Re: Remote Boot

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Black
On 2003-10-20, Tobias P. Santos wrote: > I am trying to boot a FreeBSD diskless client with no success. > Actually, I can boot the client, the kernel is downloaded and begins > to boot. Then it tries to reach the DHCP/BOOT server, but this never > occurs and the machine repeats the following messa

Re: PPPoE and troubles with TCP

2002-12-26 Thread Greg Black
[Note: Cc list trimmed; cross-posting not recommended; please watch these things.] Rostislav Krasny wrote: | Maybe PPPoE implementation in FreeBSD have a bug? The data you have provided is inadequate. The following /etc/ppp.conf (edited to hide passwords, etc) works with the version of p

Re: Freebsd REL_ENG 4.3 p28 freezes every 30 minutes.

2002-03-18 Thread Greg Black
Mike Silbersack wrote: | On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Greg Black wrote: | | > Josef Karthauser wrote: | > | > | 4.3 is two whole major releases ago. You should be running 4.5, which | > | you can get by cvsuping using the tag RELENG_4_5_0_RELEASE, or the tag | > | RELENG_4 if you wi

Re: Freebsd REL_ENG 4.3 p28 freezes every 30 minutes.

2002-03-18 Thread Greg Black
Josef Karthauser wrote: | > I like to understand the problem, before upgrading out of it. This | > is the 28th patch of REL ENG 4.3 after all. It should be very stable. | | 4.3 is two whole major releases ago. You should be running 4.5, which | you can get by cvsuping using the tag RELENG_4_5_0

Re: ppp -nat fails with adsl, but ok with modem

2002-03-15 Thread Greg Black
Greg Black wrote: | Brian Somers wrote: | | [lots of early history of this thread snipped] | | | > | > > | What version of FreeBSD are you using? The ppp included in early 4.x | | > | > > | distributions doesn't have the TCP MSS fixup code that is require

Re: ppp -nat fails with adsl, but ok with modem

2002-03-15 Thread Greg Black
Brian Somers wrote: [lots of early history of this thread snipped] | > | > > | What version of FreeBSD are you using? The ppp included in early 4.x | > | > > | distributions doesn't have the TCP MSS fixup code that is required to | > | > > | make | > | > > | things work properly with a PPPoE co

Re: ppp -nat fails with adsl, but ok with modem

2002-03-12 Thread Greg Black
Brian Somers wrote: | > > "Matthew Emmerton" wrote: | > > | From: "Greg Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > > | To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > > | Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 10:39 PM | > > | Subject: ppp -nat fails with adsl, but ok wi

Re: ppp -nat fails with adsl, but ok with modem

2002-02-26 Thread Greg Black
Greg Black wrote: | "Matthew Emmerton" wrote: | | | > | > I've had ppp -nat working just fine over a normal modem link, | | > | > but it is not working at all well on my ADSL link to the same | | > | > provider. | | > | > | | > | > To quantify "

Re: ppp -nat fails with adsl, but ok with modem

2002-02-24 Thread Greg Black
"Matthew Emmerton" wrote: | > | > I've had ppp -nat working just fine over a normal modem link, | > | > but it is not working at all well on my ADSL link to the same | > | > provider. | > | > | > | > To quantify "not working at all well", although I can ping and | > | > traceroute ok from the hos

Re: ppp -nat fails with adsl, but ok with modem

2002-02-24 Thread Greg Black
"Matthew Emmerton" wrote: | From: "Greg Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 10:39 PM | Subject: ppp -nat fails with adsl, but ok with modem | | > I've had ppp -nat working just fine over a normal mode

ppp -nat fails with adsl, but ok with modem

2002-02-22 Thread Greg Black
if anybody can suggest steps I could take to identify the nature of the problem, that would also be most welcome. Greg Black To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: ppp(8) crashes 4.2-R when using netgraph(4) module

2001-11-21 Thread Greg Black
Julian Elischer wrote: | > I took the easy way out here and just ran | > | > ifconfig xl0 inet 10.0.0.1 | | Why put an IP address on it? | | ifconfig xl0 up I left out a detail. The modem has its own 10.x.x.x address and I was killing two birds with one stone -- this makes it easy to ta

Re: Network setup questions

2001-11-21 Thread Greg Black
"Thor Legvold" wrote: | Well, I've asked 3 or 4 times now in the last 3 weeks, and haven't received | any answers. Posted to comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc and to both questions- and | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | That leads me to conclude that either I'm: asking the wrong question(s), | asking in an im

Re: ppp(8) crashes 4.2-R when using netgraph(4) module

2001-11-20 Thread Greg Black
Brian Somers wrote: | > Dynamic loading of negraph modules is still broken, and probably won't be | > fixed until 5.0 (at least that's what the comments on the zillion PRs | > about this problem say.) | > | > Add 'options NETGRAPH_ETHER' and 'options NEGRAPH_SOCKET' to your kernel | > config fil

ppp(8) crashes 4.2-R when using netgraph(4) module

2001-11-19 Thread Greg Black
I rebuilt my 4.2-RELEASE kernel that has been in use for ages with the following extra lines in the config: options NETGRAPH#netgraph(4) system options NETGRAPH_PPPOE My earlier attempt to run ppp(8) on my new ADSL modem failed because netgraph was not in the kern

Re: IPV6/KAME/protosw integration cleanup

2001-08-27 Thread Greg Black
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | >at least we'd get rid of the d*mned warning messages! | >Are you not aware that most of the warning messages for a normal | >kernel compile come from the KAME code? I am on compile number 157 | >for the KSE code. (in 3 weeks) | | though i have no freebsd-curre

Re: - Interface Question -

2001-02-07 Thread Greg Black
Jean-Christophe Varaillon wrote: > If a "dmesg | grep fxp2" does not show any messages at all, does it means > that the interface is not existing ? No, try: grep fxp2 /var/run/dmesg.boot To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: general question re: PTR records.

2001-01-06 Thread Greg Black
Mitch Collinsworth wrote: > > Is it just a really bad idea? > > It's an interesting idea, but it assumes a picture of the world that > doesn't correspond with actual reality. The expression "actual reality" should be read as "the BIND way of doing things". There are alternative DNS implementa