Re: sockstat / netstat output 8.x vs 7.x

2010-05-11 Thread Wes Peters
The output header is instructive: USER COMMANDPID FD PROTO LOCAL ADDRESS FOREIGN ADDRESS www httpd 18423 3 tcp4 6 *:80 *:* www httpd 18423 4 tcp4 *:* *:* www httpd 25184 3 tcp4 6 *:80 *:* www

Re: Multiple default routes on multihome host

2008-02-21 Thread Wes Peters
On Feb 20, 2008, at 1:54 PM, Bruce M. Simpson wrote: Wes Peters wrote: I see a number of people have replied to this message offering solutions of how to accomplish your migration, using a variety of tools available to you in FreeBSD. I've always found this community very supporti

Re: Multiple default routes on multihome host

2008-02-19 Thread Wes Peters
uot; is not the solution. I'll get down off my soapbox now. This is such an FAQ on this list, you should be required to read and answer this question before being allowed to post to the list. :^) -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters

Re: 6.2 mtu now limits size of incomming packet

2007-07-16 Thread Wes Peters
On 7/16/07, Sten Daniel Soersdal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I guess it wouldn't hurt for the operating system to accept larger frames, as long as only the correctly sized frames are transmitted. There are alot of people, including myself, that assume a host can't receive a frame that is larger

Re: Freebsd to Exchange server

2004-05-26 Thread Wes Peters
ot having any luck. > > Any ideas or suggestions would be welcome. The freebsd-questions mailing list is the appropriate place to ask questions like this. This mailing list is for developers working on the FreeBSD networking implementation itself. -- Where am I, and what am

Re: [4.9-R]Can I Make My DSL Connect Go Faster ?

2004-05-09 Thread Wes Peters
fig directly and see whether this helps. And then try downloading something from a real server instead of running the stupid benchmark. Really! Burn up some bits getting something real, not running somebody's artifical browser toy. -- Where am I, and what am I

Re: [4.9-R]Can I Make My DSL Connect Go Faster ?

2004-05-04 Thread Wes Peters
ly mis-configured something. Did you have to install any special drivers on XP? I'm wondering if they're using some sort of link compression to get the promised speed. Also, try downloading something from one of the well-connected FreeBSD mirrors and see what kind of download

Re: Stupid question about managed switches

2004-04-18 Thread Wes Peters
ter then routes between these virtual interfaces in the normal manner. I can't speak to the insides of the HP equipment, but Xylan/Alcatel used a modified version of the Net/2 TCP/IP stack running on VxWorks in the management processor. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in

Re: Looking for switch recommendations ...

2004-03-30 Thread Wes Peters
ess of the other NIC in his XP box doesn't lend me to believe he has that knowlege. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] m

Re: Looking for switch recommendations ...

2004-03-26 Thread Wes Peters
s of the packet if no MAC header matches were found. This feature was used to implement hardware routing (the HRE-X module), allowing us to route packets between IP networks at a million packets per second. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters

Re: Looking for switch recommendations ...

2004-03-26 Thread Wes Peters
Alcatel architecture is fairly good, but it carries a lot of baggage from the Xylan "any to any" switching architecture which tends to drive their cost up a bit. The HP ProCurves perform well and are reliable and (relatively) cheap. -- "Where am I,

Re: Odd network issue ... *very* slow scp between two servers

2004-03-08 Thread Wes Peters
mething like that. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-n

Re: My planned work on networking stack

2004-03-01 Thread Wes Peters
u expect to have a design for the ARP stuff and TCP buffer sizing, since they are underway? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: outdoor Wireless-indoor access

2004-01-03 Thread Wes Peters
tennas is very expensive. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://softweyr.com/

Re: suffering from poor network performance...

2003-12-18 Thread Wes Peters
On Thursday 18 December 2003 09:07, Robert Watson wrote: > On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Wes Peters wrote: > > On Tuesday 16 December 2003 03:35 pm, Charles Swiger wrote: > > > On Dec 16, 2003, at 5:58 PM, Alex (ander Sendzimir) wrote: > > > > I have a small home networ

Re: suffering from poor network performance...

2003-12-17 Thread Wes Peters
#x27;t see anything. These were typically sold as "Dual Speed" hubs, thus the "DS" in the product id. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: FreeBSD doesn't recognize last network interface

2003-11-28 Thread Wes Peters
I bridge on the card, and the first interface. Have you tried this card on it's own, to be certain the card is OK? If so, I wonder if the machine is out of some critical resource (irqs?) required to configure the card. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handba

Re: Help Broadcasting a UDP packet on the LAN:URGENT

2003-10-23 Thread Wes Peters
t where we all agree (at least that it sucks less than the alternatives) the design is probably not too far off in the ozone. Now we just have to let Bruce implement it. Where *did* I put that intercontinental bullwhip ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handb

Re: Help Broadcasting a UDP packet on the LAN:URGENT

2003-10-23 Thread Wes Peters
On Thursday 23 October 2003 11:23 am, Charles Swiger wrote: > On Thursday, October 23, 2003, at 11:52 AM, Barney Wolff wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 01:55:55AM -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > > [ ... ] > > > What are you going to do when IPv6 comes into more general

Re: Help Broadcasting a UDP packet on the LAN:URGENT

2003-10-23 Thread Wes Peters
On Thursday 23 October 2003 08:52 am, Barney Wolff wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 01:55:55AM -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > > To me it's not a matter of "boot code" vs. general usefulness so much > > as it's just obviously the right way to do it. We use all-ones

Re: Help Broadcasting a UDP packet on the LAN:URGENT

2003-10-23 Thread Wes Peters
etwork? I'm pretty certain the code won't be all that difficult if we just fully understand the problem before we jump in, but I'm also pretty certain we don't fully understand the problem, let alone the solution. ;^) -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this

Re: Help Broadcasting a UDP packet on the LAN:URGENT

2003-10-20 Thread Wes Peters
h more than the sum of the sort-of but not really working hacks we have flying about now. Go Bruce! Go Bruce! ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: IP_ONESBCAST and upcoming RELENG_4_9 freeze

2003-10-19 Thread Wes Peters
ke your solution better. I'm happy to know that will be in 5.2 and I have PR or two to assign over to you so you can close them. ;^) -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters

Re: Multiple Interfaces

2003-07-31 Thread Wes Peters
em > behave identically. > Only one can be default gateway. In point of fact, it's just completely wrong. I guess it depends on what you mean by "cannot handle", it certainly doesn't crash the kernel or halt networking or anything like that. In fact, the first interfac

Re: what developpement of network between BSD 4.3 et BSD 4.4 life

2003-07-29 Thread Wes Peters
t mailing list. Please take these to freebsd-chat or I'll have to ban you from this list. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: net/1 - net/2 - net/3

2003-07-28 Thread Wes Peters
ase do so on -chat, which was made for drivel. 2) net/2 and net/3 were code distributions from UC Berkeley. Your favorite UNIX history site will provide you with any details you want. Some of them might even be accurate. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?&q

Re: broadcast udp packets ...

2003-07-17 Thread Wes Peters
On Tuesday 15 July 2003 04:49 pm, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Wes Peters wrote: > [ ... ] > > > The idea is, we have listener on each ethernet interface listening > > via a bpf. The listener listens for an 'appliance discovery' > > packet which is broadcast by t

Re: kern/37486: Bug in network stack in sending broadcast packets

2003-07-16 Thread Wes Peters
Synopsis: Bug in network stack in sending broadcast packets Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-net->wes Responsible-Changed-By: wes Responsible-Changed-When: Wed Jul 16 11:26:15 PDT 2003 Responsible-Changed-Why: I'm working on all-call broadcasting code already, I'll fix this. http://www.freeb

Re: broadcast udp packets ...

2003-07-15 Thread Wes Peters
p address of the interface, even if this is 0.0.0.0. This special case will not call rtalloc or do any other route lookups. Stop me if I'm violating specifications or even just common sense here... (I need to read the IP and UDP RFCs in a bit more detail, they seem pretty vague in this

Re: mbuf and sk_buffs

2003-07-12 Thread Wes Peters
thout Richard to explain it to us. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinf

Re: broadcast udp packets ...

2003-07-11 Thread Wes Peters
, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: broadcast udp packets ...

2003-07-11 Thread Wes Peters
On Friday 11 July 2003 14:09, Don Lewis wrote: > On 11 Jul, Wes Peters wrote: > > What we observed on our embedded system is the packet gets sent on > > all attached interfaces, with dest IP 255.255.255.255, and a src IP > > of the local address that has the default rou

Re: broadcast udp packets ...

2003-07-11 Thread Wes Peters
to CURRENT and MFC on a normal timeline; we'll want this fixed here before 5.2. Sorry to take so long to reply to this. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: ipfilter netboot problems

2003-06-24 Thread Wes Peters
boot phase. Since you're booting from the network, there is no way to eliminate your exposure, but you can make certain you don't start the usual culprits (mail, dns, web, etc services) until after you've processed the firewall rules. -- Where am I

Re: Typo in /etc/services

2003-06-21 Thread Wes Peters
owner of port 308, that is. Perhaps it would be best to contact the novastor maintainer and get him to fix it? The current registered maintainer is Brian Dickman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters

Re: IPv6 and me....

2003-06-18 Thread Wes Peters
he US would provide > IPv6 support... :-) Xmission does. www.xmission.com. Probably not useful to you unless you're located in Utah, and I have no idea what it means outside their own network. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters

Re: TCP/IP stack performance...

2003-06-15 Thread Wes Peters
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Re: TCP/IP stack performance...

2003-06-12 Thread Wes Peters
sors running on high end machines. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinf

Re: Collision on NIC

2003-06-01 Thread Wes Peters
d. ;^) Another freebsd-net success story. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fre

Re: Collision on NIC

2003-05-31 Thread Wes Peters
be cause for concern; at 0.03% I can only conclude that you have a switched ethernet and have occasional broadcast traffic. 0.03% is way too low for any half-duplex (i.e. built with hubs) network. Repeat after me: "Collisions are normal on ethernet. 0.03% is nothing to be upset about."

Re: Cascading qmail servers

2003-05-29 Thread Wes Peters
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 08:00 am, Barney Wolff wrote: > On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 07:45:10AM -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > > > Don't assume that you can't create an alias for each user. When I > > > worked at a very large NY bank, with well over 100,000 employees, >

Re: Cascading qmail servers

2003-05-29 Thread Wes Peters
o > internet. And also I want to keep part of the e-mail accounts on the > main server for the whatever.com domain itself. Why qmail? -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: Cascading qmail servers

2003-05-29 Thread Wes Peters
When I > worked at a very large NY bank, with well over 100,000 employees, > /etc/mail/aliases was that big, and sendmail worked just fine. In sendmail, you can do domain routing with mailertable. I think you can do the same in Postfix with rel

Re: atmel drivers

2003-04-04 Thread Wes Peters
7;lesser os's :) Sounds like something we need. I've got a prism1 and prism2 card I could donate, but that won't solve the larger problem; I'd rather have support for the new chipset instead. Warner, let me know if I can help by sending a

Re: Patch updates

2003-04-02 Thread Wes Peters
see what changed. Watch for system header file changes, those can be pretty far-reaching. If the kernel doesn't change, you're pretty safe with buildworld, installworld, and selectively restarting any long-lived daemons that changed. -- Where am I,

Re: ifconfig question

2003-03-30 Thread Wes Peters
. Any objections for fixing > this? That would be convenient. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.f

Re: AirportExtreme with FreeBSD HostAP

2003-03-26 Thread Wes Peters
e* effort to crack. ;^) /me wanders off whistling the 'end to end encryption' theme song... -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: support of iso networking

2003-02-21 Thread Wes Peters
es NetBSD. Perhaps so. This is one of the strengths offered by the BSD community: choice (aka differentiation). -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: changes in tcp6_output.c and tcp6_input.c

2003-02-19 Thread Wes Peters
kernelconfig.html Right there on your FreeBSD system. This handbook section also appears to be available in German, French, Italian, and Japanese. all right there in /usr/share/doc. Enjoy. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters

