Re: Which of these NICs will work?
based on 10+ exprience and working with a dozen models, I recommend intel cards: - Intel explicitly supports freebsd. - the cards are highly stable - have best performance among all other cards on freebsd and if you look for best performance, buy a card based on 82575 or 82576 controllers. On 9/3/2010 8:28 PM, Ryan Coleman wrote: Any thoughts? I need/want to get a multi-port NIC for my new system but I haven't purchased the guts for the server yet. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENEN=100010064+600013872+600016290QksAutoSuggestion=ShowDeactivatedMark=FalseConfigurator=IsNodeId=1Subcategory=27description=Ntk=CFG=SpeTabStoreType=srchInDesc= Basically, this machine will have two external (real-world) IPs and one network LAN (10.0.1.0/24) address, finding three-NIC motherboards is not exactly possible so this is my alternative. I'm looking for FreeBSD 7-9 support. Rather run 8.1-RELEASE (same as my other two machines right now). Thanks, Ryan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
DL360 G6 Reboot
On a HP DL360 G6 freebsd 6.4-RELEASE installs but reboots right before login prompt. 7.2 installs and works fine but unfortunately I can not use 7.2 due to some restrictions. Any hints? -- Best regards. Hooman Fazaeli ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: reread newsyslog.conf without reboot
newsyslog.conf is read by newsyslog(8) and newsyslog is executed by cron(8) as specified in /etc/crontab, usually every hour. so you changes will take effect the next time cron runs newsyslog. Fbsd1 wrote: How do I get the system to reread /etc/newsyslog.conf file with out rebooting the system? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Best regards. Hooman Fazaeli h...@sepehrs.com Sepehr S. T. Co. Ltd. Web: http://www.sepehrs.com Tel: (9821)88975701-2 Fax: (9821)88983352 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?
for example, say you have 2 interface em0 and em1 which you like to swap their minor numbers: ifconfig em0 name tmp ifconfig em1 name em0 ifconfig em0 name em1 or to assign cisco-like names to you interfaces: ifconfig xl0 name fastEthernet0 ifconfig em0 name gigaEthernet0 ifconfig fastEthernet0 192.168.1.0/24 Yony Yossef wrote: -Original Message- From: H.fazaeli [[1]mailto:faza...@sepehrs.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 6:24 PM To: Yony Yossef Cc: [2]freebsd-...@freebsd.org; [3]freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org; Eitan Shefi; Oleg Kats; Liran Liss Subject: Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints? you may not change unit numbers as they are strictly controlled by kernel. However, on freebsd 5.3+, you may use 'ifconfig name your-name-here' to achieve the same affect Sorry, I don't understand the usage of ifconfig you suggested and the effect it will cause. Can you please explain it? Yony Yony Yossef wrote: Hi, I would like to determine the unit number of my network cards, e.g. make the device on pci0:16 be assigned every time with unit number 0 and pci0:19 with unit number 1. Is it done by /boot/device.hints? if so, how? My cards are: mtn...@pci0:19:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x001715b3 chip=0x636815b3 rev=0xa0 hdr=0x00 mtn...@pci0:16:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x001715b3 chip=0x636815b3 rev=0xa0 hdr=0x00 So I've tried: hint.mtnic.0.at=pci0:16 hint.mtnic.1.at=pci0:19 but it doesn't work. They keep switching arbitrarily. I'm using FreeBSD 7.0. Thanks Yony ___ [4]freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org mailing list [5]http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [6]freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Best regards. Hooman Fazaeli [7]h...@sepehrs.com Sepehr S. T. Co. Ltd. Web: [8]http://www.sepehrs.com Tel: (9821)88975701-2 Fax: (9821)88983352 ___ [9]freebsd-...@freebsd.org mailing list [10]http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to [11]freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Best regards. Hooman Fazaeli [12]h...@sepehrs.com Sepehr S. T. Co. Ltd. Web: [13]http://www.sepehrs.com Tel: (9821)88975701-2 Fax: (9821)88983352 References 1. mailto:faza...@sepehrs.com 2. mailto:freebsd-...@freebsd.org 3. mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 4. mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 5. http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions 6. mailto:freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org 7. mailto:h...@sepehrs.com 8. http://www.sepehrs.com/ 9. mailto:freebsd-...@freebsd.org 10. http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net 11. mailto:freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org 12. mailto:h...@sepehrs.com 13. http://www.sepehrs.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?
