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

2000-06-01 Thread luigi
shift fi done done At which point $main_ether contains the ethernet address of your first ethernet interface and you can base decisions on that... cheers luigi ---+- Luigi R

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

2000-06-01 Thread luigi
shift fi done done At which point $main_ether contains the ethernet address of your first ethernet interface and you can base decisions on that... cheers luigi ---+- Luigi R

Re: Slow disk access while rsync - what should I tune?

2010-11-08 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 04:47:40PM +0300, cronfy wrote: > Hello, > > > Might gsched(8) help ? > > I am using 7.3, there is no gsched as far as I know.. it actually works just fine there, just take the code from http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/geom_sched/ cheers luigi &

Re: sys/boot/boot0/boot0.S - r186598

2011-01-09 Thread Luigi Rizzo
ed patch backs out the relevant part of r186598. > > There was a post on the embedded list that suggested this work around: > echo 'a 2' | fdisk -f /dev/stdin ad0 > boot0cfg -s 2 ad0 > > There are 2 issues with this: > 1) It can't be done w

Re: sys/boot/boot0/boot0.S - r186598

2011-01-09 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 12:57:24PM -0600, Tom Judge wrote: > On 09/01/2011 12:33, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 12:39:28AM -0600, Tom Judge wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Today I ran into an issue where setting the default slice with boot0cfg &g

Boot0cfg bug redux (Re: sys/boot/boot0/boot0.S - r186598)

2011-01-10 Thread Luigi Rizzo
ot0cfg so that it sets the 'active' flag for the partition corresponding to the default entry. What do people think ? cheers luigi On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 12:39:28AM -0600, Tom Judge wrote: > Hi, > > Today I ran into an issue where setting the default slice with boot0cfg >

Re: Boot0cfg bug redux (Re: sys/boot/boot0/boot0.S - r186598)

2011-01-10 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 03:38:23AM +0300, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: > On 11.01.2011 02:33, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > As a consequence, if we reboot without pressing an F-key, the system > > boots from partition s1 even though the boot loader indicates F2. > > > So, to s

Re: FreeBSD I/OAT (QuickData now?) driver

2011-06-06 Thread Luigi Rizzo
27;d argue that for many types of applications (basically all for which PF_RING/TNAPI were designed), spreading work across cores is a second order problem, you should first avoid doing useless work. Please have a look at http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ which addresses b

Re: FreeBSD I/OAT (QuickData now?) driver

2011-06-11 Thread Luigi Rizzo
transmit rings, makes them device independent, and supports the mapping of rings to different cores through standard setaffinity() calls. I'd really encourage people to look at the code (e.g. the pkt-gen.c program, which is part of the archive) so you can see how easy it is to use. And of c

Re: [GSoC]I want to remove everything perl/tcl/gtags in the new nvi

2011-07-13 Thread Luigi Rizzo
sense. I'd also like to commend the attitude: not just say that you don't like something, but also do proper investigation and give sensible motivations for your likes or dislikes. Bravo. cheers luigi > -- > Zhihao Yuan, nickname lichray > The best

Re: intel checksum offload

2011-09-18 Thread Luigi Rizzo
ly, this is a perfect example where the developer has done the right thing: implemented the feature, verified that performance is bad, hence presumably removed support for the feature from the code (which also means that the normal code path will ru

Re: intel checksum offload

2011-09-18 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 06:05:33PM -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 03:19:46PM -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 4:32 PM, YongHyeo

Re: dummynet(4) kernel process CPU usage monitoring

2011-11-21 Thread Luigi Rizzo
ges are computed with some kind of filtering (EWMA ?) so if the load of dummynet threads is bursty, the filter might eat most of it. not completely sure this explains a steady 0.00%, if that's is what you are seeing cheers luigi > Where is my error? > > Eugene Grosbein > _

Re: [PATCH] multiple instances of ipfw(4)

2012-01-31 Thread Luigi Rizzo
see it: - the ip_fw_chain could be embedded in the ip_fw_ctx, as they map 1:1 - why do you need ip_fw_ctx_iflist and ip_fw_ctxmember ? You should never need to determine context membership during

