[CentOS] community communication

In the most polite way possible, could someone please update the CentOS community regards the release schedule for CentOS 6? The last official announcement I could find was on the Twitter account: /"We should have news, along with a release plan, for CentOS-6 in the next few days"/

Re: [CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 12:33 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 05/02/11 6:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: >> Correct. The easy solution is to ban bittorrent and other P2P services. > > > not as easy as it sounds.   those services are remarkably agile at > dodging firewall rules > > Layer 7 net filtering m

Re: [CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

On Mon, 2 May 2011 14:19:13 -0700 Drew wrote: > > 3. Irrespective of cost, sometimes heavy downloading can eat into a > > connection's bandwidth and kill the connection for everyone else. In > > fact, upgrading to a flat rate plan encourages this kind of > > behaviour more. > If the ISP offer's "

Re: [CentOS] Boot speed (was: RHEL 6.1 beta)

On 5/2/2011 10:25 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: >>> >> Trying to save a few seconds when rebooting a server seems pointlessto me > > The Linux kernel is also used in laptops/desktops Fast boots also matter for embedded systems. We integrate a series of Linux-based boxes made by another company into ou

Re: [CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

On 5/2/2011 4:06 PM, Spiro Harvey wrote: > >> Also worth considering is to upgrade the subscription to unlimited >> internet access. > > 1. There's no such thing as unlimited. There are always limits. You're > thinking of "flat rate." > > 2. Flat rate isn't available in every country. > > 3. Irresp

Re: [CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

> 3. Irrespective of cost, sometimes heavy downloading can eat into a > connection's bandwidth and kill the connection for everyone else. In > fact, upgrading to a flat rate plan encourages this kind of behaviour > more. If the ISP offer's "flat rate" or "capped flat rate" services and can't handl

Re: [CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

On Mon, 2 May 2011 20:21:19 +0800 Fajar Priyanto wrote: > Also worth considering is to upgrade the subscription to unlimited > internet access. 1. There's no such thing as unlimited. There are always limits. You're thinking of "flat rate." 2. Flat rate isn't available in every country. 3. Irres

Re: [CentOS] Removing 32bit packages from 64bit OS

At Tue, 3 May 2011 00:39:24 +0800 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Hi all, > Somehow I mistakenly install a bunch of 32bit packages in my 64bit Centos 5.6 > How do I remove those 32bit packages? You do know that the default install includes a basic set of 32-bit libraries to support running 32-bi

Re: [CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

>> Correct. The easy solution is to ban bittorrent and other P2P services. > > not as easy as it sounds.   those services are remarkably agile at > dodging firewall rules At home it's a bit easier. You can do stuff at the firewall but any parent should have their kid's computer's root password so

Re: [CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

John R Pierce wrote: > On 05/02/11 6:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: >> Correct. The easy solution is to ban bittorrent and other P2P services. > > > not as easy as it sounds. those services are remarkably agile at > dodging firewall rules > P2P always happens on much higher ports and if you creat

Re: [CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

On 05/02/11 6:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Correct. The easy solution is to ban bittorrent and other P2P services. not as easy as it sounds. those services are remarkably agile at dodging firewall rules ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org htt

[CentOS] running kvm and vnc same time

Hi all, I am trying to run kvm (which works) on my desktop. then when I vnc into my desktop I can use everything as normal except the kvm window. It messes up. Its like the mouse isnt really when its supposed to be or something. Anyone ran into this? I am using 5.6 x86_64. Thanks, Jerry ___

Re: [CentOS] Removing 32bit packages from 64bit OS

Fajar Priyanto wrote on 05/02/2011 12:39 PM: > Hi all, > Somehow I mistakenly install a bunch of 32bit packages in my 64bit Centos 5.6 > How do I remove those 32bit packages? FAQ #22: http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General#head-357346ff0bf7c14b0849c3bcce39677aaca528e9 Phil __

Re: [CentOS] Removing 32bit packages from 64bit OS

On May 2, 2011, at 11:39 AM, Fajar Priyanto wrote: > Hi all, > Somehow I mistakenly install a bunch of 32bit packages in my 64bit Centos 5.6 > How do I remove those 32bit packages? yum remove *.i*86 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

[CentOS] Removing 32bit packages from 64bit OS

Hi all, Somehow I mistakenly install a bunch of 32bit packages in my 64bit Centos 5.6 How do I remove those 32bit packages? Thank you. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

Roland Roland writes: > Hence, i'm thinking of setting up a centos machine to work as such: > > HDSL modem(natted to an onboard dhcp service for lan users) -> Centos - > > Switch - LAN users > > Hw specs: > > 3 GB ram > 3.0 core 2 duo > 2 X 1 TB HDD > 2 X 1 Gb NIC Your proposed configuratio

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6.1 beta

On 5/2/2011 11:19 AM, Steve Clark wrote: > >>> Anybody know *why*? Is it based on the order of response of the NIC >>> firmware? Certainly, were I writing the code, I'd have based it on the bus >>> address. >> I think the 2.4 kernel did it that way, and was single-threaded during >> detection. At

