zfs over geli over zfs (was: Re: zfs flag denoting unclean shutdown?)

2013-10-03 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 10/02/2013 08:13 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 02/10/2013 16:34, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: Is there a way to know if a zfs pool had an unclean shutdown? An attribute or maybe something during mount time similar to what ufs does (WARNING: / was not properly dismounted)? Other than looking

zfs flag denoting unclean shutdown?

2013-10-02 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Hi, Is there a way to know if a zfs pool had an unclean shutdown? An attribute or maybe something during mount time similar to what ufs does (WARNING: / was not properly dismounted)? Thanks, Nikos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: to gmirror or to ZFS

2013-07-16 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 07/16/13 21:27, Johan Hendriks wrote: Op dinsdag 16 juli 2013 schreef Charles Swiger (cswi...@mac.com) het volgende: Hi-- On Jul 16, 2013, at 10:33 AM, Johan Hendriks joh.hendr...@gmail.comjavascript:; wrote: [ ... ] I would us a zfs for the os. I have a couple of servers that did not

Re: does ifconfig see netgraph bridges?

2013-05-19 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Hi, On 05/19/2013 04:57 PM, Joe wrote: I create a ng bridge but issuing ifconfig does not show the bridge. Running 9.1-RELEASE. Is this a bug? ifconfig is not supposed to know about a netgraph bridge. So this is by design. Also, since the bridge is supposed to be transparent to the network i

Re: OT: posix sh problem

2013-04-04 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 4/4/2013 3:32 μμ, Mark Felder wrote: Hi all, Hopefully someone here is much more clever than I am. I've run out of ideas on how to cleanly convert this chunk of ksh to posix sh. This is from a BB/Hobbit/Xymon monitoring script for ZFS. I'd really like to have this working cleanly on FreeBSD

Re: w and who don't list users in FreeBSD 9.0 and 9.1

2013-03-19 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 19/3/2013 6:03 μμ, Ruben de Groot wrote: On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 04:59:56PM +0100, Istvan Gabor typed: Hello: I have both FreeBSD 9.0 and 9.1 on two different computers. w and who commands do not list logged in users in any of them (either for root or a regular user). The output of w is:

Re: process eating up all memory - what should happen next?

2013-03-07 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 7/3/2013 12:17 μμ, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 7 Mar 2013 10:01:03 GMT, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I have a process that eats up al memory, in my case science/paraview if I try to analyse a large model. What should FreeBSD do when a process tries to use all RAM or more? In this case, the swap

Re: Journaling for a flaky FreeBSD VirtualBox guest.

2013-02-28 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 28/2/2013 9:41 πμ, Alan Gutierrez wrote: I'm getting to know FreeBSD by running a 64-bit FreeBSD guest in a VirtualBox machine on my OS X Mountain Lion laptop. On occasion, when waking up from sleep, the FreeBSD virtual machine will not restart. VirtualBox marks it as Aborted. Maybe you

Re: svn.freebsd.org over https fails

2013-02-27 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 26/2/2013 4:27 πμ, Shane Ambler wrote: On 26/02/2013 08:39, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: Hi, Since a few weeks connecting to svn.freebsd.org over https fails. Is this deliberate? It used to work... Thanks in advance, Nikos Not sure about it working before but I don't see svn.freebsd.org

svn.freebsd.org over https fails

2013-02-25 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Hi, Since a few weeks connecting to svn.freebsd.org over https fails. Is this deliberate? It used to work... Thanks in advance, Nikos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: vnet without epair

2013-02-10 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 2/10/2013 1:12 AM, Teske, Devin wrote: On Sat, 9 Feb 2013, Fbsd8 wrote: What I am doing is writing documentation that describes the new 9.1 jail extensions for jail.conf and the rc.conf jail statements. I am going to submit changes to /etc/defaults/rc.conf and as long as I was on the jail

Re: packages listing

2013-02-10 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 2/10/2013 8:57 AM, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 9 Feb 2013 22:52:37 -0800 (PST), Dánielisz László wrote: Hi Everybody, Do you have any idea how can I list those installed packages that are not required by any other? You can use sysutils/pkg_cutleaves to determine those. I use this:

Re: vnet without epair

2013-02-10 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 2/10/2013 2:54 PM, Teske, Devin wrote: It's not in ports only because I first wanted to see where jail.conf would take us w/respect to vimages. I see. However, this package not being in ports shouldn't prevented you from trying it -- it's extremely stable and as I mentioned, we've been

Re: packages listing

2013-02-10 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 2/10/2013 3:09 PM, Teske, Devin wrote: Just curious, why not use pkg_info -Ra instead of pkg_info -R '*' ? Because I didnt know -a;) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: vnet without epair

2013-02-10 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 2/10/2013 3:56 PM, Teske, Devin wrote: Excellent! This is precisely what I was after when I wrote the vimage package and its contents. I'm familiar with IMUNES and netgraph fits the bill well (especially with ngctl dot being useful in providing visual confirmation when you've achieved the

Re: vnet without epair

2013-02-10 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 2/10/2013 4:02 PM, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: On 2/10/2013 3:56 PM, Teske, Devin wrote: Excellent! This is precisely what I was after when I wrote the vimage package and its contents. I'm familiar with IMUNES and netgraph fits the bill well (especially with ngctl dot being useful in providing

Re: vnet without epair

2013-02-09 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 2/9/2013 5:57 PM, Fbsd8 wrote: Has any one been able to get RELEASE 9.1 to enable jail vnet without having to use epair? Yes, you can use vnet-enabled jails with several types of interfaces. Physical ones like em0 etc, virtual ones like vlan0 etc, netgraph ethernet-like interfaces like

assigning values to variables in the background

2013-01-15 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Hi, A bit of an OT question. I am writing a bourne shell script that collects data from a router. Since netstat vmstat can run for a numbers of iterations I thought I would use just that: stats() ( nstats=`netstat -I ng0 -q 1 60 | tail -1` rawdata=`vmstat -c 2 60 | tail -1`

Re: assigning values to variables in the background

2013-01-15 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 1/15/2013 9:30 PM, Greg Larkin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 1/15/13 12:42 PM, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: Hi, A bit of an OT question. I am writing a bourne shell script that collects data from a router. Since netstat vmstat can run for a numbers of iterations I

Re: ipfwNG project?

2012-12-06 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 12/4/2012 4:24 PM, Rick Miller wrote: I came across the wiki doc for ipfwNG (http://wiki.freebsd.org/IpfwNg) and wondered if any of the concepts of this project are currently being developed for FreeBSD and when we might start seeing those concepts included in releng/ code. Hi, I would

Re: List all hard drives on system (with capacities)... How?

2012-12-06 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 12/7/2012 1:34 AM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: On 12/06/2012 05:30 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: I'd like to write a small program or shell script that simply lists all of the physical hard drives attached to the local system, along with their product identifiers and their respective capacities.

Re: /usr/sbin/ppp doubling connections on tun0

2012-11-20 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 11/20/2012 2:49 AM, andrew clarke wrote: I'm using /usr/sbin/ppp for PPPoE over an ADSL modem in bridged mode: # ifconfig tun0 tun0: flags=8051UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1492 options=8LINKSTATE inet 203.217.27.170 -- 203.215.15.252 netmask 0x

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: disappearing files

2011-07-28 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 7/28/2011 10:15 AM, ad...@prnet.org wrote: Hi, I am using FreeBSD 8.2 with an UFS filesystem containing a jail. I do a tar of the whole jail every night. Suddenly after a few weeks of operation, tar complains about being unable to stat /usr/lib/libmilter.so. From inside the jail: ls

Re: Can gpart create ntfs and FAT-32 partitions?

