SPARC 5 Dual NICs same MAC Address
How do I configure a SPARC 5 to give a different MAC Address to the two NICs? I have set the local-mac-address? to true and it did not work. It was set to false before and did not work. What am I missing? David Demland
Re: SPARC 5 Dual NICs same MAC Address
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 21:33:23 -0700 David Demland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I configure a SPARC 5 to give a different MAC Address to the two NICs? I have set the local-mac-address? to true and it did not work. It was set to false before and did not work. What am I missing? Use 'ifconfig' to set the mac address however you like.
Re: ot: we've been scraped
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 20:26:34 -0400 Steve Pacenka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what's a Wintel user doing reading debian-sparc? It's time to stop reading and trade in that hardware and dying OS for something like a U10 or U60 with Linux .. Hi there Steve, I already have a Ultra 10 box, but sometimes (including now) I have to use a standard Wintel (or Lintel ;)) box cause my job requires it. ;) Have a good day, Antonello -- Antonello [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ot: we've been scraped
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 20:26:34 -0400 Steve Pacenka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fellow Sparcers, I've gotten about 70 virus/worms today of the current Wintel variety. My Sparcs w/Debian are quite immune, fortunately. One of the messages seems legit, from a filter than identified the senders of identical messages instead of passing on the payload. It contained lots of familiar IDs from the Debian Sparc list. My address used for Debian email lists was in there as a sender -- this virus/worm is a forger of sender addresses. The virus/worms do not seem to be traveling through the Debian mailing lists since my procmail is leaving all of them in the inbox. Someone who reads this list may have done so from a Windows machine, and had their web cache or email mailboxes scraped when they were infected. So what's a Wintel user doing reading debian-sparc? It's time to stop reading and trade in that hardware and dying OS for something like a U10 or U60 with Linux .. -- SP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Antonello [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ss20 dual ross hypersparc; smp; 2.4/2.6 kernel
I'm wanting to setup SMP on a dual ross hypersparc ss20 with 2.4 or 2.6 kernel to be able to use iptables, etc. (SOHO firewall/router/web server) Because I'm familiar with debian (have had on my dev 386 box for a long time) I went with debian install. I'm cross posting because debian/gentoo are the two active sparc development efforts I'm aware of. Debian stable 2.2.. single cpu kernel out of the box worked fine. I upgraded to Debian unstable 2.4.. SMP and that kernel locked up on the way up. That doesn't surprise me because I've been watching the gentoo sparc list and noticing all of the SMP problems discussed. I tried compiling 2.6.0-test5 w/ both 2.95 and 3.3.2 gcc without luck. Compiles broke fairly early. I checked the changelog for 2.4.23 patch 5 and noticed numerous gcc and sparc changes so attempted to compile that version of the kernel. At the moment using the 3.3.2 version of gcc. With 2.4.23 p5 ... device.c linux_cpus type collides with smp.h's version smp.h's seems to be picking up the new config setting via NR_CPUS while neither sparc nor sparc64 flavors do. I altered the linux_cpus line in arch/sparc/kernel/device.c and the compile went to completion. I gather that several individuals on these lists contribute to sparc kernel development effort so ... if someone could slip this patch into the code base that would be great. Thanks! Next note is 'make bzImage' doesn't work in this version of the kernel. A simple 'make' builds vmlinux and I (believe, haven't tried) can work from there. NOTE I assume this is not related to sparc architecture but have not tracked it down. Finally, I haven't tried running with this new 2.4.23-pre5 kernel yet. That's next. Heitzso
another hypersparc smp question ...
I've gone to the 'these kernels work' page and it would appear that a 2.4.23-pre5 would work in SMP mode on my dual ROSS Hypersparcs ss20, but it still goes out to lunch during the boot up sequence. (512M RAM) I've gotten my vmlinux size down to 2,365,108 but am not sure that I'm not running out of memory. Anyone know what the limit is? And I'm wondering how can off loading builtins to modules help if the modules have to be loaded into memory at the same time anyway. Don't modules count towards the memory limit block? I noticed a reference to stripping the kernel. Is this necessary? Useful? And if so, what's the command so I can man on it and learn how to use it. Should I be falling back to an old 2.2.X series kernel for sparc32 hypersparc SMP? I'm wanting to leverage the nice extras iptables provides, but will fall back to earlier flavor if have to. I'm also wondering if I am hanging on a console/ttyS0 cross up. Right now I'm recompiling without prom console and without framebuffer support. I've also sym linked /dev/console over to /dev/ttyS0 and am _not_ using devfs. I'm running headless over ttya. I've put in over two days at the moment on trying to set this box up (was running Solaris fine but I wanted to run Linux which I'm more familiar with, particularly to rig up firewall, proxies, etc.) and am wondering if I'm just crashing into a dead end trying to setup SMP on this box. Any pointers would be appreciated. I've googled on most word combos but am not seeing recent references to the hypersparc/smp combo. Thanks! Heitzso
Re: another hypersparc smp question ...
