Re: Kernel SCM saga.. (bk license?)

2005-04-12 Thread Ricky Beam
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Kedar Sovani wrote: >I was wondering if working on git, is in anyway, in violation of the >Bitkeeper license, which states that you cannot work on any other SCM >(SCM-like?) tool for "x" amount of time after using Bitkeeper ? Technically, yes, it is. However, as BitMover has

Re: Digi Neo 8: linux-2.6.12_r2 jsm driver

2005-04-12 Thread Ricky Beam
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:30:19AM -0500, Kilau, Scott wrote: >> However, when the copyright holder says "No, please don't add that >> code", >> and gives *GOOD* reasons why, you should respect that decision. > >You didn't not give a single good

Re: Digi Neo 8: linux-2.6.12_r2 jsm driver

2005-04-12 Thread Ricky Beam
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:30:19AM -0500, Kilau, Scott wrote: However, when the copyright holder says No, please don't add that code, and gives *GOOD* reasons why, you should respect that decision. You didn't not give a single good reason. Only

Re: Kernel SCM saga.. (bk license?)

2005-04-12 Thread Ricky Beam
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Kedar Sovani wrote: I was wondering if working on git, is in anyway, in violation of the Bitkeeper license, which states that you cannot work on any other SCM (SCM-like?) tool for x amount of time after using Bitkeeper ? Technically, yes, it is. However, as BitMover has

Re: AT keyboard optional on i386?

2001-05-31 Thread Ricky Beam
On Tue, 29 May 2001, Pavel Roskin wrote: >> You can a few nice tricks with it like plug in two PS/2 keyboards. I >> have this for my home setup. The only thing is make sure you don't >> have both keyboards plugged in when you turn your PC on. I found BIOS >> get confused by two PS/2 keyboards. As

Re: AT keyboard optional on i386?

2001-05-31 Thread Ricky Beam
On Tue, 29 May 2001, Pavel Roskin wrote: You can a few nice tricks with it like plug in two PS/2 keyboards. I have this for my home setup. The only thing is make sure you don't have both keyboards plugged in when you turn your PC on. I found BIOS get confused by two PS/2 keyboards. As you can

Re: [2.4.5] buz.c won't compile

2001-05-28 Thread Ricky Beam
On Sat, 26 May 2001, Jan Sembera wrote: >i've got a problem compiling drivers/media/video/buz.c as module. When >i'm trying to compile, i get couple of errors: ... Actually, it broke at 2.4.3. Go look at the first change to buz.c from that patch. --Ricky PS: I really hate it when people

Re: [2.4.5] buz.c won't compile

2001-05-28 Thread Ricky Beam
On Sat, 26 May 2001, Jan Sembera wrote: i've got a problem compiling drivers/media/video/buz.c as module. When i'm trying to compile, i get couple of errors: ... Actually, it broke at 2.4.3. Go look at the first change to buz.c from that patch. --Ricky PS: I really hate it when people break

RE: [BUG] 2.4.1 Detects 64 MB RAM, actual 192MB

2001-02-05 Thread Ricky Beam
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Ricky Beam wrote: >Interesting... I just checked my machine (2.4.1-SMP) to see it only saw >64MB when it has 256MB. ... >Nothing at all has changed in either the BIOS setup, compiler, etc. All I >did was reboot (and not pay it any attention.) The configuration w

Re: Matrox Marvell G400

2001-02-05 Thread Ricky Beam
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Alan Olsen wrote: >The capture features are undocumented and unsupported (to my knowledge). (your knowledge is incorrect.) >As far as I have heard, the Rainbow Runner card is not supported in Linux >and Matrox has no plans of doing it. Unsupported by whom? Matrox? That

RE: [BUG] 2.4.1 Detects 64 MB RAM, actual 192MB

2001-02-05 Thread Ricky Beam
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Dunlap, Randy wrote: ... Interesting... I just checked my machine (2.4.1-SMP) to see it only saw 64MB when it has 256MB. >From 2.4.0-test5: Linux version 2.4.0-test5-SMP (root@chickenboo) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #12 SMP Thu Aug 10

RE: [BUG] 2.4.1 Detects 64 MB RAM, actual 192MB

2001-02-05 Thread Ricky Beam
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Dunlap, Randy wrote: ... Interesting... I just checked my machine (2.4.1-SMP) to see it only saw 64MB when it has 256MB. From 2.4.0-test5: Linux version 2.4.0-test5-SMP (root@chickenboo) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #12 SMP Thu Aug 10

