Re: How to config ipv6 for this instance

2008-05-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
on laptop, but still can't get it done. The local network administrator only suggest the following steps to setup ipv6 on windows xp and it works fine on that platform. I just don't know to get it work on FreeBSD, would anyone guide me in detail so I can also help the people aroud me. Many

Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load

2008-05-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
and what most unix users do. It is what a lot of unix users have done historically, but now that there is and still most do. It's not a Unix way versus Other OS Way thing -- its a response to the change in direction hardware development has taken over the past several years. Chip on

Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load

2008-05-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
Wojciech Puchar wrote: It depends very much on the application load you have to support and the sort of hardware you have available. For the sort of multicore chips that are all the rage nowadays, I'd go with 7.0 every time, even running single threaded applications. did you actually made

Pxeboot via tftp problem

2008-05-10 Thread mohammad khatibi
Hi, I`m new to freebsd.and I`m using freebsd 7.0  I want to load my diskless systems through pxeboot in the network so follow the instruction that mentioned in the mail about 2 weeks ago http://www.ultradesic.com/?section=144 instruction as follow: 1.compiling pxeboot and loader using   

Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load

2008-05-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
but just run 100 different things and check how responsive machine is. My experience is of dealing with servers where each machine typically has a small number of important applications -- frequently only /one/ application so why you need unix at all? :) I can't speak to the model of

Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load

2008-05-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
Wojciech Puchar wrote: but just run 100 different things and check how responsive machine is. My experience is of dealing with servers where each machine typically has a small number of important applications -- frequently only /one/ application so why you need unix at all? :) At the risk

Re: [SSHd] Increasing wait time?

2008-05-10 Thread Peter Boosten
Christian Laursen wrote: It is also worth taking a look at the ProxyCommand option. For the case above something like this should be put in ~/.ssh/config: Host your.own.host-tunneled HostKeyAlias your.own.host ProxyCommand ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] nc your.own.host 22 The you can just do ssh

advice needed regarding OS Hardware.

2008-05-10 Thread Long Story
Hello Gurus, Since few years back and im on FBSD 4.8-R for commercial use. Its time to move on. I have two Questions, and kindly looking for answers, specialy that hosting company contract is (NO support for FreeBSd), So i have to becareful again, just like what I did to

Re: advice needed regarding OS Hardware.

2008-05-10 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Long Story wrote: | Hello Gurus, | | Since few years back and im on FBSD 4.8-R for commercial use. | Its time to move on. | | I have two Questions, and kindly looking for answers, specialy that hosting company | contract is (NO

Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load

2008-05-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
At the risk of belabouring the obvious: i) I like the price. Free. no system is free too ;) iii) I like the efficiency of the OS -- you get that much more performance out of every machine it's like having additional servers for free. single app writen for bare hardware would be the

Re: advice needed regarding OS Hardware.

2008-05-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
to the 4.8-R if your things work fine - keep as is don't change both software and hardware. For a commercial use server 1) Which version do you recommend, shall I go for 7.0-R ? or 6.3-R. 6.3 2) Hosting company hardware is * Single Intel E6300 CORE 2 DUO 1.86Ghz

Re: advice needed regarding OS Hardware.

2008-05-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Ever since cisco bought linksys the quality has been going down. well - were linksys EVER making good products? i don't remember. i know linksys from - crappy radio access points that hangs every few hours (WET-11 is exception), similar or worse network cards, and switches that hangs every

Re: advice needed regarding OS Hardware.

2008-05-10 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wojciech Puchar wrote: |to the 4.8-R | | if your things work fine - keep as is don't change both software and hardware. | | |For a commercial use server |1) Which version do you recommend, shall I go for 7.0-R ? |or 6.3-R. | |

GSM Access control system replaces key-fobs

2008-05-10 Thread product_info
Hello, GSM-Secure offer products based on the GSM networks offering the ability to use a mobile phone to receive alerts, calls and also to control equipment via phone call or txt message. Thank you for your time in reading this e-mail. GSM-64 GSM Access Control system- This system will

Re: mounting linux partitions

2008-05-10 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
On Friday 09 May 2008 14:40:06 Isaac Mushinsky wrote: Now I would like to mount ext3 partition from FreeBSD at least for reading, or vice versa, UFS2 from linux for writing. With kernel option EXT2FS, I can I mounted UFS2 paritions under Linux like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ grep fbsd7

tap - wireless client bridging (WPA)

2008-05-10 Thread Michael Neumann
Hi, I'd like to run Qemu on FreeBSD 7.0 and be able to connect from the Qemu instance to the internet. For this to work, I'd like to use a tap device and bridge it with a wireless (wpi) device. But it seems like both lagg and if_bridge doesn't yet support WPA security (or wireless clients).

