VLAN Support in FreeBSD

2000-08-07 Thread Peter Jeremy
About a month ago, David Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> started a thread in freebsd-stable about supporting a 1500MTU through a VLAN trunk (see Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>). Since this would be very useful to me, I did some digging into it and looked through the code (there being no other docume

Re: vmware changes result in nasty bridging mess

2000-08-07 Thread Akinori -Aki- MUSHA
At a quick glance, "start_bridge" doesn't seem to have chance to be 1, does it? And, what's the difference among those three values of "bridge"? > + bridge="_bridge_on" > + bridge="_bridge" > + bridge="_bridge_off" -- /

Re: FreeBSD belly up with big config

2000-08-07 Thread Mike Smith
> >> It seems that there is substantial overhead just scanning interfaces for > >> some routine maintenance...is there any hope of alleviating this deboggle? > > > >Probably. Without some idea of what's actually happening, though, it's a > >little hard to point a finger and say "look here". > >

Re: FreeBSD belly up with big config

2000-08-07 Thread Dennis
At 11:54 PM 8/6/00 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: >> With 1800 interfaces in the system Freebsd seems to use about 50Mhz of cpu >> when idle in "interrupts" even when there are no interrupts to process. on >> a 500Mhz box it uses 10% of the cpu and it seems linear with different >> speed processors. >>

Re: FreeBSD belly up with big config

2000-08-07 Thread Tony Finch
Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I'd made some similar observations about the current lack of scalability >both in management of (struct ifnet) chains, and mountpoints in the file >system. When I had a brief look at the way mount points are handled I concluded that most of the time the

Re: US$100 prize for adding ESS Audiodrive support to pcm

2000-08-07 Thread Julian Elischer
Alan Clegg wrote: > > On a simmilar note: what about a driver for ESS Maestro 2E? I'm certainly [...] > Add $100 from me. There is one that works for some folks out there > by <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, but it does not work for me. where do you find this? > -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer

Re: ELF rtld and environment variables...

2000-08-07 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Julian Stacey: > 4.1-release produces no /sbin/mount_cfs, & man mount give no hint, > If you have patches to test, I volunteer to test on 4.1 or 3.4 :-) It is a port. I'd love to import it into CURRENT though. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 3Com 10/100 Mini PCI Ethernet

2000-08-07 Thread Bill Paul
> AFAIK, this card is a 3Com OEM product which is not available for purchase, > all i can give you is an HP part number. It is also not a "normal" PCI card > but a so called "Mini PCI" card and its about as large as a matchbox or > even a bit smaller. > > Anyway, i have replaced the card, and i

Re: FreeBSD belly up with big config

2000-08-07 Thread Robert Watson
On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Dennis wrote: > With 1800 interfaces in the system Freebsd seems to use about 50Mhz of cpu > when idle in "interrupts" even when there are no interrupts to process. on > a 500Mhz box it uses 10% of the cpu and it seems linear with different > speed processors. > > the 1800 i

Re: 3Com 10/100 Mini PCI Ethernet

2000-08-07 Thread Hellmuth Michaelis
Bill Paul wrote: > I'm sorry, but after reading this thread, I'm having a hard time coming > up with an explanation for this nonsense which doesn't involve you being > a dumbass. Yes, i am. I'm guilty for the death of this innocent card, and it is just and only my personal fault and nobody else

ffs_getpages()

2000-08-07 Thread Yvonne Coady
Just wondering if anyone can shed some light on the changes in the page fault handling code in 3.3 vs 4.0. I've noticed that the async read ahead that used to work for mmaped files via a VOP_READ in ffs_getpages() is no longer there... I've run some very simple (and by no means exhaustive) tes

Re: ELF rtld and environment variables...

2000-08-07 Thread Julian Stacey
Ollivier Robert wrote: > According to Julian Stacey: > > just as today I'd use an encrypting file system on my new laptop, > > but such file system don't exist on FreeBSD unfortunately. > > Ahem. Why did I sent an update for security/cfs to green a few months ago? :-) 4.1-release produces no /sb

CVS question

2000-08-07 Thread Archie Cobbs
Consider this source file: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.sbin/xntpd/lib/Attic/ranny.c Question: what version should this command checkout? $ cvs co -D 'January 18, 1999 0:00' freebsd/src/usr.sbin/xntpd/lib/ranny.c Perhaps version 1.1.1.2 would be correct, but instead you ge

Re: 3Com 10/100 Mini PCI Ethernet

2000-08-07 Thread Bill Paul
> Mike Smith wrote: > > > > I think the ep driver (which does some funny things to the eeprom) managed > > > to overwrite part of the eeprom so that the xl driver failed to recognize > > > the card. I then tried to add it to the vx driver (at that point i think > > > i started to know what i did)

Re: Speaking about vmware...

2000-08-07 Thread mht
Yes, It appears that there is an occasional glitch with FreeBSD and VMware. I have to record the core.. /m At 04:50 PM 8/6/00 -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: >Has anyone been having their system just plain lock up running vmware? Mine >has been.. (4.1-stable).. > >-matt > > > > > >To Unsubscribe

RE: dlopen() and friends from a statically-linked binary?

2000-08-07 Thread Raymond Wiker
Daniel O'Connor writes: > > On 20-Jul-00 Raymond Wiker wrote: > > Is it possible, at all, to use dlopen etc from a > > statically-linked executable? My experiments with FreeBSD-4.0 (see > > below) indicate that it's not possible. > > You can't do it from a statically linked binary,

Restoring old IPv4 raw socket behavior under 4.1-RELEASE

2000-08-07 Thread Bernie Doehner
Hi All: Just upgraded from 4.0-RELEASE to 4.1-RELEASE, and now a custom application of ours that used to do: socket(AF_INET, SOCK_RAW, 4); No longer works with: Protocol not supported opening socket. As far as I can tell, this is because SOCK_RAW sockets now default to IPv6. Is there a SIMPLE

newbus questions

2000-08-07 Thread j mckitrick
Hi all, there are two recent articles on newbus on daemonnews, and one at people.freebsd.org/~asmodai by jeroen. Does anyone remember seeing any others? I thought for sure i remembered seeing a article explaining the OO design concepts behind newbus, particularly the use of soft_c, the local d

Re: vmware changes result in nasty bridging mess

2000-08-07 Thread Vladimir N. Silyaev
Ok, guys. See in the attachment fix, you should apply it to prevent current behavior. On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 07:14:59PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote: > On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Vladimir N. Silyaev wrote: > > > >Bridging on by default may > > >have nasty side effects for multi-interface machines (espec

Re: 3Com 10/100 Mini PCI Ethernet

2000-08-07 Thread Hellmuth Michaelis
Mike Smith wrote: > > I think the ep driver (which does some funny things to the eeprom) managed > > to overwrite part of the eeprom so that the xl driver failed to recognize > > the card. I then tried to add it to the vx driver (at that point i think > > i started to know what i did) which faile

Does sio have a maintainer?

2000-08-07 Thread Sheldon Hearn
Hi folks, Does the sio driver have a maintainer? There are two PR's open that contain patches to provide support for new devices, but I can't find anyone to pin them on. :-) kern/20341 support Cronyx-Omega-PCI serial multiport adapters kern/20410 support high-speed NS16550A, ST16650A

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Re: 3Com 10/100 Mini PCI Ethernet

2000-08-07 Thread Mike Smith
> Mike Smith wrote: > > > > I'm looking for docs for the Mini PCI card in the subject, it has the 3Com > > > part/product no. 3CN3AV1556. It is a 10/100 ethernet 56k modem combo card > > > built into an HP laptop. > > > > Have you tried booting FreeBSD on this system yet? If so, does the 'xl'