Re: kqueue microbenchmark results

2000-12-08 Thread Zach Brown
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 11:06:07PM -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > Dan Kegel wrote: > > > > His role right now is to keep the kernel as simple as possible. > > So the major advancements of pushing file servers and web servers into > the kernel fit into this role how? totally orthoganal to the `linu

Re: kqueue microbenchmark results

2000-12-08 Thread Dan Kegel
Wes Peters wrote: > Dan Kegel wrote: > > "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > > > Why is it that I get the feeling more and more nowadays that Linus is > > > suffering from a worsening case of NIH when it comes to things > > > originated on BSD? > > > > Don't jump to conclusions. He's honestly trying to >

Partial start on pci + serial/parallel cards

2000-12-08 Thread Warner Losh
OK. I have a partial start on the serial/parallel cards. It isn't attaching anything yet, but should give people an idea on the direction I'd like to head. As part of this work, I'll likely remove pci attachment of sio, and change it to puc. puc is the name NetBSD uses (I snagged the tables a

Re: kqueue microbenchmark results

2000-12-08 Thread Wes Peters
Dan Kegel wrote: > > "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > > > > Why is it that I get the feeling more and more nowadays that Linus is > > suffering from a worsening case of NIH when it comes to things > > originated on BSD? > > Don't jump to conclusions. He's honestly trying to > understand what the opt

RE: GDB Displaying all vars in a stack frame.

2000-12-08 Thread John Baldwin
On 09-Dec-00 Stephen Hocking wrote: > Is there some simple one-liner command that allows me to display the values > of > all the variables within the current stack frame? 'info locals' I think, or 'show locals' if that doesn't work.. -- John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://www.FreeBSD.

Re: GDB Displaying all vars in a stack frame.

2000-12-08 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 8 December 2000 at 18:29:26 -0600, Stephen Hocking wrote: > Is there some simple one-liner command that allows me to display the values of > all the variables within the current stack frame? info local Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for addre

GDB Displaying all vars in a stack frame.

2000-12-08 Thread Stephen Hocking
Is there some simple one-liner command that allows me to display the values of all the variables within the current stack frame? Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Co

Re: PPP connection

2000-12-08 Thread Gary Aitken
Forget this; I didn't read your message closely. I see now that the authentication passed. Gary Aitken wrote: > > I've only used kernel ppp for a dedicated line, > and there wasn't any user authentication required in that case, > so I'm probably not much help... > What does your /etc/ppp/options

Re: Re: PCIOCGETCONF/PCIOCREAD requires write permission?

2000-12-08 Thread Stefan Esser
On 2000-12-08 10:02 -0600, Mike Silbersack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seriously, though. There must be some way to abuse such direct access to > the pci configuration registers. Just because nobody has figured it out > how yet doesn't mean that enabling the feature is a good idea. Well, what

Re: PPP connection

2000-12-08 Thread Gary Aitken
I've only used kernel ppp for a dedicated line, and there wasn't any user authentication required in that case, so I'm probably not much help... What does your /etc/ppp/options file look like, and the associated /etc/ppp/pap-secrets and /etc/ppp/chap-secrets? What kind of authentication is the ma

PPP connection

2000-12-08 Thread Thierry
Hi, I'm trying to use kppp with freeBSD, but when I want to connect, My modem dials, ID and the password are accepted, and I receive a message : pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0 Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/modem Modem hangup, connected for 1 minutes Connection terminated, connected for 1 minutes

Re: PCIOCGETCONF/PCIOCREAD requires write permission?

2000-12-08 Thread David O'Brien
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 12:07:49AM -0700, Chad R. Larson wrote: > I thought the space staked out by the *BSD gang was approximately > this: > NetBSD - the least amount of platform-specific code possible; run > on most anything > OpenBSD - pro-active security, bullet-proof from attacks > Fr

Re: Packet Header Filtering

2000-12-08 Thread Andrew R. Reiter
Look at ipproto switch table... That might help you find some function pointers that would be logical to hijack in order to do this sort of thing. it's in /usr/src/sys/netinet/*.c somewhere. andrew On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Alwyn Goodloe wrote: >We are about to begin a little project that has

Re: Optimal UFS parameters

2000-12-08 Thread Matt Dillon
:On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 05:53:18AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :> :> How frequently do people fsck? : :Once per reboot usually. : :Joe :-- :Josef Karthauser [[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]] No, that's an fsck -p ... if the filesystem is clean, it doesn't do anything.

Re: kqueue microbenchmark results

2000-12-08 Thread Dan Kegel
"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > > David Malone wrote: > > > > On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 05:01:17PM -0500, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > > I'd love to do that, but am not quite sure how I'd go about it. > > > If you read the l-k mailing list, you'll see Linus calling kqueue > > > "overengineered", and what

Re: PCIOCGETCONF/PCIOCREAD requires write permission?

2000-12-08 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Chad R. Larson wrote: > I'm not trying to foster a war here. There seems to be enough of > that anyway. But unless this PCI register reading thingie is an > issue for i386 boxen (and I don't think it is) we shouldn't cripple > functionality on the i386 for the Alpha. Allow

Re: umodem and manual

2000-12-08 Thread Kaltashkin Eugene
KE: I try testing 3com USB modem, but don't know, how connect to him ? KE: Maybe i can get some help about it ? I found problem (MAKEDEV create umodem0 with rw--- permissions, change it to 660) When Zyxel Omni USB modems be supported in FreeBSD kernel ? -- Best Regards ZHECKA-RIPN To Unsub

Re: kqueue microbenchmark results

2000-12-08 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
David Malone wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 05:01:17PM -0500, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > I'd love to do that, but am not quite sure how I'd go about it. > > If you read the l-k mailing list, you'll see Linus calling kqueue > > "overengineered", and what he is proposing is something that is > >

Re: Optimal UFS parameters

2000-12-08 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > How frequently do people fsck? Well, that depends on whether I'm attached atm or not. Oh, you mean filesystems? :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The bronze landed last, w

umodem and manual

2000-12-08 Thread Kaltashkin Eugene
Hi ppls. I try testing 3com USB modem, but don't know, how connect to him ? Maybe i can get some help about it ? ZHECKA-RIPN -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

RE: Shared Memory

2000-12-08 Thread William Carlsson - Teligent Nordic, AB - Sweden
FreeBSD 4+ I had something like 8192 processes in mind and same goes for max open files I'd like 256M shared memory... William Carlsson Second Line Support Teligent Nordic AB P.O. Box 213 S-149 21 Nynäshamn SWEDEN Telephone: +46 - 8 -

Re: Packet Header Filtering

2000-12-08 Thread Julian Elischer
Lists Account wrote: > > Look at IPF/IPFW they both have state table stuff in them, and analyzing > the ip header is done by both as well. I would suggest you hack ipf to do > what you want if it doesnt do it already. > > Cheers > > Andrew > > On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Alwyn Goodloe wrote: > > >

Re: Shared Memory

2000-12-08 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 01:01:16PM +0100, William Carlsson - Teligent Nordic, AB - Sweden wrote: > Isn't all kern.* read only? > Seems like it can't be changed more than it's in theory changeable > > Something like the maximum nuber of files and processes, that is suposed to > be > soft configur

Re: Kernel question (detecting a user log-on)

2000-12-08 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Torbjorn Kristoffersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm wondering about two things, how does the kernel detect that a > user logs on a tty, and what should I know if I was to write a kernel > module that detects it (And does something about it)? Must I > read the TCP in-packets for port 23 and de

Re: Packet Header Filtering

2000-12-08 Thread Lists Account
Look at IPF/IPFW they both have state table stuff in them, and analyzing the ip header is done by both as well. I would suggest you hack ipf to do what you want if it doesnt do it already. Cheers Andrew On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Alwyn Goodloe wrote: >We are about to begin a little project that

