Re: Is this a high interrupt rate for nics?

2005-05-09 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Sunday, 8 May 2005 at 9:02:08 -0400, M. Parsons wrote: Freebsd-5.3 SMP Kernel. Polling enabled. bash-2.05b$ vmstat -i interrupt total rate irq5: ep02937064 1 irq11: ed0

Re: FreeBSD 4.x Opteron Question

2005-03-18 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Boris Spirialitious wrote: --- Boris Spirialitious <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:50:22AM -0800, Boris Spirialitious wrote: When opteron support start for Freebsd? I have 4.9. is supported?

Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?

2004-12-01 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 12/01/04 10:44 AM, Kenneth Culver sat at the `puter and typed: Quoting Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I wonder what the people who actually have this working are doing differently from those of us who can't seem to get it to wo

Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?

2004-12-01 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 11/30/04 01:22 PM, Kenneth Culver sat at the `puter and typed: Quoting Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 11/30/04 11:27 AM, Kenneth Culver sat at the `puter and typed: >> Quoting Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >

RE: Anybody have it working? (was Re: NVidia driver not usingAGP?)

2004-11-30 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting "Hauan, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> -Original Message- >> From: Kirk Strauser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> On Monday 29 November 2004 04:20 pm, Kenneth Culver wrote: >> >> How about this, then: >> >&g

Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?

2004-11-30 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 11/30/04 11:27 AM, Kenneth Culver sat at the `puter and typed: Quoting Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Wrong. From nvidia's readme: Similar to the NVIDIA Linux Driver Set, the user can decide if the NVIDIA driver should use i

RE: Anybody have it working? (was Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?)

2004-11-30 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting "Hauan, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -Original Message- From: Kirk Strauser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 2:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Anybody have it working? (was Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?) On Monday 29 November 2004 0

Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?

2004-11-30 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 11/29/04 05:16 PM, Kenneth Culver sat at the `puter and typed: Quoting Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The xorg.conf card section is: > Section "Device" > Identifier "NV TwinView" > VendorN

Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?

2004-11-30 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Raul Zighelboim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Monday 29 November 2004 04:55 pm, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Monday 29 November 2004 04:35 pm, Raul Zighelboim wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> sysctl -a | grep -i agp > [...] > hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: enabled What exactly did you do? Did you do anythin

Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?

2004-11-30 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Raul Zighelboim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Monday 29 November 2004 04:20 pm, Kenneth Culver wrote: Quoting Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Monday 29 November 2004 03:21 pm, Kenneth Culver wrote: >> One of the computers I'm having this problem with is a P

Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?

2004-11-29 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Monday 29 November 2004 03:21 pm, Kenneth Culver wrote: One of the computers I'm having this problem with is a P4 with an Intel chipset Which reminds me: I forgot to mention that my system has a 1.4GHz Thunderbird on an Asus A7V (KT133)

Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?

2004-11-29 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 11/29/04 03:13 PM, Kirk Strauser sat at the `puter and typed: On my 5.3 system (recompiled completely, including ports, one week ago), the NVidia driver (for a GeForce MX 400) from ports doesn't seem to be using AGP: $ sysctl hw.nvidia.agp.status

Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?

2004-11-29 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Chris Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Monday 29 November 2004 21:21, Kenneth Culver wrote: (I forget which) with a GeForce4 MX 440. The other is an athlon 64 3200+ with a via k8t800 chipset and a geforce FX 5900 (running in 32 bit x86 FreeBSD). The NVidia drivers don't yet

Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?

2004-11-29 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On my 5.3 system (recompiled completely, including ports, one week ago), the NVidia driver (for a GeForce MX 400) from ports doesn't seem to be using AGP: $ sysctl hw.nvidia.agp.status.status hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: disabled I've built a new k

Re: Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed?

