Changing console refresh rate

2002-12-20 Thread Avleen Vig
This is getting quiet frustrating :-) I don't want to use X, because I like to use my lovely console :) Plus I'm only on a P233. I've compiled SC_PIXEL_MODE into my kernel, which means I can use vidcontrol to set the resolution to 800x600. Fantastic! Well, almost. When this happens, my video

Benefits of -fomit-frame-pointer

2002-12-24 Thread Avleen Vig
What kind of memory footprint reduction / speed increase can I expect if I compile with the -fomit-frame-pointer option? I already compile all of my ports with: -O2 -pipe -funroll-loops -ffast-math -march=pentium ... but I'me hearing mixed views about -fomit-frame-pointer. I understand I won't

Re: incoming bandwidth limiting using ipfilter

2003-01-03 Thread Avleen Vig
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Murat Bicer wrote: Is there anything that limits us from using ipfilter on top of this ipfw b/w control? Darren Reed, the owner of IPF is probably in the best position to answer that question. I posed it a week ot two ago on the ipf mailing list.. I'm waiting for a reply,

Re: incoming bandwidth limiting using ipfilter

2003-01-03 Thread Avleen Vig
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, randall ehren wrote: Darren could you answer this question please? Maybe we could get Phil to add the answer to the FAQ. http://www.google.com/search?q=ipfilter+ipfw+together -- http://false.net/ipfilter/2000_02/0407.html This is what we settled with eventually, but

Re: incoming bandwidth limiting using ipfilter

2003-01-03 Thread Avleen Vig
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, randall ehren wrote: not to stray too far, but if IPFW is set to allow all incoming packets and is only used for shaping, and you have ipfilter handling nat, then it seems it would just be: network card -- IPFW (traffic shape) -- IPF (filter+nat) -- userland i guess an

Re: out of inodes (4.7-stable shortly post-install)

2003-01-05 Thread Avleen Vig
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Eric Timme wrote: FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a89M44M37M54%1535 9983 13% / /dev/ad0s1e79M 4.0K72M 0% 2 102360% /tmp /dev/ad0s1f 886M 620M 195M76% 107214

Re: dummynet and ipfw

2003-01-05 Thread Avleen Vig
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, master wrote: Hi all i have a little problem with ipfw i have try the following command : ipfw add 100 pipe 1 ip from 192.168.1.5 to any and i have no more network then i try a ping and get ping : sendto : No buffer space invalide any idea how can i fix this? Yes, you

Re: console framebuffer

2003-01-07 Thread Avleen Vig
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Andrew Friedley wrote: I'm new to freebsd, coming from linux. In linux I use a 1600x1200 framebuffer console, is it possible to set up something like this in freebsd? I am not talking about X Windows, but increasing the size of the default 80x25 console. Probably one of

Stopping X binding to network interface

2003-04-02 Thread Avleen Vig
. I just don't want it to bind to that interface :-) -- Avleen Vig Say no to cheese-eating surrender-monkeys Systems AdminFast

Panic: ffs_clusteralloc: map mismatch

2002-11-04 Thread Avleen Vig
Maybe a question for freebsd-hackers.. not sure.. FreeBSD 4.4, P166, 128Mb, 3 HD's: ad0, ad1, ad4, as ata0-master, ata1-master and ata2-master. ata2-master is a Promise ata 100 controller (tx2 I think). For several months my server has been panicing, and I'm starting to think it's a bad

Re: Panic: ffs_clusteralloc: map mismatch

2002-11-04 Thread Avleen Vig
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Jett Tayer wrote: try cvsup'ng again. re make your world/kernel and see the results hope it will be fine... I had been having the problem for several months prior to that last cvsup I did. I don't think (looking back over the commit data) that canything's changed that

Getting the BIOS version without rebooting / 8Gb+ drives

2002-11-06 Thread Avleen Vig
Thre are utilities availible for Windows/DOS that allow you to get the BIOS and chipset versions etc from a command prompt. Some of these are written by the BIOS manufacturers or motherboard manufacturers but most are third party freeware jobs. Is anythign similar availible for FreeBSD? I have a

Re: FreeBSD Easy Server

2002-11-19 Thread Avleen Vig
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Pierrick Brossin wrote: Then don't enable one. A badly configured firewall is arguably worse than no firewall at all. wow no firewall is such a nice idea. just kidding.. your server is then open to anyone. E.. The only real benefits you get from a firewall are: 1)

Re: FreeBSD Easy Server

2002-11-19 Thread Avleen Vig
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Pierrick Brossin wrote: I would advice doing a test installation of FreeBSD (see www.freebsd.org/handbook) and having a go at installing the packages you need. What do you think? I already tried to make my own server but there were to many problem for not so much

Re: FreeBSD Easy Server

2002-11-19 Thread Avleen Vig
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Pierrick Brossin wrote: The first thing I said is I have a server at home which is SME and it is a distribution that stand on one CD and it can install a full server (IMAP,POP,SMTP,DNS,HTTP,FTP,SSH,) in 10-12 minutes .. Then you have a web interface to configure your

Re: FreeBSD Easy Server

2002-11-19 Thread Avleen Vig
E.. The only real benefits you get from a firewall are: 1) controlling which IP addresses can access a service 2) *maybe* bandwidth shaping. *maybe*. 3) packet re-writing. That's all ? That's all really! I thought the firewall was THE thing to have when you have a server which

Buf, Wired and Inact memory

2002-11-20 Thread Avleen Vig
I' asking here because I don't think the top an page is discriptive neough for people who 'just don't get it' ;) I understand that Inact memory is memory that has been requested by processes but not in use. Is this correct? I don't understand however, what Buf and Wired memory is used for. How

Re: FreeBSD as Desktop OS with support for Windows

2002-11-28 Thread Avleen Vig
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Roman Neuhauser wrote: I use TightVNC instead of vmware. Works quite fine, and it's almost free (GPL). As for office software: all my attempts to use various incarnations ended in disasters: [snip] so, my advice would be: vmware or vnc.

BIND9 port

2002-12-11 Thread Avleen Vig
Well, I know BINd8 ships with FreeBSD, but I wanted to install BIND9. So I installed the port. Unfortuantely it didn't tell me where it expects the namedb dir to be, it didn't put a startup script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d like other ports do.. Is this normal? Should I just create my own and wing

Re: IMP3 webmail + apache

2002-12-15 Thread Avleen Vig
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Doug Reynolds wrote: Does anyone know of any really good faqs to setup imp3 webmail with apache? The Stable branch comes with fairly good install instuctions. It tells you what you need to install before you install IMP. What's the problem? To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: Forcing a packet through an interface (OT?)

2005-07-11 Thread Avleen Vig
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 04:53:25PM -0300, Mario Lobo wrote: Forgive me if this is off-topic. How could I force a packet to go out through an interface, despite the default route? You have a couple of options. Look at CARP in 5.4, that might do what you want best. man 4 carp Also google for: