Re: ISP questions

2009-06-05 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Steve Bertrand : [snip] > Disclaimer: I work as a network engineer at a small ISP. From time to > time, I still have to answer the phone every once in a while > (unfortunately). > > I do not like dealing directly with users. Most of them complain, bitch > and snivel and have no re

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-05 Thread Steve Bertrand
Modulok wrote: > While it sounds pretty bad, I think my ISP takes the cake: > > - Regardless of the problem, their solution is to unplug the cable > modem, wait 30 seconds and plug it back in and hope for the best. Well, I don't know about cable, but this is the way DSL works. 90%+ of the issues

Getting old versions of FreeBSD

2009-06-05 Thread Frederique Rijsdijk
Hi, For some 'issue' I have to install an old version FreeBSD: 4.7-p28. The ISO of 4.7 I have found, but how to get to p28? Thanks, -- Frederique ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questio

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Valentin Bud wrote: > Hello community, > > I have an old computer (ASRock P4Dual-915GL) with Intel P4 > CPU at 3.0Ghz and 2Gb of RAM. > > I am asking the list maybe is somebody out there with a similar > configuration > and running FreeBSD on such a system as a File Server and Print Server > usin

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-05 Thread Steve Bertrand
itsemu wrote: > if your dealing with a isp such as a cable/dsl company, remember the > requirements to work there, they arent trained on anything besides windows.. Excuse me, unless you have ever worked at an ISP, might I kindly ask you to have some respect. (if you have, the call centre you likel

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread David Kelly
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 03:57:21PM +0300, Valentin Bud wrote: > Hello community, > > I have an old computer (ASRock P4Dual-915GL) with Intel P4 > CPU at 3.0Ghz and 2Gb of RAM. > > I am asking the list maybe is somebody out there with a similar > configuration and running FreeBSD on such a syste

Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Valentin Bud
Hello community, I have an old computer (ASRock P4Dual-915GL) with Intel P4 CPU at 3.0Ghz and 2Gb of RAM. I am asking the list maybe is somebody out there with a similar configuration and running FreeBSD on such a system as a File Server and Print Server using samba. What i mainly try to achi

Re: ICQ - IPFW

2009-06-05 Thread Ivailo Tanusheff
Hi, Generally you have 2 options: 1. To use ICQ over HTTPS connection, which means you should use Proxy server or permit https traffic out of your firewall/nat. 2. To use it directly. As you may use dynamic NAT, i.e. there will be not possible to have incomming connection on port 4000 and it wil

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-05 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:16:05PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 17:00:06 -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > Yes, I know. That is why some other additional for is also useful. > > I don't really propose changing man, but do often wish for some other > > form. > > Many programs

it is about installing FreeBSD on USB stick

2009-06-05 Thread Eric Hsieh
hello, this is my first time to ask a help from FreeBSD. I have a question about installing FreeBSD on USB stick. There are so many informations about how to install FreeBSD on USB stick from Internet, but I can not find out any information about follow : first, if i install FreeBSD on USB stick. C

Re: ICQ - IPFW

2009-06-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The question is, I'm looking for a rule in my IPFW script. Running 7.2 stable - ipfw configured in the kernel without nat. Because after some googl'in, i read it's dangerous to just open port 4000 udp. dangerous because of? are you running any insecure service on port 4000 udp? Of course ICQ ma

Portupgrade very slow upgrading gtk-sharp

2009-06-05 Thread Mike Clarke
I started portupgrade -a at midnight last night. It started to upgrade gtk-sharp-1.0.10 from _14 to _15 at 00:58 and is still running more than 9 hours later and clocking up 80% to 90% CPU on both cores of my 2.5GHz Athlon. curlew:/root# top 2 last pid: 47507; load averages: 2.00, 2.05, 2.

Re: Named ignoring forward-only zones?

2009-06-05 Thread Jeff Laine
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:53:38AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > For some reason, BIND 9 (FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE) isn't properly forwarding > queries. A snippet of named.conf: > > acl clients { > localnets; > localhost; > ::1; > 10.45.12/19; > };

ICQ - IPFW

2009-06-05 Thread Roy Stuivenberg
Hello, I want to start using ICQ (never did before). The question is, I'm looking for a rule in my IPFW script. Running 7.2 stable - ipfw configured in the kernel without nat. Because after some googl'in, i read it's dangerous to just open port 4000 udp. Any suggestions ? Regards, Roy.

pf nat dual gateways

2009-06-05 Thread Ghirai
Hi, I would need some help in getting this working. The idea is pretty simple, i have a box with 3 NICs; 2 for net pipes, and one for LAN. Routing and NAT works, however, i need that requests to u_ips always get NATed through u_if, and everything else through ext_if. As it is now, everything go

Re: pkg_deinstall: "delete all packages installed, except for X, Y and Z"

2009-06-05 Thread Valentin Bud
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 6:13 AM, Fbsd1 wrote: > Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >> ignore errors about package can't be deleted because X, Y or Z requires it. it's exactly what you want. pkg_delete `cat /tmp/pkglist` gives error 'no such package `cat >>> /tmp/pkglist` installed >>>

Re: n00b question regarding installation via serial console

2009-06-05 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 04 June 2009 17:28:56 Tim Judd wrote: > On 6/4/09, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >> Hello list, > >> > >> Is it possible to boot into the serial console from the installation > >> CD, or must boot.flp be used as per > > > > make your own CD > > > > add file boot.config containing just one l

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
in the service to know the meaning of your questions and the answers. Man, you're with the wrong ISP. Or maybe it's best ISP available there? :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-question

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
My isp have up to 1Gbyte/s costs 1000SEK a month 1Gbyte/s? Yes. it's 10Gbit/s No. So 1Gbyte or Gbit/s? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

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