Ariel RS2000 card

1999-07-09 Thread Len Conrad
Is this card a candidate for support in fbsd? There is support for Linux. www.ariel.com Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Lyris imminent

1999-07-12 Thread Len Conrad
I asked [EMAIL PROTECTED] about Lyris on FreeBSD (the Linux version is in beta), saying I had heard that fbsd was more stable for heavy lifing. The response, to remain anonymous although I don't think my Deep Throat would mind being outed: quote We are using FreeBSD internally for Lyris

FreeBSD: the stealth OS?

1999-07-22 Thread Len Conrad
Cool with the geeks beecause it's "unknown". http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Ariel RS 2000 T1/EI card

1999-09-12 Thread Len Conrad
A few weeks ago... R Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] and Niall Smart [EMAIL PROTECTED] told me they were working on, or wanted to work on, a RAS server using the 2000. Now, neither one responds to several mails. Anybody know of anybody ELSE looking at this card or how else to contact these guys?

T1 / E1 PCI card for FreeBSD?

2000-02-08 Thread Len Conrad
Something like the Ariel RS2000 card. Ariel supports NT and Linux, but I'm a pure FreeBSD shop now (on the opens source side) and would not like to add a Linux box just for this. ( may end up buying a used PM 3A 2PT E1 ) thanks, Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: T1 / E1 PCI card for FreeBSD?

2000-02-09 Thread Len Conrad
I emailed with Poul with him a few months ago about HSSI i/f's and he said he was happy with the LanMedia.com LMC 1000. I'm looking at the LMC 1200 for this E1 project. LMC seems to support FreeBSD well. Dennis tells me etinc.com doesn't have any CSU/DSU cards, nor any support more than one

Re: T1 / E1 PCI card for FreeBSD?

2000-02-09 Thread Len Conrad
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tells me their P1200 E1 card, with FreeBSD drive, can't work in channelized mode (like the etinc cards can't). Their LMC150xM cards can do channelized, but don't have a FreeBSD driver, but their FreeBSD guy is looking at it. Any hacker care to explain how a channelized

gmake pb's

2000-03-23 Thread Len Conrad
Really axious to give Listar a whirl, please help me get through gmake. tia, Len = FreeBSD 3.4-release, gmake on 0.128a gives me (newbie) this: gmake[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'. gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/mail/listar/listar-0.128a/src/modules/pa ssword'

Re: Frame relay driver ( also E1 PRI? )

2000-04-11 Thread Len Conrad
-Version: 1.0 To: Len Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Dave DePuy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Linux driver for LMC 1500 series References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-RCPT-TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-UIDL: 249151475 Status: U Len: If all you

Re: Frame relay driver

2000-04-12 Thread Len Conrad
Steve, We in Europe are looking for FreeBSD support LMC 150x"P" cards (PCI in common PC format), for channelized E1 PRI applications. Do you think your work "for the LMC cards" would apply to that specific board? The "P" board will be available this month. The mezzanine-format PCI version

Re: Hardware crypto support

2000-04-13 Thread Len Conrad
Similarly, what about hardware compression support? Say in conjunction with the LanMedia 1504P 4-port T1/E1 card? Len Does FreeBSD support hardware crypto? We've issued a device major number for nCipher's nFast PCI hardware cryptographic accelerator. I'd suggest contacting

netgraph support for channelized LMC 1504 PCI card?

2000-05-17 Thread Len Conrad
There was some talk about this back in March or so, leaving me rembering someone said that it wouldn't be too hard or long to do it. Has there been any progress? Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

postfix: No buffer space available

2001-02-20 Thread Len Conrad
Sorry to bother you hackers again, but two submissions to -questions got no response so it looks like another scaleability issue on you people can handle : On a very busy postfix relay hub, we're seeing this: Feb 19 15:00:16 imgate2 postfix/smtpd[323]: fatal: socket: No

Re: postfix: No buffer space available

2001-02-20 Thread Len Conrad
Have you tried playing with: kern.ipc.maxsockbuf: 262144 kern.ipc.sockbuf_waste_factor: 8 kern.ipc.maxsockets: 4136 The first one looks particularly interesting. We have of course looked at that, and "guessed" it was as interesting as you did. I'm looking for some more precise guidance, if

Fwd: Re: Re: postfix: No buffer space available

2001-02-20 Thread Len Conrad
Here's what has happened with the advice earlier: tried to add the following via sysctl.conf kern.ipc.maxsockets = 5000 kern.ipc.maxsockbuf = 524288 But neither parameter takes effect. are these read-only values?? and: # netstat -m 445/720/4096 mbufs in use (current/peak/max): 172

Re: FreeBSD on IBM's radar screen?

2001-03-01 Thread Len Conrad
The problem is that 93.7% of IBM probably has no idea that IBM owns whistle. I remember a discussion I had with an IBM sales rep working at the NCC conference in the early 1980's. He had no idea that IBM was selling systems that ran UNIX. At the time they were selling a 68K based lab system (

Re: FreeBSD on BookPC

2001-03-26 Thread Len Conrad
The FIC "Safari Premium" is about the same size, but much more reliable hardware. Wes, Have you looked at their box: http://www.fic.com.tw/systems/slim/sahara3810/sahara3810feat.asp It's 2U x 19". One could shelve 5 of them thin side up in a 19" rack. Len

2nd ata drive, and resolv.conf options

2001-06-22 Thread Len Conrad
Sorry to bother you people, but I can´t get anyone to bite on -questions or -isp for either of these, over the last couple of days : 1. FBSD 4.3R GENERIC, dmesg.boot shows ad0: 9541MB ST310211A [19386/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100 ad1: 73308MB IBM-DTLA-307075 [148945/16/63] at ata0-slave

Re: 2nd ata drive, and resolv.conf options

2001-06-22 Thread Len Conrad
[You may get better responses if you send 2 seperate emails with one question in each] I didn´t want to send TWO OT msgs :))) Did you use dangerously dedicated mode? I was able to get a booting, running system on this drive using dangerously dedicated mode. I´m booting off ad0. When fdisk of

resolv.conf options

2001-06-23 Thread Len Conrad
RTFS ;)) s man resolv.conf talks about options, but not timeout or retry You may use MTA config. E.g. sendmail does control these options with config: I use only postfix If you use another MTA, you can port sendmail's way to implement these options: it changes internal resolver data. I will

kern.maxproc

2001-06-30 Thread Len Conrad
I need about 1000 processes for a high-volume mail gateway. I´m already getting errors in peak periods with the default maxproc of 530. It seems I can´t set this in loader.conf, as I can other read-only params. Do I have to install the source and recompile? Len

Token Ring ??

2000-09-06 Thread Len Conrad
We deal lot with AS/400 customers with TRN systems. I see 4.1 release still doesn't have a TRN card supported. Anybody got any ideas how to support TRN in FreeBSD? Len http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com: ISC BIND 8.2.2 p5 installable binary for NT4 http://IMGate.MEIway.com: Build free, hi-perf,

Re: Token Ring ??

2000-09-06 Thread Len Conrad
If I am not mistaking Token Ring _is_ supported in FreeBSD. Stealthy support it is, then, as I cannot find it here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.1R/notes.html Len http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com: ISC BIND 8.2.2 p5 installable binary for NT4 http://IMGate.MEIway.com: Build free, hi-perf,

low-cost/low-speed HDLC WAN card

2000-09-21 Thread Len Conrad
I'm back again looking for a low-cost, 128 kbits/sec WAN card, even ISA, single-port with HDLC V.35/X.21/V.11/EIA530. I need this to drive leased-line links in France. etinc.com's got a 10-year-old model 5025 ISA card but it's $475 and 2 megabits. We use two now in our ISP and it works fine,

Re: low-cost/low-speed HDLC WAN card

2000-09-21 Thread Len Conrad
At 16:58 21/09/00 +0200, you wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Len Conrad writes: I'm back again looking for a low-cost, 128 kbits/sec WAN card, even ISA, single-port with HDLC V.35/X.21/V.11/EIA530. I need this to drive leased-line links in France. http://www.lanmedia.com model

Re: low-cost/low-speed HDLC WAN card

2000-09-21 Thread Len Conrad
At 11:25 21/09/00 -0400, you wrote: Check out www.sangoma.com (Canada). yes, but also +$200 compared to etinc 5025 that works fine here. www.sealevel.com has some interesting cards, but no FreeBSD support. Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers"

Re: low-cost/low-speed HDLC WAN card

2000-09-22 Thread Len Conrad
I'm back again looking for a low-cost, 128 kbits/sec WAN card, even ISA, single-port with HDLC V.35/X.21/V.11/EIA530. I need this to drive leased-line links in France. etinc.com's got a 10-year-old model 5025 ISA card but it's $475 and 2 megabits. We use two now in our ISP and it

custom boot/install CD

2000-10-16 Thread Len Conrad
After a disk replacement at a remote site with a FreeBSD firewall and the hardware guy's done his deed, we need to be able to boot a custom FreeBSD CD that will script a total FreeBSD custom install to a bare disk, from fdisk through "shutdown now -r". Are there any how-to's in this area?

can't build custom kernel

2000-10-21 Thread Len Conrad
Hackers, Sorry to bother, but two postings to -question of the msg below in two days got now response. I'm dead in the water. tia, Len FreeBSD 4.1.1 from an .iso image Making a custom kernal make depend gives: In file included from

Re: can't build custom kernel

2000-10-21 Thread Len Conrad
Your sources are corrupt. There has never been a 'bw.h' file in the FreeBSD tree. How did you install the sources? from 4.1.1-R .iso image from ftp.de.freebsd.org You might want to delete them and install a fresh set with cvsup. [EMAIL PROTECTED] has since told me his etinc drivers

post-install of kernal sources, maxusers max?

2000-11-08 Thread Len Conrad
Sorry to bother you hackers, but -questions isn't responding, and the handbook and Complete/Lehey don't, afaics, cover this situation explicitly. I can't really afford to screw up this production machine and start over from fresh disk, nor futz around for hours guessing what magik combo of

Re: post-install of kernal sources, maxusers max?

2000-11-08 Thread Len Conrad
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Len Conrad writes: All I need to change, I think, is maxusers since we're getting this error from postfix: You may be able to increase these limits without recompiling the kernel, by using kernel environment variables set in /boot/loader.rc. First of all you

Re: post-install of kernal sources, maxusers max?

2000-11-08 Thread Len Conrad
kern.ipc.nmbclusters kern.ipc.nmbufs # sysctl -w kern.ipc.nmbclusters=2048 sysctl: oid 'kern.ipc.nmbclusters' is read only # sysctl -w kern.ipc.nmbufs=8192 sysctl: oid 'kern.ipc.nmbufs' is read only I'll have to reboot, You can determine which is needed more through a quick netstat -m. #

Re: post-install of kernal sources, maxusers max?

2000-11-08 Thread Len Conrad
kern.ipc.nmbclusters kern.ipc.nmbufs Nope. Those are read only at least on my 4.2-BETA kernel. read-only also in 4.1 # sysctl -w kern.ipc.nmbclusters=2048 sysctl: oid 'kern.ipc.nmbclusters' is read only # sysctl -w kern.ipc.nmbufs=8192 sysctl: oid 'kern.ipc.nmbufs' is read only

Fwd: Re: still in the woods (tuning for postfix hub)

2000-11-22 Thread Len Conrad
that machine. Wietse Len Conrad: Got a faily busy postfix relay hub, about 200K msgs / day. FreeBSD IMGate1.xxx.net 4.1.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE #0: Tue Sep 26 00:46:59 GMT 2000 # postconf mail_version mail_version = Snapshot-20001030 ast pid: 67847; load averages

encrypt h/w for FreeBSD?

2001-01-05 Thread Len Conrad
Sorry, got no answer in -questions. Just my quarterly check to see whether there's support coming up for hardware assisted IPsec, SSL, whatever? In addition to SSL on web servers, we'd recently have found some need like to run TLS for SMTP and postfix. Thanks, Len

encrypt h/w for FreeBSD? re-post

2001-01-06 Thread Len Conrad
( sorry to re-post but I didn't get my first post back in the normally extremely short echo times I experience with FreeBSD lists, and no other msgs from hackers since I posted, as if the list was down) Sorry, got no answer in -questions. Just my quarterly check to see whether there's support

Re: Weird named problem - IN A for nameservers being lost!

2001-07-17 Thread Len Conrad
If you look at the cache dumps and dig output below, you can clearly see the timeout for fuji.jamcracker.com is less then the timeout for jamcracker.com AFTER we've looked up other elements for fuji, which means that when it timed out, that IN A record will be gone. But

Re: Weird named problem - IN A for nameservers being lost!