Yony Yossef wrote: Thanks for the explanation. So there's no way to determine this in advance.. What do you mean by 'in advance'? Assuming a fixed hardware configuration, when the kernel is loaded, you know all the interface names and can rename them, i.e., in rc.local. I must build a script that contains my own mapping between MAC addresses and the wanted interface names and run it after each driver load, rename the interfaces if necessary. I do not quite understand your requirement. Can you please explain? Do you need a script that works on multiple machines with different hardwares? It seems quite wrong, don't you agree? And how come the unit number is given an arbitrary value? Is there a good reason for that? Yony _ From: H.fazaeli [mailto:faza...@sepehrs.com] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 10:26 AM To: Yony Yossef Cc: freebsd-...@freebsd.org; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints? for example, say you have 2 interface em0 and em1 which you like to swap their minor numbers: ifconfig em0 name tmp ifconfig em1 name em0 ifconfig em0 name em1 or to assign cisco-like names to you interfaces: ifconfig xl0 name fastEthernet0 ifconfig em0 name gigaEthernet0 ifconfig fastEthernet0 192.168.1.0/24 Yony Yossef wrote: -Original Message- From: H.fazaeli [mailto:faza...@sepehrs.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 6:24 PM To: Yony Yossef Cc: freebsd-...@freebsd.org; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Eitan Shefi; Oleg Kats; Liran Liss Subject: Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints? you may not change unit numbers as they are strictly controlled by kernel. However, on freebsd 5.3+, you may use 'ifconfig name your-name-here' to achieve the same affect Sorry, I don't understand the usage of ifconfig you suggested and the effect it will cause. Can you please explain it? Yony Yony Yossef wrote: Hi, I would like to determine the unit number of my network cards, e.g. make the device on pci0:16 be assigned every time with unit number 0 and pci0:19 with unit number 1. Is it done by /boot/device.hints? if so, how? My cards are: mtn...@pci0:19:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x001715b3 chip=0x636815b3 rev=0xa0 hdr=0x00 mtn...@pci0:16:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x001715b3 chip=0x636815b3 rev=0xa0 hdr=0x00 So I've tried: hint.mtnic.0.at=pci0:16 hint.mtnic.1.at=pci0:19 but it doesn't work. They keep switching arbitrarily. I'm using FreeBSD 7.0. Thanks Yony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org mailto:freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Best regards. Hooman Fazaeli h...@sepehrs.com Sepehr S. T. Co. Ltd. Web: http://www.sepehrs.com Tel: (9821)88975701-2 Fax: (9821)88983352 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?
you may not change unit numbers as they are strictly controlled by kernel. However, on freebsd 5.3+, you may use 'ifconfig name your-name-here' to achieve the same affect Yony Yossef wrote: Hi, I would like to determine the unit number of my network cards, e.g. make the device on pci0:16 be assigned every time with unit number 0 and pci0:19 with unit number 1. Is it done by /boot/device.hints? if so, how? My cards are: mtn...@pci0:19:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x001715b3 chip=0x636815b3 rev=0xa0 hdr=0x00 mtn...@pci0:16:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x001715b3 chip=0x636815b3 rev=0xa0 hdr=0x00 So I've tried: hint.mtnic.0.at=pci0:16 hint.mtnic.1.at=pci0:19 but it doesn't work. They keep switching arbitrarily. I'm using FreeBSD 7.0. Thanks Yony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Best regards. Hooman Fazaeli h...@sepehrs.com Sepehr S. T. Co. Ltd. Web: http://www.sepehrs.com Tel: (9821)88975701-2 Fax: (9821)88983352 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: UFS2 limits
The number of files and sub-directories is limited by the number of available inodes which is fixed at the time you create the file system (by -i argument to newfs(8)). Anyway, stick with Jeremy's advise if you do not like trouble. Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 01:40:51AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a FreeBSD server that has about 10,500 subdirectories within a single directory. This number will keep rising and I assume UFS2 has a limit to the number of sub-directories in a single directory - can anyone tell me what it is? As far as I know, there is no such limit on the number of files/dirs inside of a directory. I don't want to change the topic of discussion, but I *highly* recommend you ***stop*** whatever it is you're doing that is creating such a directory structure. Software which has to iterate through that directory using opendir() and readdir() will get slower and slower as time goes on. If this is something you've written or have control over or can work with engineers in regards to, I recommend you change your directory naming scheme to have separate subdirectories with the first 2 or 3 letters of the directory you wish to create. E.g.: /some/place/00/00ilikezeros/* /some/place/01/01binaryheaven/* /some/place/aa/aardvarks/* /some/place/ab/abuse/* /some/place/ac/actuary/* ... /some/place/xy/xylophones/* You get the point. Traversing this structure is much more efficient, and requires very little code change on your part. Those who run nameservers that host many zones, for example, use this structure to ensure the daemon doesn't take 32498231 years to start up. What about ZFS? At some point I'll have to re-arrange things so that I have a deeper directory structure, just wondering when I'll hit the limit so I can plan in advance :-) What baffles me is why you're looking at this problem from a how can the filesystem solve this engineering mistake I made for me standpoint, rather than how can I solve this engineering mistake I made so that it doesn't impact the filesystem. Very strange. Sometimes looking at things in a different light makes all the difference. Hope this helps. P.S. -- I hope this mail makes it to you, because your From line is [EMAIL PROTECTED] (I'll be surprised if your account name really is that!). -- Best regards. Hooman Fazaeli [3][EMAIL PROTECTED] Sepehr S. T. Co. Ltd. Web: [4]http://www.sepehrs.com Tel: (9821)88975701-2 Fax: (9821)88983352 References 1. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 3. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 4. http://www.sepehrs.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HP DL servers
HP servers usually have NICs with broadcom or intel chipsets which are recognized as bge and em under freebsd and work great. We have the following configurations and they work fine: - freebsd 6.3 on dl320G5 with on-board broadcom network chipset and SATA HDDs. We had problems with hardware RAID and used geom to impl. RAID functionality. - freebsd 6.3 on dl380G5 with SAS HDDs. Hardware RAID controller is recognized by 6.3 and works. Ludovit Koren wrote: Hi, I would like to buy HP servers DL 320 G5p or DL 360 G5p. I googled but did not find clear answer if the NICs and disk controllers are supported in FreeBSD 7.x. I read about some problems with NIC in DL 360 but it was not actual and I am not sure about disk controller in DL 320. Any personal recommendations and experience with the servers are welcomed. Thank you very much in advance. Regards, lk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Best regards. Hooman Fazaeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sepehr S. T. Co. Ltd. Web: http://www.sepehrs.com Tel: (9821)88975701-2 Fax: (9821)88983352 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mystical Server Shutdown.
If you applied all the Matthew's suggestions and it is still a mystery, and if server's shutdown is clean, look for a a (buggy) user land process that sends SIGUSR2 signal to init(1). Matthew Seaman wrote: Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, I started getting watchmouse errors about on pf my servers not responding. There is a DRAC on the machine, and the sensor data was all good. When I got the machine back up and running, I seen this in lastlog: client1 ftp hostname1here Wed Sep 17 17:02 - shutdown (00:46) client2 ftp hostname2here Wed Sep 17 17:02 - shutdown (00:46) client2 ftp hostname2here Wed Sep 17 17:02 - shutdown (00:46) client3 ftp hostname3here Wed Sep 17 17:01 - 17:06 (00:04) Should I be worried about seeing 'shutdown' in an ftp line of last? That just means the ftp user was still logged in at the time the system shut down. If not, how would you suggest I find the process or program that issued the shutdown command? Read the system logs, basically. /var/log/messages or /var/log/all.log (if you've enabled it). The shutdown(8) command will always write syslog messages when invoked. halt(8) or reboot(8) will write a 'shutdown' record into wtmp (ie. look at 'last shutdown') but don't log anything to syslog. However, you're quite likely to find that there is nothing in the log or wtmp files to explain what happened. All this means is that the system went down suddenly -- perhaps power dropped out momentarily, or a thermal cutout tripped or the system panic'd for one of any number of reasons. You'ld be able to detect log file traces showing fsck(8) being run on the root f/s following any of those sort of unclean shutdowns, and if the system panic'd then you may well have a core dump sitting in /var/db/crash -- depends whether you've enabled that functionality or not. Cheers, Matthew -- Best regards. Hooman Fazaeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sepehr S. T. Co. Ltd. Web: http://www.sepehrs.com Tel: (9821)88975701-2 Fax: (9821)88983352 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SMP questions
Hi all, I have 3 questions regrading SMP on freebsd 6.x: 1. Is there any userland tool/api to bound a process to a specific cpu? 2. Is there any way to force UP operation apart form recompiling kernel without SMP option? 3. Can someone shed some light on the logic of how schedulers (4.4.BSD/ULE) dispatch processes among CPUs? -- Best regards. Hooman Fazaeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sepehr S. T. Co. Ltd. Web: http://www.sepehrs.com Tel: (9821)88975701-2 Fax: (9821)88983352 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
