Re: Home Server
Le 21/11/2012 18:23, Matthew Seaman a écrit : On 21/11/2012 17:02, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: In fact, if you're going to use ZFS at all, I'd suggest using it for all your filesystems on that machine. I've a personnal systeme quite similar with 6 drive. 2 - for systeme : mirror : with incremental snapshots 2 - for real data : mirror : with incremental snapshots 2 - for not so important data : mirror : no snapshot I use 3 couple of 2 drive because have : 2 : 75G 2 : 750G 2 : 1To For the future I must change 2 drive at the same time. -- M ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Home Server
Hi all, I am looking to re purpose an old system for use as a home server. My intentions for the server are as follows: Central backup of other systems. Storage for Media files(movies/music) Occasionally transcoding DVDs/blurays As well as being able to access the backed up files(at least part of them) over http(s). My question(s) regard storage. Depending on which case I end up using or if i purchase a new one, will have access to either 4(four) or 6(six) hard drive bays. The only things I really *need* redundancy for would be the centralized backups. Which has me leaning towards zfs. However since I'll probably want to use some of the space from the drives in that pool, but won't need redundancy I'm not quite sure how to proceed. I'm sorry if any of this message is unclear. Thanks for any assistence Nick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Home Server
On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:52:12 -0600 Nicholas MIller nick.k...@gmail.com wrote: My question(s) regard storage. Depending on which case I end up using or if i purchase a new one, will have access to either 4(four) or 6(six) hard drive bays. The only things I really *need* redundancy for would be the centralized backups. Which has me leaning towards zfs. However since I'll probably want to use some of the space from the drives in that pool, but won't need redundancy I'm not quite sure how to proceed. With that many drive bays, and the low cost of disc space I'd go for a big ZFS mirror for storage and put just about everything on it. You might have some data that doesn't need to be mirrored but I'll bet there's not much that wouldn't be a PITA to lose. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith at...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Home Server
On 21/11/2012 17:02, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:52:12 -0600 Nicholas MIller nick.k...@gmail.com wrote: My question(s) regard storage. Depending on which case I end up using or if i purchase a new one, will have access to either 4(four) or 6(six) hard drive bays. The only things I really *need* redundancy for would be the centralized backups. Which has me leaning towards zfs. However since I'll probably want to use some of the space from the drives in that pool, but won't need redundancy I'm not quite sure how to proceed. With that many drive bays, and the low cost of disc space I'd go for a big ZFS mirror for storage and put just about everything on it. You might have some data that doesn't need to be mirrored but I'll bet there's not much that wouldn't be a PITA to lose. Consider using a RAIDZ rather than a Mirror VDev -- you trade off essentially low-latency access for small IOs against more available disk space. 4 drives is OK, but kinda small for a RAIDZ; 6 drives is pretty much right in the sweet spot. I'd also counsel against trying to use traditional filesystems and ZFS in different partitions of the same drive. ZFS is happiest when it has complete control of the drive. You can take a chunk of the drive for boot code no problem, and using a chunk for swap seems to work pretty well too. In fact, if you're going to use ZFS at all, I'd suggest using it for all your filesystems on that machine. Cheers, Matthew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Best mail setup for home server?
On Sat, 05 May 2012 10:21:10 -0500 Joshua Isom articulated: I currently use my FreeBSD system as my generic unix server and some coding, along with occasional multimedia. I'd installed postfix years ago and kept using it. Right now, I use getmail with cron, dspam, and dovecot to handle my gmail account. I've never set up outgoing mail which makes changing email clients, or devices, annoying. Currently postfix is set to use dovecot's deliver command so that dovecot can sort and handle it. Before I deal with setting postfix to relay the mail, dealing with firewalls and other possible issues, is there a better alternative? I'd prefer that local mail just works even if I lose internet, and any email that gets as far as my server will at least eventually mail. The archlinux wiki seems to suggest ssmtp doesn't work properly with attachments. Instead it recommends msmtp, which requires an active internet connection to use. Dragonfly's dma is local only to the computer and not the LAN. Are the only options configuring sendmail or configuring postfix? If you only have a dynamic IP, you might want to investigate something like: http://dyn.com/; or a similar service. Attempting to send mail from a dynamic IP will usually result in it being marked as Spam and discarded or just being outright refused by an up-line MTA. Personally, I would stick with Postfix, obviously the latest version. It is far easier to configure than Sendmail and you can actually speak with its author if a problem arises. -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __ The Wright Brothers weren't the first to fly. They were just the first not to crash. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Best mail setup for home server?
