Could Not open some sites from Windows Vista and Server 2008 when using FreeBSD as gw

2008-03-05 Thread Владислав Недосекин
We are using FreeBSD as GateWay with PF. And the problem is that some web-sites as Gmail.com or Msn.com are unavailable from machines with Vista or Server 2008 installed. If use external or internal proxy (Kerio WinRoute, wich also goes through the same FreeBSD gw) they are opening correctly. Also

swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer

2008-03-05 Thread Michael Grant
My server just literally was brought to it's knees with this message spewing on the console: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 1203133, size: 4096 (blkno and size were varying) Some searching says that this is or was a bug. Has this been fixed yet? If so, what should I

Re: INET6 required for SCTP in 7.0?

2008-03-05 Thread Vadim Goncharov
Hi Mark Andrews! On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:07:56 +1100; Mark Andrews wrote about 'Re: INET6 required for SCTP in 7.0?': I'm not interested in enabling support for IPv6 for now. When I remove INET6 from the kernel configuration, I cannot compile the kernel without disabling SCTP. With fresh

Re: INET6 required for SCTP in 7.0?

2008-03-05 Thread Robert Watson
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Vadim Goncharov wrote: On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:50:33 -0800; Xin LI wrote about 'Re: INET6 required for SCTP in 7.0?': I'm not interested in enabling support for IPv6 for now. When I remove INET6 from the kernel configuration, I cannot compile the kernel without

Re: Could Not open some sites from Windows Vista and Server 2008 when using FreeBSD as gw

2008-03-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 10:49:09AM +0200, ? ? wrote: We are using FreeBSD as GateWay with PF. And the problem is that some web-sites as Gmail.com or Msn.com are unavailable from machines with Vista or Server 2008 installed. If use external or internal proxy (Kerio WinRoute,

kernel backup on 7.0

2008-03-05 Thread James López (BLuEGoD)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I have FreeBSD 7.0 on my server but due to troubles with sendfile (I don't know why, but when I run a configure script checking for that function it shows a segmentation fault and I can't make my web server run well), also because of some

Mapping stat(1) device number/name to partition?

2008-03-05 Thread Rick van der Zwet
Hi all, I am looking for a way to detect the file system a certain file lives and next whether this file system is mounted/accessible as writable. [1] As stat(1) is helping me out to found out the proper device name/number of a certain file with the command `stat -f %d /etc/motd`, but next will

Re: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer

2008-03-05 Thread Ruben van Staveren
On 5 Mar 2008, at 10:06, Michael Grant wrote: My server just literally was brought to it's knees with this message spewing on the console: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 1203133, size: 4096 (blkno and size were varying) Some searching says that this is or was a

Re: Could Not open some sites from Windows Vista and Server 2008 when using FreeBSD as gw

2008-03-05 Thread Dennis Melentyev
Hello Vladislav, 2008/3/5, Владислав Недосекин [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We are using FreeBSD as GateWay with PF. And the problem is that some web-sites as Gmail.com or Msn.com are unavailable from machines with Vista or Server 2008 installed. If use external or internal proxy (Kerio WinRoute,

Re: Mapping stat(1) device number/name to partition?

2008-03-05 Thread Rink Springer
Hi, On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 11:07:28AM +0100, Rick van der Zwet wrote: Which handy shell utility program will help me doing this? I think you can use statfs(2) to look up the f_fsid, this should be equal to the st_dev, judging from the code in kern/vfs_syscalls.c. There doesn't appear to be a

Re: 7.0-Release and 3ware 9550SXU w/BBU - horrible write performance

2008-03-05 Thread Erik Stian Tefre
alan bryan wrote: I've got a new server with a 3ware 9550SXU with the Battery. I am using FreeBSD 7.0-Release (tried both 4BSD and ULE) using AMD64 and the 3ware performance for writes is just plain horrible. Something is obviously wrong but I'm not sure what. Any ideas? Anybody have one

Re: Mapping stat(1) device number/name to partition?

