Re: Distribution sets

2006-10-18 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Hi all, : :I have a quick question about Dfly binary sets. Most other *BSDs are :distributed both as both ISO files and as separate tgz sets. For :instance i can either download the NetBSD ISO installation file or I :can download the individual "base.tgz", "etc.tgz", "comp.tgz", etc and :decide w

Re: [OT] Bonehead DNS question

2006-10-18 Thread JB
This got a bit long. My apologies to those not interested. In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> shouted to everyone in earshot, >Using a packet sniffer, I can see that my server fetches the >names of at least four backup servers at BBC -- but then my >server insists on resolving thos

[OT] Bonehead DNS question

2006-10-18 Thread walt
I'm having a DNS problem which is a combination of a recurrent flaky nameserver at BBC and my own local caching nameserver (which I suspect may be mis-configured). Their 'primary' nameserver (ns1.bbc.co.uk) has been intermittent for several months now, so I often can't resolve 'www.bbc.co.uk'. My

Distribution sets

2006-10-18 Thread Haidut
Hi all, I have a quick question about Dfly binary sets. Most other *BSDs are distributed both as both ISO files and as separate tgz sets. For instance i can either download the NetBSD ISO installation file or I can download the individual "base.tgz", "etc.tgz", "comp.tgz", etc and decide which on

Re: silo overflows -- what can I do about this?

2006-10-18 Thread Robert Clark
Make sure the Serial port is enabled in BIOS? I've seen integrated-chipset-provided serial ports be disabled in BIOS and still be probed and in used by the OS. The ghost ports would then work depending on how the OS serviced them. I've also seen multiple ports configured on the same resourc

Re: Xen vs VMware

2006-10-18 Thread Bill Hacker
Steve Mynott wrote: On 10/18/06, Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Generally speaking I prefer the VMWare concept over the Xen concept. Xen actually has to run two operating systems, one serving as the master and the other as the 'guest' OS, and this compounds the number

Re: silo overflows -- what can I do about this?

2006-10-18 Thread Joseph Garcia
Matthew Dillon wrote: :I changed that line and I rebuilt the kernel, installed the kernel, and :rebooted. I tried it again, but I still have the same problems. Any :other ideas? : :Joey What is actually being run over this serial port? Just a console session, or something else? What

Re: Xen vs VMware

2006-10-18 Thread Freddie Cash
On Wednesday 18 October 2006 12:42 pm, Steve Mynott wrote: > On 10/18/06, Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Generally speaking I prefer the VMWare concept over the Xen > > concept. Xen actually has to run two operating systems, one serving > > as the master and the other as the 'gue

Re: Xen vs VMware

2006-10-18 Thread Kevin L. Kane
Possibly offtopic for this thread, but: Will the approach your taking with DragonFly allow for quickly and easily migrating the virtualized kernels between machines? Also, what about the possibility of running your userland kernels under other operating systems? One of the advantages that Xen a

Re: Xen vs VMware

2006-10-18 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Possibly offtopic for this thread, but: : :Will the approach your taking with DragonFly allow for quickly and :easily migrating the virtualized kernels between machines? : :Also, what about the possibility of running your userland kernels :under other operating systems? One of the advantages tha

Re: Xen vs VMware

2006-10-18 Thread Matthew Dillon
:On 10/18/06, Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : :> Generally speaking I prefer the VMWare concept over the Xen concept. :> Xen actually has to run two operating systems, one serving as the :> master and the other as the 'guest' OS, and this compounds the :> number of pote

Re: Xen vs VMware

2006-10-18 Thread Kevin L. Kane
On 10/18/06, Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Generally speaking I prefer the VMWare concept over the Xen concept. Xen actually has to run two operating systems, one serving as the master and the other as the 'guest' OS, and this compounds the number of potential bugs yo

Re: Xen vs VMware

2006-10-18 Thread Steve Mynott
On 10/18/06, Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Generally speaking I prefer the VMWare concept over the Xen concept. Xen actually has to run two operating systems, one serving as the master and the other as the 'guest' OS, and this compounds the number of potential bugs yo

Re: silo overflows -- what can I do about this?

2006-10-18 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I changed that line and I rebuilt the kernel, installed the kernel, and :rebooted. I tried it again, but I still have the same problems. Any :other ideas? : :Joey What is actually being run over this serial port? Just a console session, or something else? What baud rate are you runni

Re: silo overflows -- what can I do about this?

2006-10-18 Thread Joseph Garcia
Matthew Dillon wrote: Try changing FIFO_RX_MEDH to FIFO_RX_LOW around line 2281 of /usr/src/sys/dev/serial/sio/sio.c. Also post your 'dmesg' output. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I changed that line and I rebuilt the

Re: Xen vs VMware

2006-10-18 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 08:18:59PM +0200, Saverio Iacovelli wrote: > 1) What is the difference beetwen Xen and VMware? Xen is a small kernel which provides an interface for specially modified kernels to issue privileged instructions. Means that instead of modifying e.g. the page table directly, th

Re: Xen vs VMware

2006-10-18 Thread Matthew Dillon
:1) What is the difference beetwen Xen and VMware? :2) What is the better choice: Xen or VMware? :3) Why does it exist a project of porting for Xen on :DragonFly, and why it doesn't exist the same project :for VMware? VMWare is a machine emulator. Operating systems running under VMWare t

Xen vs VMware

2006-10-18 Thread Saverio Iacovelli
1) What is the difference beetwen Xen and VMware? 2) What is the better choice: Xen or VMware? 3) Why does it exist a project of porting for Xen on DragonFly, and why it doesn't exist the same project for VMware? __ Do You Yahoo!? Poco spazio e tan

Re: silo overflows -- what can I do about this?

2006-10-18 Thread Joseph Garcia
Matthew Dillon wrote: :Okay, so I was working via the console port (i.e. DFly box connected to : Firewall via serial port) of my PIX firewall and I kept getting these :errors. These errors made it quite impossible to configure the firewall :because I was unable to recieve the output from the P

Re: silo overflows -- what can I do about this?

2006-10-18 Thread Gergo Szakal
Joseph Garcia wrote: If I change that line in that file, do I only need to recompile the kernel? Yes, even make quickkernel will do if nothing else has changed (and there was no cleanup) since your last kernel compilation.

Re: Cable internet

2006-10-18 Thread Geert Hendrickx
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 10:24:41PM -0700, David Cuthbert wrote: > I'm puzzled. Why block the Comcast SMTP server instead of just the > Comcast dynamic IP block? The zombies are highly unlikely to try to use > the official SMTP server. They are in fact very likely to use it. Many spamming viruse

Re: sk driver problems

2006-10-18 Thread Gergo Szakal
Sepherosa Ziehau wrote: Nope, not in preview. I just generated one against HEAD, should apply to PREVIEW: http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~sephe/sk_ser.diff I tested this patch some time ago. I plan to take a look at sk(4) next week, so the patch will be in repos :-) Thank you. As about the

Re: Cable internet

2006-10-18 Thread Justin C. Sherrill
On Wed, October 18, 2006 1:21 am, David Cuthbert wrote: > My DragonFly box doesn't actually connect directly; I use a different > machine as a firewall. And you will definitely want a very restrictive > firewall configuration; the number of daily hack attempts and portscans > I get is staggering.

Re: Network Slowdowns?

2006-10-18 Thread Richard Nyberg
At Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:17:10 -0700 (PDT), Matthew Dillon wrote: > > Ok. Very odd. It seems to crashing in pf_change_a(), called from > line 3854 of net/pf/pf.c. It shouldn't be possible for it to crash > there. > > Do me a favor and try turning off MMX optimized memory copies b

Re: sk driver problems

2006-10-18 Thread Matthew Dillon
:They are occasional ones, otherwise it does work fine. I am using 1.6.0 :with this patch: : :http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2006-09/msg00209.html : :Don't know what brigs them on, yesterday there was about 10, today there :was only 1 (so far). : :Should I recompile the *original

Re: silo overflows -- what can I do about this?

2006-10-18 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Okay, so I was working via the console port (i.e. DFly box connected to : Firewall via serial port) of my PIX firewall and I kept getting these :errors. These errors made it quite impossible to configure the firewall :because I was unable to recieve the output from the PIX device. : :Error Me

Re: sk driver problems

2006-10-18 Thread Sepherosa Ziehau
On 10/18/06, Gergo Szakal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sepherosa Ziehau wrote: > > Nope, I think you should keep the patch, since you have two sk(4) in one > box :-) Is that patch in preview or somewhere else? Or shouldn't I try preview at all on that machine? Nope, not in preview. I just gener

Re: sk driver problems

2006-10-18 Thread Gergo Szakal
Sepherosa Ziehau wrote: Nope, I think you should keep the patch, since you have two sk(4) in one box :-) Is that patch in preview or somewhere else? Or shouldn't I try preview at all on that machine? (I have no idea, where to start from, sorry).

Re: Cable internet

2006-10-18 Thread Bill Hacker
David Cuthbert wrote: Bill Hacker wrote: Caveat: Use some other mx for your e-mail, not comcast. Our MX'en blacklist all of comcast, as they do nothing useful to block outbound to port 25, and are *infested* with Win-Zombies. I'm puzzled. Why block the Comcast SMTP server instead of just

Re: Where to place compiler flags for world?

2006-10-18 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
YONETANI Tomokazu wrote: > BTW, are we going to keep two gcc-4's in our source tree, in addition to > the default? :) no, i will remove gcc40 as soon as gcc41 is stabilized to produce a working world and kernel. cheers simon -- Serve - BSD +++ RENT this banner advert +++ASCII Ribbon

Re: Where to place compiler flags for world?

2006-10-18 Thread YONETANI Tomokazu
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 08:41:14AM +, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: > > Thomas Schlesinger wrote: > > > options CPU_ENABLE_EST > > > CONF_FLAGS=-march-pentium-m -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe > > > > don't use -O2 nor -fomit-frame-pointer > > Hm. I assumed that

Re: Where to place compiler flags for world?

2006-10-18 Thread Thomas E. Zander
Am Wed, dem 18. Oct 2006, um 8:41 + Uhr schrubte Oliver Fromme zum Thema [Re: Where to place compiler flags for world?]: > Hm. I assumed that -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing was safe to > use with the newer gcc that DragonFly has (as opposed to > the old 2.9.x one of FreeBSD 4). Am I wrong? (It h

Re: Where to place compiler flags for world?

2006-10-18 Thread Oliver Fromme
Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: > Thomas Schlesinger wrote: > > options CPU_ENABLE_EST > > CONF_FLAGS=-march-pentium-m -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe > > don't use -O2 nor -fomit-frame-pointer Hm. I assumed that -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing was safe to use with the newer gcc that DragonFly has

Re: update of sound infrastructure

2006-10-18 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: 2. xmms acts weird (plays fine, but the UI laggs 5-10 seconds) I think it has something to do with poll(2), but I don't know what. maybe somebody could have a look at this (mplayer works fine)? Okay, it is our non-blocking I

Re: update of sound infrastructure

2006-10-18 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Gergo Szakal wrote: OK, np, then as soon as the preview tag gets slipped, I'll check that one out. The preview tag has already been slipped :) It should apply fine to -Preview. cheers simon -- Serve - BSD +++ RENT this banner advert +++ASCII Ribbon /"\ Work - Mac +++ space