Re: Intel gigabit driver

2001-11-28 Thread Matthew Jacob
A belated welcome to being a FreeBSD committer! We look forward eagerly to all contributions you and Intel's experience with networking can bring to us all! -matt On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Prafulla Deuskar wrote: > All, > > Intel Corporation has released a gigabit driver for > PRO/1000 series of

(resend/redo) of BRIDGE patches

2001-10-14 Thread Matthew Jacob
can somebody help test these? It compiles well, etc... but I haven't quite got the setup at the moment to really do this as I'd have to tear down a current infrastructure that's in the middle of some long term tests. Can sombody try these and make it does what it's supposed to? They should...

Re: review of change to bridge.h

2001-10-11 Thread Matthew Jacob
Yes- I think I agree with you on this. On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > > Maybe bcmp is right. I believe having IS_ETHER_BROADCAST is too > > useful a macro > > yes, i mean leave it as a macro which calls bcmp, and > let the compiler handle the issue. > > #define IS_ETHER_BROA

Re: review of change to bridge.h

2001-10-11 Thread Matthew Jacob
Maybe bcmp is right. I believe having IS_ETHER_BROADCAST is too useful a macro On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > > > I guess it might be marginally more efficient to > > > call bcmp() (and rely on it being optimized), or do 3

Re: review of change to bridge.h

2001-10-11 Thread Matthew Jacob
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > I guess it might be marginally more efficient to > call bcmp() (and rely on it being optimized), or do 3 > comparisons with unsigned short * > > > +#define IS_ETHER_BROADCAST(a) ( \ > > + ((unsigned short *)(a))[0] == 0x && \ > > + ((un

review of change to bridge.h

2001-10-11 Thread Matthew Jacob
Fix the silly warning: Index: bridge.h === RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/net/bridge.h,v retrieving revision 1.8 diff -u -r1.8 bridge.h --- bridge.h2001/10/05 05:45:26 1.8 +++ bridge.h2001/10/11 18:11:51 @@ -92,8 +92,17 @@

Re: review of minor clarifying comments

2001-10-02 Thread Matthew Jacob
On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > Yes- this may have been true for a long time - but quite a number of > > Unix variants don't require it, so I forgot :-).. For example, neither > > OpenBSD nor NetBSD seem to re

Re: review of minor clarifying comments

2001-10-01 Thread Matthew Jacob
s > but it's still there.. :-/ > > Comments can't hurt though.. > > > On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > > This bit me in the butt yet again about FreeBSD and some assumptions about how > > a NIC's softc is laid out- I don&#x

RE: review of minor clarifying comments

2001-10-01 Thread Matthew Jacob
gt; > -Original Message- > From: Matthew Jacob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 4:05 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: review of minor clarifying comments > > > > This bit me in the butt yet again about FreeBSD and some assumptions abo

review of minor clarifying comments

2001-10-01 Thread Matthew Jacob
This bit me in the butt yet again about FreeBSD and some assumptions about how a NIC's softc is laid out- I don't really it stated elsewhere, so a couple source file comments seem in order.. Frankly, this kind of assumption is dangerous and unnecessary with methods, but at the very least it ought

Re: forwarding broadcast

2001-08-09 Thread Matthew Jacob
I haven't consulted the RFCs either, but, ahem, I thought this was a major point of netmasks and routers and why multicast was invented- to keep broadcasts from clogging the world. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: Intel PRO/1000F do not run on 4.3-RELEASE

2001-05-17 Thread Matthew Jacob
That's becasue the PRO-1000F/PRO-1000T support did not get to -CURRENT until after the release. Upgrade your kernel and try now. On Thu, 17 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > We have a problem with an Intel PRO/1000F Network Adapter. > > On FreeBSD 4.2-REALEASE and on 4.3-REALESE