Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom
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 73.html he refers to a patch at http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/btx_crx.patch Ah interesting, there was another patch earlier in this thread which is what I was testing. The patch does work, I hadn't installed the resulting code properly. I am not sure both patches address the same problem though. I added John to the CC list, hope he doesn't mind! It would be nice if these patches were committed before 7.0 too :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C pgpFUCDFT7Ro1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Packet Loss w/bge BCM5703 on Dell PE2650
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? I experienced a similar problem on a HP Proliant DL360 running 6.2-stable (RELENG_6 of a few weeks ago). The problem disappeared upon ifconfig bge0 polling. Best regards Oliver 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! Try disabling hardware assisted checksumming. ( ifconfig bge0 -txcsum -rxcsum ). -- Sten Daniel Soersdal ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Packet Loss w/bge BCM5703 on Dell PE2650
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! Try disabling hardware assisted checksumming. ( ifconfig bge0 -txcsum -rxcsum ). -- Sten Daniel Soersdal 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 ?? Ironically, this is also recommended under Solaris 10 for the same NIC: === If you have a bge interface (eg, SunFire V210), then you may have NAT problems with ipfilter unless you add the following to /etc/system: set ip:dohwcksum=0 This turns off hardware checksumming, which is on by default with bge interfaces. == -JD ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: udp fragmentation with pf/ipf
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 this with the following dig command: dig @192.36.144.107 se dnskey +dnssec +bufsize=4500 +retry=0 ipf and pf in FreeBSD 6.2 or 7.0 block the fragments and the DNS queries timeout. Disabling the firewall, complete replies are received with no problem. We've made the same tests with FreeBSD 4.11 with ipf and OpenBSD 4.1 with pf with no problems. You can see a summary of the tests below. OS + fwdig result fbsd4.11 + ipf OK obsd4.1 + pfOK fbsd6.2 OK fbsd6.2 + ipf timeout fbsd6.2 + pf timeout fbsd7.0 OK fbsd7.0 + ipf timeout fbsd7.0 + pf timeout Complete test results (including tcpdump output and firewall rule sets) are attached. Can somebody tell us if he hit a bug or if there is something we are missing? By the looks of it, you hit a bug. scrub in all fragment reassemble should reassemble good fragments before evaluating the rules. -- Sten Daniel Soersdal ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Packet Loss w/bge BCM5703 on Dell PE2650
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 them at the end): ifconfig_bge0=inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 -txcsum -rxcsum -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vnode_pager_putpages errors on 6.2
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.. [...] Just for the record: there's still an open discussion on the same issue in PR kern/67919 [1]. Is this issue resolved completely with this patch? [1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/67919 Thanks -cs ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Packet Loss w/bge BCM5703 on Dell PE2650
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 NICs. Have you enabled polling on the interface? I experienced a similar problem on a HP Proliant DL360 running 6.2-stable (RELENG_6 of a few weeks ago). The problem disappeared upon ifconfig bge0 polling. Best regards Oliver 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! Try disabling hardware assisted checksumming. ( ifconfig bge0 -txcsum -rxcsum ). Thanks for the suggestion, but... That's actually one of the first things I tried before writing to the list. No difference. I'm going to put an Intel Pro/100 card in shortly to see if the problem goes away to be certain the issue is definitely with the integrated Broadcom NICs. -- Vinny Abello Network Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] (973)940-6100 PGP Key Fingerprint: 3BC5 9A48 FC78 03D3 82E0 E935 5325 FBCB 0100 977A Tellurian Networks - The Ultimate Internet Connection http://www.tellurian.com (888)TELLURIAN Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear -- Mark Twain ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Packet Loss w/bge BCM5703 on Dell PE2650
