On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 05:56:59PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
I'm still bringing back the dozens of things I removed from ethic.
And testing new ideas. But I have a general question: have any of
you wizards who run your own
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:37:14 -0700
Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com articulated:
On Jun 9, 2011, at 3:28 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:
In many cases, it's not even obvious which of the products I find
are suitable for building various types of network switches. Do
you know of any Webpages that might
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Jerry wrote:
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:37:14 -0700
Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com articulated:
On Jun 9, 2011, at 3:28 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:
In many cases, it's not even obvious which of the products I find
are suitable for building various types of network switches. Do
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 08:34:06AM -0400, Daniel Feenberg wrote:
I wouldn't think the OP was interested in saving money, there are
other reasons for building your own switch. For example, there is
a famous article Tricks you can do if your firewall is also
a bridge:
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 08:10:05AM +0200, C. P. Ghost wrote:
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 08:10:05 +0200
From: C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws
Subject: Re: Long Day's Journey into Bleep
To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Chad Perrin per
On 09/06/2011 02:56, Gary Kline wrote:
Well, people,
It's been a long, long century. I've been down for 5 days.
Couldn't understand _why_ I couldn't ping anywhere [expect the
Server itself]. Finally, tho, it became more and more likely that
my FreeBSD was fine ... even tho I kept stripping
From: Gary Kline kl...@thought.org
To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Sent: Wed, June 8, 2011 8:56:59 PM
Subject: Long Day's Journey into Bleep
Well, people,
It's been a long, long century. I've been down for 5 days.
Couldn't
Not a switch but I have had a router and two PCs just die in the last
year. I know the agony of having to restore things that weren't
broken as I went through that with the router. I hate to have to fix
things that I broke trying to find out what was broke, as bad as
having to rewrite code after
$hit happens! Even with PERFECTLY clean power, things fail. Could take a week
or 10 years. That's why enterprise nets have redundant everything - and
there are still outages ;)
- Original Message -
From: Gary Kline [mailto:kl...@thought.org]
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 07:56 PM
On 6/8/11 5:56 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
Well, people,
It's been a long, long century. I've been down for 5 days.
Couldn't understand _why_ I couldn't ping anywhere [expect the
Server itself]. Finally, tho, it became more and more likely that
my FreeBSD was fine ... even tho I kept
whats this have to do with freebsd questions?
You seem to have a bad habit of spamming the mailing list with mundane BS.
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote:
$hit happens! Even with PERFECTLY clean power, things fail. Could take a
week or 10 years. That's
Quoth Chad Perrin on Wednesday, 08 June 2011:
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 05:56:59PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
I'm still bringing back the dozens of things I removed from ethic.
And testing new ideas. But I have a general question: have any of
you wizards who run your own domains or
Quoth Chad Perrin on Wednesday, 08 June 2011:
Sure. But I've had luck++ with LinkSys for years, even before
Cisco bought them out. --My new switch is an LG. See what
happens. ... .
In my (limited) experience, Linksys actually got more annoying after
Cisco bought out
But I have a general question: have any of
you wizards who run your own domains or otherwise use a switch [or
hub] *ever* had it just-quit?! It is solid-state.
I've had a Linksys switch crap out. I've also had a Netgear switch die. In
fact, there were three Netgear switches that died within a
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 11:34:30PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 23:34:30 -0600
From: Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com
Subject: Re: Long Day's Journey into Bleep
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 10:21
On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 11:33:04AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 11:34:30PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
. . . but Cisco switches are overpriced crap. We were disconnecting the
Netgear to replace it with a Cisco that offered a lot more functionality,
and administration
On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 10:05:19AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
Quoth Chad Perrin on Wednesday, 08 June 2011:
I think I've just had ports die one by one on a switch until it no longer
worked. I don't think I've ever had the whole thing go poof for no
evident reason.
I have, twice. Both
On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 10:05:19AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 10:05:19 -0700
From: Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com
Subject: Re: Long Day's Journey into Bleep
To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:
Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Mailing List
On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 12:08:12PM -0600, Modulok wrote:
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 12:08:12 -0600
From: Modulok modu...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Long Day's Journey into Bleep
To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
But I have a general question: have any of
you wizards who run
On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 12:41:01PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 12:41:01 -0600
From: Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com
Subject: Re: Long Day's Journey into Bleep
To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:
Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd
On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 07:21:02AM -0400, re...@adeptscience.com wrote:
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 07:21:02 -0400
From: re...@adeptscience.com
Subject: Re: Long Day's Journey into Bleep
To: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org,
FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions
On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 12:48:29PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 12:48:29 -0600
From: Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com
Subject: Re: Long Day's Journey into Bleep
To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
--As of June 9, 2011 12:48:29 PM -0600, Chad Perrin is alleged to have said:
Are parts available for building an inexpensive switch, perhaps with the
ability to use a stripped-down FreeBSD to run the thing? The closest
I've found so far is this:
On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 06:01:03PM -0400, Daniel Staal wrote:
Depending on your needs, Soekris, ALIX, or Netgate products could all work.
Most don't have large numbers of ports (2-5 built in are standard, and some
have expansion capability), but can run some higher-level processing while
On Thu, 9 Jun 2011, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 06:01:03PM -0400, Daniel Staal wrote:
Depending on your needs, Soekris, ALIX, or Netgate products could all work.
Most don't have large numbers of ports (2-5 built in are standard, and some
have expansion capability), but can
On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 07:54:00PM -0400, Daniel Feenberg wrote:
A switch can also be called a bridge. FreeBSD seems to have built-in
facility for bridging. See:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/filtering-bridges/index.html
Thanks for that URI. Knowing what information
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 05:56:59PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
I'm still bringing back the dozens of things I removed from ethic.
And testing new ideas. But I have a general question: have any of
you wizards who run your own domains or otherwise use a switch [or
hub] *ever* had it just-quit?!
On 6/8/11 11:53 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 05:56:59PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
I'm still bringing back the dozens of things I removed from ethic.
And testing new ideas. But I have a general question: have any of
you wizards who run your own domains or otherwise use a
On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 12:18:52AM -0400, Jon Radel wrote:
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:18:52 -0400
From: Jon Radel j...@radel.com
Subject: Re: Long Day's Journey into Bleep
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
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On 6/8/11 11:53 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Wed
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 10:21:13PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 12:18:52AM -0400, Jon Radel wrote:
On 6/8/11 11:53 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:
I think I've just had ports die one by one on a switch until it no longer
worked. I don't think I've ever had the whole thing go
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