Re: load balancing(2)

2003-03-13 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi Danilo, What are your servers doing? do they REALLY need that type of uptime? Do you want loadbalancing, or failover? Do you have one Internet provider or two? If two, this will start getting more complicated. You will need to look into using BGP. As you are asking this question, I assume tha

Re: load balancing(2)

2003-03-13 Thread Andrew Miehs
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 04:47:47PM +0100, Volker Tanger wrote: > For incoming the firewalls simply use DNS Round-Robin on the FW members > which have to be listed as primary/master servers for the domain in > question. This way you are independent on network mechanics. > Hi Volker, If you use rou

Courier MTA

2003-03-23 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi all! Is anyone using the courier-mta package? Can I use it as a replacement for postfix, or am I better off sticking to postfix? Thanks Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Courier MTA

2003-03-23 Thread Andrew Miehs
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 10:13:24PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Andrew Miehs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.23.2147 +0100]: > > Can I use it as a replacement for postfix, or am I better off sticking > > to postfix? > > why would you want to replace postfix?

Re: Courier MTA

2003-03-24 Thread Andrew Miehs
> There is a cyrus (and postfix) backport from sid to woody: > > deb http://people.debian.org/~hmh/woody/ hmh/cyrus/ > deb http://people.debian.org/~hmh/woody/ hmh/postfix/ > deb http://people.debian.org/~hmh/woody/ hmh/misc/ Have had a look at this, but cyrus supports sasl2 and postfix sasl1. :

Re: Courier MTA

2003-03-25 Thread Andrew Miehs
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 06:53:25PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Andrew Miehs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.24.1626 +0100]: > > Have had a look at this, but cyrus supports sasl2 and postfix sasl1. > > so backport postfix from testing. > Hi Martin! The reaso

Re: load balancing(2)

2003-03-13 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi Danilo, What are your servers doing? do they REALLY need that type of uptime? Do you want loadbalancing, or failover? Do you have one Internet provider or two? If two, this will start getting more complicated. You will need to look into using BGP. As you are asking this question, I assume tha

Re: load balancing(2)

2003-03-13 Thread Andrew Miehs
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 04:47:47PM +0100, Volker Tanger wrote: > For incoming the firewalls simply use DNS Round-Robin on the FW members > which have to be listed as primary/master servers for the domain in > question. This way you are independent on network mechanics. > Hi Volker, If you use rou

Courier MTA

2003-03-23 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi all! Is anyone using the courier-mta package? Can I use it as a replacement for postfix, or am I better off sticking to postfix? Thanks Andrew

Re: Courier MTA

2003-03-23 Thread Andrew Miehs
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 10:13:24PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Andrew Miehs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.23.2147 +0100]: > > Can I use it as a replacement for postfix, or am I better off sticking > > to postfix? > > why would you want to replace postfix?

Re: Courier MTA

2003-03-24 Thread Andrew Miehs
> There is a cyrus (and postfix) backport from sid to woody: > > deb http://people.debian.org/~hmh/woody/ hmh/cyrus/ > deb http://people.debian.org/~hmh/woody/ hmh/postfix/ > deb http://people.debian.org/~hmh/woody/ hmh/misc/ Have had a look at this, but cyrus supports sasl2 and postfix sasl1. :

Re: Courier MTA

2003-03-25 Thread Andrew Miehs
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 06:53:25PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Andrew Miehs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.24.1626 +0100]: > > Have had a look at this, but cyrus supports sasl2 and postfix sasl1. > > so backport postfix from testing. > Hi Martin! The reaso

Postfix, SMTP Auth and PAM

2003-03-27 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi all, Does anyone have the postfix-tls package with SMTP AUTH from woody working together with PAM? ie: /etc/postfix/sasl/smtpd.conf pwcheck_method: PAM I have gotten it working with sasldb, but can't get it to work with PAM. Do you need to set the smtpd_sasl_local_domain? I have ensured th

Re: Postfix, SMTP Auth and PAM

2003-03-27 Thread Andrew Miehs
Dear Mr Oldham, On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 02:33:31PM -0700, C. R. Oldham wrote: > > Does anyone have the postfix-tls package with SMTP AUTH from > > woody working together with PAM? > /etc/postfix/master.cf. A '-' is not sufficient to make sure it's not > chrooted. Also make sure you have a file

Postfix, SMTP Auth and PAM

2003-03-27 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi all, Does anyone have the postfix-tls package with SMTP AUTH from woody working together with PAM? ie: /etc/postfix/sasl/smtpd.conf pwcheck_method: PAM I have gotten it working with sasldb, but can't get it to work with PAM. Do you need to set the smtpd_sasl_local_domain? I have ensured th

Re: Postfix, SMTP Auth and PAM

2003-03-27 Thread Andrew Miehs
Dear Mr Oldham, On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 02:33:31PM -0700, C. R. Oldham wrote: > > Does anyone have the postfix-tls package with SMTP AUTH from > > woody working together with PAM? > /etc/postfix/master.cf. A '-' is not sufficient to make sure it's not > chrooted. Also make sure you have a file

Re: Partitioning a Web Server

2003-04-03 Thread Andrew Miehs
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 05:11:46PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > Are those partition numbers in order of location on disk? > > Most hard drives have the low cylinder numbers on the outside of the disk > (which has slightly lower average seek times and much better bulk transfer > rates). You gen

Large Hard Disks and Debian

2003-06-24 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi all, does anyone have any experience with large IDE disks on Debian? I was interested in buy a couple of Western Digital 250GB Disks for backup purposes... And secondly, does Serial ATA work properly in Woody? or do I need a new Kernel? Thanks Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: Large Hard Disks and Debian

2003-06-24 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi all, then what should I use if you don't recommend promise? Thanx Andrew On Tuesday, Jun 24, 2003, at 13:20 Europe/Berlin, Thomas Kirk wrote: On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 07:02:21PM +1000, Brad Lay wrote: I'd stay well clear of promise if you want it to work under Debian. I would like to suppor

IDE Controller for large disk (was: Large Hard Disks and Debian)

2003-06-24 Thread Andrew Miehs
I dont actually need any raid functionality so should I go for the promise? or the 3ware cards? Andrew On Tuesday, Jun 24, 2003, at 14:42 Europe/Berlin, Diederik de Vries wrote: Op di 24-06-2003, om 14:20 schreef Andrew Miehs: If you could, 3ware. Otherwise use FreeBSD with Promise :)

Woody Stable and Kernel 2.4.21

2003-06-30 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi all! I need to compile a 2.4.21 Kernel for Woody. Which version of GCC should I use... GCC3 or GCC2.95? Should I download standard kernel src - or should I get it from testing, or unstable? Thanks for your help Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Of SANS and IOS

2003-09-20 Thread Andrew Miehs
Normally when you buy expensive hardware the saleman should come to you. :-) Had a quick look in google for IOs and it seems that it is also refered to as IOPs Input Output Per second... And seems to refer to the controller, and not the disks. And after my quick look, the where talking about c

Re: How to modify input-chain to simulate "lost packets"?

2003-09-28 Thread Andrew Miehs
Not very scientific, but a cheap trick that may work is force the interface on your switch to full duplex, and your PC connected to that interface to half duplex... May be enough to simulate what you are after... Cheers Andrew On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 11:54, Stefan Neufeind wrote: Hi, this is not

Re: 3ware 8506-4 hangs while making filesystem

2003-12-12 Thread Andrew Miehs
I have an 8 port 8506-8 (no raid) and 3 250GB Disks running fine on a debian bf24 box. Have formated each disk with ext3 and 1 partition. Have a RAID 5 setup running on SUSE 9 with 600GB Space, and also no problems. Andrew I'm installing a new system (P4C, intel mainboard, 1G RAM, 4x160GB SAT

Re: 3ware 8506-4 hangs while making filesystem

2003-12-12 Thread Andrew Miehs
On Dec 13, 2003, at 00:27, Tinus Nijmeijers wrote: so I'm still hoping it's a driver-version issue, but that would be strange considering Andrew Miehs's post, although he mentions he does not use a raid-setup (why use an 8506-8(!) and not do raid?), maybe that is important. I decided on the 3ware

Re: 3ware 8506-4 hangs while making filesystem

2003-12-12 Thread Andrew Miehs
And a few more details - My working setup SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.02.00.036. 3w-: PCI Parity Error: clearing. scsi0 : Found a 3ware Storage Controller at 0xe400, IRQ: 16, P-chip: 1.3 scsi0 : 3ware Storage Controller blk: queue f7

AIT-3 vs Ultrium

2004-01-16 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi all, I am looking at getting a new tape drive... Has anyone had any experience with the AIT or Ultrium drives? I am a bit worried about the 'helical scan' aspect of the AITs. Any comments? Thanks in advance Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: CISCO netflow graphs on Linux

2004-01-26 Thread Andrew Miehs
You are better off sticking to flatfiles, perl and RRD. Excel wont be able to deal with the amount of data that netflow generates, and a database is just a VERY expensive way of doing it (Data grows to at least 4 times the size)... Maybe you are agregating a lot more than we did... Cheers Andrew

3ware Raid 5 and ext3 filesystem

2004-03-24 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi all! I have a 3ware SATA Raid controller configured with 5 disks in RAID5. I am trying to store millions of pictures on these disks, and am trying to find out how best to configure everything... So far /etc/sysctl.conf vm.max-readahead=512 vm.min-readahead=512 vm.bdflush=10 500 0 0 500 3000 1

Re: [OT] which DSU for an E1

2004-04-05 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi Michelle, You should be able to use the G.703 interface on the 3Com NETBuilder, but you need to find out if it supports the signaling that Morocan Telecom provide The other modules, like Kentrox usually have X.21 on the rear, so you would need to have a router with an X.21 Interface... Does

Re: Graphical software to control networks

2004-04-15 Thread Andrew Miehs
> I like to have OpenView under Linux ;-) Why? What functionality do you need in OpenView that you don't have in other freeware products. Openview is only expensive... and IF you can affore openview, you can definitely afford a cheap Sun box to run it on. >>Opensoure: >>MRTG for traffic stats >

Re: Graphical software to control networks

2004-04-15 Thread Andrew Miehs
> Am 2004-04-15 11:26:23, schrieb Andrew Miehs: >> >>> I like to have OpenView under Linux ;-) > Maybe it has its price, but it the right thing to control several > > 1) Backbones from 311, 622 and GBit > 2) 3-5 BGP-4 Routers > 3) around 150 RadioRidges &

Re: cisco and t1 line question

2004-04-16 Thread Andrew Miehs
What sort of interface cards are you running on the cisco? What type of lines are they? I take it they are structured, otherwise verizon wouldn't be mentioning the encoding problem. Are both routers under your control? This could be that case but i doubt it. I would imagine that the problem is

Re: RaiserFS via NFS

2004-04-17 Thread Andrew Miehs
I suggest you all read http://www.porcupine.org/postfix-mirror/newdoc/NFS_README.html Especially the sentence 'Thus, Postfix on NFS is slightly less reliable than Postfix on a local disk.' Either something is reliable or not. there is no such thing as slightly less reliable. Especially when i

Re: RaiserFS via NFS

2004-04-22 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi Markus On 18.04.2004, at 12:30, Markus Oswald wrote: I suggest you read it first... Quote from NFS_README.html: --- # In order to have mailbox locking over NFS you have to configure # everything to use fcntl() locks for mailbox access (or switch to # maildir style, whic

Re: Adjusting MTU

2004-05-12 Thread Andrew Miehs
The proper solution would be to turn off the DF bit... But I unfortunately have not been able to find it yet... Regards Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Ext3, Apt-get and chrooted environments

2004-04-26 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi all, I have recently discovered that my PXE install scripts are destroying my ext3 file systems, due to me not unmounting the drive before rebooting. The second part of my install chroots into /target and runs apt-get dselect-upgrade. Unfortunately, I can not umount the new root disk '/target'

Re: Ext3, Apt-get and chrooted environments

2004-04-27 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi Jan-Benedict > [ If you start with a new topic, please start with a fresh email. DON'T > take some random old mail and delete it's subject - you'll break > proper threading! Thanks. ] oops... sorry... > > Prior chroot'ing to /target: > > # mv /target/sbin/start-stop-daemon /target/sbin/start