2008-03-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 11:07:28AM +0100, Rick van der Zwet wrote: Hi all, I am looking for a way to detect the file system a certain file lives and next whether this file system is mounted/accessible as writable. [1] As stat(1) is helping me out to found out the proper device name/number

Odd file in /lost+found after softupdate inconsistency in fsck

2008-03-05 Thread Tod McQuillin
Hi all, My server froze up tonight after a 2 month uptime running 6.3-PRERELEASE from Dec 28 2007. I had to fsck /home by hand because of an inconsistency fsck couldn't repair automatically -- something to do with an unexpected softupdate inconsistency. After that, I ended up with some

Re: kernel backup on 7.0

2008-03-05 Thread Ivan Voras
James López (BLuEGoD) wrote: Hello, I have FreeBSD 7.0 on my server but due to troubles with sendfile (I don't know why, but when I run a configure script checking for that function it shows a segmentation fault and I can't make my web server run well), also because of some accidentally I

Re: INET6 required for SCTP in 7.0?

2008-03-05 Thread Andy Dills
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Mark Andrews wrote: It would be better to remove the option all together. IPv6 is no longer a protocol under development. There is no need to make it optional any more. Having it there really sends the wrong signal. With all due respect, let's

Re: 7.0-Release and 3ware 9550SXU w/BBU - horrible write performance

2008-03-05 Thread Ivan Voras
Erik Stian Tefre wrote: Results from bonnie++ with default settings on my box (7.0-RELEASE, amd64, 480 MB system memory, BBU, write cache enabled, 7 drive raid-5, storsave = balance, NCQ on): Version 1.93d --Sequential Output-- --Sequential Input- --Random- Concurrency 1

Re: INET6 required for SCTP in 7.0?

2008-03-05 Thread Pete French
O.K., have snipped all the above IPv4 stuff, which actually seems quite reaosnable (though appears to foorget about STF), but this line... In the meantime, I'd like to only enable IPv6 on IPv6 enabled networks. ...I fail to see how not wanting to enable it leads to you wanting to remove it from

Re: INET6 required for SCTP in 7.0?

2008-03-05 Thread Andy Dills
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Pete French wrote: O.K., have snipped all the above IPv4 stuff, which actually seems quite reaosnable (though appears to foorget about STF), but this line... In the meantime, I'd like to only enable IPv6 on IPv6 enabled networks. ...I fail to see how not wanting to

Re: Could Not open some sites from Windows Vista and Server 2008 when using FreeBSD as gw

2008-03-05 Thread Dennis Melentyev
Hi! Well, I'm not a PF professional, and you have rather advanced setup. So, someone with good PF experience is needed here. 2008/3/5, Владислав Недосекин [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, i understand that there is too little facts to analyze, but maybe some one have the same problem and also i can

Re: Could Not open some sites from Windows Vista and Server 2008 when using FreeBSD as gw

2008-03-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Dennis Melentyev wrote: Hi! Well, I'm not a PF professional, and you have rather advanced setup. So, someone with good PF experience is needed here. 2008/3/5, Владислав Недосекин [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, i understand that there is too

Re: INET6 required for SCTP in 7.0?

2008-03-05 Thread Mark Andrews
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Mark Andrews wrote: It would be better to remove the option all together. IPv6 is no longer a protocol under development. There is no need to make it optional any more. Having it there really sends the wrong signal. With all due respect, let's

Re: INET6 required for SCTP in 7.0?

2008-03-05 Thread Vadim Goncharov
Hi Andy Dills! On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 08:40:20 -0500 (EST); Andy Dills wrote about 'Re: INET6 required for SCTP in 7.0?': O.K., have snipped all the above IPv4 stuff, which actually seems quite reaosnable (though appears to foorget about STF), but this line... In the meantime, I'd like to

Re: INET6 required for SCTP in 7.0?

