Timeout on dns resolver functions

Title: Timeout on dns resolver functions I'm sure this has been discussed before but I've been unable to find a proper solution... Is there a nice portable way to establish a timeout on the resolver routines? I let trafshow run for several hours when it caused a flood of 'File Table Full'

Re: PXE boot vs. DHCP

In article <002601c15cb4$064fb440$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cyrille Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "John Polstra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Also, I don't feel that my patch is a hack. The entire purpose of > > dhclient's PREINIT phase is to put the network interface into an > > enabled s

Problems with Orinoco WaveLan (long)

As far as I'm able to see, the card is identified, configured and seems to exist fine (ifconfig -a shows it as up, reports the details, etc before the card is given any IP or netmask). wicontrol shows the stats, the IBSS name is correct (of the local access point I connect to), everything seem

Re: PXE-BOOT HOWTO

* Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011025 14:13] wrote: > Can someone tell me where I can read about PXE BOOTing and diskless setup. > Like how can I boot from floppy just like the Novell boot ? > thanks. http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of a

Re: performance issues with M_PREPEND on clusters

Luigi Rizzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 03:17:04PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: >> ... the whole purpose of m_pullup is to >> *guarantee* that the data in question will never be shared. > >Technically, it is correct that m_pullup guarantees that the data >in question will

XP pro

Hello fellow FreeBSD users! Is WinXP compatible with FreeBSD / samba? I mean, with Win2000 pro I always could connect to my FreeBSD shares. But if I try to make a connection from my XP box I get the message: The account is not allowd to connect from this station. How does one solve this? Greet

PXE-BOOT HOWTO

Can someone tell me where I can read about PXE BOOTing and diskless setup. Like how can I boot from floppy just like the Novell boot ? thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: [Fwd: colisions!]

You're wired fine. You're seeing collisions because it's half duplex. To avoid collisions you need a full duplex segment, otherwise the router and etinc talking at the same time will lead to a collision. This is normal and is not cause for concern. Marcelo Leal wrote: > > i have the follow pro

RE: [Fwd: colisions!]

to irado: read some information at www.ots.utexas.edu/ethernet to leal: try to test with different NIC`s and cabels. On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > somewhat strange your cross.. I am accoustumed to use the 568A/568B normalized >cross, which is: > > 1-white-green > 2-green

RE: [Fwd: colisions!]

somewhat strange your cross.. I am accoustumed to use the 568A/568B normalized cross, which is: 1-white-green 2-green 3-white-orange 4-blue 5-white-blue 6-orange 7-white-maroon 8-maroon the other side: 1-white-orange 2-orange 3-white-green 4-blue 5-white-blue 6-green 7-white-maroon 8-maroon a

Re: ADSL with two interfaces in one machine using "dhclient"

On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 08:54:41AM -0700, Landon Stewart wrote: [snip] > Can I have two interfaces with the same gateway without getting MAC address > notices? The easiest and best thing to do is unplug one of the NICs from the hub, since having two NICs from one machine on a collision domain

netperf?!

Hi, I am confused... Is it not possible to decide message size to netperf? Now a default value of 16384 bytes is configured. Can I change that? Best regards Gunnar Gunnar Olsson Phone: +46 8 5062 5762 Xelerated Packet