Ulimit and max processes

2004-05-17 Thread Andrew Miehs
Dear list, I am confused... I am running two debian boxes with woody, but one has a ulimit -u (max user proc) of 7168, and the other of 256. (both as root) the difference does not appear to be in login.defs or /etc/security/limits. Does anyone have any ideas where I should look... diff -r /et

Re: [mailinglists] Ulimit and max processes

2004-05-18 Thread Andrew Miehs
/etc/sysctl.conf is empty on both boxes... Both are running woody. Very confused... Andrew On 18.05.2004, at 10:40, Philipp Steinkrüger wrote: use sysctl. i think there is also a config file /etc/sysctl.conf. regards, philipp - Original Message - From: "Andrew Miehs" <[EMAIL P

Re: [mailinglists] Ulimit and max processes

2004-05-18 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi Philipp, I agree with you that the boxes may need tuning, but thats not the point develop:~$ ulimit -u 7168 develop:~$ www01:~# ulimit -u 256 www01:~# On both boxes /etc/sysctl.conf are empty www01:~# diff login.defs.develop /etc/login.defs www01:~# www01:~# diff limits.conf.develop /etc/s

Re: [mailinglists] Ulimit and max processes

2004-05-18 Thread Andrew Miehs
using the same kernel on both boxes? 2.4.x gives the 7168 > limit, 2.6.x gives "unlimited" and 2.2.x gives 256 by default. > > > Andrew Miehs wrote: >> Hi Philipp, >> >> I agree with you that the boxes may need tuning, but thats not the >> poi

Re: [mailinglists] Ulimit and max processes

2004-05-18 Thread Andrew Miehs
The box with 7168 is installed from a NetInstall Debian CD. The box with 256 is installed via PXE Boot using a copied filesystem from a box installed with the SAME NetInstall Debian CD. Both boxes are initially installed with WOODY, using the bf24 kernel. Regards Andrew > Andrew: Did you upgrad

Re: [mailinglists] Ulimit and max processes

2004-05-27 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi all, ok I am starting to get a bit further - If I log in on the console, I get a max processes of 7168 If I log in via telnet (installed for the test) I get 7168 If I have a cronjob that 'ulimit -a >> /tmp/ulimit' I get 7168 If I edit /etc/init.d/rc and add a 'ulimit -a > /ulimit.txt' I get 7168

DF bit - Dont Fragment

2004-06-21 Thread Andrew Miehs
Help! I can't find it How do I turn off the 'Don't Fragment' bit? without using IP Tables/ Chains? Is there a proc setting? or do I need to re-compile ther Kernel? and if so, where is the jumper? Thanks Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: DF bit - Dont Fragment

2004-06-21 Thread Andrew Miehs
? Regards Andrew > On June 21, 2004 07:36 am, Andrew Miehs wrote: > >> I can't find it How do I turn off the 'Don't Fragment' bit? >> without using IP Tables/ Chains? Is there a proc setting? or do I need >> to re-compile ther Kernel? and if so, wher

Re: DF bit - Dont Fragment

2004-06-21 Thread Andrew Miehs
Will have to try it again... The reason why Path MTU doesn't work, is that our F5s (BigIPs) seem to have a broken implementation of NATing ICMP PMTU packets (at least when using Aggregate ALL - OncConnect or SNAT) Andrew > My bet would be that someone is blocking icmp messages (you, your > firew

Re: DF bit - Dont Fragment

2004-06-22 Thread Andrew Miehs
Stripping the DF Bit should be enough to solve this problem... as the routers will then fragment the packets as required. Or have I missed something? Andrew On 22.06.2004, at 09:54, Jean-Francois Dive wrote: Just to mention but when you have pmtu occuring in a vpn context, you have a problem if t

Re: Which Spam Block List to use for a network?

2004-06-22 Thread Andrew Miehs
Doesn't seem like a very scaleable solution... Can't wait for IPv6! :-) I am just too lazy to keep this type of list up-to date... Found an Interesting link while 'surfing' http://www.declude.com/Articles.asp?ID=97 And has anyone got any opinions on http://www.space.net/~maex/Drafts/dns-mtamark/

Re: Which Spam Block List to use for a network?

