dhcp problems with my ISP

2002-08-03 Thread Bri
Hi I have a Cable and have a Cable Modem for my internet connection of which you use dhcp to obtain an IP address great but this only seems to work successfully on a Windows machine I've registered all the other mac addresses of unix boxes and Apple macs I have and they seem to have alot of

Re: dhcp problems with my ISP

2002-08-03 Thread Terry Lambert
Bri wrote: Hi I have a Cable and have a Cable Modem for my internet connection of which you use dhcp to obtain an IP address great but this only seems to work successfully on a Windows machine I've registered all the other mac addresses of unix boxes and Apple macs I have and they seem to

Re: -fomit-frame-pointer for the world build

2002-08-03 Thread Dmitry Morozovsky
On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: TL Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: TL [ ... -fomit-frame-pointer ... ] TL Yes, Terry, I'd read this note. However, it does not clarify for me which TL exactly functionality is lost with omitting this. TL TL I tried to build some binaries with -fomit..., then

Re: -fomit-frame-pointer for the world build

2002-08-03 Thread Dmitry Morozovsky
On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Bakul Shah wrote: BS I tried to build some binaries with -fomit..., then tried to debug it a BS bit, and gdb shows me both backtrace stack and arguments, so I was in BS doubt a bit -- so here is my question ;-) BS BS I can answer that. Consider the following two

Re: ARM Port: Help with UMA subsystem needed

2002-08-03 Thread Stephane E. Potvin
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 08:05:12PM -0400, Stephane E. Potvin wrote: I've been busy trying to bring the port back in sync with current. Now, each time I start my NetWinder, I get the following panic which I don't seem able to track the source. I would greatly appreciate if anybody

Re: ARM Port: Help with UMA subsystem needed

2002-08-03 Thread Bosko Milekic
On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 11:07:11AM -0400, Stephane E. Potvin wrote: On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 08:05:12PM -0400, Stephane E. Potvin wrote: I've been busy trying to bring the port back in sync with current. Now, each time I start my NetWinder, I get the following panic which I don't seem able

Re: dhcp problems with my ISP

2002-08-03 Thread Andy Sparrow
Often, once the cable company sees a MAC address, it filters all other MAC addresses from getting a lease from your wire. This is true, broadly speaking. If they're mildly clueful (and probably if you convince them that you are), you may be able to get them to either add multiple MAC

About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers

2002-08-03 Thread Alp ATICI
By the time 5.0 is released do you aim to complete all the planned features at www.freebsd.org/smp? (like full kernel preemption) I know it's a tentative list but still if there's a consensus about that let me know. Will 5.0 stable be created after KSE milestone 4 commit? I just wanted to know

Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers

2002-08-03 Thread Munish Chopra
On 2002-08-03 12:14 +, Alp ATICI wrote: [snip] And what's the latest about the Nvidia drivers? It's mentioned that Nvidia has plans to produce the drivers for FreeBSD. I'd be happy to know what's going on in that issue too. We know about as much as you do. Waiting for NVIDIA, once

kernel hacking environment

2002-08-03 Thread Erik Greenwald
Hey, I have a quick question What are some cool kernel hacking environments? I've been dropping down to single user mode and mounting my /usr ro to avoid fsck time, and have been thinking of using bochs or vmware to try to expediate things, maybe with a 100 meg 'disk', then put most of the

dell 2650 embedded remote access (ERA)

2002-08-03 Thread Chuck Cranor
hi- i've got a couple of 2650's running 4.6 (with updated bge driver). was looking at the linux stuff that claims to talk to the ERA. [ERA is a device that let's you power cycle and control the 2650 remotely.] has anyone ported it off to run under linux emulation under freebsd? it would

Re: ARM Port: Help with UMA subsystem needed

2002-08-03 Thread Jeff Roberson
On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Bosko Milekic wrote: On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 11:07:11AM -0400, Stephane E. Potvin wrote: I just found out that reverting this commit fixes the problem. Any ideas about why other arches don't encouter the problem? jeff2002/06/19 13:49:44 PDT Modified