--As of May 5, 2012 10:21:10 AM -0500, Joshua Isom is alleged to have said: I currently use my FreeBSD system as my generic unix server and some coding, along with occasional multimedia. I'd installed postfix years ago and kept using it. Right now, I use getmail with cron, dspam, and dovecot to handle my gmail account. I've never set up outgoing mail which makes changing email clients, or devices, annoying. Currently postfix is set to use dovecot's deliver command so that dovecot can sort and handle it. Before I deal with setting postfix to relay the mail, dealing with firewalls and other possible issues, is there a better alternative? I'd prefer that local mail just works even if I lose internet, and any email that gets as far as my server will at least eventually mail. --As for the rest, it is mine. I've been using Postfix for a decade to do basically this; no major problems, and it doesn't take much to set up. No reason to go to something else. (Even for speed: I've used it for work on a site handling millions of messages a day...) As has been said, a local resolver will help. The thing to watch for is what mail you'll let it accept: It's moderately easy to set it up as an open relay, which you *don't* want to do. Accept from the local network is fine; I've never needed to set up authenticated sending from outside that, though I keep meaning to when I have some free time... The dynamic IP problem can be a hassle, and lead to weird losses of mail. My solution has just been to call the ISP and get a 'business' line, with a static IP, though forwarding to their mail relay would work as well. Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. --- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Best mail setup for home server?
I currently use my FreeBSD system as my generic unix server and some coding, along with occasional multimedia. I'd installed postfix years ago and kept using it. Right now, I use getmail with cron, dspam, and dovecot to handle my gmail account. I've never set up outgoing mail which makes changing email clients, or devices, annoying. Currently postfix is set to use dovecot's deliver command so that dovecot can sort and handle it. Before I deal with setting postfix to relay the mail, dealing with firewalls and other possible issues, is there a better alternative? I'd prefer that local mail just works even if I lose internet, and any email that gets as far as my server will at least eventually mail. The archlinux wiki seems to suggest ssmtp doesn't work properly with attachments. Instead it recommends msmtp, which requires an active internet connection to use. Dragonfly's dma is local only to the computer and not the LAN. Are the only options configuring sendmail or configuring postfix? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Best mail setup for home server?
On 05/05/2012 16:21, Joshua Isom wrote: I currently use my FreeBSD system as my generic unix server and some coding, along with occasional multimedia. I'd installed postfix years ago and kept using it. Right now, I use getmail with cron, dspam, and dovecot to handle my gmail account. I've never set up outgoing mail which makes changing email clients, or devices, annoying. Currently postfix is set to use dovecot's deliver command so that dovecot can sort and handle it. Before I deal with setting postfix to relay the mail, dealing with firewalls and other possible issues, is there a better alternative? I'd prefer that local mail just works even if I lose internet, and any email that gets as far as my server will at least eventually mail. The archlinux wiki seems to suggest ssmtp doesn't work properly with attachments. Instead it recommends msmtp, which requires an active internet connection to use. Dragonfly's dma is local only to the computer and not the LAN. Are the only options configuring sendmail or configuring postfix? Local mail will just work with postfix, but general mail may not work with the simpler servers like ssmtp or msmtp or dma. Given you've already got postfix installed and presumably have gained some familiarity with it over the time you've been using it, I can't see a good reason to switch to anything else. Any e-mail system will have problems if you lose internet connectivity: e-mail is critically dependent on the DNS, and if your MTA cannot lookup the data it needs, it is not going to get very far. Ideally it should just queue the mail to be dealt with as soon as connectivity improves -- a good MTA like postfix should do this as standard, although you might find it a good idea to run an instance of named as a local recursive resolver. There are some alternative MTAs to postfix (such as sendmail or exim), but given this is for personal use and presumably won't be handling all that much e-mail in any case, any of them would do the job admirably, and you main criterion for choosing which to use should be which one you know best. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Best mail setup for home server?
On 05/05/2012 17:21, Joshua Isom wrote: Before I deal with setting postfix to relay the mail, dealing with firewalls and other possible issues, is there a better alternative? postfix will do the job, it just works, local mail will continue to just work. There are alternatives like qmail and sendmail, but why bother if you're already familiar with postfix? The issues you will have will likely be the same regardless of your choice of MTA: Relaying mail through your server may cause outgoing mail to end up in recipients spambox, that at least if your MTA will send directly to the recipient mail server and not relay through, say, your google account. I don't know if you can set postfix up to relay through gmail using your google account, or if it is a good idea - you have to configure it with your password and in plaintext I suppose. But, is this the solution? It sounds like you've got an overly complicated setup. If you use a mail client you can configure multiple accounts, download messages for offline use etc. A mail client like Thunderbird will queue your mail if the smtp server cannot be reached. Consider the issues you otherwise will have when you're away and can't reach your server. BR, Erik -- M: +34 666 334 818 T: +34 915 211 157 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Best mail setup for home server?