2011-07-28 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 7/28/2011 7:55 AM, Kevin Oberman wrote: I want to create a GPT disk structure that has the following partitions: MBR NTFS (1.2G) NTFS (200G) FreeBSD OS (250G) NTFS (15G) FAT-32 (100G) (needs to be RW for W7 and FreeBSD and ntfs-3g is just not stable enough) FreeBSD data only (380G) The NTFS

Re: ARP tables in FreeBSD (vs Linux)

2011-05-24 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 5/23/2011 10:46 PM, Rogelio wrote: I found that a certain Linux gateway was having a difficult time with thousands of ARP entries (about 13K concurrent ARP entries in 10 min from ISP subscribers), so I put it behind a Cisco 7201 router and added an IP helper to the interface. Now it seems to

Re: VIMAGE in fbsd 9.0

2011-05-16 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 5/15/2011 7:49 PM, Fbsd8 wrote: What is the current status of VIMAGE in Freebsd 9.0? I *think* all VIMAGE related code in 9.0 has been merged to 8-STABLE. It is still tagged experimental. Most things work. Is there something that doesn't work for you? Is VIMAGE going to be included in the

Re: Can I bridge the same subnet across a VPN?

2011-05-05 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 5/5/2011 12:24 AM, David Brodbeck wrote: The problem I've always found with bridged solutions is they don't cope well under heavy traffic loads when the VPN link is slower than the LANs they're bridging between. And the VPN link is usually slower if it's over a WAN. The link tends to get

Re: lockf command

2011-04-13 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 4/13/2011 12:08 PM, Bastien Semene wrote: I wish that if command #2 can't acquire the lock, lockf exits (exit 0 would be nice). If I set -t 1, lockf is quite what I'm waiting for. But I like to do this in a clear way : if it can't acquire the lock it exits, no timeout wait. Am I

Re: Strange behavior of MTU on loopback interfaces.

2011-02-25 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 2/25/2011 9:29 AM, c0re wrote: Hello all! I'm testing setting lower MTU on loopback interfaces to avoid some MTU problems with IPSEC in a path of traffic. ifconfig lo1 create ifconfig lo1 mtu 1300 ifconfig lo1 5.5.5.5/32 # ifconfig lo1 lo1: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST metric 0

Re: Tuning routing table size in FreeBSD 8.0 and 7.2

2011-02-24 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 2/24/2011 4:51 PM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 2/24/11 3:00 PM, nikitha wrote: Hi, Could you plz share the information on the maximum number of routes that can be added (by default) in FREEBSD 8.0/7.2 kernel? In Linux the sysctl rt_max_size is used. Is there a similar tunable parameter in

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: 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: 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: ipfw fwd and ipfw allow

2010-09-08 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 9/7/2010 5:52 PM, Victor Sudakov wrote: A packet generated locally 1) should be forwarded by a 'fwd' rule and 2) should create a dynamic 'allow' rule for returning traffic. Could you please suggest a ruleset for this. The fw has the 10.0.0.1 IP address. The 10.0.0.100 IP address belongs to

Re: ipfw fwd and ipfw allow

2010-09-07 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 9/7/2010 12:00 PM, Victor Sudakov wrote: Am I asking something unreasonable? Not really, but if you ask, one could say that IPFW is a first match wins firewall, so a fwd or an allow action would be the terminal one. You must design your rules accordingly. There is also the skipto action

Re: ipfw fwd and ipfw allow

2010-09-07 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 9/7/2010 2:00 PM, Victor Sudakov wrote: Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: Am I asking something unreasonable? Not really, but if you ask, one could say that IPFW is a first match wins firewall, so a fwd or an allow action would be the terminal one. You must design your rules accordingly

Re: Routing Question

2010-08-27 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 8/27/2010 9:09 PM, Doug Hardie wrote: On 27 August 2010, at 05:07, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: Le Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:17:19 -0700, Doug Hardiebc...@lafn.org a écrit : PF's route_to will return the packets to the proper router, but I have not been able to figure out which ones those would

Re: NATD Question

2010-08-27 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 8/27/2010 9:14 PM, Michael J. Kearney wrote: Will natd forward rtmp:// ??? I am sure libalias and natd know nothing about rtmp. freebsd# cat /etc/natd.conf use_sockets redirect_port tcp 192.168.0.3:3389 10.1.10.172:3389 redirect_port tcp 192.168.0.2:1935 10.1.10.172:1935 redirect_port

Re: any shortcuts to doc to ascii?