2008-03-05 Thread Ruben van Staveren
On 5 Mar 2008, at 15:32, Mark Andrews wrote: - IPv6 provides almost no technological upgrades beyond additional address space. DHCP addressed the auto configuration feature, VPNs addressed IPsec. That extra address space really is a big advantage. It really is so much

Re: 7.0-Release and 3ware 9550SXU w/BBU - horrible write performance

2008-03-05 Thread Erik Stian Tefre
Ivan Voras wrote: Erik Stian Tefre wrote: Results from bonnie++ with default settings on my box (7.0-RELEASE, amd64, 480 MB system memory, BBU, write cache enabled, 7 drive raid-5, storsave = balance, NCQ on): Version 1.93d --Sequential Output-- --Sequential Input- --Random-

Re: 7.0-Release and 3ware 9550SXU w/BBU - horrible write performance

2008-03-05 Thread Ivan Voras
Erik Stian Tefre wrote: It was completely idle. Changing vfs.read_max to 80 triples the sequential read performance, see bonnie++ output below (run on the same box, nothing changed except vfs.read_max). It might be that 3ware is specially pessimized by FreeBSD chopping IO into 64K blocks. But

Re: INET6 -- and why I don't use it

2008-03-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 03:00:29PM +, Vadim Goncharov wrote: Makes it harder to debug, etc. Don't want to see anything IPv6 related in command output, to let programs to bind on IPv6 addresses, etc. Changing the Subject (but keeping the thread ID reference), since the original topic of

Re: FreeBSD 7.9-stable: weird messages in /var/log/messages?

2008-03-05 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:52:23 +0100 Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is reporting large variations in the rate of your time clock (see kern_tc.c). Aha, I see. Thanks for explaining that. Also, you appear to be emailing from the distant future. Please reply with stock tips :)

Re: Could Not open some sites from Windows Vista and Server 2008 when using FreeBSD as gw

2008-03-05 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 03:49 AM 3/5/2008, =?KOI8-R?B?98zBxMnTzMHXIO7FxM/TxcvJzg==?= wrote: We are using FreeBSD as GateWay with PF. And the problem is that some web-sites as Gmail.com or Msn.com are unavailable from machines with Vista or Server 2008 installed. If use external or internal proxy (Kerio WinRoute,

Re: Usb problems on 7.0 RELEASE

2008-03-05 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, March 05, 2008 18:09:16 +1100 Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 09:16:25PM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote: Earlier I reported usb problems on this list. Since then I have recompiled the kernel and world three times, each time including the latest

Re: FreeBSD 7.9-stable: weird messages in /var/log/messages?

2008-03-05 Thread Michael Proto
Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:52:23 +0100 Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is reporting large variations in the rate of your time clock (see kern_tc.c). Aha, I see. Thanks for explaining that. Also, you appear to be emailing from the distant future.

Re: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer

2008-03-05 Thread Michael Grant
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Ruben van Staveren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5 Mar 2008, at 10:06, Michael Grant wrote: My server just literally was brought to it's knees with this message spewing on the console: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 1203133,

Re: Odd file in /lost+found after softupdate inconsistency in fsck

2008-03-05 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 09:43:15PM +0900, Tod McQuillin wrote: /home/lost+found# ls -lksh total 24432 24432 -r 1 root operator40G Mar 5 20:12 #005 It is 40G in size but only occupies 24432k on disk, so it is a sparse file. The file permissions and sparseness matches a

Re: INET6 required for SCTP in 7.0?

