Re: how many IP aliases

2004-05-27 Thread Per Engelbrecht
Hi Alin Can anyone tell me what is the limit for how many IP aliases can be setup on the same ethernet card? Is there a global limit for the total number of aliases in the OS? To be clear: one needs 128 IPs (for irc vhosts) to be setup on one server. Is that impossible? I don't know the

Re: how many IP aliases

2004-05-27 Thread Per Engelbrecht
There is no upper limit. ok. I do know that 128 addresses isn't a problem - depending of course on your setup such as ram, cpu, board and last but not least, nic. Don't do it on a $20 nomame-nic. It doesn't make any difference

Re: kernel activity

2004-03-16 Thread Per Engelbrecht
Hi Bogdan You don't have to give up device polling because of SMP. I run several fbsd 4.9-stable (dual PIII) with device polling. Go to /sur/src/sys/kern/kern_poll.c , outcomment the SMP part, add device polling, hz= et al to kernel, recompile, set sysctl variables, reboot and you're done. Works

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-08 Thread Per Engelbrecht
Hi Matthew and others I think that we all can find reasons to (or not to) use floppies, but I don'tthink that was the issue in Scott's mail. The generational change from 4.x to 5.x where the majority of the code hasbeen rewritten (in my opinion an extremly healthy sign for any kind of serious

Re: Power consumption in desktop computers

2003-12-30 Thread Per Engelbrecht
Hi Martin and the rest of you Due to a regulation on watt pr. squaremeter (=heat) in the datacenter we use (InterXion) we have spent a lot of time finding new boards, cpu, psu, ram et al for the servers we use for dedicated serverhosting. All items are measured with different kinds of 'Fluke'

Re: I'm resigning from FreeBSD

2003-12-27 Thread Per Engelbrecht
Hi everyone Let's drop this thread and try to hush up these ignorant self-centred kids. They're presumably just misplaced windows-users anyway.. but frankly, I don't care. This leads nowhere. Best regards /per [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 12:12:03PM -0500, Lucas Holt wrote: