Date: Sat, 13 May 1995 13:10:22 +0200 (MET DST) From: Thomas Graichen <graichen@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: some small ideas Message-ID: <9505131110.AA05882@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de>
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hello
i hope this is the right mailinglist for the following:
this is a small collection of things i noticed while installing
FreeBSD (2.0 and/or the latest SNAP's) or working with it:
* is it possible to change the following lines in
/usr/src/sys/netinet/if_ether.c because i always get the "arp info
overwritten for xxx.xxx.255.255 ..." message - we found out that the
machine which overwrites this is a bs2000 - but we don't find an exact
solution for this (jordan said it has something to do with our net -
the people at our net said it has something to do with FreeBSD - they
said - normally the kernel should'nt save the broadcast adresses -
which is xxx.xxx.255.255 for us -but at least the machine and the
net are correct configured - we only have these problems with FreeBSD)
- the problem is that i get this message every ~1/4 hour and my
messages file (/var/log/messages) is nearly unreadable - thus i think
it would be nice if the logging could be "#ifndef"'d by a kernel
config option -that i don't have to change the kernel sources
everytime - how about a "NOOVWRTWARN" option or something else ?
original if_ether.c:
if (sdl->sdl_alen &&
bcmp((caddr_t)ea->arp_sha, LLADDR(sdl), sdl->sdl_alen))
log(LOG_INFO, "arp info overwritten for %s by %s\n",
inet_ntoa(isaddr), ether_sprintf(ea->arp_sha)); */
to change in:
#ifndef NOOVWRTWARN
if (sdl->sdl_alen &&
bcmp((caddr_t)ea->arp_sha, LLADDR(sdl), sdl->sdl_alen))
log(LOG_INFO, "arp info overwritten for %s by %s\n",
inet_ntoa(isaddr), ether_sprintf(ea->arp_sha));
#endif
* the next thing is only a cosmetic one:
graichen@mordillo:~cc
cc: No input files
graichen@mordillo:~c++
c++: No input files specified.
graichen@mordillo:~f77
f77: No input files specified.
why not:
graichen@mordillo:~cc
cc: No input files
graichen@mordillo:~c++
c++: No input files
graichen@mordillo:~f77
f77: No input files
it should ba a thing of 1 minute to change it
* is it possible to include an option MULTICASTROUTE into the
sysconfig and netstart scripts to disable the multicast route
224.0.0.0 or what it was - if think most people don't need it and it's
only confusing - why not beeing able to simply say YES or NO in
sysconfig to enable or disable it - i think the aim of /etc/sysconfig
should be that it is possible to configure the whole system only by
one file
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Perfection is reached, not when there is no __|| thomas graichen
longer anything to add, but when there __|| freie universitaet berlin
is no longer anything to take away __|| fachbereich physik
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- Antoine de Saint-Exupery - __||
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