2008-03-05 Thread Andy Dills
On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Mark Andrews wrote: Service providers get paid to push IP packets. They shouldn't care which protocol version is in the header. What they should be worried about is ensuring that they are here in 4 years time. Sure they should. The ASICs in the

Re: linked ssl libraries to binary

2008-03-05 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
On 2008.03.04 12:05:22 +, Chris wrote: On freebsd 6 it picks up /usr/local ssl libaries no problem and in fact uses them without even haveing to specify the directory it auto detects them over the base ssl. On freebsd 7 it uses the base libraries even when telling it to search in

Re: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer

2008-03-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
Michael Grant wrote: On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Ruben van Staveren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5 Mar 2008, at 10:06, Michael Grant wrote: My server just literally was brought to it's knees with this message spewing on the console: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0,

Re: 7.0-Release and 3ware 9550SXU w/BBU - horrible write performance

2008-03-05 Thread Andrew L. Davydov
alan bryan пишет: Hi, I've got a new server with a 3ware 9550SXU with the Battery. I am using FreeBSD 7.0-Release (tried both 4BSD and ULE) using AMD64 and the 3ware performance for writes is just plain horrible. Something is obviously wrong but I'm not sure what. Hi! Try to add the

Re: INET6 required for SCTP in 7.0?

2008-03-05 Thread Peter Wemm
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 6:32 AM, Mark Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a reasonable chance that this mail will leave here over IPv6 for some of the recipients. It will almost certainly travel over IPv6 for at least one hop. Mark It did:

Re: INET6 required for SCTP in 7.0?

2008-03-05 Thread Peter Wemm
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Peter Wemm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 6:32 AM, Mark Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a reasonable chance that this mail will leave here over IPv6 for some of the recipients. It will almost certainly

Re: INET6 required for SCTP in 7.0?

2008-03-05 Thread Dimitry Andric
On 2008-03-05 22:42, Peter Wemm wrote: Oh, one more thing. If you are IPv6-enabled, you get to bypass the 10 minute greylisting delay on mx1.freebsd.org. Your email goes through instantly instead of potentially being delayed by 10-30 minutes. Until the spammers start using IPv6... Then we'll

Re: INET6 required for SCTP in 7.0?

2008-03-05 Thread Peter Wemm
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Dimitry Andric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-03-05 22:42, Peter Wemm wrote: Oh, one more thing. If you are IPv6-enabled, you get to bypass the 10 minute greylisting delay on mx1.freebsd.org. Your email goes through instantly instead of potentially

Re: Odd file in /lost+found after softupdate inconsistency in fsck

2008-03-05 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 05/03/2008 14:43 Tod McQuillin said the following: Hi all, My server froze up tonight after a 2 month uptime running 6.3-PRERELEASE from Dec 28 2007. I had to fsck /home by hand because of an inconsistency fsck couldn't repair automatically -- something to do with an unexpected

Re: INET6 -- and why I don't use it

2008-03-05 Thread Mark Andrews
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 03:00:29PM +, Vadim Goncharov wrote: Makes it harder to debug, etc. Don't want to see anything IPv6 related in command output, to let programs to bind on IPv6 addresses, etc. Changing the Subject (but keeping the thread ID reference), since the original topic

Re: INET6 -- and why I don't use it

2008-03-05 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Mar 5, 2008, at 17:31 , Mark Andrews wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 03:00:29PM +, Vadim Goncharov wrote: * The last I read about IPv6 in mainstream news, there were major concerns cited over some of the security aspects of the protocol. I also remember reading somewhere that IPv6

Re: INET6 -- and why I don't use it

2008-03-05 Thread Peter Wemm
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 5, 2008, at 17:31 , Mark Andrews wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 03:00:29PM +, Vadim Goncharov wrote: * The last I read about IPv6 in mainstream news, there were major concerns cited over

Re: INET6 required for SCTP in 7.0?

2008-03-05 Thread Mark Andrews
On 2008-03-05 22:42, Peter Wemm wrote: Oh, one more thing. If you are IPv6-enabled, you get to bypass the 10 minute greylisting delay on mx1.freebsd.org. Your email goes through instantly instead of potentially being delayed by 10-30 minutes. Until the spammers start using IPv6...

