web based configuration as root or equivalent

2004-02-26 Thread Bjorn Eikeland
I'm wanting to make a web based configuration tool for my wireless routers (setting up freebsd boxes to make a outdoor wlan) - ofcourse I can use ssh and webmin, but the configuration should be made even easier for less technical users. I've read the how to use Webmin with apache, didnt quite

Re: web based configuration as root or equivalent

2004-02-26 Thread Bjorn Eikeland
På Thu, 26 Feb 2004 16:27:21 -0600, skrev Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bjorn Eikeland wrote: I'm wanting to make a web based configuration tool for my wireless routers (setting up freebsd boxes to make a outdoor wlan) - ofcourse I can use ssh and webmin

vinum raid5 initializing died overnight

2004-02-18 Thread Bjorn Eikeland
Yesterday I set up a vinum raid5 array on a fairly slow pc (p3-500, 128mb pc100, udma66) and started the initializing, but only to find vinum l showing the drives as 'State: I 38%' and the vinum processes were gone this morning. /var/log/messages, /var/log/vinum_history and dmesg doesnt mention

Re: 5.2 Bridging issue

2004-02-12 Thread Bjorn Eikeland
På Thu, 12 Feb 2004 03:56:56 -0700 (MST), skrev Aaron D. Gifford [EMAIL PROTECTED]: PROBLEM SUMMARY: I've got a bridge(4) issue on a BSD 5.2.1 box. The bridging box has three ethernet interfaces, two bridged together in a single cluster, and one connected to the internet.

Re: using a separate drive for swap

2004-02-04 Thread Bjorn Eikeland
So you're adding a new drive to your box, wanting to keep your old root and other partitions? If so you should be able to just put a freebsd partition and set up disklables b (swap) and c (the whole disk) on the new drive and then add it to /etc/fstab as swap. (This can be done in 'gui' in

Re: Help to configure FreeBSD as server

2004-02-03 Thread Bjorn Eikeland
I think you can solve this by adding the DNS suffix to the search list in /etc/resolv.conf, eg: nameserver x.x.x.x search domain.tld This will make your box try adding domain.tld to the host you're trying to lookup. (If you use subdomains you can add them too) (Or use DHCP to pass the DNS suffix

Re: [5.2.1-RC, IPFW] Traffic Shaping

2004-02-03 Thread Bjorn Eikeland
There isnt much you can really do as to shape incomming traffic, however you can limit how fast you accept the incomming data. (At least this is what im used to from my little experience with linux.) I tried* the following rule, and in theroy it sounds up to the job: ipfw add pipe 1 tcp from not

Re: [5.2.1-RC, IPFW] Traffic Shaping

2004-02-03 Thread Bjorn Eikeland
Ok, so miss read the question a bit... (Was thinking the bridge was the mail server too - used to my own hardware shortage :) But still, I think you'll get it working by swapping 'me' with the ip of your mail server. Can also use subnet to allow your own net unlimited access. There isnt much you

transparrent cvsup cache

2004-02-02 Thread Bjorn Eikeland
Hi, I'm just gettting started using FreeBSD and I've got two FreeBSD clients and a server on my lan, and I'm thinking instead of having both clients cvsup to a public site, I'd make the machine I use for a file server a cvscache. But I'm wondering whats the best way to do so, I'm thinking as a

Re: cron and anacron

2004-02-02 Thread Bjorn Eikeland
Looks like it (from port collection): Port: anacron-2.3 Path: /usr/ports/sysutils/anacron Info: Schedules periodic jobs on systems that are not permanently up Maint: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: sysutils B-deps: expat-1.95.6_1 gettext-0.12.1 gmake-3.80_1 libiconv-1.9.1_3 R-deps: Hi, I use

Re: Transferring the root filesystem to a ramdisk?

2004-01-31 Thread Bjorn Eikeland
I'm probably in over my head here, but; chroot should change the root filesystem for you. (look in the manpages for more details) As for powering down the hdd I did find a page for this, but havent had time to play with it yet: http://www.cran.org.uk/bruce/software.php best of luck! Hello, in an

Serial console install via boot cd?

2004-01-29 Thread Bjorn Eikeland
Hi, I'm wanting to do a install via a serial console as I've only got one monitor, but I havent got any floppy drives here either.. Can the floppy procedure be used with a bootable cd, by just doing echo /boot/loader -h /iso_dir/boot.config ? .. and I'm really wanting to put /usr on a

Re: Dynamic Router IP.

2004-01-28 Thread Bjorn Eikeland
På Wed, 28 Jan 2004 11:10:25 +0300, skrev Marwan Sultan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello everyone, I have FreeBSD 4.8-R as a NATd ipfw enable behind a DSL router. The router calling the internet and giving the connection 2the bsd box. BSD box does the rest for my LAN. I redirect the port 22

Re: Thank you

2004-01-27 Thread Bjorn Eikeland
Curious, what if I want either option. In other words, when I boot up the machine it shows the gdm login, but if I want a console login can I just hit Alt-F2? I would just try it out myself, but currently my only running FreeBSD machine is a fileserver. You'll have to hit Ctrl + Alt + F2 to

Re: upgrading 5.1 to 5.2

2004-01-21 Thread Bjorn Eikeland
Hello, If this is a repeat message i apologize as i've been having email issues lately. I've got two machines, both running 5.1 release. I'd like to do an update on both of them to 5.2, and either current or stable. One machine is significantly faster than the other so i'd like to do all

Re: [ISDN-PCI] Supported Card?

2004-01-20 Thread Bjorn Eikeland
Can someone please tell me if the ISDN-PCI card from Aceex is supported under FreeBSD ? I want to buy a card like this, but have to make sure that it works first ;) I cannot figure out what chipset the card is using yet, but I sent a mail to the support department of the company. While waithing

Re: Bridge problem

2004-01-19 Thread Bjorn Eikeland
I have a three ethernet adapter and need to bridge two of them (like an Ethernet switch but with firewall) But i have a some problem... When i enter # sysctl net.link.ether.bridge_cfg=lnc0:0,lnc1:0 i saw next: now lnc0 promisc ON if_flags 0x8943 bdg_flags 0x5 now lnc0 promisc ON if_flags

3-4MB/s vinum performance with two Promise PDC20268 UDMA100 controllers

2004-01-15 Thread Bjorn Eikeland
Hi I had four 160G IDE drives in raid5 on a single controller and it worked just fine, never benchmarked it since it was faster than the network anyway. But when adding a second controller card and two more drives the new array has a terrible write performance. I've tried various stripe and

Re:

2004-01-15 Thread Bjorn Eikeland
Try switching to the debug console and see if it shows any more detailed error messages? (press alt + f2 to switch) hth -bjorn I have a pc chip motherboard with: Processor: athlon 1600+ Graphics Card: Radeon 9200 128mb DDR RAM: around 1gb DDR Hard Drive: Maxtor 120gb my problem is that every

Re: 3-4MB/s vinum performance with two Promise PDC20268 UDMA100 controllers

2004-01-15 Thread Bjorn Eikeland
På Thu, 15 Jan 2004 09:43:01 -0200, skrev jason [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bjorn Eikeland wrote: Hi I had four 160G IDE drives in raid5 on a single controller and it worked just fine, never benchmarked it since it was faster than the network anyway. But when adding a second controller card and two