Re: CARP bridge

2009-05-01 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Hi, Sebastiaan van Erk wrote: So I don't really *NEED* the CARP ip address over the bridge (the static arp works, so I have a working solution, albeit an ugly one; an ARP request generates a reply from every member of the redundant cluster). Just a guess, you could try adding the VIP/32 to

Re: multiple PPPoE connections on one machine (DSL load balancing)

2009-05-07 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Jeff Croft wrote: Hello -- I'm configuring FreeBSD 7.1 as a router/load-balancer and I just got stuck. I know this sounds like a newbie question, but hear me out. I have three DSL line (ATT in SF Bay Area, business class) connected via ethernet to the box, and one more ethernet connected to

Re: Teaming NIC

2009-05-08 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Daniels Vanags wrote: FreeBSD 6.3 has new device called lagg(4). Lagg is a link aggregation and link failover interface. With lagg we can easily bond two NIC interfaces together. But how we can do NIC teaming in FreeBSD 6.2? Please help. Take a look at ng_fec, it implements Cisco's

Re: virtual network with qemu

2009-05-14 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
marco.borsat...@poste.it wrote: When the installation program asked for information about network configuration, as a first step, I chose DHCP configuration and, as usualy, the network has been set like this: IP 10.0.2.15/255.255.255.0 If I recall correctly qemu has a built-in DHCP server.

Re: virtual network with qemu

2009-05-14 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
marco.borsat...@poste.it wrote: First, thank you. You are right, qemu has an internal DHCP server, which should be perfect for me, becuse I would like to emulate a network without any contact with external (real) world. The problem is that my virtual PC can't ping the gateway. For my idea (this

Re: virtual network with qemu

2009-05-14 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
marco.borsat...@poste.it wrote: Thank you twice: the communication between 2 virtual PCs works. Now should I configure another virtual PC as a gateway with a netmask, say, 255.0.0.0? The virtual PC have a calss B netmask. Yes, read bellow. I will also try the tools I've suggested to me.

Re: proftpd TLS

2009-05-18 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
alexus wrote: i just enable TLS for my proftpd and in tls.log I'm getting following messages mod_tls/2.2.1[45739]: error locking passphrase into memory: Operation not permitted mod_tls/2.2.1[45739]: TLS/TLS-C requested, starting TLS handshake From the error message, I can suspect that proftpd

Re: pppoe routing problem, default route isnt used for some hosts

2009-05-29 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Fabian Holler wrote: Hello, I have an strange routing problem. I can't connect to some hosts in the internet till I add an explicit route for this hosts with my default gw as gateway. There aren't any other routes that could match the destination IP for non-working hosts. So the connection

Re: about using ppp over ethernet

2009-05-31 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Yavuz Maşlak wrote: I have a adsl modem. I am going to use freebsd as a router and firewall. ... What am I doing wrong? It is probably the firewall, it seems that you use firewall_type=closed. Could give us some more info about it? Which firewall do you use? what are your custom rules?

Re: Waiting for a process to die

2009-05-31 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Frank Shute wrote: On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 12:42:37PM -0700, Steven Schlansker wrote: Chris Rees wrote: [ `ps ax |grep pid | wc -l ` = 1 ] (echo done! | Mail -s PROC DONE kelly.terry.jo...@gmail.com) Not always going to work. For example, [ste...@scs:~]% ps ax | grep init 1 ?

Re: dual gateways

2009-05-31 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Tim Judd wrote: On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Nikos Vassiliadis nvass9...@gmx.com mailto:nvass9...@gmx.com wrote: Tim Judd wrote: I know it is not typical, but here's my setup. I have a private IP scope (/24 block) split up. 2 /25's I have a box that has

Re: is there a program to joinlines?

2009-06-01 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Wojciech Puchar wrote: I recently discovered it is a good thing to use a utility of some kind to joing the lines of a vi/vim-created file before using my you mean getting one line from line file+line one from other file and producing one line of output containing both man paste :)

Re: var socket in random directories

2009-06-02 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Chris Rees wrote: OK, so does anyone know why I get a socket called 'var' randomly appearing in directories? I always use ls -F, and it turns up as var=, as can be seen in my ports directory. [ch...@amnesiac]~% cd /usr/ports/ [ch...@amnesiac]/usr/ports% ls CHANGES arabic/

Re: Can a Bourn Shell Script put itself in the background?