2001-07-17 Thread Len Conrad
Here´s an explanation from today´s BIND-users traffic: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Path: not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: comp.protocols.dns.bind Subject: Re: Am I wrong? References: 9j1i3n$[EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Genuity, Cambridge, MA Higher-level servers

Re: arcnet support for FreeBSD (request for review)

2001-07-19 Thread Len Conrad
That's just plain scary ;-) Although I guess Arcnet does have it's niche applications. niche now (reliable, cheap, shielded transformer-coupled for nasty e/m environments), but in the 80's, Novell basically built itself up to 80% market share and the LAN marketpalce on ARCnet´s back, while

Re: IPFilter Bridging

2001-08-17 Thread Len Conrad
I am wondering if anyone knows of any workarounds to get IPFilter to filter across an ethernet bridge. this a FAQ, or at least a Recently AQ. ipfilter bridging only works on OpenBSD Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.4 for NT4 W2K

how to trace file error

2001-08-17 Thread Len Conrad
Sorry, -hackers, no answer on -questions. When using the ecartis 1.0.0 (ex-Listar) web interface on 4.2-release, and trying to log in without a password, login fails and mails this report: Error report: List: User: Action: File: /home/ecartis/lists/SITEDATA/cookies

b_bcount 36 is not on a sector boundary

2001-11-18 Thread Len Conrad
FreeBSD 4.4 Release, dmesg is showing: ahc0: Adaptec aic7899 Ultra160 SCSI adapter port 0xdc00-0xdcff mem 0xfeaff000-0xfeaf irq 5 at device 5.0 on pci2 aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/255 SCBs ahc1: Adaptec aic7899 Ultra160 SCSI adapter port 0xd800-0xd8ff mem

anybody working on a driver for this multi-T1 card?

2001-10-12 Thread Len Conrad
http://www.sbei.net/hw400p.htm Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.4 for NT4 W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body

Re: 4-port T1 PCI card with integrated csu/dsu

2001-10-14 Thread Len Conrad
Back on the original topic, anybody know the retail for this card: http://www.sbei.net/wanadapt1t1e1.htm The WANic 654 4-port meets the spec at $3200, but no FreeBSD support there. An eBay 3640 is looking better all time. :((( Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training

RE: FYI

2001-10-16 Thread Len Conrad
If there's a published interface, we could make a netgraph/SAND interface module I think it's better use of hackers' time to look at vendors who already support FreeBSD, such as SBEI and Cyclades, and see why their support for FreeBSD, while apparently useful, is behind the functionality they

FYI: Cyclades PC300, PC400

2001-10-17 Thread Len Conrad
some snipping done: Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 17:21:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Cyclades Technical Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Len Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PC400 X-Virus-Scanned: by VirusGate.MEIway.com X-RCPT-TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Len, My answers are below. Regards, Al Roth

Re: Routing table: removing an invalid entry

2002-08-12 Thread Len Conrad
Sorry, I can't find anything in the archives, and two submissions to -questions got nothing. how to remove a route when the destination is totally fubar? today's syslog has 500 megs of: Aug 12 12:35:27 mx3 arplookup 255.255.255.0 failed: host is not on local network Aug 12 12:35:27 mx3

booting from Promise tx2000: FIXED

2003-02-24 Thread Len Conrad
Since we only had one ATA133 on each TX2000 ATA channel, we skipped the TX2000 setup utility to define an array (we didn't want to run RAID or want any stinking arrays at all). We were able to boot from mobo ATA CDROM and install fbsd through the TX2000. ( btw, we always install fbsd boot mgr,

Re: booting from Promise tx2000: FIXED

2003-02-25 Thread Len Conrad
Len Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: while waiting for Soeren Schmidt to get the Promise SX4000 driver done! I was under the impression that the SX4000 and SX6000 were already supported? I know that phk has an SX6000 which he says works fine. OTOH, it's possible that this hasn't

ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi

2002-06-29 Thread Len Conrad
Sorry, hackers, I posted this twice in -questions and got no response. If the problem is newreno, can somebody say how to up just that piece for 4.4 so as to be as non-disruptive, non-dice-rolling as possible on this otherwise solid machine? Thanks Len FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE

Ariel RS2000 card

1999-07-09 Thread Len Conrad
Is this card a candidate for support in fbsd? There is support for Linux. www.ariel.com Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Lyris imminent

1999-07-12 Thread Len Conrad
I asked supp...@lyris.com about Lyris on FreeBSD (the Linux version is in beta), saying I had heard that fbsd was more stable for heavy lifing. The response, to remain anonymous although I don't think my Deep Throat would mind being outed: quote We are using FreeBSD internally for Lyris

FreeBSD: the stealth OS?

1999-07-22 Thread Len Conrad
Cool with the geeks beecause it's unknown. http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Ariel RS 2000 T1/EI card

1999-09-12 Thread Len Conrad
A few weeks ago... R Cramer rcra...@sytex.net and Niall Smart ni...@pobox.com told me they were working on, or wanted to work on, a RAS server using the 2000. Now, neither one responds to several mails. Anybody know of anybody ELSE looking at this card or how else to contact these guys?