Re: Sun Fire x2100

2007-01-22 Thread Damian Wiest
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 02:27:15PM -0800, Peter Thoenen wrote:
 --- DAve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Is anyone running FreeBSD on a Sun Fire X2100? Any caveats I should
  know 
  about? 
 
 I don't recommend them if you plan to use as a file server.  They have
 an issue with randomly rebooting under a large network load with
 thousands of open connections.  Have seen this on my system and have
 have had a dozen or so folk email me with the identical problem. 
 
 -Peter

I've had the same problem, but with x86 systems (specifically an IBM 
xSeries system and a home-built AMD64 system) running FreeBSD 6.0 (IIRC).

These systems were on a home cable modem connection and there were 
pretty regular break-in attempts.  When reviewing logs, I'd see attempts 
to brute-force logins and passwords for the ftp and ssh services.  
I eventually had to turn ftpd off since it seemed guaranteed to panic 
the box during one of these cracking attempts.  sshd seemed to handle 
things better, but I have had one panic occur.

I haven't tried 6.2 to see if I encounter similar problems.

-Damian
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Re: Sun Fire x2100

2007-01-09 Thread DAve

Peter Thoenen wrote:

--- DAve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Is anyone running FreeBSD on a Sun Fire X2100? Any caveats I should
know 
about? 


I don't recommend them if you plan to use as a file server.  They have
an issue with randomly rebooting under a large network load with
thousands of open connections.  Have seen this on my system and have
have had a dozen or so folk email me with the identical problem. 


-Peter




Nope, outbound smtp only, with AV scanning.

Thanks for the response.

DAve


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Re: Sun Fire x2100

2007-01-08 Thread Peter Thoenen
--- DAve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Is anyone running FreeBSD on a Sun Fire X2100? Any caveats I should
 know 
 about? 

I don't recommend them if you plan to use as a file server.  They have
an issue with randomly rebooting under a large network load with
thousands of open connections.  Have seen this on my system and have
have had a dozen or so folk email me with the identical problem. 

-Peter
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Sun Fire x2100

2007-01-04 Thread DAve
Just finished searching the archives and net and turned up a few 
answers. I also checked the AMD64 release notes for FBSD 6.1.


Is anyone running FreeBSD on a Sun Fire X2100? Any caveats I should know 
about? Looks like it should be a simple install and run. We will be 
using these servers as outbound SMTP servers so they will be running 
just the minimum mail services, smtp-auth, and clamAV.


Thanks,

DAve

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Re: Sun Fire x2100

2007-01-04 Thread David Robillard

Just finished searching the archives and net and turned up a few
answers. I also checked the AMD64 release notes for FBSD 6.1.

Is anyone running FreeBSD on a Sun Fire X2100? Any caveats I should know
about? Looks like it should be a simple install and run. We will be
using these servers as outbound SMTP servers so they will be running
just the minimum mail services, smtp-auth, and clamAV.


Hi DAve,

I had a Sun Fire X2100 in here a year ago to test it. It installed ok
using FreeBSD/amd64 RELEASE-6.0. My guess is that it should be alright
with 6.1 or the upcoming 6.2.

Your best bet is to get a Sun rep loan you one of them so that you can
try it out. If they refuse, the sometimes have some in their own
offices which you usually can go to and try it.

Here are the ifconfig(8) and (rather long) dmesg(8) output from the
Sun Fire X2100 running a GENERIC FreeBSD/amd64 RELEASE-6.0 kernel on
January 8th, 2006.

##
# ifconfig(8) output.
##

nve0: flags=8802BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500
   ether 00:e0:81:58:cf:71
   media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
   status: no carrier
bge0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500
   options=1aTXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING
   inet6 fe80::2e0:81ff:fe58:cf72%bge0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
   inet 172.25.1.104 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 172.25.1.255
   ether 00:e0:81:58:cf:72
   media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)
   status: active
lo0: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 16384
   inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
   inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
   inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00