RE: Shared Memory

2000-12-08 Thread William Carlsson - Teligent Nordic, AB - Sweden
Isn't all kern.* read only? Seems like it can't be changed more than it's in theory changeable Something like the maximum nuber of files and processes, that is suposed to be soft configurable in login.conf (doesn't work either) ,D Does anything work in FreeBSD? ,D -Original Message- Fro

Re: Packet Header Filtering

2000-12-08 Thread David Malone
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 12:03:12AM -0500, Alwyn Goodloe wrote: > i) look at an ip packet header. If some conditions are met let the packet pass >otherwise reject the packet. > > ii) Look at ip packet headers of established connections and when certain > conditions are met tear down the c

Re: Kernel question (detecting a user log-on)

2000-12-08 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:30:54PM +0100, Torbjorn Kristoffersen wrote: > Hi Hackers, > > I'm wondering about two things, how does the kernel detect that a > user logs on a tty, and what should I know if I was to write a kernel > module that detects it (And does something about it)? Must I > read

Re: Optimal UFS parameters

2000-12-08 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 05:53:18AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > How frequently do people fsck? Once per reboot usually. Joe -- Josef Karthauser[[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]] . FreeBSD: The power to change the world To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL P

Re: Optimal UFS parameters

2000-12-08 Thread Christoph Sold
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > > How frequently do people fsck? Only at boot time, or when problems surface. Just my $.02 -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Re: Fwd: kyxtech: freebsd outsniffed by wintendo !!?!?

2000-12-08 Thread Guy Harris
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:51:42PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > I'm very curious how they managed to run "windump" on FreeBSD. Presumably they're referring to tcpdump there, as per the first paragraph in "2. Tests": This Section aims at giving some indications about the perf

Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: Fwd: kyxtech: freebsd outsniffed by wintendo !!?!?

2000-12-08 Thread Guy Harris
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 11:39:58PM -0800, Guy Harris wrote: > Or, as per my other mail, perhaps using, on Windows, a version of the > standard I/O library that does bigger writes, hence fewer system calls. Nope. According to "strace for NT": http://www.securiteam.com/tools/Strace_for_N

Re: nslookup deprecation [was 4.2 complaint]

2000-12-08 Thread Doug Barton
Brandon Fosdick wrote: > > Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > > Yusuf Goolamabbas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Recently there was a message indicating that ISC is deprecating > > > nslookup. > > > > "Recently"? nslookup has been officially deprecated for about a year > > and a half, I believe.

Re: Fwd: kyxtech: freebsd outsniffed by wintendo !!?!?

2000-12-08 Thread John Hay
> > > > (Hurm Wintendo outperforming unix???!?? Something's > > improper about this, and it ought to be fixed... :-) > > Comments? Other OS numbers: more recent > > FreeBSD versions? Solaris? Tru64? Optimization > > patches? Can those OO MSDN lobotomies actually > > be good things?

Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: Fwd: kyxtech: freebsd outsniffed by wintendo !!?!?

2000-12-08 Thread Matt Dillon
:> or with a redirect from tcpdump on a shell line, : :Assuming, as I suspect is the case, that they're using the same command :on the OSes in question (or using "tcpdump" on FreeBSD and "windump" on :Windows), that's also unlikely - it's just "{tcp,win}dump -w test.acp". It amounts to th

Re: Fwd: kyxtech: freebsd outsniffed by wintendo !!?!?

2000-12-08 Thread Matt Dillon
: : :(Hurm Wintendo outperforming unix???!?? Something's : improper about this, and it ought to be fixed... :-) : Comments? Other OS numbers: more recent : FreeBSD versions? Solaris? Tru64? Optimization : patches? Can those OO MSDN lobotomies actually : be good things? Hurm... The Italia

Re: Fwd: kyxtech: freebsd outsniffed by wintendo !!?!?

2000-12-08 Thread Mike Smith
(Please don't spam this many lists with such a large message.) The test is pretty questionable. FreeBSD 3.3 is over a year old, and I would suspect that the one actual outstanding criticism here (filesystem latency) is probably due to the default synchronous-mode filesystem. A more valid tes