2009-06-04 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Martin McCormick wrote: So, can I make a shell script background itself after starting? You could run all your code in a sub-shell: #!/bin/sh ( #your script here ) or in a shell function: old_script() { #your script here } old_script $* Perhaps the second way

Re: Set Terminal title in xfce to pwd

2009-06-07 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Daniel Underwood wrote: How can I change the Terminal title (the title shown on open instances of Terminal on the panel in xfce) to display *only* the present working directory. Currently they all show Terminal - dan...@bsdbox: ~, for example. That's shell dependent. You can change an xterm's

Re: Problem with jail connecting out

2009-06-17 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Erik Norgaard wrote: Steve Bertrand wrote: Erik Norgaard wrote: Erik Norgaard wrote: I have no problem connecting from the host to the jail, but the other way around doesn't work. Also, related, how do I configure multiple interfaces in a jail? Second problem solved, starting jail with

Re: Gateway load balance

2009-06-17 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Gary Gatten wrote: I meant, the original source flows are nat'd to whatever outbound interface ip they are RRLB to. That way any internal flow can use any isp connection. Most of my interesting routing, NAT, etc I do with Ci$co so not all that up on BSD's options. Yes, works with ci$co,

Re: Gateway load balance

2009-06-18 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Raul I. Becette wrote: ifconfig_nfe0=192.168.10.9 255.255.0.0 If I recall correctly the correct syntax would be: ifconfig_nfe0=192.168.10.9 netmask 255.255.0.0 or (the syntax I prefer) ifconfig_nfe0=192.168.10.9/16 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Configuring VLANs - Why is IP address require on NIC connected to Trunk?

2009-06-18 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Geoff Roberts wrote: I find I have to give the ext0 interface an IP address in order for routing and packet filtering to work on the attached VLANs. a) Is there a way to configure this so that I don't have to give ext0 an IP address? Yes, you just have to up the interface: ifconfig_em0=up

off topic: unmanageable switch?

2009-06-19 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Hi, This has nothing to do with FreeBSD. I have to buy 3-4 24/16 port ethernet switches for a school. Could you recommend a brand/model? I don't know if such recommendations should be done off list? My list of priorities, with 1 being the most important. 1. Price 2. Stability 3. No smart

Re: off topic: unmanageable switch?

2009-06-19 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Jerry B. Altzman wrote: Do you require Gigabit ethernet or no? That, I don't know yet... but given that they want to build a solid infrastructure that will be worth of using for the years to come, most probably yes. Environmental conditions will be normal, everything will be indoor. And I

Re: off topic: unmanageable switch?

2009-06-22 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Thanks everybody for the info! I'll probably go with the TP-Links. Nikos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: off topic: unmanageable switch?

2009-06-22 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
David N wrote: 2009/6/20 Nikos Vassiliadis nvass9...@gmx.com: Jerry B. Altzman wrote: Do you require Gigabit ethernet or no? That, I don't know yet... but given that they want to build a solid infrastructure that will be worth of using for the years to come, most probably yes. Environmental

Re: PPPoE trouble handshaking

2009-06-25 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
budsz wrote: I got problem with FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE as router. I use TPLINK modem as bridging to my box. Could you run tcpdump -ni rl1 while trying and post it to the list? Nikos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: PPPoE trouble handshaking

2009-06-25 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
budsz wrote: On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Nikos Vassiliadisnvass9...@gmx.com wrote: budsz wrote: I got problem with FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE as router. I use TPLINK modem as bridging to my box. Could you run tcpdump -ni rl1 while trying and post it to the list? If problem appear, I will do

Re: PPPoE trouble handshaking

2009-06-27 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
budsz wrote: On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Nikos Vassiliadisnvass9...@gmx.com wrote: budsz wrote: On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Nikos Vassiliadisnvass9...@gmx.com wrote: budsz wrote: I got problem with FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE as router. I use TPLINK modem as bridging to my box. Could you

Re: Failing to show 'Password:' prompt

2009-07-01 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Manolis Kiagias wrote: This morning my server was unresponsive both from ssh and through http. The only thing that is different on this system on a 1st of month, is a dump job that runs through periodic (on a mostly inactive system). Visiting the console, I discovered the system was still up

Re: module_register: module probe already exists!

