Re: FreeBSD mini-ITX

Benjamin Keating wrote: I've been eyeing up these mini-ITX boards - would like to make a quite little file server. Does anyone here run a mini-ITX board (what model)? Does it work out of the box? Anything not supported? I'd go for one of VIA's as AMD's and others are still a little new and

Analyzing SNORT logs stored in mysql

Anyone know of any good packages that can create reports (preferably HTML) for snort logs stored in mysql? Thanks, Brent ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Bootable CD with virus checking for NTFS

I've been searching around for a bootable CD that can virus fix NTFS partitions. Obviously that means it needs to be able to mount NTFS partitions as RW. I've found several CD's based on Linux that will check in RO mode, but none that will (safely anyways) in RW. Pipe dream? Heck, doesn't even

Anyone booting from RAID

I have an Intel motherboard with onboard SATA raid. It uses the Adaptec ICH5 chip, which appears to be supported in the very latest 5.3-beta6. However, on install, it sees the individual disks (ad4 ad6) instead of the mirror. How do I install to the mirror instead of an individual disk?

Firewall concept question

Looking to use a FreeBSD server as a firewall for a modem pool. The theory is we only want to give them access to HTTP and DNS (which we could do as proxy on the FreeBSD box). For accountability reasons, each modem will be assigned a specific IP address. That way, I'll be able to use Radius

Confused about SATA Raid

I installed FreeBSD 5.3 Beta 6 today on an Intel s875wp1-e server board. I enabled RAID on the ICH5 SATA ports. Using its BIOS, I built a 2 drive mirror. FreeBSD saw both the native disks (ad4 and ad6). I installed to ad4. I ran atacontrol create RAID1 ad4 ad6. It said ar0 was created. Now I'm

RE: Backup Mail Server Questions

That's the hard part. The Secondary MX'ing part is fairly easy. All you do is get your friend to add an MX record to the DNS 'yourfriend.com' zone listing your server as a high numbered MXer: $ORIGIN yourfriend.com. @ INMX 0 smtp.yourfriend.com.

RE: Layer 4 switching in FBSD?

Maybe the Eddie Mission? http://eddie.sourceforge.net/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Bertrand Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 6:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Layer 4 switching in FBSD? I'd like to implement some

RE: 2.7 Terabyte array and bsdlabel on 5.3-BETA2 wierdness

dmesg: 3ware device driver for 9000 series storage controllers, version: 2.50.00.000 twa0: 3ware 9000 series Storage Controller port 0xc800-0xc8ff mem 0xfb80-0xfbff,0xfe9ffc00-0xf Pre-9500 controllers have a hardware limit of 2TB per RAID volume. Likely that's your issue. And,

RE: Dumb perl upgrade question

-Original Message- In the immortal words of Brent Wiese [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Am I missing some environment variable somewhere or what? Did you run use.perl port after you upgraded the port? D'oh! See, I knew it was dumb. For some reason, I didn't think that needed to be done

Bind 9 answer limit question

This isn't really FreeBSD specific, but I'm running Bind on FreeBSD, so it qualifies. ;) Can you limit the number of responses bind will give for a round-robin A record? Microsoft DNS allows you to do this with a AddressAnswerLimit registry change. The idea being you may have 16 ips in a

Dumb perl upgrade question

This is the sort of thing I know I should know, but I don't right now... Too many other stresses... Upgraded perl from 5.8.2 to 5.8.4 (both were ports). I need to recompile a bunch of modules (for example, mod_perl). But, most of them error out because they can't find perl 5.8.2 libraries. Am

RE: Bind 9 answer limit question

I have an idea. Why don't you tell him how it's done with djbdns? Or at the very least, give him a rousing RTFM. Flaming aside, I did look for this answer in the bind docs before posting. Either I missed it, or its not there. I did see other things that reference round-robins, but not this.

RE: Courier-imap + Postfix problem

Sorry, I missed this question and have been away from the list for a bit. Hopefully you figured this out by now, but just in case, I've answered below. -Original Message- snip All i got to do now, it seems, is start portmap and fam on system boot. I know portmap_enable=YES in rc.conf

RE: Courier-imap + Postfix problem

Thanks. But now i'm back in the dark. Does anyone have any idea what the source of my errors in maillog could be? To recap, i'm running postfix and courier-imap and i'm getting errors as follows: maillog: Jun 20 15:47:05 server imapd-ssl: Failed to create cache file: maildirwatch (fre

Courier IMAP and SSL question

Posted this once before, got no response... Hoping maybe someone may have some ideas now... Please!!! -Original Message- I'm a bit stumped and hoping someone else has had (and solved) my problem. First, working on a system installed by another tech. That's always lovely. FreeBSD 4.9

Swap question

I recently added a new disk to a 4.9 machine. I was having problems running out of swap space, so I used a couple gigs of this drive as another swap partition. It is listed as a swap partition in /etc/fstab. I couldn't actually find something that would confirm this, so hoping someone here can.

