Kenji M wrote:
Hello network gurus,
I'm looking for a good baseline ipfw shaping policy configuration for
people who are using small upstream DSL bandwidth. I have 3Mbit
downstream and 768K upstream and I use a ipf for natting and ipfw
with dummynet to do traffic shaping. Considering a 750KB
Joseph Koenig wrote:
I know this is an issue that comes up a lot, but I wanted to get an opinion
from some people on the list. We, along with everyone else, have TONS of
SPAM hit our server. Unfortunately, we haven't found any good way to reduce
it. We're using ORDB and SpamCop, but neither are
Hi list
Lets say you have this in rc.conf:
ifconfig_dc0=inet 1.2.3.4 netmask 255.255.255.0
ifconfig_dc1=DHCP
default_router=1.2.3.254
The network on dc1 is 192.168.0.0/24 with the default router on that
subnet being 192.168.0.254.
If I reboot the box, dhclient will set default router to
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
There's nothing special that you *need* to do for restoring to a Vinum
volume. There are, however, things that are important when restoring
system components. In particular, if you restore /usr/lib you'll
replace the C library /usr/lib/libc.so. It's then possible to
Duane Winner wrote:
Hello all again,
I'm finally getting my arms around FreeBSD and the updating processes
and tools. But I'm still trying to come up with good
habits/methods/instructions for updating routines for both myself and my
colleagues who also want to switch to FreeBSD.
I now understand
Drew Tomlinson wrote:
Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg told a big fish story including the following
on 1/15/2004 2:34 AM:
Duane Winner wrote:
Hello all again,
I'm finally getting my arms around FreeBSD and the updating processes
and tools. But I'm still trying to come up with good
habits/methods
Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote:
Drew Tomlinson wrote:
Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg told a big fish story including the following
on 1/15/2004 2:34 AM:
Duane Winner wrote:
Hello all again,
I'm finally getting my arms around FreeBSD and the updating processes
and tools. But I'm still trying
Hi list,
Im looking for suggestions on a good tool to track down packetlosses.
MTR (/usr/ports/net/mtr) is exactly what I want with one exception:
MTR uses ICMP, I would like something TCP based.
I have tried a lot of the utilities in ports but has so far not
found anything that suits my needs.
Hi list.
I recently installed FreeBSD 4.9 on a Dell Poweredge 1500SC.
During a buildworld, it suddenly filled the console with weird errors.
The box was running fine, and the buildworld completed successfully,
but this still bothers me. It has something to do with the SCSI
controller, that much
Hello listmembers
Is there a way to accomplish interface redundancy on machines with dual
interface?
I have a few Dell Poweredge 1650 and some Compaq DL-360 G2 servers with
dual onboard gigabit interfaces. When running windows, you can use the
software provided with each server to bundle the
Rissland, Thorsten wrote:
...i'm a christian.
Why is the Logo of FreeBSD an devil
What have an oparating System to do with the devil
Of course, there is something like daemon's (under Windows called services)
but this is not the meaning of deamon!!!
I think the meaning of daemon is
Thanjee Neefam wrote:
I am considering buying a new laptop (my current one is a Dell Inspiron
PII-233 without a CD Drive (it broke :( ))
I just simply want to know if there is a particluar range of laptops that
work better with FreeBSD. ie: they use totally standard quality hardware,
no panic
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
dear list,
buying two PIII for a dual system ... what do i have to pay attention to
(besides the requirements of the M/B)?
aka ... are all PIII SMP capable?
thanks
Make sure the stepping is identical.
Some motherboards require Tualatin's to be able to run dual, others
Jamie wrote:
That is a good idea, thanks. We did check that though. Went through
each user's accounts checking their .forwards and procmaillrc files.
We are running spamassassin 2.55, and in the global procmailrc file we
call spamc which connects to a spamd running on another machine.
Lucas Holt wrote:
Why don't people talk about software developers? Someone is writing
the software for spammers. Lets go after them. Think about it;
spammers have an average education level of high school dropout.
Mainstream media has done stories about this.
Bottom line, spammers are
Kevin Stevens wrote:
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote:
Its still not a reason for allowing relay from dynamic addresses.
All ISP's, or atleast all serious ISP's, provide their customer with a
relaying mailserver. Its a simple task to configure your mailserver to
use your
Doug Poland wrote:
Hello,
This isn't so much a FreeBSD topic but a comment and a request for resources. As a
long
time FreeBSD admin/user I know this is a large, diverse, and eloquent community of
technical users. I hope someone can point me to a resource or group of users that
address this
Richard Shea wrote:
Thanks to both of you for your replies however this has raised another
question ! ... (see below)
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 13:16:54 +0200, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Konrad Heuer wrote:
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Richard Shea wrote:
[Original
Konrad Heuer wrote:
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Richard Shea wrote:
Hi - I currently have sendmail_enable=NO in my rc.conf file. This
allows emails to be sent from the FBSD machine however I would like one
other machine on the LAN to use the FBSD machine as a SMTP machine.
