Re: i4b: PCBIT PCI card support

2000-07-06 Thread Hellmuth Michaelis
Until some time ago I had a regular modem dial-up connection to my ISP, which was recently upgraded to a ISDN 64k connection. Along with the ISP ISDN Pack I purchased came a PCBIT PCI TigerJet Tiger300 ISDN card which works perfectly under Linux with ippp and the HiSAX module (loaded with

dutchmen at LinuxTag

2000-07-06 Thread Christoph Kukulies
Who of our dutch FreeBSD fellows were present at LinuxTag (LinuxDay in Germany) recently, spreading the word for FreeBSD? I have got a positive response of a Linux addict who said that these guys were very friendly, and he was considering buying a FreeBSD CD and using it in a webserver

Re: /etc/security - /etc/periodic/security ?

2000-07-06 Thread cillian
why not even something like security_enable=[YES|NO] and security_periode=[daily|weekly|monthly] defaulting to daily? /etc/security is hard-wired in many respects to be run on a daily basis, i.e. it does lots of 'today/yesterday' diff reports. Anyway, I think security reports are important

Re: cocaine snorting reported in Michigan, details at 11 (was Re: data corruption)

2000-07-06 Thread Michael Lucas
I fully expect to be physically assulted by all who I encounter the next time I'm in California for this act of stupidity. Physically assaulted? No, why do that when we can point and laugh? It's legal, and much more devastating. Just noticed you're in Michigan. Are you aware of any

Re: BPF and Promiscuous Mode

2000-07-06 Thread Jan Grant
On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Nick Rogness wrote: On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jul 03), Nick Evans said: How do I set an interface in promiscous mode permanently? In Linux it's simply ifconfig interface PROMISC. Is there something similar in BSD? Is it somekind

Re: cocaine snorting reported in Michigan, details at 11 (was Re:data corruption)

2000-07-06 Thread Adam
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Michael Lucas wrote: I fully expect to be physically assulted by all who I encounter the next time I'm in California for this act of stupidity. Physically assaulted? No, why do that when we can point and laugh? It's legal, and much more devastating. Just noticed

Re: cocaine snorting reported in Michigan, details at 11 (was Re: data corruption)

2000-07-06 Thread Bush Doctor
Out of da blue Adam aka ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Michael Lucas wrote: I fully expect to be physically assulted by all who I encounter the next time I'm in California for this act of stupidity. Physically assaulted? No, why do that when we can point and

Re: mbuf re-write(s), v 0.1

2000-07-06 Thread Bosko Milekic
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Bosko Milekic wrote: I've recently had the chance to get some profiling done. I used metrics obtained from gprof, as well as the (basic block length) * (number of executions) metric generated by kernbb. The latter reveals an approximate 30% increase in

bridging

2000-07-06 Thread Nick Evans
Title: bridging Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't bridging of two interfaces supposed to make a duplicate of the traffic from one onto another? Why is it then that on the second interface I bridge to I only see broadcast and multicast packets? I have fxp0 and fxp1 acting as a bridge, fxp0

Re: bridging

2000-07-06 Thread Jesper Skriver
On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 12:13:07PM -0400, Nick Evans wrote: Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't bridging of two interfaces supposed to make a duplicate of the traffic from one onto another? Why is it then that on the second interface I bridge to I only see broadcast and multicast packets? I

Re: stray interrupts in 4.0

2000-07-06 Thread Dennis
We're seeing lots of "stray" interrupts in 4.0 while running 3.4 on the same hardware reports nothing. The interrupt its complaining about is IRQ7 even though parallel port is disabled and no other device. It happens on more than 1 MB. [snip] Generally this message indicates that you

[Fwd: Re: Cant build 3.5-stable?]