On Sat, 05 May 2012 10:21:10 -0500, Joshua Isom wrote: I currently use my FreeBSD system as my generic unix server and some coding, along with occasional multimedia. I'd installed postfix years ago and kept using it. Right now, I use getmail with cron, dspam, and dovecot to handle my gmail account. I've never set up outgoing mail which makes changing email clients, or devices, annoying. Currently postfix is set to use dovecot's deliver command so that dovecot can sort and handle it. Before I deal with setting postfix to relay the mail, dealing with firewalls and other possible issues, is there a better alternative? I'd prefer that local mail just works even if I lose internet, and any email that gets as far as my server will at least eventually mail. The archlinux wiki seems to suggest ssmtp doesn't work properly with attachments. Instead it recommends msmtp, which requires an active internet connection to use. Dragonfly's dma is local only to the computer and not the LAN. Are the only options configuring sendmail or configuring postfix? As it has been explained already, home _server_ in regards of e-mail makes certain assumption on what you _should_ do. Since dynamic IPs have become the main source of spam (and spam the main amount of e-mails transferred), sending from a dynmic IP might fail due to mail servers refusing to talk to your box. Furthermore, connection might drop is also a bad idea for a server. If problems in mail transmission occur on the way, notifications will be addressed to your server, and if it's currently not reachable, a problem for the other mail server arises, maybe even in blacklisting your machine. I've had a comparable solution when I was at university, behind a static IP: directly sending mail was no problem, and for receiving I did use fetchmail. That combination made me fully independent in choice of MUAs (and when paying attention to local storage formats, they all could work on the same mail data). I've been using an external server for actually hosting the mailbox (emptied by POP), so _that_ functionality (receiving messages on my _own_ system) was not in my scope at that time. However, with proper masquerading _any_ MUA could send to localhost, and even ls /some/stuff | mail -s stuff b...@example.com was possible. After moving, I only had dynamic IP, resulting in the observation that my setup didn't work for _some_ targets anymore, as they refused to accept messages from dynamic IPs. So I reconfigured sendmail to just send the messages to my ISP's MX. That mail relay _has_ a static IP. The downside: You won't be able to control the arrival of your messages; only successfully transmitted to relay will be in the logs. You can see advantages and disadvantages in this approach: local storage, requirement for permanent and reversable connection (proper DNS records highly suggested!) and being tied to ISP's MX. Maybe you should rething your operations ideas with the suggestions given on the list. There are some things to consider, but what you're basically planning is possible without much trouble, as long as you pay attention to the protocol. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Building Home Server
20Hi; I'm building a server at home to mimic my live server. The instructions require that I gather the following information: * IP address * IP address of default gateway * Hostname * DNS server IP address * Subnet Mask Now, I think I can use 192.168.0.1 as my IP address, since that calls up my satellite interface. I've tried running ipconfig /all from the run command in Windoze, but it flashes the results so quickly then disappears that I don't have a chance to read the results! How do I get this information? Is there a Web site that can read my config? Or, what's a good guess at the defaults that would work for my satellite interface (which would be better, in case my data isn't static)? Also, where do I go in FBSD to edit the config so I can access the net? TIA. Drew Bored stiff? Loosen up... Download and play hundreds of games for free on Yahoo! Games. http://games.yahoo.com/games/front ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Building Home Server
Drew Jenkins írta: 20Hi; I'm building a server at home to mimic my live server. The instructions require that I gather the following information: * IP address * IP address of default gateway * Hostname * DNS server IP address * Subnet Mask Now, I think I can use 192.168.0.1 as my IP address, since that calls up my satellite interface. I've tried running ipconfig /all from the run command in Windoze, but it flashes the results so quickly then disappears that I don't have a chance to read the results! How do I get this information? Start menu/Run cmd There you will get a win32 console where you can type in ipconfig /all However, I do not understand what you are trying to do. Is there a Web site that can read my config? Or, what's a good guess at the defaults that would work for my satellite interface (which would be better, in case my data isn't static)? Probably your interface uses DHCP. You should type in /sbin/sysinstall and then configure your network interface. Another way to do it is to edit /etc/rc.conf, but you look like a newbie to me. After configuring with sysinstall, you can look at /etc/rc.conf and see what is in there. Best, Laszlo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Building Home Server
Drew Jenkins wrote: 20Hi; I'm building a server at home to mimic my live server. The instructions require that I gather the following information: * IP address * IP address of default gateway * Hostname * DNS server IP address * Subnet Mask Now, I think I can use 192.168.0.1 as my IP address, since that calls up my satellite interface. I've tried running ipconfig /all from the run command in Windoze, but it flashes the results so quickly then disappears that I don't have a chance to read the results! How do I get this information? Is there a Web site that can read my config? Or, what's a good guess at the defaults that would work for my satellite interface (which would be better, in case my data isn't static)? Also, where do I go in FBSD to edit the config so I can access the net? TIA. Drew You could try opening a command prompt (cmd/command in run) and running it, that way it won't close after it exits. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Building Home Server
