RE: Multiple DSLs, and switching incoming route upon failure?

2001-05-25 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
Are your DSL uplinks from different ISPs, or from the same IP provider? If they are differing providers, there is no way you can feasably implement BGP. If they are redundant paths to the same ISP you could ask them to issue you a reserved ASN (65512 - 65535) and announce your /28 into their net

RE: Multiple DSLs, and switching incoming route upon failure?

2001-05-26 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
- jsw -Original Message- From: Mike Fedyk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mike Fedyk Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 4:35 PM To: Jeff S Wheeler Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Multiple DSLs, and switching incoming route upon failure? On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 11:29:46PM -0400, J

RE: kernel 2.2.19 limitations.

2001-05-27 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
I have a 2.4.4 machine with two Pentium III 833MHz CPUs and an AcceleRAID 170/64MB with a pair of IBM Ultra160 disks on it, all on a Tyan Thunder 2500 LE3(?) motherboard. It has on-board SCSI as well, symbios 53c1010 chipset, and everything works okay. I can't get the controller's cache to read

ccbill

2001-06-02 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
ied to do so. Does anyone else use CCBill, and if so have you had differing experiences? How about with other companies that provide similar products? --- Jeff S Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software Development Five Elements, Inc. http://www.five-elements.

colocation space/inexpensive bandwidth

2001-06-05 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
Since we're on the topic of colocation space this morning, I thought I would post and ask if anyone has colocation cabinet space available at a Level(3) or similar facility. Currently we colocate with a small ISP and are very happy with their service, but we would like to be able to offer better

What is the DUL?

2001-06-07 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
What is the DUL? - jsw -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Doug Alcorn Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 11:28 PM To: Debian ISP List Subject: Re: Have you been hacked by f*ck PoizonBOx? Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > America

privileges problem

2001-06-24 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
Also, stock 2.4.x series kernel limits supplementary groups to 32. There would be a per-process penalty for increasing that limit. You could patch apache to include the supplemental groups when it forks children (if it does not do this already..), but overall that is a bad solution. See NGROUPS

RE: Multiple DSLs, and switching incoming route upon failure?

2001-06-26 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
Quite frankly, it's dumb as hell to try to half-ass a redundancy solution when you evidently need as close to 100% uptime as you can get. You need to either spend the bucks on leased lines from tier-1 carriers and run BGP (contracting with someone for assistance if you don't have the know-how yet

RE: users bypassing shaper limitation

2001-07-01 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
I have been reading this thread and noticed no one has suggested the MAC address filtering capabilities in Linux 2.4's new ip tables subsystem. I hear there are serious problems with using 2.4.x series kernels as a firewall, though; what are they? - jsw -Original Message- From: Gerard

RE: users bypassing shaper limitation

2001-07-02 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
bring their laptop in and hop on napster at 100Mbit. - jsw -Original Message- From: Gerard MacNeil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 5:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: users bypassing shaper limitation On Sun, 1 Jul 2001 15:59:34 -0400, "Jeff S Wheeler&qu

RE: users bypassing shaper limitation

2001-07-03 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Holger Lubitz Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 9:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: users bypassing shaper limitation Jeff S Wheeler proclaimed: > cards around. If I do not, they will grumble and/or disable the ethernet > ports that unknown MAC addresses app

RE: ATA Speed

2001-07-03 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
You can use the hdparm utility to discover what mode your disks are operating in. Notice the second-to-last line that begins with 'DMA modes:'. The '*' next to udma4 indicates it is operating in that mode, which equates to something commonly called ATA/66. :-) intrepid:/home/jsw# hdparm -i /dev

RE: Virtual Hosting and the FHS

2001-07-13 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
Do you find it difficult to manage your text file database when you have programs on different machines needing access to the data? I use mysql extensively in our shop because it makes it easy to access from any of our servers, and it makes reporting easy. I'd rather spend a few minutes crafting

RE: help with site+database

2001-07-17 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
On Tuesday, July 17, 2001 10:37 AM, Jeremy Lunn wrote: >I do have a serious use for a database soon so I'll be sure to test both >database packages out myself. Replication will be important though and >last time I checked mysql didn't have any which is pretty useless (but I >think they might have

LDAP + quotas

2001-07-31 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
To compare to a database concept, if the LDAP daemon had `triggers' and could execute code that made quotactl(2) calls on the relavent filesystems, on the relavent machines, when the quota values in the LDAP database changed that would be effective. To determine current usage the LDAP daemon woul

RE: Data Center, enviromental recomendations

2001-09-13 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
There was a lengthy thread on NANOG about this very question a couple years ago. Check out the archives at http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/ - jsw -Original Message- From: Felipe Alvarez Harnecker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 12:21 PM To: [EMAIL

RE: NT SNMP and MRTG

2001-09-14 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
Uh, don't you have a managable switch? Seems like a pretty standard thing to have at a colocation facility. - jsw -Original Message- From: Gene Grimm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 10:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NT SNMP and MRTG Can anyone shed a

RE: Simple web log analysis for multiple sites?

