Re: PXE boot vs. DHCP

2001-10-23 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
John Polstra wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Cyrille Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > IMHO, it would be better to provide a /etc/dhclient-enter-hooks > > while you are net installing the station, then remove it when > > finished. > > > > the dhclient-enter-hooks would be almost

Re: IPSEC sucking up memory

2001-10-23 Thread Terry Lambert
Shoichi Sakane wrote: > > While investigating a problem, I noticed that the IPSEC code > > is initializing the sp -- even when no one is using IPSEC. > > > It turns out that this really, really bloats the per socket > > memory requirements, with the only real result being a lot > > of extra proce

Re: Silly problem has me stumped

2001-10-23 Thread Barney Wolff
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 08:59:18PM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > Well, we have a whole public /24. Only the routing block is private, which > I'm sure will seem like a better idea once I coerce this $@#!() FreeBSD box > to bend to my will. If you have a whole /24, and you need to do stuff oth

ECN implementation

2001-10-23 Thread Nguyen-Tuong Long Le
Hi all, Now that ECN has become an IETF standard RFC, I just wonder what is the status of the ECN implementation in FreeBSD hosts. I know that it used to be part of the ALTQ patch but its implementation seem to be stopped in the recent ALTQ versions. Please kindly send your reply to me since I a

Re: Silly problem has me stumped

2001-10-23 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2001-10-24T01:30:35Z, Kris Kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And a tidbit just surfaced from the mud! Use ipfw + natd to nat anything > that would directly come from / to the private address and use "natd -u -a > 1.2.3.1" (assumes .1 is the gateway). Careful that you don't wind up > looking

Re: Making TCP/IP reentrant ?

2001-10-23 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Raju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011023 20:36] wrote: > All: > I tried to search the archive for following, but could not come up a answer. > > Is there any work in FreeBSD networking community for a multi-instance > TCP/IP stack. In other words a re-entrant TCP/IP stack. Anyone who knows > the stack

Making TCP/IP reentrant ?

2001-10-23 Thread Raju
All: I tried to search the archive for following, but could not come up a answer.   Is there any work in FreeBSD networking community for a multi-instance TCP/IP stack. In other words a re-entrant TCP/IP stack. Anyone who knows the stack in detail, can you please throw a rough estimate base

Re: Silly problem has me stumped

2001-10-23 Thread Kris Kirby
On 23 Oct 2001, Kirk Strauser wrote: > I already RTFM, and TFM doesn't say a thing about how to do what I want, > except for command line options of specific clients, which doesn't solve my > problem. Yeah. The issue here is that the machine is picking the IP address as the "closest" IP to the in

pptp via mpd

2001-10-23 Thread Ryan Masse
Is it possible to authenticate users on /etc/master.passwd or by some other method possibly RADIUS or an SQL table? storing the usernames and passwords in the mpd.secret file is redundant and insecure IMHO. Ryan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in t

Re: Silly problem has me stumped

2001-10-23 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2001-10-24T00:03:51Z, Barney Wolff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. You don't need the public address configured on the same nic as the > private - packets to the public address will be accepted even if they come > in via the outside nic. I will occasionally need to connect *out* from gw1 f

Re: Silly problem has me stumped

2001-10-23 Thread Barney Wolff
1. You don't need the public address configured on the same nic as the private - packets to the public address will be accepted even if they come in via the outside nic. 2. Both ping and traceroute offer options to set the source addr. rtfm. On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 05:41:18PM -0500, Kirk Strau

Re: performance issues with M_PREPEND on clusters

2001-10-23 Thread Bosko Milekic
As I have stated to Luigi in private and as I have stated more than half a year ago now when this issue was first brought up by dwmalone, I believe that the correct way to deal with this issue is to have M_LEADINGSPACE and M_TRAILINGSPACE simply return the number o

Silly problem has me stumped

2001-10-23 Thread Kirk Strauser
It's late in the day, my coffee's wearing off, and my brain is fried. My new ISP uses private addresses for all internal routing. Let's say that my new public address block is 1.2.3.0/24, and that the routing block between their network and mine is 10.0.0.0/30, and my default router is 10.0.0.1.

Re: performance issues with M_PREPEND on clusters

2001-10-23 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 02:00:34PM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > Yes, you're right, I was mistaken in my paranioa, however you're > missing the fact that one may want to allocate an EXT buf and still > have it writeable. Yes, but this is the sort of things that are better sorted out in -cur

Re: performance issues with M_PREPEND on clusters

2001-10-23 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 03:17:04PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < said: > > > Similar things could be done in m_pullup() to avoid the > > extra allocation. > > Can't be done in m_pullup: the whole purpose of m_pullup is to > *guarantee* that the data in question will never be shared. It migh

Re: PXE boot vs. DHCP

2001-10-23 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cyrille Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IMHO, it would be better to provide a /etc/dhclient-enter-hooks > while you are net installing the station, then remove it when > finished. > > the dhclient-enter-hooks would be almost what you are doing : > > #!/bin/s

Re: PXE boot vs. DHCP (fwd)

2001-10-23 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 08:35:10AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The patch below for dhclient-script fixes the problem for me. > > Murray and I are very close to importing dhclient 3 (vs. the versoin 2 we > have now)

Re: PXE boot vs. DHCP

2001-10-23 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
John Polstra wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > John Polstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been setting up a 4.4-RELEASE system for net booting and diskless > > operation with pxeboot, and I've run into a minor but annoying > > problem. It seems that if you boot with PXE you can't

RE: multipoint vpn (ipsec)

2001-10-23 Thread Lars Eggert
> is there a way to build multipoint vpn's, using the FreeBSD's ipsec?? The X-Bone does that, a port is in /usr/ports/net/xbone. Also see its web site at http://www.isi.edu/xbone/. -- Lars Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Information Sciences Institute http://www.isi.edu/larse/

performance issues with M_PREPEND on clusters

2001-10-23 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > Similar things could be done in m_pullup() to avoid the > extra allocation. Can't be done in m_pullup: the whole purpose of m_pullup is to *guarantee* that the data in question will never be shared. It might be worth having a new interface which doesn't provide such a guarantee. -GAW

multipoint vpn (ipsec)

2001-10-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
is there a way to build multipoint vpn's, using the FreeBSD's ipsec?? I am just guessing something like: a) starlike vpn, 1 server, many clients ?? b) many-to-many conections, where each and everyone are server and client?? the many examples I get everywhere just specify point-to-point tunnelin

Re: performance issues with M_PREPEND on clusters

2001-10-23 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Luigi Rizzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011023 13:50] wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 01:28:13PM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > ... > > > In the mbuf code, M_LEADINGSPACE always returns 0 when M_EXT is > > > set, instead of calling the second part of M_WRITABLE to check > > > whether there is a chan

Re: performance issues with M_PREPEND on clusters

2001-10-23 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 01:28:13PM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: ... > > In the mbuf code, M_LEADINGSPACE always returns 0 when M_EXT is > > set, instead of calling the second part of M_WRITABLE to check > > whether there is a chance of writing into the cluster. This means ... > I've seen this br

Re: performance issues with M_PREPEND on clusters

2001-10-23 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011023 13:28] wrote: > * Luigi Rizzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011023 13:06] wrote: > > > > Hi, > > don't know what is the right forum to discuss this, but this is > > certainly one. I have also Bcc-ed some people who might need to be > > involved. > > > > In t

Re: performance issues with M_PREPEND on clusters

2001-10-23 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Luigi Rizzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011023 13:06] wrote: > > Hi, > don't know what is the right forum to discuss this, but this is > certainly one. I have also Bcc-ed some people who might need to be > involved. > > In the mbuf code, M_LEADINGSPACE always returns 0 when M_EXT is > set, instead of

performance issues with M_PREPEND on clusters

2001-10-23 Thread Luigi Rizzo
Hi, don't know what is the right forum to discuss this, but this is certainly one. I have also Bcc-ed some people who might need to be involved. In the mbuf code, M_LEADINGSPACE always returns 0 when M_EXT is set, instead of calling the second part of M_WRITABLE to check whether there is a chanc

Re: PXE boot vs. DHCP (fwd)

2001-10-23 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 08:35:10AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The patch below for dhclient-script fixes the problem for me. Murray and I are very close to importing dhclient 3 (vs. the versoin 2 we have now). I would prefer to wait until then before changing isc-dhcp/client/scripts/freebs

Re: My ISP dislikes my dhclient

2001-10-23 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Landon Stewart wrote: > I'm using dhclient to obtain an IP address from my ISP. They claim that I > am "hard coding" an IP because my IP doesn't seem to change. I know that > dhclient keeps a database of past leases and attempts to renew the same IP > whenever possible.

RE: My ISP dislikes my dhclient

2001-10-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
as far as I can recall, the dhcp *server* mantains a /etc/lease files, where the latest ip-addr corresponding to a specifc MAC address are tied one to another. The situation is: a) if there are 500 available ip for 1,000 clients, is is supposed that it will change frequently b) if there are 1

My ISP dislikes my dhclient

2001-10-23 Thread Landon Stewart
I'm using dhclient to obtain an IP address from my ISP. They claim that I am "hard coding" an IP because my IP doesn't seem to change. I know that dhclient keeps a database of past leases and attempts to renew the same IP whenever possible. Is there anyway I can direct my ISP to some documen

Re: PXE boot vs. DHCP

2001-10-23 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Polstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been setting up a 4.4-RELEASE system for net booting and diskless > operation with pxeboot, and I've run into a minor but annoying > problem. It seems that if you boot with PXE you can't use dhclient. > pxeboot config

Re: IPv6 /PPP using FreeBSD 4.4

2001-10-23 Thread Brian Somers
> Hi Brian, > > thanks for your help..i got the Ipv6 ppp working now with the latest version of ppp >from your site > > But i encountered another problem, on freebsd 4.4-stable, you cannot > use ifconfig to point to a destination address like below > > ifconfig tun0 inet6 3ffe:1800:100:1::1 p