I think
ephix wrote:
Hey,
I have a Dell PowerEdge server, and have been trying to get healthd /
chm working for the past few days. I think it uses the LM81 chipset (as
ive managed to find with google), while healthd only supports LM78,
LM79, and some others.
The server is leaving for the datacenter in
Socketd wrote:
Hi all
I have a laptop (Compaq Presario 1200, 400mhz, 6gb harddisk, 64 mb ram
and so on). I am trying to install a SMC EZ Card 10/100, 16 bit which
acoring to
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.8R/hardware-i386.html#ETHERNET is
supported, but my FreeBSD 4.8-Release with a GENERIC
Christopher J. Umina wrote:
Hey guys and gals,
I'm just looking for an oppinion on using CCD for stripping on two
IDE drives. Anybody have anything to say about performance, reliability,
manageability and so on?
Thanks A Lot,
Christopher J. Umina
I have never tried CCD, but
James West wrote:
I'm fairly new to FreeBSD coming from a linux background.
My problem is probably simple, but I'm having a hard time with it. I
have four boxes, one FreeBSD that acts as a gateway/NAT router/Firewall,
a Windows2k workstation, and two old Mac workstations.
Being unable
Eric Dedrick wrote:
Natd hasn't exactly been working as it used to either. Any idea what this
means?
Jul 24 23:26:43 dsl-146-127 /kernel: arp: 192.168.0.1 is on lo0 but got
reply from 00:04:76:b8:94:10 on ep0
Jul 24 23:28:17 dsl-146-127 /kernel: arp: 128.211.146.127 is on lo0 but
got
Eric Dedrick wrote:
I dont know why this happens but if its any comfort I have had
similar errors on my machine for years.
Jul 4 14:40:43 rambo /kernel: arp: 192.168.0.3 is on lo0 but got
reply from 00:48:54:50:e4:96 on fxp0
Jul 8 15:13:36 rambo /kernel: arp: 192.168.0.1 is on dc1 but got
Mailing Lists wrote:
Hi all,
I've just been getting ready to start serious MySQL development on a
Dual Processor FreeBSD box and I stumbled across the following blog
entry on the web today which has me thinking:
http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000203.html#000203
The coles
Peter Leftwich wrote:
Can someone on the list PLEASE recommend a good quarantining filter app?
I know mwm (Mike Someone) out there uses one that issues a challenge via
reply or reply to all. Thanks!!
--
Peter Leftwich
President Founder
Video2Video Services
Box 13692, La Jolla, CA,
Steve Warwick wrote:
Hey all,
I wonder if anyone can tell me how to get out of this stupid mistake.
I edited rc.conf to add a virtual interface and left a quote off the end
(unterminated string) - now I cannot get past mounting root, so no editors.
And before you ask, no, I did not backup
W. D. wrote:
At 20:39 10/23/2002, Dan Pelleg, wrote:
FreeBSD systems are easy to maintain. You can do a source upgrade,
or a binary upgrade, and the system will go through it and boot
to the new version without a hitch. On one system I have I've gone from
FreeBSD 4.1 to 4.7, including every
Hi list.
Im about to implement some VPN tunnels at work.
We already run a few tunnels from BSD to BSD that works great, but now
we need to allow some of our employees to connect from home.
Setup looks something like this:
LAN -- FreeBSD firewall -- Internet -- ADSL router -- Windows 2k
Is
John Bleichert wrote:
*snip*
* EOM is not a command, it's an end-of-text marker, similar to the one
used in Perl.
* There are text-file incompatibilities between Unix and DOS. If you're
copying/pasting the file from the website in Windows, ftp'ing it to a Unix
box and then trying to run it,
Matt Smith wrote:
I agree, but how do I run spam filtering locally?
As an average desktop user, I simply use a client to POP mail from a
server -- are there client plugins that filter for spam? I currently
use Evolution, but am willing to change if there a spam filter plugins
for other
Sostin Andrey wrote:
Dear colleagues,
Does anybody know about software tests for FreeBSD which could overload the whole system (like BurnIn Pro for Windows). Please give the url, if any.
We need to test about 500 servers under FreeBSD...
Sincerely,
Andrew A. Sostin
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Bsd Neophyte wrote:
i don't know if posting this question is relavant to this group... but i
was wondering if it was possible to physically mount a former FreeBSD disk
on a winxp box.
i know someone would suggest that i mount the drive on the FreeBSD box and
get the files i need that way...
Derrick Ryalls wrote:
I built a FreeBSD box using a 4.7-release mini cd distro from
freebsd.org. I then updated to stable via cvsup and did a
buildworld/kernel.
The machine needed linux support, so I installed linux-base (6?) from
the ports. Things were going fine until I started stressing the
Tuc wrote:
Try dell. Inspiron 8200 seems great. Of course you must be careful with the
hardware, but for me there is another important feature that I take care
every time I buy a laptop: keyboard. Today, there is a annoying tendency to
put unuseful keyboards on laptops.
Inspirons 8200 are great,
Laszlo Vagner wrote:
currently i use spamcop.net's blocking service and have the
FEATURE in my sendmail configuration, I would like to
just tag spam say in the subject add SPAM: to all incoming
mails that match the blocklist. What would be the best
way of doing this.?
Thank You
Laszlo
Thomas von Hassel wrote:
On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 01:32 PM, Rus Foster wrote:
you want to tweak /etc/syslogd.conf. You can log to remote machine using
something like
*.* @loghost.domain.com
You might have to configure the firewall/remote syslog to accept the
connections. Also if there is
Brian Henning wrote:
My local network (192.168.1.0) consists of three machine BSD1 (192.168.1.40) and
BSD2 (192.168.1.42). Both of these machines use gateway/router (BSD3)
192.168.1.254
to access the internet. All of these machine are connected to a switch locally.
BSD3 connects to my isp and
Christopher Blanchard wrote:
I am a system administrator at a small private school in the
California mountains. I recently acquired a DSL connection
and would like to share it with the faculty and staff using
NATs. I put up a 4.7 stable dual-homed box (AJAX), rebuilt
the kernel with
Jonas Fornander wrote:
Does anyone know if there is a simple way to mirror two servers
without spending $ on hardware? I'm NOT talking about mirroring the
OS and the files, I'm talking about sending http requests to a second
server if the first server is down/un-reachable. This is sometimes
Hi list.
Im trying to setup a machine to mirror its entire drive using
dump/restore to a secondary drive.
The dump works fine, but at the end of each session, restore always
asks set owner/mode for '.'?. This makes it impossible to automate
the task, which is what I would to accomplish.
I
Ruben de Groot wrote:
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 02:11:34PM +0100, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg typed:
Hi list.
Im trying to setup a machine to mirror its entire drive using
dump/restore to a secondary drive.
The dump works fine, but at the end of each session, restore always
asks set owner/mode
Anthony Atkielski wrote:
Scott I. Remick writes:
A better realworld example (which has been mentioned before) is
www.sendmail.org vs. www.sendmail.com. I think that better reflects what
people are suggesting for www.freebsd.com.
Agreed! Although both sites actually aim at similar markets,
Chris Zumbrunn wrote:
On Feb 12, 2005, at 4:59 PM, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote:
So far, I have not seen one single valid argument against a
freebsd.com website or a new logo, so I side with the people that
wants some changes to happen in this one.
Well, if you put it that bluntly, let me
Bart Silverstrim wrote:
On Feb 11, 2005, at 2:18 AM, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
Ted Mittelstaedt writes:
That is so not true that it makes me almost as angry as the original
debate.
Maybe getting angry about a mere logo is a bad sign.
Just to sum up things as I understand it...
People want to
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Roger 'Rocky'
Vetterberg
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 9:26 AM
To: Chris Zumbrunn
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Garance A Drosehn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 1:59 PM
To: Ted Mittelstaedt; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as
NetBSD!!!
And frankly, most
Chris Zumbrunn wrote:
[snip]
Don't you think this Beastie qualifies as a professional logo?
http://top.ch/sitedata/freebsd/beastie.gif
Its a major step in the right direction.
Personally, I dont really like it, but if it was to be the new logo I
would not complain.
It would solve most of the
Jerry McAllister wrote:
Matthias Buelow writes:
And your point is..?
I can see that FreeBSD marketing has a long way to go.
To where?FreeBSD is not marketed in any particular way - on purpose.
No one wants to do it, so no one will do it.
jerry
I want to, and frequently do, market
Chris Zumbrunn wrote:
On Feb 12, 2005, at 9:11 PM, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote:
Maybe just the FreeBSD part and a couple of stylized horns over it,
but that would mean Beastie would not be clearly visible and I dont
know if I dare to suggest that. ;)
I agree something like this...
http
Anthony Atkielski wrote:
Dag-Erling Smørgrav writes:
No. Existing copies would still be distributable and derivable under
the original license terms.
What constitutes an existing copy in a world of downloads?
A downloaded copy that still exists? ;)
--
R
Hi list.