2001-11-15 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
I'd also be interested to know what other folks are doing for this. We use webalizer, but we keep seperate stats & reports per each web site. I then have a program that reads the webalizer.hist file for each site and updates an SQL table with information for each site. If someone needed more da

RE: Strange apache behaviour?

2001-12-07 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
We do all our log processing as a user called "stats" on one of our machines. The root accounts on all our web servers have their ssh public keys in the stats user's authorized_keys file, and they run a nifty log rotation program that uploads the log data to the box we do all our log analysis/etc

RE: System locks up with RealTek 8139 and kernel 2.2.20

2001-12-27 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
>>However, I have noticed something strange. I must keep "outbound" traffic >>flowing or they forget their ARP table for some strange reason. I keep an AFAIK that ethernet chipset is not particularly advanced. ARP is not a function of the card itself, nor the low-level driver. ARP resolution wo

unstable is "unstable"; stable is "outdated"

2002-02-01 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
his mailing list, but I always hear that Debian as an organization is often too burdened with internal bickering and politics to move forward with big changes. Is that the case here? Just curious, not trying to start a flame war. -- Jeff S Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software Develop

opinions on swap size and usage?

2002-02-12 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
ap a bit more than I usually do. What do other folks on this list do? Zero swap? As much swap as physical memory? More? Why? Can you change the swapper's priority, and does this help when your machine starts swapping heavily? Thanks for the opinions. -- Jeff S Wheeler [

true x86 PCI bus speeds/specs

2002-02-23 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
oughput. Packet > routing, filtering, masquerading really doesn't require much CPU > horsepower. -- Jeff S Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software DevelopmentFive Elements, Inc http://www.five-elements.com/~jsw/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: BGP4/OSPF routing daemon for Linux?

2002-03-01 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
IOS doesn't have protected memory, is that not correct? It's like old multitasking systems where you didn't have virtual memory. :/ -- Jeff S Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software DevelopmentFive Elements, Inc http://www.five-elements.com/~jsw/ --

Inexpensive gigabit copper NICs?

2002-03-05 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
yet :-) -- Jeff S Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software DevelopmentFive Elements, Inc http://www.five-elements.com/~jsw/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: redundant office of redundancy

2002-03-06 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
4+m/vgTuCluGdDjP+zj9U24QxBQgCfdNTg > 4wcJpD5lrFxyV6B6kTfywh8= > =T1Ff > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Jeff S Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software DevelopmentFive Elements, Inc http://www.five-elements.com/~jsw/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian testing suitable for productive?

2002-03-12 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
e. I think the suggestion to stay 2 - 3 days behind is good. What I do now is just upgrade a non-critical box, and assuming everything works okay, I upgrade the others. Is there an easy way to just keep the packages a few days behind with apt? -- Jeff S Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Softw

Re: RAID 0 risky ?

2002-03-20 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
at RAID 5, but the 7x50 series improved upon this greatly. My source is www.storagereview.com, though, I do not use any of their newer RAID 5 boards. -- Jeff S Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software DevelopmentFive Elements, Inc http://www.five-elements.com/~jsw/

apache BASIC authentication w/large userbase

2002-04-03 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
SIC authen? I know it's a poor limitation but *shrug* the customer knows their needs. I figured DBM would be sluggish, and the customer already tried text files, but moved to mod_auth_mysql when that ran out of steam. Your Input Is Appreciated. -- Jeff S Wheeler [EMAIL PROT

Re: apache BASIC authentication w/large userbase

2002-04-04 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 03:06, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 06:35:22PM -0500, > Jeff S Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > a message of 39 lines which said: > > > would not go for that because apparently a disproportionate number of > > thei

Re: network cabling management

2002-04-18 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
But on the other hand, it's not surprising that they weren't organized enough to realize they spend a lot of time figuring out where things go. -- Jeff S Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software DevelopmentFive Elements, Inc http://www.five-elements.com/~jsw/ On Wed,

Re: postfix and relayhost question

2002-05-06 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
smtp_ to something higher than your current value, say 500, it will reduce the number of connections used. -- Jeff S Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software DevelopmentFive Elements, Inc http://www.five-elements.com/~jsw/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to design mysql clusters with 30,000 clients?

2002-05-24 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
et known by all your web servers. This is not a new concept, nor a difficult one. It can even be implemented using PHP, though a C apache module is smarter. -- Jeff S Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software DevelopmentFive Elements, Inc http://www.five-elements.com/~jsw/ --

Re: how to design mysql clusters with 30,000 clients?

