Re: problems booting 8.x kernel

2011-03-15 Thread Mike Scott
On 14/03/11 18:48, Olivier Cochard-Labbé wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Mike Scott wrote: Basically, I'm finding that the 8.1 and 8.2 kernels hang on certain machines during bootup, specifically during device discover and module load. I've tried 8.2 off the current release CD, and al

Re: problems booting 8.x kernel

2011-03-15 Thread Mike Scott
On 15/03/11 09:54, Mike Scott wrote: Sorry, a line or two 'got away from' that last message, so part won't make sense. Should be I've found the occasional similar comment on the web, such as http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=117767 That refers to a hang after 'flowtable cleaner'

Re: problems booting 8.x kernel

2011-03-15 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 15 Mar 2011, Mike Scott wrote: > I think I'll have to give up because I'm out of ideas, settle for a linux > kernel on this particular target h/w, and just hope this issue doesn't > affect another machine I have which is due for imminent upgrade from 6.2 to > 8.x. Does it boot ok on

Re: problems booting 8.x kernel

2011-03-15 Thread Mike Scott
On 15/03/11 10:17, Ian Smith wrote: On Tue, 15 Mar 2011, Mike Scott wrote: > I think I'll have to give up because I'm out of ideas, settle for a linux > kernel on this particular target h/w, and just hope this issue doesn't > affect another machine I have which is due for imminent upgr

Re: Dell 850 Panic on boot

2011-03-15 Thread Andriy Gapon
On 15/03/2011 02:06, Mark Felder wrote: Well I'm not sure what to say. I just remembered I promised an update and so I went to try to boot the server off an 8.2 disc and see it panic again and nothing. No panic. I have no explanation for this except maybe a failing power supply that was being

MAC address / per-proto ARP caching in 8.1-RELEASE

2011-03-15 Thread Steve Polyack
Is anyone aware of some sort of facility in either FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE or the em(4) driver which would cause it to cache MAC addresses / ARP entries for hosts on a per-protocol basis? We've been doing some testing with new routers, and almost every time we switch them in or out our FreeBSD mac

Fwd: ipfw pipe show (freebsd 8.1)

2011-03-15 Thread Leonardo Reginin
Hi fellows. On freebsd release 7, the 'ipfw pipe show' command shows something like that: fw# ipfw pipe show 10 00010: 1.024 Mbit/s0 ms 50 sl. 1 queues (1 buckets) droptail mask: 0x00 0x/0x -> 0x/0x BKT Prot ___Source IP/port Dest. IP/port Tot_pkt/

Re: MAC address / per-proto ARP caching in 8.1-RELEASE

2011-03-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 09:30:39AM -0400, Steve Polyack wrote: > Is anyone aware of some sort of facility in either FreeBSD > 8.1-RELEASE or the em(4) driver which would cause it to cache MAC > addresses / ARP entries for hosts on a per-protocol basis? > > [snipping remaining details; readers can r

Re: MAC address / per-proto ARP caching in 8.1-RELEASE

2011-03-15 Thread Steve Polyack
On 03/15/11 14:26, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 09:30:39AM -0400, Steve Polyack wrote: Is anyone aware of some sort of facility in either FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE or the em(4) driver which would cause it to cache MAC addresses / ARP entries for hosts on a per-protocol basis? [snipp

Re: mps(4) driver (LSI 6Gb SAS) commited to stable/8

2011-03-15 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 09:17:46 -0800, Hubert Tournier wrote: > > Yes, thank you Ken (and everybody involved) for this driver! > > Ken, i think you left out the mps.4 man page from CURRENT in the 8-STABLE > backporting. Whoops, you're right. I just merged it to stable/8. Ken -- Kenneth Merry

Re: statd/lockd startup failure

2011-03-15 Thread Rick Macklem
> On 03/13/2011 08:23, Daniel Braniss wrote: > >> On 03/12/2011 02:21, Daniel Braniss wrote: > >>> The problem with trying to get the same port for all > >>> tcp/udp/inet/inet6 > >>> though might succeed most of the time, will fail sometimes, then > >>> what? > >> > >> Can you please describe the s