2000-07-06 Thread Doug Barton
Reports about this are getting more frequent, FYI. Original Message Subject: Re: Cant build 3.5-stable? Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 11:36:16 -0400 From: Daniel Frazier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Magpage Internet Services To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL

Re: bridging

2000-07-06 Thread Dennis
At 12:13 PM 7/6/00 -0400, Nick Evans wrote: Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't bridging of two interfaces supposed to make a duplicate of the traffic from one onto another? Why is it then that on the second interface I bridge to I only see broadcast and multicast packets? I have fxp0 and

Re: bridging

2000-07-06 Thread Ted Wisniewski
(* On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 12:13:07PM -0400, Nick Evans wrote: (* Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't bridging of two interfaces supposed to (* make a duplicate of the traffic from one onto another? Why is it then that (* on the second interface I bridge to I only see broadcast and multicast

UPS Daemons

2000-07-06 Thread Essenz Consulting
I know that APC SmartUPS and BackUPS are supported under FreeBSD but what about the APC PowerStack? I was looking at the APC PowerStack 250 Rackmount UPS. It comes with a RS-232 cables and supports that same kind of emergency shutdown that the SmartUPS systems have. Anybody use a PowerStack? I

Re: mbuf re-write(s), v 0.1

2000-07-06 Thread Matthew Dillon
:... : What was previously done at some point was use the kernel malloc() to : allocate mbufs. As you know, this is a general purpose allocator that has : to first determine what algorithm to use and then store the object : correctly according to its size. This allocator is faster than

Re: stray interrupts in 4.0

2000-07-06 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Dennis wrote: great, so intel doesnt know how to make MBs with their own parts...so how can the message be turned off. Its using more resources printing the message thsn the "stray interrupts" themselves. DB Well, it stops after 5 messages or so, just ignore it.

Re: cocaine snorting reported in Michigan, details at 11 (was Re: data corruption)

2000-07-06 Thread Bill Fumerola
On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 08:46:10AM -0400, Michael Lucas wrote: I fully expect to be physically assulted by all who I encounter the next time I'm in California for this act of stupidity. Physically assaulted? No, why do that when we can point and laugh? It's legal, and much more

Southeast MI users' group (was re: cocaine snorting in Michigan)

2000-07-06 Thread Michael Lucas
There was talks of starting a Southeastern Michigan group, but most of us around here are too lazy to actually do it. I'll take on the job of attempting to coordinate a Southeast Michigan users' group. If anyone's interested, email me. Perhaps the Royal Oak or Farmington Hills area?

Re: cocaine snorting reported in Michigan, details at 11 (was Re: data corruption)

2000-07-06 Thread Bill Fumerola
[ moved to -advocacy from -hackers ] On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 11:51:29AM -0400, Bush Doctor wrote: I keep mentioning to bill and others on irc from michigan that someone should start one :p Well if anyone is ever down East Lansing way, a couple of co-workers and I have an informal group.

Max DMA size

2000-07-06 Thread Zhihui Zhang
Can anyone tell me what factors determine the max DMA size (DMA counter on each controller or PCI bus related)? What is the typical max DMA size for a SCSI disk connected to a PCI bus? It seems to be much larger than MAXPHYS (128K). If so, does it mean we are not using full potential of DMA? So

Re: Max DMA size

2000-07-06 Thread Matthew Jacob
Can anyone tell me what factors determine the max DMA size (DMA counter on each controller or PCI bus related)? What is the typical max DMA size for a SCSI disk connected to a PCI bus? It seems to be much larger than MAXPHYS (128K). If so, does it mean we are not using full potential of

Learning

2000-07-06 Thread Commissionnaires
I am interested in learning about the freebsd operating system, I dont have very much exerience yet but I am motivated to learn. I have poked around other OS but have found them unappealing to my interest, I like the concept of free source systems like linux and have played with SUSE a little but

Re: Max DMA size

2000-07-06 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 15:51:34 -0400, Zhihui Zhang wrote: Can anyone tell me what factors determine the max DMA size (DMA counter on each controller or PCI bus related)? What is the typical max DMA size for a SCSI disk connected to a PCI bus? It seems to be much larger than MAXPHYS

Re: Learning

2000-07-06 Thread Darren Wiebe
Congratulations, I wish you much luck. I presume, from your email address, that you work for Weyerhauser? I think that I might know one of the salesmen there, he used to work for Mac Blo and come to our store but got transfered from Edmonton to Saskatoon. Anyway, I would install 4.0 release

Re: cocaine snorting reported in Michigan, details at 11 (was Re:data corruption)

2000-07-06 Thread Adam
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Bush Doctor wrote: Out of da blue Adam aka ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Michael Lucas wrote: I fully expect to be physically assulted by all who I encounter the next time I'm in California for this act of stupidity. Physically assaulted? No,

Re: UPS Daemons

2000-07-06 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
Essenz Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know that APC SmartUPS and BackUPS are supported under FreeBSD but what about the APC PowerStack? I was looking at the APC PowerStack 250 Rackmount UPS. It comes with a RS-232 cables and supports that same kind of emergency shutdown that the

Re: cocaine snorting reported in Michigan, details at 11 (was Re: data corruption)

2000-07-06 Thread Joe Greco
Well if anyone is ever down East Lansing way, a couple of co-workers and I have an informal group. Everyone is more than welcome to come here or maybe we could meet somewhere in between ... I always wondered why the Voyager Michigan guys were a little screwy :-) (incidentally also located in

Re: [Fwd: Re: Cant build 3.5-stable?]

