From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bert hubert ahu@ds9a.nl Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 17:47:23 +0000 Subject: [LARTC] Re: What kernel and what options? Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: lartc@vger.kernel.org 
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 06:36:36PM +0200, Clemens Sibon wrote:

> > In other words,
> > you need to recompile your entire kernel and not just the =
modules.
>=20
> I did a make dep, make, make modules and make modules_install.

Read the kernel-HOWTO, it takes more. You can check if you are running a
fresh kernel with 'uname -a':

 $ uname -a
 Linux hubert 2.4.0-test5 #1 Fri Aug 4 16:48:54 CEST 2000 i686 unknown

This means that my kernel was compiled on the 4th of August.

> I hope the depmod -a will fix things. Normally I am very happy with=
 the
> standard kernels so I don't compile them a lot. Should check the
> kernel-HOWTO a lot more often I guess :-)

Be careful to keep a copy of your previous kernel!=20

> > AFAIK, FreeBSD's softnet doesn't offer a lot of options that o=
ur CBQ
> > implementation does.
>=20
> Yes it seems lots simpler with less possibilities. For some app=
lications
> though all the options are overkill and all one needs is to lim=
it the
> (overall) bandwidth to avoid large bills from providers not usi=
ng flat-fee
> pricing :-)

Perhaps this will help you:

http://fr=
eshmeat.net/projects/cbq.init/?highlight=CBq

Does most of the simple things for you.

> Anyway, thanks for the tip. I will keep you posted.

Great.

Regards,

bert hubert

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