Re: ARM Port: Help with UMA subsystem needed

2002-08-03 Thread Bosko Milekic
On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 03:51:20PM -0400, Jeff Roberson wrote: These locks can not be made recurisve safely. In this case you would just recurse forever and never satisfy the allocation. All pmap modules do something like the following: static void * pmap_allocf(uma_zone_t zone, int

Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers

2002-08-03 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Alp ATICI wrote: And what's the latest about the Nvidia drivers? It's mentioned that Nvidia has plans to produce the drivers for FreeBSD. I'd be happy to know what's going on in that issue too. Any day now. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E |

Re: kernel hacking environment

2002-08-03 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 12:18:29PM -0500, Erik Greenwald wrote: + + Hey, I have a quick question + + What are some cool kernel hacking environments? I've been dropping down + to single user mode and mounting my /usr ro to avoid fsck time, and have + been thinking of using bochs or vmware to try

Re: dhcp problems with my ISP

2002-08-03 Thread Clifton Royston
On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 11:46:50AM -0700, freebsd-hackers-digest wrote: Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2002 03:17:17 -0700 From: Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: dhcp problems with my ISP Bri wrote: Hi I have a Cable and have a Cable Modem for my internet connection of which you use dhcp

Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers

2002-08-03 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Saturday 03 August 2002 22:09, Matthew N. Dodd a écrit : On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Alp ATICI wrote: And what's the latest about the Nvidia drivers? It's mentioned that Nvidia has plans to produce the drivers for FreeBSD. I'd be happy to know what's going on in that issue too. Any day now.

Re: dhcp problems with my ISP

2002-08-03 Thread Wouter Van Hemel
On Sat, 2002-08-03 at 12:17, Terry Lambert wrote: Bri wrote: Hi I have a Cable and have a Cable Modem for my internet connection of which you use dhcp to obtain an IP address great but this only seems to work successfully on a Windows machine I've registered all the other mac addresses

Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers

2002-08-03 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Thierry Herbelot wrote: Le Saturday 03 August 2002 22:09, Matthew N. Dodd a écrit : On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Alp ATICI wrote: And what's the latest about the Nvidia drivers? It's mentioned that Nvidia has plans to produce the drivers for FreeBSD. I'd be happy to know

Re: dhcp problems with my ISP

2002-08-03 Thread Terry Lambert
Andy Sparrow wrote: Often, once the cable company sees a MAC address, it filters all other MAC addresses from getting a lease from your wire. This is true, broadly speaking. Or broad-band-ly speaking? If they're mildly clueful (and probably if you convince them that you are), you may

Re: dhcp problems with my ISP

2002-08-03 Thread Terry Lambert
Clifton Royston wrote: However, one special and relevant case of Use the same exact NIC is to set up one of the various UNIX boxes as your gateway doing NAT, and have it act as a DHCP server for your LAN. Once that's done it can issue DHCP leases to all your other systems, and then (for

anyone running amavis and sendmail on 4.6-STABLE?

2002-08-03 Thread Gheorghe Ardelean
Hi, I've installed different versions of amavis (amavis-perl really outdated then amavis-0.3.12.pre8 and finally amavisd-new via ports or direct). None of this work with sendmail. I am trying to scan ONLY incoming mails. All this installs end up with mail not being delivered because of:

Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers

2002-08-03 Thread Erik Greenwald
On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 05:28:07PM -0400, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: snip Sorry, this has been the status for months now. ugh, sounds like the lip-service I was getting. I'll look into that :/ I'm starting to ponder the legality and challenge involved in reverse engineering the card and

Re: dhcp problems with my ISP

2002-08-03 Thread Ron Roskens
There could be another explanation. I had this problem with a NetBSD machine running dhclient connecting to ATTBI. By default dhclient uses a hard-coded value of 16 for the TTL on UDP packets. ATTBI had upgraded their network, and the DHCP server was further away such that dhclient would never

Re: dhcp problems with my ISP

2002-08-03 Thread Terry Lambert
Ron Roskens wrote: There could be another explanation. I had this problem with a NetBSD machine running dhclient connecting to ATTBI. By default dhclient uses a hard-coded value of 16 for the TTL on UDP packets. ATTBI had upgraded their network, and the DHCP server was further away such

Re: ARM Port: Help with UMA subsystem needed

2002-08-03 Thread Stephane E. Potvin
On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 03:51:20PM -0400, Jeff Roberson wrote: On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Bosko Milekic wrote: On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 11:07:11AM -0400, Stephane E. Potvin wrote: I just found out that reverting this commit fixes the problem. Any ideas about why other arches don't

Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers

2002-08-03 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Erik Greenwald wrote: ugh, sounds like the lip-service I was getting. I'll look into that :/ No, they're working on it, and actually have GL running in the lab. I'm starting to ponder the legality and challenge involved in reverse engineering the card and building a

Re: dhcp problems with my ISP

2002-08-03 Thread Terry Lambert
Wouter Van Hemel wrote: Use the same exact NIC. Wouldn't it be possible to change the mac address? A friend of mine used this method once to obtain a new ip address from the server when he was being DoS'ed on his home ip by some irc kiddies. Ofcourse, you'd have to change the other

Re: dhcp problems with my ISP

2002-08-03 Thread Andy Sparrow
Hi I have a Cable and have a Cable Modem for my internet connection of which you use dhcp to obtain an IP address great but this only seems to work successfully on a Windows machine I've registered all the other mac addresses of unix boxes and Apple macs I have and they seem to have alot of

Re: dhcp problems with my ISP

2002-08-03 Thread Andy Sparrow
Or broad-band-ly speaking? Yes, exactly... :-) ATT Broadband Internet will not give you a static IP or permit you to run a server (they have blocking hardware in place) unless you sign up for business service, which means you give them about four times the monthly fee vs. a home

Re: dhcp problems with my ISP

2002-08-03 Thread Julian Elischer
sometimes it's the cable modem that is cachingthe MAC address. whenever you change machines you need to power down and power up the cable modem. On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Clifton Royston wrote: On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 11:46:50AM -0700, freebsd-hackers-digest wrote: Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2002

Re: dhcp problems with my ISP

2002-08-03 Thread Terry Lambert
Andy Sparrow wrote: Hmm. I don't see where the original post mentions any specific ISP - thus this is simply the policy of a single ISP, and not the one the poster is on? (In fact, it looks rather like the poster is in Dear Old Blighty... ;-) Pretty irrelevant; once one provider learns a

Re: -fomit-frame-pointer for the world build

2002-08-03 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Terry Lambert wrote: Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: What are the drawbacks of building FreeBSD with -fomit-frame-pointer? The frame pointer is used for debugging, specifically for the stack traceback function to know arguments. Removing it means losing some debugging functionality. Next time

Re: anyone running amavis and sendmail on 4.6-STABLE?

2002-08-03 Thread Jim Durham
On Saturday 03 August 2002 06:10 pm, Gheorghe Ardelean wrote: Hi, I've installed different versions of amavis (amavis-perl really outdated then amavis-0.3.12.pre8 and finally amavisd-new via ports or direct). None of this work with sendmail. I am trying to scan ONLY incoming mails. All

Re: anyone running amavis and sendmail on 4.6-STABLE?

2002-08-03 Thread Mike Tancsa
On Sun, 4 Aug 2002 01:10:23 +0300 (EEST), in sentex.lists.freebsd.hackers you wrote: Hi, I've installed different versions of amavis (amavis-perl really outdated I would suggest the milter version with amavisd. We use it along with f-prot (under linux emulation) for our customer base as well

Re: raid disks in FreeBSD (fwd)

2002-08-03 Thread Daniel Eischen
Anyone know how to best tune a system for RAID performance? Keith, what kind of RAID controller is it? [ Keith, yes, my email address is still the same, even though it looks like I come from elsewhere at times. ] -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 17:32:07 -0400