Re: [gentoo-user] Network throughput from main Gentoo rig to NAS box.

Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > > Oh.  My pepper sauce was getting loud and my eyes were watery.  Now > that I got that done, I can see better after opening the doors a few > minutes.  This is what I get now.  My NAS box, running it first: > > > > root@nas:~# iperf -s > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Network throughput from main Gentoo rig to NAS box.

On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 9:22 AM Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 8:04 AM Dale wrote: > > > > I'm expecting more of a consistent throughput instead of all the > > idle time. The final throughput is only around 29.32MB/s according to > > info from rsync. If it was not stopping all

Re: [gentoo-user] Network throughput from main Gentoo rig to NAS box.

On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 8:04 AM Dale wrote: > > I'm expecting more of a consistent throughput instead of all the > idle time. The final throughput is only around 29.32MB/s according to > info from rsync. If it was not stopping all the time and passing data > through all the time, I think that

Re: [gentoo-user] Network throughput from main Gentoo rig to NAS box.

On 9/23/23 08:04, Dale wrote: Howdy, As most everyone knows, I redone my NAS box.  Before I had Truenas on it but switched to Ubuntu server thingy called Jimmy.  Kinda like the name.  lol  Anyway, Ubuntu has the same odd transfer pattern as the Truenas box had.  I'm not sure if the problem is

Re: [gentoo-user] Password questions, looking for opinions. cryptsetup question too.

On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 11:05 AM Dale wrote: > > I'm not to clear on this but it looks like it is using 'aes-xts-plain64' > to me. If so, is that good enough? Is there better? You are using the defaults, which is what you should be using, as they're very secure. As far as I'm aware there is

Re: [gentoo-user] Network throughput from main Gentoo rig to NAS box.

On 9/23/23 14:04, Dale wrote: Howdy, As most everyone knows, I redone my NAS box.  Before I had Truenas on it but switched to Ubuntu server thingy called Jimmy.  Kinda like the name.  lol  Anyway, Ubuntu has the same odd transfer pattern as the Truenas box had.  I'm not sure if the problem is

Re: [gentoo-user] Password questions, looking for opinions. cryptsetup question too.

Den 23.09.2023 15:42, skrev Dale: Wols Lists wrote: On 19/09/2023 10:13, Dale wrote: That's a interesting way to come up with passwords tho.  I've seen that is a few whodunit type shows.  Way back in the old days, they had some interesting ways of coding messages.  Passwords are sort of

Re: [gentoo-user] Network throughput from main Gentoo rig to NAS box.

> > Oh. My pepper sauce was getting loud and my eyes were watery. Now that I got that done, I can see better after opening the doors a few minutes. This is what I get now. My NAS box, running it first: > > root@nas:~# iperf -s > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Network throughput from main Gentoo rig to NAS box.

There are quite a few things to tweak that can lead to much smoother transfers, so I'll make an unordered list to help. mount -o nocto,nolock,async,nconnect=4,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576 rsize and wsize are very important for max bandwidth, worth checking with mount after linked up nocto helps

Re: [gentoo-user] Password questions, looking for opinions. cryptsetup question too.

Wol wrote: > On 23/09/2023 14:35, Dale wrote: >> Another question.  Are people trying to work on better encryption >> given current encryption can be cracked?  I read some things changed >> after Snowden.  I'm just not sure what and if more changes are needed >> even today. > >> If you wanted the

Re: [gentoo-user] Network throughput from main Gentoo rig to NAS box.

Mark Knecht wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 6:41 AM Dale > wrote: > > > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > > > > > On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 5:05 AM Dale > wrote: > > > > > If you need more info, let me know.  If you know the command, that

Re: [gentoo-user] Password questions, looking for opinions. cryptsetup question too.

On 23/09/2023 14:35, Dale wrote: Another question.  Are people trying to work on better encryption given current encryption can be cracked?  I read some things changed after Snowden.  I'm just not sure what and if more changes are needed even today. If you wanted the most secure and hard to

Re: [gentoo-user] Network throughput from main Gentoo rig to NAS box.

On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 6:41 AM Dale wrote: > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 5:05 AM Dale wrote: > > > If you need more info, let me know. If you know the command, that might > > help too. Just in case it is a command I'm not familiar with. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Dale >

Re: [gentoo-user] Password questions, looking for opinions. cryptsetup question too.

Wols Lists wrote: > On 19/09/2023 10:13, Dale wrote: >> That's a interesting way to come up with passwords tho.  I've seen that >> is a few whodunit type shows.  Way back in the old days, they had some >> interesting ways of coding messages.  Passwords are sort of similar. > > Back when we were

Re: [gentoo-user] Network throughput from main Gentoo rig to NAS box.

Mark Knecht wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 5:05 AM Dale > wrote: > > > If you need more info, let me know.  If you know the command, that might > > help too.  Just in case it is a command I'm not familiar with. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Dale > > > > :-)  :-) > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Password questions, looking for opinions. cryptsetup question too.

Wols Lists wrote: > On 20/09/2023 19:05, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: >>> In principle, a repeated space character in your passphrase could help >>> reduce the computational burden of an offline brute force attack, by >>> e.g. >>> helping an attacker to identify the number of individual words in a

Re: [gentoo-user] Network throughput from main Gentoo rig to NAS box.

On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 5:05 AM Dale wrote: > If you need more info, let me know. If you know the command, that might > help too. Just in case it is a command I'm not familiar with. > > Thanks. > > Dale > > :-) :-) You can use the iperf command to do simple raw speed testing. For instance,

Re: [gentoo-user] Password questions, looking for opinions. cryptsetup question too.

On 19/09/2023 10:13, Dale wrote: That's a interesting way to come up with passwords tho.  I've seen that is a few whodunit type shows.  Way back in the old days, they had some interesting ways of coding messages.  Passwords are sort of similar. Back when we were busy conquering India ... The

Re: [gentoo-user] Password questions, looking for opinions. cryptsetup question too.

On 20/09/2023 19:05, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: In principle, a repeated space character in your passphrase could help reduce the computational burden of an offline brute force attack, by e.g. helping an attacker to identify the number of individual words in a passphrase. Due to the rotation,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to move ext4 partition

Den 22.09.2023 08:48, skrev Wols Lists: On 20/09/2023 23:39, Grant Edwards wrote: Assuming GParted is smart enough to do overlapping moves, is it smart enough to only copy filesystem data and not copy "empty" sectors? According to various forum posts, it is not: moving a partion copies every

Re: [gentoo-user] Password questions, looking for opinions. cryptsetup question too.

On 19/09/2023 10:10, Jude DaShiell wrote: Once the set spots got figured five dice got used for letters add the total and subtract 4 for the particular letter. Which actually isn't random. It's a bell curve peaking probably between J and M. Think, if you throw 2 dice, there are 36 possible