Open the command prompt in windows first, then run ipconfig. Drew Jenkins wrote: 20Hi; I'm building a server at home to mimic my live server. The instructions require that I gather the following information: * IP address * IP address of default gateway * Hostname * DNS server IP address * Subnet Mask Now, I think I can use 192.168.0.1 as my IP address, since that calls up my satellite interface. I've tried running ipconfig /all from the run command in Windoze, but it flashes the results so quickly then disappears that I don't have a chance to read the results! How do I get this information? Is there a Web site that can read my config? Or, what's a good guess at the defaults that would work for my satellite interface (which would be better, in case my data isn't static)? Also, where do I go in FBSD to edit the config so I can access the net? TIA. Drew Bored stiff? Loosen up... Download and play hundreds of games for free on Yahoo! Games. http://games.yahoo.com/games/front ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Building Home Server
Start menu/Run cmd There you will get a win32 console where you can type in ipconfig /all Miscommunication. I *did* that. It pops up the info I need on the screen so fast then the screen disappears...I never have a chance to read the info!! What do?? Also, I found this info on a Web page built into my satellite interface: IP Address: 192.168.0.1 Subnet Mask: 255.255.225.0 NAT IP Address: 67.46.93.3 NAT Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.255 So, now I've got the IP address and the subnet mask, but I still need to find out the IP address of the default gateway, the hostname, and the DNS server IP addresses. However, I do not understand what you are trying to do. I'm trying to configure FBSD so I can get online. There is an interface at setup that requests all this data. Also, the manual says to have this data handy (it is the manual I am currently referencing). Probably your interface uses DHCP. Yes, DHCP is enabled. You should type in /sbin/sysinstall and then configure your network interface. Yes, that is what I will do, but first I need the above questions answered, because that is the data I must enter! TIA, Drew TV dinner still cooling? Check out Tonight's Picks on Yahoo! TV. http://tv.yahoo.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Building Home Server
- Original Message From: Joe Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Drew Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 11:45:47 AM Subject: Re: Building Home Server You could try opening a command prompt (cmd/command in run) and running it, that way it won't close after it exits. Yeah, I thought of that, unfortunately I get the response that id doesn't recognize the command! Yet run does recognize the command! Go figure! Drew Looking for earth-friendly autos? Browse Top Cars by Green Rating at Yahoo! Autos' Green Center. http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Building Home Server
Drew Jenkins wrote: Start menu/Run cmd Did you run cmd.exe? Really? Probably your interface uses DHCP. Yes, DHCP is enabled. You should type in /sbin/sysinstall and then configure your network interface. Yes, that is what I will do, but first I need the above questions answered, because that is the data I must enter! Definitely, not. You should configure the network with DHCP. It will find the correct settings automatically. 1. Login as root 2. Start sysinstall 3. Go to Configure/Networking/Interfaces 4. Select your NIC card 5. When it asks to configure with IPv6, say NO 6. When it asks to configure with DHCP, say YES That's all. Laszlo Laszlo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Building Home Server
- Original Message From: Nagy László Zsolt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Drew Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 12:08:13 PM Subject: Re: Building Home Server Did you run cmd.exe? Really? This is really strange. If I go to run and then enter ipconfig /all, it prints everything out in a flash then disappears, so I don't have time to read the information. If I go to run and type in cmd.exe and then type in ipconfig /all it tells me the command doesn't exist! 1. Login as root 2. Start sysinstall 3. Go to Configure/Networking/Interfaces 4. Select your NIC card 5. When it asks to configure with IPv6, say NO 6. When it asks to configure with DHCP, say YES That's all. Worked like a charm ;) Thanks! Drew Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Building Home Server
You could try opening a command prompt (cmd/command in run) and running it, that way it won't close after it exits. Yeah, I thought of that, unfortunately I get the response that id doesn't recognize the command! Yet run does recognize the command! Go figure! It must be Win98 Win95 or Windows ME. The command interpreter is called command.exe on DOS/Win9x/ME systems. On Windows NT, 2000, 2003 the interpreter is called cmd.exe. However, command.exe also present on the newer systems, for compatibility reasons. command.exe is a 16 bit program. cmd.exe is a 32bit program. I think I'm a bit offtopic here - this list is about FreeBSD. :-) Laszlo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Building Home Server
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From: Robert C Wittig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Drew Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 1:11:38 PM
Subject: Re: Building Home Server
Is this a Windows box or a BSD box, that you are trying to run a server on?
