Re: cool feature of dmesg.boot file

2008-02-22 Thread soralx
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:31:36AM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > If you insist on writing a patch, then please make it > > default off. > > rink@ just provided one, and it does default to off. I fully agree with > defaulting it to off as well; those of us that want it on can set it as > such

Re: cool feature of dmesg.boot file

2008-02-22 Thread Rink Springer
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 02:46:31AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > I'll try out said patch this weekend. Assuming it works, and does get > committed, I'll be more than happy to submit a PR along with a patch to > update the loader.8 manpage, documenting kern.ignore_old_msgbuf. Sounds good to me.

Re: cool feature of dmesg.boot file

2008-02-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:31:36AM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > If you insist on writing a patch, then please make it > default off. rink@ just provided one, and it does default to off. I fully agree with defaulting it to off as well; those of us that want it on can set it as such in loader.conf

Re: cool feature of dmesg.boot file

2008-02-22 Thread Oliver Fromme
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > [...] > Either way, it's a feature with major security implications. So, for > those of us who are concerned about master.passwd changes via > mergemaster being stuffed into msgbuf, how do we disable said feature? > (Before answering, see bel

Re: cool feature of dmesg.boot file

2008-02-22 Thread Rink Springer
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 02:09:24AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Maybe I should look into writing a patch that does in fact clear the > buffer immediately before reboot, and tie it to a sysctl. I suggest just making a loader tunable to do this. I think the following should do it (untested): ---

Re: cool feature of dmesg.boot file

2008-02-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:52:54AM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > Upon a reboot, the kernel is usually loaded to the same > > > physical addresses in RAM where it was before, so the > > > dmesg buffer will be at the same location, too (unless

Re: cool feature of dmesg.boot file

2008-02-22 Thread Oliver Fromme
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Upon a reboot, the kernel is usually loaded to the same > > physical addresses in RAM where it was before, so the > > dmesg buffer will be at the same location, too (unless > > you built a new kernel, of course). So all the contents > > from

Re: memory not cleared on reboot (Was: cool feature of dmesg.boot file)

2008-02-22 Thread Bert JW Regeer
On Feb 22, 2008, at 02:25 , Jeremy Chadwick wrote: [...] Interesting tidbit: We have one production machine which when booted into single-user via serial console for a world install, retains all of the output from that single-user session even once rebooted and brought back into multi-use

Re: cool feature of dmesg.boot file

2008-02-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 09:28:35AM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Bartosz Giza wrote: > > I have found quite interesting feature on one of router that lately i have > > taken to administer. > > What i knew was that file /var/run/dmesg.boot holds data from kernel > buffer > > that is taken rig

Re: cool feature of dmesg.boot file

2008-02-22 Thread Oliver Fromme
Bartosz Giza wrote: > I have found quite interesting feature on one of router that lately i have > taken to administer. > What i knew was that file /var/run/dmesg.boot holds data from kernel buffer > that is taken right after file system(s) are mounted. > Lately i have found that one router

Re: cool feature of dmesg.boot file

2008-02-21 Thread Bernd Walter
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:29:40PM +0100, Bartosz Giza wrote: > Hi, > > I have found quite interesting feature on one of router that lately i have > taken to administer. > What i knew was that file /var/run/dmesg.boot holds data from kernel buffer > that is taken right after file system(s) are m

cool feature of dmesg.boot file

2008-02-21 Thread Bartosz Giza
Hi, I have found quite interesting feature on one of router that lately i have taken to administer. What i knew was that file /var/run/dmesg.boot holds data from kernel buffer that is taken right after file system(s) are mounted. Lately i have found that one router writes to this file data from

Re: Cool script to update ports in cron..

2005-02-03 Thread Julio Capote
I also fixed a bug that didnt let it run in cron, because I wasnt using full paths (doh!)...so it should work fine from cron now On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 00:34 -0500, Timour Ezeev wrote: > On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Julio Capote wrote: > > > I guess the list doesnt like attachments, here's a link: > > htt

Re: Cool script to update ports in cron..

2005-02-02 Thread Julio Capote
Thanks! Merged into release. http://wonderland.hopto.org/~capotej/portsync.pl On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 00:34 -0500, Timour Ezeev wrote: > On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Julio Capote wrote: > > > I guess the list doesnt like attachments, here's a link: > > http://wonderland.hopto.org/~capotej/portsync.pl > >

Re: Cool script to update ports in cron..

2005-02-02 Thread Timour Ezeev
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Julio Capote wrote: I guess the list doesnt like attachments, here's a link: http://wonderland.hopto.org/~capotej/portsync.pl -Julio I think you have a small problem with cvs release entry, i.e. when you run your program you get *default release=cvs tag==cvs tag=. instead o

Re: Cool script to update ports in cron..

2005-02-02 Thread Timour Ezeev
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Julio Capote wrote: I guess the list doesnt like attachments, here's a link: http://wonderland.hopto.org/~capotej/portsync.pl -Julio I think you have a small problem with cvs release entry, i.e. when you run your program you get *default release=cvs tag==cvs tag=. instead o

Re: Cool script to update ports in cron..

2005-02-02 Thread Julio Capote
-- Original Message - > From: "Julio Capote" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 1:44 AM > Subject: Cool script to update ports in cron.. > > > > Hey guys, over the past week I've been working on a nifty script to > > update y

Cool script to update ports in cron..

2005-02-01 Thread Julio Capote
Hey guys, over the past week I've been working on a nifty script to update your ports tree periodically. I attached the script to this message, notable features: *logging *supfile-independant *easy configuration Hope you guys find it as useful as i did. =) - Julio ___

Re: ACPI throttle doesn't cool CPU

2003-02-16 Thread Trent Nelson
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 11:18:31PM -0800, Sean Hamilton wrote: > Greetings, > > After setting hw.acpi.cpu.performance_speed to 1, a dmesg of > > acpi_cpu0: set speed to 6.2% > > and a dog slow system, I am still finding my CPU pumping out heat. It's an > AMD 1333 with an A7V board. Is this typic

ACPI throttle doesn't cool CPU

2003-02-15 Thread Sean Hamilton
Greetings, After setting hw.acpi.cpu.performance_speed to 1, a dmesg of acpi_cpu0: set speed to 6.2% and a dog slow system, I am still finding my CPU pumping out heat. It's an AMD 1333 with an A7V board. Is this typical behaviour? If so, I'll just underclock the CPU in the bios. I was hoping to

So cool a flash,enjoy it

2002-04-22 Thread mwozniak
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Re: ssh password cracker - now this *is* cool!

2001-08-25 Thread Valentin Nechayev
Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 22:39:07, 520066542279-0001 (Harold Gutch) wrote about "Re: ssh password cracker - now this *is* cool!": > Dug Song and Solar Designer held a talk on this topic at HAL 2001, > where they stated that backspaces could be detected, as a > backspace act

Re: ssh password cracker - now this *is* cool!

2001-08-25 Thread James Snow
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 06:32:56AM +0100, Ben Smithurst wrote: > > The issue I believe is passwords you type after logging in (e.g. > changing your password or logging into another machine), not the > password you actually use to log in... I just knew I was going to wind up tasting the sole of m

Re: ssh password cracker - now this *is* cool!

2001-08-25 Thread Ben Smithurst
James Snow wrote: > I'm just looking at packet dumps, not source, but it looks to me like > OpenSSH sends passwords all in one shot, not character by character. The issue I believe is passwords you type after logging in (e.g. changing your password or logging into another machine), not the passw

Re: ssh password cracker - now this *is* cool!

2001-08-25 Thread James Snow
On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 10:39:07PM +0200, Harold Gutch wrote: > > :* Matt Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010822 18:30] wrote: > > :> This gets an 'A' on my cool-o-meter. > > :> > > :> http://www.vnunet.com/News/1124839 > > Dug Song a

Re: ssh password cracker - now this *is* cool!

2001-08-25 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Harold Gutch writes: : Dug Song and Solar Designer held a talk on this topic at HAL 2001, : where they stated that backspaces could be detected, as a : backspace actually translated to : thus sending 3 characters at a time instead of only 1. Not if echo was turned

Re: ssh password cracker - now this *is* cool!

2001-08-25 Thread Harold Gutch
On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 10:48:13PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Harold Gutch writes: > >On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 04:47:15PM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote: > >> :* Matt Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010822 18:30] wrote: > >> :&g

Re: ssh password cracker - now this *is* cool!

