http://blogs.freebsdish.org/novel Roman Bogorodskiy's blog Sat, 17 May 2008 05:39:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here's a patch for ppp which allows to change NAS-Port-Id behavior. It adds a new option for ppp.conf: set rad_port_id [default|pid|ifnum|tunnum] default means the default behavior (i.e. the way that ppp works now) pid means NAS-Port-Id will be an ID of the process owning the corresponding interface ifnum means NAS-Port-Id will be an ... http://blogs.freebsdish.org/novel/2007/05/17/ppp-and-nas_port_id-behavior/ As you probably noted, I'm not very active in a matter of FreeBSD project. The reason is that I've just changed a job, the term is almost over in the Uni and I'm going to have a lot of tests and exams. I get very tired because of it and ... http://blogs.freebsdish.org/novel/2006/12/13/a-bit-about-myself/ I was trying to make mplayer play wmv video on my amd64 and found the interesting topic on ubuntuforums: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=140565&page=3. It has some instruction how to patch the ubuntu package and has a patch attached as well (the original author of the patch is jserv). So, here's a quick guide how ... http://blogs.freebsdish.org/novel/2006/08/29/how-to-teach-multimediamplayer-to-play-wmv-video-on-amd64/ About a year ago I wrote a patch which makes it possible to add 'descriptions' for network interfaces. You can read the details in kern/83622. Today I've updated the patch and submitted follow-up to PR. It's sad that nothing moved towards committing it. Although this feature is very useful ... http://blogs.freebsdish.org/novel/2006/08/24/interfaces-description-support/ I've been hacking on ipfw for last two days. I wanted to be able to set tos and dscp for packets matching rules and catch packets by dscp as well (it's possible to catch packets by ToS value in ipfw already). I found a patch which did this for freebsd ... http://blogs.freebsdish.org/novel/2006/08/23/hacking-on-ipfw/ There were a lot of discussion on FreeBSD ports tree last few month. For example, it has been noted there’re a lot of unmaintained ports (freebsd-ports@, mid cb5206420605220417o5a5d8667l648f42644f39d4e4@mail.gmail.com) and ports collection is very large (freebsd-ports@, 200605131511.57575.mistry.7@osu.edu). So, it looks like a number of ports grows much faster than a number ... http://blogs.freebsdish.org/novel/2006/05/28/unmaintained-ports-or-%e2%80%9cquantity-vs-quality%e2%80%9d/