Re: Slow network - ed driver, Realtek 8029

2002-12-19 Thread BigBrother (BigB3)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm having a problem with slow transfers to my FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE box using a D-Link 528CT (Realtek 8029 chipset). When I try to upload files to this machine from a windowsXP box, I only get about 30KB/s on the 10BaseT cat 5 network. This identical

NFS client hang after umount -f

2003-01-03 Thread BigBrother (BigB3)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was transferring a huge file (700 MB) to an nfs mounted disc and I umount -f the nfs mounted directory. After this I lost control of that pc (I was remotely administering it). The machine responds to pings and forwards packets as well, but if I try

Re: Renaming files with spaces in the name to files without spaces..

2003-01-09 Thread BigBrother (BigB3)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Rob wrote: Sorry for this OT but I am trying for some hours to achieve a massive rename of files using a simple script and I have not success yet. I want to rename files like RESULTS OF JAN 01 2002.txt to

Re: UDMA ICRC error's

2002-11-12 Thread BigBrother (BigB3)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What is the best way to resolve these? ad0s1e: UDMA ICRC error reading fsbn 897759 of 144-159 (ad0s1 bn 897759; cn 55 tn 225 sn 9) retrying ad0s1a: UDMA ICRC error reading fsbn 45439 of 22688-22719 (ad0s1 bn 45439; cn 2 tn 211 sn 16) retrying

Performance degration of moving FFS hdd from a slow to a fast pc.

2002-11-21 Thread BigBrother (BigB3)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a question about FFS filesystem. According to a paper about the design of UFS filesystem[1], if you create the FFS filesystem on a slow cpu and then move it to a fast cpu with a fast controller, theh the FFS wont perform efficient. This is

Statefull IPFW + YP/NIS = Server hang.

2002-11-27 Thread BigBrother (BigB3)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 SORT: Stetefull IPFW rules combined in a router that is a ypclient may make the box loose connectivity and a irreleavent error too many dynamic rules appear in the log eventhough only 20 dynamic rules may exist. LONG: I am reporting a strange

STATEFULL IPFW AND NATD (Was: NAT IPFW)

2002-12-02 Thread BigBrother (BigB3)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nelis wrote ... inside machines cannot telnet... #allow all outbound and only inbound TCP connections I've created add 0301 divert natd all from any to any via rl0 add 00302 check-state add 00303 allow tcp from any to any established add 00304

Re: ipfw firewall help

2002-12-06 Thread BigBrother (BigB3)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ipfw add 108 allow tcp from any to xx.250.227.0/22 20,21,25,80,110 via bge0 snip #Outbound from inside ipfw add 109 check-state ipfw add 110 allow tcp from xx.250.224.0/22 via bge0 keep-state ipfw add 111 allow udp from xx.250.224.0/22 via bge0

Administering a large number of freebsd machines

2002-12-06 Thread BigBrother (BigB3)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (I sent this email to freebsd-security but it never appeared on the list, nor it returned back-very strange for freebsd-security;does freebsd security has any problem?) I have a small question. When I was administering one freebsd box the

I used boot0cfg and destroyed the MBR.All labels dissapear!

2005-05-02 Thread BigBrother-{BigB3}
Dear, Please help me with this strange situation, that is due to using boot0cfg with wrong switches. I googled it but I did not find any similar case. On a working 4.11 freebsd system I wanted to create a floppy bootable disk. This system had one slice and four labels. I run this command:

Re: I used boot0cfg and destroyed the MBR.All labels dissapear! (How I Fixed it)

2005-05-04 Thread BigBrother-{BigB3}
Hi, I managed to fix the error of all slices being destroyed. My system is up and running. i did not reinstall any programs, just edited the partition table and the labels. It took me 3 days to figure out the exact values, so I post here my findings, in case somebody faces the same problem.

Too many unknown dynamic rule type 244 in syslog..

2005-05-15 Thread BigBrother-{BigB3}
hi, For the past weeks I have been receiving in my syslog the following message ikaros /kernel: unknown dynamic rule type 244 ikaros last message repeated XXX times ipfw -d show | grep 244 does not show anything I have rebooted the machine, I have flushed reloaded the ruleset...the message

'unregistered_only' in natd does not work?

2006-07-07 Thread BigBrother-{BigB3}
Summary: NATD translates source addresses even though it should not because unregistered_only is set and the IPs do not belong to RFC 1918 (like 192.168) Hi List, I have a very strange problem in my FreeBSD bigb3 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Tue Jun 6 I am using the

Re: 'unregistered_only' in natd does not work?

2006-07-07 Thread BigBrother-{BigB3}
On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Chuck Swiger wrote: BigBrother-{BigB3} wrote: [ ... ] I have trouble making a passive ftp connection to work, because every time natd changed source port even though it should not. Sometimes it changes within the IP_PORTRANGE_DEFAULT but sometimes it changes