Re: Having problems with limited broadcast

2009-01-07 Thread Bruce Walker
Peter Steele wrote: When our boxes are initially deployed, they have no IP addresses assigned to them. Their ifconfig entry looks like this: ifconfig_lagg0="laggproto failover laggport nfe0 laggport nfe1" With this config, no IP is assigned to the lagg0 device, so the only way to access the box

Re: Having problems with limited broadcast

2009-01-08 Thread Bruce Walker
Bruce M. Simpson wrote: The folk who point out that link-local addresses could be used, have an interesting suggestion which might work for you. Peter, I understand your issue with the (apparent) restriction of the 169.254/16 range, though I'd point out that the IPv4-LL addressing scheme is

Re: Having problems with limited broadcast

2009-01-08 Thread Bruce Walker
Bruce Walker wrote: It was trivial to do this in a completely portable way using libpcap and libnet. Sorry, typo: I actually meant to say libdnet -- a different but similar package. Also with Python bindings. http://libdnet.sourceforge.net/ -bmw

Re: SLIP slipping away

2008-03-15 Thread Bruce Walker
Sin wrote: I wasn't going to ask before, but I guess curiosity got the best of me. I've been working for an ISP for the past 8 years, so PPP and SLIP talk comes up alot. I don't usually post, just read, however I am curious about what kind of application could possibly be using slip as oppos

Re: if_bridge FreeBSD 6.0 on a Broadcom interface not working

2006-01-11 Thread Bruce Walker
David Leimbach wrote: x86 machine with FreeBSD 6 and using if_bridge to connect the tap0 interface with xl0 with great success. I tried to duplicate this configuration on a dual opteron machine that has Broadcom adapters and when I add the bge0 or bge1 interfaces to the bridge0 iface that I cre

Re: if_bridge FreeBSD 6.0 on a Broadcom interface not working

2006-01-11 Thread Bruce Walker
Bruce Walker wrote: [if_bridge trouble with] two Intel Ether Express Pro/1000 interfaces. Previously, I was fiddling with if_bridge bridging in a box (HP VLi8) with the built-in 3Com i/f (xl0) and an add-in PRO/1000 card (em0). That worked great. So I have now duplicated that config in a

Re: if_bridge FreeBSD 6.0 on a Broadcom interface not working

2006-01-12 Thread Bruce Walker
Andrew Thompson wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 12:19:05PM -0500, Bruce Walker wrote: As soon as I boot up with em0 and em1 added to the bridge0 interface, I lose IP connectivity. Interestingly, I can ping hosts by IP address. But all attempts to do anything else, eg NTP, DNS or ssh are

Re: Zeroconfig and Multicast DNS

2006-08-23 Thread Bruce Walker
Fredrik Lindberg wrote: mDNSResponder-108 appears to still be under APSL 2, I don't know if that license is acceptable for base utilities, if it is, it might be a viable alternative. It should be under the Apache 2.0 license now. Here's the announcement from the bonjour-dev list ...

[Fwd: New Bonjour Internet Drafts posted]

2006-08-24 Thread Bruce Walker
Re the ZeroConf/Bonjour/IPv4LL chat: this just in ... Original Message Subject:New Bonjour Internet Drafts posted Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:20:23 -0700 From: Marc Krochmal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, Today we submitted the latest version