2004-10-20 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Peter Risdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Robert Huff wrote: > Louis LeBlanc writes: > > >> Your config looks like I have to go shopping for another graphics >> card. >> >> Not sure if I can even get the same one now. > > > > Though they're not state-of-the-market, Matrox (with I hav

Re: FreeBSD and poor ata performance

2004-10-15 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting fandino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Kenneth Culver wrote: well, my usage pattern is write a big file and few seconds later read it. So my tests were valid for the use of the computer. But you have reason, I must provide a more formal report. I redid all test with bonnie++ and results

Re: FreeBSD and poor ata performance

2004-10-15 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting fandino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Chris Howells wrote: On Friday 15 October 2004 09:57, fandino wrote: I'm out of ideas, It doesn't matter if I use other PC or hard disks, performance sucks compared to Linux :-( OK, so you came to conclusion that "performance sucks" based on the the theoretica

Re: FreeBSD and poor ata performance

2004-10-14 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting fandino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello list, This is an interesting issue. While I was installing FreeBSD 5.3BETA7 I wonder about the performance that the new branch will bring to my computer, and it was a deception how bad FreeBSD performs compared with Linux on the same hardware (even I rep

Re: C compiler

2004-10-04 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Josh Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Bill Moran wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I´ve installed FreeBSD 5.2.1 in my PC machine. I compiled my own programs and started to running them. For my surprise, I checked that FreeBSD programs spent almost 50% more time than the same program compil

Re: C compiler

2004-10-04 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I´ve installed FreeBSD 5.2.1 in my PC machine. I compiled my own programs and started to running them. For my surprise, I checked that FreeBSD programs spent almost 50% more time than the same program compiled to linux. I checked several compile options, but it did

Re: NVidia vs. KT600

2004-07-22 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Uwe Laverenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, I have a strange problem with the NVidia drivers on my machines: when I start a glx-application (glxgears, quake2...) the performance is normal. If I make another attempt a few minutes later, the performance is ridiculous slow. Example: glxgears, 1st ru

Re: Compiling Linux Driver under FreeBSD

2004-07-15 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Henrik W Lund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Kenneth Culver wrote: > What you want to do can't be done. The best you can do really is port the driver. The kernel internals/driver apis are totally different between linux and FreeBSD. Ken Greetings! Speaking of driver APIs, do you kn

Re: Compiling Linux Driver under FreeBSD

2004-07-15 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Ahmad Zulkarnain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi guys! I'm a newbie runnin FreeBSD 5.2.1 on Clevo M22ES laptop. Sorry if my question has been asked before. I have a built-in SmartLink modem (SiS chipset) and I grabbed myself the official linux driver from their website. Can I just compile the drive

Re: AMD64 vs i386 for FreeBSD

2004-07-02 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting David O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 01:17:35AM -0400, Kenneth Culver wrote: Quoting Doug White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >Me either. -current actually supports running i386 binaries in amd64 mode. >Thats one of the processor's features. :-) &

RE: AMD64 vs i386 for FreeBSD

2004-06-29 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Remi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Just to clarify exactly what you mean. I can the x86 version of BSD with no changes to the BIOS, jumpers or anything on an AMD64? Sorry in advanced if this is a stupid question, Ive never dealt with anything but x86 Yeah, no changes anywhere. I have my machine set

RE: AMD64 vs i386 for FreeBSD

2004-06-29 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Doug White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Kenneth Culver wrote: It runs OK, with some minor nits compared to x86 version. I'm not sure what the laptop maker is talking about... but if you boot the x86 version of FreeBSD, it'll work. I think they meant you can

RE: AMD64 vs i386 for FreeBSD

2004-06-29 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Remi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Well I just got an email back from the manufacturer of the AMD64 laptop I wanted to buy. Im not sure how it works when switching 64 to i386, but they say it's not supported in the BIOS(I assume this is where it is suppose to be changed) So now I come to a cross roa

RE: em0 Intel Gigabit card, rc.conf processing on boot

2004-06-28 Thread Kenneth Culver
ust how long it takes for auto-negotiation to finish. Ken Michael Clark Nemschoff Chairs Inc mclark at nemschoff dot com CompTIA A+, Network+, Server+, MCP Voice: (920) 457 7726 x294 Fax: (920) 453 6594 -Original Message- From: Kenneth Culver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, Jun

Re: em0 Intel Gigabit card, rc.conf processing on boot

2004-06-28 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Michael Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I have 2 fxp Intel 100mb cards in this machine that work fine. I have ran it with 3 fxp cards in the past. I added an em0, Intel gigabit this morning. The card displays a non active status during the boot process. RC.conf is processed and the card does

Re: AMD64 vs i386 for FreeBSD

2004-06-28 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Michal Pasternak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: David O'Brien [Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 04:00:26PM -0700]: You do know you can run FreeBSD/i386 on the Athlon64 3200+ laptop, right? :-) A 3200+ running 32-bit FreeBSD will out-perform the P4 2.8GHz running the same OS. ... but will it outperform it also

Re: interupts

2004-05-10 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Is there a way, in FreeBSD 4 STABLE, to determine what a given machine's intrupt (PCI intrupt assignment) ussage is? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Re: help: Linux Drivers on FreeBSD

2004-05-10 Thread Kenneth Culver
You can't use linux drivers in BSD, but you might be able to port linux driver to FreeBSD. Ken Hi, I've installed an internal "Smartlink HSP56 Micromodem" pci modem on the first pci slot of my H30CF jetway motherboard with(if i'm not mistakem) only one com1 port and a com2 header which i think

Re: natd + ipfw - very slow internet for LAN users

2004-03-12 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Prodigy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Not very helpful, but have you ever tried using ipfilter? I've found that configuring it is much easier, and it is somewhat faster on slow machines since it runs entirely in the kernel (avoids a lot of transferring data to and from userland like ipfw + natd).

Re: NVIDIA or ATI

2004-03-11 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Osmany Guirola Cruz wrote: I feel very happy when I saw in the nvidia site the drivers for linux and of course for FREEBSD, and I need to Know what about ATI and FREEBSD(linux not have problems) drivers because I will acquire a new machine and I need to decide b

Re: NVIDIA or ATI

2004-03-11 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Lucas Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: If you are going to run freebsd 5.2.1 there aren't a lot of hoops to get an ATI card to work, but some people have reported better frame rates and less graphical glitches with nVidia cards. I have an ATI Radeon 9000 64mb AGP in my PC and its working fine. I

Re: NVIDIA or ATI

2004-03-11 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Osmany Guirola Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I feel very happy when I saw in the nvidia site the drivers for linux and of course for FREEBSD, and I need to Know what about ATI and FREEBSD(linux not have problems) drivers because I will acquire a new machine and I need to decide between a ATI

RE: flash plugin BSD vs linux

2004-02-20 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Osmany Guirola Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Sorry .. but i installed both the linuxflash plugin port and the bsd(flashplugin-mozilla-0.4.10_5 ) port and i tested the bsd port whit mozilla and epiphany ..and due to this instalation does not work i have to install the linux ports(flash and f

Re: flash plugin BSD vs linux

2004-02-20 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Osmany Guirola Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi people I have a little problem whith the flash plugin on my BSD box. I installed the flash plugin port whithout problem but these not work , it showme a black screen in the place of the plugin and no picture no animation no nothing :-(. "i tr

Re: AMD XP 2000

2004-02-17 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Spades <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, I have a AMD XP 2000 system, can i install FreeBSD 4.7-REL? Of course, you can install any pc operating system on this machine. although 4.7 is old and I'd reccommend 4.9 since it's the latest 4.x Ken ___ [EMAIL

Re: Mounting to freebsd ufs under WinXP

2004-02-13 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Bob Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Fri, Feb 13, 2004, Chuck Swiger clacked the keyboard to produce: Peter Leftwich wrote: >Can someone recommend software that lets you mount TO freebsd (ufs) >partition FROM WITHIN Windows XP Pro SP1 (transparently)? I am not familiar with any such softwar

Re: firefox build fails

2004-02-11 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting "Goodleaf, John M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello, I cvsup'd the ports this AM and have tried to build firefox. Actually, it builds fine, it's the install that fails. I've tried on two machines, one running 4.9-STABLE and the other running 5.2-RELEASE. In both cases the the install fails with

Re: AMD vs Intel ...

2004-02-10 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Feb 10, 2004, at 11:24 AM, Kenneth Culver wrote: Quoting "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Feb 10, 2004, at 5:25 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote: Marc Wiz wrote: On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at

Re: AMD vs Intel ...

2004-02-10 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Feb 10, 2004, at 5:25 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote: Marc Wiz wrote: On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 01:53:38PM -0500, Charles Swiger wrote: OK. The price difference for AMD vs. Intel is pretty significant, but be aware that you'll also pay a signi

Re: I'm really upset with my new computer

2004-02-09 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting "Loren M. Lang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 02:09:15PM -0500, Craig Reyenga wrote: I've heard that Sony and Dell don't support UNIX permissions on their proprietary hard drives. Stick with WinXP for now until a patch is committed into the source tree. I'm a little confused

Re: AMD vs Intel ...

2004-02-09 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Charles Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Feb 9, 2004, at 11:16 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: G'day all ... Simple question, I would hope ... I want to spec out a new server, and want to compare AMD vs Intel ... is there anything online that gives approx equivalents? ie. a Xeon 2.4Ghz proce

Re: ALSA drivers

2004-01-21 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Stas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > Does FreeBSD supports ALSA drivers? > No it doesn't. Ken ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Linux Hardware Drivers with FreeBSD?

2003-12-10 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Jonathan Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I connect to the internet with a wireless card (Blitzz 802.11b 11Mbps > Wireless LAN PCI Card, http://www.iblitzz.com). This has always worked well > under Windows 2000, but now I'd like to do the same with FreeBSD 4.9. > Unfortunately, the closest d

Re: FTP Client from Behind Filtering Bridge/Firewall

2003-10-19 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Khalil Khozeimeh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have configured a FreeBSD 4.8 system as a filtering bridge/firewall using > the IPFW. I am interested in enabling FTP clients from inside the firewall > to access FTP servers on the outside. It will be appreciated if somebody can > point me in the

Re: Openoffice 1.1 + native java

2003-10-16 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Matthew Faircliff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > Can anyone tell me if openoffice 1.1 (openoffice-devel) works with the native > java (diablo-jdk13)? > > Matthew Faircliff > > ___ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mai

Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat

2003-10-01 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Daniel Hawton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 4.4BSD Lite 2 is BSD.. which is from SysV.. heh That's what I said. But that's my point, it's NOT from SysV. It's always been it's own thing, parellel to SysV. It had some AT&T code in it at some point, but is

Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat

2003-10-01 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Daniel Hawton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > SoloCDM wrote: > > Why do the ISOs seem to be three CDs of 600Mb each for RedHat compared > > to 1.5 CDs for FreeBSD? I thought the files were larger with FreeBSD > > and its tarballs. > > > > Does FreeBSD offer all the packages from A to Z in thei

Re: Sendmail vs. Postfix...

2003-09-24 Thread Kenneth Culver
I have used postfix and sendmail on both linux and FreeBSD and I definitely prefer postfix. For starters, its security track-record is much better. Also it was very easy to ste up a system that uses mysql with virtual domains, SASL for relay authentication (also interfacing with mysql) etc... I hav

Re: Why do you prefer FreeBSD???? Maybe Windows is more comfortable than FBSD?

2003-09-24 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Denis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi All!!! > > I think that WinXP more popular and more easy than FreeBSD. People > all over the world know what is Windows but don't know what is > FreeBSD. More programs is written work on Windows > Windows more comfortable in work with graph... >

Re: Booting bit-by-bit (rc.conf broken)

2003-09-03 Thread Kenneth Culver
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > My rc.conf file appears to be broken in some way, and this is preventing > my system from booting. It boots to a heavily resticted system, with > only the / file system mounted and the statically linked binaries > available. Problem is, I can't edit my r

Re: Problem with my FreeBSD

2003-09-02 Thread Kenneth Culver
>Hi, > >I need your help, I bougth FreeBSD4.8 (Build Operating System: FreeBSD >4.8 i386 [ELF] ) from FreeBSD Mall, but I have problems I can't >configure my xwindow I'm attachement the log file. >My video card is: Nvidia TNT2 64m >My monitor is: LG studioworks 500G 15'' > >

Re: FreeBSD 5.1 i386 not allowing incoming ftp connects?

2003-09-02 Thread Kenneth Culver
> Hmm... funny, i have thought that inetd_enabled="YES" was default > regardless if it's in rc.conf or not. Because even it it's not in > rc.conf, you can still see it running when you ps -ax (/usr/sbin/inetd > -wW). I have my pop3 (which requires editing the inetd.conf) working > even if that line

Re: FreeBSD 5.1 i386 not allowing incoming ftp connects?

2003-09-02 Thread Kenneth Culver
> I am trying to set up a FreeBSD 5.1 i386 box. Everything seems to be > fine, except, incoming ftp is all rejected. Inetd.conf is set to allow > ftp. Is there another switch to set somewhere to allow all incoming > ftp? If so, what/where? is inetd even starting? I don't think that inetd start

Re: Is CIFS available already on FreeBSD?

2003-08-26 Thread Kenneth Culver
> Hi, >yes, samba is available for freebsd. but i mean whether a CIFS client > is available or not? > plz reply smbclient comes with samba, and you can use smbfs. Ken ___ [EMAIL PRO

Re: Is CIFS available already on FreeBSD?

2003-08-26 Thread Kenneth Culver
>well , i am a final year student in my computer engineering > course. >All i have to ask is IS THERE IS AN IMPLEMENTATION OF CIFS , "Common > Internet File System" > AVAILABLE ON FREEBSD? > i'll be waiting for your As far as I know, what you want i

Re: Something rotten in the OS?

2003-08-22 Thread Kenneth Culver
> I think that you've just been unlucky in buying two hard drives or > whatever which have failed prematurely. I think if there was such a > bug in FreeBSD, a lot more people than you would be complaining and > heaven and earth would be being moved in order to fix it. > I would have to agree that

Re: ELF file ABI version invalid

2003-08-20 Thread Kenneth Culver
Are you sure you're running the linux emulator kernel module? Ken On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Yusuf UZUNAY wrote: > i tried it too! But no result! :( > > --- Kenneth Culver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If it's a linux program you want to brandelf using > > Lin

Re: ELF file ABI version invalid

2003-08-19 Thread Kenneth Culver
man brandelf On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Yusuf UZUNAY wrote: > Hi! > when i was trying to run a linux program in FreeBSD i > take an error like "ELF file ABI version invalid"! Ýs > there anyone who has got some idea about this error? > Thanks! > -yusuf > > > __ > Do you

Re: FreeBSD tool for network bandwidthmeasure ?

2003-08-14 Thread Kenneth Culver
> (FreeBSD 4.8 and FreeBSD 3.3) > Oh, I've never tried it on 4.x. It works on my -CURRENT boxes though: /0 /1 /2 /3 /4 /5 /6 /7 /8 /9 /10 Load Average Interface Traffic PeakTotal lo0 in

Re: FreeBSD as router - performance vs hardware routers

2003-08-14 Thread Kenneth Culver
> What I'm not sure about is performance. Has anyone built a cable modem > gateway router using FreeBSD and "low-end" hardware like this? If so, > what were your results? > I'm using mine for DSL on a PII 333 and I've not seen any performance problems other than some that were the ISP's fault (rece

Re: Question concerning dual-NIC configuration

2003-08-14 Thread Kenneth Culver
> Coming from a Network Engineering perspective, I'm interested in having > my servers be as redundant as possible. I have two NIC's in the > machine, so I would like for the "server" to be reachable over either > interface. > > To my mind, I would give a loopback interface an IP address that is t

Re: FreeBSD as router - performance vs hardware routers

2003-08-14 Thread Kenneth Culver
> As a Note, the top end routers out there, Junipers, run JunOS, which is > a FreeBSD variant. A Juniper M160 can route OC192's at wire speed > (That's 10Gb/s folks). However, the way those are set up, FreeBSD doesn't do the actual routing, as far as I can remember they upload a routing table to t

Re: FreeBSD as router - performance vs hardware routers

2003-08-14 Thread Kenneth Culver
> I personally would go with FreeBSD as a router. I have been used both a > 200Mhz P1 and a 300Mhz P2 as routers with out problems. I personally > have really liked being able to ssh into it su to root and change what > ever I want to. It makes for a really flexible system. > > BTW I would suggest

RE: Question concerning dual-NIC configuration

2003-08-12 Thread Kenneth Culver
> why would ya want to route lo1 127.0.0.1 to a 192.x.x. address ??? > seems to me that there are to many system side processes that listen or > ocmmunicate thru that...giving access or routing that traffic to a > internal address ...doesnt seem to smart to me. > -- > > I wouldn't; I was using that

Re: Question concerning dual-NIC configuration

2003-08-08 Thread Kenneth Culver
> why would ya want to route lo1 127.0.0.1 to a 192.x.x. address ??? > seems to me that there are to many system side processes that listen or > ocmmunicate thru that...giving access or routing that traffic to a > internal address ...doesnt seem to smart to me. This is basically what I just said.

Re: FreeBSD 4.x reboots when high netload

2003-08-05 Thread Kenneth Culver
> I have a problem, my FreeBSD server reboots when the netload is high. If > I transfer large files, or a lot of files it does it. It is configured > as a gateway, so if the other computers are downloading a lot, it > reboots. I don't understand why, I recently upgraded from 4.6 to 4.8 > because of

Re: FreeBSD tool for network bandwidthmeasure ?

2003-08-05 Thread Kenneth Culver
> Is there any standard (or non) FreeBSD tool that is used to measure a > current network throughput/bandwidth? And also, what are the > requirements to do so, and do I need to be root to run, or do I need to > load a special kernel module? > Just run systat -if 1 That will tell you what you want

Re: nforce2 audio?

2003-07-30 Thread Kenneth Culver
You can use the sound module, or recompile your kernel with device pcm, but I doubt very seriously that the nforce2 audio is supported. Ken > uhub1: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered > pci0: at device 2.2 (no driver attached) > pci0: at device 4.0 (no driver attached) > pci0: at device 5.

Re: Calling all raid experts

2003-07-29 Thread Kenneth Culver
> Greetings, > I need to build a file server for our marketing departments documents > and images. I want to use Freebsd. Since the data is large, and > backups would be difficult I was wondering if RAID would be a solution. > > I thought that RAID 5 would be the ticket, but after reading up on i

Re: Setting up a NAT Router that will route between 3 networks

2003-07-29 Thread Kenneth Culver
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Jason Hunt wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 06:14:29PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I was wondering how to modify the appropriate files to setup a FreeBSD > > computer to act as a NAT Router, that would do the following: > > > > Check the natd(8) man page, it should g

Re: Dynamic Hostname Assignment

2003-07-25 Thread Kenneth Culver
> The standard dhclient-script sets the hostname. At least, it sure > *looks* like it does... [line 97 of > src/contrib/isc-dhcp/client/scripts/freebsd,v 1.9.2.6] OK, yeah, it does, so there must be some other configuration that needs to be done. Ken __

Re: What version of BSD should I use

2003-07-25 Thread Kenneth Culver
> > Well, but what about djbdns ? > > Is it fully compatible with BIND ? > > I think it is, as you use it :-) > > I have never heard about it. > > > no, try powerdns instead :) Depends on what he means by compatible. I took this to mean "will it communicate with bind servers" and the answer is "ye