2009-07-14 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Robert Huff wrote: sem_load=YES You should remove this line, since it's now built in the GENERIC kernel and hence the warning message. Nikos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: PPPoE server (high traffic in WDM network)

2009-07-16 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Michelle Konzack wrote: I am ongoing to install a CWDM (1GE) and DWDM (10GE) network for the Alvarion BreezeACCESS VL (38 base stations) and more then 200 Iskratel FTTH DSLAMS of 96 ports (each with 100MBit, but only one 1GE Upstream) each. So, you'll have 96*200 possible PPP clients.

Re: FreeBSD FIBs (setfib) - How to modify?

2009-07-16 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Brent Bloxam wrote: The documentation on FIBs is pretty slim unless I've been looking in the wrong places, all I've seen are a few mentions in errata and release notes. setfib(1) doesn't offer much in the way of associated commands, and definitely doesn't explain how to actually work with a FIB.

Re: FreeBSD FIBs (setfib) - How to modify?

2009-07-16 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Brent Bloxam wrote: Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: Brent Bloxam wrote: The documentation on FIBs is pretty slim unless I've been looking in the wrong places, all I've seen are a few mentions in errata and release notes. setfib(1) doesn't offer much in the way of associated commands, and definitely

Re: Two VPN via two DSL lines to one ISP

2009-07-22 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Anton wrote: Hello freebsd-questions, Have one ISP and two lines from him. Connection to Internet are made via=PN. Could load-balancing be realized with help of mpd5 or some other util=ty, which provides VPN connections? With mpd you can combine several ppp links in to one. This

Re: Two VPN via two DSL lines to one ISP

2009-07-22 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Anton wrote: Asked tech's of ISP - they said that they do not dupport multilink ppp You can achieve almost the same effect with the aid of a firewall. There many posts/tutorials/examples on the net, regarding load sharing and (pf|ipf|ipfw). Try to adapt one to your setup and post your

Re: ng_netflow and ipv6

2009-07-23 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Reinhard Haller wrote: I'm missing ipv6 traffic (all ssh-traffic is going over ipv6) in the filtered netflow output. I've checked the netflow data with tcpdump/wireshark, there is no ipv6 netflow monitored. ng_netflow implements netflow version 5, which doesn't support IPv6. Nikos

Re: How to change default source address?

2009-07-23 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
luc...@lastdot.org wrote: Hi guys, I need to change the default source address on a freebsd server. My situation is somehow similar to this (http://marc.info/?l=freebsd-questionsm=122535960804508w=2). In linux i can easily do it like: ip ro replace default via 10.10.10.1 src a.b.c.d (where

Re: PPPoE server (high traffic in WDM network)

2009-07-23 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Hello Nikos, Hi, I just saw your answer while browsing. I am not on i...@... Please CC questi...@. Am 2009-07-16 12:27:06, schrieb Nikos Vassiliadis: Michelle Konzack wrote: I am ongoing to install a CWDM (1GE) and DWDM (10GE) network for the Alvarion BreezeACCESS VL (38 base stations

PPPoE server (high traffic in WDM network)

2009-07-25 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Hello Michelle, I think you better ask about the performance you should expect out of a PPPoE server on the mpd forum. There people on the forum with real numbers. If I go with 1 U Sun Fire X4100M2 the Opteron has 4 Cores and 4 threads per core (AFAIK there is a 8 threads version too) I

Re: freebsd-update: from 7.1-STABLE to 7.2-RELEASE?