Re: Matrox Marvell G400

2001-02-05 Thread Ricky Beam
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Alan Olsen wrote: The capture features are undocumented and unsupported (to my knowledge). (your knowledge is incorrect.) As far as I have heard, the Rainbow Runner card is not supported in Linux and Matrox has no plans of doing it. Unsupported by whom? Matrox? That would

RE: [BUG] 2.4.1 Detects 64 MB RAM, actual 192MB

2001-02-05 Thread Ricky Beam
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Ricky Beam wrote: Interesting... I just checked my machine (2.4.1-SMP) to see it only saw 64MB when it has 256MB. ... Nothing at all has changed in either the BIOS setup, compiler, etc. All I did was reboot (and not pay it any attention.) The configuration was the same

Re: Dual XEON - >>SLOW<< on SMP

2000-11-03 Thread Ricky Beam
On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, bert hubert wrote: >> Thanks! That patch did the trick - our machine is now running lovely. > >Your very rare problem was solved in 3 hours and 50 minutes. Most commercial >support shops try and fail to deliver 4 hour response times - this makes me >feel warm inside :-) To be

Re: Dual XEON - SLOW on SMP

2000-11-03 Thread Ricky Beam
On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, bert hubert wrote: Thanks! That patch did the trick - our machine is now running lovely. Your very rare problem was solved in 3 hours and 50 minutes. Most commercial support shops try and fail to deliver 4 hour response times - this makes me feel warm inside :-) To be fair,

Re: syslog() blocks on glibc 2.1.3 with kernel 2.2.x

2000-10-26 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Igmar Palsenberg wrote: >> Per chance are you running the name service caching daemon (nscd)? I'd >> also guess you aren't disabling fsync() for your sysylog files (it's part >> of the syslog.conf format) -- this is a conciderable drain on syslogd. > >Agree. It is there for

Re: syslog() blocks on glibc 2.1.3 with kernel 2.2.x

2000-10-26 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Igmar Palsenberg wrote: Per chance are you running the name service caching daemon (nscd)? I'd also guess you aren't disabling fsync() for your sysylog files (it's part of the syslog.conf format) -- this is a conciderable drain on syslogd. Agree. It is there for a reason

Re: syslog() blocks on glibc 2.1.3 with kernel 2.2.x

2000-10-23 Thread Ricky Beam
On 23 Oct 2000, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: >Once the name resolution times out, you might expect things to become >unstuck. But they don't. Negative. Things have been queued. The deadlock will only go away if the very next message processed is the named local message. And then it would have

Re: syslog() blocks on glibc 2.1.3 with kernel 2.2.x

2000-10-23 Thread Ricky Beam
On 23 Oct 2000, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: >So I have the glibc maintainer (and others) saying that syslog >messages should never be dropped, and you saying that named should be >dropping its syslog messages. No, I didn't say they "should" be dropped but merely that dropping them would fix your

Re: syslog() blocks on glibc 2.1.3 with kernel 2.2.x

2000-10-23 Thread Ricky Beam
On 23 Oct 2000, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: >Turning down the DNS timeout would affect *all* name resolution on the >system, right? That is not acceptable. You should be able to set it on a per-process basis (via an ENV var.) >As I said, I already have a workaround, which is to have named log

Re: syslog() blocks on glibc 2.1.3 with kernel 2.2.x

2000-10-23 Thread Ricky Beam
On 23 Oct 2000, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: >Ulrich Drepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> If anything has to be changed it's (as suggested) the configuration >> or even the implementation of syslogd. Make it robust. > >OK, but my current syslogd only listens to /dev/log as a SOCK_DGRAM. >If I

Re: syslog() blocks on glibc 2.1.3 with kernel 2.2.x

2000-10-23 Thread Ricky Beam
On 23 Oct 2000, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Ulrich Drepper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If anything has to be changed it's (as suggested) the configuration or even the implementation of syslogd. Make it robust. OK, but my current syslogd only listens to /dev/log as a SOCK_DGRAM. If I wanted

