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Subject: Linux-Development Digest #559
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From: Digestifier <Linux-Development-Request@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
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To: Linux-Development@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU
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Reply-To: Linux-Development@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU
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Date: Thu, 17 Mar 94 06:13:04 EST
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Linux-Development Digest #559, Volume #1 Thu, 17 Mar 94 06:13:04 EST
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Contents:
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kernel problem in 1.0 (matthew 'beautiful hair' mead)
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Specialix Driver round 3 (Alan Drew)
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InterViews sources for Linux? (Hans Vermeulen)
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Re: Andrew 6.1 for Linux: who did it? (Robert Andrew Ryan)
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rarpd done? berkeley packet filter? (Paul Fox)
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Re: Real-Time Linux and a/d device drivers (Zbigniew Wieckowski)
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Re: Linux 1.0 problems (No free VT) (Chris Royle)
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Re: Amiga File System, once again (Sami-Pekka Hallikas)
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struct icmp definition? (which icmp.h) (G. "Wolfe" Woodbury)
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Re: telnet uid length <=8?? (Kevin Brown)
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Synchronous X25 link & network level software (Peter Tam)
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My first kernel dump with 1.0 :( (FEARNLCJ@DUVM.OCS.DREXEL.EDU)
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Re: 127.x.x.x (was Re: UDP report card) (Vernon Schryver)
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Re: telnet uid length <=8?? (Peter Dalgaard SFE)
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Re: Real-Time Linux and a/d device drivers (Scott McClung)
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Re: 127.x.x.x (was Re: UDP report card) (Warner Losh)
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From: mmead@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (matthew 'beautiful hair' mead)
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Subject: kernel problem in 1.0
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Date: 16 Mar 1994 00:56:17 -0500
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I'm using the netstat from net 0.32, and I've experienced this with
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a program that tried to select() a file descriptor that should have been
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treated as a connection refused, but didn't for some reason. Here's what I get
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dumped by the kernel upon the segmentation fault the program(s) receive:
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Mar 16 00:50:31 slapshot vmunix: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at address 00000004
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Mar 16 00:50:31 slapshot vmunix: Oops: 0000
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Mar 16 00:50:31 slapshot vmunix: EIP: 0010:0012cc1b
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Mar 16 00:50:31 slapshot vmunix: EFLAGS: 00010202
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Mar 16 00:50:31 slapshot vmunix: eax: 00000000 ebx: 00e35601 ecx: 00e35600 edx: 0012cba7
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Mar 16 00:50:31 slapshot vmunix: esi: 00001be8 edi: 00198754 ebp: 0000002f esp: 00957f68
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Mar 16 00:50:31 slapshot vmunix: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
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Mar 16 00:50:31 slapshot vmunix: Pid: 6596, process nr: 18 (netstat)
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Mar 16 00:50:31 slapshot vmunix: Stack: 00e35000 00000400 0000a800 008b1a80 00198762
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Mar 16 00:50:31 slapshot vmunix: Code: 8b 48 04 51 0f bf 10 52 8b 40 08 50 8b 8e 74 6b 19 00 51 8b
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I've seen this in pl15, but I thought someone had mentioned it. Hope someone
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can figure it out.
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-matt
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--
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-- Matthew C. Mead -- | "I can't hardly find someone out of the
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mmead@slapshot.async.vt.edu | entire human race who is wise 24 hours a day."
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mmead@csugrad.cs.vt.edu |----------------------| - some Renaissance dude
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http://slapshot.async.vt.edu/~mmead |-------------------------
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Date: 16 Mar 94 12:06:42 GMT
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Subject: Specialix Driver round 3
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From: cdh@specialix.co.uk (Alan Drew)
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Well my last post certainly seems to have stirred up a hornets nest.
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Most suprising though is the number of people who have come forward
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and offered to do the work. Some of you saw the original offer some
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of you didn't.
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So.... Here's the position.....