On Tuesday 23 Sep 2003 20:04, Heitzso wrote: I've gone to the 'these kernels work' page and it would appear that a 2.4.23-pre5 would work in SMP mode on my dual ROSS Hypersparcs ss20, but it still goes out to lunch during the boot up sequence. (512M RAM) Perhaps you could describe what actually happens? I've gotten my vmlinux size down to 2,365,108 but am not sure that I'm not running out of memory. Anyone know what the limit is? I *think* it's about 2.5M, but I could be wrong. And I'm wondering how can off loading builtins to modules help if the modules have to be loaded into memory at the same time anyway. Don't modules count towards the memory limit block? Initially, the only memory space you need to worry about is that occupied by the kernel itself (restricted to 2.5M). Modules are loaded into a different area of memory which has no restriction (except for the amount of RAM naturally). I noticed a reference to stripping the kernel. Is this necessary? Useful? And if so, what's the command so I can man on it and learn how to use it. I don't know about 2.6.x kernels, but I normally find two versions of the kernel are created during compilation. One which is in the the root of your kernel source tree (I think this one is stripped) and one which is it ./arch/sparc/boot/ (I think this one is unstripped and therefore larger). I could be completely and utterly wrong, but that's how it think it is. Should I be falling back to an old 2.2.X series kernel for sparc32 hypersparc SMP? I'm wanting to leverage the nice extras iptables provides, but will fall back to earlier flavor if have to. If you are mostly concerned with IPTables, then why not use a more stable 2.4 kernel? I've had 2.4.21 running well on a SS20 SMP for a while. David.
more info re hypersparc smp w/ 2.4.23-pre5
now, with framebuffer and console turned off, ... boot went much, much further, but not to completion so I'm not clear if I'm just decreasing kernel size and hence changing where/when the boot crashes or if I really needed to turn the console option off NOTES ethernet drivers failed to find nics, I'll recompile w/ the drivers compiled directly into the kernel instead of as modules and see what happens boot message Console: ttyS0 did appear the error message zs_open ttyS0, tty overwrite appears over and over on ttyS0 (i.e. where I have minicom watching the ttya serial port) bootlogd complained of not being able to access /dev/tty0 Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, Heitzso
smp hypersparc oopsed when I pressed keyboard key
final note re last attempt to get 2.4.23-pre5 working on dual hypersparc ss20 with smp enabled I'm going to turn off the ss20 for now and continue to monitor these lists. I'll try another kernel farther down the line. Otherwise, if someone knows the ins and outs of the kernel size limitation and how to measure what's generated by the compile I'ld appreciate the pointer. Thanks, Heitzso
SPARC 5 Dual NIC Problems
I have a SPARC 5 with Dual NICs. One is built-in the other is an added SBUS card. One NIC is set to a 10.0.0.2 address and the other is set 192.168.1.8. I have placed this computer into my network which has both networks. I can ping out the 10.0.0.2 interface and it works. I can not ping out the 192.168.1.8 interface. I have changed the MAC Address to the one NIC so that both NICs have a different MAC address. Could anyone help me to understand why I can not ping the 192.168.1.1 computer? David Demland
Re: unstable sparc64 packages
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:49:14AM -0400, Ben Pitzer wrote: Folks, I have a Sun Ultra 1 that is in need of an ssh upgrade for security reasons. Currently running Sarge, so I grabbed the Sid package, however it's telling me I need libc6-2.3.2 or better (I currently have 2.3.1). Where I can download this package? I've found Sid packages for i386, but none for Sparc. Any URLs y'all can give me? If you need security upgrades, check security.debian.org. Things usually don't get updated in sid quite as fast for security. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ WatchGuard - http://www.watchguard.com/