Both:
a hard drive for each. This is only a personal server. My workhorse is
located elsewhere. But I'm tired of having problems with experimenting
on my workhorse! Once I get this built, then whenever I try something
new, I'll try it on this unit, then once it works build it on the
workhorse. You know, like you're supposed to do it ;)
If you are looking for information on how to set up something similar, I
have an excellent grasp, how to do it, up to and including setting up a
very basic PF, to keep the crackers out.
Fire away! I'd love to see your packet filters and anything else you have that
you think would be of interest! Thanks!
Drew
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Re: Building Home Server
regarding the ip config, you could type: ipconfig /all | more or ipconfig /all out.txt In the second way you'll find the configuration in out.txt On 2/16/07, Nagy László Zsolt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could try opening a command prompt (cmd/command in run) and running it, that way it won't close after it exits. Yeah, I thought of that, unfortunately I get the response that id doesn't recognize the command! Yet run does recognize the command! Go figure! It must be Win98 Win95 or Windows ME. The command interpreter is called command.exe on DOS/Win9x/ME systems. On Windows NT, 2000, 2003 the interpreter is called cmd.exe. However, command.exe also present on the newer systems, for compatibility reasons. command.exe is a 16 bit program. cmd.exe is a 32bit program. I think I'm a bit offtopic here - this list is about FreeBSD. :-) Laszlo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The mind is a terrible thing to waste ! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Building Home Server
- Original Message From: Ziad Badawi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Nagy László Zsolt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 1:42:53 PM Subject: Re: Building Home Server regarding the ip config, you could type: ipconfig /all | more or ipconfig /all out.txt In the second way you'll find the configuration in out.txt Firstly, this discussion is now OT and not necessary, since the problem has been solved, but interesting at least to me nonetheless. Secondly, I ran the first command and watched the data scroll by for 2 seconds then disappear. On the out.txt, I ran a search for the same and it wasn't to be found on my hard drive. Ah, well! Good ideas! Didn't know those commands work in DOS, too ;) Drew Never miss an email again! Yahoo! Toolbar alerts you the instant new Mail arrives. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Home server upgrade 4.9 - 5.2.1, drop in hard diskornetworkperformance?
- Original Message - From: Eric Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Markie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2004 1:27 AM Subject: Re: Home server upgrade 4.9 - 5.2.1, drop in hard diskornetworkperformance? | On Friday 23 April 2004 09:04, you wrote: | | [snip] | | I just now swapped the old 3com card in the servers box with the intel card | from that one and well... it seems to be working fine! Is this a bad driver | or bad hardware? I still have a routing problem, before I can do anything | with the internet after a new connection I have to do the following: | | route delete default | route add new internet ip | route -n add default -iface new internet ip | | but with this modem it appears you have to do this on openbsd and netbsd | too. I am going to hunt down a way to do it automatically :o) I will also | test the transfer rate stuff again to make sure it wasn't just that old | card doing something nasty although I doubt it'd be that | | I will keep you informed for what it's worth :o) | | This is pretty simple. Simply add the following line to the /etc/rc.conf | file: | | default_route=ip.address.here.please | | HTH I don't have a static IP address? :o) Just got back home from a gig today to find the box had locked up again with 2 icmp redirect messages on the console and an ATA timeout thing Apr 23 20:54:28 bone kernel: icmp redirect from 80.145.155.146: 0.0.0.0 = 217.4.98.129 Apr 24 19:13:21 bone kernel: icmp redirect from 195.36.246.89: 192.168.2.100 = 217.5.98.154 Apr 24 23:49:35 bone kernel: ad2: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=1663 Just like that... i'm not sure if it's the timeout that caused the lockup this time or not. I thought swapping the network cards had fixed it.. well.. I dunno, maybe this is something different? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Home server upgrade 4.9 - 5.2.1, drop in hard disk ornetworkperformance?
