Errors Using tcpdump with tcpshow

2006-08-01 Thread N. Harrington
Hello For some time now I have been watching tcp dumps by sending them through tcpshow -cooked. This has worked quite well on BSD 4.X and also I believe 5.2.1. However, when I tried to do this on a 5.5 or 6.1 server, I get an error. Can anyone help with why I might be getting these errors

Re: SATA Cables Suck!

2006-08-01 Thread N. Harrington
--- jdow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] The number one problem I've had with SATA RAIDs has been the cables! 4 times I've lost arrays because the cables came loose or some other stupid problem with the cables. I need a vendor that has high quality

Need Advice for Tuning NFS to place nice with a Netapp

2006-08-01 Thread N. Harrington
Hi I have several web servers that are attached to a Netapp (network appliance) unit via NFS-3. A few servers are 5.5 and a few are 6.1 for comparison testing. All seem to have lousy performance. When going through the issues with Netapp, the reasons given were that we have too many

Re: best way to copy from one fbsd box to another

2006-08-01 Thread N. Harrington
--- David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am installing a new server and have to copy many files from old server to new. I have connected a windows box to each via samba, and am dragging from one to the other via the windows box. This might seem like a silly question, but what is the

Re: Need Advice for Tuning NFS to place nice with a Netapp

2006-08-01 Thread N. Harrington
--- Jeremy Kister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/1/2006 11:05 PM, N. Harrington wrote: My current mount options are: filer:/vol/fvol31/home/13/13 nfs ro,noatime,-r=32768,-T,-b,-R0,-i,-D2,-L 0 0 for the same performance reason, mine is: netapp1:/vol/vol0/export /export nfs

Re: Need Advice for Tuning NFS to place nice with a Netapp

2006-08-02 Thread N. Harrington
--- Freminlins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nicole, On 02/08/06, N. Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have several web servers that are attached to a Netapp (network appliance) unit via NFS-3. A few servers are 5.5 and a few are 6.1 for comparison testing. All seem to have

Re: 4TB filesystem

2006-08-02 Thread N. Harrington
--- Lutz Rabing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, is someone still working on the bigdisk project? it becomes more an more easy to create disk arrays bigger than 2TB ... it would be a really nice to have feature. lutz Nice to have, but I wouldn't want to fsck it! :) Nicole

Problem using tcpdump with tcpshow (from ports) - get errors

2006-08-03 Thread N. Harrington
Hello For some time now I have been watching tcp dumps by sending them through tcpshow -cooked. (from the ports tree) This has worked quite well on BSD 4.X and also I believe 5.2.1. However, now when I try to do this on a 5.5 or 6.1 server, I get an error. Can anyone help with why

Is the new Qlogic QLA 2462 fibre channel card supported?

2007-01-17 Thread N. Harrington
Hello I am curious if the new Qlogic QLA2462 fibre channel card is supported yet. I do not see it listed in the hardware support page, but since it's so new I was curious if it may just not have made it in yet. If it is not, what would it take to get a driver for this? I could likely get a

Problem with Serverworks HT1000 serial ATA support - Tyan S3992 Motherboard

2007-02-06 Thread N. Harrington
Hello I am testing out a new tyan motherboard that uses the next generation of AMD chips and the Serverworks Chipset. It seems that I can reliably crash it with a simple bonnie++ test if I set: /boot/loader.conf - Used for DiskD for Squid kern.ipc.msgtql=2048 I am using FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE

Problem with Serverworks HT1000 serial ATA support - Tyan S3992 Motherboard

2007-02-06 Thread N. Harrington
Hello. I am testing out a new tyan motherboard that uses the next generation of AMD chips and the Serverworks Chipset. It seems that I can reliably crash it with a simple bonnie++ test if I set: /boot/loader.conf - Used for DiskD for Squid kern.ipc.msgtql=2048 I am using FreeBSD

FreeBSD-Current 7.0 reporting SCSI drives at 1/2 that of 6.2

2007-08-13 Thread N. Harrington
Hello I seem to be having a problem similiar to one I found also reported back in April. I am running/testing FreeBSD-CURRENT 7.0 Dated Fri Jul 27. amd64 On boot-up, SCSI disk speed being reported as 1/2 that found when using 6.2. It also seems to be somewhat unstable. FreeBSD 7 da0:

What is a sane setting for maxdsize when running amd64? it seems many normal suggestions do not apply.

2007-08-21 Thread N. Harrington
Hello I feel stupid, but I am confused about kern.maxdsiz (or datasize via limits command) on FreeBSD amd64. I have seen many posts and suggestions to raise it to 1G. However it seems this only applies to i386. By default, on servers I have with 4G of physical memory, and 2X that of swap, I

Re: What is a sane setting for maxdsize when running amd64? it seems many normal suggestions do not apply.

2007-08-23 Thread N. Harrington
--- JoaoBR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 21 August 2007 20:54:36 N. Harrington wrote: Hello I feel stupid, but I am confused about kern.maxdsiz (or datasize via limits command) on FreeBSD amd64. I have seen many posts and suggestions to raise it to 1G. However it seems

How to solve mysterious system lockups?

2007-06-04 Thread N. Harrington
Hello I have several systems that are used as squid caching servers. I have some systems that use SCSI disks and some that use SATA disks. They are identical in everyway except for the sata vs SCSI drives. At random times, the sata based systems seem to be freezing. You can ping them and

Re: How to solve mysterious system lockups?

2007-06-04 Thread N. Harrington
--- Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: N. Harrington wrote: Hello I have several systems that are used as squid caching servers. I have some systems that use SCSI disks and some that use SATA disks. They are identical in everyway except for the sata vs SCSI drives

Re: How to solve mysterious system lockups?

2007-06-05 Thread N. Harrington
--- Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: N. Harrington wrote: --- Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: N. Harrington wrote: Hello I have several systems that are used as squid caching servers. I have some systems that use SCSI disks and some that use SATA

Re: How to solve mysterious system lockups?

2007-06-07 Thread N. Harrington
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 19:46:30 -0700 (PDT) N. Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I have several systems that are used as squid caching servers. I have some systems that use SCSI disks and some that use SATA disks

How can I make sure traffic that comes in on one ethernet port/ip goes out that port/IP?

2006-11-27 Thread N. Harrington
Hello I have a server I am using as a load balancer that has multiple ports. I have set sysctl net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_movements=0 so I could have the multiple ports on the same lan. However, I need to make sure that what comes in via one port/IP also goes out the same port/IP address. I

How does one bond two interfaces together to share bandwidth?

2006-12-13 Thread N. Harrington
I am trying to figure out how to bond or combine 2 interfaces together. Such that they each share traffic. I have tried one way, however when I use it I seem to have an odd broadcast occuring on my switch. Such that I am seeing incoming traffic hit some other ports on the switch. Can someone

How does one route traffic to always go in and out via the same port/ip?

2006-12-13 Thread N. Harrington
Fron a previous post I found I cannot solve my problem via port bonding since I am stuck with a switch that does not support Port bonding or trunking, I would like to then try to setup various interfaces with various IP's to help balance the traffic. Basicly as normal, assign say: ifconfig