high performance open source DHCP solution?
The free DHCP solution, ISC, seems to be having scaling issues (i.e. handling only about 200 DHCPDISCOVER and 20 DHCPRENEW requests), and I was wondering if anyone had any open source suggestions of solutions that could scale much better? (Ideally, I could find a free version of a solution like Nominum, but I know that's asking for much.) Anyone have any suggestions? -- Also on LinkedIn? Feel free to connect if you too are an open networker: scubac...@gmail.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: ARP tables in FreeBSD (vs Linux)
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 5:46 AM, Nikos Vassiliadis nv...@gmx.com wrote: Was the rate of ARPs the problem? Nikos, unfortunately, I'm not sure. It was one of those things where in an effort to quickly fix things, I split up the collision domain and used a router to handle the ARP. Right now, a 7201 router has about 15K ARPs, and the system is much slower. In similar situations later (when a router is not handy), I would like the option of using a FreeBSD box (hence the reason I posed the question here on the forum). -- Also on LinkedIn? Feel free to connect if you too are an open networker: scubac...@gmail.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
ARP tables in FreeBSD (vs Linux)
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 be working much much better. In the future, I'd like to possibly use a FreeBSD box for this, but I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions, experience, or tips on how FreeBSD handle ARP compared to Linux. Or should I just keep this sort of thing dedicated to network appliances? -- Also on LinkedIn? Feel free to connect if you too are an open networker: scubac...@gmail.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: scalable FreeBSD based LNS (with L2TPv2)
Vince and Matthew, thanks to both of you. Vince, I found MD5 and am still looking for whether or not it supports L2TPv2 (gotta have that older version, not any v3) Matthew, I put in an inquiry to Firebrick, as well. cheers! Rogelio -- Also on LinkedIn? Feel free to add me as a friend: scubac...@gmail.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
scalable FreeBSD based LNS (with L2TPv2)
Has anyone created/used/found/seen a FreeBSD based LNS that supports thousands L2TPv2 tunnels? Right now, the only solution I see that scales to this level is Redback, and if not a Redback box, then lots of Cisco 7200 boxes. -- Also on LinkedIn? Feel free to add me as a friend: scubac...@gmail.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
rolling own mesh soln using BSD?
I'm looking to roll my own mesh solution using BSD and was wondering if anyone had any pointers on hardware, cards, software packages, etc. Up to this point, I've either played with the little solutions (e.g. dd-wrt) or the bigger ones (Cisco, BelAir, etc). I'm looking to experiment around with something in between -- more robust than the dd-wrt, but not as expensive as the big player equipment. Any ideas? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
./configure question for AIX
I have a question on compiling Nagios' NRPE on AIX (which I'm assuming would be similar to FreeBSDl, as I'm trying to use Autotools on ksh). I'm used to always running tar -zxfv file.tar.gz, but this time I had to run (I think) like tar z and then tar xfv to get it unzipped. In that directory, I then ran ./configure and then make all, and I'm hoping someone here might help point me in the right direction. ./configure --prefix=/opt/nagios --enable-command-args --without-ssl make install When I do this, I get an error about Boutell's GD library is required to compile the statusmap, trends and histogram CGIs. Get it from http://www.boutell.com/gd/, compile it, and use the --with-gd-lib and --with-gd-inc arguments to specify the locations of the GD library and include files. Ok, that's cool. But am I on the right track about how to install this on AIX? Once I installed this GD library and ./configure with the right parameters, will this work in AIX? (Sorry if this isn't the best place to ask this question, as I tend to be spoiled by Linux packages. If not, I can take it elseware) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
doing a minimal FreeBSD install
I'm looking to install only the bare essentials to FreeBSD and then install each program piece-by-piece afterwards. To do this, do I just need the first FreeBSD 6 ISO? Or can I get away with just the boot CD ISO and then install each port one-by-one? (Basically, I just wanna build a Nagios server, and that requires very, very little) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BTX Halted error on FreeBSD 6 VMware Server
I'm trying to install the latest FreeBSD boot cd on a VMware Server (running on CentOS). When I boot (whether it's option 1 or 2), I always get the same BTX Halted error. Is there something I need to disable before I can get VMware to play nicely with FreeBSD? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: doing a minimal FreeBSD install
A bit more work perhaps than you're willing or able to commit, but you might be interested in MiniBSD - a set of scripts that enable you to pare down a base FreeBSD system to something very small indeed. Thank you, I will definitely check that out. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CPU Monitoring Software
What about monit? http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/ Here is the manual online: http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/doc/manual.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Convince me, please!
Latitude wrote: but I'll have to say, you guys don't really present a forceful argument to Windows users of how easy the switch may be. I suggest you not change from Windows to BSD. It looks like you're best off with an operating system that requires little to no input on your part to set up. It's like asking which is better -- a hammer or a shovel They're both different tools with different strenghts and weaknesses. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installation woes
Hello, I have Phoenix Award BIOS v6.00PG (as it seems to identify itself) and a Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 Plus (ST3120026A) and they don't seem to like each other. When partitioning, it's suggested that the harddrive geometry seems unlikely though the install seems to go off without a problem--tried changing the geometry to what the BIOS believes the geometry to be that doesn't work. Anywho, it can boot off of the harddrive but can't mount root. At the mountroot prompt, '?' tells me that acd0 is the only drive. So there's no hard drive after all. The motherboard is an ABIT KV8 Pro... Any ideas? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting locales
Odhiambo Washington (2003-12-11): Hiya, I set the following locales in my .bash_profile: export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 But I get these warnings when I try to run some script: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL = en_US.UTF-8, LC_COLLATE = C, LANG = en_US.UTF-8 are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale (C) How do I install the missing locales? misc/utf8locale NB: Currently, the freebsd ncurses library is not exactly ready for unicode methinks. ncurses 5.3 (ncursesw) is probably best. But, if you --enable-widec (to get ncursesw) in devel/ncurses you get a compilation error. Cheers, -- Rogelio ECCE HOMO ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