Re: syslog() blocks on glibc 2.1.3 with kernel 2.2.x

2000-10-23 Thread Ricky Beam
On 23 Oct 2000, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Turning down the DNS timeout would affect *all* name resolution on the system, right? That is not acceptable. You should be able to set it on a per-process basis (via an ENV var.) As I said, I already have a workaround, which is to have named log to a

Re: syslog() blocks on glibc 2.1.3 with kernel 2.2.x

2000-10-23 Thread Ricky Beam
On 23 Oct 2000, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: So I have the glibc maintainer (and others) saying that syslog messages should never be dropped, and you saying that named should be dropping its syslog messages. No, I didn't say they "should" be dropped but merely that dropping them would fix your

Re: syslog() blocks on glibc 2.1.3 with kernel 2.2.x

2000-10-23 Thread Ricky Beam
On 23 Oct 2000, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Once the name resolution times out, you might expect things to become unstuck. But they don't. Negative. Things have been queued. The deadlock will only go away if the very next message processed is the named local message. And then it would have to

Re: TRACED] Re: "Tux" is the wrong logo for Linux

2000-10-20 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Richard B. Johnson wrote: >Cary, NC. can't be very large. There are, probably, three persons in Why "can't" it? Just because it's in NC and not CA? Even CA has it's sparse areas (ok, maybe that's "a sparse area" now-a-days.) FYI, most of Cary is a townhouse/strip mall

Re: TRACED] Re: Tux is the wrong logo for Linux

2000-10-20 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Richard B. Johnson wrote: Cary, NC. can't be very large. There are, probably, three persons in Why "can't" it? Just because it's in NC and not CA? Even CA has it's sparse areas (ok, maybe that's "a sparse area" now-a-days.) FYI, most of Cary is a townhouse/strip mall

Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

2000-10-16 Thread Ricky Beam
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Alan Cox wrote: >> Umm, doesn't cdrecord know how to address IDE devices directly? > >IDE cd burners talk ATAPI. ATAPI is just a scsi variant. SCSI won the battle >at the protocol level ... Yeah yeah yeah. What I meant was "you don't have to use ide-scsi." However, after

Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

2000-10-16 Thread Ricky Beam
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Alan Cox wrote: >> is in cdrecord itself, since I have seen that if the FIFO ever hits 0% >> during CD burning, cdrecord has a tendency to bomb. =20 > >If you empty the fifo and the drive fifo you burn a coaster. Thats a feature >of CD burning and one reason I use 640Mb

Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

2000-10-16 Thread Ricky Beam
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Alan Cox wrote: is in cdrecord itself, since I have seen that if the FIFO ever hits 0% during CD burning, cdrecord has a tendency to bomb. =20 If you empty the fifo and the drive fifo you burn a coaster. Thats a feature of CD burning and one reason I use 640Mb magneto

Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

2000-10-16 Thread Ricky Beam
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Alan Cox wrote: Umm, doesn't cdrecord know how to address IDE devices directly? IDE cd burners talk ATAPI. ATAPI is just a scsi variant. SCSI won the battle at the protocol level ... Yeah yeah yeah. What I meant was "you don't have to use ide-scsi." However, after

Re: Compiling Ricky Beam's patched dpt_i2o.c into the kernel in2.4.0.0-21

2000-09-28 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Nick Loman wrote: >I'm trying to compile in Ricky Beam's patched dpt_i2o.c file (for DPT >SmartRAID V support) into the kernel. I got it working as a module, but >now I want it compiled directly in. I run with it compiled in (I boot from the SR-V.) I've put diffs for

Re: Compiling Ricky Beam's patched dpt_i2o.c into the kernel in2.4.0.0-21

2000-09-28 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Nick Loman wrote: I'm trying to compile in Ricky Beam's patched dpt_i2o.c file (for DPT SmartRAID V support) into the kernel. I got it working as a module, but now I want it compiled directly in. I run with it compiled in (I boot from the SR-V.) I've put diffs for

Re: DPT SmartRAID V and Linux 2.4-

2000-09-25 Thread Ricky Beam
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Nick Loman wrote: >So as far as I can tell, the i2o stack in Linux 2.4 doesn't support the >DPT SmartRAID V i2o controller. "We know." It never has. (and arguablly never will.) >Am I right in thinking then the only option is to combine DPT's drivers >into the kernel by

Re: DPT SmartRAID V and Linux 2.4-

2000-09-25 Thread Ricky Beam
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Nick Loman wrote: So as far as I can tell, the i2o stack in Linux 2.4 doesn't support the DPT SmartRAID V i2o controller. "We know." It never has. (and arguablly never will.) Am I right in thinking then the only option is to combine DPT's drivers into the kernel by hand?

