I was here until 11pm last night, and I got in this morning at 9am, after my final was over. I’m getting way too much done here.
Right now I’m updating the Jscott2 network switch list. Looking through the code that Adam and I worked on back in the fall is pretty funny:
if (my $roomnum = dudeLikePickARoomNumberMan($portName)) {
and
if ($session->{ErrorNum}) {
#ohhhhh, no port data there
}
ftp> put latest.zoo local: latest.zoo remote: latest.zoo 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for latest.zoo. 226 Transfer complete. 4202444 bytes sent in 1.9e+03 secs (2.2 Kbytes/sec) ftp>
After waiting forever to transfer at 2.2 KB a sec over the LAN, we are now upgraded from
PacketShaper v6.2.0b14 2004-04-19
to
PacketShaper v6.2.1g1 2004-05-24
. I’ll have to see if this helps out the network much.
I’m attempting to update packeteer from 6.2.0-BETA-Something to 6.2.1. The 6.2.1 release lists one item in the changes:
Classification enhancements added in PacketWise 6.2.0 negatively impacted the Layer-7 classification performance. The code was optimized in PacketWise 6.2.1 to improve the classification performance, while maintaining the classification enhancements.
I’ve been waiting for about 20 minutes now to get the Serial Number off the login page of packeteer so their support site will let me download the new image file.
Update: And uploading a 4meg file from the office to packeteer takes about a half hour.
p.s. Sunsets are very nice from the office. You just have to ask yourself what you are doing here past 9 at night…
Xorp sounds like some pimp stuff:
http://scottstuff.net/scott/archives/000172.html
I’m gonna try Gentoo on my desktop machine. It’ll be interesting to compare SMP from FreeBSD to modern Linux.
I had a extremely horrible time installing Gentoo today. Here’s all that I tried:
Then I do the actual install and reboot with my snazzy new 2.6.5 SMP kernel:
no network
Recompile without SMP:
network works!
I have a 3com 3c905 card. You think linux would have working networking support for it with a SMP kernel…
Anyways, I’m sure I can track down a fix for this problem. I also had a hard time getting DMA to be enabled for my hard drive. I had to compile in the specific driver for my IDE chipset, and for the unused IDE raid controller. Also, my hard drive is labeled as /dev/hde for some reason.
My next steps are to get udev working, install xorg-x11 and gnome2 and then pimp out my desktop settings.
I was bored a few days ago and decided to blow away my FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT and Windows XP dual booting setup and try something new. I downloaded an iso for DragonFly BSD, a new fork of FreeBSD 4-Stable that Matt Dillion started. Overall I was pretty impressed with the speed improvements, but incompatibilities with the FreeBSD ports system prevented me from getting any form of a usable desktop running. I will have to give this OS a shot when it has matured a little more. The ambitious list of goals for the project sounds very impressive.