Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-31 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thursday 31 May 2007 09:39, Adriaan wrote: > "Because other OS's run the BIOS in real mode, and we run it in vm86 > mode and we don't emulate enough instructions in vm86 mode for the > Compaq/HP BIOS." > > In another post > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-September/0287 >7

Re: Packet Loss w/bge & BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

2007-05-31 Thread Sten Daniel Soersdal
Vinny Abello wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: Vinny Abello wrote: > I've isolated a problem which appears to be a bug causing packet loss > with FreeBSD 6.0 and later on the Dell PowerEdge 2650 servers and the > integrated Broadcom BCM5703 NICs. Have you enabled polling on the interface?

Re: Packet Loss w/bge & BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

2007-05-31 Thread J.D. Bronson
At 05:33 AM 05/31/2007, Sten Daniel Soersdal wrote: It appears I do not have the DEVICE_POLLING option set when I compiled my kernel on my one machine and on the second I am just using the GENERIC kernel. I'll recompile with this option set and try again and post my results to the list. Thanks!

Re: udp fragmentation with pf/ipf

2007-05-31 Thread Sten Daniel Soersdal
Hugo Koji Kobayashi wrote: Hello, While making some tests with fragmented udp DNS responses (with EDNS0), we discovered a possible problem with ipf and pf in FreeBSD 6.2 and 7.0 (200705 snapshot). Our test is a DNS query to an DNSSEC enabled server which replies with a ~4KB udp response. We do

Re: Packet Loss w/bge & BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

2007-05-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 06:14:15AM -0500, J.D. Bronson wrote: > What is the proper syntax for this in /etc/rc.conf? > > ifconfig_bge0="inet 192.168.1.1 -txcsum -rxcsum netmask 255.255.255.0" That should work, according to the syntax in the manpage. If it doesn't, try reversing the options (put

Re: vnode_pager_putpages errors on 6.2

2007-05-31 Thread Christoph Schug
On Tue, May 29, 2007, steve wrote: > Howdy! > > I had this issue on 4.x, which is basically, I have > machines that do cgi stuff for customers, and there is a local > md device that is used as a tmp. When it fills the machine > logs errors > > vnode_pager_putpages I/O error 28.. [...] Ju

Re: Packet Loss w/bge & BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

2007-05-31 Thread Vinny Abello
Sten Daniel Soersdal wrote: > Vinny Abello wrote: >> Oliver Fromme wrote: >>> Vinny Abello wrote: >>> > I've isolated a problem which appears to be a bug causing >>> packet loss >>> > with FreeBSD 6.0 and later on the Dell PowerEdge 2650 servers and the >>> > integrated Broadcom BCM5703

Re: Packet Loss w/bge & BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

2007-05-31 Thread Vinny Abello
Vinny Abello wrote: > Sten Daniel Soersdal wrote: >> Vinny Abello wrote: >>> Oliver Fromme wrote: Vinny Abello wrote: > I've isolated a problem which appears to be a bug causing packet loss > with FreeBSD 6.0 and later on the Dell PowerEdge 2650 servers and the >

Re: Packet Loss w/bge & BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

2007-05-31 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
On 5/31/07, Vinny Abello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Vinny Abello wrote: > Sten Daniel Soersdal wrote: >> Vinny Abello wrote: >>> Oliver Fromme wrote: Vinny Abello wrote: > I've isolated a problem which appears to be a bug causing packet loss > with FreeBSD 6.0 and la

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-31 Thread Vivek Khera
On May 31, 2007, at 1:49 AM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Thanks so much, now I can have an automated install on a USB stick :) please, please, please share the recipes to make this. I would love to omit CD rom drives on my future systems as the only thing i ever use them for is install. als

Re: Packet Loss w/bge & BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

2007-05-31 Thread Vinny Abello
Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: > On 5/31/07, Vinny Abello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Vinny Abello wrote: >> > Sten Daniel Soersdal wrote: >> >> Vinny Abello wrote: >> >>> Oliver Fromme wrote: >> Vinny Abello wrote: >> > I've isolated a problem which appears to be a bug cau

Re: Change in memory tracking in recent 6-STABLE?

2007-05-31 Thread Ulrich Spoerlein
Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2007-May-28 11:29:05 +0200, Ulrich Spoerlein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I'm using symon to monitor memory usage among several FreeBSD machines. > >After updating to a recent 6-STABLE, the amount of memory no longer adds > >up to the total physical memory. The "inactive"

Re: Kernel panicking in 6.2 and 7-CURRENT -- interrupt issues

2007-05-31 Thread youshi10
On Tue, 29 May 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm trying to install 7-CURRENT on my desktop, locally instead of on a virtual machine, and I'm running into an issue where the kernel almost always panics on boot with my motherboard (ASUS P5N-SLI E), due to some sort of interrupt assig

mounting Solaris 10 NFS share

2007-05-31 Thread Matthew Herzog
Hey all. I'm trying to mount a Solaris 10 NFS share from my FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE machine and I'm having some permissions problems. Here's my /etc/dfs/dfstab file on Solaris 10. share -F nfs -o rw=spark -d "generic" /export/home/mush and the line in /etc/fstab on FreeBSD: 192.168.0.26:/export/h

Re: Packet Loss w/bge & BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

2007-05-31 Thread Vinny Abello
Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: >> I've installed an Intel Pro/100 adapter in the Dell PowerEdge 2650. This >> is an Intel 82550 chipset. The packet loss problem is completely gone >> when using this NIC in the server, so it is definitely related to the >> bge driver and this chipset BCM5703 or

Re: mounting Solaris 10 NFS share

2007-05-31 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 11:41:00PM +, Matthew Herzog wrote: > Hey all. > > I'm trying to mount a Solaris 10 NFS share from my FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE > machine and I'm having some permissions problems. > > Here's my /etc/dfs/dfstab file on Solaris 10. > > share -F nfs -o rw=spark -d "generic" /e

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-31 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Friday 01 June 2007 04:58, Vivek Khera wrote: > On May 31, 2007, at 1:49 AM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > Thanks so much, now I can have an automated install on a USB stick > > :) > > please, please, please share the recipes to make this. I would love > to omit CD rom drives on my future systems