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6.1 beta

On 05/02/2011 11:07 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: On 5/2/2011 9:58 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: But, yes, a different way of looking at NICs is coming down the pipe. It's about time. EGADS Why? After working with FreeBSD for ten years it so nice not to have to worry is this rl0, vr0, em0, fxp0, bg

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6.1 beta

On 5/2/2011 10:14 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > > Major networking gear does this; cisco, for instance, gives you things like > FastEthernet4/47, or GigabitEthernet2/2, or TenGigabitEthernet1/0, or POS3/0, > etc for networking interfaces. Having seen the PCI eth device flips before > between update r

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6.1 beta

On Monday, May 02, 2011 09:57:19 AM Steve Clark wrote: > On 05/02/2011 09:38 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > > But, yes, a different way of looking at NICs is coming down the pipe. It's > > about time. > EGADS Why? After working with FreeBSD for ten years it so nice not to have > to worry is this rl0,

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6.1 beta

On 5/2/2011 9:58 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > But, yes, a different way of looking at NICs is coming down the pipe. > It's about time. >>> EGADS Why? After working with FreeBSD for ten years it so nice not to > have to worry >>> is this rl0, vr0, em0, fxp0, bge0, ed0, etc in networking s

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6.1 beta

Les Mikesell wrote: > On 5/2/2011 8:57 AM, Steve Clark wrote: >> On 05/02/2011 09:38 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: >>> On Monday, May 02, 2011 06:48:37 AM Christopher Chan wrote: biosdevname for nics...bye bye eth0! >>> Not by default, and according to the release notes only for certain Dell >>> serve

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6.1 beta

On 5/2/2011 8:57 AM, Steve Clark wrote: > On 05/02/2011 09:38 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: >> On Monday, May 02, 2011 06:48:37 AM Christopher Chan wrote: >>> biosdevname for nics...bye bye eth0! >> Not by default, and according to the release notes only for certain Dell >> servers ATM. >> >> But, yes, a

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6.1 beta

On Monday, May 02, 2011 09:57:19 AM Steve Clark wrote: > On 05/02/2011 09:38 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > > On Monday, May 02, 2011 06:48:37 AM Christopher Chan wrote: > >> biosdevname for nics...bye bye eth0! > > > > Not by default, and according to the release notes only for certain Dell > > servers

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6.1 beta

On 05/02/2011 09:38 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: On Monday, May 02, 2011 06:48:37 AM Christopher Chan wrote: biosdevname for nics...bye bye eth0! Not by default, and according to the release notes only for certain Dell servers ATM. But, yes, a different way of looking at NICs is coming down the pipe

Re: [CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

Fajar Priyanto wrote: > Also worth considering is to upgrade the subscription to unlimited > internet access. Or consider checking into just what your teenagers are downloading that's gigabytes and gigabytes mark ___ CentOS mailing list C

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6.1 beta

On Monday, May 02, 2011 06:48:37 AM Christopher Chan wrote: > biosdevname for nics...bye bye eth0! Not by default, and according to the release notes only for certain Dell servers ATM. But, yes, a different way of looking at NICs is coming down the pipe. It's about time. __

Re: [CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

Roland Roland wrote on Mon, 2 May 2011 15:09:00 +0300: > As you noticed above, my whole "connection management" is relying on > squid, i'm worried that it will process only traffic that's forwarded > to port "80" instead of everything going through the server. any idea if > thats the case? Co

Re: [CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

Fajar Priyanto wrote: > Also worth considering is to upgrade the subscription to unlimited > internet access. In Australia for example, and other remote locations have mandatory caps because they get their internet via limited throughput links (satellite or old "under the see" cables?), so he mi

Re: [CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

Also worth considering is to upgrade the subscription to unlimited internet access. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

Roland Roland wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm lately suffering from Quota abuse at home. believe it or not my > teenagers are eating through my allowed quota. > > Hence, i'm thinking of setting up a centos machine to work as such: > > HDSL modem(natted to an onboard dhcp service for lan users) -> Ce

[CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

Hi All, I'm lately suffering from Quota abuse at home. believe it or not my teenagers are eating through my allowed quota. Hence, i'm thinking of setting up a centos machine to work as such: HDSL modem(natted to an onboard dhcp service for lan users) -> Centos - > Switch - LAN users Hw s

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6.1 beta

On Monday, May 02, 2011 06:48 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: > On Saturday, April 30, 2011 04:10 AM, Kenneth Porter wrote: >> Some interesting developments coming: >> >> >> > > biosdevname for nics...bye

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6.1 beta

On Saturday, April 30, 2011 04:10 AM, Kenneth Porter wrote: > Some interesting developments coming: > > > biosdevname for nics...bye bye eth0! FUSE! control groups! a linux 2.2 feature! ipchains a

Re: [CentOS] Rebuilding RHEL from source?

On 2 May 2011 12:22, R P Herrold wrote: > On Mon, 2 May 2011, Amos Shapira wrote: > > > Does anyone have instructions on how to go through the > > entire process from downloading source RPM's from RedHat's > > servers through to building the entire distribution? > > > > I've searched through the