Re: 4-port T1 PCI card with integrated csu/dsu

2001-10-14 Thread Peter Wemm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dennis can be brusk, but he knows WAN better than anyone I've ever worked with or for. Bryan 1) Dennis, who is etinc for all practical purposes, used to post off-topic and abusive messages on the freebsd.org mailing lists,

Re: 4-port T1 PCI card with integrated csu/dsu

2001-10-14 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In a message dated 10/13/01 3:15:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: etinc is not recommendable. Everyone knows that PHK has a grudge against etinc. How childish. No, I don't have a grudge against

Re: sin_zero bind problems

2001-10-14 Thread Terry Lambert
Matt Dillon wrote: Nobody in their right mind uses a struct sockaddr_in or any other struct sock* type of structure without zeroing it first. I suppose we can document that in the man pages, but we certainly should not go hacking up the kernel code to work around bad

Re: Severe I/O Problems

2001-10-14 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Matthew Jacob wrote: Just following up myself on this... with a drive on my PC164 Alpha, the realtime difference between two different checkouts of cvs src is interesting: - Script started on Sat Oct 13 10:07:07 2001 farrago.feral.com # this is with wc off

Re: 4-port T1 PCI card with integrated csu/dsu

2001-10-14 Thread Len Conrad
Back on the original topic, anybody know the retail for this card: http://www.sbei.net/wanadapt1t1e1.htm The WANic 654 4-port meets the spec at $3200, but no FreeBSD support there. An eBay 3640 is looking better all time. :((( Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training

Re: 4-port T1 PCI card with integrated csu/dsu

2001-10-14 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Len Conrad writes: Back on the original topic, anybody know the retail for this card: http://www.sbei.net/wanadapt1t1e1.htm Why don't you call them ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD

RE: 4-port T1 PCI card with integrated csu/dsu

2001-10-14 Thread Chris Knight
Howdy, About $750USD. The driver's a little rough around the edges, but works OK. Regards, Chris Knight Systems Administrator AIMS Independent Computer Professionals Tel: +61 3 6334 6664 Fax: +61 3 6331 7032 Mob: +61 419 528 795 Web: http://www.aims.com.au -Original Message-

Re: Severe I/O Problems

2001-10-14 Thread Matthew Jacob
All parameters were not totally lab controlled, but pretty close. I'd call it significant enough that I'll leave WC off for this machine. Well I tried something semilar here, CVS tree on one disk, then newfs and cvs co src on another (both DTLA's on via686b if that matters) to keep

RE: FYI

2001-10-14 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
There are other vendors that sell the WanIC than Imagestream. I realize that you see yourself as the only supplier but this isn't true. Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book

Re: Severe I/O Problems

2001-10-14 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Matthew Jacob wrote: I don't doubt this. I just would suggest that there is such a spread of h/w and configurations that sometimes turning on WC is fantastic, and sometimes not so fantastic. Hmm, I know of no drives that shuld perform worse with WC on, but your case shows there could

Re: loader.conf conditional assignment

2001-10-14 Thread Igor M Podlesny
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 01:25:29PM -0300, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: Vadim Vygonets wrote: We are working on integration of network-booted FreeBSD system to our envoronment. Naturally, different machines need different kernels, so we pass the kernel paramater in DHCP response. However,

Request for submissions: FreeBSD Monthly Development Status Report

2001-10-14 Thread Robert Watson
It's that time again--despite delays and data loss, I'm now ready to start accepting submissions for the September, 2001 FreeBSD Monthly Status Report. As with previous months, please submit reports by e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reports should be submitted by October 19, 2001, and cover

Re: loader.conf conditional assignment

2001-10-14 Thread Mike Smith
Is there any chance off implementing syntax like kernel=${kernel:-/kernel} which is obviously sh-compilant? I don't much like either of these proposals. My principal objection is that they're trying to solve the wrong problem. The original poster is setting $kernel in the DHCP client

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Re: apmd fixes

2001-10-14 Thread Andrew R. Reiter
While fixing/adding that, might as well go ahead and fix the signal handler enque_signal(). I don't believe using err() in in a signal handler is recommended as it could possible allow for undefined behavior to occur. Andrew On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Walter C. Pelissero wrote: :Here are a

Re: loader.conf conditional assignment

2001-10-14 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
Mike Smith wrote: Is there any chance off implementing syntax like kernel=${kernel:-/kernel} which is obviously sh-compilant? I don't much like either of these proposals. My principal objection is that they're trying to solve the wrong problem. The original poster is setting

Re: sin_zero bind problems

2001-10-14 Thread M. Greenblatt
Valentin Nechayev wrote: Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 10:17:21, dillon (Matt Dillon) wrote about Re: sin_zero bind problems: [snip] I don't know another structure which must be filled with zeros without mention in manuals, and rare cases with properly documented requirement. [snip] FYI,

Re: loader.conf conditional assignment

2001-10-14 Thread Mike Smith
Mike Smith wrote: Is there any chance off implementing syntax like kernel=${kernel:-/kernel} which is obviously sh-compilant? I don't much like either of these proposals. My principal objection is that they're trying to solve the wrong problem. The original poster

WanIC 405 _IS_ End of Life -- what are the (netgraph) based alternatives??

2001-10-14 Thread MurrayTaylor
Hi Ted et al, A- thanks for the hint re Ebay. I actually will lookup the card and manufacturer for more detail for when we are in the buying mode again. B- You should have received the End Of Life mail forwarded from Alfred Shippen ( our supplier down under ) by now so you can see where the

Re: I am desperate please help my hdd

2001-10-14 Thread Greg Lehey
On Saturday, 13 October 2001 at 19:08:24 -0400, Rob wrote: I am writing this mailing list in a desperate attempt to find out how to restore my hdd with out loosing all the data on it. Recently I added two additional hard drives to my freebsd 4.2 system. Once I booted up my system and dl'ed

RE: FYI

2001-10-14 Thread Doug Hass
Ted, We're SBS' worldwide distributor. Others who resell them buy them from us or from one of our distributors. In any case, I can ASSURE you without a doubt that the WANic 400 series and the entire RISCom/N2 series are end of life as of the end of September. If you have questions, feel free

clustering code

2001-10-14 Thread Fabián Salamanca
Hi! I'd like to try to develop code (maybe kernel code modifications or external modules) for clustering with FreeBSD, but I'd like to see some work in order to know where I might get started, I'm thinking 'bout plain C and maybe C++ and some shell scripting, Do you know any source code I may

Re: FYI

2001-10-14 Thread Jim Bryant
No offense to you or your sales partners, but the way I see it, this means that tons of these will be available for a song on eBay soon, and will be in the hands of a lot of FreeBSD and Linux people [not all of which can afford top-of-the-line all of the time]. Doug Hass wrote: Ted,

Re: FYI

2001-10-14 Thread Doug Hass
No offense taken--if I was in a position to need the 400 series cards, I'd be snapping up all the used and auction lots I could. Nortel just auctioned off about 1000 of them, so I'd expect that there will be a glut on the used market. If money is the only concern, those cards should be

Re: FYI

2001-10-14 Thread Doug Hass
Also--understand that the replacement for the 400 and 405 is a multi-interface card (supports all of the wiring specs instead of just 1), and costs virtually the same (or less as a reseller or in volume) than the 400/405 did. Doug On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Jim Bryant wrote: No offense to you or

Re: clustering code

2001-10-14 Thread Rayson Ho
The important question is what kind of applications do you run?? There are many clustering projects, espectially for Linux. One interesting project is the Single System Image Clusters for Linux. http://ssic-linux.sourceforge.net/ And MOSIX is another interesting one. http://www.mosix.org/