2004-06-23 Thread Andrew Miehs
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 08:32:17AM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: Well, if a host blocks mail from me, mail from that host is in fact unanswerable mail. It is just a subset of mail which can't be answered. I think the important part here is not the host, but the domain. If th

SCSI Controller for Linux

2004-06-28 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi all, What SCSI controller is recommended nowardays for connecting an external U160 SCSI storage system? NCR? Adaptec? Speed is good, STABILITY is most important however - one will be for a postgres database the other for a mail server. Thanks for your help, Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: SCSI Controller for Linux

2004-06-29 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi Michelle, I have an external RAID system, and as such do not need a RAID controller... Would you still use the ICP vortex to connect 1 disk? Andrew On 28.06.2004, at 18:01, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2004-06-28 16:12:19, schrieb Andrew Miehs: Hi all, What SCSI controller is recommended

Re: transport with postfix

2004-07-05 Thread Andrew Miehs
You may want to have a look at this http://www.postfix.org/transport.5.html Andrew On 05.07.2004, at 23:06, Gustavo wrote: Anyone use transport with postfix? I need to receive de msg in server A and transmit it to server B or C, according the username.. I it possible? thaks, Gustavo from Brazil

Re: Ulimit and max processes

2004-09-01 Thread Andrew Miehs
/security/limits.conf This problem is fixed in Sarge! Yipee! I hope it wont be too long now till sarge goes stable Thanks for all your help, Regards Andrew On Tuesday 18 May 2004 01:06, Andrew Miehs wrote: > Dear list, > > I am confused... I am running two debian boxes with woody, >

Re: RAID-1 to RAID-5 online migration?

2004-09-12 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi all, Ummm... Bit confused here, but RAID 1 is not faster, than a single disk. RAID one is just for 'safety' purposes. Yes, you do have 2 disks, but in an ideal world, they will both be synced with one another, and both be doing exactly the same thing at the same time. If you want speed, use R

Wiki's

2004-09-29 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi all, Its a little off topic, but am looking at setting up a wiki The two that come to mind are jspWiki, and Twiki. Has anyone had BAD experiences with either of these two? or should I be using something completely different... (Am NOT a PHP fan.) Regards Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: apt-get install posfix points to 1.1.1

2004-10-08 Thread Andrew Miehs
On Friday 08 October 2004 22:07, Andrew P. Kaplan wrote: > I am trying to upgrade postfix using apt-get install put it only has > version 1.1.1 when I went to the debian the latest package is also 1.1.1 > How do I get a later package. Hello Andrew, http://www.backports.org/ word of warning - d

Re: network monitoring

2004-10-31 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi Martin, I am a little confused with your requirements - On the one hand, you are happy to install via nfs, but on the other hand, you want monitoring done via 'ssh'? If you really need this much security, you should probably look at implementing ALL your connections via IPSEC - and possibly

Re: network monitoring

2004-10-31 Thread Andrew Miehs
On Sunday 31 October 2004 14:17, martin f krafft wrote: > > This way you could possibly reduce your internal secuity > > requirements, and not need encryption everywhere. Just make sure > > you back up your data regularily > > The problem is people plugging laptops in on the cluster side. > If peo

Re: network monitoring

2004-10-31 Thread Andrew Miehs
Sorry Mike, You are correct - I should have said 'I use nagios for SNMP'... I have too many other boxes that don't speak 'ssh' and as such, try and use one method for all of them. In my environment, I do not pass any data (health data) which needs encryption, so SNMP is perfect for my requiremen

Re: reverse name resolution

2004-11-23 Thread Andrew Miehs
He can look at the problem later, at the moment It seems that his name server isn't working correctly... If he wants other people to see his reverse entries, he will have to go talk to his provider Andrew On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 18:53:16 +0100 andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Shouldnt this just be zo

IPSec and L2TP

2004-12-19 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi all, Has anyone managed to get L2TP, IPSec, racoon, running in a road warrior setup with XP using pre-shared keys. (Or can I not used pre-shared keys for roadwarriro setups) Sample files would be really helpfully, especially /etc/racoon/racoon.conf /etc/l2tpd/l2tpd.conf psk.txt, and chap-se

