Re: NAT tutorial?

2000-04-26 Thread Joe Abley
Hi Jason, This is really a -questions question, not a -current question. On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Jason Mitchell wrote: > Does anyone know of a tutorial or more detailed instructions on how to use > NAT and IP masquerading in 3.4? "IP masquerading" is what the linux people call NAT. They are the s

Re: 4.0-RELEASE boot.flp fails to boot on K6/2

2000-03-20 Thread Joe Abley
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 07:52:18AM +0100, Thierry.herbelot wrote: > Joe Abley wrote: > > > > Problem report booting 4.0-RELEASE follows. > > > I had the exact same error message trying to boot from a floppy where I > had tried to dd the full boot.flp (2,8 Megs is j

4.0-RELEASE boot.flp fails to boot on K6/2

2000-03-20 Thread Joe Abley
Problem report booting 4.0-RELEASE follows. /boot.config: -P Keyboard: yes BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 Console: internal video/keyboard BIOS drive A: is disk0 BIOS drive C: is disk1 BIOS 639kB/56256kB available memory FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.7 ([EMAI

Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly

2000-01-24 Thread Joe Abley
On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 02:17:54PM +0100, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 11:34 PM +1300 2000/1/22, Joe Abley wrote: > > > This should give you a relative performance metric between the servers > > you measured, hopefully with local network performance variations > > cancel

Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly

2000-01-22 Thread Joe Abley
On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 05:23:17PM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > You don't even need to modify the protocol. Just write a small > tcp program that times the 3 way handshake on open to all the > servers, take the one with the sortest time and spit that out > for the user to stuff in his cvsupfi

Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly

2000-01-22 Thread Joe Abley
On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 06:20:38PM -0500, Ben Rosengart wrote: > > Anyway, if multi CNAME is no good then do: > > > > cvsup IN A198.104.92.71 ; cvsup1.freebsd.org > > cvsup IN A205.149.189.91 ; cvsup2.freebsd.org > > ... and so on > > > > This

Re: Odd TCP glitches in new currents

1999-12-21 Thread Joe Abley
On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 01:23:05PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > I just rebooted both machines and it didn't fix the problem. I did a > packet trace on both boxes and there does indeed appear to be packet loss. Sorry if this is stating the obvious, but I've seen more than one clueful pe

Re: ** HEADS UP ** location of sendmail.cf changed

1999-12-19 Thread Joe Abley
On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 12:05:43PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > On your next CVSup, /usr/sbin/sendmail will look for sendmail.cf in > /etc/mail/ , not /etc/. > > Then change was made because the current offical Sendmail Inc. version > uses /var/mail/ and when we upgrade our repository to that ve

Re: People getting automatically unsub'ed from -arch

1999-10-11 Thread Joe Abley
On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 12:38:51PM -0700, Sean Eric Fagan wrote: > >To those who _have_ experienced problems, remember this is a volunteer > >effort. Would you flame someone on a public list if you found a bug > >in the code they had contributed? > > If, after *FIVE YEARS* it hadn't been fixed, y

Re: People getting automatically unsub'ed from -arch

1999-10-11 Thread Joe Abley
On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 11:21:52AM -0700, Sean Eric Fagan wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you >write: > > only one comment. i remove people from the lists whenever > >their email bounces. the threshhold is approximately 30 messages in a > >24 hour period. mail may bounce due to D

Re: FICL breakage...

1999-10-02 Thread Joe Abley
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 11:05:49PM +1200, Joe Abley wrote: > On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 12:02:09PM +0200, Mark Murray wrote: > > There is breakage in the new FICL. This fixes it... > > > > [awk diff] > > I remember a long time ago someone asked me to make some modific

Re: FICL breakage...

1999-09-30 Thread Joe Abley
almost certainly more perl speakers than awk speakers these days, so it probably makes sense to do these things in perl rather than awk. However, take care not to underestimate the awesome power of awk. When you come down to it, there's an awful lot of userland that (when you come down to

Re: FICL breakage...

1999-09-29 Thread Joe Abley
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 04:17:50PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Daniel C. Sobral" writes: > : OTOH, if we are still perl-safe, I could send you the newer perl > : script, so you can adapt from that. > > FWIW, one mus have perl installed to build a kernel. Is that d

Re: FICL breakage...

1999-09-29 Thread Joe Abley
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 12:02:09PM +0200, Mark Murray wrote: > There is breakage in the new FICL. This fixes it... > > [awk diff] I remember a long time ago someone asked me to make some modifications to softcore.awk to compress the textual ficl keywords by eliminating double-spaces and newlines

Re: On hub.freebsd.org refusing to talk to dialups

1999-09-23 Thread Joe Abley
Mark Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [hub.freebsd.org now blocking IP adresses on the DUL] > > If you use your ISP's mailer as a "smarthost", you will avoid this > problem. > > Thos of us in the anti-spam community think thsat this is a Good > Thing. One of us, at least, evidently. How

coda in STABLE

1999-07-27 Thread Joe Abley
Hi, >From /sys/coda/coda.h on 3.2-STABLE, it looks like the version in the tree is 3.1. At http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/download.html#gpl_notice it is mentioned that version 5 clients and servers are not backwards compatible with version 4 (and by inference, previous versions, hence my first parag