Re: What version of BSD should I use

2003-07-25 Thread Kenneth Culver
> > Well, but what about djbdns ? > > Decent program, but the license is awful. yeah, the licence is wierd. > > > Is it fully compatible with BIND ? > > No, it is not. The configuration is not even remotely close, and the author > refuses to support parts of the RFC that he feels to be problemati

Re: What version of BSD should I use

2003-07-25 Thread Kenneth Culver
> Well, but what about djbdns ? > Is it fully compatible with BIND ? > I think it is, as you use it :-) > I have never heard about it. > It's complient with whatever standards there are governing DNS. And it works very well for me. Ken ___ [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: What version of BSD should I use

2003-07-25 Thread Kenneth Culver
> Sendmail works fine in FreeBSD 4.8. Named is considered insecure > because people use it. If you pick another product to be "safe", make > sure no one uses it. Any suggestion on this list would be to popular > to be "safe". As I said in my last email, people find holes in popular > software m

Re: What version of BSD should I use

2003-07-25 Thread Kenneth Culver
> Thanks for quick response. > I have thought so, but I want to be sure. There is also 4.7. Do you think > better to use 4.8 ? > It's best to use the latest 4.x Ken ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ques

Re: What version of BSD should I use

2003-07-25 Thread Kenneth Culver
> I have spent a lot of time on FreeBSD.org web pages, but I still can not > find > VERY SIMPLE answer for this question: > what version of FreeBSD should I use ? > > I need system which is VERY STABLE, with as few possibilities to hack as > possible > (the best is absolutely closed :-) ), running

Re: I want using FreeBSD, but...

2003-07-25 Thread Kenneth Culver
> 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 > > d=disk > a=and > e=? (i don't know)

Re: Dynamic Hostname Assignment

2003-07-25 Thread Kenneth Culver
> Yes, my ISP's DHCP server should assign me a hostname. I assumed that's > how it was done by dhclient on RedHat7.3/8/9 all of which just did this > automatically whenever I selected DHCP configuration of the interface. > I've been comparing FreeBSD 5.1's default dhclient-script to RedHat's > tryi

Re: Dynamic Hostname Assignment

2003-07-25 Thread Kenneth Culver
> hostname_start() > { > ip=`ifconfig xl0 | grep 'inet ' | awk '{print $2}'` > # Set the host name if it is not already set > # > if [ -z "`hostname -s`" ]; then > if [ $ip ]; then > hostname=`host $ip | awk '{print $5}'` >

Re: I hate meeses to pieces

2003-07-18 Thread Kenneth Culver
> > > I am an extreme newbie at FreeBSD. I have it installed but when I go > > > into the Xserver in either of the two GUIs I get a weird mouse that > > > seems to only be able to stay on the very top of the screen and has > > > no vertical movement. > > > > > > I have it setup on Auto and PS/2 Bu

Re: KDE process is unkillable

2003-07-16 Thread Kenneth Culver
> > Reboot! :) > >Hey, she's not talking about Windows ;-) > Sounds like her video card is hung, and in that case, the only thing to do is reboot, as much as it sucks. Ken ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/f

RE: KDE process is unkillable

2003-07-15 Thread Kenneth Culver
> Yes, I know, but this server is also my workstation (it's just a home > server). > ok, well like the other people said... did you try kill -9 as root on the process in question? If you did, and it still won't die, most likely you'll have to reboot. Ken ___

RE: KDE process is unkillable

2003-07-15 Thread Kenneth Culver
> I can't reboot. This is a server. > Why are you even running X on a server? I know this doesn't help your problem, but it's generally not a good idea to run X on servers. Ken ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: /etc/sysctl.conf

2003-07-15 Thread Kenneth Culver
> net.inet.tcp.blackhole=2 > net.inet.udp.blackhole=1 > kern.ps_showallprocs=0 > You can make these lines take effect without reboot in the following manner (as root): sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.blackhole=2 sysctl -w net.inet.udp.blackhole=1 sysctl -w kern.ps_showallprocs=0 rebooting would also make