2001-08-25 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Harold Gutch writes: >On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 04:47:15PM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote: >> :* Matt Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010822 18:30] wrote: >> :> This gets an 'A' on my cool-o-meter. >> :> >> :>

Re: ssh password cracker - now this *is* cool!

2001-08-25 Thread Harold Gutch
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 04:47:15PM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote: > :* Matt Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010822 18:30] wrote: > :> This gets an 'A' on my cool-o-meter. > :> > :>http://www.vnunet.com/News/1124839 > : > :Interesting, I guess one coul

Re: ssh password cracker - now this *is* cool!

2001-08-22 Thread Greg Black
Alfred Perlstein wrote: | * Greg Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010822 19:46] wrote: | > Matt Dillon wrote: | > | This gets an 'A' on my cool-o-meter. | > | | > | http://www.vnunet.com/News/1124839 | > | > The real research might be interesting, but the infor

Re: ssh password cracker - now this *is* cool!

2001-08-22 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Leo Bicknell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010822 20:00] wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 05:10:16PM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > > > Several people on other mailing lists have pointed out that Nagle > > > should make this much harder, although it's unclear how Nagle and > > > ssh interact. So far that

Re: ssh password cracker - now this *is* cool!

2001-08-22 Thread Leo Bicknell
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 05:10:16PM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > > Several people on other mailing lists have pointed out that Nagle > > should make this much harder, although it's unclear how Nagle and > > ssh interact. So far that has resulted in a number of degenerating > > discussions of how t

Re: ssh password cracker - now this *is* cool!

2001-08-22 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Greg Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010822 19:46] wrote: > Matt Dillon wrote: > > | This gets an 'A' on my cool-o-meter. > | > | http://www.vnunet.com/News/1124839 > > The real research might be interesting, but the information in > the article se

Re: ssh password cracker - now this *is* cool!

2001-08-22 Thread Greg Black
Matt Dillon wrote: | This gets an 'A' on my cool-o-meter. | | http://www.vnunet.com/News/1124839 The real research might be interesting, but the information in the article seems to be wrong. It says: Each keystroke from a user is immediately sent to the target ma

Re: ssh password cracker - now this *is* cool!

2001-08-22 Thread Bruce A. Mah
If memory serves me right, Leo Bicknell wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 04:30:30PM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote: > > http://www.vnunet.com/News/1124839 > > Several people on other mailing lists have pointed out that Nagle > should make this much harder, although it's unclear how Nagle and > ssh

Re: ssh password cracker - now this *is* cool!

2001-08-22 Thread Leo Bicknell
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 04:30:30PM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote: > http://www.vnunet.com/News/1124839 Several people on other mailing lists have pointed out that Nagle should make this much harder, although it's unclear how Nagle and ssh interact. So far that has resulted in a number of degene

Re: ssh password cracker - now this *is* cool!

2001-08-22 Thread Mark Hittinger
> > Yah, and typing backspaces also ought to work. 12345bb45bb45678b8 > How about some control-Q's? :-) Later Mark Hittinger Earthlink [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: ssh password cracker - now this *is* cool!

2001-08-22 Thread Matt Dillon
: :* Matt Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010822 18:30] wrote: :> This gets an 'A' on my cool-o-meter. :> :> http://www.vnunet.com/News/1124839 : :Interesting, I guess one could work around it by periodically :sending bogus empty packets in the middle of activity.

Re: ssh password cracker - now this *is* cool!

2001-08-22 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Matt Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010822 18:30] wrote: > This gets an 'A' on my cool-o-meter. > > http://www.vnunet.com/News/1124839 Interesting, I guess one could work around it by periodically sending bogus empty packets in the middle of activity. --

ssh password cracker - now this *is* cool!

