New version of ficl (the core of our bootforth)

2003-07-09 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
I was going to look at ficl-3.03 (our boot code includes 3.02) when I found this claim about the new ficl-4: "Ficl 4.0 is a major change for Ficl. Ficl 4.0 is smaller, faster, more powerful, and easier to use than ever before. (Or your money back!) Ficl 4.0 features a major engine rewrite. Previo

D-Link DGE-510T Gigabit Ethernet Card with FreeBSD 4.8

2003-07-09 Thread Ian Service
I just picked up two of these cards, but they're not supported and aren't picked up by any of the other gigabit devices in LINT. Any help that you could give would be great, I'd really like to be able to use my new hardware. - Ian Device Info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:10:0:class=0x02 ca

Re: kern.ipc.maxsockets limits with 4GB of memory

2003-07-09 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Thomas Chaffic Mowad wrote: > Someone thought that the kernel might need more memory so we tried > increasing VM_KMEM_MAXSIZE too 500 megs and then that caused a panic when > we booted up. > > So we're kinda stuck here and any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > -

RE: Race in kevent

2003-07-09 Thread John Baldwin
On 09-Jul-2003 Harti Brandt wrote: > > Hi, > > I just had a crash while typing ^C to a program that has a kevent timer > running. The crash was: > > callout_stop > callout_reset > filt_timerexpire > softclock > > and callout_stop was accessing freed memory (0xdeadc0e2). After looking > some ti

Re: Race in kevent

2003-07-09 Thread Eric Jacobs
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 15:28:38 +0200 (CEST) Harti Brandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I just had a crash while typing ^C to a program that has a kevent timer > running. The crash was: > > callout_stop > callout_reset > filt_timerexpire > softclock > > and callout_stop was accessing freed m

kern.ipc.maxsockets limits with 4GB of memory

2003-07-09 Thread Thomas Chaffic Mowad
On a Tyan s2466 motherboard with 4 gigs of ram and freebsd 4.7-release-p10 we're having trouble increasing maxsockets beyond 128k. The kernel panics when we try buildworlds with any more than 128k. We were able to increase maxsockets to 192k with a system that had 2gb and 256k with a system that

Re: What ever happened with this? "eXperimental bandwidth delayproduct code"

2003-07-09 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Max Clark wrote this message on Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 13:27 -0700: > :) hehe... > > Okay, let's say how do I force my machine to think it doesn't have any > latency and saturate a 6Mbit/s link even though the link has 220ms latency? You might want to try: net.inet.tcp.sendspace=$((128*1024)) net.i

RE: What ever happened with this? "eXperimental bandwidth delayproduct code"

2003-07-09 Thread Max Clark
:) hehe... Okay, let's say how do I force my machine to think it doesn't have any latency and saturate a 6Mbit/s link even though the link has 220ms latency? -Original Message- From: Dan Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 1:21 PM To: Max Clark Cc: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: What ever happened with this? "eXperimental bandwidth delayproduct code"

2003-07-09 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 09), Max Clark said: > Assuming zero (0) network latency what should I configure on my > FreeBSD boxes to saturate a 6Mbit/s (750Kbyte/s) link? Assuming zero latency, absolutely nothing :) You can easily saturate a 100mbit LAN connection (which has like a 12K bw*d product

RE: What ever happened with this? "eXperimental bandwidth delayproduct code"

2003-07-09 Thread Max Clark
Assuming zero (0) network latency what should I configure on my FreeBSD boxes to saturate a 6Mbit/s (750Kbyte/s) link? Thanks, Max -Original Message- From: Dan Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 12:41 PM To: Max Clark Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: What ev

Re: What ever happened with this? "eXperimental bandwidth delayproduct code"

2003-07-09 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 09), Max Clark said: > > 600/8*.220 = 165Kbytes or 1.32Mbit/s > > I understand the BDP concept and the calculation to then generate the > tcp window sizes. What I don't understand is this... > > How in the world is a windows 2000 box running commercial software > able

RE: What ever happened with this? "eXperimental bandwidth delayproduct code"

2003-07-09 Thread Max Clark
> 600/8*.220 = 165Kbytes or 1.32Mbit/s I understand the BDP concept and the calculation to then generate the tcp window sizes. What I don't understand is this... How in the world is a windows 2000 box running commercial software able to push this link to 625KByte/s (5Mbit/s) How can I ge

Re: What ever happened with this? "eXperimental bandwidth delayproduct code"

2003-07-09 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 09), Max Clark said: > When you say it's got a specific purpose, I am looking for something > that will dynamically tune a 6Mbit/s, 220ms network link for bulk > (500MB) file transfers. Is this what I think it is, or should I be > looking at something else? Unless you're d

somebody working on writing a 3COM 3C940 gigE NIC driver?