2009-07-25 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Axel wrote: From now on, I want to use freebsd-update to simplify the process and follow the RELEASE branch (+patches) instead. But it seems that freebsd-update cannot help me upgrade from 7.1-STABLE to 7.2-RELEASE. Any tips on how to make the transition to RELEASE? You must use CVSup

Re: Network card Intel and 802.1P tag

2009-08-05 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Andrey O.Sokolov wrote: Any idea how I can see 802.1P tag on em? You should, I guess, with no extra steps. Perhaps the em driver has some hardware capability, which set the priority tag to zero? Is the vlan hardware processing enabled? Could you post the output of ifconfig em0? Nikos

Re: Network card Intel and 802.1P tag

2009-08-05 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Gary Gatten wrote: Not ALL chipsets / drivers support 802.1Q / p , maybe this is one of them? The vlan driver handles tagging itself in software. You don't need support by the hardware driver or the NIC itself. That said, Intel NICs are known to work correctly and support dot1Q tags natively

Re: Network card Intel and 802.1P tag

2009-08-05 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Andrey O.Sokolov wrote: Is the vlan hardware processing enabled? How I can enable this processing? ifconfig em0 vlanhwtag enables vlan processing in hw ifconfig em0 -vlanhwtag disables vlan processing in hw Maybe one these will work correctly without the zeroing effect. Perhaps off topic,

Re: [?? Probable Spam] Re: Network card Intel and 802.1P tag

2009-08-05 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Andrey O.Sokolov wrote: I tried both variant on both NIC - fxp and em The result doesn't change ;( You should post to net@ and maybe the maintainer will help you. Include pciconf. Perhaps off topic, but why are you interested in priority tags, since FreeBSD will silently ignore them? I

Re: need help with pf configuration

2011-10-09 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 10/9/2011 10:39 AM, Victor Sudakov wrote: Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: I have a configuration with 2 inside interfaces, 1 outside and 1 dmz interface. The traffic should be able to flow 1) from inside1 to any (and back) 2) from inside2 to any (and back) 3) from dmz to outside only (and

Re: Turning system accounting data into money

2011-10-11 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 10/11/2011 5:06 PM, Polytropon wrote: This is _not_ a spam message trying to sell something stupid to the list. I'm just searching for a solution to turn consumed computing resources into a number and a currency symbol. :-) Reason: A growing amount of (my) customers seems to like this

Re: Very large swap

2011-10-14 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 10/14/2011 8:08 AM, Dennis Glatting wrote: This is kind of stupid question but at a minimum I thought it would be interesting to know. What is the limitations in terms of swap devices under RELENG_8 (or 9)? A single swap dev appears to be limited to 32GB (there are truncation messages on

Re: radiusd-cistron

2011-11-20 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 11/19/2011 10:38 PM, Jim Pazarena wrote: I recently switched from FBSD 7.0 i386 to FBSD 8.2 amd64 my radius only sees garbage in place of the password, so no one can authenticate. Since I changed both OS (7.0-8.2) AND platform (i386-amd64), I am unsure where to start looking for an

Re: Do you run OSSEC on 9.0?

2011-11-24 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Since /dev contains a special filesystem which cannot be used for simple files and directories, I would say that the IDS needs some knowledge about it and generic file-checking rules don't apply there. This sounds like a false alert, something must have changed from 8 to 9 and/or the ossec port

Re: Disabling geom_journal

2011-12-13 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 12/13/2011 5:59 PM, Vincent Hoffman wrote: Hi all, I'm sure I have seen this come up before but a google doesnt help. I am trying to disable gjournal on a disk so i can move to suj as part of moving on to the 9.x series, I have umounted the FS but when i try to stop the journal it

Re: Forward error correction routines?

2011-12-14 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 12/14/2011 5:45 AM, Dennis Glatting wrote: I am looking for /any/ forward error correction code under FreeBSD, whether Hamming Codes, Golay Codes, Reed-Solomon, BCH codes, etc. or convolution encoders/decoders. All I've found is: * libfec, which only runs under i386 (I am 64 bit), and *

Re: 2 distinct DSL lines with same endpoint (8-STABLE)

2012-01-09 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 1/9/2012 10:20 PM, Christoph Egger wrote: Hi all! I'm having a FreeBSD 8 gateway that is supposed to do NAT/firewall stuff with internet coming through 2 distinct DSL modems from the same carrier. Unfortunately I can only run ppp on one of these lines as the endpoint address for both