2010-05-28 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 27 May 2010 16:36:08 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: i don't see any ascii suffix [for OOo]. i saved as .txt. This should be right. The .txt extension refers to ASCII text, at least in standard-compliant operating systems. same krap.

Re: FreeBSD router - large scale

2010-05-28 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Svein Skogen (Listmail Account) wrote: Actually, I'd find an answer from the FreeBSD Networking gurus useful as well. My trusted Cisco 3640 is getting old (had it's ten-years-of-service birthday a little while ago), so I guess I must be prepared to replace it with something new. Preferrably

Re: File system

2010-05-23 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Eitan Adler wrote: gjournal will replay all write attempts (metadata and data) before the failure, so you should be relatively sure that all writes are done correctly. As I understand it journals work by writing to disk a log of all the changes that have to be made - waits for confirmation

Re: File system

2010-05-17 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Craig Whipp wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 10:53 am, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: Ansar Mohammed wrote: Hello All, I have a FreeBSD VM running. Whenever I reboot the VM without a clean shutdown it boots into single user mode and I have to run fsck. When I run fsck, the file system clearly has issues

Re: File system

2010-05-10 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Ansar Mohammed wrote: Hello All, I have a FreeBSD VM running. Whenever I reboot the VM without a clean shutdown it boots into single user mode and I have to run fsck. When I run fsck, the file system clearly has issues. Is there any way to have FreeBSD run on a better file system that wont

Re: Extended VLAN?

2010-04-16 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 4/14/2010 1:04 AM, Dan D Niles wrote: I have two FreeBSD routers. I would like both locations to share the 10.10.0.0/16 network. If I were using Cisco routers I would use extended VLANs. How would I do that with FreeBSD routers? I already have a tunnel set up and routing different

Re: Extended VLAN?

2010-04-16 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 4/14/2010 6:38 PM, Dan D Niles wrote: OK, this is weird. I ran wireshark on the destination side (across the bridge). When I try to ping the destination router, the arp request is sent across the bridge, but there is no arp reply. It seems like the destination router is not responding to

Re: sftp server with speed throttling

2010-03-22 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Dan Naumov wrote: What are my options if I want to run an sftp server with speed throttling? My understanding is that openssh (which includes sftp) in base does not support this directly, so I would have to either use a custom kernel with ALTQ (and I would really rather stick to GENERIC so I can

Re: kernel panic when if_lagg is not loaded.

2010-03-17 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Leslie Jensen wrote: I have set upp aggregation of my wlan and and wired NIC following the instructions in the handbook. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-aggregation.html I forgot to add the if_lagg_load=YES in /boot/loader.conf. When I rebooted I got a kernel panic. Should

Re: kernel panic when if_lagg is not loaded.

2010-03-17 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Leslie Jensen wrote: I'm on a 8.0-RELEASE-p2 system. Actually after more testing I found out that the line ifconfig_iwn0=ether 00:16:ea:61:01:e8 in my rc.conf is the culprit. If I comment it out the system will start but only with the wired interface working. If you don't comment the line

is there a native driver for 'Dell Wireless 1397'?

2010-03-10 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Hi, I am interested in buying a laptop from the Dell Inspiron 15 series. Most of them are having a wifi card branded as 'Dell Wireless 1397'. Is there a driver for this? I would prefer a native driver, but success stories using it with NDIS or other general comments regarding the Dell Inspiron

Re: is there a native driver for 'Dell Wireless 1397'?

2010-03-10 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 3/10/2010 12:13 PM, George Liaskos wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Nikos Vassiliadisnvass9...@gmx.com wrote: Hi, I am interested in buying a laptop from the Dell Inspiron 15 series. Most of them are having a wifi card branded as 'Dell Wireless 1397'. Is there a driver for this?

Re: is there a native driver for 'Dell Wireless 1397'?

2010-03-10 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 3/10/2010 12:41 PM, Leslie Jensen wrote: I bought a Dell Latitude 6500 two years ago. The Dell Wireless was not supported then by FreeBSD. I got an Intel card from Dell instead and the iwn driver works well. http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=8041 I guess you have not looked back

Re: is there a native driver for 'Dell Wireless 1397'?

2010-03-10 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 3/10/2010 1:00 PM, George Liaskos wrote: No, i do not have this card but i trust the man pages :) Me too. Yet I will not buy new/non-mainstream hardware based on the manual. Hence the question... All I am looking for is an I have and it works with FreeBSD-[89] and amd64|x86. I found this

Re: is there a native driver for 'Dell Wireless 1397'?

2010-03-10 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 3/10/2010 10:50 AM, Mario Lobo wrote: I have 8-STABLE amd64 I have a dell vostro 1320 with a 4315 wireless and got it working with the bwn driver from HEAD (svn) and the net/bwn-firmware-kmod port. That's good to hear, thanks! Nikos ___

Re: Detecting cards in USB card reader

2010-02-07 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 2/7/2010 1:28 AM, Mike Clarke wrote: curlew:/root# cat /dev/null /dev/da0 curlew:/root# ls -l /dev/da0* crw-r- 1 root operator0, 176 6 Feb 23:15 /dev/da0 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 129 6 Feb 23:18 /dev/da0s1 I can use this to initialise the card reader but I'd feel more

Re: Cheating OS fingerprinting

2010-02-07 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 2/7/2010 3:54 PM, yavuz wrote: Hi all, I want to cheat os fingerprinting tools ( primary nmap) in my freebsd machine. Assume I am using freebsd 8 and I want to be seen as a windows xp machine when someone scans my ports. In order to determine target host's OS, nmap sends seven TCP/IP

Re: gjournal on compact flash

2010-01-30 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 1/30/2010 1:35 AM, Adam Vande More wrote: There is an rc flags to automatically do a full fsck instead of backgroud, but I am unsure exactly what you mean by user intervention. Practice has shown that while softupdates handle most situations cleanly, they don't handle ALL situations. In

Re: gjournal on compact flash

2010-01-29 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 1/28/2010 6:51 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Nikos Vassiliadisnvass9...@gmx.comwrote: Hi, I am using a 40MB journal on a 500MB compact flash. Would that be sane, or I am causing more harm than good? My concerns are: 1) wear leveling. The journal is on

gjournal on compact flash

2010-01-28 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Hi, I am using a 40MB journal on a 500MB compact flash. Would that be sane, or I am causing more harm than good? My concerns are: 1) wear leveling. The journal is on specific part of the disk writing again and again. That should be handled by the CF itself. Though I am

Re: FreeBSD + exFAT

2010-01-15 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 1/15/2010 3:19 PM, Jerry wrote: I know that this was asked approximately 1 year ago; however, I was wondering if there had been any movement on it. Specifically, getting FreeBSD to recognize the 'exFAT' format. It is becoming a very common format for use on removable drives. It's patented

Re: Buld echo

2010-01-12 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 1/12/2010 12:21 PM, Jos Chrispijn wrote: I have 35 log files that I want to flush once a day. In order to keep them exist I now do an 'echo logfile.log' How can I do such in one command having the same effect on all log files? You could use truncate(1). Something like: truncate -s 0 file1