I recently installed FreeBSD 4.9 on a Dell Poweredge 1500SC with dual
PIII 1.3GHz, a SCSI drive for the OS and some IDE's for storage. I
experienced crashes that seemed to be related to the IDE controller so
I cvsuped to latest 4.10, but the problem is still there.
Here are the last
Miguel Saturnino wrote:
On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 07:34 -0800, Danial Thom wrote:
Well, that's your opinion. For me, FreeBSD is a much better desktop than
Windows -- it runs solid and fast and enables me to be more productive
in my work. Of course, what is good for me might not be so good for
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
Maybe it's just me but the idea of a bunch of English speakers
sitting around and debating whether or not to permit foreign
languages on the mailing list is a bit like a bunch of men sitting
around and debating whether or not to legalize abortion.
It's an issue that so
Hi list,
I recently installed a few SNMP interfaces to monitor some UPS modules
in our network, and these interfaces require a timeserver to syncronize
their clocks. I have tried the ntpd in FreeBSD 4.9 as well as msntp from
ports, but none of them work with these interfaces.
According to the
Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Good afternoon,
I have just prepared to try again FreeBSD OS, it was some 5 years ago
when I had this OS in use. So I downloaded the 4.8 version disks.
The question may seem weird, sorry. Where can I get some commonly used
parv wrote:
...only thing that i desire(d) is/was to give / much less than 128MB,
but couldn't (during the space slicing).
That and to combine /usr2 /usr3 now. But default inode space
allocation of 8%/slice will kill me anyway. I really have to remember
about the newfs options next time.
Do you
Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote:
*snip*
FreeBSD is a typical system driven by technical people.
Clearly its weakest point.
Once again, that depends on your audience. If you ask me, its one
of FreeBSD's strongest points.
Im one of those technical people, and the main reason I like
BSD is that its
Simon Burke wrote:
[snip]
2. If it wasn't for the interesting content and structure of the FreeBSD
website, it would be among the less beautiful. Yes, it serves its
purpose well by being simple and straight to the point. But a redesign
could offer just the same -- simplicity and accuracy
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
-Original Message- From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Roger
'Rocky' Vetterberg Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 4:57 PM To:
Simon Burke Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED];
[EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org;
freebsd-advocacy
Andrei Iarus wrote:
Hi! I am looking for a solution to this problem: I
want to make a tcp tunneling. The ssh tunneling
doesn`t satisies me because I don`t want to tunnel a
specific service, I want to tunnel everything. For
example: I would like my host to route everything
through a tcp tunnel. I
Simon Burke wrote:
[snip]
2. If it wasn't for the interesting content and structure of the FreeBSD
website, it would be among the less beautiful. Yes, it serves its
purpose well by being simple and straight to the point. But a redesign
could offer just the same -- simplicity and accuracy --
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
-Original Message- From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Roger
'Rocky' Vetterberg Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 4:57 PM To:
Simon Burke Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED];
[EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org;
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re
Olivier Nicole wrote:
Check out http://www.bsdstats.org ... Republic of Korea is about to push
the US out of first place, but there are *zero* FreeBSD boxes reporting
from there ... DragonFly is first, then NetBSD and then OpenBSD ...
6 days later: Thailand jumped from 12 machines to
jekillen wrote:
Hello again;
I have a question about how mail from the system is generated for root.
This question was prompted when I edited the Postfix aliases file and
ran newaliases, then did postfix reload, assuming the mail system was
running. I was informed that Postfix was not
Norberto Meijome wrote:
On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 16:48:17 -0400
E. J. Cerejo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm looking to buy a PCI Wireless Card for my computer, I'm running FBSD 6.1
release, from what I understand there are only two drivers ath and wi
what about ralink ? man 4 ral
i'm sure
Lane wrote:
Adrian,
Use /usr/ports/net/cvsup-without-gui and create a cvsupfile. You can then
selectively install src-all, src-contrib, ports-all and any of the various
ports sub-trees that you need (but stick with ports-all).
cvsup will get the proper Makefiles and whatnot for you.
Andy Greenwood wrote:
Is it possible to use csup with my existing cvsup files? I skimmed the
man page and it looks very similar. Is there any advantage to using
cvsup over csup?
I use the same files for csup as I used for cvsup. You should not
have to change anything except removing the 'v'
Steve Franks wrote:
How does one make a 'boot' disk - be it cdrom, harddrive or flash
(presuming your bios will boot from all those devices, of course)?
1.The handbook specifies you need to minimally copy the /bin folder to
the destination.
2. Obviously you want a valid ufs2 partition.
3.
Andy Dills wrote:
Is there a standard way of installing complete filesystem images onto
existing machines via the network, for example using dump, restore, nfs,
and boot floppies?
I want to upgrade our mail server cluster from 4-STABLE to 6-STABLE, and
there is so much that goes into the
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