Re: IPSec and L2TP

2004-12-21 Thread Andrew Miehs
I have now managed to get the whole thing working with x509 keys... This all works if I use two public IP addresses. If my client however, is behind a NATing gateway, the whole thing falls over. I am running XP sp 2 and have enabled AssumeUDPEncapsulationContextOnSendRule. I have also added the

Re: Partitioning a Web Server

2003-04-03 Thread Andrew Miehs
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 05:11:46PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > Are those partition numbers in order of location on disk? > > Most hard drives have the low cylinder numbers on the outside of the disk > (which has slightly lower average seek times and much better bulk transfer > rates). You gen

Large Hard Disks and Debian

2003-06-24 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi all, does anyone have any experience with large IDE disks on Debian? I was interested in buy a couple of Western Digital 250GB Disks for backup purposes... And secondly, does Serial ATA work properly in Woody? or do I need a new Kernel? Thanks Andrew

Re: Large Hard Disks and Debian

2003-06-24 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi all, then what should I use if you don't recommend promise? Thanx Andrew On Tuesday, Jun 24, 2003, at 13:20 Europe/Berlin, Thomas Kirk wrote: On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 07:02:21PM +1000, Brad Lay wrote: I'd stay well clear of promise if you want it to work under Debian. I would like to support that

IDE Controller for large disk (was: Large Hard Disks and Debian)

2003-06-24 Thread Andrew Miehs
I dont actually need any raid functionality so should I go for the promise? or the 3ware cards? Andrew On Tuesday, Jun 24, 2003, at 14:42 Europe/Berlin, Diederik de Vries wrote: Op di 24-06-2003, om 14:20 schreef Andrew Miehs: If you could, 3ware. Otherwise use FreeBSD with Promise :)

Woody Stable and Kernel 2.4.21

2003-06-30 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi all! I need to compile a 2.4.21 Kernel for Woody. Which version of GCC should I use... GCC3 or GCC2.95? Should I download standard kernel src - or should I get it from testing, or unstable? Thanks for your help Andrew

Re: 3ware 8506-4 hangs while making filesystem

2003-12-12 Thread Andrew Miehs
I have an 8 port 8506-8 (no raid) and 3 250GB Disks running fine on a debian bf24 box. Have formated each disk with ext3 and 1 partition. Have a RAID 5 setup running on SUSE 9 with 600GB Space, and also no problems. Andrew I'm installing a new system (P4C, intel mainboard, 1G RAM, 4x160GB SATA

Re: 3ware 8506-4 hangs while making filesystem

2003-12-12 Thread Andrew Miehs
On Dec 13, 2003, at 00:27, Tinus Nijmeijers wrote: so I'm still hoping it's a driver-version issue, but that would be strange considering Andrew Miehs's post, although he mentions he does not use a raid-setup (why use an 8506-8(!) and not do raid?), maybe that is important. I decided on the 3ware

Re: 3ware 8506-4 hangs while making filesystem

2003-12-12 Thread Andrew Miehs
And a few more details - My working setup SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.02.00.036. 3w-: PCI Parity Error: clearing. scsi0 : Found a 3ware Storage Controller at 0xe400, IRQ: 16, P-chip: 1.3 scsi0 : 3ware Storage Controller blk: queue f7e

AIT-3 vs Ultrium

2004-01-16 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi all, I am looking at getting a new tape drive... Has anyone had any experience with the AIT or Ultrium drives? I am a bit worried about the 'helical scan' aspect of the AITs. Any comments? Thanks in advance Andrew

Re: CISCO netflow graphs on Linux

2004-01-26 Thread Andrew Miehs
You are better off sticking to flatfiles, perl and RRD. Excel wont be able to deal with the amount of data that netflow generates, and a database is just a VERY expensive way of doing it (Data grows to at least 4 times the size)... Maybe you are agregating a lot more than we did... Cheers Andrew

3ware Raid 5 and ext3 filesystem

2004-03-24 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi all! I have a 3ware SATA Raid controller configured with 5 disks in RAID5. I am trying to store millions of pictures on these disks, and am trying to find out how best to configure everything... So far /etc/sysctl.conf vm.max-readahead=512 vm.min-readahead=512 vm.bdflush=10 500 0 0 500 3000 1

Re: [OT] which DSU for an E1

2004-04-05 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi Michelle, You should be able to use the G.703 interface on the 3Com NETBuilder, but you need to find out if it supports the signaling that Morocan Telecom provide The other modules, like Kentrox usually have X.21 on the rear, so you would need to have a router with an X.21 Interface... Does

Re: Graphical software to control networks

2004-04-15 Thread Andrew Miehs
> I like to have OpenView under Linux ;-) Why? What functionality do you need in OpenView that you don't have in other freeware products. Openview is only expensive... and IF you can affore openview, you can definitely afford a cheap Sun box to run it on. >>Opensoure: >>MRTG for traffic stats >

Re: Graphical software to control networks

2004-04-15 Thread Andrew Miehs
> Am 2004-04-15 11:26:23, schrieb Andrew Miehs: >> >>> I like to have OpenView under Linux ;-) > Maybe it has its price, but it the right thing to control several > > 1) Backbones from 311, 622 and GBit > 2) 3-5 BGP-4 Routers > 3) around 150 RadioRidges &

Re: cisco and t1 line question

2004-04-16 Thread Andrew Miehs
What sort of interface cards are you running on the cisco? What type of lines are they? I take it they are structured, otherwise verizon wouldn't be mentioning the encoding problem. Are both routers under your control? This could be that case but i doubt it. I would imagine that the problem is

Re: RaiserFS via NFS

2004-04-17 Thread Andrew Miehs
I suggest you all read http://www.porcupine.org/postfix-mirror/newdoc/NFS_README.html Especially the sentence 'Thus, Postfix on NFS is slightly less reliable than Postfix on a local disk.' Either something is reliable or not. there is no such thing as slightly less reliable. Especially when it

Re: RaiserFS via NFS

2004-04-22 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi Markus On 18.04.2004, at 12:30, Markus Oswald wrote: I suggest you read it first... Quote from NFS_README.html: --- # In order to have mailbox locking over NFS you have to configure # everything to use fcntl() locks for mailbox access (or switch to # maildir style, which

Ext3, Apt-get and chrooted environments

2004-04-26 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi all, I have recently discovered that my PXE install scripts are destroying my ext3 file systems, due to me not unmounting the drive before rebooting. The second part of my install chroots into /target and runs apt-get dselect-upgrade. Unfortunately, I can not umount the new root disk '/target'

Re: Ext3, Apt-get and chrooted environments

2004-04-27 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi Jan-Benedict > [ If you start with a new topic, please start with a fresh email. DON'T > take some random old mail and delete it's subject - you'll break > proper threading! Thanks. ] oops... sorry... > > Prior chroot'ing to /target: > > # mv /target/sbin/start-stop-daemon /target/sbin/start

Re: Adjusting MTU

2004-05-12 Thread Andrew Miehs
The proper solution would be to turn off the DF bit... But I unfortunately have not been able to find it yet... Regards Andrew

Ulimit and max processes

2004-05-17 Thread Andrew Miehs
Dear list, I am confused... I am running two debian boxes with woody, but one has a ulimit -u (max user proc) of 7168, and the other of 256. (both as root) the difference does not appear to be in login.defs or /etc/security/limits. Does anyone have any ideas where I should look... diff -r /et

Re: [mailinglists] Ulimit and max processes

2004-05-18 Thread Andrew Miehs
/etc/sysctl.conf is empty on both boxes... Both are running woody. Very confused... Andrew On 18.05.2004, at 10:40, Philipp Steinkrüger wrote: use sysctl. i think there is also a config file /etc/sysctl.conf. regards, philipp - Original Message - From: "Andrew Miehs" <[EMAIL P

Re: [mailinglists] Ulimit and max processes

2004-05-18 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi Philipp, I agree with you that the boxes may need tuning, but thats not the point develop:~$ ulimit -u 7168 develop:~$ www01:~# ulimit -u 256 www01:~# On both boxes /etc/sysctl.conf are empty www01:~# diff login.defs.develop /etc/login.defs www01:~# www01:~# diff limits.conf.develop /etc/s