Re: Sol 8 Sparc / Linux 2.2.17 TCP interoperability problems

2000-09-22 Thread Ricky Beam
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Horst von Brand wrote: >Some other funny stuf is happening, I'll try on monday without NFSv3 in >kernel, and mounting from the PC. I will add, Solaris ignores the capabilities of mountd and will attempt an NFSv3 connection if it sees a v3 nfsd registered. You can tell

Re: Sol 8 Sparc / Linux 2.2.17 TCP interoperability problems

2000-09-22 Thread Ricky Beam
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Horst von Brand wrote: Some other funny stuf is happening, I'll try on monday without NFSv3 in kernel, and mounting from the PC. I will add, Solaris ignores the capabilities of mountd and will attempt an NFSv3 connection if it sees a v3 nfsd registered. You can tell mountd

Re: Question: Using floating point in the kernel

2000-09-20 Thread Ricky Beam
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Lyle Coder wrote: >You cannot use MMX registers in the kernel either, since the kernel doesen't >save and restore FX state (fxsave, fxrstor) either (just like >(fsave/frstor). You might want to tell the software RAID maintainers that... RAID5 CRC calculations can be done

Re: Question: Using floating point in the kernel

2000-09-20 Thread Ricky Beam
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Lyle Coder wrote: You cannot use MMX registers in the kernel either, since the kernel doesen't save and restore FX state (fxsave, fxrstor) either (just like (fsave/frstor). You might want to tell the software RAID maintainers that... RAID5 CRC calculations can be done with

Re: RAID HW Questions...

2000-09-17 Thread Ricky Beam
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Bryan Whitehead wrote: >A guy in the down under (.au) sent me this driver. Aparently Adaptec >developes their OpenSource driver privatly and only gives out copies to >"special" customers. You've never had to deal with Adaptec. I'd rather build my own SCSI controller out of

Re: RAID HW Questions...

2000-09-17 Thread Ricky Beam
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote: >> It might be a problem for places like Redhat, Suse, etc. that sell linux >> distributions. Of course, the GPL has the same clause and no one's had >> a problem with selling linux distributions so far. > >The GPL allows commercial sale. I threw the i2o sig

Re: RAID HW Questions...

2000-09-17 Thread Ricky Beam
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote: >> Has anyone thought about including the DPT I2O driver in the main kernel? >> The license in the files don't preclude doing this. Yeah, I'm more than > >They do. The i2o headers can only be distributed by someone who is an >i2o sig member. Have you read

Re: RAID HW Questions...

2000-09-17 Thread Ricky Beam
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote: >They do. The i2o headers can only be distributed by someone who is an >i2o sig member. Ah, here's the magic clause: + * This information is provided for the purpose of recompilation of the + * driver code provided by Distributed Processing Technology only.

Re: RAID HW Questions...

2000-09-17 Thread Ricky Beam
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote: >> It goes on to stipluate no "selling" the headers, leave the I2O SIG copyright > >Selling covers distributing for money. I've been talking to them about using >the linux/i2o.h headers which are not so encumbered but heard nothing for >a month or so now

Re: RAID HW Questions...

2000-09-17 Thread Ricky Beam
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Bryan Whitehead wrote: A guy in the down under (.au) sent me this driver. Aparently Adaptec developes their OpenSource driver privatly and only gives out copies to "special" customers. You've never had to deal with Adaptec. I'd rather build my own SCSI controller out of

Re: RAID HW Questions...

2000-09-16 Thread Ricky Beam
On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Bryan Whitehead wrote: >> Have you bothered tell us what that error is? I've not seen anything on >> dpt's mail-list. (Which is where this should be discussed.) > >I've emailed [EMAIL PROTECTED] (that's what the linuxi2oreadme.txt says to >do for help) MANY times pleading

Re: RAID HW Questions...

2000-09-16 Thread Ricky Beam
On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Bryan Whitehead wrote: >> The driver should be on DPT's site. Im not sure on the current state with the (The driver _IS_ on DPT's site. It always has been.) >The driver directory is on thier web site. true. But it only works for >specific versions of kernel's from RH. They

Re: RAID HW Questions...

2000-09-16 Thread Ricky Beam
On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Bryan Whitehead wrote: The driver should be on DPT's site. Im not sure on the current state with the (The driver _IS_ on DPT's site. It always has been.) The driver directory is on thier web site. true. But it only works for specific versions of kernel's from RH. They do

Re: RAID HW Questions...

2000-09-16 Thread Ricky Beam
On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Bryan Whitehead wrote: Have you bothered tell us what that error is? I've not seen anything on dpt's mail-list. (Which is where this should be discussed.) I've emailed [EMAIL PROTECTED] (that's what the linuxi2oreadme.txt says to do for help) MANY times pleading for help.

Re: Proc fs limit workaround?

2000-09-14 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Nick Pollitt wrote: ... >And second, why is the 4K limit there in the first place? Primarily because it was never designed for 90% of the crap that's in there now. I have long hated the BS required to get more than 4k worth of stuff out of /proc. The way around the limit

Re: Proc fs limit workaround?

2000-09-14 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Nick Pollitt wrote: ... And second, why is the 4K limit there in the first place? Primarily because it was never designed for 90% of the crap that's in there now. I have long hated the BS required to get more than 4k worth of stuff out of /proc. The way around the limit is

Re: [patch-required!] Recent kernels show problems in handling VERYlarge HDs

2000-09-09 Thread Ricky Beam
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Andreas Eibach wrote: ... >ide0: BM-DMA at 0x4000-0x4007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio >ide1: BM-DMA at 0x4008-0x400f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio ... >hda: 120060864 sectors (61471 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=7473/255/63, UDMA(33) > hda:hda: timeout waiting for

Re: modules_install?

2000-09-07 Thread Ricky Beam
On 8 Sep 2000, Juan J. Quintela wrote: >Could we make it _easy_ to put all the >modules/System.map/bzImage/ in boot/ and make it easy to do >a tar of that directory and make easy to install that dir in another >machine (perhaps puting a tiny Makefile/script there to do that). Well, one can

Re: modules_install?

2000-09-07 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote: >> However, NO ONE has taken the time (I'm talking weeks of doing nothing >> but screwing with Makefiles) to completely rewrite the build system. > >I have done exactly that. And how much did RedHat pay you to do it? >And I gave you the URL.

Re: modules_install?

2000-09-07 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote: >> Well, there's butt-loads of ugly Makefile shit all over the place. It >> isn't going away. > >Some of it went away when Keith Owens rewrote modules-install. Some, but not all. Some of the things necessary/desired for the kernel build

Re: modules_install?

2000-09-07 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote: >(1) Rules.make had a load of ugly code to translate from the source tree >to the symlink farm. This code had plenty of bugs and race conditions >(e.g. if two subdirectories have the same MOD_LIST_NAME and make >runs in parallel).

modules_install?

2000-09-07 Thread Ricky Beam
What's the point of running depmod at the end of modules_install? The System.map doesn't contain any versioned symbols so it just bitches about everything as being undefined. (depmod needs a "-i" to temporarily ignore versioning and it still bitches) And looking at the System.map is a bad way

modules_install?

2000-09-07 Thread Ricky Beam
What's the point of running depmod at the end of modules_install? The System.map doesn't contain any versioned symbols so it just bitches about everything as being undefined. (depmod needs a "-i" to temporarily ignore versioning and it still bitches) And looking at the System.map is a bad way

Re: modules_install?

2000-09-07 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote: (1) Rules.make had a load of ugly code to translate from the source tree to the symlink farm. This code had plenty of bugs and race conditions (e.g. if two subdirectories have the same MOD_LIST_NAME and make runs in parallel).

Re: modules_install?

2000-09-07 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote: However, NO ONE has taken the time (I'm talking weeks of doing nothing but screwing with Makefiles) to completely rewrite the build system. I have done exactly that. And how much did RedHat pay you to do it? And I gave you the URL. You

Re: modules_install?