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 integrated Broadcom BCM5703 NICs. Have you enabled polling on the interface? I experienced a similar problem on a HP Proliant DL360 running 6.2-stable (RELENG_6 of a few weeks ago). The problem disappeared upon ifconfig bge0 polling. Best regards Oliver 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! Try disabling hardware assisted checksumming. ( ifconfig bge0 -txcsum -rxcsum ). Thanks for the suggestion, but... That's actually one of the first things I tried before writing to the list. No difference. I'm going to put an Intel Pro/100 card in shortly to see if the problem goes away to be certain the issue is definitely with the integrated Broadcom NICs. 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 something else in the server. I'm going to try and isolate which major release this problem appeared. Maybe this will help isolate the change that is causing this issue for me. -- Vinny Abello Network Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] (973)940-6100 PGP Key Fingerprint: 3BC5 9A48 FC78 03D3 82E0 E935 5325 FBCB 0100 977A Tellurian Networks - The Ultimate Internet Connection http://www.tellurian.com (888)TELLURIAN Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear -- Mark Twain ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Packet Loss w/bge BCM5703 on Dell PE2650
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 later on the Dell PowerEdge 2650 servers and the integrated Broadcom BCM5703 NICs. Have you enabled polling on the interface? I experienced a similar problem on a HP Proliant DL360 running 6.2-stable (RELENG_6 of a few weeks ago). The problem disappeared upon ifconfig bge0 polling. Best regards Oliver 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! Try disabling hardware assisted checksumming. ( ifconfig bge0 -txcsum -rxcsum ). Thanks for the suggestion, but... That's actually one of the first things I tried before writing to the list. No difference. I'm going to put an Intel Pro/100 card in shortly to see if the problem goes away to be certain the issue is definitely with the integrated Broadcom NICs. 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 something else in the server. I'm going to try and isolate which major release this problem appeared. Maybe this will help isolate the change that is causing this issue for me. -- Vinny Abello Network Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] (973)940-6100 PGP Key Fingerprint: 3BC5 9A48 FC78 03D3 82E0 E935 5325 FBCB 0100 977A Tellurian Networks - The Ultimate Internet Connection http://www.tellurian.com (888)TELLURIAN Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear -- Mark Twain I still suggest you csup to stable, there are changes made to the driver :) -- Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom
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. also, can you run fixit mode from your USB stick, too? ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Packet Loss w/bge BCM5703 on Dell PE2650
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 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? I experienced a similar problem on a HP Proliant DL360 running 6.2-stable (RELENG_6 of a few weeks ago). The problem disappeared upon ifconfig bge0 polling. Best regards Oliver 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! Try disabling hardware assisted checksumming. ( ifconfig bge0 -txcsum -rxcsum ). Thanks for the suggestion, but... That's actually one of the first things I tried before writing to the list. No difference. I'm going to put an Intel Pro/100 card in shortly to see if the problem goes away to be certain the issue is definitely with the integrated Broadcom NICs. 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 something else in the server. I'm going to try and isolate which major release this problem appeared. Maybe this will help isolate the change that is causing this issue for me. -- Vinny Abello Network Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] (973)940-6100 PGP Key Fingerprint: 3BC5 9A48 FC78 03D3 82E0 E935 5325 FBCB 0100 977A Tellurian Networks - The Ultimate Internet Connection http://www.tellurian.com (888)TELLURIAN Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear -- Mark Twain I still suggest you csup to stable, there are changes made to the driver :) OK, I'll try that next instead. :) Thanks! -- Vinny Abello Network Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] (973)940-6100 PGP Key Fingerprint: 3BC5 9A48 FC78 03D3 82E0 E935 5325 FBCB 0100 977A Tellurian Networks - The Ultimate Internet Connection http://www.tellurian.com (888)TELLURIAN Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear -- Mark Twain ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Change in memory tracking in recent 6-STABLE?
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 counter is way too
small.
As well as active, inactive and free, there is cache, wired
and buffers.
Check the following sysctls:
vfs.bufspace (bytes)
vm.stats.vm.v_active_count (pages)
vm.stats.vm.v_inactive_count (pages)
vm.stats.vm.v_wire_count (pages)
vm.stats.vm.v_cache_count (pages)
vm.stats.vm.v_free_count (pages)
Hi Peter,
Ok, adding up vm.stats gives me the total physical RAM (roughly). One
question would be, where is the buffer cache counted towards? Or is it
spread all over the place?
