Re: [hackers] Re: Realtek

2003-03-26 Thread Alex
Hi Kirill! That's a real myth about Realtek :0) We're using them on all our FreeBSD machines for over 5 years without any problems. Driver is working fine. Speed and reliability is OK. So I for one can even offer to choose them instead of 3COM as in Russia you can easily get 2 from the 3 3COM c

[hackers] Re: Realtek

2003-03-26 Thread David Gilbert
> "Kirill" == Kirill Ponomarew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kirill> Hi, On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 11:46:43AM -0300, Pablo Morales Kirill> wrote: >> Someone said that the realtek 8029 and 8139 ethernet cards are the >> worst cards ever made. My boss is planning to make a great buy of >> this card

Re: usbd/devd

2003-03-26 Thread M. Warner Losh
usbd is going away in FreeBSD. It will be replaced by devd. Some support is needed in the usb stack for this to happen, and there may be some hidden bugs in devd that might preclude it working with usb (but I kinda doubt it). It is on my list, but if someone wants to help out, that would be grea

trouble with DHCP and ipfw -1 fragment rule

2003-03-26 Thread Clark C. Evans
Hello. I've got a box which is booting up just fine with an IP address, but as soon as I change my adapter to DHCP and reboot it hangs during the initial network setup. It seems that my router (a LinkSys 4 port DSL hub) is sending bad packets and triggering the -1 rule. Then, the DHCP process jus

RFA: Keeping sysadmin programs resident/available

2003-03-26 Thread dpk
Hi all, I was wondering if anyone here knows of a way to force specific programs to stay resident (not swap) - specifically, I'm trying to see if there's a way one could keep sshd out of swap, and then execute a shell and some basic sysadmin tools (ps, top, etc), with the same swap-prevention, so

usbd/devd

2003-03-26 Thread Adam Migus
Folks, Some were chatting and think that adding some features to usb might be nice. Mentioned specifically was fixing it so it loads the right driver on the fly. :-) Also I was thinking we might be able to use mostly or all devd to catagorize devices in some sensable fashion, thus making the

Re: shared mem and panics when out of PV Entries

2003-03-26 Thread Terry Lambert
Andrew Kinney wrote: > On 25 Mar 2003, at 19:28, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Basically, you don't really care about pv_entry_t's, you care > > about KVA space, and running out of it. > > > > In a previous posting, you suggested increasing KVA_PAGES fixed > > the problem, but caused a pthreads problem.

RE: pam_ldap...

2003-03-26 Thread Reinier Kleipool
Yes me too! I have always found the lack of pam_nss a big omission in FreeBSD. Is this under development for 5.1??? I really hope! Kind Regards, Reinier Kleipool -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tak Pui LOU Sent: woensdag 26 maart 2003 19:26

Re: Lots of kernel core dumps

2003-03-26 Thread Daniela
On Tuesday 25 March 2003 08:14, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 08:18:43PM +0100, Daniela wrote: > >Well, it's just a home server. I don't mind a few crashes, but security is > >important for me. What do you think, should I go back to -stable? > > If you're willing to put up with a fe

Re: pam_ldap...

2003-03-26 Thread Tak Pui LOU
> > Why FreeBSD do not support ldap authentication? (nss_ldap) > > files, nis, hesiod??? do we live in the past? One of great > > things in 5.0 release for me, should be this! :) > > Wait for FreeBSD 5.1. Does that mean there will be official support for nss_ldap in FBSD 5.1? Is it on the -curre

Re: freebsd-hackers Digest, Vol 1, Issue 1

2003-03-26 Thread SkiEr
evidently slower than that using pthreads due to more switching penalties? fhrfo> 2.Is it true that even 5.x has no implementation for inter-process fhrfo> semaphores that are blocking calling thread only not the whole process fhrfo> as usually in FreeBSD? fhrfo> Alex fhrfo>

Re: Lots of kernel core dumps

2003-03-26 Thread Wes Peters
On Monday 24 March 2003 11:18, Daniela wrote: > On Sunday 23 March 2003 20:20, Wes Peters wrote: > > > > The reason for creating the 5.0 release is to make it easy for more > > developers and testers to jump onto the 5.x bandwagon by giving them > > a known (relatively) good starting point. Quite