2000-09-07 Thread Ricky Beam
On 8 Sep 2000, Juan J. Quintela wrote: Could we make it _easy_ to put all the modules/System.map/bzImage/whatever in boot/ and make it easy to do a tar of that directory and make easy to install that dir in another machine (perhaps puting a tiny Makefile/script there to do that). Well, one can

Re: What the Heck? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-04 Thread Ricky Beam
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: >First of all, the "250,000" is wrong: I was just making up a number. I can go scan ARIN for all their netblocks and give you the exact number of address that would have to be scanned. (I won't. It's alot.) >Second, dialup users don't have enough

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: What the Heck? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-04 Thread Ricky Beam
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Gregory Maxwell wrote: >> Then they need more competant admins. It isnt _hard_ to transproxy outgoing >> smtp traffic via a spamtrapper that checks for valid src/destination and >> headers. > >I can't believe that you are suggesting this. Mindspring did this (maybe still

Re: What the Heck? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-04 Thread Ricky Beam
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote: >FreeServe in the UK have over 3 million dialup users and no spam problem. Well, the economics of the UK is very different than the US. Besides, aren't their laws against that sorta stuff over there? >> It's the same problem EVERY ISP has. RR is just higher

Re: why am i seeing a ~60-second network connection delay with2.4.0test*?

2000-09-04 Thread Ricky Beam
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, John Kennedy wrote: > Ping seems to be spending its time in a sendto()/poll() loop: > > sendto(3, "U\3Z\241\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\2\0\1\206\240\0\0\0\2\0\0\0\3\0"..., 56, 0, >{sin_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(111), sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}}, 16) = 56 >

Re: What the Heck? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-04 Thread Ricky Beam
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Horst von Brand wrote: >"Albert D. Cahalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> The rr.com service is expanding across the US. It is a cable >> service recently bought by AT It serves areas without ISDN >> or DSL, so the only alternative is a POTS modem. The rr.com >> service is much

Re: Linux 2.2 - BSD/OS 4.1 ARP incompatibility

2000-09-04 Thread Ricky Beam
(OK, I've read enough of this crap.) On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, David Luyer wrote: >I'm seeing a problem between Linux 2.2 and BSD/OS 4.1 in the situation on one >of our backbones. Why is it the people placed in charge of networks usually have no clue how they work? (don't answer that.) [broken

Re: Linux 2.2 - BSD/OS 4.1 ARP incompatibility

2000-09-04 Thread Ricky Beam
(OK, I've read enough of this crap.) On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, David Luyer wrote: I'm seeing a problem between Linux 2.2 and BSD/OS 4.1 in the situation on one of our backbones. Why is it the people placed in charge of networks usually have no clue how they work? (don't answer that.) [broken

Re: What the Heck? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-04 Thread Ricky Beam
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Horst von Brand wrote: "Albert D. Cahalan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The rr.com service is expanding across the US. It is a cable service recently bought by ATT. It serves areas without ISDN or DSL, so the only alternative is a POTS modem. The rr.com service is much cheaper

Re: why am i seeing a ~60-second network connection delay with2.4.0test*?

2000-09-04 Thread Ricky Beam
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, John Kennedy wrote: Ping seems to be spending its time in a sendto()/poll() loop: sendto(3, "U\3Z\241\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\2\0\1\206\240\0\0\0\2\0\0\0\3\0"..., 56, 0, {sin_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(111), sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}}, 16) = 56 poll([{fd=3,

Re: What the Heck? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-04 Thread Ricky Beam
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote: FreeServe in the UK have over 3 million dialup users and no spam problem. Well, the economics of the UK is very different than the US. Besides, aren't their laws against that sorta stuff over there? It's the same problem EVERY ISP has. RR is just higher

Re: What the Heck? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-04 Thread Ricky Beam
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: First of all, the "250,000" is wrong: I was just making up a number. I can go scan ARIN for all their netblocks and give you the exact number of address that would have to be scanned. (I won't. It's alot.) Second, dialup users don't have enough

Re: 2T for i386

2000-08-31 Thread Ricky Beam
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Alan Cox wrote: >At 2Tb in a single partition you might well start hitting barriers. I think >there is a 1Tb limit per device somewhere. You also need to ask yourself how >long 2Tb would take to fsck on a power failure. Right now 2.2 doesnt support >journalling over software

Re: 2T for i386

2000-08-31 Thread Ricky Beam
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Alan Cox wrote: At 2Tb in a single partition you might well start hitting barriers. I think there is a 1Tb limit per device somewhere. You also need to ask yourself how long 2Tb would take to fsck on a power failure. Right now 2.2 doesnt support journalling over software raid