Re: can not destroy ng interface

2012-01-11 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 1/12/2012 7:53 AM, Коньков Евгений wrote: Hi, Freebsd-questions. # ifconfig ng0 ng0: flags=88d1UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,NOARP,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1400 nd6 options=29PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL meta-up# ifconfig ng0 destroy ifconfig: SIOCIFDESTROY: Invalid

Re: some kind of binary sed(1) command

2012-02-02 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 2/2/2012 8:22 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, I have a normal ASCII file wich has in some places two lines of '*', separated by an empty line, i.e. \n *\n \n *\n \n and I want to substitute the \n between the star lines by \f; the 'binary'

Re: cvsdown of a port

2005-05-25 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Wednesday 25 May 2005 13:49, Erik Nrgaard wrote: Hi, I have upgraded my Eterm to 9.3 using ports only to learn that this version breaks dead keys. The problem is fixed in their current version but this has not made it into the ports tree. Now, I'd like to downgrade to the previous

anoncvs1.freebsd.org problem?

2005-05-26 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Hello all, Is there any disk space problem in anoncvs1.freebsd.org? I can not update the ports tree and I get an error message No space left on device. At first I thought it was my box, but I have plenty of space.( nik:0:~$ df -hi /tmp /usr Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused

Re: Token Ring (really)

2012-04-08 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 4/8/2012 4:41 PM, Jay West wrote: Adam wrote... Otherwise, it's time to abandon steamships for airplanes. Sounds like you have a primed business opportunity just waiting to be exploited. --- Actually, this is for a historical re-creation project. Airplanes would be entirely

Re: VLANs, default route not working on boot

2012-04-20 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 4/20/2012 9:54 PM, Chad M Stewart wrote: cloned_interfaces=vlan4 vlan7 ifconfig_vlan4=inet 192.168.4.21 netmask 255.255.255.0 vlan 4 vlandev em0 ifconfig_vlan7=inet 192.168.7.21 netmask 255.255.255.0 vlan 7 vlandev em0 ifconfig_vlan7=alias 192.168.7.31 netmask 255.255.255.255

Re: Regarding PCI-E error display in FreeBSD

2012-05-23 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 5/23/2012 1:45 PM, subramani.p wrote: Does FreeBSD has provision to display PCI-E errors. we are observing a FreeBSD OS hang while performing a phy break of an expander during IOs on the drives attached to the expander. The same test when run under linux we could see Linux OS popping up

Re: fsck on a mounted fs as read-only

2012-05-31 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 5/31/2012 12:19 PM, dmi...@zhigulinet.ru wrote: Good afternoon. Could not tell whether you can run fsck on checking mounted file system as read-only, if prior to that with which the parameters ftp # mount ... / dev/aacd0 on / var / ftp (ufs, NFS exported, local, read-only) Could you copy

Re: /var/crash handling

2006-08-18 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Sunday 06 August 2006 22:09, Anthony Agelastos wrote: In doing some poking around on my server, I noticed that I am using 926 MB in my /var folder (the partition is at 75% capacity). So, I dug a little deeper and a huge majority of this is in the /var/crash folder; I have two vmcore files

Re: Is stdout from /etc/rc captured anywhere?

2006-08-22 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Tuesday 22 August 2006 03:13, David Thompson wrote: During boot, does FreeBSD capture the output of /etc/rc anywhere? no, I think... dmesg is for the kernel only. syslogd is not used to capture simple 'echo' commands from /etc/rc. If you can't see the physical console as the system

Re: src version

2006-08-25 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Friday 25 August 2006 08:46, Vlad GURDIGA wrote: Hello, After I do a: bsd# cvsup ports-supfile I do a bsd# pkg_version -vol \ to see if any of my installed ports have newer versions. After I do a: bsd# cvsup stable-supfile is there any way to see the same information for the

Re: Various package/ports problems

2006-08-30 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Monday 28 August 2006 23:59, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Hi, I inherited a FreeBSD 4.8 box that had a lot of out of date ports on it. in trying to fix some of this, i seem to have screwed up the

Re: Any suggestion regarding /DEV wipe out on freebsd 4.7?

2006-08-31 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Thursday 31 August 2006 09:29, babak badaei wrote: Hello, A few days ago I was not able to log into my machine using SSH. I got this following message Server refused to allocate pty. I was, somewhat fortunately, able to log using SCP. So SCP works. The file system looked good for the most

Re: Getting GELI Keys from Floppy

2006-09-07 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Thursday 07 September 2006 00:00, Frank Steinborn wrote: Hello, i want to encrypt my HDD's with GELI (not the root-fs, though). I want to do the encryption without password, just with a key. The key should be stored in a floppy disk, and the read should be read automatically on boot, from

Re: FTP server behind router/gateway

2006-09-15 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Thursday 14 September 2006 17:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a FreeBSD 6.1 box running behind a router/gateway. When it tries to go into passive mode, it returns it's internal 192.168. ip address to the client which the client stupidly uses to try to connect to. I've confirmed this

Re: Nanobsd and CF geometry

2006-09-18 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Thursday 14 September 2006 09:54, Philippe Lang wrote: Hi, I'm trying to flash Nanobsd on a Compact Flash which is not listed in /usr/src/tools/tools/nanobsd/FlashDevice.sub. Does anyone know how to calculate NANO_MEDIASIZE, NANO_HEADS and NANO_SECTS for a specific CF, in my case a

Re: Packet loss simulation with ALTQ

2006-09-20 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Tuesday 19 September 2006 18:24, Norberto Meijome wrote: hi there :) I was planning to migrate a 4.11 firewall using a combo of ipf/ipnat and ipfw pipe/dummynets to pf + ALTQ. pf/ipf/ipfw dummynet/ALTQ are available since 5.3-R if I recall correctly. One thing I haven't figured out how

Re: Packet loss simulation with ALTQ

2006-09-20 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Wednesday 20 September 2006 15:50, Norberto Meijome wrote: gotcha, so i may end up using 2 firewalls anyway... :-) I think I may go with ipfw and dummynet to keep it to one set I'll have to read on some comparisons before making up my mind... Perhaps you can combine ipfw/dummynet and

Re: Dummynet Question

2006-09-26 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Tuesday 26 September 2006 05:00, Sushant Sharma wrote: Hi all, I have installed dummynet on a machine-2 which I am using to introduce delay between the packets that I'll be sending from machine-1 to machine-3. I am using ping to confirm that ICMP/TCP packets are getting delayed. I know

Re: Creating New Users over Telnet/SSH

2006-09-27 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Tuesday 26 September 2006 18:29, Derek Ragona wrote: [snip] However you will need to replace the normal process running the login (telnetd or sshd) and pass the login information to that daemon or create a new user depending on the input data. No, you can force a default shell without

Re: Creating New Users over Telnet/SSH

2006-09-28 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Wednesday 27 September 2006 18:10, John Cruz wrote: Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: On Tuesday 26 September 2006 18:29, Derek Ragona wrote: [snip] No, you can force a default shell without modifications. Check out login.conf(5) and shell variable. However, the original post implies little

Re: need help with ppp

2006-10-03 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Tuesday 03 October 2006 14:55, KHOO Guan_Chen wrote: Sorry for using up bandwidth. I cannot connect to my ISP with FreeBSD (6.0). The ISP is not using PAP/CHAP in my case, but apparently something very old. Using minicom I can see that 1. my modem is connected to /dev/cuad0 2. after i

Re: FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE : rm swapfile after swapoff can't release the disk space

2006-10-04 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Wednesday 04 October 2006 16:55, Honest Qiao wrote: Description: Several months ago , I read the follow article, and add a 12G swapfile. The article url is http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/adding-swap-space .html The swapfile is /usr/swap0 , and I have a swap

Re: Multi-CPU Question

2006-10-16 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Monday 16 October 2006 12:26, Payne wrote: Where in /proc can I see that? Unlike Linux, FreeBSD shows only process and kernel thread information in procfs. The equivalent interface for seeing/changing system options is sysctl. Try sysctl hw | less. For example: root:0:~# sysctl -d hw.ncpu

Re: Can a home LAN server use a jail as a router?