RE: 3Ware Escalade problem

Here is what my system is telling me. twe0: unexpected status bit(s) 80PCIPERR twe0: PCI parity error: Reseat card, move card or buggy device present. Here is what I am running. FreeBSD 4.7 p25 boot disk IDE SCSI tape drive twe0 is an Escalade 7500-4 twe1 is an Escalade 7000-2

Fastrak s150 tx4 SATA Raid help

I have an onboard Promise s150 tx4 SATA raid chip. Anyone have any luck running this under FreeBSD 4.9? Will it run under 4.9? Any experiences with it under 5.x? Due to already overbudgeting on this particular box, moving to a 3ware card is unlikely unless I can't for 100% sure get it running

Rsync autologin over ssh question

Here is what I need to do: I need to somehow automate an rsync from 1 box to several others. I have set up SSH for RSAAuthentication, the method I'd prefer to use (over RHostsRSA). I am able to slogin to the other boxes w/o supplying the passphrase. But here is where I'm stuck. How do I make a

Dual p3 or single xeon for ipsec

Which do you think would be more effective as an IPSEC tunnel gateway? A dual p3 1.26ghz server or a single 2.6 ghz (800mhz fsb) Xeon? Things that would be common to both: FreeBSD 4.9 (maybe possibly 5.3 release when its officially out), SMP kernel on dual Intel 64bit dual gig-e 1000bTX nic RAM

RE: Postfix - Sasl - mysql

Brent Wiese wrote: I (tried) following the instructions at: http://high5.net/howto/ I have postfix virtual users working in MySQL. I have courier imap/pop3 working w/ virtual users. I wanted to add SMTP auth. I added the cyrus-sasl2 port (also chose support for it in postfix

RE: Postfix - Sasl - mysql

I used those instructions, although I modified some for my specific configuration. the username field in my database is [EMAIL PROTECTED] however. Yes, that is how mine is. I had to create a plain-text password This is what I want to avoid. I think this is what the patch listed on the

Postfix - Sasl - mysql

I (tried) following the instructions at: http://high5.net/howto/ I have postfix virtual users working in MySQL. I have courier imap/pop3 working w/ virtual users. I wanted to add SMTP auth. I added the cyrus-sasl2 port (also chose support for it in postfix port) WITH_MYSQL. No go. I added the

RE: apache+mod_ssl + php4 crashes

I have trouble running apache with php4. when i try to start httpd, it crashes with signal 11. If i remove php4 from httpd.conf, apache runs fine. Installed packages: apache+mod_ssl-1.3.29+2.8.16_1 The Apache 1.3 webserver with SSL/TLS functionality php4-4.3.4_7PHP Scripting

RE: SMP vs. Hyperthreading?

Hi, I've got a machine with a P4 that supports HTT (Hyperthreading) so I thought about setting up a SMP-kernel. SMP HT. I'm not an expert on this, but when I went to an Intel conference a couple years ago which discussed hyperthreading, it was made pretty clear it wasn't the same as SMP.

4.9 vs 5.2 with consideration of support for SMP, hyperthread, and 3ware

I know I've seen the 4.9 vs 5.2 debate go on a lot, but usually without discussing the exact usage and maturity of certain drivers. I am building a server that has 2 XEON hyperthreaded CPUs. It will have 2 3Ware 7500-series controllers and disks most likely in RAID10 (still debating that choice,

CURL in PHP performance question

Running 4.9_REL with about 10 or so jails. One of my users wants my to compile CURL so they can use it with PHP, which is being run as an Apache module (not cgi). I've never used it, but based on the way it reads, it seems like the overhead of the calls on even a moderately busy site could have

RE: Mini atx for firewall

also you can get PCI doublers... no idea how well they work, but! anyone had experience of them? You can always get the Intel dual/quad server NIC's. Even come in dual gig-e flavor! Brent ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: Mail in a Jail

Hi, I run my web sites from a jail. The time has come that i now need to send an email from one of those sites using the mail() function in php. I would like to know, what files do i need to be able to send mail from the jail using the mail command. The box is using sendmail as its

RE: mpd VPN Server / W2K Clients

Hello, I am trying to configure mpd for road warrior w2k clients to connect to, and I'm running into a few issues, hoping some of you could help out. I'm not sure if there are other issues that need to be configured differently besides mpd, like ppp or natd, etc. Or do you need to

RE: Support for affordable S-ATA RAID controllers (xs4)

The 3ware cards are quite expensive, according to the pricing lists I've seen so far. I wonder if the 8506-card mentioned in another post also works in 32bit PCI slots. Otherwise, I'd need a Xeon board. But that's another post in the thread. 3Ware cards are expensive, but you get what you

RE: Sending email via PHP mail command in jail

Just in case anyone was following this thread, esmtp in the ports works beautifully. Brent ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Sending email via PHP mail command in jail

put SMTP = my.relay.mail.box into your /usr/local/etc/php.ini It was my understanding this only worked in the Windows version of PHP... That's according to PHP.net's site and the comments in the php.ini file. I just added it and the test is still failing. Brent

Sending email via PHP mail command in jail

I have a 4.9 system running various jails. My clients want to be able to send confirmation emails via PHP's mail() command. Postfix doesn't seem to install right in the jail. I found a program called mini-sendmail and compiled it to use a relay server I have... It works fine from command line,

RE: (Semi)hot swap IDE

Hello! I'm looking for a cheap solution to back up a FreeBSD 4.8 machine. Cheap meaning that tape drives are out of question. Even external FireWire drives are deemed a bit too expensive by the folks for whom I'm doing this research. This leaves one option I can think of - standard

RE: (Semi)hot swap IDE

Hello! I'm looking for a cheap solution to back up a FreeBSD 4.8 machine. Cheap meaning that tape drives are out of question. Even external FireWire drives are deemed a bit too expensive by the folks for whom I'm doing this research. This leaves one option I can think of -

Apache serving docs from samba share

I'd like to have apache serve its docs from a samba mounted drive share. I've seen articles of people doing this, so my question is more performance related. Has anyone benchmarked this setup? The NAS is fast as snot and lightly used. I've been able to sustain over 100mb/s writing to it over

RE: Backup Server

Greetings, I have an NT 4 server Sorry to hear that. I'm sure you realize MS no longer officially supports NT4 right? Well, no matter, on to the real questions... that I wish to back its data up to a FreeBSD box running Samba. The thought being that since I cannot back all the NT 4 data

RE: Newbie: Touchy Travan tape drive rewind problem

I have to agree with Bill. I don't like the me-too postings, but in this case, I can't recommend highly enough dumping that Travan. I've never had one work for more than a year or so before dying various deaths. Get yourself a nice big 250GB USB/firewire drive and zip your backups tight. You'll

RE: JAIL can't FTP ports?

In addition to Rus' comments: 1) Can I use FTP to install ports or packages without going through sysinstall? Yes, and to me, this seems the smarter way to do it. You can pkg_add -r to your hearts content, or, if you want all the ports (which I prefer over packages myself), use fetch to grab

RE: IPSEC tunnel issue..

Here's my situation. I've got 2 networks at different facilities that are using public routable IP's. Each end has a fbsd box in bridge mode as their firewall between the lan and the cisco routers at each end. I've been tasked to establish a secure tunnel between these two networks and

Probably dumb apache question

Probably not the most appropriate list for this, but the best of the ones I subscribe to... I have set up a new freebsd/apache/mod_ssl server. I want to force all connections to use SSL. I know I can simply turn off listening on port 80, but because I know people using this site will

RE: ATA mirroring solution required

I was looking for a secondary controller to give each drive it's own channel on the controller (ie a promise/HPT one) but have no experience with these under FreeBSD. Can someone recommend one if possible that works flawlessly or an alternative solution? I have a Promise TX2000 running

GoVideo software

Anyone have a GoVideo/SonicBlue network dvd player? The software that comes with it is only for Windows, but all my files are on FreeBSD. Anyone write/port it? Getting an answer from GoVideo is nearly impossible. I always seem to get the techs that have been there 2 days or less. Cheers,

RE: Slow SSH authentication with ipfw

In my experience, this is almost always a DNS resolving issue. You have the rule for DNS though... Do you have an internal DNS resolver you could set in your resolv.conf? Take the firewall out of the picture? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

