From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 13 04:10:46 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id EAA22564 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 13 May 1995 04:10:46 -0700 Received: from ki1.chemie.fu-berlin.de (ki1.Chemie.FU-Berlin.DE [160.45.24.21]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id EAA22540 for ; Sat, 13 May 1995 04:10:38 -0700 Received: by ki1.chemie.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.1.28.1) from sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de (130.133.3.140) with smtp id ; Sat, 13 May 95 13:10 MEST Received: by sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de; id AA05882; Sat, 13 May 1995 13:10:22 +0200 From: Thomas Graichen Message-Id: <9505131110.AA05882@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de> Subject: some small ideas To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Date: Sat, 13 May 1995 13:10:22 +0200 (MET DST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 3016 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 _______________________________________________________||_____________________ __|| 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 __|| - Antoine de Saint-Exupery - __|| ___________________________||____email: graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de____