Re: SMTP to dynamic ip's

1999-06-03 Thread Joe Abley
On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 03:51:07AM +, Mike Tancsa wrote: > On 2 Jun 1999 17:20:38 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.current you wrote: > > > [mailbagging] > > Do you make checks to see that the person does not login twice with the > same account name ? Yes. Simultaneous logins are prohibited --

Re: SMTP to dynamic ip's

1999-06-02 Thread Joe Abley
On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 11:03:05PM +0200, Leif Neland wrote: > > When it comes down to it, there is very little justification for a static > > address. The one I most commonly hear is "so we can do SMTP mail delivery > > to the customer", but even that doesn't mandate use of static addressing -- >

Re: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ?

1999-06-02 Thread Joe Abley
On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 02:16:55PM -0600, Nate Williams wrote: > > this is less and less of a problem because > > if you lose your link on PPP > > you are liable to get a differetn IP address on your redial. > > Not true. Only if you're using a dynamic IP address setup. Most > business connectio

Re: Pcmcia support

1999-05-30 Thread Joe Abley
On Sat, May 29, 1999 at 11:59:35PM -0700, k...@lyris.com wrote: > That is the kind of response I like. I don't appreciate being flamed for a > reasonable question about something that is not documented in an obvious > place. Check the archives for freebsd-current, freebsd-hackers and freebsd-mobil

ftp.nz.freebsd.org

1999-05-15 Thread Joe Abley
Hi, CLEAR is operating a pretty full mirror of ftp.freebsd.org:/pub/FreeBSD/ at ftp.clear.net.nz:/pub/FreeBSD/. Dan Langille has kindly made ftp.nz.freebsd.org a CNAME to ftp.clear.net.nz to make this easier to find. Just thought I'd mention it -- I haven't done a clean install for a long time,

has the 3.2 branch happened?

1999-05-12 Thread Joe Abley
(he asked :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: SPAM

1999-05-10 Thread Joe Abley
On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 10:29:16PM +0200, Mark Murray wrote: > Garrett Wollman wrote: > > < said: > > > > > Have you ever considered only allowing list members to post, or are > > > there difficulties that make this impossible? > > > > Yes, there are. > > Content-free answer. Please elaborate?

Re: Our routed - Vern says it's old and buggy.

1999-04-28 Thread Joe Abley
On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 02:34:51PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > And you didn't know that the RIP spec is even older, and was publicly > available via an RFC (the same as OSPF?) But, of course, RIP sucks in many well-known ways. > I can't quite figure why they stuck the word "open" in there, becaus

Re: Our routed - Vern says it's old and buggy.

1999-04-27 Thread Joe Abley
On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 09:36:09AM +0930, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote: > > > Most importantly: > > > > - Recent values of GateD are distributed under a very unfriendly > > license. And the last "free" version is hideous in the extreme. > There's also zebra,

Re: Consistent errors making buildworld

1999-04-17 Thread Joe Abley
On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 09:45:29PM -0400, Luoqi Chen wrote: > Do you have an empty /usr/X11R6/include? Ah, yes I do. Thanks for that :) > The Makefile assumes you have the > header files if the directory /usr/X11R6/include is present and tries to > build the X version of doscmd. This assumption m

Consistent errors making buildworld

1999-04-16 Thread Joe Abley
Hi, I've been trying to make buildworld on an aged Compaq DX2 (using newly- supped CURRENT source) for about a week now, and (modulo the few egcs-looking failures early on) I am now stuck with compilation failures in doscmd. I have completely removed /usr/obj/* prior to starting, each time, and t

Re: ATTENTION PLEASE: g77 in base system.

1999-04-08 Thread Joe Abley
On Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 03:16:41AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > "David O'Brien" writes: > > I've only heard back from 4 folks about adding EGCS's g77 to the base > > system -- all 4 said "yes". Unless I get more feedback, I will add g77 > > to the base system this weekend. > > I beg your

TI PCI-1220 cardbus/PCI bridge

1999-02-27 Thread Joe Abley
Is there any work in progress on sys/pccard/*? I'm using a Gateway Solo for the week which has the PCI/cardbus bridge mentioned in the title, and I have been getting spurious results with 4.0-CURRENT (supped a couple of days ago). If there are some patches in test which might enhance support for

Re: adding DHCP client to src/contrib/

1999-02-08 Thread Joe Abley
On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 02:28:20PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > I am planning on adding the Wide-DHCP client to src/contrib/ and > src/sbin/ in a few days. > > I have it bmaked and ready go to. I have choosen the WIDE client because > it is much smaller space-wise than the ISC client and its con

Re: Even more interesting NFS problems..

1999-01-31 Thread Joe Abley
I've been using amd on bleeding-edge current for the past year or so with no problems - the servers in my case are Solaris 2.5.1 boxes. I remember becoming extremely confused when I configured my first amd map file, since there was no coherent documentation to be found at the time, but I ended up