Re: advice needed regarding OS Hardware.

2008-05-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
| if it's realteks, marvell etc. you will have a problems re(4) seems to be fine with most of them now under 7 you mean it's IP checksums turned off by default in freebsd 7? if i turn it off in FreeBSD 6.3 - it works too. but you CAN NOT do ifconfig re0 down and ifconfig re0 up after 5-15

Re: freebsd7 on older machines

2008-05-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
installation cdrom. i want to create a series of 'dumb terminals' which can ssh -Y into a make X server running - you will be able to remotely use X apps too. faster machine. if necessary i suppose i can floppy in and then install via nfs. or i can setup the hd on another machine that does

Installation with IP alias

2008-05-10 Thread constantine
Dear FreeBSD Aficionados, I am trying to install FreeBSD in my notebook through an external USB CD-ROM. While the installation manager runs fine, after choosing the installation media it says it cannot mount /dev/acd0 (which refers to the notebook's built-in broken cdrom). What could I do? As an

Re: freebsd7 on older machines

2008-05-10 Thread DAve
Wojciech Puchar wrote: installation cdrom. i want to create a series of 'dumb terminals' which can ssh -Y into a make X server running - you will be able to remotely use X apps too. faster machine. if necessary i suppose i can floppy in and then install via nfs. or i can setup the hd on

Re: freebsd7 on older machines

2008-05-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
no. it will work You can use rdump this way, I have done it many many times to clone a server from one piece of hardware to another. but don't forget to bsdlabel -B then Boot with a live filesystem CD on the target machine Mount your partitions under /mnt/ufs.1, /mnt/ufs.2, /mnt/ufs.3

[samba 3.0.28a,1) PANIC: tdb_reopen_all failed

2008-05-10 Thread Gilles
Hello I got a bunch of PANIC messages this morning on a FreeBSD 6.3 host, and had to restart Samba: [2008/05/10 10:28:51, 0] lib/util.c:smb_panic(1633) PANIC (pid 43086): tdb_reopen_all failed. [2008/05/10 10:28:51, 0] lib/util.c:log_stack_trace(1737) BACKTRACE: 3 stack frames:

Re: freebsd7 on older machines

2008-05-10 Thread DAve
Wojciech Puchar wrote: no. it will work You can use rdump this way, I have done it many many times to clone a server from one piece of hardware to another. but don't forget to bsdlabel -B then Boot with a live filesystem CD on the target machine Mount your partitions under /mnt/ufs.1,

Upgrading 5.4 to 7.0 Error on Kernel

2008-05-10 Thread Tamouh H.
Hi, I'm trying to upgrade from 5.4 i386 to 7.0 latest release. But I'm having a bit of problem with the upgrade for some reason. This is what has been done so far: - deleted /usr/src/* - cvsup -g -L 2 to RELENG_7_0 src-all - deleted /usr/obj/* - in /usr/src make clean The error occurs when

Installing Xfce4: Request for help

2008-05-10 Thread Girish Kulkarni
Hello, I am trying in install Xfce4 in FreeBSD 7.0 on my laptop. I try to use the ports by saying: - # cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/xfce4 # make install clean - But then I get the following error: - === Installing for xfce-4.4.2 === xfce-4.4.2 depends on file:

Re: advice needed regarding OS Hardware.

2008-05-10 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wojciech Puchar wrote: | | if it's realteks, marvell etc. you will have a problems | | re(4) seems to be fine with most of them now under 7 | | you mean it's IP checksums turned off by default in freebsd 7? | | if i turn it off in FreeBSD 6.3 - it

RE:: freebsd7 on older machines

2008-05-10 Thread kenneth hatteland
-- Message: 7 Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 13:39:49 -0700 From: prad [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: freebsd7 on older machines To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII i can't seem to boot the cdrom on older

root login stops working

2008-05-10 Thread Dennis Flynn
I'm running FreeBSD wx.dennis-flynn.net 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 About a day after install root login no longer works - even on the console. I see the following in /var/log/auth.log: May 10

Re: Installing Xfce4: Request for help

2008-05-10 Thread Daniel Bye
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 09:07:15PM +0530, Girish Kulkarni wrote: Hello, I am trying in install Xfce4 in FreeBSD 7.0 on my laptop. I try to use the ports by saying: - # cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/xfce4 # make install clean - But then I get the following error: - ===

Re: advice needed regarding OS Hardware.

2008-05-10 Thread Al Plant
Wojciech Puchar wrote: to the 4.8-R if your things work fine - keep as is don't change both software and hardware. For a commercial use server 1) Which version do you recommend, shall I go for 7.0-R ? or 6.3-R. 6.3 2) Hosting company hardware is * Single Intel

Re: advice needed regarding OS Hardware.

