FreeBSD tunnels / performance et'al (gif/tun etc.)

2004-01-20 Thread Karl Pielorz
Hi All, I've just setup a FreeBSD tunnel (we've tried both gif and tun [via nos-tun]) now between two fairly large networks of machines... We've routed multiple class C networks over the tunnel - only to find the performance is, basically abysmal :( If I do a transfer from the machines 'wan'

Re: FreeBSD tunnels / performance et'al (gif/tun etc.)

2004-01-23 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 20 January 2004 21:40 -0500 Robert Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Karl Pielorz wrote: I've just setup a FreeBSD tunnel (we've tried both gif and tun [via nos-tun]) now between two fairly large networks of machines... What version of FreeBSD are you using? If using

Re: FreeBSD tunnels / performance et'al (gif/tun etc.)

2004-01-23 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 23 January 2004 10:51 -0500 Robert Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just wondering if it was something 'weird' such as the delay over the tunnel being on average 'just the right delay time' to cause problems that you wouldn't get on a LAN or something? :) I agree that something sounds

Re: DAT tape drive compatibility with FreeBSD?

2003-07-22 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 22 July 2003 12:14 +0300 Johan Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I was just wondering what tape drives (DAT) people use with FreeBSD for backup? I was thinking of a HP Superstore DAT 40I. Any experiences with that? Has anyone got the One Button Disaster Recovery function working in

Re: Adaptec 2400A update

2003-07-31 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 31 July 2003 14:04 -0500 Kung Foo Ham[p]?ster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also have an Adaptec 2400A RAID controller and have problems when my system seems to be having a lot of random hard disk accesses. Hi, We have a 2400A in a heavily loaded 'backup' machine at the office (i.e. lots

Re: How to remove ^M character

2003-08-01 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 01 August 2003 14:01 +0530 Anil Garg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I ftp'd a file from windows to freebsdnot its every line has ^M at its end. Is there some command in vi (or some way) by which ^M can be removed. Or, on second thoughts - upload it via ftp in ASCII mode, not binary mode

Re: How to remove ^M character

2003-08-01 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 01 August 2003 14:01 +0530 Anil Garg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I ftp'd a file from windows to freebsdnot its every line has ^M at its end. Is there some command in vi (or some way) by which ^M can be removed. man tr or simply, cat file | tr -d \r newfile -Kp

Re: Terminal program on fbsd

2003-08-19 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 19 August 2003 02:20 -0700 Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the novice question. I have connected the console port on a Cisco router to COM1 on my fbsd box. Which program on the fbsd can I use to access the router? Does the COM port need to be mounted and how do I set the speed?

Re: Eliminating noise from secondary MX

2003-06-23 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 23 June 2003 08:48 -0600 Brett Glass [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] The secondary mail exchanger tries to send the message on to its destination, but the mail is bounced by the primary mail host (either as spam or because it has been sent to an invalid address). So, the secondary

Re: Network Performace

2003-06-24 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 23 June 2003 18:12 -0700 Shawn Ramsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having some issues with network performance and am wondering if anyone has any suggestions... the box in question has 2 100BT interfaces, and an Intel (em driver) fiber Gigabit. The Gigabit connects to a switch, and the

Re: Network Performace

2003-06-25 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 24 June 2003 17:01 -0700 Shawn Ramsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try looking into FreeBSD's polling mode - i.e. interrupt free Network cards. If your shifting a lot of small packets (such as online gaming stuff etc.) - you may find your milage pretty limited using standard PC kit - as the

Re: How can I verify my ISP internet speed?

2003-07-08 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 08 July 2003 20:35 +0900 Rob Lahaye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have my FreeBSD PC connected to the internet via ADSL with PPPoE. My ISP claims my speed is 2 Mbs. Is there a reliable command on my FreeBSD system to double check the internet speed? I ask this, because when I

pxeboot to -Install- FreeBSD...

2006-04-07 Thread Karl Pielorz
Hi All, I've been messing about with FreeBSD 6.1-Beta#4 recently, and I'm trying to get a server setup, so that I can pxeboot and install FreeBSD on some other servers... I've gotten dhcpd, tftp, pxeboot et'al to work - and, indeed the client machine dhcp's, pxeboots - and dumps itself

Re: OT: tcp redictor with dump-(in|out)put-to-stdout capability

2006-04-07 Thread Karl Pielorz
Why dont you wish use tcpdump? Cause I want to debug http, which is ASCII. Having every tcp segment in hex and/or ASCII won't help much. 'GET / HTTP/1.1' is much easier to read than the hexdump. 0x4174206c6561737420666f72206d653a29 Have you tried tcpflow? That can either dump the actual

Re: pxeboot to -Install- FreeBSD...

