Re: [9fans] standalone authserver on CF card

2008-04-14 Thread John Stalker
> What is the best setup method? Because the soekris box hasn't a video > output I have to use a serial console. I think of booting the box via > pxe and running replica/pull. Or is it better to put the cf card in > another box and set it up there? In general I've found pxe to work well. One wor

[9fans] syscall paper corrections

2008-04-14 Thread john
Over the weekend, I received mail pointing out a typo and a conceptual error; I have fixed both and re-uploaded the paper. Those of you who have already read the document will note that systab.h is created by a script, not edited by hand as I said at first. John

Re: [9fans] standalone authserver on CF card

2008-04-14 Thread erik quanstrom
> What is the best setup method? Because the soekris box hasn't a video > output I have to use a serial console. I think of booting the box via > pxe and running replica/pull. Or is it better to put the cf card in > another box and set it up there? that really depends. the fundamental decision i

Re: [9fans] standalone authserver on CF card

2008-04-14 Thread erik quanstrom
this really helps us. i know that steve has a list of bad ftp users to reject out-of-hand, but this exponential backoff keeps the bad guys from bothering our auth server enough to notice. we still get quite a few connections, though - erik /n/sources/plan9//sys/src/cmd/ip/ftpd.c:519,524 - ftpd

Re: [9fans] standalone authserver on CF card

2008-04-14 Thread Matthias Teege
> yes. it works fine. however, if you have an internet-facing network What is the best setup method? Because the soekris box hasn't a video output I have to use a serial console. I think of booting the box via pxe and running replica/pull. Or is it better to put the cf card in another box and s

Re: [9fans] standalone authserver on CF card

2008-04-14 Thread john
>> Moin, >> >> I have to upgrade parts of my Plan 9 system. I'm thinking of using a >> soekris 5501 or 48xx as my authentication server. It would be nice to use >> a CF Card for storage but I'm not sure about the read/write cycles. Does >> anyone run a Plan 9 server on a system without rotating pa

Re: [9fans] standalone authserver on CF card

2008-04-14 Thread erik quanstrom
> Moin, > > I have to upgrade parts of my Plan 9 system. I'm thinking of using a > soekris 5501 or 48xx as my authentication server. It would be nice to use > a CF Card for storage but I'm not sure about the read/write cycles. Does > anyone run a Plan 9 server on a system without rotating parts? >

[9fans] standalone authserver on CF card

2008-04-14 Thread Matthias Teege
Moin, I have to upgrade parts of my Plan 9 system. I'm thinking of using a soekris 5501 or 48xx as my authentication server. It would be nice to use a CF Card for storage but I'm not sure about the read/write cycles. Does anyone run a Plan 9 server on a system without rotating parts? Many thanks