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As others have noted, Tor's patch appears to be a total solution to the recent instability the PAE patch introduced. So, if you're experiencing panics with a recent kernel, or are in a position to stress a machine, please cvsup and give it a test! Thanks, Mike "Silby" Silbersack ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 08:39:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Tor Egge

As promised, the updated if_xl with full busdma support / other improvements has been MFC'd to 4.8-stable. While I have put this driver through extensive testing, it is possible that there may be bugs which are either present in the -current version or that I added in the MFC process. So, if you cvsup to -stable anytime in the future and notice problems with if_xl, please tell me ASAP!

Mike Silbersack wrote: > On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Scott Long wrote: > > >>Patches have been floated on the mailing list that revert PAE in its >>various stages. Maybe those need to be brought back up. Silby? Tor? >> >>Scott > > > I believe that Tor's commit on August 30th resolved the PAE-related > problems, so there is no need for a reversion.

In http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200402260743.IAA18903 it seems RELENG_4 is vulnerable. Is there any work around to a system that has to have ports open ? Version: 1 2/18/2004@03:47:29 GMT >Initial report > <<https://ialert.idefense.com/KODetails.jhtml?irId=207650>https://ialert.idefense.com/KODetails.jhtml?irId=207650; >ID#207650: >FreeBSD Memory Buffer

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-02:26.accept Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: Remote denial-of-service when using accept filters Category: core Module: kernel Announced:

If anyone was using a bfe card and seeing interrupt storms when you attempted to bring the card up, this is the fix for you. The driver wasn't previously taking into account the fact that the chipset doesn't like addresses over the 1GB mark. If you'd like an even quicker fix, just add hw.mem = "1000M" to your loader.conf and reboot. :) Mike "Silby" Silbersack

In addition to the network drivers Luoqi provided PAE patches for, I have also backported -current's if_xl driver; it is available at: http://www.silby.com/pae/ Even if you're not running Luoqi's PAE patch, I'd be interested in hearing how it works for you. Thanks, Mike "Silby" Silbersack

Here's my proposed patch to change RST handling so that ESTABLISHED connections are subject to strict RST checking, but connections in other states are only subject to the "within the window" check. Part 2 of the patch is simply a patch to netstat so that it displays the statistic. As expected, it's very straightforward, the only real question is what to call the statistic...

Read the documentation on the meaning of the various 4.X tags, and am not sure what is meant by this: "The release branch for FreeBSD-4.6 and FreeBSD-4.6.2, used only for security advisories and other seriously critical fixes." Similar descriptions are used for the other RELENG_4_X tags. If I specify RELENG_4 will cvsup also include RELENG_4_3 to RELENG_4_8? Sorry folks - I'm

Hello all, well, the first problem i got is lsof wont work. I got the message "lsof: WARNING: compiled for FreeBSD release 4.3-RELEASE; this is 4.8-STABLE." Then I tried to to cvsup and rebuild world. The file i used is /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile and tag is RELENG_4. After a few hours i got 4.9-PRERELEASE :( Next time i used RELENG_4_8 tag and got 4.8-RELEASE-p4 :((

Hello Mike, i got these error when i`m tried to cvsup my box (4.7 STABLE) to 4.8, these error showed up in the make buildworld step, at stage 4: populating /usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/include. and this is my supfile: *default host=cvsup12.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs *default tag=RELENG_4 *default delete use-rel-suffix *default

Hello, all! In the beginning I want to say, that this question seems to be a security one, isn't it so?.. Recently I was googling for the subject and coulnd't find anything... Even in the opennet.ru forum nobody answered me about this. So, as far as I got to know, randomizing source ports in FreeBSD is impossible now? (to be exact - is not implemented?) It's very interesting to me

Thanks to Tor Egge for providing the binary patch and procedure below! ------- begin 644 3dmd.bpatch.144284 6#[IL)`0-N/L```#-@'+KA=)T`C'`PP`` ` end ------- The resulting 3dmd works with a STABLE as of today. Perhaps there should be a note in the port ? ---Mike >If you unpack the following snippet > >using uudecode, you should the following checksum: > >MD5

Folks, Just got through debugging a problem with my attempts to netboot FreeBSD. I've found a typo in the RELENG_4_8 etc/rc.diskless1 # $FreeBSD: src/etc/rc.diskless1,v 1.5.2.10 2002/12/23 17:39:06 dillon I found it initially in a cvsup from earlier this week, and again in a cvsup from today. I tried RELENG_4, but the typo is fixed. # $FreeBSD: src/etc/rc.diskless1,v 1.5.2.13 2003/08/11

since august 8th, 2003 the kernel on my i386 pentiumIII won't compile. the problem arises in locore.s with the definition of the constants $PAGE_SHIFT and $PTESHIFT used in `shr' and `shl' instructions within the macros `fillkpt' and `fillkptphys'. i've tried to cvsup(1) RELENG_4 and RELENG_4_8 every day for over a week now, but kernel builds (as part of a buildworld)

I'm getting the following panic during shutdown of a 6.1-PRERELEASE system cvsupped yesterday. Strangely enabling DDB in the kernel "fixes" the problem. The computer is an old P120 (which I should probably replace). It occurs every time when DDB is disabled but when DDB is enabled, it does not panic. All buffers synced. Uptime: 19m16s (da0:ahc0:0:0:0): SYNCHRONIZE CACHE. CDB: 35

Hi, Thank you for your work on this card! I have quite a few boxes that run various 3wares cards with diverse firmware revs. Are there any caveats with respect to models and firmware versions in terms of how they might interact ? ---Mike At 01:25 PM 10/08/2003 -0700, Paul Saab wrote: >ps 2003/08/10 13:25:46 PDT > > FreeBSD src repository > >

After a cvsup to RELENG_6 today I got the following trap while encoding some videos with Avidemux. I'm going to leave the machine at the ddb prompt since the following trace information doesn't seem very helpful. Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address = 0xffffffbb80551f10 fault code = supervisor read, page not present instruction pointer

I am having problem with getting the src from the cvs server for a specific date I read the the man page and it said the date format is : "date=[cc]yy.mm.dd.hh.mm.ss This specifies a date that should be used to select the revi- sions that are checked out from the CVS repository. The client will receive the revisions that were in effect at the specified date and time. At present, the date

From bugtraq :-( >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >Sendmail, Inc., and the Sendmail Consortium announce the availability >of sendmail 8.12.9. It contains a fix for a critical security >problem discovered by Michal Zalewski whom we thank for bringing >this problem to our attention. Sendmail urges all users to either >upgrade to sendmail 8.12.9 or apply a patch for