network problem with emulators/qemu

I need to make linux (gentoo) run (emulated) under fbsd 5.3, I'm using QEMU from ports. I get host and guest pinged ok, but I can't make guest get inet. There's one thing that doesn't seem to match the info I googled (qemu-docs says this too), when QEMU starts it doesn't says Connected to host

network problem with emulators/qemu

I need to make linux (gentoo) run (emulated) under fbsd 5.3, I'm using QEMU from ports. I get host and guest pinged ok, but I can't make guest get inet. There's one thing that doesn't seem to match the info I googled (qemu-docs says this too), when QEMU starts it doesn't says Connected to host

ipfilter2ipchains script?

simple question, is there an ipfilter to ipchains conversion script or program?, if not, whats the better solution for a newbie bsd admin to do firewalls on linux? (long term plan is bsd-migration of course :) thx -- www.eXactas.org - La Universidad Evolutiva

cluster question

Hi, I need to build a cluster for a physics research lab (gentoo nodes and bsd servers), There are many things to do here, but there's one I can't solve. I need to assure certain cluster power per group of user (research teams), each group own a portion of the cluster and they want at least

dma/sysctl

Hi, I've a fbsd machine that hangs once in a while, I've this en /var/log/messages: ... Mar 5 14:44:58 chiba kernel: ad2: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=2949471 ... So, this means my hd is about to crash? How can I tell the kernel to reboot on such cases? (via

Re: Updating binary packages

-P --use-packages Use packages instead of ports whenever available. portupgrade searches the local directories listed in PKG_PATH for each package to install or upgrade the current installation

Re: non writable disks

I *think* kldxref /boot/modules should solve your problem. Let me know if it works :) good luck El Martes 08 Marzo 2005 14:15, koen de wijs escribió: Hello, I did something really stupid when I was root. I changed something in device.hints. Now I can't change anything on my system. It starts

dual-head fbsd

How can I make a dual head system? I mean, independent mouse/keyboard/monitor access to the tty's. Using usb hubs, how much can this be extended? How many terminals we can get from one cpu? thanks -- www.eXactas.org - La Universidad Evolutiva ___

Re: QEMU needs /dev/tun0 ?

Hey, tun0 is there, you just don't see it :), do ls /dev/tun0, anyway, I could'nt make qemu work that way, then I realize that using nat on the bsd host all worked fine for my guest system (gentoo), I hope this helps good luck El Miércoles 09 Marzo 2005 23:32, bsdzz escribió: Hi, I am

Re: moving FreeBSD 5.3 to a new drive

dave, look here, http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK good luck El Miércoles 09 Marzo 2005 23:39, dave escribió: Hello, I've got a 5.3 box that has outgrown the drive it is on. I really do not want to back it up and do a reinstall unless i have to.

how to deal with spam for good?

Hi, I'm wondering, how does this mailing list doesn't get any spam? :), I need to set some filter on my mail server, can some one here give me a hint on this? thanks -- www.eXactas.org - La Universidad Evolutiva ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

GEOM+Sysinstall

if i make a 2-disks gstripe volume, then boot a 5.3 fbsd cd, sysinstall will recognize the disks? the bootstrap will work on a stripped disk? (with gstripe_load on /boot/loader.conf). The idea is to make a fresh install, I have 2 disks (same size) and want to make them stripped (even root

Re: Sysinstall: Command not found

is there any way to reinstall it?? i havent configured my mouse screen, graphics card etc... yet. Thats really all i need sysinstall for. is there any way around this? danny, you can allways set xorg settings with $ xorgconfig ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

postfix or qmail?

hi, I've a simple question, postfix or qmail? :), I've a fair review for both from some linux admins, now, I want to know fbsd's community opinion :). The mail server (now running sendmail) serves ~300 accounts. Other thing (perhaps, the one that I interest more your opinion), do anyone know

Re: IPF+IPNAT and port redirection

Odhiambo, it seems to me that 0/24 is not correct, dynamic inet address should be refferred as 0/32, I would do something like this: rdr int_if 0.0.0.0/32 port 25 - 10.0.0.2 port 25 map out_if from 10.0.0.0/24 ! to 10.0.0.0/24 - 0/32 portmap tcp/udp auto map out_if from 10.0.0.0/24 ! to

Re: IPFilter Firewall Tutorial

darryl, take a look at /usr/share/examples/ipfilter/, it might be of some help, good luck El Miércoles 17 Noviembre 2004 17:57, Darryl Hoar escribió: Does anyone have a pointer to or know of a good tutorial for setting up a freebsd box as a firewall using IPFilter ? In the past, I have used

Re: postfix launch at system startup

LeBlanc, if everything /works as planned/ when you start it as root, I guess you could add postfix start to the /etc/rc.local, good luck El Jueves 18 Noviembre 2004 02:36, Louis LeBlanc escribió: Hey all. I'm having a little trouble with postfix launch at startup in 5.3. At install, I

Re: uninstall freebsd

Ton, you need to repartition your disk (to fat or fat32 iff win98se), I suppose A:\FDISK.EXE (that should be available from a win98se rescue disk, the one you have booted up) can do the work. After repartition with the dos/win file system (fat or fat32) you need to format the drive with A:

problems with #make buildworld

hi, i get this when #make buildworld (cvsupped today): (thanks in advance) /libc/../../contrib/gdtoa -DINET6 -I/usr/obj/usr/src/lib/libc -DPOSIX_MISTAKE -I/usr/src/lib/libc/lo cale -DBROKEN_DES -DPORTMAP -DDES_BUILTIN -I/usr/src/lib/libc/rpc -DYP -DHESIOD -Wsystem-headers -We rror -Wall

dynamic links question

hi, im trying to make realplayer10 work in fbsd5.3, but if it cant be done i would like to know this anyway :) How can i tell this binary where to look for the libs that it cant find (i have them on /compat/linux/lib and /compat/usr/X11R6/lib), ive added those dirs to /etc/ld.so.conf and then

how to build packages quickly?

hi, for those who know gentoo, theres a program (quickpkg) that makes a binary package (from already installed ones) without the need to recompile the port, its possible to do that in fbsd? thanks -- Los buenos artistas copian, los grandes roban -- Steve Jobs

help with: ports over unionfs on a jail

hey, i have the ports dir mounted over unionfs on a jail (/usr/ports /usr/jail/usr/ports unionfs rw 0 0) and when i do a make install for some port within a jail it says: make: No such file or directory i have no idea of whats going on :/, i'll appreciate some help

6.0-rc1 problems with aliased interface

Hi, I've just migrated from 5.4 to 6.0-rc1 (to make wireless work through ndisgen... and it did :), but now I'm having a problem with dhcp. I'm googling now for some solution, the problem is (it seems not to be a problem, just a lot of /etc changes I will have to get used to): I cannot have