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We currently have one gentleman working on the driver. I fully intend
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to leave him to get on with it (he was projecting end of march) and see
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what comes up. If nothing happens (which is a possibility as there has
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been radio silence from him since he was sent the Tech Ref), then I will
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sit down with our technical director in a few months time and review
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the whole situation all over again.
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In the meantime, I have tried to reply to all those who e-mailed me
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though I may heve missed a few (please forgive me if such is the case).
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I will keep all your names on file, though I am more likely to
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come back here again with an open offer and await your reply.
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A usefull exercise for any interested parties which would
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give me some usfull amunition with the powers that be, here.
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Is for one of you guys to do some *real* market research and
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try and find out just how many people *really* want this type
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of driver and how many ports they want to use it with.
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----
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Further information, if anybody is interested, we have a product called
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IO8+, this is *NOT* an intelligent IO controller, but it does provide
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you with 8 RS232 RJ12 socket devices backed up by a very good Cirrus
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UART. All you need to write a driver for this is the Cirrus Logic
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Chip reference manual for the CD1864 and the IO addresses (set on the card).
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You can have multiple host cards in your system. This may be a better
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solution for those of you who want 8-16 ports + 2 COM: ports. The driver
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would not be hugely different from that of a 16550 driver. One thing
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is though, you woldn't have the performance to run 8 SLIP lines at
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115.2K BAud
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:)
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----
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As usual feel free to contact me with any questions or comments
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Regards
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Alan Drew
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From: vermeule@wi.leidenuniv.nl (Hans Vermeulen)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: InterViews sources for Linux?
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Date: 16 Mar 1994 15:43:32 GMT
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Reply-To: vermeule@wi.leidenuniv.nl
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Hello,
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Where can I get the IV 3.1 sources for Linux? I like to have the sources
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of the complete distribution, including the libs and the examples (like
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idraw, ibuild and iclass). I am running Slackware 1.1.2, which includes
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the IV 3.1 libs and includes (but no sources).
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So, does anybody know where I can get these? Or who did port the IV 3.1
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distribution to Linux? Maybe he/she can upload the sources to sunsite.unc.edu ..
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Thanks in advance,
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---Hans.
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#------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
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Hans Vermeulen, Scientific Programmer
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Dept. of Computer Science, Leiden University, The Netherlands
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P.O. Box 9512, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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Fax: +31 71 276985, Voice: +31 71 277106
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e-mail: Hans.Vermeulen@wi.LeidenUniv.nl
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#------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
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From: Robert Andrew Ryan <rr2b+@andrew.cmu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Andrew 6.1 for Linux: who did it?
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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 12:10:36 -0500
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Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.linux.development: 15-Mar-94 Andrew 6.1
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for Linux: who d.. Marko Schuetz@hisplace.r (605)
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> Most of all it seems incomplete. For example the .overview files are
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> missing, templates are missing and much much more.
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All those things are in the andrew61prog.tar.gz file. We hope that soon
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after AUIS 6.3 is released on the X11R6 tape there will be a properly
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segmented binary release available elsewhere. (Most likely replacing
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6.1 on sunsite at least.) The 6.1 release wasn't prepared by us,
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probably the 6.3 binary release will not be either. (Though we will
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offer guidance to someone we know who plans to do it.)
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-Rob Ryan
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Andrew Consortium
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From: pgf@cayman.com (Paul Fox)
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Subject: rarpd done? berkeley packet filter?
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Date: 16 Mar 1994 18:22:16 GMT
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hi -- i want to use my linux box to boot a diskless Sun to run as an
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Xterminal (using the XKernel) to talk to the linux box. (with me so far?)
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to do this, i need a RARP server, since Sun's don't do bootp. to port the
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netbsd RARPD, i need the berkeley packet filter (bpf).
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has anyone put a rarpd on linux?
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has anyone put the Berkeley Packet Filter on linux?
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is there are raw network access point (i.e. /dev/nit) on linux?
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should i just hack the single entry i need into the arp code in my kernel,
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to get me running well enough to finish doing the job right, so i can
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contribute the changes back to posterity? (don't answer that...)