2001-08-22 Thread Matt Dillon
This gets an 'A' on my cool-o-meter. http://www.vnunet.com/News/1124839 -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: cool

2000-06-16 Thread Julian Elischer
Ben Smithurst wrote: > > Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > > > I looks to me like Julian's machine has the configuration problem. > > The dhcp client cannot get enough bpf's. > > So why did tcpdump work? Both dhclient and tcpdump need one bpf, no? I > initially thought the same as you but then ask

Re: cool

2000-06-16 Thread Ben Smithurst
Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > I looks to me like Julian's machine has the configuration problem. > The dhcp client cannot get enough bpf's. So why did tcpdump work? Both dhclient and tcpdump need one bpf, no? I initially thought the same as you but then asked myself that question. -- Ben Smit

Re: cool

2000-06-16 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: > [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] > > On Wednesday, 14 June 2000 at 1:00:27 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > > So, if you are in the Singapore Changi international airport, > > the internet center in the transit area will

Re: cool

2000-06-15 Thread Greg Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Wednesday, 14 June 2000 at 1:00:27 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > > So, if you are in the Singapore Changi international airport, > the internet center in the transit area will loan you for FREE, > a wavelan PC-CARD. > > So

cool

2000-06-14 Thread Julian Elischer
So, if you are in the Singapore Changi international airport, the internet center in the transit area will loan you for FREE, a wavelan PC-CARD. So here I am waiting for my next flight and I'm on the net! (well they hold your passport in exchange but that's ok) I couldn;t get teh DHCP client to

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

2000-01-10 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Matthew Reimer wrote: > The Netgear FS105 five-port 100BaseTX switch is $84.95 at buy.com > (http://www.buy.com/comp/product.asp?SKU=10221960), though they are > back-ordered. And I hate to reply twice, but the switch I bought (EZXS55W) is listed at $76.95. Hmm. :) - alex

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

2000-01-10 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Matthew Reimer wrote: > The Netgear FS105 five-port 100BaseTX switch is $84.95 at buy.com > (http://www.buy.com/comp/product.asp?SKU=10221960), though they are > back-ordered. Sure, but these were in stock. :^) - alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

2000-01-10 Thread Matthew Reimer
The Netgear FS105 five-port 100BaseTX switch is $84.95 at buy.com (http://www.buy.com/comp/product.asp?SKU=10221960), though they are back-ordered. Matt Alex Zepeda wrote: > > On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > > > I have a good reason to revive this thread. I thought anyone who followe

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

2000-01-09 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > I have a good reason to revive this thread. I thought anyone who followed > this conversation might want to know that one of the switches we dicussed, > the Netgear FS-105, is on a special at CompUSA right now -- THROUGH TOMORROW. > The special is a $20 m

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

2000-01-07 Thread Ben Rosengart
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Matthew Dillon wrote: > BTW, Kudos to the KAME folk, the ipv6 and ipsec stuff looks like it's > going to turn into a winner! IPSEC is going to be one really good reason > for needing ever-faster cpu's :-). Maybe Intel should have been approached for financial as

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

2000-01-07 Thread Matthew Dillon
:We attacked Rich's switch in the lab. We plugged ports 1-4 into 4 10/100 :ports on a SmartBits 2000 test chassis and banged it with full-duplex bi- :directional streams between ports 1<->2 and 3<->4. I am happy to report :that it passed 100% of traffic at all packet sizes except 64 bytes, whe

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

2000-01-07 Thread Wes Peters
Pete Mckenna wrote: > > Wes, > Have you managed to test the switch and if so how did it do ? I have a > FS-108 on order. Yes. I bought two FS-105's, one for me and one for a co-worker. CompUSA had a $20 rebate on them from 12/26 - 1/1, making them $99. We attacked Rich's switch in the lab. W

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

2000-01-01 Thread Wes Peters
Sergey Babkin wrote: > > I don't think that you realy need a switch to achieve > this speed on an empty network. With two machines > connected to a 3Com 24-port 100Mbps hub (simplex) > I had no problems achieving ~8MB/s on one FTP transfer > and over 4MB/s on each of two FTP transfers running > i

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

2000-01-01 Thread Sergey Babkin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've got one currently and my FreeBSD box can do 3000-3300kBytes a second > without any complaints.. > > Full duplex has it's advantages, no doubt I don't think that you realy need a switch to achieve this speed on an empty network. With two machines connected to a

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-31 Thread ph0d
I've got one currently and my FreeBSD box can do 3000-3300kBytes a second without any complaints.. Full duplex has it's advantages, no doubt On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > Matthew Dillon wrote: > > Prices have fallen a lot in the last year. I'm happy to be able to > > get r

