Re: FreeBSD TCP ignores zero window size

2012-04-04 Thread perryh
Andre Oppermann wrote: > The other side is retransmitting data we have already received > and acknowledged ... That behavior is totally non-compliant. Any chance our ack of that data got dropped/lost enroute, and the other side is resending after timing out? _

Re: Can we do perform a C style file Read/Write from within a ARP module

2011-12-27 Thread perryh
Eugene Grosbein wrote: > 27.12.2011 20:11, per...@pluto.rain.com ?: > > Jason Hellenthal wrote: > >> > >> See siftr(4). This module writes to a file. > > > > Is siftr(4) new since 8.1? > > HISTORY > SIFTR first appeared in FreeBSD 7.4 and FreeBSD 8.2. which explains why there's no man

Re: Can we do perform a C style file Read/Write from within a ARP module

2011-12-26 Thread perryh
Jason Hellenthal wrote: > > See siftr(4). This module writes to a file. Is siftr(4) new since 8.1? $ man siftr No manual entry for siftr $ cd /usr/ports $ ls -d */*siftr* ls: */*siftr*: No such file or directory ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org ma

Re: if_msk.c link negotiation / packet drops

2011-10-12 Thread perryh
YongHyeon PYUN wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:07:02AM -0400, Karim wrote: > > ... why are we ORing the same call twice isn't the same thing > > as calling it once: > > > > bmsr = PHY_READ(sc, E1000_SR) | PHY_READ(sc, E1000_SR); > > The E1000_SR_LINK_STATUS bit is latched low so it should be

size-dependent packet loss (Re: bce packet loss)

2011-07-07 Thread perryh
Kevin Oberman wrote: > ... Years ago, when coaxial Ethernet the norm ... Aha! Another old-timer who has been around long enough to remember 10Mb Ethernet! Maybe something in the following will ring a bell? I have a (to me) very strange problem, for which I have a usable workaround but no actu

Re: Question about NIC link state initialization

2011-07-01 Thread perryh
Steve Polyack wrote: > I was able to "fix" the single-user mode behavior (which I agree, > isn't necessarily broken) and get it to bring up the links by > simply patching init(8) to call system("/sbin/ifconfig") before > prompting for the single-user shell. It works, but I feel dirty. I see no

Re: Question about NIC link state initialization

2011-06-29 Thread perryh
Steve Polyack wrote: > ... An occaisional fat-finger in /etc/fstab may cause one to > end up in single-user mode ... some of these systems have a LOM > (lights-out management) controller which shares the system's > on-board NICs ... when the system drops out of init(8) and into > single-user mode

Re: 7-STABLE NFS: fatal: "select lock: Permission denied"

2011-04-06 Thread perryh
Chuck Swiger wrote: > People tend to take advantage of the resources they have; if you > have an EMC or NetApp filer handy, it's might well be reasonable > to use it ... s/reasonable/tempting/ "When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem tends to resemble a nail." ___

Re: 7-STABLE NFS: fatal: "select lock: Permission denied"

2011-04-05 Thread perryh
Chuck Swiger wrote: > It's fairly common to scale up a mail infrastructure from one box > handling both SMTP and IMAP (or POP) to a SMTP-only box writing to > NFS-mounted user mailboxes, and have one or more dedicated reader > boxes which only run IMAP/POP daemons which access that same NFS > fil

Re: Problem with igb(4) updated to version 2.0.7

2010-12-03 Thread perryh
Jack Vogel wrote: > There are pros and cons either way you do things. I was talking > to some of our Linux crew, they recently changed things so it > would shut down the phy, but that doesn't always make everyone > happy either. In particular, depending on the type of switch and how it is config

Re: usb/149039: [uhso] Binding problem with uhso

2010-07-31 Thread perryh
> The following reply was made to PR usb/149039; it has been noted > by GNATS. > > From: Fredrik Lindberg > To: bug-follo...@freebsd.org, pilzablei...@web.de > Cc: Hans Petter Selasky > Subject: Re: usb/149039: [uhso] Binding problem with uhso > Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:00:07 +0200 > > I appare

Re: vpn trouble

2010-06-23 Thread perryh
wrote: > I forgot send last time - on the other side is cisco router ... Perhaps vpnc would be easier to set up than raccoon? ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail t

Re: question regarding IPSEC Setup

2009-07-14 Thread perryh
rascal wrote: > ... I have two sites, one with a cisco device and one with a > server running freebsd 7.2. The client wants to connect the two > sites using these devices and I am told that the best way would > be to establish an IPSEC tunnel between the cisco device and the > freebsd server. Th

Re: spliting kernel ipfw source ? (also involves sctp)

2009-03-01 Thread perryh
Rui Paulo wrote: > On 1 Mar 2009, at 21:26, Julian Elischer wrote: > > Luigi Rizzo wrote: > >> Hi, > >> I am planning to split netinet/ip_fw2.c in a number of smaller > >> files to make it more manageable, and while i do this I would > >> also like to move the files related to ipfw2 (namely ip_fw*

Visio (Re: mbuf revision, testers/comments wanted.)

2009-02-03 Thread perryh
> Any suggestions similar to visio for unix? graphics/dia is the closest approximation I know of. It might work to run Visio itself under wine. ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe

(partly) SOLVED: tun0 not responding to ping

2009-01-04 Thread perryh
Ian Smith wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > > Why would a local interface, reported as up in ifconfig, not respond > > to a ping of its own IP address? The tun0 reported below doesn't, ... > > $ ifconfig -a ... > > tun0: flags=8051 mtu 1412 > > inet

Re: tun0 not responding to ping

2009-01-04 Thread perryh
> Had a quick look at http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~massar/vpnc/ but > don't get whether it, or you, are configuring ppp? ie, does vpnc > make or mess with /etc/ppp/ppp.conf? Or otherwise invoke ppp > directly itself? Neither, I suspect. Looking at the ppp(8) manpage, it looks as if both vpnc a

Re: tun0 not responding to ping

2009-01-03 Thread perryh
Ian Smith wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > Ian Smith wrote: > > uucp .. how quaint :) Yep, but running over ssh since agora no longer has modems. How's that for a mix of ancient and modern technology? :) > > http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~flemej/fbsd-cisco-vpn.pdf > >

Re: tun0 not responding to ping

2009-01-02 Thread perryh
Ian Smith wrote: ... > > tun0: flags=8051 mtu 1412 > > inet6 fe80::2b0:d0ff:fe28:ad4f%tun0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 > > inet ZZZ.ZZZ.233.42 --> ZZZ.ZZZ.233.42 netmask 0x > > Opened by PID 24635 > > I don't know if this is relevant or not, but I've never

tun0 not responding to ping

2009-01-02 Thread perryh
Why would a local interface, reported as up in ifconfig, not respond to a ping of its own IP address? The tun0 reported below doesn't, and I have no idea how to debug it. (I've overwritten the two most- significant octets of its IP address, which is Class B, so as not to publicly identify the net