##
# dmesg(8) output.
##

Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
   The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Wed Nov  2 19:07:38 UTC 2005
   [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
ACPI APIC Table: SUNW   AWRDACPI
Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 148 (2211.34-MHz K8-class CPU)
 Origin = AuthenticAMD  Id = 0x20f71  Stepping = 1
Features=0x78bfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2
 Features2=0x1SSE3
 AMD Features=0xe2500800SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,b25,LM,3DNow+,3DNow
real memory  = 1072562176 (1022 MB)
avail memory = 1024118784 (976 MB)
ioapic0 Version 1.1 irqs 0-23 on motherboard
acpi0: SUNW AWRDACPI on motherboard
acpi_bus_number: can't get _ADR
acpi_bus_number: can't get _ADR
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
acpi_bus_number: can't get _ADR
acpi_bus_number: can't get _ADR
acpi_bus_number: can't get _ADR
acpi_bus_number: can't get _ADR
acpi_bus_number: can't get _ADR
acpi_bus_number: can't get _ADR
pci_link0: ACPI PCI Link LNK1 on acpi0
pci_link1: ACPI PCI Link LNK2 on acpi0
pci_link2: ACPI PCI Link LNK3 on acpi0
pci_link3: ACPI PCI Link LNK4 irq 5 on acpi0
pci_link4: ACPI PCI Link LNK5 on acpi0
pci_link5: ACPI PCI Link LUBA irq 10 on acpi0
pci_link6: ACPI PCI Link LUBB on acpi0
pci_link7: ACPI PCI Link LMAC irq 3 on acpi0
pci_link8: ACPI PCI Link LACI irq 7 on acpi0
pci_link9: ACPI PCI Link LMCI on acpi0
pci_link10: ACPI PCI Link LSMB irq 5 on acpi0
pci_link11: ACPI PCI Link LUB2 irq 11 on acpi0
pci_link12: ACPI PCI Link LIDE on acpi0
pci_link13: ACPI PCI Link LSID irq 11 on acpi0
pci_link14: ACPI PCI Link LFID irq 10 on acpi0
pci_link15: ACPI PCI Link LPCA on acpi0
pci_link16: ACPI PCI Link APC1 irq 0 on acpi0
pci_link17: ACPI PCI Link APC2 irq 0 on acpi0
pci_link18: ACPI PCI Link APC3 irq 0 on acpi0
pci_link19: ACPI PCI Link APC4 irq 0 on acpi0
pci_link20: ACPI PCI Link APC5 irq 16 on acpi0
pci_link21: ACPI PCI Link APCF irq 0 on acpi0
pci_link22: ACPI PCI Link APCG irq 0 on acpi0
pci_link23: ACPI PCI Link APCH irq 0 on acpi0
pci_link24: ACPI PCI Link APCJ irq 0 on acpi0
pci_link25: ACPI PCI Link APCK irq 0 on acpi0
pci_link26: ACPI PCI Link APCS irq 0 on acpi0
pci_link27: ACPI PCI Link APCL irq 0 on acpi0
pci_link28: ACPI PCI Link APCZ irq 0 on acpi0
pci_link29: ACPI PCI Link APSI irq 0 on acpi0
pci_link30: ACPI PCI Link APSJ irq 0 on acpi0
pci_link31: ACPI PCI Link APCP irq 0 on acpi0
Timecounter ACPI-fast frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x1008-0x100b on acpi0
cpu0: ACPI CPU on acpi0
acpi_button0: Power Button on acpi0
pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
pci_link26: BIOS IRQ 5 for -2145774616.1.INTA is invalid
pci_link21: BIOS IRQ 10 for -2145774616.2.INTA is invalid
pci_link27: BIOS IRQ 11 for -2145774616.2.INTB is invalid
pci_link23: BIOS IRQ 3 for -2145774616.10.INTA is invalid
pci_link29: BIOS IRQ 11 for -2145774616.7.INTA is invalid
pci_link30: BIOS IRQ 10 for -2145774616.8.INTA is invalid
pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0
pci0: memory at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
isab0: PCI-ISA bridge at device 1.0 on pci0
isa0: ISA bus on isab0
pci0: serial bus, SMBus at device 1.1 (no driver attached)
ohci0

Re: Sun Fire x2100

2007-01-04 Thread DAve

David Robillard wrote:

Just finished searching the archives and net and turned up a few
answers. I also checked the AMD64 release notes for FBSD 6.1.

Is anyone running FreeBSD on a Sun Fire X2100? Any caveats I should know
about? Looks like it should be a simple install and run. We will be
using these servers as outbound SMTP servers so they will be running
just the minimum mail services, smtp-auth, and clamAV.


Hi DAve,

I had a Sun Fire X2100 in here a year ago to test it. It installed ok
using FreeBSD/amd64 RELEASE-6.0. My guess is that it should be alright
with 6.1 or the upcoming 6.2.

Your best bet is to get a Sun rep loan you one of them so that you can
try it out. If they refuse, the sometimes have some in their own
offices which you usually can go to and try it.

Here are the ifconfig(8) and (rather long) dmesg(8) output from the
Sun Fire X2100 running a GENERIC FreeBSD/amd64 RELEASE-6.0 kernel on
January 8th, 2006.


snip



Have fun,

David


Thanks, I suspected as much after searching the FreeBSD lists and 
looking for info on the net. We can always build what little we need on 
Solaris, I just prefer to use FreeBSD when I can. These are not fancy 
servers and they will not be doing anything other than basic AV scanning 
and pumping mail out the door for our network clients.


I appreciate the response.

DAve


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logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they choose to do logos
for other non-international holidays, but nothing for
Veterans?

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Re: Sun Fire x2100

2007-01-04 Thread Mike Galvez
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 03:29:05PM -0500, David Robillard wrote:
 Just finished searching the archives and net and turned up a few
 answers. I also checked the AMD64 release notes for FBSD 6.1.
 
 Is anyone running FreeBSD on a Sun Fire X2100? Any caveats I should know
 about? Looks like it should be a simple install and run. We will be
 using these servers as outbound SMTP servers so they will be running
 just the minimum mail services, smtp-auth, and clamAV.
 
 Hi DAve,
 
 I had a Sun Fire X2100 in here a year ago to test it. It installed ok
 using FreeBSD/amd64 RELEASE-6.0. My guess is that it should be alright
 with 6.1 or the upcoming 6.2.
 
 Your best bet is to get a Sun rep loan you one of them so that you can
 try it out. If they refuse, the sometimes have some in their own
 offices which you usually can go to and try it.
 
 Here are the ifconfig(8) and (rather long) dmesg(8) output from the
 Sun Fire X2100 running a GENERIC FreeBSD/amd64 RELEASE-6.0 kernel on
 January 8th, 2006.
 

David,

I also have a few of these machines. They are running FreeBSD 6.2-BETA2 and
have been in service since October with no problems. I plan to bring them
up to Stable as soon as it's ready.

I am only using the bge ethernet adapters.

HTH

-Mike



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