Back to symon, it uses the following code to grab it's values. This has
worked fine till some months ago. Now it is missing several MBytes. How
should I fix the code?
static int me_vm_mib[] = {CTL_VM, VM_TOTAL};
...
if (sysctl(me_vm_mib, 2, me_vmtotal, me_vmsize, NULL, 0) 0) {
warning(%s:%d: sysctl failed, __FILE__, __LINE__);
bzero(me_vmtotal, sizeof(me_vmtotal));
}
/* convert memory stats to Kbytes */
me_stats[0] = pagetob(me_vmtotal.t_arm);
me_stats[1] = pagetob(me_vmtotal.t_rm);
me_stats[2] = pagetob(me_vmtotal.t_free);
Why are these values not adding up to 256MB in my case?
Ulrich Spoerlein
--
The trouble with the dictionary is you have to know how the word is
spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.
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Re: Kernel panicking in 6.2 and 7-CURRENT -- interrupt issues
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 assignment / probing issues. Observations: 1. 7-CURRENT (built) never properly detects the interrupts on the system. 2. 7-CURRENT (May ISO snapshot) doesn't properly detect my USB keyboard, but boots and runs sysinstall. 3. 6.2 RELEASE panics if I don't boot FreeBSD up into safe mode, due to an issue with the ohci driver (I think the error message had something to deal with device adding / enumeration and not being able to find a memory / interrupt address). First off, if I could get some of the command line arguments to pass to the kernel to emulate safe-mode, that would be much appreciated. Second off, if anybody has any ideas on how to debug this issue, I'll go off and try to determine what the cause is. If it's anything like it was before (clean out /usr/obj, rebuild), I'll be ok. Otherwise, I'll have to purchase more parts and build another dedicated FreeBSD system :(.. Thanks, -Garrett Sorry for cross-posting so much, but this information is relevant to all of the mailing lists included. Ok I solved my problem, to a certain extent. Basically the ASUS P5N-E SLI motherboard (nVidia chipset) isn't bootable with FreeBSD 6.2 RELEASE without going into SAFE MODE (panics after ohci_add_done looking for a non-existent memory address, if the USB controller is enabled in the BIOS with Legacy Mode, i.e. USB Keyboard compatible), and isn't compatible with FreeBSD 7 at all (kernel can't map IRQs properly on up-to-date CURRENT and panics in kernel mode during boot). Strangely enough the 7-CURRENT snapshot ISOs work, but then again it doesn't setup the OHCI and USB keyboard stuff properly, and I can't get any sort of input from my keyboard, obviously. The ASUS P5B-DLX motherboard (Intel chipset) is compatible with FreeBSD 6.2 and 7 though, without any hacks. Maybe someone should update some documentation on the release notes page for supported hardware? Thanks, -Garrett PS Please CC me in any communication as I'm not subscribed to doc@, stable@, or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mounting Solaris 10 NFS share
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/home/mush /mnt/share nfs0 0 I am able to mount the share but unable to access it on the FreeBSD machine. In fact I can't even cd into /mnt/share as root on FreeBSD. Changinf the dir's permissions to 0777 on Solaris does fix the problem but . . . it's not a solution. Thanks for any help. -- Matt ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Packet Loss w/bge BCM5703 on Dell PE2650
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 something else in the server. I'm going to try and isolate which major release this problem appeared. Maybe this will help isolate the change that is causing this issue for me. I still suggest you csup to stable, there are changes made to the driver :) OK, just did a cvsup to the latest RELENG_6 from today, recompiled and still have the same problem with the newer bge code, so that didn't help. :( Again, the fxp card works ok. It seems there is no easy fix for this at the moment so I may end up just sticking fxp cards in these model servers and disabling the integrated bge cards. :-/ -- Vinny Abello Network Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] (973)940-6100 PGP Key Fingerprint: 3BC5 9A48 FC78 03D3 82E0 E935 5325 FBCB 0100 977A Tellurian Networks - The Ultimate Internet Connection http://www.tellurian.com (888)TELLURIAN Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear -- Mark Twain ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mounting Solaris 10 NFS share
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 /export/home/mush and the line in /etc/fstab on FreeBSD: 192.168.0.26:/export/home/mush /mnt/share nfs0 0 I am able to mount the share but unable to access it on the FreeBSD machine. In fact I can't even cd into /mnt/share as root on FreeBSD. Changinf the dir's permissions to 0777 on Solaris does fix the problem but . . . it's not a solution. Isn't this usually because of a mismatch with credentials (uid/gid) between server and client? i.e. why do you think this is a FreeBSD NFS client issue? Kris ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
