[gentoo-user] Adaptec 3405 Raid performance
Anyone have one of these raid cards? The disk performance is horrible. The setup: ASUS P5Q kernel 2.6.25-gentoo-r9 Adaptec 3405 Firmware version 5.2-12415 (June 7th 2007) XFS file systems with LVMS I have put the mount options noatime,nobarrier in one file system but it made no difference. Any suggestions? Vernon
[gentoo-user] Advanced routing
We switched from a cisco router to using a gentoo box with mutiple nics - all appears to be working very well. However, i ran into a major problem when one of my PC's went nuts. It flooded the network with unknown protocol which I saw from tcpdump. Basically, I am trying to find a way to protect the internal network from bad network devices. This did happen when under the cisco setup but it did not bring the network down. I'm assuming we need a little bandwidth control (TC) implementation but is there any tricks in the kernel/network setup which will help as well. Any pointers will greatly help! Vernon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Advanced routing
Sascha Hlusiak wrote: Am Donnerstag 03 Januar 2008 21:59:59 schrieb Vernon A. Fort: We switched from a cisco router to using a gentoo box with mutiple nics - all appears to be working very well. However, i ran into a major problem when one of my PC's went nuts. It flooded the network with unknown protocol which I saw from tcpdump. What protocol number was is? Maybe you could enable the protocol in the Linux Kernel and then filter it and apply routing rules. What is the router doing usually and how did the flooding bring your network down? Maybe just preventing the router from routing unwanted protocols already help and you don't actually need a bandwidth limiter. This was in the heat of the moment - i was able to get a MAC address from the unknown protocol messages from tcpdump. We tracked it down to a HUNG pc - basically flooding the network. This gentoo box is a firewall / router. We have three NIC's, one for the internet and one for each subnet. I've been at this long enough to see bad network devices HANG an entire network several times but this is the first time i've used Linux as a router. Just trying to come up with a solution to prevent this in the future - i guess i will have to wait until it happens again due to the lack of debugging logs/information. I was just hoping there was some kernel or network setting to help with bad devices that i missed when setting this box up. Vernon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] pam errors in update world - how to trackdown
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting an error when update world tries to install sys-libs/pam that tell me this: Merging sys-libs/pam-0.99.8.1-r1 to / * * Your current setup is using one or more of the following modules, * that are not built or supported anymore: * pam_pwdb, pam_radius, pam_timestamp * If you are in real need for these modules, please contact the maintainers * of PAM through http://bugs.gentoo.org/ providing information about its * use cases. * * ERROR: sys-libs/pam-0.99.8.1-r1 failed. * Call stack: *ebuild.sh, line 1703: Called dyn_preinst *ebuild.sh, line 1142: Called pkg_preinst * pam-0.99.8.1-r1.ebuild, line 162: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * check_old_modules || die deprecated PAM modules still used * The die message: * deprecated PAM modules still used Apparently I need to remove one or more of those listed but having a time finding them. equery files pam turns up nothing with those names equery list|grep shows no promising hits on pwdb, radius or timestamp I did find a pwdb package but it shows no hits on those names either. How might I track this down? Or is the error really about something else? had the same issue - re-emerge cracklib (emerge cracklib) - look at the errors just above. Vernon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the average age of the gentoo user here? Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone �éí¢‹¬z¸ žÚ(¢¸j)bž bst== I'm 42, linux user since 1988 (slackware) then redhat 4.2 through 9.0 then fedora core. Got burned out doing constant upgrades and discovered Gentoo in spring of 04. Installed my first production server in late summer of 04 and its still running. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious
Vernon A. Fort wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the average age of the gentoo user here? Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone �éí¢‹¬z¸ žÚ(¢¸j)bžbst== I'm 42, linux user since 1988 (slackware) then redhat 4.2 through 9.0 then fedora core. Got burned out doing constant upgrades and discovered Gentoo in spring of 04. Installed my first production server in late summer of 04 and its still running. Correction, it was 91 on the Linux - Xenix on an old Tandy in 88. Vernon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Determine the original installation date
With redhat/fedora, you could find WHEN the box was installed using rpm -qi basesystem. I am switching most of my boxes to gentoo and I would like to tell when the ORIGINAL install occured. Any pointers? Vernon -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] K8N Neo4 and skge
Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 19:27 -0500, Vernon A. Fort wrote: New to gentoo! Welcome to a new world of learning! I have gentoo amd64 loaded and the forcedepth drive is detecting the first network card. Both the default skge and the sk98lin manually downloaded from SysKonnect will load without errors and display in the lsmod. Neither will actually detect the network card. I don't get it. If it's modprobed and lsmod shows it, means the cards are detected. your lcpci shows the cards are detected. I have included the lspci -vv at the end of this message. 1. are both of these interfaces active, meaning can I use both. Yes. Doesn't ifconfig show anything? ifconfig eth1 or ifconfig eth0?? 2. Being new to gentoo, should the interface be added automatically upon modprobe or is there something more I need to do. U modprobe the drivers, they get seen by the kernel. Then you need to up the interface. DHCP? make sure you edit /etc/conf.d/net (there are example files in there as well) /etc/init.d/net.eth? up Oh.. yeah.. since you have 2 eth, make the apropriate symlink for eth1 eg: ln -s eth0 eth1 I think this may be a PCIE issue, from what I have read. But, I have recomplied the kernel (network devices) and configured both the forcedepth and skge drivers as modules. If I unload the forcedepth or rename so it won't start durning boot, the SKGE driver WILL load and be listed in the lsmod and lspci but does nothing - no dmesg anything! Its almost like the driver sees the device but is waiting on something else to load. There's very little information concerning this device - I'll keep digging. Vernon -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
