On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 11:09:13PM -0800, Bill Paul wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > > Yes, it's me. I'm still alive.
> > It's great to hear that one of the most talented FreeBSD hackers is back
> > in business :)
> >
> > Does this means that you can afford some time to investigate the problems
> > rega
Hello,
> I also modified the input handling so that it no longer uses the
> ng_ether_input_p hook. Now that FreeBSD 5.x has an ifp->if_input vector,
> it's not necessary to abuse this hook anymore. This avoids a collision
> with the ng_ether module, which is what was supposed to be using this
> ho
> I think my problem is not that hard. This bug only occurs when you are
> using CURRENT (or 5.0 RELEASE) from (I think) the point where BPF changed.
Actually, there's something else than changed. The ng_fec module tries
to set ifp->if_output to ng_fec_output() so that it can do some output
proce
Hello,
> I can't easily drop everything and slap together a test setup with
> exactly the right software and hardware I need to debug everyone's
> particular problem.
That's clear.
> ("This bug only occurs in -CURRENT as of 30 seconds ago and on an
> UltraSPARC 10 with 16 if_dc interfaces and I n
> Hello,
>
> > Yes, it's me. I'm still alive.
> It's great to hear that one of the most talented FreeBSD hackers is back
> in business :)
>
> Does this means that you can afford some time to investigate the problems
> regarding your old software?
Not unless it's something I can fix using easily
Hello,
> Yes, it's me. I'm still alive.
It's great to hear that one of the most talented FreeBSD hackers is back
in business :)
Does this means that you can afford some time to investigate the problems
regarding your old software?
I mean ng_fec primarily, because I couldn't get help in the past
> On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 18:13:42 -0800 (PST), in sentex.lists.freebsd.current
> you wrote:
> >be reliable, nevermind pleasant to look at. I only have access to
> >an 82550 card, so I don't know if this is fixed in the 82551 or not.
>
> Hi,
> Can you tell reliably from the dmesg which type one has ?
Yes, it's me. I'm still alive. And thanks to Wind River, I now know more
about the Intel 8255x ethernet chipset than I ever really wanted to.
Recently, I even learned how to enable checksum offload support for
the 82550 and 82551 chips, and I decided it would be a good idea to
add support for this