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-22 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:11:42PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: ... > In the meantime I think I may have stumbled on the solution to the > script: In the midst of all the output it mentions "usage realpath [-q] > path". I wasn't 100% sure exactly what that meant, but I put the full > path to the iso an

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-22 Thread Luigi Rizzo
oduct_Read.asp?idx=459 > http://www.rmprepusb.com/tutorials/ve200 really nice, thanks for the link. Now if they had something that supported a USB key it would be even nicer... cheers luigi ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mai

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-22 Thread Luigi Rizzo
might be a nice trick for our images too, so we don't have to build a memstick and an ISO image... cheers luigi > The question is rather why it does not work for you. > > I downloaded > ubuntu-11.10-desktop-i386.iso > from > http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/download &g

how to display C sources in Chromium (file:/// only)

2012-04-28 Thread Luigi Rizzo
improvement. cheers luigi ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: how to display C sources in Chromium (file:/// only)

2012-04-30 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 08:47:21AM -0700, Evan Martin wrote: > On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > (hoping this is of interest for hackers- too) > > > > One of the most annoying features of chromium is that it downloads > > instead of displaying var

Re: FreeBSD 10G forwarding performance @Intel

2012-07-03 Thread Luigi Rizzo
bad number (Linux does, say, 5MPPs on nearly the same hardware). among the many interesting tests you have run, i am curious if you have tried to remove the update of the counters on route entries. They might be another severe contention point. cheers luigi

Re: FreeBSD 10G forwarding performance @Intel

2012-07-03 Thread Luigi Rizzo
fact that you are likely to get some cache misses. the relevant macro is in ip_var.h. Cheers luigi > > +u_int rt_count = 1; > +SYSCTL_INT(_net, OID_AUTO, rt_count, CTLFLAG_RW, &rt_count, 1, ""); > > @@ -601,17 +625,20 @@ passout: > if (erro

Re: FreeBSD 10G forwarding performance @Intel

2012-07-03 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 12:31:56AM +0400, Alexander V. Chernikov wrote: > On 04.07.2012 00:27, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > >On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 09:37:38PM +0400, Alexander V. Chernikov wrote: > >... > >>Thanks, another good point. I forgot to merge this option from andre'

Re: Replace bcopy() to update ether_addr

2012-08-21 Thread Luigi Rizzo
g a multiple of 8 bytes. For n=0, 1,2,4,8 bytes are efficient, other cases are slow (turned into 2 or 3 different writes). The netmap code uses a pkt_copy routine that does exactly this rounding, gaining some 10-20ns per packet for small sizes. cheers luigi _

speed tests (Re: Replace bcopy() to update ether_addr)

2012-08-22 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 02:32:21AM +, Bruce Evans wrote: > luigi wrote: > > > even more orthogonal: > > > > I found that copying 8n + (5, 6 or 7) bytes was much much slower than > > copying a multiple of 8 bytes. For n=0, 1,2,4,8 bytes are efficient, > >

Re: speed tests (Re: Replace bcopy() to update ether_addr)

2012-08-22 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 05:26:47PM +0300, Mitya wrote: > 22.08.2012 17:36, Luigi Rizzo ??: > >On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 02:32:21AM +, Bruce Evans wrote: > >>luigi wrote: > >> > >>>even more orthogonal: > >>> > >>>I foun

Re: Replace bcopy() to update ether_addr

2012-08-22 Thread Luigi Rizzo
a 4- or 8-byte boundary and possibly do the copy with 2 or even 1 instruction. I would also suggest to try the code i posted in response to bruce so you can check how good or bad are the various solutions on different architectures or CPUs, and see if there is a reasonable compromise. cheers lu

Re: Make kernel aware of NIC queues

2013-02-06 Thread Luigi Rizzo
nf configuration (lagg presense, etc..) > > > What do you guys think? this is certainly a good idea and a welcome one. Linux has tried to come up with a common framework to implement this kind of controls using "ethtool", and we should probably have a look at their ap

Re: Make kernel aware of NIC queues

2013-02-06 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 11:05:59AM -0500, George Neville-Neil wrote: > > On Feb 6, 2013, at 09:37 , Luigi Rizzo wrote: ... > > Linux has tried to come up with a common framework to implement > > this kind of controls using "ethtool", and we should probably > >

