IPFW + BRIDGE: network capacity question
Hello everyone. I have an Intel D815EGEW board with a single PIII 1GHZ, 256MEG RAM, 2 Intel Pro 100MB cards. This will be used as an IPFW+bridging firewall with FreeBSD 4.8 (RELENG_4_8, perhaps RELENG_4_9 when available). My message is about network capacity. Assume that it will be processing at peak all of this at once: 500 TCP connections with long lived sessions (an hour or more at a time) 500 UDP 'connections' 500 web (HTTP port 80 tcp) connections per second (graphics, small html pages) The HTTP sessions will be short lived, so lots of TCP handshakes at *least* a good portion will not utilize persistant HTTP The total bandwidth could be 20-50 megabits, mostly outbound to clients on the internet. Should I tweak the kernel at all for this? NMBCLUSTERS or NMBUFS? Something else? For IPFW, I figure that adding accept rules that catch most of the packets up front will help lower CPU usage. Is this correct? Maybe allow TCP if the session is established, allow setup of outbound TCP, allow setup of incoming TCP/80, allow outbound UDP packets to be happy, etc. Does anyone see any possible issues with this configuration and the expected network load? Thank you, folks! Any suggestions are very appreciated. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.0-Release question
At 10:14 PM 1/18/2003 -0800, Tak Pui LOU wrote: I downloaded a 5.0-Release Disc 1 ISO on Jan 18 Sat at 2:54am. It seems this file is later replaced by a newer one at 4:55am. My checksum is: MD5 (5.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso) = b8be37956ebba2c4e58686be8cf9dc09 This is not the checksum of the 'current' official ISO on ftp.freebsd.org. Yours should read: 677bf7566f8845cc46549aa167940042 for a file called 5.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso of 603783168 bytes. Until the official announcement of 5.0-RELEASE is made, however, no iso should be considered final and supported. Hang in there, the announcement is currently scheduled for Sunday evening. Thanks, --- Lou To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message -- Christopher Schulte http://www.schulte.org/ Do not un-munge my @nospam.schulte.org email address. This address is valid. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Q: FreeBSD 4.6.* on Intel D845EBT MB (Promise PDC2067 IDE RAID)
At 05:36 PM 9/14/2002 +0300, Andrew Stesin wrote: Hello people, Anyone tried FreeBSD 4.6.* on Intel D845EBT motherboard? Especially interesting is how an onboard Promise PDC2067 IDE RAID controller works with FreeBSD - or better to say, does it work at all? What are the caveates with it, if any? How RAID configuration works? I had the same question (on 4.7) regarding the pdc20267. There were no formal replies, so I asked Andrew privately. His response is below, printed with permission, in case others search the archives for this answer: Thanks Andrew. --reply start-- Hi Christopher, I got a bunch of replies via private email (people think that it's so obvious that doesn't worth any further public discussion). Everyone says that yes it works perfectly. Unfortunately, I personally wasn't able to test this, because my plans to buy this exact board changed with an appearance of new 845 chipset (533 MHz FSB, DDR 333 etc.) and I got a modern one without RAID (now I'm a happy user of vinum (1)). Regards, Andrew --reply end-- -- Christopher Schulte http://www.schulte.org/ Do not un-munge my @nospam.schulte.org email address. This address is valid. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
ports/graphics/ffmpeg compile issue
ffmpeg doesn't want to compile for me Anyone compiled this? There is a PR about the distfile changing, but notes indicate the port's Makefile still works with it. TIA for any ideas. I've verified the same problem on multiple versions of FreeBSD (4.5-RELEASE-p2, 4.6.1-RELEASE-p10, 4.7-Release). Port version: # $FreeBSD: ports/graphics/ffmpeg/Makefile,v 1.6 2002/10/11 19:28:30 lioux Exp $ in /usr/ports/graphics/ffmpeg # make NO_CHECKSUM=yes error: gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/ports/graphics/ffmpeg/work/ffmpeg/libav' cc -I/usr/local/include -Wall -I. -I/usr/local/ports/graphics/ffmpeg/work/ffmpeg -I/usr/local/ports/graphics/ffmpeg/work/ffmpeg/libavcodec -I/usr/local/ports/graphics/ffmpeg/work/ffmpeg/libav -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE -c -o ffmpeg.o ffmpeg.c ffmpeg.c:39: warning: `INT64_C' redefined /usr/local/ports/graphics/ffmpeg/work/ffmpeg/libavcodec/common.h:113: warning: this is the location of the previous definition