2003-07-09 Thread Wilko Bulte
The subject basically summarises it already. My new MB has such a chip onboard and it would be nice to be able to use it at some point. A Linux GPLed driver is available BTW. -- | / o / /_ _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte __

RE: What ever happened with this? "eXperimental bandwidth delayproduct code"

2003-07-09 Thread Max Clark
Fantastic, this is exactly what I was looking for. When you say it's got a specific purpose, I am looking for something that will dynamically tune a 6Mbit/s, 220ms network link for bulk (500MB) file transfers. Is this what I think it is, or should I be looking at something else? Thanks in advance

Re: What ever happened with this? "eXperimental bandwidth delayproduct code"

2003-07-09 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 09), Max Clark said: > Hi all, > > I am doing research on dynamic tcp tunning, what ever happened with the > patch below? > > http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=200107150943.f6F9hhx06763%40earth.backplane.com&rnum=1 It got commited

What ever happened with this? "eXperimental bandwidth delay productcode"

2003-07-09 Thread Max Clark
Hi all, I am doing research on dynamic tcp tunning, what ever happened with the patch below? http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=20 0107150943.f6F9hhx06763%40earth.backplane.com&rnum=1 Thanks in advance, Max ___ [

Kernel panic when moving lots of data over network

2003-07-09 Thread John Fox
Hello. Strange problem on a new server we're setting up. It's very stable, except when moving a large amount of data onto it via the network. I begin moving approx 4GB of data onto it, and before the xfer can complete, the system panics and reboots. (I am generally able to get from 1 to 2 GB tr

[FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE] kernel panic

2003-07-09 Thread Lennaert Meijvogel
Hi, I have experienced a kernel panic. It happened after doing shutdown. A small gdb-typescript is included. If you need more information, you can e-mail me. Lennaert -- Last night I was layin' down... And I hear momma tell poppa: "That boy love to boogie-woogie" And I hear poppa tell momma: "Let

Re: HTT on single CPU?

2003-07-09 Thread Takanori Watanabe
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Thomas T. Veldhouse" wrote: >Actually, a 2.4 could have HT. > >"Intel extends Hyper-Threading Technology? to a variety of desktop PCs, with >the new Intel Pentium 4 processor, featuring an advanced 800 MHz system >bus and speeds ranging from 2.40C to 3.20 GHz. Hyper

Re: failed freebsd 5.1 install

2003-07-09 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 10:56:52PM -0700, Greg Kutzbach wrote: > Motherboard > IntelĀ® VS440FX Motherboard > http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/VS440FX/ > 84MB RAM > IBM 40GP Hard drive > removed all PCI cards except video > Running Matrox MGA 4MB video > Pentium Pro 200 > IDE Generi

Race in kevent

2003-07-09 Thread Harti Brandt
Hi, I just had a crash while typing ^C to a program that has a kevent timer running. The crash was: callout_stop callout_reset filt_timerexpire softclock and callout_stop was accessing freed memory (0xdeadc0e2). After looking some time at the filt_timerdetach, callout_stop and softclock I think

Re: 5 "Advanced" networking questions

2003-07-09 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Socketd wrote: On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 22:51:24 -0700 Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hmm, why not just use a firewall? Because most firewalls, even commercial ones, don't block the ICMP messages you appear to be interested in blocking. You appeared to want to turn your FreeBSD box into what'

Re: 5 "Advanced" networking questions

2003-07-09 Thread Paul Armstrong
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 10:51:24PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > I don't want to disable ICMP, just don't want to respond when ttl=0, > > > > meaning when my firewall/gateway is on a "traceroute path". > > > > > > You should specifically modify the ICMP code to not respond > > > to echo datag

Re: 5 "Advanced" networking questions

2003-07-09 Thread Socketd
On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 22:51:24 -0700 Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hmm, why not just use a firewall? > > Because most firewalls, even commercial ones, don't block the > ICMP messages you appear to be interested in blocking. > > You appeared to want to turn your FreeBSD box into what