Re: Google Summer of Code 2013

2013-05-02 Thread Luigi Rizzo
am i wrong or we are a bit short in terms of proposals ? cheers luigi On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > Hi all, > > A reminder: The deadline for applications is 19:00 UTC Friday May 3rd > (tomorrow). > > FreeBSD is pleased to announce that once

Re: [PATCH] multiple instances of ipfw(4)

2013-06-10 Thread Luigi Rizzo
and possibly retry if you notice that you need more memory. "ipfw show" addresses the problem by failing and requesting the user application to pass a larger buffer. - similarly, how do you guarantee that deleting a context while a packet is under processing does not cau

Re: [PATCH] multiple instances of ipfw(4)

2013-06-10 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 06:52:01PM +0200, Ermal Lu?i wrote: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Luigi Rizzo wrote: ... > > if i understand well, this has no runtime overhead as the ifp has > > the index of the context it refers to ? > > Or you need an addi

Re: unique hardware identification

2007-02-01 Thread Luigi Rizzo
.maker="To Be Filled By O.E.M." smbios.system.product="775i945GZ" smbios.system.serial="To Be Filled By O.E.M." smbios.system.uuid="00020003-0004-0005-0006-000700080009" smbios.system.version="To Be Filled By O.E.M." cheers luigi ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

kernel headers dependency graph ? (systm.h tangle)

2007-02-08 Thread Luigi Rizzo
intf/scanf and strto*() are not in their own header; and so on ? cheers luigi ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Pluggable Disk Scheduler Project

2007-10-17 Thread Luigi Rizzo
ir thoughts, so I CC'ed > them. we are in good contact with Fabio and i am monitoring the discussion, don't worry. cheers luigi ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsub

Re: Documentation on writing a custom socket

2008-03-09 Thread Luigi Rizzo
e incompatible concepts :) (for the records, the Q.921 spec is available online from ITU http://www.itu.int/rec/dologin_pub.asp?lang=e&id=T-REC-Q.921-199709-I!!PDF-E&type=items cheers luigi ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailin

Re: from number to power of two

1999-08-21 Thread Luigi Rizzo
ine instruction. ffs() is declared in /sys/sys/libkern.h and implemented in /sys/libkern/ffs.c but maybe there is an assembly version somewherewhich i can't find. cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: mbufs eaten up - when pinging

1999-08-24 Thread Luigi Rizzo
ween 20 and 50 buffers. Are you sure you are seeing more than those mbufs in use ? luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Possibility of increasing default MAXPARTITIONS from 8 to 16

1999-08-24 Thread Luigi Rizzo
putting to the group is whether it is "time" for us, > with today's large disks, to increase the system-compiled default > from 8 to 16 partitions. Instead of a-h we would have a-p i guess one should try to increase to the max that fits a sector i.e 22 luigi

Re: mbufs eaten up - when pinging

1999-08-24 Thread Luigi Rizzo
bufs in the output queue and perhaps a matching number in the socket layer... but 128 bufs is really a very low number. I'd really go up to 512 unless you only have 4MB of RAM! cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: [freebsdcon] radisson reservation

1999-08-25 Thread Luigi Rizzo
> My clerk just started reading down the names. When I heard walnut you should have asked him to read both names and rates, complete the list and then "oh yes, mine was the 19.95 per night..." cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with

Re: Help with exit status in shell script

1999-08-28 Thread Luigi Rizzo
ecial, just that the "fail" procedre expects the errcode as first argument). If it turns out to be problematic, for 3.3R you could as well remove the "tee", after all it was just there for debugging. cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

damn ATX power supplies...