ffmpeg.c:96: warning: `video_rc_qsquish' defined but not used ffmpeg.c:97: warning: `video_rc_qmod_amp' defined but not used ffmpeg.c:98: warning: `video_rc_qmod_freq' defined but not used ffmpeg.c:99: warning: `video_rc_override_string' defined but not used ffmpeg.c:105: warning: `video_rc_initial_cplx' defined but not used cc -Wl,--warn-common -o ffmpeg_g ffmpeg.o -L./libavcodec -L./libav \ -lavformat -lavcodec -L/usr/local/lib -lz ./libavcodec/libavcodec.so: undefined reference to `log' ./libavcodec/libavcodec.so: undefined reference to `sqrt' ./libavcodec/libavcodec.so: undefined reference to `cosh' ./libavcodec/libavcodec.so: undefined reference to `floor' ./libavcodec/libavcodec.so: undefined reference to `cos' ./libavcodec/libavcodec.so: undefined reference to `tanh' ./libavcodec/libavcodec.so: undefined reference to `sin' ./libavcodec/libavcodec.so: undefined reference to `pow' ./libavcodec/libavcodec.so: undefined reference to `sinh' ./libavcodec/libavcodec.so: undefined reference to `log10' ./libavcodec/libavcodec.so: undefined reference to `exp' ./libavcodec/libavcodec.so: undefined reference to `tan' gmake: *** [ffmpeg_g] Error 1 *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/local/ports/graphics/ffmpeg. # -- Christopher Schulte http://www.schulte.org/ Do not un-munge my @nospam.schulte.org email address. This address is valid. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: MP3 Conversion Port?
At 08:25 AM 7/23/2002 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Thank you for your answer. So it's not as simple as just discarding some data to lower the bit rate? I was just trying to save some disk space as 128K mp3s sound good to me. Well I guess it's off to eBay to shop for an additional drive. :) Cheers, Correct. You'd need to go back to source media (CD?) and re-encode @ 128k to achieve this. I prefer 192k, personally. Disk is inexpensive. ;-) I had fun this past weekend and ripped/encoded ~150 CDs from collection. With any luck I'll be able to finish the rest this weekend. I love buying CDs, but I hate dealing with them. Everything goes right to hard drive now. Drew -- Christopher Schulte http://www.schulte.org/ Do not un-munge my @nospam.schulte.org email address. This address is valid. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: MP3 Conversion Port?
At 04:59 PM 7/23/2002 +0100, Mike Woods wrote: VBR anyone ? When i encode mp3's i generaly use VBR, it keeps the file size down but gets good qualty, and mpg123 can handle playing VBR's with a 320-32 kbps range on a p133 so im good :D I generally don't use VBR, to keep compatibility with the consumer devices that I might want to play the files in. Sure, some might support VBR but I'll stay on the safe side. Again, disk is cheap. :-) -- Mike Woods -- Christopher Schulte http://www.schulte.org/ Do not un-munge my @nospam.schulte.org email address. This address is valid. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: log files
At 09:06 PM 7/21/2002 -0600, Grant Cooper wrote: I think I made a boo boo. I deleted all the files from var/log thinking I would have clean logs. Well, I rebooted but some of the files never reapeared. I made a back up just in case. Can I expect any problems in the future? You should touch all of the files, else syslog won't log to them when it is restarted. What is the best way to start off with new logs - I'm experimenting with different things? Thus, trying to get more in touch with my new friend. Some of the files reappeared. In general is this a good way of starting off from fresh? newsyslog(8) is designed to rotate your system logs. Man it and see. -- Christopher Schulte http://www.schulte.org/ Do not un-munge my @nospam.schulte.org email address. This address is valid. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Can I use cron to shutdown a machine
At 01:10 PM 7/22/2002 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi , Can I use cron to shutdown a mahine? I don't see why not. I had add the task to shutdown a machin in crontab, but It is not work. Can u tell me why? Not unless you post the exact crontab entry back to the mailing list. What user is it running as? Is anything sent to the user via email, with diagnostic output that might help identify the problem? If so, post that as well. You might want to go over the crontab entry format as well. # man 5 crontab Regards, Fred Zhang -- Christopher Schulte http://www.schulte.org/ Do not un-munge my @nospam.schulte.org email address. This address is valid. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