Re: shared mem and panics when out of PV Entries

2003-03-26 Thread Andrew Kinney
On 26 Mar 2003, at 13:29, Igor Sysoev wrote: > If you have 200M shared memory it takes about 50,000 PV entries per > process. 20 processes takes 1 million PV entries. We've got about 11.1 million PV entries to play with, so I went ahead and made MaxClients 150 just to ensure Apache couldn't pan

Re: shared mem and panics when out of PV Entries

2003-03-26 Thread Andrew Kinney
On 25 Mar 2003, at 19:28, Terry Lambert wrote: > Basically, you don't really care about pv_entry_t's, you care > about KVA space, and running out of it. > > In a previous posting, you suggested increasing KVA_PAGES fixed > the problem, but caused a pthreads problem. Will running out of KVA space

Re: pam_ldap...

2003-03-26 Thread Jacques A. Vidrine
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 09:44:14AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thanks for the answers, but why pam_ldap in FreeBSD, if i > can't authenticate in ldap servers? You _can_ authenticate. Pluggable _Authentication_ Modules (PAM). In the PAM model, authenticating is more or less just the a

pam_ldap...

2003-03-26 Thread omestre
Thanks for the answers, but why pam_ldap in FreeBSD, if i can't authenticate in ldap servers? Sorry, but i can't understand... You did give me solutions with nis.. nis/gateway... where can i find a "official" howto? The FreeBSD team do not talk about it. The last question? Why FreeBSD do

Re: Some specific questions about 5.x

2003-03-26 Thread Terry Lambert
Lev Walkin wrote: > What about Solaris' migration towards 1:1 model from the N:M one they > had supported for years already? Who are insane, Solaris folks (moving > towards Linux) or Free/NetBSD ones (migrating to the old Solaris' > behavior)? It's not the same N:M model as Solaris. The Solaris m

Re: shared mem and panics when out of PV Entries

2003-03-26 Thread Igor Sysoev
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Andrew Kinney wrote: > I'm going to expose my newbness here with respect to BSD > memory management, but could the number of files served and > filesystem caching have something to do with the PV Entry usage > by Apache? We've got around 1.2 million files served by this >

FreeBSD Installation Problems

2003-03-26 Thread Sukhbinder Singh
Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD into my personal computer, however I am receiving error messages during the course of my installation. When I am trying to install using the floppy method at the final prompt where the istallation program requests me to put in floppy disk in drive a

Re: Some specific questions about 5.x

2003-03-26 Thread Miguel Mendez
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 01:35:37 -0800 Lev Walkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > What about Solaris' migration towards 1:1 model from the N:M one they > had supported for years already? Who are insane, Solaris folks (moving > towards Linux) or Free/NetBSD ones (migrating to the old Solaris' > behav

Re: Question about BPF API (PCAP not like for me)

2003-03-26 Thread Lev Walkin
Vladimir Yu. Stepanov wrote: Hello ! I have a little question about BPF: how to determine incoming or outgoing packet given into the user level mode. Current API do not supported this or I are wrong ? Unfortunately, there is no way of determining this fact. However, there is a flag names BIOC

Re: Some specific questions about 5.x

2003-03-26 Thread Lev Walkin
Miguel Mendez wrote: On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 10:57:07 +0300 Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Howdy. 1.Is it true that kernel threads are more "heavy" than userspace ones (pthread) and hence application with hundreds of threads will work evidently slower than that using pthreads due to more switch

Re: Some specific questions about 5.x

2003-03-26 Thread Terry Lambert
Alex wrote: > I was so much enthusiastic about kernel threads implemented in 5.x but > some ugly rumors spoiled my dreams :0) > So I want to get if these rumors are myths or not. 5.x does not implement traditional "kernel threads" like you appear to be thinking about them. Instead, it implements

Re: Some specific questions about 5.x

2003-03-26 Thread Miguel Mendez
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 10:57:07 +0300 Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Howdy. > 1.Is it true that kernel threads are more "heavy" than userspace > ones (pthread) and hence application with hundreds of threads will > work evidently slower than that using pthreads due to more switching > penalties