1999-09-09 Thread Luigi Rizzo
er failure Timer restart at a given time of the day. none of them is satisfactory especially for picoBSD things such as routers or firewalls where an UPS is overkill... cheers luigi ---+----- Luigi

an alternative to powerpoint

2010-07-12 Thread Luigi Rizzo
you do a decent slide show, and supports editing the slides on the fly within the browser. Well, it's not too hard: http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/sttp/ just 400 lines of javascript and 100 lines of css, plus your human-readable text. Have fun, it would be great if you could repor

Re: an alternative to powerpoint

2010-07-13 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:41:41PM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 06:15:14 +0200 Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > Maybe you all love powerpoint for presentations, but sometimes > > one just needs to put together a few slides, perhaps a few bullets > > or images grabbed

Re: an alternative to powerpoint

2010-07-13 Thread Luigi Rizzo
d i have done a fair amount of work on Slidy, building a distributed version called 'syncslidy' which allows distributed presentations. The problem, after a fair amount of usage, is really editing the slides in a simple way. cheers luigi > But yours does look a bit simpler to ente

Re: an alternative to powerpoint

2010-07-13 Thread Luigi Rizzo
> > > Well, it's not too hard: > > > > http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/sttp/ > Haven't used it in years, but I liked it when I used ports/misc/magicpoint. been there, done that: http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/mgpm/ cheers luigi > Port descriptio

Re: an alternative to powerpoint

2010-07-13 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 01:24:09AM +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Whoops I forgot cc hackers so resent. > > > > Haven't used it in years, but I liked it when I used > > > ports/misc/magicpoint. > > > > been there, done that: > > > >

Re: an alternative to powerpoint

2010-07-24 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 05:19:25PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Ivan Voras wrote: > > On 07/13/10 06:15, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > Have fun, it would be great if you could report how it works > > > on fancy devices (iphone, ipad, androids...) > > > >

convert bootable freebsd iso to bootable flash image

2008-11-14 Thread Luigi Rizzo
permissions -- the iso extraction is done with bsdtar, the file system is created using makefs, and the other patching is done with bsdlabel and dd. Now i need to find something similar to convert a bootable linux image and a bootable DOS image :) cheers luigi --- cut here

convert bootable freebsd or linux iso to bootable flash image

2008-11-25 Thread Luigi Rizzo
I have updated my iso2flash.sh script so that now it can convert both FreeBSD _and_ linux ISO images to flash images. For the latter, it uses a FAT filesystem, and puts a linux loader with syslinux, for which you can find a port at http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/FreeBSD/index.html#syslinux-port

Re: btx/pxeboot problem

2008-12-02 Thread Luigi Rizzo
so affect the standard loader and not just pxeloader, in which case the problem would be slightly more serious. I am afraid my ability to debug the problem isn't going much beyond this... cheers luigi ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lis

Re: Enhancing cdboot [patch for review]

2008-12-08 Thread Luigi Rizzo
t to a partition entry, so you should probably initialize one in a way similar way to that used by boot0.S cheers luigi ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Enhancing cdboot [patch for review]

2008-12-08 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 04:29:04PM -0800, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Luigi Rizzo wrote: ... > >4. another nitpick -- the value you pass in %si to the MBR does not > > seem to point to anything useful. As discussed about boot0.S and > > the followup in the mailing lists,

Re: write-only variables in src/sys/ - possible bugs

2009-02-02 Thread Luigi Rizzo
ave improved a lot over time, and so -- with some exceptions -- it is easier to prevent some of these issues with more recent code). cheers luigi ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To

does Copyright on source files expire ?

2009-03-25 Thread Luigi Rizzo
when ? (I suppose it is related to either the date listed on the copyright, or to the date of some remarkable event for the author). cheers luigi ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

Re: does Copyright on source files expire ?

2009-03-25 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 05:31:52AM -0400, David Schultz wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > Someone just asked me permission to move to a 3-clause BSD > > copyright some piece of software that I haven't touched in 10+ years. > > > > I said ye

Re: svn commit: r204615 - head/sbin/newfs

2010-03-03 Thread Luigi Rizzo
for the rest. cheers luigi ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Updated: Call for Review: VoxWare/LGSND(Yes!) midi driver for serial ports

1999-05-10 Thread Luigi Rizzo
tead, and should i perhaps change the name generated by /dev/sndstat to avoid confusion ? cheers luigi ---+----- Luigi RIZZO, lu...@iet.unipi.it . Dip. di Ing. dell'Informazione http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/

Re: FreeBSD native xanim (was Re: Native Applixware for FreeBSD -- When? )

