Re: RootBSD?
I haven't any experience with rootbsd.net but my friend and I have dealt with ServerNorth based in Canada if you're interested. On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Garance A Drosehn g...@freebsd.org wrote: At 9:04 AM -0400 4/6/10, Tom Ierna wrote: Hi, Anyone have any experience with RootBSD.net? I'm looking to move an office-hosted machine's services to the cloud, and they seem to be one of the only VPS companies centered around BSD support instead of Linux. I've been using them for a few years now. What I have with them is a system which is meant to be used as a hot backup for a system which is here in my office. So, the main things I wanted was (1) real freebsd systems, (2) which were someplace far away from Troy NY. I wanted to be pretty sure that any problem which took out my main system would NOT take out my hot backup system! I've had absolutely no trouble with them. The few times that I've had to contact them, they've been happy to provide whatever help I needed. On the other hand, my main system has been working fine for almost three years now, so this backup system that I have at rootbsd.net has not seen much activity. I just rsync the main system to the backup system once a day, and then every few months I upgrade the FreeBSD that I'm running on the system at rootbsd.net. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = dros...@rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or g...@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
FreeBSD 8 using VERY LITTLE memory
Hello all, First post to this list! I have an older PII machine that I upgraded from 192MB of ram to 672MB of RAM (512, 32, 128) and upon boot the system's BIOS recognizes all 672MB RAM, FreeBSD also recognizes the 672MB RAM but decides to be nice and cool by using 17MB RAM...bwah? Here is the output from the dmesg lines. FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov 21 15:48:17 UTC 2009 r...@almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (348.21-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x652 Stepping = 2 Features=0x183f9ffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR / MEMORY STUFF / real memory = 704905216 (672 MB) avail memory = 18116608 (17 MB) === why? is it a sysctl? / MEMORY STUFF / kbd1 at kbdmux0 acpi0: COMPAQ CPQB0B5 on motherboard acpi0: [ITHREAD] acpi0: reservation of 0, a (3) failed acpi0: reservation of 10, 29f0 (3) failed Timecounter ACPI-safe frequency 3579545 Hz quality 850 acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0xf808-0xf80b on acpi0 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0 agp0: Intel 82443BX (440 BX) host to PCI bridge on hostb0 there are no other errors that I can find. Thanks in advance, Brodey Dover ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Does NAT require DNS (named)?
Unfortunately, still 17MB. I am going to play around with the sticks of RAM that I have installed to see if there is a chipset/motherboard issue. On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 8:56 PM, mikel king mikel.k...@olivent.com wrote: On Apr 8, 2010, at 8:32 PM, Gary Dunn wrote: On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 17:05:12 -0400 mikel king mikel.k...@olivent.com wrote: On Apr 8, 2010, at 4:57 PM, Gary Dunn wrote: Continuing the saga of building a wireless access point, what is the best way to provide DNS service to the dowstream network? Seems like all I need is a simple pass-through. For that named seems like overkill. Anyone have an /etc/named/named.conf that does that? Depends on how your internal LAN is configured. Generally if there are no internal servers then you can forgo deploying a DNS server. Simply setup your firewall IPFW or pf or whatever you are using to allow clients to go out to the net and look names up. You will likely need a dhcp server though so that your wireless clients can auto-discover the appropriate network settings, but you can elect to do that manually as well if it's your desire. I failed to mention that the same FreeBSD box will provide file and printer services via Samba, all clients will be Windows Vista, and there will bo no other servers on the downstream network. I cannot rely on clients editing their LMHOSTS files ... I need plug and play. Do I need a DNS server on the downstream network for Windows clients to connect to Samba? -- Gary Dunn, Honolulu o...@aloha.com http://openslate.net/ http://e9erust.blogspot.com/ Sent from a Newton 2100 via Mail V Gary, Thanks for the clarification. In this case if it were my network then I would roll out both DNS and DHCP on this server. Honestly it will make your life a hell of a lot easier in the long run, especially if you intend on using WINS resolution for the Windows client via samba. However only allow the DNS and DHCP services to run on the internal LAN, bind them to an internal IP address. You should be fine. Cheers, Mikel King ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 8 using VERY LITTLE memory
Fixed. The 440BX is not friendly to 512MB SDR sticks. Works like a charm with 3x256MB'ers! Thank you, Brodey Dover On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Brodey Dover dover...@gmail.com wrote: I was under the impression that the avail memory was memory that was released from BIOS. Top indicates about 17MB is for RAM and using swap when all you're doing is syncing a GEOM mirror with two 80GB drives is illogical and a new behaviour that I haven't seen. I will reboot again, check my BIOS options (I haven't changed anything...honest) and try other booting options; and finally, I'll post back. Regards, Brodey Dover On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: Doesn't that mean it's using ~ 655MB, and only 17MB is left? What does top say? I'm building a kernel now so can't compare with mine. -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Brodey Dover Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 6:22 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 8 using VERY LITTLE memory Hello all, First post to this list! I have an older PII machine that I upgraded from 192MB of ram to 672MB of RAM (512, 32, 128) and upon boot the system's BIOS recognizes all 672MB RAM, FreeBSD also recognizes the 672MB RAM but decides to be nice and cool by using 17MB RAM...bwah? Here is the output from the dmesg lines. FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov 21 15:48:17 UTC 2009 r...@almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (348.21-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x652 Stepping = 2 Features=0x183f9ffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR / MEMORY STUFF / real memory = 704905216 (672 MB) avail memory = 18116608 (17 MB) === why? is it a sysctl? / MEMORY STUFF / kbd1 at kbdmux0 acpi0: COMPAQ CPQB0B5 on motherboard acpi0: [ITHREAD] acpi0: reservation of 0, a (3) failed acpi0: reservation of 10, 29f0 (3) failed Timecounter ACPI-safe frequency 3579545 Hz quality 850 acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0xf808-0xf80b on acpi0 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0 agp0: Intel 82443BX (440 BX) host to PCI bridge on hostb0 there are no other errors that I can find. Thanks in advance, Brodey Dover ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