FOLLOWUP: [gentoo-user] K8N Neo4 and skge
Vernon A. Fort wrote: Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 19:27 -0500, Vernon A. Fort wrote: New to gentoo! Welcome to a new world of learning! I have gentoo amd64 loaded and the forcedepth drive is detecting the first network card. Both the default skge and the sk98lin manually downloaded from SysKonnect will load without errors and display in the lsmod. Neither will actually detect the network card. I don't get it. If it's modprobed and lsmod shows it, means the cards are detected. your lcpci shows the cards are detected. I have included the lspci -vv at the end of this message. 1. are both of these interfaces active, meaning can I use both. Yes. Doesn't ifconfig show anything? ifconfig eth1 or ifconfig eth0?? 2. Being new to gentoo, should the interface be added automatically upon modprobe or is there something more I need to do. U modprobe the drivers, they get seen by the kernel. Then you need to up the interface. DHCP? make sure you edit /etc/conf.d/net (there are example files in there as well) /etc/init.d/net.eth? up Oh.. yeah.. since you have 2 eth, make the apropriate symlink for eth1 eg: ln -s eth0 eth1 I think this may be a PCIE issue, from what I have read. But, I have recomplied the kernel (network devices) and configured both the forcedepth and skge drivers as modules. If I unload the forcedepth or rename so it won't start durning boot, the SKGE driver WILL load and be listed in the lsmod and lspci but does nothing - no dmesg anything! Its almost like the driver sees the device but is waiting on something else to load. There's very little information concerning this device - I'll keep digging. Vernon Ok - I managed to get this working, kind of. I installed a fresh gentoo-sources, selected the forcedepth, skge and the sk98lin drivers as modules. Recompiled and booted. Then I downloaded the http://www.syskonnect.com/syskonnect/support/driver/htm/sk9elin.htm and ran the install. It did detect the network card!! I configued and rebooted. Both network cards did come up - I assigned different ip address to both cards ( both on the same network - 192.168.1.50 (eth0) and 192.168.1.55(eth1). The odd thing is if I plug in the eth0 card, I can telnet to BOTH ip addresses while eth1 is disconnected. If I disconnect eth0 and connect eth1, I cannot connect to either address. Am I missing something? or is this the correct behavior? Vernon -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] K8N Neo4 and skge
New to gentoo! I have gentoo amd64 loaded and the forcedepth drive is detecting the first network card. Both the default skge and the sk98lin manually downloaded from SysKonnect will load without errors and display in the lsmod. Neither will actually detect the network card. I have included the lspci -vv at the end of this message. 1. are both of these interfaces active, meaning can I use both. 2. Being new to gentoo, should the interface be added automatically upon modprobe or is there something more I need to do. Again: amd64 3500+ MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum 1GB ram Thanks for any help! Vernon office ~ # lspci -vv :00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller (rev a3) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 7125 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast TAbort- TAbort- MAbort- SERR- PERR- Latency: 0 Capabilities: [44] #08 [01e0] Capabilities: [e0] #08 [a801] :00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0050 (rev a3) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 7125 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle+ MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast TAbort- TAbort- MAbort- SERR- PERR- Latency: 0 :00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation CK804 SMBus (rev a2) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 7125 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast TAbort- TAbort- MAbort- SERR- PERR- Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: I/O ports at ff00 Region 4: I/O ports at 4c00 [size=64] Region 5: I/O ports at 4c40 [size=64] Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- :00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a2) (prog-if 10 [OHCI]) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 7125 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast TAbort- TAbort- MAbort- SERR- PERR- Latency: 0 (750ns min, 250ns max) Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 217 Region 0: Memory at febff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- :00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a3) (prog-if 20 [EHCI]) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 7125 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast TAbort- TAbort- MAbort- SERR- PERR- Latency: 0 (750ns min, 250ns max) Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 50 Region 0: Memory at feb0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Capabilities: [44] #0a [2098] Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- :00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev f2) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP]) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 7125 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast TAbort- TAbort- MAbort- SERR- PERR- Latency: 0 (750ns min, 250ns max) Region 4: I/O ports at fb00 [size=16] Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- :00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3) (prog-if 85 [Master SecO PriO]) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 7125 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast TAbort- TAbort- MAbort- SERR- PERR- Latency: 0 (750ns min, 250ns max) Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 225 Region 0: I/O ports at 09f0 Region 1: I/O ports at 0bf0 [size=4] Region 2: I/O ports at 0970 [size=8] Region 3: I/O ports at 0b70 [size=4] Region 4: I/O ports at f600 [size=16] Region 5: Memory at febfc000 (32-bit,