2006-04-07 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 07 April 2006 11:40 +0100 Karl Pielorz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do I need to do, to turn this 'booting FreeBSD from pxeboot' into something that will dump me into sysinstall, like booting from the CD rom? I've searched the net - but the only stuff I've found is either for much

5.3-R Serial Console - hangs restart, HP DL360 G4?

2004-11-12 Thread Karl Pielorz
Hi All, Anyone here using 5.3-R and a serial console? (aka echo -h /boot.config). Doing this on an HP DL360 G4 works, until you come to do a restart, where upon the whole machine locks solid just at the Rebooting now... bit [after sync'ing, waiting for various things an ACAPI chatter on said

Using both ar0 and underlying ad12/ad14 'at the same time' (smartmontools)

2011-08-25 Thread Karl Pielorz
Hi, I have a couple of FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE (as of 25/08) boxes. These have onboard RAID 'type' controllers. The OS is installed on 'ar0' (e.g. /dev/ar0s1d et'al). Additionally I've installed the smartmontools port - which monitors drive SMART attributes. Am I ok setting this up to access

Hanging when trying to 'rm' files off a read-only NFS export? [7.2-R]

2009-07-16 Thread Karl Pielorz
Hi, I've got a 7.2-RELEASE box that has it's root file system mounted read/only via NFS. It hangs when trying to shutdown, at the Writing entropy file: point. Having chased this down - it hangs *any* time you try to rm' a file off of the filesystem. e.g. If I do: recovery# cd /

Re: Hanging when trying to 'rm' files off a read-only NFS export? [7.2-R]

2009-07-16 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 16 July 2009 13:49 + stopeme stop...@gmail.com wrote: The reason for the shutdown hang is that '/etc/rc.d/random' rm's the '/entropy' file if it exists as the system shuts down, and that rm never returns (the error output is redirected so you never see the errors) :( grep entropy

RE: HP DL360-P4 slow network writes

2005-06-01 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 01 June 2005 00:37 -0700 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Kent, I think it's the Broadcom-switch connection. You said you changed switches - but I'm betting you just swapped in another Foundry. We have had trouble with the Broadcom gig E adapters under WinXP and certain

Re: Backup Question

2005-06-07 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 07 June 2005 11:02 -0500 Cody Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I'm trying to do a simple tar+gzip backup for my file system. I can do this no problem. The backup is a little less than 2Gb. What I would like to do is chop this up into 650Mb pieces that I can ftp over to a server

FreeBSD 9-R pxeboot fails with 'Mounting root filesystem rw failed'...

2012-03-01 Thread Karl Pielorz
Hi, I've got a 9.0-R amd64 system I'm trying to netboot / pxeboot from the network, to install other machines (and do fixups etc.) I set this up as we setup previous versions here - but setting up a tftp server, and nfs server - and 'dumping' the contents of the install CD to a directory on

Re: FreeBSD 9-R pxeboot fails with 'Mounting root filesystem rw failed'...

2012-03-01 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 01 March 2012 11:53 +0100 ego...@ramattack.net wrote: So I recomend you reading last mails of mine in freebsd-hackers... Hope it helps, Bye! For what it's worth - I've resolved the issue I had (which was basically the system booted, but failed trying to re-mount root as RW, and hence

Re: Acepting lnown bad mail?

2006-09-06 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 06 September 2006 06:59 -0400 stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's going on is that the local sendmail on the new machine is rejecting these mails. Like this Sep 6 06:50:43 brown sm-mta[12249]: k86Ai3w8012249: ruleset=check_mail, arg1=r [EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=localhost [127.0.0.1],

Is it safe to increase / double kern.maxvnodes under FreeBSD 6.4 i386?

2010-05-05 Thread Karl Pielorz
Hi, We had some issues at the weekend that left one of our machines with a very, very large sendmail queue... While we were trying to sort it out we noticed the machine takes over 4 minutes to go through the queue (i.e. 'mailq'). I noticed the machine was hovering around the maxvnode

Issues with smartd starting up at boot time - delays sever start?