Re: Preferred Gigabit interfaces for -CURRENT

2003-02-08 Thread Wes Peters
On Saturday 08 February 2003 17:22, Terry Lambert wrote: > Wes Peters wrote: > > On Friday 07 February 2003 01:25, David Gilbert wrote: > > > I believe that someone here recomended Tigon III based cards ... but I > > > was recently looking through 5.0-RELEASE&#x

Re: Preferred Gigabit interfaces for -CURRENT

2003-02-07 Thread Wes Peters
ny mention of Tigon III. The follow-on to the Tigon II is the Broadcom BCM570x supported by the bge(4) driver in FreeBSD. This is not what you want. They're certainly cheap to test with, though; the Netgear GA302T sells for under $40 at a few online retailers. --

Re: Does natd(8) really need to see _all_ packets?

2003-02-04 Thread Wes Peters
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 08:42, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > On Monday 03 February 2003 08:19 pm, Wes Peters wrote: > = On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 05:27, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > = > Hi! > = > > = > This question bothered me for a while -- most of the traffic on my > = > LAN is

Re: Does natd(8) really need to see _all_ packets?

2003-02-04 Thread Wes Peters
office supply stores was giving them away last December and I picked up several... -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: support for DWL-650

2002-11-22 Thread Wes Peters
86 IIRC it's been in for more than a year. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe:

Re: CFR: MFC of mtags

2002-11-22 Thread Wes Peters
ll wait > a week before applying them. Wanna post a patch for the stalwarts to test? If we had RELENG_4 in P4 you could just branch. Sigh. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters

Re: Sockets and changing IP addresses

2002-11-21 Thread Wes Peters
hould take care of the problem, but I haven't backed that up with any testing. SIOCSIFADDR on an interface does remove all routes for the interface and then rebuild routes for all now-existing addresses, so any cached routes on that interface will now be invalid.

Re: What is 'checksum offload'?

2001-08-17 Thread Wes Peters
8 or 9k. > > I thought it was an IPv6 packet with payload >= 2^16 bytes. > rfc2675 "Jumbo Frames" are (gigabit) ethernet data frames holding up to 9 Kbytes. I am certain "jumbogram" is referring to the same thing. -- Wes Peters To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: no DSN oddness

2001-08-08 Thread Wes Peters
e DNS book when you run out of help in the other one. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: Using FreeBSD server as a router??

2001-08-06 Thread Wes Peters
er would? Any > > assistance is appreciated. > > I believe this message belongs in -net. No, actually it belongs in -questions, where ALL "how do I do XXX with FreeBSD?" questions belong. What bstephens needs to do is add gateway_enable=YES

Re: FreeBSD V4.3 running on ABIT VP6 Dual Proc

2001-08-03 Thread Wes Peters
ame board for 5.0 development work. I'll be happy to trade for my BP6 with 2x Celeron 500 if you're unhappy. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sysctl net.link.vlan.link.proto

2001-07-17 Thread Wes Peters
in LLC (or SNAP) frames? How odd. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: se

Re: fastforwarding?

2001-07-05 Thread Wes Peters
for use in a core router, or acceptable for any of the wildly esoteric CRAP espoused in the past 10 or 12 messages in this thread. If you don't like fastforwarding, don't use it, but don't get in the way of people who use it and maintain it. Sheesh. --

Re: Cisco Aironet 340 Series

2001-07-03 Thread Wes Peters
an omni antenna on a large cement silo about 3.5 miles/5 km away without an amplifier. Typical throughput is about 1 mpbs. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC [EMAIL PRO

Re: fastforwarding?

2001-07-01 Thread Wes Peters
able Memory to map the destination address to a cached route or interface pointer; it would be interesting to experiment with something like that in FreeBSD. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters

Re: fastforwarding?

2001-07-01 Thread Wes Peters
Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > BTW, Wes, I'm still waiting for a working example of an indirect route > with also indirect gateway. Any indirect route via the opposite end of a point-to-point connection. Right? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handb

Re: fastforwarding?

