for me indeed. So why not for Da Rock ? Starting to feel left out here :) I tried with your flags to dd (as opposed to those on Ubuntu - bs=1m - not that

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-23 Thread Da Rock
On 03/23/12 17:06, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Da Rock wrote: It shows isolinux 4.04, blah blah, and a blinking cursor. It goes no further than that, which I why I commented that it seemed an unlikely solution. If it can say "isolinux" then the boot process has succeeded as far a

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-23 Thread Da Rock
On 03/23/12 22:08, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Thats the whole point of this exercise - I can't, no cdrom: its a netbook. I hoped that you had a USB attachable optical drive in reach for development. Haven't you heard? CD's are so yesterday... ;) The reality is I don't have a working CDROM unl

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-23 Thread Da Rock
On 03/23/12 22:38, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Haven't you heard? CD's are so yesterday... ;) Just wait until the holodiscs come out. :)) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc Now thats what I'm talkin' 'bout! Although I could still probably fill one in a matter of hours...

webdav locking issues

2012-08-24 Thread Da Rock
I did try without success to ask some aspect of this on the questions list, but I'm farther along with this anyway. I have an apache22 server setup with webdav for a subversion server. That is working well (I think, anyway), and I'm able access it from a Winblows XP vm I use for various testin