Re: [mailinglists] Ulimit and max processes

2004-05-18 Thread Andrew Miehs
using the same kernel on both boxes? 2.4.x gives the 7168 > limit, 2.6.x gives "unlimited" and 2.2.x gives 256 by default. > > > Andrew Miehs wrote: >> Hi Philipp, >> >> I agree with you that the boxes may need tuning, but thats not the >> poi

Re: [mailinglists] Ulimit and max processes

2004-05-19 Thread Andrew Miehs
The box with 7168 is installed from a NetInstall Debian CD. The box with 256 is installed via PXE Boot using a copied filesystem from a box installed with the SAME NetInstall Debian CD. Both boxes are initially installed with WOODY, using the bf24 kernel. Regards Andrew > Andrew: Did you upgrad

Re: [mailinglists] Ulimit and max processes

2004-05-27 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi all, ok I am starting to get a bit further - If I log in on the console, I get a max processes of 7168 If I log in via telnet (installed for the test) I get 7168 If I have a cronjob that 'ulimit -a >> /tmp/ulimit' I get 7168 If I edit /etc/init.d/rc and add a 'ulimit -a > /ulimit.txt' I get 7168

DF bit - Dont Fragment

2004-06-21 Thread Andrew Miehs
Help! I can't find it How do I turn off the 'Don't Fragment' bit? without using IP Tables/ Chains? Is there a proc setting? or do I need to re-compile ther Kernel? and if so, where is the jumper? Thanks Andrew

Re: DF bit - Dont Fragment

2004-06-21 Thread Andrew Miehs
? Regards Andrew > On June 21, 2004 07:36 am, Andrew Miehs wrote: > >> I can't find it How do I turn off the 'Don't Fragment' bit? >> without using IP Tables/ Chains? Is there a proc setting? or do I need >> to re-compile ther Kernel? and if so, wher

Re: DF bit - Dont Fragment

2004-06-21 Thread Andrew Miehs
Will have to try it again... The reason why Path MTU doesn't work, is that our F5s (BigIPs) seem to have a broken implementation of NATing ICMP PMTU packets (at least when using Aggregate ALL - OncConnect or SNAT) Andrew > My bet would be that someone is blocking icmp messages (you, your > firew

Re: DF bit - Dont Fragment

2004-06-22 Thread Andrew Miehs
Stripping the DF Bit should be enough to solve this problem... as the routers will then fragment the packets as required. Or have I missed something? Andrew On 22.06.2004, at 09:54, Jean-Francois Dive wrote: Just to mention but when you have pmtu occuring in a vpn context, you have a problem if t

Re: Which Spam Block List to use for a network?

2004-06-22 Thread Andrew Miehs
Doesn't seem like a very scaleable solution... Can't wait for IPv6! :-) I am just too lazy to keep this type of list up-to date... Found an Interesting link while 'surfing' http://www.declude.com/Articles.asp?ID=97 And has anyone got any opinions on http://www.space.net/~maex/Drafts/dns-mtamark/

Re: Which Spam Block List to use for a network?

2004-06-23 Thread Andrew Miehs
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 08:32:17AM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: Well, if a host blocks mail from me, mail from that host is in fact unanswerable mail. It is just a subset of mail which can't be answered. I think the important part here is not the host, but the domain. If th

SCSI Controller for Linux

2004-06-28 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi all, What SCSI controller is recommended nowardays for connecting an external U160 SCSI storage system? NCR? Adaptec? Speed is good, STABILITY is most important however - one will be for a postgres database the other for a mail server. Thanks for your help, Andrew

Re: SCSI Controller for Linux

2004-06-29 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi Michelle, I have an external RAID system, and as such do not need a RAID controller... Would you still use the ICP vortex to connect 1 disk? Andrew On 28.06.2004, at 18:01, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2004-06-28 16:12:19, schrieb Andrew Miehs: Hi all, What SCSI controller is recommended

Re: transport with postfix

2004-07-05 Thread Andrew Miehs
You may want to have a look at this http://www.postfix.org/transport.5.html Andrew On 05.07.2004, at 23:06, Gustavo wrote: Anyone use transport with postfix? I need to receive de msg in server A and transmit it to server B or C, according the username.. I it possible? thaks, Gustavo from Brazil