Subject: Re: future mol: 603, 2.4, glibc2.2?
samuel@ibrium.se
Date: Wed Oct 10 2001 - 07:47:40 MDT
On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 11:39:20PM -0400, Stefan Jeglinski wrote:
> You didn't answer this one :-)
>
> > > Are the current bug(s) expected to be fixed that prevent MOL from
> >> running on 603? Or will 603 support be dropped as for 601?
>
> Or does your answer below imply that 603 support is back by way of
> conspicuous absence in mentioning it?
It is not there yet, but it is on my to-do list. When I get the time,
I'll go through the source again and see if I can figure out what goes wrong.
> >Well. MOL is quite stable on 2.4 kernels with the exception
> >of some old 2.4 versions where (I think) a kernel MM problem
> >makes MOL somewhat unstable. I recommend using the
> >latest 2.4 kernel.
>
> With 2.4.9 and MacOS 8.6, mol for me has these 2 oddities that I
> cannot pinpoint other than to describe:
With mol-0.9.60 and booting in the newworld setting, right?
> 1. Will occasionally go deaf to ethernet traffic. Restart of
> MacOS/mol, or sometimes just mounting a drive via Appletalk, will
> clear it. Interestingly, on-screen in mol, everything seems peachy
> (that is, Finder and other programs continue to run fine).
Some things to check:
- The sheep_net driver filters the incoming IP traffic. The address
which is allowed through the filter is printed to the syslog. Normally
MOL determines the MOL-side IP address by looking at outgoing
IP-packets. Possibly MOL is tricked to starts filtering using
the wrong address (check /var/log/messages).
- If you use DHCP within MOL, the IP-filtering might possibly
cause a problem when the lease is renewed.
- Never use sheep_net on a an ethernet device which is not
physically attached to an ethernet network. Communication between
linux and Mac OS will work in the beginning, but after a while
the transmit buffers fill up...
> Is 2.4.9 too old? Should I go to OS9? (I like 8.6, but will switch if
> you think it will make a significant difference).
2.4.9 is fine. If you like 8.6, stay with it. It doesn't really
matter with respect to mol.
Cheers,
/Samuel
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