2008-05-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
FreeBSD ool-435559b8.dyn.optonline.net 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #3: Fri May 9 01:10:47 EDT 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MONSTER amd64 nice /etc/rc :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: advice needed regarding OS Hardware.

2008-05-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
From my own experience: Realtek pci 1000 8169 re0 work fine and are stable. The TrendNet brand has corrected the previous issues with the on board cards. These 8169 cards are plug in pci that work fine (not on board). possibly newer (fixed) chip revision. 100Mbit/s realteks now are all fine

Re: root login stops working

2008-05-10 Thread अनुज Anuj Singh
Direct root login is disabled by default. are you able to login from your 10.11.12.104 as a non root user? What client software are you using on your 10.11.12.104 for logging on to your freebsd? On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 12:20 AM, Dennis Flynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running FreeBSD

Re: root login stops working

2008-05-10 Thread Mel
On Saturday 10 May 2008 20:50:46 Dennis Flynn wrote: I'm running FreeBSD wx.dennis-flynn.net 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 About a day after install root login no longer works - even on the console.

Re: [samba 3.0.28a,1) PANIC: tdb_reopen_all failed

2008-05-10 Thread Mel
On Saturday 10 May 2008 15:40:02 Gilles wrote: [2008/05/10 10:29:59, 0] lib/util_tdb.c:tdb_log(664) tdb(/var/db/samba/locking.tdb): tdb_reopen: open failed (No such file or directory) FWIW, I downloaded the latest ports and compiled it recently to get samba-3.0.28a,1. I didn't get this

Re: root login stops working

2008-05-10 Thread Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल
Dennis == Dennis Flynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dennis I'm running FreeBSD wx.dennis-flynn.net 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Dennis About a day after install root login no longer works - even

Re: Installation with IP alias

2008-05-10 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Saturday 10 May 2008, constantine wrote: Dear FreeBSD Aficionados, I am trying to install FreeBSD in my notebook through an external USB CD-ROM. While the installation manager runs fine, after choosing the installation media it says it cannot mount /dev/acd0 (which refers to the

Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load

2008-05-10 Thread Mel
On Saturday 10 May 2008 09:10:37 Wojciech Puchar wrote: and what most unix users do. It is what a lot of unix users have done historically, but now that there is and still most do. It's not a Unix way versus Other OS Way thing -- its a response to the change in direction hardware

Re: [samba 3.0.28a,1) PANIC: tdb_reopen_all failed

2008-05-10 Thread Gilles
On Sat, 10 May 2008 23:08:45 +0200, Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure it's related, but did you read the message you get before you installed this version? ( cd /usr/ports/net/samba3 make pre-everything) # cd /usr/ports/net/samba3 make pre-everything === NOTICE: This version of port has

Re: Article on implementing UFS journaling on desktop PCs (updated)

2008-05-10 Thread Murray Stokely
I'm just getting caught up on my -doc mail. This is a great article. Thanks for writing it up! - Murray On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just updated my recent article on journaling for desktops:

Re: BSDL C data structure library

2008-05-10 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 30 April 2008 21:42:46 Nathan Lay wrote: Thanks for all the prompt responses. I knew about the macros but was thinking of something more automated and complete (in the sense that all common data structures are supported). While looking for an AVL library, I actually found

Re: How to config ipv6 for this instance

2008-05-10 Thread Christer Hermansson
Xiaobo Zhu wrote: Hi, I have read the handbook and spent hours on the configuration of ipv6 on laptop, but still can't get it done. The local network administrator only suggest the following steps to setup ipv6 on windows xp and it works fine on that platform. I just don't know to get it work on

Re: How to config ipv6 for this instance

2008-05-10 Thread Christer Hermansson
Wojciech Puchar wrote: on laptop, but still can't get it done. The local network administrator only suggest the following steps to setup ipv6 on windows xp and it works fine on that platform. I just don't know to get it work on FreeBSD, would anyone guide me in detail so I can also help the

Re: How to config ipv6 for this instance

2008-05-10 Thread Christer Hermansson
Christer Hermansson wrote: Xiaobo Zhu wrote: Hi, I have read the handbook and spent hours on the configuration of ipv6 on laptop, but still can't get it done. The local network administrator only suggest the following steps to setup ipv6 on windows xp and it works fine on that platform. I just

Re: How to config ipv6 for this instance

2008-05-10 Thread Christer Hermansson
Xiaobo Zhu wrote: Hi, I have read the handbook and spent hours on the configuration of ipv6 on laptop, but still can't get it done. The local network administrator only suggest the following steps to setup ipv6 on windows xp and it works fine on that platform. I just don't know to get it work on

The FreeBSD Diary: 2008-04-20 - 2008-05-10

2008-05-10 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the