| -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Markie | Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 6:15 PM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: Home server upgrade 4.9 - 5.2.1, drop in hard disk | ornetworkperformance? | | | - Original Message - | From: Markie [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 10:53 PM | Subject: Home server upgrade 4.9 - 5.2.1, drop in hard disk or | networkperformance? | | | | Hello everyone! | | | | I just upgraded my home server frmo 4.9-R-p3 to 5.2.1-R after | having a | few | | problems with modems and random hard lockups(?). | | | | Well, first off the upgrade didn't solve this and I can still | reliably | make | | the box freeze with a new modem I bought which I hoped would cure | the | | problem... when infact it's 10x worse with that modem :o) Has | anyone got | | any ideas as to what could be causing this? The network card for | the | | internal side is an fxp card and the network card the modem is | attached | to | | is an older 10megabit vx card (3com Etherlink III). | | | | I can't really think of any other information to provide right now | but I | | really would be grateful for some prompting of more info and a bit | of | help! | | My last few emails to questions about the hard lock ups didn't get | any | | replies if I remember rightly :o) | | | | Aside from that, I just copied a 400 meg file over samba and it | really | did | | seem incredibly slow compared to when it was running 4.9. It took | agess | | to untar the backup 1.5gig file too! Is there anything I am | supposed to | | tweak here? | | I am thinking about just reinstalling 4.9 again but I would like | to avoid | | that if I can, as it would be alot of time wasted :o) I don't have | any | | numbers for this unfortuantly either, it just feels and seems a | hell of | | alot slower! For instance, when I was copying this file and tried | to ssh | in | | from my windows machine it just sat there for ages doing | (apparently) | | nothing! | | | | Thanks! | | | | Well I was just using bmon from ports to monitor the speed and | copying a | file to the box over samba is dramatically slower than copying from | it: | | Copying a 1.5gig backup tar from the freebsd machine to my box is | around | 6-7 meg a second | Copying a 600 odd meg file to the freebsd machine from my box is | around | only 1-2 meg a second! | | I do seem to remember having this kind of problem ages ago when I | used | Linux. Before installing 5.2.1 I did enable plug and play in BIOS | (it hung | with that turned on using 4.9, not with 5.2.1 though) so I will try | disabling that either later or tomorrow morning to see if that fixes | my | issue! Could it be that which is causing it? | | Other than that I don't think I have had any major issues with the | install | yet :o) Well... except for it didn't solve my hard lockup problem | like I | hoped it would have. Seems like it isn't a hard disk performance | drop | though :o) | - Original Message - From: JJB [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Markie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 1:33 PM Subject: RE: Home server upgrade 4.9 - 5.2.1, drop in hard disk ornetworkperformance? | Release 5.x uses an new file system which many people have reported | noticeable performance problems and hard disk sector lock outs. Keep | in mind that all the 5.x version are full of new experimental code. | If performance and reliability is requirement you need on your | servers then only use the stable versions of FreeBSD. 4.9 is the | current production stable version, 4.10 beta is available now and in | 2 weeks 4.10 is scheduled to be released becoming the official | current production stable version. Yeah I realise that. I just find it a bit strange that it pulls off the machine normal speeds but sending something over to it is really slow. I don't remember it being so slow on 4.9! And the untar was slow from one drive to the other... on seperate channels too (and that was before I turned off write caching :o) I am now playing about trying to figure out why the box keeps locking up on me with my new modem :o( I compiled a kernel with invarients and witness and stuff in but... it just locks up totally! I would appreciate it if anyone could help me out or suggest anything at all! At the moment I am thinking perhaps the card is just bad or something. An old PCI 3COM Etherlink III 590 or something along those lines. I am about to try it on my other 5.x box with just one intel card to see if it'll lock that up too. Expect more moaning from me :o) Thanks for your reply!! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Home server upgrade 4.9 - 5.2.1, drop in hard diskornetworkperformance?
- Original Message - From: Markie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 2:21 PM Subject: Re: Home server upgrade 4.9 - 5.2.1, drop in hard diskornetworkperformance? | | | | -Original Message- | | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Markie | | Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 6:15 PM | | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Subject: Re: Home server upgrade 4.9 - 5.2.1, drop in hard disk | | ornetworkperformance? | | | | | | - Original Message - | | From: Markie [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 10:53 PM | | Subject: Home server upgrade 4.9 - 5.2.1, drop in hard disk or | | networkperformance? | | | | | | | Hello everyone! | | | | | | I just upgraded my home server frmo 4.9-R-p3 to 5.2.1-R after | | having a | | few | | | problems with modems and random hard lockups(?). | | | | | | Well, first off the upgrade didn't solve