1999-05-11 Thread Luigi Rizzo
would cost $1000 or less, and FreeBSD,Inc has some funds for this thipe of things i suppose. It is just a matter of deciding whether this is something worthwhile doing, and seeing if mark podlipec (Xanim's author) can handle cash or he needs a preinstalled machine shipped to hi

Re: FreeBSD native xanim (was Re: Native Applixware for FreeBSD -- When? )

1999-05-11 Thread Luigi Rizzo
> > matter of deciding whether this is something worthwhile doing, and > > seeing if mark podlipec (Xanim's author) can handle cash or he > > needs a preinstalled machine shipped to him. > > vmware to the rescue? + a couple of hundred megs of disk space possibly

Re: FreeBSD native xanim (was Re: Native Applixware for FreeBSD -- When? )

1999-05-12 Thread Luigi Rizzo
BSD system under Linux on it ? cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: ifconfig: changing mac address

1999-05-14 Thread Luigi Rizzo
;s address filter in the init phase. I suppose on other systems the same thing happens. It's a software thing, not a hardware one. A quick check shows the following drivers do that: sys/i386/isa/if_ed.c sys/pci/if_fxp.c sys/pci/if_de.c (probably) just

Re: FreeBSD/USENIX Ocean Cruise

1999-05-16 Thread Luigi Rizzo
in some nordic country, isn't it ? cheers luigi ---+----- Luigi RIZZO, lu...@iet.unipi.it . Dip. di Ing. dell'Informazione http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ . Universita` di Pisa TEL/FAX: +39-050-568.533/522

Re: timeconsuming processes on FreeBSD 3.1

1999-05-19 Thread Luigi Rizzo
> > These programs are mostly tin and lynx and such interactive programs. ... "ee" and "pico" are two more. ee is particularly annoying since it is one of the "supported" editors... luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "

Re: Giving credit: my reference or the original?

1999-05-21 Thread Luigi Rizzo
sonA a couple of parentheses above --^ wouldn't harm... > > I am writing > pkgC written by personC (me) bits stolen from ? it all depends where you stole the bits from :) cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: New one - mp3 "clicks" during playback

1999-05-26 Thread Luigi Rizzo
> Uh, the Ensoniq board is an ISA card, everything else in the system > (except the Digiboard) is a PCI card. not only that. Am i mistaken or you started having such problems after an upgrade to a recent version of FreeBSD ?

Re: PCI bus chanages from 2.2.x to 3.x/4.x and data corruption.

1999-05-26 Thread Luigi Rizzo
cial users of FreeBSD as well as > Academic users, and it looks bad on us. > > Luigi has 1 PC with 2 hard disks, a 2.2.x setup and a 3.x setup. > This allowed him to factor out all the variables except the > 2.2.x kernel and the 3.x kernel. (He used the same Bt848 driver) > > On 2.2.

Re: PCI Bus and bt848 driver...

1999-05-26 Thread Luigi Rizzo
> Try booting -v and post the output. amancio, what do you expect to see from this, considering that on the same hardware things work ? also note that the amount of output generated by the printf is likely to cause even more problems... cheers luigi >

Re: how to configure sound on laptop ?

1999-05-26 Thread Luigi Rizzo
a? port 0x310 irq 6 drq 0 try to remove that and use instead device pcm0 at isa? port 0x530 irq 11 drq 0 flags 0x11 cheers luigi ---+- Luigi RIZZO, lu...@iet.unipi.it . Dip. di Ing. dell'Informazione htt

Re: PCI Bus and bt848 driver...

1999-05-26 Thread Luigi Rizzo
; additionally, please > include whether you are using PAL or NTSC. PAL. not sure that it makes a difference, anyways; vic uses a very low res (CIF). cheers luigi ---+- Luigi RIZZO, lu...@iet.unipi.it . D

Re: ipfw/natd limitation: controlling access of an unregistered net to

1999-05-28 Thread Luigi Rizzo
not making the task very easy. > It is clear that only "deny" rules can be added before the "divert" > rule to control the outgoing packets of internal machines and this > can prove very tricky and tedious ]. actually you can use "skipto" rules

Re: xl driver for 3Com

1999-05-28 Thread Luigi Rizzo
oks like the typical ipfw thing, rather than hacking the driver! (well, there are ARP, but can be done ...) cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: proposed socket change (IPFW too? :)

1999-05-29 Thread Luigi Rizzo
only). On the ipfw side, yes i think the switch to locate & check credential can be simplified by merging the final part (and perhaps even the in_pcblookup() calls). cheers luigi ---+----- Luigi RIZZO, lu..