Re: INET6 -- and why I don't use it

2008-03-05 Thread Mark Andrews
On Mar 5, 2008, at 17:31 , Mark Andrews wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 03:00:29PM +, Vadim Goncharov wrote: * The last I read about IPv6 in mainstream news, there were major concerns cited over some of the security aspects of the protocol. I also remember reading somewhere that

Re: INET6 -- and why I don't use it

2008-03-05 Thread Michael Gratton
Hi Jeremy, On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 08:01 -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: * I'm not familiar with the intricacies of the protocol. No better time (or way) to learn! Get going! * The last I read about IPv6 in mainstream news, there were major concerns cited over some of the security aspects of

URGENCY help install error on DELL R900

2008-03-05 Thread wsk
hello list, get Can't load kernel error while trying to install FBSD_7.0R on DELL R900. / lsdev /cd devices:/ /cd0: Device 0x0/ /disk devices:/ disk0: Bios drive C: ls / get bad path and it can load kernel successly load cd0:/boot/kernel/kernel boot -v get progressbar | / \ and stopped btw:

Re: INET6 required for SCTP in 7.0?

2008-03-05 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 13:42:25 -0800 From: Peter Wemm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Peter Wemm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 6:32 AM, Mark Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a reasonable chance that this

Can NOT boot FreeBSD on Dell R900

2008-03-05 Thread Huang wen hui
hi, I boot FreeBSD 7.0R on R900, it stops with an error message: can't load 'kernel' Output from lsdev: cd devices: cd0: Device 0x0 disk devices: disk0: Bios drive C: ls cd0:/ can find files on CD. load cd0:/boot/kernel/kernel works, but boot -v stop |\ status. also show command does not show

Can NOT boot FreeBSD on Dell R900

2008-03-05 Thread Huang wen hui
hi, I boot FreeBSD 7.0R on R900, it stops with an error message: can't load 'kernel' Output from lsdev: cd devices: cd0: Device 0x0 disk devices: disk0: Bios drive C: ls cd0:/ can find files on CD. load cd0:/boot/kernel/kernel works, but boot -v stop |\ status. also show command does not show

Re: Can NOT boot FreeBSD on Dell R900

2008-03-05 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Huang wen hui wrote: hi, I boot FreeBSD 7.0R on R900, it stops with an error message: can't load 'kernel' It might be chipset related, I know the R860 is only like 2-4 months in the field, so I doubt FreeBSD developers have one yet. ___

Re: Odd file in /lost+found after softupdate inconsistency in fsck

2008-03-05 Thread Tod McQuillin
On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Peter Jeremy wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 09:43:15PM +0900, Tod McQuillin wrote: /home/lost+found# ls -lksh total 24432 24432 -r 1 root operator40G Mar 5 20:12 #005 It is 40G in size but only occupies 24432k on disk, so it is a sparse file. The file

Re: Can NOT boot FreeBSD on Dell R900

2008-03-05 Thread Nicky Bulthuis
Hello, I'm having the same problem with an R900. Doesn't matter if you choose 6.2 or 6.3 either. I've also tried booting from USB Pen Drive, USB CD-Rom Drive and booting with PXE, all give the same 'can't load kernel' error. I haven't been able to get it FreeBSD on it. Nor FreeNAS. DragonFly BSD

Re: Can NOT boot FreeBSD on Dell R900

2008-03-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 08:13:35AM +0100, Nicky Bulthuis wrote: I'm having the same problem with an R900. Doesn't matter if you choose 6.2 or 6.3 either. I've also tried booting from USB Pen Drive, USB CD-Rom Drive and booting with PXE, all give the same 'can't load kernel' error. Re: unable

Re: URGENCY help install error on DELL R900

2008-03-05 Thread jose ycogo
Try downloading the ISO again. - Original Message From: wsk [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 6, 2008 13:30:55 Subject: URGENCY help install error on DELL R900 hello list, get Can't load kernel error while trying to install FBSD_7.0R on