2010-12-07 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 12/7/2010 8:15 PM, Xn Nooby wrote: I hope this helps you in your investigation(s). Yes, thank you and the previous poster. It sounds like my outer box needs to be the router, and everything else should be a jail. I will do some more reading up on jails. Thanks! You can create infinitely

Re: FTP server link aggregation

2010-12-16 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 12/15/2010 3:11 PM, Matthew Law wrote: I have a single FreeBSD box acting as an FTP server for multiple FreeBSD and Linux clients on the same /24 subnet (all gigabit ethernet). It is currently connected by just one of it's two gig ethernet ports. I also have two cisco switches with an

Re: How to label a GELI device

2011-01-25 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
J. Porter Clark wrote: I have an encrypted partition, /dev/da0s1d. I can use geli attach da0s1d and obtain a device /dev/da0s1d.eli, which is a UFS filesystem. All that works just fine. I'd like to label /dev/da0s1d so that I don't have to refer to the exact drive number, etc., which might

Re: Routed and netmask...

2007-02-05 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Saturday 03 February 2007 22:08, Thiago Esteves de Oliveira wrote: Hi, I'm using FreeBSD 6.2 Stable with routed to connect networks(gateway) THE INTERNET | | | eee.eee.eee.0/26 |

Re: PF slowing down file copies

2007-02-21 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 01:21, José Pablo Fernández wrote: My problem is that when I copy a file from one network to the other, the first 128KB seems to be copied instantaneously, the second 128KB take more than two minutes and I've seen the third 128KB being copied very rarely. This

Re: ipfw questions

2007-02-26 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Sunday 25 February 2007 13:33, Curby wrote: I'm using IPFW2 on a Mac, but hopefully these questions are general enough for this list. First, is there any reason not to prefer from any to any over from any to me when adding rules to allow access to local services? Some ipfw

Re: Hardware Problem - FreeBSD 6.2

2007-03-01 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Thursday 01 March 2007 16:10, Rômulo Lima wrote: Hi, Good morning, my name is Rômulo Lima, I had a problem when make an upgrade in my Freebsd Server from version 6.1 to 6.2. Before upgrade my SATA disc controller was working normally: atapci1: AcerLabs M5287 SATA150 controller port

Re: Best anoncvs Site to Update 6.2 Sources

2007-03-01 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Thursday 01 March 2007 17:00, Martin McCormick wrote: After installing FreeBSD6.2 from the ISO image, I figured that cvsup would be the best way to update the new system and apply the patches which have come out since the image was created. I think I have cvsup ready to go, but I

Re: RAID5 degraded - system hangs

2007-03-05 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Monday 05 March 2007 17:22, Michel, Dietmar wrote: [snip] Now I made an upgrade using 4 SATA II disks connected to a promise TX4310 Raid controller. This must be a software RAID controller. It uses software in your OS to do the several RAID levels. The controller simply acts as a RAID

Re: RAID5 degraded - system hangs

2007-03-06 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Tuesday 06 March 2007 10:16, Michel, Dietmar wrote: The Promise Tx4310 has to be a HW raid controller - hopefully ;-)) Sorry, but it seems that's not the case... Supporting RAID levels 0, 1, 5 and 10, the FastTrak TX4310 incorporates Promise's innovative new software RAID 5 solution ...

Re: mount_smb shows no files

2007-03-08 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 18:35, Daniel Feenberg wrote: We are starting to use mount_smbfs to mount backup shares on our Windows XP systems. Formerly we were using Linux successfully, but now many of our mounts succeed, but don't show any files. We can't tell what might be different

Re: CARP and FreeBSD

2007-03-08 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Thursday 08 March 2007 08:59, Elliot Finley wrote: Hello, Is CARP functional in FreeBSD 6.x? I'm not able to find any docs on it in the Handbook or by doing a site restricted search on google. there you go then. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=carp Nikos

Re: Two ethernet one IP load balancing ?

2007-03-08 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Thursday 08 March 2007 14:03, Frank Bonnet wrote: My server (mailhub) has two gigaethernet interfaces and I would like to use both of them with ONE IP Address to speed up LAN accesses. Why do you think that the network is the bottleneck in your setup? Do you have a system that can process

Re: Two ethernet one IP load balancing ?