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(as a secondary question, has bootparamd been ported to linux?)
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--
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=====================
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paul fox, pgf@cayman.com (cayman systems inc. in heavenly woburn, ma)
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home: pgf@foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma)
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From: wieckows@centi.cs.umn.edu (Zbigniew Wieckowski)
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Subject: Re: Real-Time Linux and a/d device drivers
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Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 20:52:51 GMT
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In article <1994Mar14.011322.5474@hydra.acs.ttu.edu> dboney@cs.ttu.edu writes:
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>
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>--
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>Hi,
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> Are there any realtime extentions for Linux? Does any have a UN*X device driver
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>for a National Instruments AT-MIO-16 a/d board. Any type of unix would be OK. It would
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>give me a place to start.
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>
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>Sincerely,
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>
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>David G. Boney
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>American Heart Association Medical Student Research Fellow
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>Texas Tech School of Medicine
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>dboney@cs.ttu.edu Texas Tech University
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>Ph. 806-742-1191 Department of Computer Science
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> Lubbock, Tx. 79409 USA
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Solaris 2.2 has a Real Time Scheduler. Would be nice to have that in Linux.
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Developers of multicast were praising that feature.
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=============================================================================
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Zbigniew Wieckowski, Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota,
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200 Union St. SE, MN 55455, U.S.A., (612)626-7510, e-mail:wieckows@cs.umn.edu
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=============================================================================
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What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.
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=============================================================================
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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From: c@royle.org (Chris Royle)
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Subject: Re: Linux 1.0 problems (No free VT)
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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 15:10:33 GMT
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Gene Choi (genie@sting.Berkeley.EDU) wrote:
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> So after I heard about the announcement of Linux 1.0, I grabbed
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> the source and recompiled. To my dismay, I am no longer able to
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> run Xfree any more. Using pl15 and pl15c(or something near c),
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> I had 0 problems with X. I changed 0 things in my setup from
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> my move from pl15 to 1.0. Anyway I tried forcing X to start
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> via startx and xdm (as root of course). 0 luck so far.
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> Under startx, Xfree complains about having no free VT.
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> Has something changed with setting VT's?
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> I am using the Xfree Mach32 drivers.
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> -Gene
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Did your pl15 setup have more than the usual 8 VTs compiled in like mine
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does (I use 12) ? This would account for it if you didn't change the value
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of NR_CONSOLES in /usr/include/linux/tty.h when you installed 1.0
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Chris.
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--
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Chris Royle "Come rest your head on these two"
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G&CC Undergraduate (Author: E. Hamlin)
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0223 335436 car1002@cus.cam.ac.uk / c@royle.org (Internet)
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0850 668151 car1002@uk.ac.cam.cus (JANET)
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From: semi@dream.nullnet.fi (Sami-Pekka Hallikas)
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Subject: Re: Amiga File System, once again
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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 01:32:40 GMT
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Alan Braggins (armb@setanta.demon.co.uk) wrote:
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> character case-insensitive filenames. So. if such a filesystem could
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> be written, it would have (limited) uses.
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I'm not so sure about that. Many people like collect all special
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file-systems and all other special things in their kernel. Even I
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have ISO filesystem in my kernel, and I don't even have CD-Rom.
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Anyway, sometimes you can get sofware on other format floppies
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then msdos, and I'm ready then. (I think, and I hope).
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--
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+--------------------------+----------+-------------------------------------+
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| semi@dream.nullnet.fi | OH1KYL | MAIL MEDIA. Do Not Expose to Flame! |
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| samip@freeport.uwasa.fi +----------+-------------------------------------|
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| semi@freenet.hut.fi | Dream World BBS * 358-21-4389843 * 24H * 9600 |
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+--------------------------+------------------------------------------------+
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From: ggw@acpub.duke.edu (G. "Wolfe" Woodbury)
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Subject: struct icmp definition? (which icmp.h)
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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 03:24:30 -0500
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I ftp'd the net-2 sources from tsx-11 and have been playing with them
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some.
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Nslookup works fine when it is forced to use the -I option when flexing
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command.l.
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However, I cannot get ping to compile. It complains about a missing
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include file "netinet/ip_vars.h" and then cannot find definitions for
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the structure "icmp". Prowling in some other available sources, it
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does seem that the <linux/icmp.h> file is, indeed, missing the definition
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of the "struct icmp", and I can't find anyplace in the Linux source trees
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that I can scan where "icmp_type" ( a member of struct icmp ) is defined.
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Comments? Pointers, FAQ's to read? (quick scan of NET-2 HowTo doesn't
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seem
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to answer the question.)
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--
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Gregory G. "Wolfe" Woodbury @, but not speaking for Duke Univ.
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System Admin Demographic Studies Box 90408 Durham NC 27708
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ggw@cds.duke.edu ggw@acpub.duke.edu ggw@wolves.durham.nc.us
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"Myth is metaphor, and ritual is the enactment of myth."
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From: kevin@frobozz.sccsi.com (Kevin Brown)
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Subject: Re: telnet uid length <=8??
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Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 02:58:08 GMT
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In article <2lgrgh$buo@nic.ott.hookup.net> root@borg.ott.ca (Sys admin) writes:
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>Only people with user id's of 8 chars or less can use my
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>telnet port. they can log onto my linux system through the
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>serial port, but not over the internet through telnet.
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>(or even locally for that matter.. if they have 9 char or >
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>userids!!!!)
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>Anyone to confirm this?? Thanks.
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Can't confirm it as I don't have telnetd running on my system (the only
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reason I have TCP configured in my kernel is so I can use X and XTrek).
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However, this problem sounds like a problem in whatever version of /bin/login
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telnetd is running. If your version of telnetd gets the username itself
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(which would be a silly thing to do if /bin/login is available), then it is
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a bug in telnetd.
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I did confirm on my system that /bin/login gives the behavior that you
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describe, while getty does not. Since telnetd isn't likely to run getty,
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you'll see whatever bugs exist in /bin/login.
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Try running /bin/login from your shell directly to verify if this is the
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case.
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--
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Kevin Brown kevin@frobozz.sccsi.com
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This is your .signature virus: < begin 644 .signature (9V]T8VAA(0K0z end >
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This is your .signature virus on drugs: <>
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Any questions?
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From: pct@lyra.STANFORD.EDU (Peter Tam)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
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Subject: Synchronous X25 link & network level software
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Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 02:29:53 GMT
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Hi,
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Is there any sync card linux driver already available? I am looking for
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one with SCC chip!
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& Is there already link & network level x25 software ported to x25, for
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PrivateVirtualCircuits & SwitchedVirtualCircuits?
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THANKS FOR ANY HELP!
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From: FEARNLCJ@DUVM.OCS.DREXEL.EDU
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Subject: My first kernel dump with 1.0 :(
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Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 04:24:55 GMT
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I successfully compiled the pre-1.0 kernel and used it moderately harshly for a
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day before discovering that 1.0 had just been released. So I tried to build on
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one success with another. Unfortunately shortly after logging in under my
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fresh 1.0 kernel before I could even execute a command I was greeted by
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something like what's below. So I thought it was my fault (I was eating and
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not monitoring the the build), so I recompiled. This time the error didn't
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come immediately after displaying the login prompt but waited until I thought
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all was well. Then just as I began typing a command this came up:
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===========================cut here=======================================
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darkstar:~$ Oops: 0000
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EIP: 0010:0011d2ba
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EFLAGS: 00010206
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eax: 00dc9000 ebx: 01000000 ecx: 01000000 edx: 0000002c
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esi: 00dc9114 edi: 00dc9000 ebp: 00dc8fbc esp: 00dc8f60
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ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
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Pid: 48, process nr: 15 (login)
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Stack: 0000002c 00dc9114 0011d392 01000000 0000002c
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Code: 66 83 7b 0a 00 75 13 68 8c d2 11 00 e8 89 40 ff ff 31 c0 83
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Trying to free kernel page-directory: not good
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===========================cut here======================================
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Well, at least cut&paste with selection works. In fact most things work, but
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intermittently the kernel reminds me that all is not perfect with another
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similar dump.
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Following instructions in the kernel README file I typed:
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nm tools/zSystem | sort | less
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Searching through here I think these include the range of entries one of you
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kernel hackers will need to tell me what's going on.
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0011d0b4 T _do_open
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0011d214 T _sys_open
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0011d274 T _sys_creat
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0011d2b4 T _close_fp <== I think this is the right line?
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0011d344 T _sys_close
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Well, I decided to see how stable 1.0 is. The above happened right after
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logging in both time. So I've been up for 1 hr. 34 min. and it hasn't
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happened again. I was even bold enough to run XWindows and play some
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chess. The problem hasn't recurred. Is it a problem? It sure looked
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disconcerting.
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Do Enjoy!
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Chris Fearnley cfearnl@pacs.pha.pa.us
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UNIX SIG leader at PACS (Philadelphia Area Computer Society)
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Crossposted-To: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
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From: vjs@calcite.rhyolite.com (Vernon Schryver)
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Subject: Re: 127.x.x.x (was Re: UDP report card)
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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 16:12:47 GMT
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In article <2m6g6r$ijk@gap.cco.caltech.edu> heathh@lust.ugcs.caltech.edu (Heath I Hunnicutt) writes:
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>longyear@netcom.com (Alfred Longyear) writes:
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>
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>>It seems to me that the address 127.x.x.x is not special. What is special
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>>is the loopback device.
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>
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>This assumption is wrong. 127 is specified in the RFCs as being a pseudo-
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>network that includes the loopback address. The fact that it is specified
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>in the RFCs as a special address pretty well contradicts your premise.
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>
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>>If you don't have a route for 127.x.x.x to the "lo" device, but have a default
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>>route to an ethernet controller, for example, then requests to 127.0.0.1 will
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>>go out the wire just as requests to any other IP address. Until a route is
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>>created to the loopback device, the address 127.x.x.x is an unknown address
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>>just as if _I_ asked for address 192.83.17.1. It would need ARP to resolve it
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>>to a real ethernet address and subsequently the request would go out the
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>>default route.
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>
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>The difference is that the IP layer can make the correct decision not to put
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>anything to 127.* on any external interface. The idea that someone should
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>need to configure their system to not violate the RFCs is ridiculous. There
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>is a large responsibility on the part of the stack to not allow stupid things
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>like sending 127.* out on the net.
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>
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>>I guess what I am saying is that the routing of frames is not a function
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>>solely of the device's IP address, nor is it a function soley of the device
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>>type. There is no magical "override" which says that "Oh, you have address
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>>127.0.0.1. I won't bother to look it up. I know that this is the loopback
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>>device and will simply put it there".
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>
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>You really should research these issues before posting. For starters, see
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>the Hosts Requirements RFC. There is indeed something "magical" about any
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>address on the 127 net. Whether you set your system up with 127.0.0.1 as a
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>loopback or not is your problem. No matter what, you should never send
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>packets to 127.anything out any interface, regardless of the routing table's
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>(mis)configuration.
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"You should really research these issues before posting" as well.
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The first guy is right.
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The H-R RFC's do not say how 127 should be made special, only that it
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should be. Standards, including RFC's, specify external behavior, not
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internal implementation.
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You need a pretty dim view of your customers' intelligence and good sense
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to put special checks against non-compliant configurations of net 127 in
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what is in most systems the performance critical path. (Route look-up is
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particularly important for the performance of un-connect(2)'ed UDP
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sockets). Unless the customer does something wierd to the system, the
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normal routing mechanisms do exactly the right things. There is no excuse
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to waste cycles checking for something that few sane customers would
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change, and that practically all insane customers are too ignorant to be
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able to break. If the customer overrides those mechanisms, and makes the
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system non-compliant with any or all RFC's, do you think the Network Police
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will come and break someone's knee-caps? Who is to say that the customer
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does not have good and sufficent reasons for using some network other than
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127 for loopback?
