Re: Fw: Link Triggers on Linux

2002-09-30 Thread Bruce M Simpson
Hi, Sounds similar to Win2k's ability to notify user-space processes of the link going up/down on Ethernet interfaces. But that's nothing that can't be achieved by polling the appropriate ifioctl. On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 05:30:20PM +0200, Marco Molteni wrote: > WLAN events : > o SIOCGIWA

New natd available

2002-09-30 Thread Andre Oppermann
Hello all In the FreeBSD May-June 2002 Status Report we have announced a natd rewrite to make it's configuration options more powerful and support more ip addresses to nat to. The first functional preview is available here: http://diehard.n-r-g.com/stuff/freebsd/ Please check this out and tes

Re: New natd available

2002-09-30 Thread Luigi Rizzo
Andre, could you briefly comment how the new libalias+natd differ (or are planned to differ) from the old one -- e.g. do they implement keepalives, move-to-front of sessions in the hash chains, fixe to known bugs in the old one ? One common complaint with the old libalias is that performance tend

Re: New natd available

2002-09-30 Thread Andre Oppermann
Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > Andre, > could you briefly comment how the new libalias+natd differ > (or are planned to differ) from the old one -- e.g. do > they implement keepalives, move-to-front of sessions in the > hash chains, fixe to known bugs in the old one ? The new one has a way more powerful

Re: Fw: Link Triggers on Linux

2002-09-30 Thread Robert Watson
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > Sounds similar to Win2k's ability to notify user-space processes of the > link going up/down on Ethernet interfaces. But that's nothing that can't > be achieved by polling the appropriate ifioctl. We have this capability already using kqueues, altho

Re: New natd available

2002-09-30 Thread Robert Watson
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Andre Oppermann wrote: > In the FreeBSD May-June 2002 Status Report we have announced a natd > rewrite to make it's configuration options more powerful and support > more ip addresses to nat to. > > The first functional preview is available here: > > http://diehard.n-r-

Re: New natd available

2002-09-30 Thread Andre Oppermann
Robert Watson wrote: > > On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Andre Oppermann wrote: > > > In the FreeBSD May-June 2002 Status Report we have announced a natd > > rewrite to make it's configuration options more powerful and support > > more ip addresses to nat to. > > > > The first functional preview is availab

Re: Question about mbuf allocation and VM routines

2002-09-30 Thread Tom Pavel
> On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Tom Pavel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, as shown in this excerpt m_mballoc() calls kmem_malloc(), > which from its comments expects to be called at splhigh (or perhaps > splvm?). Ultimately, my call chain leads me to > vm_map_entry_create(mb_map), and I fear

Re: New natd available

2002-09-30 Thread Ari Suutari
Hi, Great to see natd maintained. As original author, I kind of miss the long command line options (ie. something like --daemon in addition to -d). The new code seems to use always a select-recvfrom combination to get the data. Someone complained to me about the old natd performance when that wa