2007-03-08 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Thursday 08 March 2007 14:32, Frank Bonnet wrote: Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: Why do you think that the network is the bottleneck in your setup? Do you have a system that can process - in some way - 1Gb of email per second? That is not ONLY smtp traffic we extensively use IMAP

Re: Whois borked.

2007-03-08 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Thursday 08 March 2007 17:23, B H wrote: Hello. I´ve upgraded from 6.1-stable to 6.2-STABLE and now whois don't like me any more. $ whois ipnumber whois: whois.arin.net: servname not supported for ai_socktype Is it configured to the services DB? Do a grep whois /etc/services. You

Re: Kill a hanged disk i/o process...

2007-03-09 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Thursday 08 March 2007 13:49, Modulok wrote: To the best of my knowledge, most processes can be killed explicitly by kill -s KILL; There are a few which cannot, such as disk i/o processes. The idea here is data integrity. A process might be in cannot-be-killed condition while in kernel e.g.

Re: Kill a hanged disk i/o process...

2007-03-09 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
-killable process? What makes you believe there is another official way to kill a process? Perhaps you should ask How do I work-around a situation where my rm, cp, whatever hang forever?, if that's what you are looking for. -Modulok- On 3/9/07, Nikos Vassiliadis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Assemblers for FreBSD

2007-03-12 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Sunday 11 March 2007 18:52, Patrick Bowen wrote: If one wanted to learn Assembly Language Programming, would he be better served starting with as(1) or nasm(1)? as(1) is the assembler used in the building procedure, making it your logical choice for operating system programming. It uses the

Re: Kill a hanged disk i/o process...

2007-03-12 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
, Nikos Vassiliadis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 09 March 2007 15:28, Modulok wrote: Thank you for your reply, it was quite informative and very much appreciated, but the underlying question remains un-answered: How do you kill a hanged process that (seemingly) cannot be killed

Re: fsck, soft-updates, and snapshots

2007-03-13 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 05:52, David Cecil wrote: Can anyone tell me src/sys/ufs/ffs/README.softupdates and README.snapshots are up to date? The former is dated June 2000, so it's almost 7 years old. The snapshots readme is only 2 years younger and mentions the code being alpha-test.

Re: Video capture.

2007-03-16 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Friday 16 March 2007 12:22, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Friday, March 16, 2007 a las 11:16:33AM +0100, Albert Shih escribió: Hi all I search some software can capture all my action on my computer's screen directly throught X11 (without sound of course). Something like the classic

Re: bcwipe doesn't wipe any block device

2007-03-16 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Wednesday 14 March 2007 16:44, Thomas Vogt wrote: Hello Has someone ever tried to wipe a block device on freebsd 6.2 with bcwipe? I tried bcwipe -bvmd /dev/aacd1 I get: Writing to /dev/aacd1: Invalid argument I tried slices too but it i got the same error. dd can overwrite my

Re: config version = 600003, version required = 600004

2007-03-16 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Friday 16 March 2007 15:33, Luca Masini wrote: Hi, I tried to compile a reference GENERIC kernel from 7-CURRENT as explainde in an article. I downloaded the CVS repository and then co a local copy of 7-CURRENT in a user directory (as explained etc.) How useful is a 7-CURRENT kernel

Re: IPv4 loopback

2007-03-19 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Monday 19 March 2007 04:59, Keith E. Brandt, M.D. wrote: While trying to configure ntp, I discovered that my IPv4 loopback was not being configured. I can manually restart it with 'ifconfig lo0 add 127.0.0.1', however, it does not survive a reboot. Here's the output of ipconfig

Re: Some FreeBSD Kernel book

2007-03-20 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Sunday 18 March 2007 15:08, Robe wrote: Hi, I want to know if there's some free PDF book available that describe the Kernel and the Kernel's APIs. Section 9 of the manual is dedicated to the kernel. It describes the API. It's a collection of roughly a thousand files, which you can convert

Re: IPv6 Tunnel issues...

2007-03-20 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Tuesday 20 March 2007 17:01, Eric F Crist wrote: On 3/20/07, Eric F Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My ISP tells me it should be prefixlen 126, not 128 On 3/20/07, Björn König [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric F Crist schrieb: [...] I'm performing the configuration as follows:

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