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Vernon Schryver vjs@rhyolite.com
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From: pd@kubism.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard SFE)
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Subject: Re: telnet uid length <=8??
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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 15:03:37 GMT
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>In article <2lgrgh$buo@nic.ott.hookup.net> root@borg.ott.ca (Sys admin) writes:
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>>Only people with user id's of 8 chars or less can use my
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>>telnet port. they can log onto my linux system through the
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>>serial port, but not over the internet through telnet.
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>>(or even locally for that matter.. if they have 9 char or >
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>>userids!!!!)
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>>Anyone to confirm this?? Thanks.
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To those who may think that this is another sign of buggyness
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of Linux: SunOS has the reverse problem (in 4.1.1 at least)
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getty gags on > 8 characters, while telnetd accepts them.
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Encountered this when trying to set up an UUCP account.
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--
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O_ ---- Peter Dalgaard
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c/ /' --- Statistical Research Unit
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( ) \( ) -- University of Copenhagen
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~~~~~~~~~~ - (pd@kubism.ku.dk)
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From: mcclung@squire.chinalake.navy.mil (Scott McClung)
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Subject: Re: Real-Time Linux and a/d device drivers
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Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 01:21:36 GMT
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In article <CMq4M4.3B3@news.cis.umn.edu> wieckows@centi.cs.umn.edu (Zbigniew Wieckowski) writes:
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>Solaris 2.2 has a Real Time Scheduler. Would be nice to have that in Linux.
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>Developers of multicast were praising that feature.
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OK, so, when do we get started? :-) Seriously, thought, how hard would
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a RT scheduling class be to implement? (Actually, I guess SVR4 has 3
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classes: RT, system, and TS. What's the difference between 'system' and
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the other two?). How difficult would it be to write a bounded latency
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real time scheduler, like Solaris 2 has? There are probably a lot of
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problems that I haven't even considered, but I assume many parts of the
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kernel would need to be rewritten.(?) Would every I/O call need to be
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asynchronous for this to work?
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Have I gone off the deep end to even ask these questions? I doubt that
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many of us need a RTOS, but it would be neat anyway...
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--
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/* Scott McClung Opinions expressed here are mine.
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* Computer Engineer, SAIC "What's this word in the stage directions?
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* mcclung@c3ot.saic.com E-mote?" - Crow, MST3K
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* mcclung@nawc690.chinalake.navy.mil
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*/
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Crossposted-To: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
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From: imp@boulder.parcplace.com (Warner Losh)
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Subject: Re: 127.x.x.x (was Re: UDP report card)
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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 21:01:20 GMT
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In article <longyearCMpqvD.3ys@netcom.com> longyear@netcom.com (Alfred
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Longyear) writes:
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>It seems to me that the address 127.x.x.x is not special. What is special
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>is the loopback device.
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No. 127.* is a special network. It was born special. IP
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implementations should ***ALWAYS*** ignore everything they get from
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this address if it comes in over the wire and should ***NEVER*** send
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packets to this address out over the wire. And it should do this be
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default. Robust implementations should enforce this compeletely and
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leave no room for the user to configure this. 127.* ARP requests as
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well should never be on the wire, and completely ignored if they are
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seen by a host on the wire. ICMP messages should likewise be treated.
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To do otherwise is broken and will cause problems. Think about the
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network meltdown that would happen if everybody responded to an ARP
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for 127.*....
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Yes, SunOS 4.x is broken, in that it doesn't do all these things.
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Warner
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--
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Warner Losh imp@boulder.parcplace.COM ParcPlace Boulder
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"... but I can't promote you to "Prima Donna" unless you demonstrate a few
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more serious personality disorders"
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