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-31 Thread Wes Peters
Matthew Dillon wrote: > Prices have fallen a lot in the last year. I'm happy to be able to > get rid of my HUBs, I was constantly having to deal with packet loss > when running saturation tests and never able to figure out what > was causing it. I have a good reason to revive thi

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-22 Thread Peter da Silva
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Louis A. Mamakos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I noticed another, smaller IC which had a hole blown out of the epoxy case >(which subsequently allowed the smoke to escape. [...] >In a "what the hell" move, I powered up the ethernet Netgear Ethernet switch >with it's

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-21 Thread Wes Peters
Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > At 12:45 AM -0700 12/21/99, Wes Peters wrote: > >Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > > [...] but I was wondering how much one has to fork out before you > > > get extra options like a port-mirroring capability... > > > >Lots more, in terms of dollars. For this, you need at

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-21 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:45 AM -0700 12/21/99, Wes Peters wrote: >Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > [...] but I was wondering how much one has to fork out before you > > get extra options like a port-mirroring capability... > >Lots more, in terms of dollars. For this, you need at least a managed >switch, and probably a

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-21 Thread Doug White
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Michael R. Wayne wrote: > On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 10:46:37PM -0600, Tim Tsai wrote: > > > > Best bang for the buck category: HP ProCurve 4000M. 40 switched 10/100 > > ports (that's with the chassis half filled). > > Note that HP's pricing on additional cards is silly.

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-21 Thread Michael R. Wayne
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 10:46:37PM -0600, Tim Tsai wrote: > > Best bang for the buck category: HP ProCurve 4000M. 40 switched 10/100 > ports (that's with the chassis half filled). Note that HP's pricing on additional cards is silly. It's cheaper to buy 2 4000Ms and throw the second chassi

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-21 Thread Chris Sedore
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > > > At 11:18 PM -0700 12/18/99, Wes Peters wrote: > > >Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > > Prices have fallen a lot in the last year. I'm happy to be able to > > > > get rid of my HUBs, I was constantly having to deal wit

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-21 Thread Doug Rabson
On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Tim Tsai wrote: > > hub. It works fine except that it hangs occasionally (can be > > reset by power-cycling). > > Most of these can be attributed to the crappy wall wart they call a > power supply. If it's plugged into an UPS or replace it with your own DC > power supply

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-21 Thread Wes Peters
Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > At 11:18 PM -0700 12/18/99, Wes Peters wrote: > >Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > Prices have fallen a lot in the last year. I'm happy to be able to > > > get rid of my HUBs, I was constantly having to deal with packet loss > > > when running saturation tests

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-20 Thread Oliver Fromme
On the topic of switches... Does anyone have experience (good or bad) with the CNet CNSH-1601 or CNSH-2401? Those are unmanaged 19" switches (10/100) with 16 and 24 ports, respectively, and a 100BaseFX (fibre) uplink port. And they're suspiciously cheap over here [1]. We might get one of those

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-20 Thread Tim Tsai
> something like this (which is fine...), but I was wondering how > much one has to fork out before you get extra options like a > port-mirroring capability... You usually find this capability on managed switches (fairly obvious, since you need a management interface to configure port mirroring

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-20 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:18 PM -0700 12/18/99, Wes Peters wrote: >Matthew Dillon wrote: > > Prices have fallen a lot in the last year. I'm happy to be able to > > get rid of my HUBs, I was constantly having to deal with packet loss > > when running saturation tests and never able to figure out what > >

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-20 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Yes. The nice thing about modern swithcing power supplies are that if :you DO hear any vibration, you know you have big problems and are :courting disaster. At least that's my experience in homebrewing a 12V :-> 16V converter for my Sony VAIO 505TS. The original magnetics I :chose easily over

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-20 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Matthew Dillon writes: : :or higher, which makes things a whole lot easier. No 60Hz humm, no : :vibration - hell, you can even run the frequency up past 100 MHz and : : Needless to say I

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-20 Thread Matthew Dillon
:or higher, which makes things a whole lot easier. No 60Hz humm, no :vibration - hell, you can even run the frequency up past 100 MHz and Needless to say I meant 100 KHz here, not 100 MHz.

