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by bqt＠softjar.se

Very possibly. The annoying thing is the fact that tcpdump sees more packets than I (my bridge) do. Johnny Sampsa Laine wrote: Johnny, Not sure this is related but I tried to run SIMH on OS X over the wireless and DECNET didn't work - it might be more than just a pcap issue, the problem could be OS X's wireless NIC drivers or something. Sampsa On 15 Feb 2010, at 01:17, Johnny Billquist wrote: Do anyone have experience with Apples pcap library? It is supposed to be a plain bsd pcap, but I have a problem that I haven't figured out yet, and thought that maybe someone here already knows, so I don't have to go figure it out myself. Running my bridge program on MAC OS X, I don't get all packets, but I do get some of them. I can't see a pattern to it. This is done over wireless ethernet. The interesting thing is that tcpdump manages to see all of them. I'm very curious on why tcpdump manages to see packets that I don't see... Anyone have any ideas? Feel free to ask questions. I'll happily explain what I have tested, and done, and whatnot. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol

15 years, 11 months

Apples MAC OS X pcap library...

by marc＠bluevine.net

Not sure this is related but I tried to run SIMH on OS X over the wireless and DECNET didn't work - it might be more than just a pcap issue, the problem could be OS X's wireless NIC drivers or something. Aren't there issues with wireless network connections only supporting a single MAC address thus making bridging not work properly? --Marc

15 years, 11 months

Apples MAC OS X pcap library...

by sampsa＠mac.com

Johnny, Not sure this is related but I tried to run SIMH on OS X over the wireless and DECNET didn't work - it might be more than just a pcap issue, the problem could be OS X's wireless NIC drivers or something. Sampsa On 15 Feb 2010, at 01:17, Johnny Billquist wrote: Do anyone have experience with Apples pcap library? It is supposed to be a plain bsd pcap, but I have a problem that I haven't figured out yet, and thought that maybe someone here already knows, so I don't have to go figure it out myself. Running my bridge program on MAC OS X, I don't get all packets, but I do get some of them. I can't see a pattern to it. This is done over wireless ethernet. The interesting thing is that tcpdump manages to see all of them. I'm very curious on why tcpdump manages to see packets that I don't see... Anyone have any ideas? Feel free to ask questions. I'll happily explain what I have tested, and done, and whatnot. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol

15 years, 11 months

Apples MAC OS X pcap library...

by bqt＠softjar.se

Speaking of which, it might be a good time to point out that the bridge program works fine on NetBSD, Linux and OpenBSD atleast (I think FreeBSD have also reported success). And I'm now trying this on Snow Leopard. This is the first time I've tried on wireless as well. So in general, there is nothing wrong with the program, nor the filter. I'm just having these problems explicitly on this platform. I can definitely see tcpdump printing out packets while the bridge program sits quite not receiving anything. Johnny Johnny Billquist wrote: Yeah, possible problems with the filter program have been considered. I tried skipping the filter program totally, but that didn't seem to solve my problems. Might be worth examining a bit more anyway. (I have a software check for "valid" packets as well, so skipping the filter don't really hurt, except for performance reasons.) Any suggestion on what libpcap might be good to use? I seem to remember having problems with the network in simh as well, when using it over wireless. I think I should test the wired interface to see if the bridge works fine over that. (I would sure like to check the tcpdump sources if they do something funny...) Johnny Jason Stevens wrote: sounds like a broke filter...? I do recall it is quite touchy, and that when I used to build osx libpcap stuff (simh) in the past, I'd just download the latest pcap myself, and manually link that into the exe so it didn't use the system libpcap..... On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se <mailto:bqt at softjar.se>> wrote: Do anyone have experience with Apples pcap library? It is supposed to be a plain bsd pcap, but I have a problem that I haven't figured out yet, and thought that maybe someone here already knows, so I don't have to go figure it out myself. Running my bridge program on MAC OS X, I don't get all packets, but I do get some of them. I can't see a pattern to it. This is done over wireless ethernet. The interesting thing is that tcpdump manages to see all of them. I'm very curious on why tcpdump manages to see packets that I don't see... Anyone have any ideas? Feel free to ask questions. I'll happily explain what I have tested, and done, and whatnot. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se <mailto:bqt at softjar.se> || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol

15 years, 11 months

Apples MAC OS X pcap library...

by bqt＠softjar.se

Yeah, possible problems with the filter program have been considered. I tried skipping the filter program totally, but that didn't seem to solve my problems. Might be worth examining a bit more anyway. (I have a software check for "valid" packets as well, so skipping the filter don't really hurt, except for performance reasons.) Any suggestion on what libpcap might be good to use? I seem to remember having problems with the network in simh as well, when using it over wireless. I think I should test the wired interface to see if the bridge works fine over that. (I would sure like to check the tcpdump sources if they do something funny...) Johnny Jason Stevens wrote: sounds like a broke filter...? I do recall it is quite touchy, and that when I used to build osx libpcap stuff (simh) in the past, I'd just download the latest pcap myself, and manually link that into the exe so it didn't use the system libpcap..... On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se <mailto:bqt at softjar.se>> wrote: Do anyone have experience with Apples pcap library? It is supposed to be a plain bsd pcap, but I have a problem that I haven't figured out yet, and thought that maybe someone here already knows, so I don't have to go figure it out myself. Running my bridge program on MAC OS X, I don't get all packets, but I do get some of them. I can't see a pattern to it. This is done over wireless ethernet. The interesting thing is that tcpdump manages to see all of them. I'm very curious on why tcpdump manages to see packets that I don't see... Anyone have any ideas? Feel free to ask questions. I'll happily explain what I have tested, and done, and whatnot. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se <mailto:bqt at softjar.se> || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol

15 years, 11 months

Apples MAC OS X pcap library...

by neozeed＠gmail.com

sounds like a broke filter...? I do recall it is quite touchy, and that when I used to build osx libpcap stuff (simh) in the past, I'd just download the latest pcap myself, and manually link that into the exe so it didn't use the system libpcap..... On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote: Do anyone have experience with Apples pcap library? It is supposed to be a plain bsd pcap, but I have a problem that I haven't figured out yet, and thought that maybe someone here already knows, so I don't have to go figure it out myself. Running my bridge program on MAC OS X, I don't get all packets, but I do get some of them. I can't see a pattern to it. This is done over wireless ethernet. The interesting thing is that tcpdump manages to see all of them. I'm very curious on why tcpdump manages to see packets that I don't see... Anyone have any ideas? Feel free to ask questions. I'll happily explain what I have tested, and done, and whatnot. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol

15 years, 11 months

Apples MAC OS X pcap library...

by bqt＠softjar.se

Do anyone have experience with Apples pcap library? It is supposed to be a plain bsd pcap, but I have a problem that I haven't figured out yet, and thought that maybe someone here already knows, so I don't have to go figure it out myself. Running my bridge program on MAC OS X, I don't get all packets, but I do get some of them. I can't see a pattern to it. This is done over wireless ethernet. The interesting thing is that tcpdump manages to see all of them. I'm very curious on why tcpdump manages to see packets that I don't see... Anyone have any ideas? Feel free to ask questions. I'll happily explain what I have tested, and done, and whatnot. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol

15 years, 11 months

Mailing list archive / online forum?

by uusimaki＠exdecfinland.org

On 8.2.2010 12:12, Sampsa Laine wrote: Gentlemen, Is there any mileage in possibly moving the mailing list to something like phpBB with a mailing list interface? Basically, the current use pattern (i.e. emailing to a list and receiving new posts via email) would remain unchanged, but there would be an ability for users to view past posts etc via a web interface? I'd be happy to look at setting this up if there's any interest. Sampsa . Would VAXnotes be an option? It's Freeware now and there are images for VAX and Alpha and even I64. Very little work setting it up. Kari

15 years, 11 months

Recycled projects, communications methods, snow

by bqt＠softjar.se

Gregg Levine wrote: Hello! This list seems to be quiet today, so here goes. Basically I've recycled a project. In this case its to construct a something to talk to DEC designed ports. It turns out that after making my way last night through Google and the NetBSD Vax port listings, I have discovered that the MMJ connectors are still active. Two places are selling the tools to make cables, one firm local to me, is still selling the connectors, and one firm is still selling the Ideal Tool designed crimping device. And indeed links for them came from the list. Now the irony, the manufacturer behind the gadget I am interested, has renamed itself, according to Wikipedia, and has a badly designed website. The manual for it was found from someplace else via Google. The manual for it also confirms something that both this list, and that the NetBSD list have long surmised, that the MMJ pinouts are for RS-423 connections. The adapters we use for RS-232 connectors on our PCs for acting as hosts obviously do the translation. And as it happens snow finally came to my area, and shutdown for the day the schools in NYC. I'm not sure what you are saying here... Maybe I'm dense, or something. I'm not aware that this list (or some people) on it have surmised anything. Can't speak for the NetBSD-list, as there are way too many people there, with different knowledge and experience... And in my mind (atleast) it has been known since the dawn of time that the DEC MMJ connectors are RS-423. See for instance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Modular_Jack The MMJ are RS-232 compatible (as is RS-423), the adapters just do the wiring properly, and that's it. Friday at last. HECnet seems to be running pretty stable at the moment. A few machines come and go, but we seem to be pretty stable on which areas are online. As of this moment: .ncp sho act are Active areas summary as of 12-FEB-10 17:52:23 Next Area State Circuit Node 1 Reachable 1.13 (MIM) 2 Reachable UNA-0 60.664 (PDXVAX) 11 Reachable UNA-0 11.2 (MAISA) 19 Reachable UNA-0 1.400 (GORVAX) 59 Reachable UNA-0 60.664 (PDXVAX) 60 Reachable UNA-0 60.664 (PDXVAX) Johnny

15 years, 11 months

Recycled projects, communications methods, snow

by gregg.drwho8＠gmail.com

Hello! This list seems to be quiet today, so here goes. Basically I've recycled a project. In this case its to construct a something to talk to DEC designed ports. It turns out that after making my way last night through Google and the NetBSD Vax port listings, I have discovered that the MMJ connectors are still active. Two places are selling the tools to make cables, one firm local to me, is still selling the connectors, and one firm is still selling the Ideal Tool designed crimping device. And indeed links for them came from the list. Now the irony, the manufacturer behind the gadget I am interested, has renamed itself, according to Wikipedia, and has a badly designed website. The manual for it was found from someplace else via Google. The manual for it also confirms something that both this list, and that the NetBSD list have long surmised, that the MMJ pinouts are for RS-423 connections. The adapters we use for RS-232 connectors on our PCs for acting as hosts obviously do the translation. And as it happens snow finally came to my area, and shutdown for the day the schools in NYC. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."

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