network interface monitoring?

2008-01-23 Thread Yousif Hassan
Net-gurus: I hope this is the right list to write to regarding this question (feel free to redirect me to ports@ if that sounds more appropriate). I'm looking for a facility to automatically detect network interface carrier state changes (a network cable gets plugged/unplugged; a laptop's wireles

Re: network interface monitoring?

2008-01-24 Thread Yousif Hassan
Thank you to all who responded. The suggestion was made to use devd or ifstated. Both sound like excellent tools, but I'm currently being tripped up by a core problem - both tools rely on the kernel to notify userland of link state changes (which makes complete sense!). This is all well and good

Re: network interface monitoring?

2008-01-24 Thread Yousif Hassan
On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 10:36 -0600, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 10:58:33AM -0500, Yousif Hassan wrote: > > Thank you to all who responded. > > > > The suggestion was made to use devd or ifstated. Both sound like > > excellent tools, but I'm curr

Re: network interface monitoring?

2008-01-25 Thread Yousif Hassan
In all cases, THANK YOU - this is much much much better than before and I can live with using bfe0_enable="DHCP" instead of "DHCP NOAUTO". Feel free to ask me for more testing if you want to try and investigate the one remaining queue issue. --Yousif On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 14:10 +0900

Re: network interface monitoring?

2008-01-25 Thread Yousif Hassan
> the rc.conf manpage has a few options regarding the function of dhcp > including: > > synchronous_dhclient > (is currently in beta test. Set to ``bool'') to start > dhclient(8) only in response to interface events and not syn- > chronousl

Re: [Wireless] Can't connect to wlan

2008-03-12 Thread Yousif Hassan
On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 08:06 +1030, Benjamin Close wrote: > Alphons "Fonz" van Werven wrote: > > Mel wrote: > > > >>> Do the recent patches by Andrew make a difference? > >>> > >>> http://people.freebsd.org/~thompsa/wpi_head.diff > >>> http://people.freebsd.org/~thompsa/wpi_releng7.diff > > (c

Re: [Wireless] Can't connect to wlan

2008-03-14 Thread Yousif Hassan
Benjamin Close wrote: Sam Leffler wrote: Yousif Hassan wrote: On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 08:06 +1030, Benjamin Close wrote: The slightly wonky: - As reported by someone else: wpi0: timeout resetting Tx ring 1 wpi0: timeout resetting Tx ring 3 wpi0: timeout resetting Tx ring 4 appear on

Re: kern/121720: [wpi] wpi doesnt work if kernel has optionsSCHED_ULE

2008-03-18 Thread Yousif Hassan
The following reply was made to PR kern/121720; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Yousif Hassan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Andrew Lankford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Subject: Re: kern