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[mc36 <>]

as i unhold the dpdk packages i just noticed that finally we have proper 
jumbo support on these...
(before it was somewhat 1888 on my macsecced, mplsed, etc homenet)

noti#ping 10.1.1.190 vrf inet size 7777
info userReader.cmdEnter:userReader.java:1087 command noti#ping 10.1.1.190 vrf inet 
size 7777  from local:telnet <loop> 23 -> 127.0.0.1 36326
2022-08-27 17:16:55
pinging 10.1.1.190, src=null, vrf=inet, cnt=5, len=7777, df=false, tim=1000, 
gap=0, ttl=255, tos=0, sgt=0, flow=0, fill=0, alrt=-1, sweep=false, 
multi=false
!!!!!
result=100.0%, recv/sent/lost/err=5/5/0/0, took 9, min/avg/max/dev 
rtt=1/1.4/2/0.2, ttl 254/254/254/0.0, tos 0/0.0/0/0.0
noti#


On 8/21/22 14:06, mc36 wrote:
> hi,
> sorry for being chatty in the topic but debian decided to bump dpdk to 21.11 
> so please do the upgrade once convenient,
> but at this time, please do _not_ allow the scripts to (auto-)remove the 
> current 20.11 packages when it'll ask you,
> because i plan to compile for the old dpdk for a month or so to allow you to 
> do the necessary steps manually...
> (after the month, i'll use the libc battle-tested rtr-library.sh method 
> described below to force-upgrade the boxes
> out in the wild to not let anybody behind, but please do not depend on this 
> only as a last resort!)
> thanks,
> cs
>
> On 8/11/22 13:28, mc36 wrote:
> > hi,
> > so the time has come, they bumped the libc version, so i added it to the 
> > upgrade.nop.hu/rtr-library.sh from now...
> > after a week starting from now, the file will be distributed as it's 
> > uncommented in the pre-install script:
> > http://upgrade.nop.hu/rtr-pre.scr after that, for a month, it'll go as is, 
> > and afterwards, i'll unhold
> > unhold the packages on the build machine, so the new binaries will be built 
> > against the new library...
> > please note that libc is a dependency to everything so on an abandoned system 
> > the above will upgrade
> > almost the whole system in one shot... as you can see the script is very 
> > simple, and does not take
> > care of the restarts after the libc upgrade, i strongly recommend to upgrade 
> > by hand beforehand...
> > thanks,
> > cs
> >
> >
> >
> > On 5/19/22 17:54, mc36 wrote:
> > > hi,
> > > i was thinking on how to not let anybody behind in such a cases so i came up 
> > > with an solution:
> > > the upgrade process can describe additional files to fetch: 
> > > http://www.freertr.org/rtr.ver
> > > each can have a flag indicating the purpose of the given file... that's 
> > > already in use by
> > > the architecture dependent bin files packed to rtr-arch.tar... effective from 
> > > now, a new
> > > file rtr-library.sh will be described here, and from time to time will be 
> > > mentioned by the
> > > rtr-pre.scr to get executed them... right now, i listed the recent month 
> > > changes:
> > > dpdk, libssl and jre19.... after a week or so, it will not be mentioned 
> > > anymore these
> > > until we get a core library update again... one thing to note, the script 
> > > still can fail
> > > if the locally configured mirrors go out of sync or they're under 
> > > maintenance, etc,
> > > so please don't skip upgrading the your boxes, especially when a notice is 
> > > sent...
> > > br,
> > > cs
> > >
> > > ps: be prepared to the upcoming bump of dpdk20.11 to 21.11 which will be a 
> > > library name change again....