RE: Arp cache needs clearing or machine stops responding

Does it strike anyone else as odd that this would need to be done? Could this be an indication of ARP slamming, a trick to force a switch to transmit everything over all ports (like a hub) so a packet sniffer could be snatching bad things off the wire? Does any one know where to find the arp

RE: /usr/local/etc/rc.d files not running on reboot

My machine crashed last night and upon reboot not all the services that are executable in the /usr/local/etc/rc.d ran. Any clues how I can find out why this happened? snip This happened to me on 4.8 recently too. What it ended up being was the sendmail-client startup thing. I'd replaced

RE: Server rebooted at 3 a.m. and 7 a.m. for the past few days

Do you have any scripts that run at those times? If you run something like a database update or something that can crank some CPU cycles, you could be overheating the box, causing a reboot. Could happen all of a sudden if a fan decided to quit... Dmesg show any panics? -Original

RE: Server rebooted at 3 a.m. and 7 a.m. for the past few days

about why. Any recommendation on what I should use to get more messages? Thanks Magnus --- Luke Kearney [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: - Original Message - From: Magnus J [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Brent Wiese [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 10

RE: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device

This will happen sometimes if the cable is reversed. There is one connector that should be labeled specifically for the motherboard (or is sometimes a different color). If a standard 3 connector cable, its the one by itself, vs the 2 that are spaced a few inches apart. Maybe people reverse the

RE: HSF modems

All the HSF modems I've seen are winmodems and to my knowledge, are unsupported in non-windows environments. But (hopefully) I'm wrong... Brent -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of bsd_junkie Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 2:09 PM To:

RE: IPSEC with Dynamic IP addresses

Does anyone know of any documentation on how to do this ? I have searched through google and I find lots of references to people saying, use certificates but beyond that I havent found any actual documentation on how to do it. You need to use aggressive mode. Check out this link

RE: VPN setup problem - proxy arp I think

Set gateway=YES in rc.conf and reboot. Then look into ipfw so you don't end up passing bogus traffic. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Koroush Saraf Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 7:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: VPN setup

RE: NAT and MTU

In the last episode (Jul 08), Brent Wiese said: I have a machine that is being double-NAT'd. Would it make sense to set the MTU lower to account for the NAT overhead? It makes sense to me as I know MTU, but I like to check in case my thinking isn't right

NAT and MTU

I have a machine that is being double-NAT'd. Would it make sense to set the MTU lower to account for the NAT overhead? It makes sense to me as I know MTU, but I like to check in case my thinking isn't right. :) Brent ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Startup scripts not running on 4.8

I have never had this issue before in all the years I've ran freebsd. I have a relatively new install of 4.8 (my only 4.8 box). When I reboot the box, none of the scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d are being run, nor are the things in /etc/rc.local. I've checked the /etc/defaults/rc.conf and see

RE: Creating a IPSec tunnel between a Windows machine and a machinerunning FreeBSD

The topology is as fallows: Node A - Internet -- Node B - Internal net B where node A's external address is 111.111.11.111 node B's internal address is 12.3.4.567 external address is 222.222.222.2 Node A is running windows 2000 and I am using PGPnet to make a tunnel to

RE: Creating a IPSec tunnel between a Windows machine and a machinerunning FreeBSD

The topology is as fallows: Node A - Internet -- Node B - Internal net B where node A's external address is 111.111.11.111 node B's internal address is 12.3.4.567 external address is 222.222.222.2 Node A is running windows 2000 and I am using PGPnet to make a tunnel to

RE: VPN from one Win2k host to a FreeBSD network?

Allow me to ask this once again also then. In my situation, I have my FreeBSD box here at home. Periodically I need to VPN into my work. Here is the layout: FreeBSD (home via DSL) --- (Inet) --- (Cisco PIX) --- (Work net) IP via DSLOutside

RE: very slow NIC

This sounds like an auto-sense problem. If you're hooked up to a hub, 10 half is the best you'll get. If it's a switch, it may be setting itself full-duplex. If its not a managed switch (you can't tell it what the ports should set themselves to), you can try changing the settings on the card

RE: VPN from one Win2k host to a FreeBSD network?