2001-06-30 Thread Wes Peters
e FDDI layer, or the ATM layer, etc. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: s

Re: fastforwarding?

2001-06-29 Thread Wes Peters
an ingress filter or an egress filter. I'm not that familiar with ipfw, but I guess I should be. Is there a command on FreeBSD to dump the contents of the fastforwarding route cache? If not, this would be a good "junior kernel hacker" task as well. -- "Where am I

Re: fastforwarding?

2001-06-28 Thread Wes Peters
Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Wes Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The description there isn't very forthcoming. fastforwarding caches > > the results of a route lookup for destination addresses that are not > > on the local machine, and uses th

Re: fastforwarding?

2001-06-27 Thread Wes Peters
ation addresses that are not on the local machine, and uses the cached route to short-circuit the normal (relatively slow) route lookup process. The packet flows directly from one layer2 input routine directly to the opposing layer2 output routine without traversing the IP layer. --

Re: outgoing traffic load balancing with multiple ISP

2001-05-09 Thread Wes Peters
te.html ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROT

Re: TCP intercept?

2001-04-23 Thread Wes Peters
man page for bpf. Otherwise, you'll have to explain what you mean by "TCP intercept", it is not a terminology in common use. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softwey

Re: non-random IP IDs

2001-04-16 Thread Wes Peters
.freebsd.org/~kris/ipid.patch > > Comments? Looks clean. The only comment I can find is: Why not have ip_randomid() return the ID in network byte order? It would save several HTONS macros trailing the ip_randomid() calls. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbaske

Re: help

2001-04-12 Thread Wes Peters
proper configuration in /etc/host.conf and /etc/resolv.conf. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://so

Re: Transition from modem PPP to PPPoE

2001-04-05 Thread Wes Peters
Brett Glass wrote: > > At 07:27 AM 4/1/2001, Wes Peters wrote: > > >Why use PPPoE -- you really prefer to toss away gobs of bandwidth? > > I don't see why it should be that inefficient. Because PPP encapsulation adds a lot of non-information. > In fact, I&#

Re: Transition from modem PPP to PPPoE

2001-04-05 Thread Wes Peters
ets across the tunnel, in which case it's no worse than anything else. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] h

Re: Transition from modem PPP to PPPoE

2001-04-01 Thread Wes Peters
and the server (also running > FreeBSD 3.2 with security patches, but with kernel PPP) to communicate > via PPPoE rather than via the modems. Why use PPPoE -- you really prefer to toss away gobs of bandwidth? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in thi

Re: Indirect routes with indirect gateways, bugfix

2001-03-26 Thread Wes Peters
o create dedicated routes from one subnet to another without requiring them to spread the routes across the entire installation. > On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 10:41:54AM -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > > This allows a crude sort of "policy routing", if that is of any value. > > I do

Re: 4.3-BETA netmask problem

2001-03-25 Thread Wes Peters
llinfo A.B.C.Drt > > > > Show us the output of `route -nv get A.B.C.D'. > > And we will see that this route has an indirect gateway! Right. Peter, you probably need a default route pointing at whatever your router to the rest of the net

Re: Indirect routes with indirect gateways, bugfix

2001-03-21 Thread Wes Peters
t gateways. This allows a crude sort of "policy routing", if that is of any value. I don't see what it hurts, or any reason to remove it. A misconfigured routing table is a system administration problem, not a code problem. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in thi

Re: TCP/IP stack

2001-03-20 Thread Wes Peters
Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System" by McKusick et al. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ipv6_forward function.

2001-03-20 Thread Wes Peters
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Re: same interface Route Cache

2001-03-18 Thread Wes Peters
Nick Rogness wrote: > > On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Wes Peters wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > Packet 1 comes in through ISP #2 network. It comes into your > > > > internal network to machine 1. Machine 1 replies to the > >

Re: same interface Route Cache

2001-03-17 Thread Wes Peters
VLANs, end-to-end QoS reservations that prefer links that can provide QoS, etc., but the ability of just about anyone to correctly configure such things has yet to be shown in my experience. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" We

Re: same interface Route Cache

2001-03-17 Thread Wes Peters
Unless your running a routing > daemon. But is that really practical with cable modems, dsl, etc?...I > don't think so. Why would the physical media have anything to do with routing protocols? > > What if you are running na

Re: same interface Route Cache

2001-03-17 Thread Wes Peters
e possible to write a routing daemon that somehow snarfs each of the addresses that hit the default route and play traceroute games to determine which of your public addresses have a "better" path to it, but what Nick really really needs to do is

Re: same interface Route Cache

2001-03-17 Thread Wes Peters
Nick Rogness wrote: > > On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Wes Peters wrote: > > [Wes, if you get this, for some reason I can't send to your > domain.] > > You are not understanding what I am trying to say. Once again I'll try to > clarif

Re: same interface Route Cache

2001-03-17 Thread Wes Peters
need anything other than a default route. If it's not bound for the internal network, it goes to the external network, by definition. I completely fail to see that you have actually stated a problem yet. What exactly is the problem you think you're trying to solve here? --

Re: Deamon with perl

2001-03-03 Thread Wes Peters
Ah. Ick. Perl. Bleh. > > He'd have the same problem in C (except that the compiler would catch it - > INADDR_ANY is not a string, I guess that is your point?) Yeah, it should either check the type or convert it appropriately: the C way, or the Python

Re: Deamon with perl

2001-03-03 Thread Wes Peters
Paulo Fragoso wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Wes Peters wrote: > > > Paulo Fragoso wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I've written a little server using perl, it's working fine using FBSD 4.x > > > but when I try with FBSD

Re: Deamon with perl

2001-03-02 Thread Wes Peters
o bind to a port < 1024. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: Quick question about IP aliasing

2001-02-27 Thread Wes Peters
ddress is on the same subnet as the first network address for this in- terface, a netmask of 0x has to be specified. Somebody should look to see if the man page is true, or if you have to use a netmask of 0x for all aliases.

Re: 802.1q vlans and STABLE

2001-02-23 Thread Wes Peters
people who might be interested. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Using pppd to gateway another box via null modem serial line

2001-02-18 Thread Wes Peters
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Re: potential infinite loop in network device drivers

2001-02-09 Thread Wes Peters
terrupts driving the system into interrupt livelock, as long as the card is smart enough to discard packets without interrupting when its own buffers are full. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters

Re: send problem on udp socket...

2001-02-07 Thread Wes Peters
ing send() on UDP sockets. > > ENOBUFS == ESYSADMINNEEDSTORAISENMBCLUSTERS Or perhaps ENOBUFS == E_SYSTEM_NEEDS_TO_RAISE_NMBCLUSTERS_ALL_ON_ITS_OWN? A starting point, increment, and ceiling, based on the memory size of the system, might be a more reasona

Re: VPN question

2001-02-05 Thread Wes Peters
sessions concurrently) Win2K has IPSec built in. I haven't tried it vs. FreeBSD yet, but will be soon. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: (fwd) Re: FreeBSD ip masq, ip aliasing

2001-02-02 Thread Wes Peters
ables, but that still needs some work. > > man natd > man ipfw > man divert Well said. Unfortunately, you didn't include Mr. Cherko's email so I cannot reply to him as well. You can also accomplish this using ipfilter and ipnat. Some of us prefer ipfilter to ipfw, and ip

Re: manual page review: connect(2) EAGAIN error

2001-01-20 Thread Wes Peters
return (EAGAIN); + return (EADDRNOTAVAIL); } ++*lastport; if (*lastport < first || *lastport > last) -- "W

Re: manual page review: connect(2) EAGAIN error

2001-01-19 Thread Wes Peters
implements what? Returning EAGAIN when no ephemeral ports are available? That is all the above really says, and then provides a hint as to how to fix it. The description is a little simplistic, as it misses the lowfirst-lowlast and highfirst-highlast rang

Re: NTP hardware ?

2001-01-12 Thread Wes Peters
fos from experienced > admins in "good" hardware devices to connect to > the PC. The ones Warner Losh makes? ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC

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