this and I can still | | reliably | | make | | | the box freeze with a new modem I bought which I hoped would cure | | the | | | problem... when infact it's 10x worse with that modem :o) Has | | anyone got | | | any ideas as to what could be causing this? The network card for | | the | | | internal side is an fxp card and the network card the modem is | | attached | | to | | | is an older 10megabit vx card (3com Etherlink III). | | | | | | I can't really think of any other information to provide right now | | but I | | | really would be grateful for some prompting of more info and a bit | | of | | help! | | | My last few emails to questions about the hard lock ups didn't get | | any | | | replies if I remember rightly :o) | | | | | | Aside from that, I just copied a 400 meg file over samba and it | | really | | did | | | seem incredibly slow compared to when it was running 4.9. It took | | agess | | | to untar the backup 1.5gig file too! Is there anything I am | | supposed to | | | tweak here? | | | I am thinking about just reinstalling 4.9 again but I would like | | to avoid | | | that if I can, as it would be alot of time wasted :o) I don't have | | any | | | numbers for this unfortuantly either, it just feels and seems a | | hell of | | | alot slower! For instance, when I was copying this file and tried | | to ssh | | in | | | from my windows machine it just sat there for ages doing | | (apparently) | | | nothing! | | | | | | Thanks! | | | | | | | Well I was just using bmon from ports to monitor the speed and | | copying a | | file to the box over samba is dramatically slower than copying from | | it: | | | | Copying a 1.5gig backup tar from the freebsd machine to my box is | | around | | 6-7 meg a second | | Copying a 600 odd meg file to the freebsd machine from my box is | | around | | only 1-2 meg a second! | | | | I do seem to remember having this kind of problem ages ago when I | | used | | Linux. Before installing 5.2.1 I did enable plug and play in BIOS | | (it hung | | with that turned on using 4.9, not with 5.2.1 though) so I will try | | disabling that either later or tomorrow morning to see if that fixes | | my | | issue! Could it be that which is causing it? | | | | Other than that I don't think I have had any major issues with the | | install | | yet :o) Well... except for it didn't solve my hard lockup problem | | like I | | hoped it would have. Seems like it isn't a hard disk performance | | drop | | though :o) | | | | - Original Message - | From: JJB [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To: Markie [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 1:33 PM | Subject: RE: Home server upgrade 4.9 - 5.2.1, drop in hard disk | ornetworkperformance? | | | | Release 5.x uses an new file system which many people have reported | | noticeable performance problems and hard disk sector lock outs. Keep | | in mind that all the 5.x version are full of new experimental code. | | If performance and reliability is requirement you need on your | | servers then only use the stable versions of FreeBSD. 4.9 is the | | current production stable version, 4.10 beta is available now and in | | 2 weeks 4.10 is scheduled to be released becoming the official | | current production stable version. | | Yeah I realise that. I just find it a bit strange that it pulls off the | machine normal speeds but sending something over to it is really slow. I | don't remember it being so slow on 4.9! And the untar was slow from one | drive to the other... on seperate channels too (and that was before I | turned off write caching :o) | | I am now playing about trying to figure out why the box keeps locking up on | me with my new modem :o( I compiled a kernel with invarients and witness | and stuff in but... it just locks up totally! I would appreciate it if | anyone could help me out or suggest anything at all! | | At the moment I am thinking perhaps the card is just bad or something. An | old PCI 3COM Etherlink III 590 or something along those lines. I am about | to try it on my
Home server upgrade 4.9 - 5.2.1, drop in hard disk or network performance?
Hello everyone! I just upgraded my home server frmo 4.9-R-p3 to 5.2.1-R after having a few problems with modems and random hard lockups(?). Well, first off the upgrade didn't solve this and I can still reliably make the box freeze with a new modem I bought which I hoped would cure the problem... when infact it's 10x worse with that modem :o) Has anyone got any ideas as to what could be causing this? The network card for the internal side is an fxp card and the network card the modem is attached to is an older 10megabit vx card (3com Etherlink III). I can't really think of any other information to provide right now but I really would be grateful for some prompting of more info and a bit of help! My last few emails to questions about the hard lock ups didn't get any replies if I remember rightly :o) Aside from that, I just copied a 400 meg file over samba and it really did seem incredibly slow compared to when it was running 4.9. It took agess to untar the backup 1.5gig file too! Is there anything I am supposed to tweak here? I am thinking about just reinstalling 4.9 again but I would like to avoid that if I can, as it would be alot of time wasted :o) I don't have any numbers for this unfortuantly either, it just feels and seems a hell of alot slower! For instance, when I was copying this file and tried to ssh in from my windows machine it just sat there for ages doing (apparently) nothing! Thanks! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Home server upgrade 4.9 - 5.2.1, drop in hard disk or networkperformance?