Use MPD (its in the ports) for PPTP support, which is built into w2k. On the user side, its friendly to set up because it presents the user w/ a modem-type setup where you dial a vpn box. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Kelly

RE: FreeBSD 4.8 running on Dell 1655MC Blade Server

I can't answer your question directly, but you may want to check out RLX... Much higher density (300ex model): http://www.rlx.com/ I know they're approved for Linux, but maybe they'll approve a FreeBSD image for you. Their support seems to be pretty responsive. Brent -Original

Mod_perl nightmares

I have to believe I'm overlooking something simple here, but I'm pulling my hair out over this... I am running 4.5. I have the latest ports list. I have installed apache 1.3.27, mod_ssl, mod_php 4.3.1 and mod_perl 1.27. Previously, it was running the same, minus mod_perl. Php is fine. I can

RE: Three Terabyte

~ On 27-Mar-2003, Francisco J Reyes wrote message Re: Three Terabyte ~ Highly recommend you go with Raid 10 and not 5. I 2nd that. Raid 5 offers very very POOR

RE: Moving Disks to new PC Machines

Joseph Maxwell wrote: Hello, I need to move my system ( actually 2 hard disk) to another machine w/ different MotherBoard and CPU. The disks have been configured as a bootablesyetm disk and the other data storage. How can I reconfigure to achieve this with the minimum amount of

RE: Upgrading mobos...raid 1 to no raid?

It depends on the RAID chip. I believe (don't quote me on this tho) that the Promise raid chips in mirroring mode uses a master drive, then mirrors that to the secondary drive as it can (I'm sure using some complicated methodolgy). In theory, you should just be able to use the regular wd driver

RE: FW: Retrieving web based mail?

The company I worked for is in the process of being merged. Lot's of fun :-( In any case one of the results of this is a huge problem for me in mail retrieval. I use a freeBSD laptop as my primary machine. I had been using fetchmail to retrieve my email, and passing the mail on to

RE: Freebsd - restarting itself - followup

Right now I have the exact same thing happening to one machine. It is located offsite (naturally) and about 10 days ago it had a random shutdown (did not come back up) followed by a random reboot a couple days later. It had been running 50-60 days previous. The shutdown occurred just after

RE: ipsec and gre tunnels

It's a common mistake to do both gif and ipsec. I realize many of the handbooks you find say to do it. They're wrong. They've been contacted and most won't change them, which just misleads more people. Use ipsec in tunnel mode instead of transport and ditch gif. Hi, I currently have a vpn

RE: Dmesg filled with arp: link address is broadcast for IP address

arp: link address is broadcast for IP address 10.6.8.22! arp: link address is broadcast for IP address 10.6.8.22! arp: link address is broadcast for IP address 10.6.8.22! arp: link address is broadcast for IP address 10.6.8.22! Then I put the suspect host on to DHCP on reboot I

RE: Bizarre Networking Problem

Well the problem is solved, but I am not happy about the solution as it makes absolutely no sense to me. xl0: flags=8943UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 options=3rxcsum,txcsum inet 192.246.38.10 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 255.255.255.0

5.0 SMP

Anyone using 5.0 on a multi-processor system? Later 4.X versions seemed to be pretty stable but haven't seen anything about 5.0. I have a chance to replace a very high load single proc server doing a lot of PHP crunching with a dual p3 550 and wondering if that's a smarter move than getting a

is this a gif() problem or something else

I am running an ipsec tunnel (gif/racoon) between an Alpha Freebsd box and a win2k box. I actually have several tunnels and they all set up and work. The key to this particular tunnel is that the servers are only a few hops away on a 100mb uplink. While transferring a large file (approx 900 mb),

RE: PPP

Hi all, I have a question related to PPP. I have a FreeBSD -STABLE box set up as a gateway to a dial up account with Internode. I have also 2 Windows boxes with the default gateway set to the FreeBSD box. Question: Is there anyway to set up an Icon on a Windows box that will dial

RE: Proxy-arp not working right

no to that question because it was simply a web server. Added the line, rebooted, and voilla! It passes packets between interfaces fine now! Brent -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions;FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Brent Wiese Sent: Tuesday, October 15

Proxy-arp not working right

I have a 4.5 box w/ the GENERIC kernel loaded. I've installed mpd and can connect via pptp from a win2k box. I can see that mpd adds the proxyarp ip entry, however, other machines on the same subnet can't ping the IP and the win2k box can't ping them. The FreeBSD box and win2k box ping each

Mpd on a DEC alpha

I am trying to connect 2 networks via pptp using mpd. I have confirmed my files are set up correct because I can connect 2 Intel Freebsd boxes successfully. However, when trying to connect an alpha to the Intel, it fails. I get tons of these messages: pid 50112 (mpd): unaligned access: