VLAN Support in FreeBSD

2000-08-08 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

Re: vmware ...

2000-08-08 Thread Danny Braniss
hi all, im trying to 'install' vmware, and im missing if_tap.ko, can someone point me in the right direction? danny PS: it's FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: vmware changes result in nasty bridging mess

2000-08-08 Thread Vladimir N. Silyaev
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 02:36:02PM +0900, Akinori -Aki- MUSHA wrote: At a quick glance, "start_bridge" doesn't seem to have chance to be 1, does it? It's depend. I'm pretty tired that discussian about bridging. So if people want to use bridge let set start_bridge to 1, if not leave it in

Installation Problems on Dell PowerEdge 6100/200

2000-08-08 Thread Daniel Lang
Hi, we've got a Dell PowerEdge 6100/200 here, which is an older SMP server, featuring 4 PPro 200 CPU's two internal AIC7880 channels and an Adaptec 2940UW PCI controller. One of the AIC's is connected to a SCA Backplane that holds 4 disks. Now before even having a chance to see if FreeBSD-SMP

RE: vmware ...

2000-08-08 Thread Yevmenkin, Maksim N, CSCIO
im trying to 'install' vmware, and im missing if_tap.ko, can someone point me in the right direction? the tap (if_tap.ko) driver is part of -current and RELENG_4. it was not included in 4.1-RC. should you need to use it, please, download sources from -current or RELENG_4 and compile

How do I change serial console tty speed?

2000-08-08 Thread Bob Willcox
Hi All, I have tried everything I could think of to raise the speed of my system's serial console from 9600 baud to something faster w/o any success. The things that I have tried are: setting "options CONSPEED=38400" in my kernel config file and putting a "set CONSPEED=38400" in the

How to generate a core dump explicily

2000-08-08 Thread Nicolas Leonard
Hi, I would like to generate a core dump 'explicitly' in my program. How can that be done ? Thanks. Leon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: How do I change serial console tty speed?

2000-08-08 Thread Bob Willcox
Oops, I forgot to add that this is on a 4.0-stable system (from about 3 months ago). Thanks again, Bob On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 08:52:25AM -0500, Bob Willcox wrote: Hi All, I have tried everything I could think of to raise the speed of my system's serial console from 9600 baud to something

Re: How to generate a core dump explicily

2000-08-08 Thread Samuel Tardieu
On 8/08, Nicolas Leonard wrote: | I would like to generate a core dump 'explicitly' in | my program. How can that be done ? Use abort(3). To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: How do I change serial console tty speed?

2000-08-08 Thread Chris D. Faulhaber
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Bob Willcox wrote: Hi All, I have tried everything I could think of to raise the speed of my system's serial console from 9600 baud to something faster w/o any success. The things that I have tried are: setting "options CONSPEED=38400" in my kernel config file and

Re: How to generate a core dump explicily

2000-08-08 Thread Frank Nobis
Hi, On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 03:54:26PM +0200, Nicolas Leonard wrote: Hi, I would like to generate a core dump 'explicitly' in my program. How can that be done ? Send yourself a signal that creates a core dump. For example SIGQUIT would do the job. This asumes that you have not hanged the

RE: How to generate a core dump explicily

2000-08-08 Thread Yevmenkin, Maksim N, CSCIO
man abort I would like to generate a core dump 'explicitly' in my program. How can that be done ? thanks, emax To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: How to generate a core dump explicily

2000-08-08 Thread Nicolas Leonard
Sorry, I wasn't precise enough . In fact, I caught the SIGABRT signal (and the others signals which are ending the program) and I'm doing some ending stuff, and after that, I would like to dump a core file. I could remove the handler of SIGABRT after my ending suff done, and kill myself another

Hardware suppported needed by reboot(2) for RB_POWEROFF

2000-08-08 Thread Brian O'Shea
Hello, For the record, I am running FreeBSD-CURRENT from August 2: # uname -a FreeBSD panic.localdomain 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: Wed Aug 2 17:55:17 PDT 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/local/cvsup/cur rent/src/sys/PANIC i386 What is the interface used by the reboot()

Re: getpeereid() syscall patch for FreeBSD 4.0

2000-08-08 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* William E. Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000808 09:27] wrote: A patch implementing a getpeereid() syscall in FreeBSD 4.0 is available at http://www.superscript.com/patches/freebsd_4_0.getpeereid A local-domain server uses getpeereid() to obtain client credentials. Based on getpeereid() I

bridge driver and Yamaha YMF 724

2000-08-08 Thread Zhihui Zhang
Does 4.1-Release support YAMAHA PCI Audio Controller YMF 724? I have tried the suggestion given by man pcm without success. By the way, what is a card with bridge driver support and a PnP card as mentioned by man pcm? Thanks for your help. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

make release: how I do make it into a bootable cd?

2000-08-08 Thread Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira
Hi, I know I should know better. Please do not flame me. Well, I did a good 1st make release on my little stable (cvsupped 07/08/2000) machine. I have disc[12] under cdrom. Everything looks fine. But (there is always a but) Does anyone have a 'burn the CD' cookbook? This

Re: Hardware suppported needed by reboot(2) for RB_POWEROFF

2000-08-08 Thread Mike Smith
Hello, For the record, I am running FreeBSD-CURRENT from August 2: # uname -a FreeBSD panic.localdomain 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: Wed Aug 2 17:55:17 PDT 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/local/cvsup/cur rent/src/sys/PANIC i386 What is the interface used by the

Re: getpeereid() syscall patch for FreeBSD 4.0

2000-08-08 Thread William E. Baxter
With getpeereid() the credentials are passed at connect() and do not require the client to send data. Therefore clients cannot consume connections anonymously. W. On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 09:35:28AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: I haven't used the credential passing feature of sendmsg(),

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2000-08-08 Thread Alexey V. Antipovsky
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2000-08-08 Thread Charlie ROOT
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Re: getpeereid() syscall patch for FreeBSD 4.0

2000-08-08 Thread Bill Paul
* William E. Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000808 09:27] wrote: A patch implementing a getpeereid() syscall in FreeBSD 4.0 is available at http://www.superscript.com/patches/freebsd_4_0.getpeereid A local-domain server uses getpeereid() to obtain client credentials. Based on

Re: getpeereid() syscall patch for FreeBSD 4.0

2000-08-08 Thread Peter Wemm
"William E. Baxter" wrote: With getpeereid() the credentials are passed at connect() and do not require the client to send data. Therefore clients cannot consume connections anonymously. In the patch: + error = copyout((caddr_t) g, (caddr_t)(uap-egid), sizeof(gid_t)); + return

Re: getpeereid() syscall patch for FreeBSD 4.0

2000-08-08 Thread William E. Baxter
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 11:28:16AM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote: Passing only one gid is nearly useless. You should copy them all or not at all. I would like to see real and effective uid's as well. Completeness certainly has its appeal, but is it necessary? What can you not accomplish without

Re: 4.1-RELEASE problem writing to async mounted filesystem

2000-08-08 Thread void
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 06:03:08PM +0200, Mitja Horvat wrote: Hi, I recently upgraded to FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE(CD image). I noticed that while writing to an asynchronously mounted filesystem(mount -o async / ...) all other IO operations to the FS are almost blocked. I have only one

Re: Hardware suppported needed by reboot(2) for RB_POWEROFF

2000-08-08 Thread Brian O'Shea
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 10:15:52AM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: What is the interface used by the reboot() system call to power off the machine when the RB_POWEROFF flag is set? The man page makes mention of hardware support, but doesn't specify what that support is, or how to use it.

vmware and vmnet devices

2000-08-08 Thread Brian Beattie
running a very recent 4.x-STABLE and today's vmware2 port, when I power on the virtual machine I get a pop-up with the message: could not open vmnet0, ethernet device 0 not configured and the virtual device does not power up. Is there a readme some where that tells me how to create those

Re: make release: how I do make it into a bootable cd?

2000-08-08 Thread Ben Smithurst
Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira wrote: 1) (cont.) I could use burncd but I am bugged by the fact that I can't use cdrecord. :) Why? I think it was designed for SCSI devices, and you don't have one, so just use burncd. 2) How do I make it a full-fledged FreeBSD bootable

Re: VLAN Support in FreeBSD

2000-08-08 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2000-Aug-08 17:06:11 +0200, Blaz Zupan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.euitt.upm.es/~pjlobo/fbsdvlan.html Very useful. Upon further reflection last night, I decided that the problem was most likely related to the NIC's idea of what was the largest allowed frame - and the URL above

Re: make release: how I do make it into a bootable cd?

2000-08-08 Thread Alan Edmonds
This was brought up last week; I'm not sure if it was this list. See /usr/share/examples/worm for a couple of scripts used to create the FreeBSD release CDs. Very informative. Ben Smithurst wrote: Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira wrote: 1) (cont.) I could use burncd but I am bugged

Re: subscribe alexey@nsl.ru

2000-08-08 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Alex Belits wrote: Users started "subscribing" in this manner? Congratulations, FreeBSD is officially mainstream. -- Alex And majordomo is, as always, confusing and in dire need of replacement. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: subscribe alexey@nsl.ru

2000-08-08 Thread Bill Fumerola
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 07:19:26PM -0500, Mike Silbersack wrote: And majordomo is, as always, confusing and in dire need of replacement. Every Nth time this happens we all wonder why postmaster doesn't just add a filter that catches 99% of these and bounce them. Then we all forget and wait

RE: PCI Device Drivers?

2000-08-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 08-Aug-00 Chris Ptacek wrote: Hi, I have been given the task of writing a PCI device driver for a card that we will be using with one of our products. My question is where can I find the best documentation for writing PCI drivers? I assume that the best method would probably be

Re: How to generate a core dump explicily

2000-08-08 Thread andrew
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Nicolas Leonard wrote: I would like to generate a core dump 'explicitly' in my program. How can that be done ? Call abort(3) Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

God I feel stupid (gcc issue)

2000-08-08 Thread Laurence Berland
I've been going through the PR database, thinking maybe it was my turn to do something for FreeBSD. I looked at pr bin/2036. Problem? long isn't big enough to count all the bytes we could hold. So I look in the code and find /* Total number of bytes read and written for all files. Now

Re: God I feel stupid (gcc issue)

2000-08-08 Thread Chris D. Faulhaber
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Laurence Berland wrote: So I thought, "we don't define __GNUC__?" I figured I'd check. After much mind wracking, I can't for the life of me figure out how to get gcc to output a list of what is and isnt defined by default... help! From 4.1-STABLE: jedgar@wopr:~$ cpp

Re: Installation Problems on Dell PowerEdge 6100/200

2000-08-08 Thread Josh Paetzel
- Original Message - From: "Daniel Lang" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 9:42 AM Subject: Installation Problems on Dell PowerEdge 6100/200 Hi, we've got a Dell PowerEdge 6100/200 here, which is an older SMP server, featuring

Re: God I feel stupid (gcc issue)

2000-08-08 Thread Chuck Robey
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Laurence Berland wrote: I've been going through the PR database, thinking maybe it was my turn to do something for FreeBSD. I looked at pr bin/2036. Problem? long isn't big enough to count all the bytes we could hold. So I look in the code and find /* Total

Re: God I feel stupid (gcc issue)

2000-08-08 Thread Chris Costello
On Tuesday, August 08, 2000, Laurence Berland wrote: So I thought, "we don't define __GNUC__?" I figured I'd check. After much mind wracking, I can't for the life of me figure out how to get gcc to output a list of what is and isnt defined by default... help! gcc -E -dM - /dev/null

SMBFS

2000-08-08 Thread Brandon Fosdick
What's the current status the native smbfs support? Can it act as a both a client and a server? How does it compare to Samba in terms of functionality? Thanks, Brandon To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: How to generate a core dump explicily

2000-08-08 Thread Brian O'Shea
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 04:41:46PM +0200, Nicolas Leonard wrote: Sorry, I wasn't precise enough . In fact, I caught the SIGABRT signal (and the others signals which are ending the program) and I'm doing some ending stuff, and after that, I would like to dump a core file. I could remove

Re: How to generate a core dump explicily

2000-08-08 Thread Wes Peters
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Nicolas Leonard wrote: I would like to generate a core dump 'explicitly' in my program. How can that be done ? Call abort(3) If you want to coredump it "interactively", hit your QUIT character (usually ^\). To do the same from another

NFS/TCP problems. 4.0-RELEASE server, sol 8 client

2000-08-08 Thread David E. Cross
I have recently had the time to start devoting more time to FreeBSD; especially the NFS code. I have stumbled upon a problem that seems to be out of my league. The problem is manifested when NFS/TCP connections just hang. Sometimes for only a few seconds, other times for minutes. Below is a