2000-07-06 Thread Mike Silbersack
The problem seems to stem from a corrupt /usr/obj/usr/src/lib/libfetch/fetch_err.h If I manually delete it and make from the libfetch directory, it seems to be created properly. So, I have two lingering questions: 1. Did the tools used to create the file change? As far as I can tell,

Re: [Fwd: Re: Cant build 3.5-stable?]

2000-07-06 Thread Mike Silbersack
Ok, the problem seems to stem from the fact that if I do a buildworld, I get the following: achilles# vi /usr/obj/usr/src/lib/libfetch/fetch_err.h /* Generated from /usr/src/lib/libfetch/fetch_err.et */ #ifndef __fetch_err_h__ #define __fetch_err_h__ #include com_right.h void

Re: [Fwd: Re: Cant build 3.5-stable?]

2000-07-06 Thread Mike Silbersack
Ok, the problem seems to be that the new version of compile_et which was MFC'd is creating broken header files, it just happens that libfetch is the first part of the buildworld that hits it. According to cvs: 1.2.2.2 Tue Jul 4 15:15:12 2000 UTC by assar Branch: RELENG_3 Diffs to 1.2.2.1

Re: bridging

2000-07-06 Thread Sean Lutner
Bridges create a broadcast zone. broadcast packets will cross the bridge unobstructed. On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Nick Evans wrote: Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't bridging of two interfaces supposed to make a duplicate of the traffic from one onto another? Why is it then that on the second

Re: [Fwd: Re: Cant build 3.5-stable?]

2000-07-06 Thread Assar Westerlund
Mike Silbersack [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, the problem seems to be that the new version of compile_et which was MFC'd is creating broken header files, it just happens that libfetch is the first part of the buildworld that hits it. Please try the following patch. It will get comitted when

Re: bridging

2000-07-06 Thread Nick Rogness
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Sean Lutner wrote: Bridges create a broadcast zone. broadcast packets will cross the bridge unobstructed. OK. So do bridged interfaces fall within the same collision domain?... or are they just members of the same broadcast domain? Nick Rogness - Speak

Re: [Fwd: Re: Cant build 3.5-stable?]

2000-07-06 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
On 7 Jul 2000, Assar Westerlund wrote: I wrote: Please try the following patch. It will get comitted when my buildworld has completed (successfully). And my buildworld suceeded so the patch has been comitted as version 1.8.2.3 Thanks for taking care of it so quickly Assar. My buildworld

Re: [Fwd: Re: Cant build 3.5-stable?]

2000-07-06 Thread Mike Silbersack
On 7 Jul 2000, Assar Westerlund wrote: I wrote: Please try the following patch. It will get comitted when my buildworld has completed (successfully). And my buildworld suceeded so the patch has been comitted as version 1.8.2.3 /assar Thanks for the quick fix. LET THE BUILDING

driver

2000-07-06 Thread Sergio Faustino
Dear Sir, To make the QuickCam (grayscale) work with Windows NT machines you must install an NT driver. I'd like to know as to get this driver. P.S.: I didn't obtain success in the site of Connectix. I thankyour attention.

Re: stray interrupts in 4.0

2000-07-06 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dennis writes: : great, so intel doesnt know how to make MBs with their own parts...so how : can the message be turned off. Its using more resources printing the : message thsn the "stray interrupts" themselves. I doubt that. Only about 5 of them are printed then

Re: Max DMA size

2000-07-06 Thread Kelly Yancey
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 15:51:34 -0400, Zhihui Zhang wrote: Can anyone tell me what factors determine the max DMA size (DMA counter on each controller or PCI bus related)? What is the typical max DMA size for a SCSI disk connected to a PCI