Re: PNP card info needed

1999-05-29 Thread Luigi Rizzo
t the ones i have online at http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/pnpinfo/ these are at the moment cs4232, cs4236b, cs4237 (which seems to report same data as the cs4236b), opti931 (and i have an opti933 buried somewhere but again i cannot tell because it produces the same pnpinfo as the 931 :( In

Re: proposed socket change (IPFW too? :)

1999-05-29 Thread Luigi Rizzo
ite, as the > code has grown > unwieldly. correct. however, with rules being so "complex" (lots of things you can specify in a rule) the kernel part cannot be simplified a lot. The userland code, on the other hand, would really deserve some cleanup! cheers luig

Re: PCI bus chanages from 2.2.x to 3.x/4.x and data corruption.

1999-05-30 Thread Luigi Rizzo
rhaps is the bt848 chip which requires some time to detect&react to the first write (and if i remember well, the data sheets are extremely confused on this register). cheers luigi ---+- Luigi RIZZO, lu...@iet

Re: a two-level port system? (fwd)

1999-05-31 Thread Luigi Rizzo
ved into the main directory with an adequate prefix (e.g. new-foo.c) to be stripped at install time (it is my understanding that in most cases the copy from files/ to the right place is done by explicit commands in

Re: a two-level port system? (fwd)

1999-05-31 Thread Luigi Rizzo
rned with that, and secondly with mainteinance issues when you have a new/updated port, you generally need to touch the Makefile and one or more files in pkg, and the info in pkg/* is often the same comments you would put at the beginning of the makefile. c

Re: changes to ether_output()

1999-06-16 Thread Luigi Rizzo
n do bridging and filtering entirely in the kernel using standard tools -- you can even use the PicoBSD images from http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ip_dummynet/ for this cheers luigi ---+----- Luigi RIZZO, lu...@

Re: Beware of UnixWare 7

1999-06-18 Thread Luigi Rizzo
. hit a similar problem the other day, i think i managed to fix it withouth the floppy by mounting again the root partition on /mnt and there acting appropriately. cheers luigi ---+- Luigi RIZZO, lu...@iet.unipi.it

Re: ipfilter (was: RE: Introduction)

1999-06-20 Thread Luigi Rizzo
funcionality for dummynet and i ended up putting it _outside_ dummynet (i.e. in the callers routines, ip_input(), ip_output() and bdg_forward() ) . this might ease life to those who want to replace ipfw with ipfilter for dummynet or similar things, if nothing else.

Re: ipfilter (was: RE: Introduction)

1999-06-21 Thread Luigi Rizzo
> > this might ease life to those who want to replace ipfw with ipfilter > > for dummynet or similar things, if nothing else. > > Thank you, Luigi. Could you please help me with some basics? ... what i do in dummynet is to queue the packet (wheter it comes from ip_input() or ip

Re: USB scanners?

1999-06-23 Thread Luigi Rizzo
e any leads? this is a painful road in my experience. I suggest that you look at the SANE web page and see if there are pointers to documentation. HP has some documentation of the language (SCL ?) used by its SCSI scanners but i don't know to what degree it applies to non-SCSI units.

Re: USB scanners?

1999-06-23 Thread Luigi Rizzo
run a quick dump on my 3.2 machine. cheers luigi ---+----- Luigi RIZZO, lu...@iet.unipi.it . Dip. di Ing. dell'Informazione http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ . Universita` di Pisa TEL/FAX: +39-050-568.533/522

Re: USB scanners?

1999-06-23 Thread Luigi Rizzo
search was non trivial. cheers luigi > > this is a painful road in my experience. I suggest that you look at the > > SANE web page and see if there are pointers to documentation. > > > > HP has some documentation of the language (SCL ?) used by its SCSI > >

Re: [usb-bsd] Re: USB scanners?

