Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Fri, 13 May 2016 14:10:39 -0500
From:      Doug McIntyre <merlyn@geeks.org>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Custom kernel for NAT and PF ?
Message-ID:  <20160513191039.GA38861@geeks.org>
In-Reply-To: <5735596F.50302@ShaneWare.Biz>
References:  <CAFy1QJ=VwETucFLJYm4eQH4hPtvgW5Mv789c9nYuJ3D3V7dYdA@mail.gmail.com> <1463013024.29740.2.camel@michaeleichorn.com> <CALfReyd1%2BXAURbaHbMJsVHRq2Aqtb2eES-N1sRWTrkHCQP6jdg@mail.gmail.com> <CAE63ME76vuEAjcsvRMXMdTY8eyYtPLgO7zQXc-hq7ZJ%2Br2ayvA@mail.gmail.com> <5735596F.50302@ShaneWare.Biz>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 02:04:55PM +0930, Shane Ambler wrote:
>> Now you only need to compile a custom kernel if you want to use newer
> features.
...

Unfortunately, I have two situations where that isn't true.

For the first, I wish that just loading the PPS drivers enabled the
PPS_SYNC option in the kernel, but it doesn't seem to. (if there is
a way to enable 'option PPS_SYNC' with a generic kernel I'd like to know,
but my experients didn't lead me that working. I still have to compile
the kernel for my GPS connected NTP servers. Which makes me wonder why
the PPS drivers are a kernel loadable object. 

The second is that the username handling is still limited to 32-bytes,
which really cramps my logins for 'billyjoebobuser@somesillydomainname.com'
so I have to build a custom kernel with longer usernames patched for
the systems that need to deal with system logins like that.





Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20160513191039.GA38861>