diskless: meaning of conf/base ?

2005-10-18 Thread Marco Molteni
Hi, lately I have been playing with diskless booting with 6.x and 7.x. I understand how the whole /conf overriding mechanism works, and I think it is useful. What I am missing is the usefulness of conf/base, especially conf/base/etc, that diskless(8) suggests to fill with the same etc in

Re: Limiting closed port RST response from XXX to 200...

2005-10-18 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 05:51:15PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On a server I'm benchmark testing, via local host, I'm getting Limiting closed port RST response from to 200 packets/sec on the console when I'm running a lot of local connections very quickly all at once

Re: Limiting closed port RST response from XXX to 200...

2005-10-18 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 05:51:15PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On a server I'm benchmark testing, via local host, I'm getting Limiting closed port RST response from to 200 packets/sec on the console when I'm running a lot of local

Unique IPsec security policies

2005-10-18 Thread Jan Mikael Melen
Hi, Is there a reason why the policies that are defined as unique can't be updated through the pfkey interface? What I'm trying to do is that: 1. I create SP entry and let the kernel assign a request id for policy (reqid in the add is 0). This policy is a tunnel mode policy and I don't have

help regarding : To recieve and tranmit packet th' an interface

2005-10-18 Thread rashmi ns
Hello List-members, we are writing a driver for HDLC-Controller We have coded upto some extent and actully we are able to transmit and recieve a char buff in loopback (from inside a driver). But we want to tranmit/Rx a real packet in (mbuf structure) and test our code .As it is a HDLC controller

Re: help regarding : To recieve and tranmit packet th' an interface

2005-10-18 Thread Gary Jennejohn
rashmi ns writes: Hello List-members, we are writing a driver for HDLC-Controller We have coded upto some extent and actully we are able to transmit and recieve a char buff in loopback (from inside a driver). But we want to tranmit/Rx a real packet in (mbuf structure) and test our code .As

Re: help regarding : To recieve and tranmit packet th' an interface

2005-10-18 Thread David S. Madole
From: rashmi ns [EMAIL PROTECTED] But we want to tranmit/Rx a real packet in (mbuf structure) and test our code .As it is a HDLC controller does'nt have std MAC ADDRRSS . How can i actually achieve a packet transmition and reception .Are there some drivers which does the same I would

Re: help regarding : To recieve and tranmit packet th' an interface

2005-10-18 Thread Bakul Shah
we are writing a driver for HDLC-Controller We have coded upto some extent and actully we are able to transmit and recieve a char buff in loopback (from inside a driver). But we want to tranmit/Rx a real packet in (mbuf structure) and test our code .As it is a HDLC controller does'nt have

Re: diskless: meaning of conf/base ?

2005-10-18 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 10:31:43AM +0200, Marco Molteni wrote: Hi, lately I have been playing with diskless booting with 6.x and 7.x. I understand how the whole /conf overriding mechanism works, and I think it is useful. What I am missing is the usefulness of conf/base, especially

Re: system password's file --failed

2005-10-18 Thread Bill Vermillion
Throwing caution to the wind and speaking without thinking about what was being said on Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 12:00 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] blurted this: Send freebsd-hackers mailing list submissions to Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:17:54 - (UTC) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: system

Accessing USB Mass Storage Device

2005-10-18 Thread Daniel Rudy
When the umass driver is compiled into the kernel, and one inserts a USB mass storage device, how does one access the device descriptors (serial number) while the device is listed as a da device? I would perfer to have the OS do all the work of accessing the hardware. But if it cannot be done,

Re: Call for FreeBSD Status Reports

2005-10-18 Thread Max Laier
On Thursday 06 October 2005 19:49, Max Laier wrote: All, again three month went by and exiting stuff has happend in FreeBSD. Many subtle bugs have been identified and fixed during the most productive QA-work in preparation for FreeBSD 6.0 (now entering final RC-phase). The Google Summer of

Mutlicast interface limit.

2005-10-18 Thread David Gilbert
My reading of the the code in ip_mroute.h seems to imply that FreeBSD carries a maximum of 32 multicast interfaces by default. Is the correct? MAXVIFS? If I'm reading it correctly, it shouldn't be rocket science to extend this limit to 64 (u_int64_t). Will making it larger break some large

Re: Accessing USB Mass Storage Device

2005-10-18 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Daniel Rudy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : : When the umass driver is compiled into the kernel, and one inserts a USB : mass storage device, how does one access the device descriptors (serial : number) while the device is listed as a da device? I would