asynchronous packet loss

2005-01-09 Thread Thomas Beer
Hi, I'm dealing with this issue since six weeks or so with no avail or a clear source of failure. So this may be my last chance. I have a 5.2.1 R Wifi access point on a Netgear MA 311 and two clients. I tested this with different versions of firmware. One client, a 5.3 B-7 has no problems in both

sshd login "error"

2004-04-16 Thread Thomas Beer
Dear All, I'm running sshd on two machines (4.8 and 4.9 respectively) with the following options in sshd_config PermitRootLogin no PasswordAuthentication no The DSAauthentication key is for a normal user and runs smoothly. If I try to login as root from one of the boxes to another (works in both

Re: routed(8)

2004-04-22 Thread Thomas Beer
Try to put two lines in /etc/gateways if=fxp2 passive if=fxp3 passive Cheers Tom > Is it possible to have routed(8) ignore certain ethernet interfaces. > > For example, on a device with fxp[0-3], I only need routed to > interact with fxp[0-1], and to ignore the existence of fxp[2-3]. > > TIA, >

Re: Freebsd machine as a wireless access point ?

2004-04-23 Thread Thomas Beer
The NIC on the AP has to be able to support "Host AP" mode to work as an access point. Netgear MA 521 *with firmware 1.3* are on example for this. Cheers Tom > I have a spare PC with Freebsd installed on it. Can I configure > this machine to be a wireless access point ? > > just curious. > > -D

Re: Syslogd not logging data from remote machines

2004-05-05 Thread Thomas Beer
> > /usr/sbin/syslogd -a 192.168.111.1 -n > a /usr/sbin/syslogd -a 192.168.111.1:514 -n should work Cheers Tom ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTE

makestrs not found installing X

2004-05-05 Thread Thomas Beer
Hi, I'm currently trying to install XFree86-4. It stops with Error code 127 makestrs: not found but makestrs is located in /usr/X11R6/bin and the path is set. Any pointers would be highly appreciated. Thanks Tom ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http:/

Updating Literature

2004-10-12 Thread Thomas Beer
Dear All, I searched the FBSD site and the web for a compendium how to updat from 4.x to 5.x but was unsuccessful. Any pointers? Thanks Tom ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, s

Warning: a geometry of 116280/16/63 for ad0 is incorrect

2004-10-09 Thread Thomas Beer
Dear All, I searched the web, archives and asked in some mailing lists with no satisfactory solution. The situation is an Thinkpad T42 with a 60GB harddisk, XP as well preinstalled as a service partition. Repartitioning was unproblematic. If I try to install any of the 5.x branch on t a free prima

Re: Warning: a geometry of 116280/16/63 for ad0 is incorrect

2004-10-09 Thread Thomas Beer
> If the installer sees your existing XP and manufacturer service > partitions, > and they seem OK in terms of size, most likely everything is fine and you > can > ignore the warning about the geometry being incorrect. What seems strange between 4.x and 5.x in the fdisk partition table is, after d

Re: Warning: a geometry of 116280/16/63 for ad0 is incorrect

2004-10-09 Thread Thomas Beer
> Hmm. If this unused slice is very tiny (less than 1% of the total > capacity), > it may be the remainder of the disk which unused due to the way the > partition > table values get rounded. > > I suppose I've gotten used to only being able to fit 80 or so "real > megabytes" > onto a "100MB drive"

Re: snd_neomagic kldloads, then 5.2.1-p11 freezes

2004-10-28 Thread Thomas Beer
Nice, but please stop cross-posting! Cheers Thomas On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 00:32:48 +0200, Jan Stary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am running FreeBSD 5.2.1-p11 on a Dell Latitude LS notebook. (See > KERNCONF and dmesg at the end.) Nearly everything is working fine, > except for the sou

Re: Removing system user

2004-02-20 Thread Thomas Beer
I would not delete them. A normal user, e.g., has to be member of the group staff to su to root, etc. Cheers Tom > On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 11:51:03PM +0800, meimi wrote: > >> I have read some document about server hardening. It suggests me >> removing >> the following users: >> operator, games,

Xbox & freebsd

2004-03-14 Thread Thomas Beer
Dear All, I was wondering if anyone managed to install freebsd on a xbox. Any resources are highly appreciated. Thanks Tom ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[