2012-11-13 Thread Karl Pielorz
Hi, I've noticed on our systems (9.0-Stable, amd64) that starting smartd at boot time massively extends the startup time of the box. I think I've traced this down to smartd, and our use of the '-M test' config option (which sends a test message, apparently forking to 'mail' - and, as the

Re: Issues with smartd starting up at boot time - delays sever start?

2012-11-14 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 13 November 2012 11:14 -0600 Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: Can anyone think of a 'simple' fix for this? - Is there anything I can do to '/usr/local/etc/rc.d/smartd' to make it run later in the startup process? Try adding mail to the REQUIRE: line, since sendmail has that

Tuning modern (i.e. 9.x) FreeBSD Systems for 'servers' - any guides?

2012-11-20 Thread Karl Pielorz
Hi, We've got a number of 9.x systems in service - replacing a number of older 6/7/8 ones. In the olden days (going back quite a while) you had to fiddle around with stuff like NMBCLUSTERS, MAXUSERS etc. In fact, if you have a look around Google it's littered with guides/articles for this

Re: freebsd-update - To 'Stable'?

2012-11-25 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 22 November 2012 17:41 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: I'm looking at switching to 'freebsd-update' - is there an equivalent way to get it to update me to '-STABLE'? No. The freebsd-update program can only be used to follow the RELEASE branch, plus the security updates

net-snmp - Crazy figures for swap interrupts?

2013-07-23 Thread Karl Pielorz
Hi, We've got a number of 9.x machines - just setup a new 9.1-RELEASE-p4 amd64 system, put net-snmp on it (net-snmp-5.7.2_3) - and we're getting 'weird' results for some stats, e.g. UCD-SNMP-MIB::ssSysInterrupts.0 = INTEGER: 1145324516 interrupts/s UCD-SNMP-MIB::ssSwapIn.0 = INTEGER:

Static Jail ID's (JID's) for use with IPFW?

2013-08-07 Thread Karl Pielorz
Hi, I have a number of jailed systems running - and I've been setting up ipfw rules for them. This is on FBSD 9.1. 'ipfw' lets you match on traffic to/from a Jail ID (JID) - however every time jails get started / stopped their JID changes [thus breaking the firewall rules]. I can't see

Re: Static Jail ID's (JID's) for use with IPFW?

2013-08-07 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 07 August 2013 12:23 +0100 Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote: I don't think the old /etc/rc.conf way of handling jails lets you do it, but the latest version of jail(8) introduced /etc/jail.conf and you should be able to add jid = N; parameters in there. Thanks - I'll check that

jail.conf ignoring exec.fib?

2013-08-14 Thread Karl Pielorz
I'm running 9.2-RC2 amd64 on a system, with a number of jails. The jails are setup using '/etc/jail.conf' - but the exec.fib in jail.conf seems to be being ignored? e.g. in /etc/jail.conf I have: testjail { jid = 100; exec.fib = 1; Set FIB 1 path =

Re: jail.conf ignoring exec.fib?

2013-08-14 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 14 August 2013 08:58 -0400 Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: The jail(8) man page lacks details about how to use exec.fib. It requires either a new kernel (with options ROUTETABLES=2 or however many you want), or a boot-time setting with net.fibs=2 in /boot/loader.conf (requiring a

Re: jail.conf ignoring exec.fib?

2013-08-19 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 17 August 2013 17:32:18 +0100 Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote: What do you get in the jail from sysctl net.fibs sysctl net.my_fibnum ? I didn't know those sysctl's existed :) If I fire up the jail, and jexec to it, and run the above - I get: root@jail:/ # sysctl

Re: jail.conf ignoring exec.fib?

2013-08-20 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 20 August 2013 08:27 +0100 Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote: In the source the exec.fib parameter is given as an integer, so the quotes probably shouldn't be there, but I'm not sure whether it matters. I tried it just as 'exec.fib = 1;' originally, and it makes no difference :(

Re: jail.conf ignoring exec.fib?

2013-08-21 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 20 August 2013 18:02 +0100 Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote: And that's just made me think of something else - I have a horrible feeling that jexec will attach to the jail using whatever fib it's running under, i.e. the fib from the host environment. Do you have (or can you