- Original Message - From: Markie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 10:53 PM Subject: Home server upgrade 4.9 - 5.2.1, drop in hard disk or networkperformance? | Hello everyone! | | I just upgraded my home server frmo 4.9-R-p3 to 5.2.1-R after having a few | problems with modems and random hard lockups(?). | | Well, first off the upgrade didn't solve this and I can still reliably make | the box freeze with a new modem I bought which I hoped would cure the | problem... when infact it's 10x worse with that modem :o) Has anyone got | any ideas as to what could be causing this? The network card for the | internal side is an fxp card and the network card the modem is attached to | is an older 10megabit vx card (3com Etherlink III). | | I can't really think of any other information to provide right now but I | really would be grateful for some prompting of more info and a bit of help! | My last few emails to questions about the hard lock ups didn't get any | replies if I remember rightly :o) | | Aside from that, I just copied a 400 meg file over samba and it really did | seem incredibly slow compared to when it was running 4.9. It took agess | to untar the backup 1.5gig file too! Is there anything I am supposed to | tweak here? | I am thinking about just reinstalling 4.9 again but I would like to avoid | that if I can, as it would be alot of time wasted :o) I don't have any | numbers for this unfortuantly either, it just feels and seems a hell of | alot slower! For instance, when I was copying this file and tried to ssh in | from my windows machine it just sat there for ages doing (apparently) | nothing! | | Thanks! | Well I was just using bmon from ports to monitor the speed and copying a file to the box over samba is dramatically slower than copying from it: Copying a 1.5gig backup tar from the freebsd machine to my box is around 6-7 meg a second Copying a 600 odd meg file to the freebsd machine from my box is around only 1-2 meg a second! I do seem to remember having this kind of problem ages ago when I used Linux. Before installing 5.2.1 I did enable plug and play in BIOS (it hung with that turned on using 4.9, not with 5.2.1 though) so I will try disabling that either later or tomorrow morning to see if that fixes my issue! Could it be that which is causing it? Other than that I don't think I have had any major issues with the install yet :o) Well... except for it didn't solve my hard lockup problem like I hoped it would have. Seems like it isn't a hard disk performance drop though :o) | ___ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list | http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions | To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Home server upgrade 4.9 - 5.2.1, drop in hard disk ornetworkperformance?
- Original Message - From: Markie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 11:14 PM Subject: Re: Home server upgrade 4.9 - 5.2.1, drop in hard disk ornetworkperformance? | | - Original Message - | From: Markie [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 10:53 PM | Subject: Home server upgrade 4.9 - 5.2.1, drop in hard disk or | networkperformance? | | | | Hello everyone! | | | | I just upgraded my home server frmo 4.9-R-p3 to 5.2.1-R after having a | few | | problems with modems and random hard lockups(?). | | | | Well, first off the upgrade didn't solve this and I can still reliably | make | | the box freeze with a new modem I bought which I hoped would cure the | | problem... when infact it's 10x worse with that modem :o) Has anyone got | | any ideas as to what could be causing this? The network card for the | | internal side is an fxp card and the network card the modem is attached | to | | is an older 10megabit vx card (3com Etherlink III). | | | | I can't really think of any other information to provide right now but I | | really would be grateful for some prompting of more info and a bit of | help! | | My last few emails to questions about the hard lock ups didn't get any | | replies if I remember rightly :o) | | | | Aside from that, I just copied a 400 meg file over samba and it really | did | | seem incredibly slow compared to when it was running 4.9. It took | agess | | to untar the backup 1.5gig file too! Is there anything I am supposed to | | tweak here? | | I am thinking about just reinstalling 4.9 again but I would like to avoid | | that if I can, as it would be alot of time wasted :o) I don't have any | | numbers for this unfortuantly either, it just feels and seems a hell of | | alot slower! For instance, when I was copying this file and tried to ssh | in | | from my windows machine it just sat there for ages doing (apparently) | | nothing! | | | | Thanks! | | | | Well I was just using bmon from ports to monitor the speed and copying a | file to the box over samba is dramatically slower than copying from it: | | Copying a 1.5gig backup tar from the freebsd machine to my box is around | 6-7 meg a second | Copying a 600 odd meg file to the freebsd machine from my box is around | only 1-2 meg a second! | | I do seem to remember having this kind of problem ages ago when I used | Linux. Before installing 5.2.1 I did enable plug and play in BIOS (it hung | with that turned on using 4.9, not with 5.2.1 though) so I will try | disabling that either later or tomorrow morning to see if that fixes my | issue! Could it be that which is causing it? | | Other than that I don't think I have had any major issues with the install | yet :o) Well... except for it didn't solve my hard lockup problem like I | hoped it would have. Seems like it isn't a hard disk performance drop | though :o) | Ok, well, I just rebooted and put plug and play os back to disabled but it's the same... so I guess this must have something to do with it being a newer version of samba (same config as before though) or freebsd? Anyone else seem anything like this before? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Moving my home server to completely different hardware
Hi all, I'm running a home server, which acts as an IP-forwarding machine for my home network, does some webserving, mail, etc. It's currently based on a Pentium 120, but I plan to move it to an AMD Athlon.About the only thing that will remain the same is the hard drive and the two NICs in the machine. What would be my best route? Fresh install? (Eeek, have to install everything all over again). I think it should be possible to just take the hard drive and put in in the new machine, boot a generic kernel and then compile a new kernel for the new hardware, but I'm wondering whether I'm missing something. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