Re: *BSD is dying

2003-07-11 Thread Kenneth Culver
> The fact that it is a moderated forum leads me to believe that the > slashdot operators are themselves FreeBSD bigots. I for one have much > less respect for Slashdot for allowing that drivel through. They don't usually let it through per say, you have to browse the comments at a very low Score

Re: 5.1R system crash -- sound related

2003-07-08 Thread Kenneth Culver
> I'm under KDE ;), so it starts up. > buh# ps ax | grep artsd > 706 ?? S 0:28.09 /usr/local/bin/artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -s 60 -m > artsmessage -l 3 -f > > and i suppose it's the suspect. > > I've tried > artsdsp -v aviplay %f Marlene\ Dietrich_Peter.mp3 > and got (no hang): > > -

Re: 5.1R system crash -- sound related

2003-07-08 Thread Kenneth Culver
0.vchans=0 At that point, only 1 application at a time will be able to access the soundcard at 1 time. Ken On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > On Tuesday 08 July 2003 17:09, Kenneth Culver wrote: > > vchans probably aren't working right with your sound card yet. I had > &

Re: 5.1R system crash -- sound related

2003-07-08 Thread Kenneth Culver
vchans probably aren't working right with your sound card yet. I had a problem for a while with my soundcard, but it seems to be working fine now with vchans. Ken On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > Hi, > > Any now an then, mostly now :(, when I simoultaniosly use more that one > sound

Re: how many bytes send out of my box?

2003-07-08 Thread Kenneth Culver
I wrote a small utility that can tell you. http://www.glue.umd.edu/~culverk/ifbwmon-0.1.tar.gz just untar it, cd to the directory that gets created, type make, then run the resulting executable like this: ifbwmon fxp0 replace 'fxp0' with whatever ethernet interface you use. Ken On Tue, 8 Jul

Re: pcm on 5.1

2003-07-03 Thread Kenneth Culver
On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 07:58 PM, Laszlo Vagner wrote: I just updated to 5.1-r and was wondering how to add soundcard support to the kernel.? in 4.8 i just added 'device pcm' in my kernel config and recompiled but 5.1 is different and i dont want to do something to mess things up. dme

Re: libc (?)

2003-07-02 Thread Kenneth Culver
> No you can't - it relies on the 5.1 kernel. OK, well I wasn't sure how much things had changed as far as the ABI goes, so I didn't want to rule it out. Ken ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Sound oddity in FreeBSD 5.1

2003-07-02 Thread Kenneth Culver
> Not sure if this will actually help you but I recall thinking my sound > wasn't working after a recent KDE install. Turned out that it was simply > installing the desktop without explicit sound assignments for system > events (so it merely seemed like sound wasn't working, yet no pop up > errors

Re: libc (?)

2003-07-02 Thread Kenneth Culver
> Probably a really stupid question - but is there a compatability port of > some sort for 4.x systems so we can run things compiled for 5.x ? :-) No, but you can go the other way around. You MIGHT be able to use the 5.x libc directly on 4.x, but I wouldn't recommend it. Ken _

Re: what kernel does freebsd use?

2003-06-30 Thread Kenneth Culver
> I've read that there are multiple kernels for BSD. What does FreeBSD > use? Can I swap it out for other kernels? Or am I mistaken? FreeBSD uses the FreeBSD kernel. You can recompile it using the source for the FreeBSD kernel, but it is the only kernel that works with FreeBSD. Ken __

Re: Stand-a-lone NAT PGM

2003-06-27 Thread Kenneth Culver
> I have been looking for NAT program which is not part of some other > program like NATD is part of IPFW or IPNAT is part of IPFILTER or NAT of > user ppp. I can not find any NAT program in the FBSD ports collection > unless I mis-understood some description. If anybody knows of one > please let

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