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-20 Thread Matthew Dillon
:> :"everyone" here). :> :> This is not true at all. : :Oh, and how many products have you passed through FCC/EC/Japanese environmental :certification? None, apparently. Four in the last 15 years. I've been involved with in-home electronic management systems and believe me, all t

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-20 Thread Wes Peters
Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :> I really hate these switching regulated DC wall plugs. They always use > :> cheap caps in them to save money and then don't bother adding any > :> protection to the motherboard. I prefer AC wall plugs or unregulated DC > :> wall plugs and then a smal

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-19 Thread Matthew Dillon
:> I really hate these switching regulated DC wall plugs. They always use :> cheap caps in them to save money and then don't bother adding any :> protection to the motherboard. I prefer AC wall plugs or unregulated DC :> wall plugs and then a small switching regulator on the mot

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-19 Thread Matthew Dillon
; should also yield a :list of supported cards, including the LNE100TX v2.0. : :-Bill Works like a charm! Cool stuff! -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> T

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-19 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
> "Matthew" == Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matthew> :At work I've got experience with 32-port D-Link 10/100 Matthew> switched :hub. It works fine except that it hangs Matthew> occasionally (can be :reset by power-cycling). So we Matthew> don't buy them any more.

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-19 Thread Wes Peters
Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :with a *really* big heatsink attached -this is the "bridge on chip". And > :I noticed another, smaller IC which had a hole blown out of the epoxy case > :(which subsequently allowed the smoke to escape. > : > :It was than than I make the connection - Hmm.. SGI LCD moni

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-19 Thread Matthew Dillon
:> :> I'll try adding 'dc' in. If it works, can I add a comment about :> 'LNE100TX' cards to the comments in LINT for 'dc'? : :Sure, if you like, however note that "man 4 dc" should also yield a :list of supported cards, including the LNE100TX v2.0. : :-Bill Yup, but that assumes y

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-19 Thread Matthew Dillon
:with a *really* big heatsink attached -this is the "bridge on chip". And :I noticed another, smaller IC which had a hole blown out of the epoxy case :(which subsequently allowed the smoke to escape. : :It was than than I make the connection - Hmm.. SGI LCD monitor don't work. :Ethernet switch

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-19 Thread Bill Paul
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Matthew Dillon had to walk into mine and say: > :Uhm uhm uhm. You do *not* want to say things like that within earshot > :of me. Describe the cards better. Describe how you came to the > :conclusion that they aren't supported. What chip

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-19 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I have a D-Link DSH-5 5-port 10/100 dualspeed hub here at home, :and I'm reasonably happy with it. It certainly doesn't hang. One :of the machines here has trouble negotiating a working 100Mbit/s :link, but that's just as likely a problem of the Linux tulip driver. :... :Christian "naddy" Weisge

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-19 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Uhm uhm uhm. You do *not* want to say things like that within earshot :of me. Describe the cards better. Describe how you came to the :conclusion that they aren't supported. What chip is on them? If it's :the LC82C115 then these are the LNE100TX Version 2.0 with Wake On LAN, :and they *are* supp

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-19 Thread Bill Paul
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Matthew Dillon had to walk into mine and say: > :At work I've got experience with 32-port D-Link 10/100 switched > :hub. It works fine except that it hangs occasionally (can be > :reset by power-cycling). So we don't buy them any more. Al

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-19 Thread Peter Wemm
Tim Tsai wrote: > > hub. It works fine except that it hangs occasionally (can be > > reset by power-cycling). > > Most of these can be attributed to the crappy wall wart they call a > power supply. If it's plugged into an UPS or replace it with your own DC > power supply they generally hold up

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-19 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Sergey Babkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At work I've got experience with 32-port D-Link 10/100 switched > hub. It works fine except that it hangs occasionally (can be > reset by power-cycling). So we don't buy them any more. Also > at my pre-previous employer we had small 8-port 10Mpbs hubs

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-18 Thread Wes Peters
Matthew Dillon wrote: > > I picked up a nifty little D-Link DSS-5+ 5-port 10/100 switch today > CompUSA had a 5-port network kit labeled 'DFE-910' which had the > DSS-5+ and two DFE-530TX+ NIC Cards ('rl' driver), plus cables, for $130. Warehouse.com sells the Netgear FS105 for $99.9

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-18 Thread Louis A. Mamakos
> > hub. It works fine except that it hangs occasionally (can be > > reset by power-cycling). > > Most of these can be attributed to the crappy wall wart they call a > power supply. If it's plugged into an UPS or replace it with your own DC > power supply they generally hold up a lot better. >

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-18 Thread Tim Tsai
> hub. It works fine except that it hangs occasionally (can be > reset by power-cycling). Most of these can be attributed to the crappy wall wart they call a power supply. If it's plugged into an UPS or replace it with your own DC power supply they generally hold up a lot better. I have a N

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-18 Thread Matthew Dillon
:At work I've got experience with 32-port D-Link 10/100 switched :hub. It works fine except that it hangs occasionally (can be :reset by power-cycling). So we don't buy them any more. Also :at my pre-previous employer we had small 8-port 10Mpbs hubs from :D-Link and they had the same problem, s

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-18 Thread Sergey Babkin
Matthew Dillon wrote: > > I picked up a nifty little D-Link DSS-5+ 5-port 10/100 switch today > CompUSA had a 5-port network kit labeled 'DFE-910' which had the > DSS-5+ and two DFE-530TX+ NIC Cards ('rl' driver), plus cables, for $130. > > It appears to operate quite nicely. I

Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-18 Thread Matthew Dillon
I picked up a nifty little D-Link DSS-5+ 5-port 10/100 switch today CompUSA had a 5-port network kit labeled 'DFE-910' which had the DSS-5+ and two DFE-530TX+ NIC Cards ('rl' driver), plus cables, for $130. It appears to operate quite nicely. I can run all 5 ports at 100Base

Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-08-02 Thread Matthew Dillon
:> My buildworld using the NFSv2 file handle length patch succeeded as :> well. :> :> I've included the patch again for reference. (Note: I didn't write :> this patch, refer back to the thread for that info). :> :> -Matt : :any perci

Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-08-02 Thread Matthew Dillon
:> My buildworld using the NFSv2 file handle length patch succeeded as :> well. :> :> I've included the patch again for reference. (Note: I didn't write :> this patch, refer back to the thread for that info). :> :> -Matt : :any perc

Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-08-02 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :Now on to the NFSv2 fhlen patch testing. I haven't run v2 in several > :months, hopefully it still works :-) > > My buildworld using the NFSv2 file handle length patch succeeded as > well. > > I've included the patch again for ref

Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-08-02 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Now on to the NFSv2 fhlen patch testing. I haven't run v2 in several :months, hopefully it still works :-) My buildworld using the NFSv2 file handle length patch succeeded as well. I've included the patch again for reference. (Note: I didn't write this patch, refer bac

Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-08-02 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :Now on to the NFSv2 fhlen patch testing. I haven't run v2 in several > :months, hopefully it still works :-) > > My buildworld using the NFSv2 file handle length patch succeeded as > well. > > I've included the patch again for re

Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-08-02 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Now on to the NFSv2 fhlen patch testing. I haven't run v2 in several :months, hopefully it still works :-) My buildworld using the NFSv2 file handle length patch succeeded as well. I've included the patch again for reference. (Note: I didn't write this patch, refer ba

Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-08-02 Thread Doug
On 2 Aug 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Alfred Perlstein writes: > > DES: can you elaborate? you think it may cause problems with amd > > since it's like an NFS buffer isn't it and would work over the > > loopback... > > I used loopback mounts to test NFS make worlds a while ago H

Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-08-02 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Matthew Dillon writes: :> Ok, then there is a real good chance localhost mounts will work now. : :I'm happy to hear that, since NFSv3 is significantly faster than NFSv2 :on loopback mounts :) : :> I'm running a buildworld test right now with /usr/src and /usr/obj both :> on NFSv3 loca

Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-08-02 Thread Doug
On 2 Aug 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > DES: can you elaborate? you think it may cause problems with amd > > since it's like an NFS buffer isn't it and would work over the > > loopback... > > I used loopback mounts to test NFS make worlds a

Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-08-02 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: :> Ok, then there is a real good chance localhost mounts will work now. : :I'm happy to hear that, since NFSv3 is significantly faster than NFSv2 :on loopback mounts :) : :> I'm running a buildworld test right now with /usr/src and /usr/obj both

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