mps in GENERIC in FreeBSD 9.2R i386

2013-10-03 Thread Joe Greco
S LSI has tested i386 arch on different Released FreeBSDs of 7.x, 8.x and > > 9.x > series. > > > > That confirms it. I'll go ahead and check it into head if someone with an > i386 build environment can confirm that the driver in head builds properly > on i386. >

FreeBSD tuning(7) is largely out of date

2005-04-19 Thread Joe Greco
rt paragraph about each would be heaven. I don't mind paying a qualified someone to do this if they can do a good job of it at a reasonable rate. Contact me off-list if interested. Thanks. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "W

Re: PXE booting a 5.4-RC2 system ...

2005-04-18 Thread Joe Greco
lved by putting set vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/md0c" in loader.rc. At least I get into sysinstall. Now to try installing. :-) 5.* is going to take a little getting used to. Generally looks nice but also a bit foreign. Thanks for the hint, ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Se

Re: Tuning for router performance

2005-04-17 Thread Joe Greco
it the throughput on that port. 3) The driver tunable EM_TIDV looks quite promising as a first guess as to what to tune for /my/ issue. 4) I think playing with EM_MAX_TXD and EM_MAX_RXD may be useful to both you and I as well. 5) Don't know about FreeBSD 5. You're on y

PXE booting a 5.4-RC2 system ...

2005-04-17 Thread Joe Greco
; Press a key on the console to reboot <-- So I figure maybe it's a bug or maybe I need to tweak something. Anyone have a clue which is the correct answer? Thanks, ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite

Re: 4.*-stable sysinstall ... custom dist problems

2000-07-09 Thread Joe Greco
ot easier to experiment since I won't have to remember a string of things I gotta type at the -c prompt. :-) -- ... Joe ------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTEC

4.*-stable sysinstall ... custom dist problems

2000-07-08 Thread Joe Greco
y sucks because splitting that distro up with split ends up with "too many pieces". Is there, in fact, a chunk size limit now? Obviously I can work around this, but it's inconvenient and unfortunate if so. :-/ Thanks for any hints, -- ... Joe ------

Re: AMD K6-2 / 550

2000-07-04 Thread Joe Greco
ranging up to K6-III-400's (which still seem to be faster than their K6-2 higher speed counterparts). Only using Intel for the SMP stuff now. And on my laptop :-( -- ... Joe --- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator

Re: dot-0 releases

2000-03-22 Thread Joe Greco
One Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following words: > I ain't no Matt Dillon, Jordan K. Hubbard, Mike O'Dell, David > Greenman, Doug Barton, Joe Greco, Mike Horwath, Russell Vincent, or > anybody else like that. > > I like to t

Re: Tuning: FreeBSD as static router with 6 fast ethernet cards

2000-03-05 Thread Joe Greco
give up on a tried and proven solution that has worked for me for years. With the advent of motherboards with 5 and 6 PCI slots, in theory one could build oneself a 24-port 10/100 router for under $2000. ... Joe ----------- Joe

3.4R sysinstall blows up

1999-12-20 Thread Joe Greco
ust me, or is it an actual bug? ... Joe ------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Re: Route table leaks

1999-12-09 Thread Joe Greco
To The Machine -- > Bob Vaughan | techie@{w6yx|tantivy}.stanford.edu | [EMAIL PROTECTED] >| P.O. Box 9792, Stanford, Ca 94309-9792 > -- I am Me, I am only Me, And no one else is Me, What could be simpler? -- > -- ... Joe ---

Re: Route table leaks

1999-12-08 Thread Joe Greco
> At 08:51 AM 12/8/99 -0600, Joe Greco wrote: > >Most of which are routes pointing at the 3 private-net interfaces on the > >machine. > > The info was provided more as a comparison, that quantity of routes do not > necessary mean leak ? Or perhaps it does. But after 90

Re: mmap bugs (was Re: ahc problems (with vinum?))

1999-11-28 Thread Joe Greco
> At 02:45 PM 11/28/99 , Joe Greco wrote: > >I have certainly beat the $#!+ out of these systems in a variety of ways, > >and have run into some odd things. Most were traceable to SCSI issues. > >Some didn't get classified. I'm running vinum in a ten-filesystem

Re: ahc problems (with vinum?)

1999-11-28 Thread Joe Greco
gt; > has 1/2 a clue what you want replaced, and how. I prefer the > > no-screwdriver-required method. > > Oh, I can certainly appreciate the idiot-proof approach. In your > situation, it makes a lot of sense. However it'll make it a little more > difficult to track down the problem.

Re: 3.x backdoor rootshell security hole

1999-07-13 Thread Joe Greco
never change. I did post a sample file protection script to -security a few months back. It also removed suid/sgid privilege on things that are not likely to be used (modifiable, of course, it basically just lists all suid/sgid progs). I believe that it will harden base filesystems on a FreeBSD box to