Re: which IP+gateway for Freebsd guest VM in VMware workstation

2009-12-28 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 12/27/2009 2:36 PM, Len Conrad wrote: Take a look here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/config-network-setup.html thanks, I've been setting up FreeBSD for 10 years, and have multimple FreeBSD VMs running in several ESXi hosts. Sorry, I didn't mean to offend you. I just

Re: Checksum mismatch -- will transfer entire file

2009-12-28 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 12/28/2009 7:46 AM, Victor Sudakov wrote: To cut a long story short, I would rather continue using cvs, perhaps until there is subversion-light in the base system. I use successfully cvs for the same reasons. Most of the time I use the French mirror and I have also used the two USA ones. I

Re: Checksum mismatch -- will transfer entire file

2009-12-28 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 12/28/2009 11:11 AM, Victor Sudakov wrote: Are you sure you understand me? I was talking about mirroring the whole repository with cvsup/cvsupd protocol, that's where the Checksum mismatch -- will transfer entire file error occurs. Sorry, I missed the part of conversation about cvs mode in

Re: which IP+gateway for Freebsd guest VM in VMware workstation

2009-12-27 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 12/27/2009 12:10 AM, Len Conrad wrote: VMWare has lots of info how to set up the (Windows XP) VMWare Workstation networking side, but not much on setting up networking in the guest OS. I've tried NAT and bridging, no DHCP, and can't ping anything except the localhost IPs. XP ipconfig

Re: Loadbalance outgoing traffic over two cable modems in same network

2009-12-21 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 12/21/2009 6:03 AM, Mel Flynn wrote: Hi, I've looked over http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/pools.html but this assumes two different gateways for the two interfaces. I'm faced with two cable modems from the same ISP, with the same gateway. I can't lagg(4) the interfaces, since specific IP's are

Re: cross-link serial console

2009-10-20 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Gary Gatten wrote: Ahh A Null modem cable? Or, perhaps BSD will allow you to configure the serial interface in the software - make one end a DCE type and the other by default will remain a DTE. He has to use a null-modem cable. The wires sending and receiving data are fixed, so one

Re: Routes to local addresses through lo0 on 8.0-BETA4

2009-09-14 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Sergey Listopad wrote: Hi! On 8.0-BETA4 gate I see than in routing table are number of routes (link# records) through lo0 for some local addresses: hole netstat -rnfinet | grep lo0 127.0.0.1 link#7 UH 030764lo0 172.22.254.10 link#7 UHS

Re: me in ipfw rules - does it include aliases?

2009-09-08 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Tom Worster wrote: the ipfw man page says: me matches any IP address configured on an interface in the system. which suggests that if i code my rules using me then when i add an alias ip address to an interface with ifconfig, these me rules will immediately work for the newly added address

Re: me in ipfw rules - does it include aliases?

2009-09-08 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Tom Worster wrote: thanks, nikos. You're welcome. i'm interested in your other comment about the risks of using me. All I am saying is that you have to take care of attacks which use me addresses. Packets with source address a me address coming from a network interface, AKA spoofed

Re: ifconfig -alias - removed wrong ip ?

2009-09-01 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Adam Vande More wrote: On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 8:20 AM, claudiu vasadi claudiu.vas...@gmail.comwrote: 1.) Is it normal for the ifconfig rl0 -alias to remove the normal IP and not the alias one ? (I think that by this syntax it could be right but the parameter -alias is specified and the OS

Re: Can partitions span more than one drive?

2009-08-28 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Ruben de Groot wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 04:56:03PM +0300, Nikos Vassiliadis typed: RW wrote: On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:45:47 -0400 John Almberg jalmb...@identry.com wrote: Question: is it possible to just expand my existing /backup partition to encompass both the current drive

Re: Can partitions span more than one drive?

2009-08-26 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
RW wrote: On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:45:47 -0400 John Almberg jalmb...@identry.com wrote: Question: is it possible to just expand my existing /backup partition to encompass both the current drive and the new drive? I'm guessing not, since Chapter 8 in Absolute FreeBSD says that a partition is

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

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: 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

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: 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

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