1999-06-23 Thread Luigi Rizzo
> What kind of devices do you see showing up? i have an epson photo750 printer, and colleagues around seem to have a few USB cameras. Haven't seen yet any USB scanner in the office but all new one seem to be USB so as soon as one comes in i am sure it will be USB cheers

weird socket behaviour (sbflush)...

1999-06-24 Thread Luigi Rizzo
"fix" sbflush() so that it uses sbdroprecord() instead of sbdrop() in case of a datagram protocol ? cheers luigi ---+----- Luigi RIZZO, lu...@iet.unipi.it . Dip. di Ing. dell'Informazione http://w

Re: Microsoft performance (was: ...)

1999-06-24 Thread Luigi Rizzo
> The advantage of frequent reboots and patches is that at least you are > up to date with security patches. :-) LKM/KLD might help here... with the kernel of your kernel being essentially a linker :) cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.or

Re: ufs/ffs resize?

1999-06-25 Thread Luigi Rizzo
to remove in order to move the blocks. the latter would be the task for a "packer" utility. Myself, I have desired more often to be able to shring a FS than extend one (i mean, barring black magic that would put on a disk more stuff th

Re: GRE encapsulation under FreeBSD 3.2

1999-06-30 Thread Luigi Rizzo
nd have it working > > here (as far as I can tell). I'll commit it in a day or two. in addition i seem to remember that there is a (userland ?) daemon providing this, only thing is i cant' recall the name and it wasn't something obvious cheers luigi > To

Re: Pictures from USENIX

1999-07-04 Thread Luigi Rizzo
> read a bit about them. Same for the committers group, but at 165+ > members that's going to be a somewhat larger, long-term project. :-) just collecting URLs for people home pages might be an easier task perhaps ?

mouse/keyboard usage statistics...

1999-07-05 Thread Luigi Rizzo
t perhaps that i can hook into moused and so the problem is a little bit easier to deal with. cheers luigi ---+- Luigi RIZZO, lu...@iet.unipi.it . Dip. di Ing. dell'Informazione http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luig

Re: Pictures from USENIX

1999-07-08 Thread Luigi Rizzo
ng point. What success do you expect by asking people to prepare a resume! cheers luigi ---+----- Luigi RIZZO, lu...@iet.unipi.it . Dip. di Ing. dell'Informazione http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ . Universita`

Re: Pictures from USENIX

1999-07-08 Thread Luigi Rizzo
> I'm not asking any of you to prepare a resume - we're starting JUST with > the core team bios and pictures here. :) i knew you were not humans... cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe fr

Why 'dd' does not seek over 'char' devs (specifically raw disk partitions).

1999-07-13 Thread Luigi Rizzo
char devices. Ideas ? cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Why 'dd' does not seek over 'char' devs (specifically raw disk

1999-07-13 Thread Luigi Rizzo
already gone bad (this was a laptop's disk...) > > > > I notice that on output lseek _is_ used also on char devices. > > And how else would you do it? ok, stupid observation! cheers luigi ---+---

Re: Boot manager beep (revisited)

2006-05-01 Thread Luigi Rizzo
preference an option :) i do prefer it off. and my laptop has no volume control available at boot. many new laptops have everything in software, which means very little controls available at boot time. cheers luigi ___ freebsd-hackers@fr

syslog bug ? (was Re: [PATCH] add header "pppoe:" in ng_pppoe.c printfs)

2006-08-05 Thread Luigi Rizzo
is likely because ppp starts before the syslog daemon, the initial message fails and then you get nothing anymore. the vsyslog code in 6.x (libc/gen/syslog.c) is slightly different from the one in 4.11. cheers luigi ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Network stack changes

2013-09-14 Thread Luigi Rizzo
can generate a decent stream of packets with, say, an IXIA. IXIA ? For the timescales we need to address we don't need an IXIA, a netmap sender is more than enough cheers luigi ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Network stack changes

2013-09-14 Thread Luigi Rizzo
ource gives you (one or more packets) by the time you are ready (and if you are slow/overloaded, of course you will get a large backlog at once). Either way, there is no reason to create additional delay on input. cheers luigi ___ freebsd-hackers@free

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