Date: Sat, 13 May 1995 04:34:07 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: graichen@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: some small ideas Message-ID: <199505131134.EAA00329@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <9505131110.AA05882@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de> from "Thomas Graichen" at May 13, 95 01:10:22 pm
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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 ? I'll disagree, your network is properly configured if someone is arp'ing for the broadcast address. But I'll defer the final statements for someone like Garrett. > * 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 Why??? Look up the work specified, also look up what makes a sentence in an english book. ``No input files'' is a the sentence fragement, error messages should be complete english sentences. > it should ba a thing of 1 minute to change it And 2 minutes to say why it should not be changed :-) > * 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 Yes, this and a few other knobs are on my hit list, if I can manage to stay awake for 20 more hours (already going on 20 now) I might get to it before code freeze. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD
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