2002-05-27 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
ports. 1000baseT works, take advantage of it. I hope you'll think about a solution other than mysql for this problem, though. It's not the right tool for session management on such a scale. -- Jeff S Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software DevelopmentFive Ele

Re: transfer rate

2002-07-04 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
a router and does several mbits/sec 24x7, and that packet loss affected all the TCP sessions going over it, limiting them to around 400Kbits/sec throughput due to TCP backoff :-( I hope this is helpful. -- Jeff S Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software DevelopmentFive Elem

Re: Fw: VIRUS IN YOUR MAIL (W32/BugBear.A (Clam))

2002-10-17 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
ully complete an HTTP/1.1 request. -- Jeff S Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software DevelopmentFive Elements, Inc http://www.five-elements.com/~jsw/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

New BIND 4 & 8 Vulnerabilities

2002-11-12 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
See ISC.ORG for information on new BIND vulnerabilities. Current bind package in woody is 8.3.3, which is an affected version. Patches are not available yet, it seems. http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind-security.html -- Jeff S Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software Development

Re: New BIND 4 & 8 Vulnerabilities

2002-11-12 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
pooky software than known-to-be-exploitable software :-) Thanks for the suggestion, Sonny. -- Jeff S Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software DevelopmentFive Elements, Inc http://www.five-elements.com/~jsw/ On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 13:53, Sonny Kupka wrote: > Why not use Bin

Re: New BIND 4 & 8 Vulnerabilities

2002-11-13 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
apparent differences and I'd be happy to whip up a Perl script and post it to the debian-isp list. We have hundreds of zones as well, and if it there had been a file format problem, I would had to have done so in order to make the upgrade work. -- Jeff S Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> O

Re: DNS servers

2002-11-22 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
that would allow binary distribution, or distribution of patched sources, is well-intentioned, but I cannot agree with it. -- Jeff S Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Determinig configure options in .debs

2003-01-14 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 17:15, Jan V wrote: > If you want to know the compile-options for eg cowsay: 'apt-get source > cowsay' then go to the debian dir that has been created / I enjoyed your cowsay reference. It is \ \ very popular on EFnet.

Neighbour table overflow problem

2003-03-07 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
I am concerned that might slow down packet forwarding, but I can probably live with that. Has anyone on the list encountered similar problems? If so, is this the approach you took to solve them or did you do something else? Thanks, -- Jeff S Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: BGP memory/cpu req

2003-03-11 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
32 0 21348 622244 -/+ buffers/cache: 220556 812824 Swap: 497972 0 497972 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# -- Jeff S Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

off-topic

2001-02-26 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
I'm guessing he would have to compile something in order to apply that patch. - jsw -Original Message- From: Robert Davidson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Robert Davidson Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 6:09 PM To: Michelle Konzack Cc: debian-isp Subject: Re: isdn4linux On Sat, F

RE: Sybase ASE 11.0.3.3

2001-03-13 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
I would guess that their intention is to discourage folks from running it on big iron Sun / IBM boxes that have the ability to run linux or linux applications on top of another OS. I imagine they want you to pay them for that. :) - jsw -Original Message- From: Przemyslaw Wegrzyn [mailto

RE: arpwatch and more

2001-03-19 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
don't grok ethernet, so below is that message for the benefit of everyone. -Original Message- From: Jeff S Wheeler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 11:44 PM To: Mike Fedyk Subject: RE: arpwatch and more An ethernet switch won't send frames to "multiple po

RE: Auto 10/100Mb card fallback from 100 to 10 on 100Mb network

2001-04-15 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
I suggest you spend 39$ on an Intel eepro100 (z-buy.com, think shipping on those cards is free) and give it a try. I'm betting it will also fail to work in this machine, and you'll discover the problem is physical plant related, but perhaps not. Either way you've tried most other things, may as w

RE: Auto 10/100Mb card fallback from 100 to 10 on 100Mb network

2001-04-16 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
Duehr Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 12:24 AM To: Jeff S Wheeler Cc: Jason Lim; debian-isp@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Auto 10/100Mb card fallback from 100 to 10 on 100Mb network On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 05:09:55PM -0400, Jeff S Wheeler wrote: > I suggest you spend 39$ on an Intel eepro100

RE: Machine Registration

2001-04-22 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
I stayed in the Philadelphia Central City Marriott a little while ago, and they had a great third-party provided product called STSN(?). It was a little box with an ethernet port that worked instantly with no difficulties. It could assign settings to you based on DHCP if your laptop required that,

Machine Registration

2001-04-22 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
s/ports/packets/; If "ethernet frame" isn't a better term, which it probably was given the potential to confuse IP packets and ethernet packets, or frames. - jsw -Original Message----- From: Jeff S Wheeler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2001 10:30 PM

RE: forgot manufacturer name of serial ethernet devices

2001-04-25 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
Computone makes several products that might suit your need, and their boxes range in configuration from a fixed 16 port configuration to their PowerRack, which has been renamed to Something2000. It'll support 64 ports and has various marketspeak things. You can also load a handy-dandy linux kerne

RE: Webalizer and net-acct differences

2001-05-08 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
The header size is not so fixed, actually. If you use cookies on your site the client will send them to you upon each request. You might have CGIs and such that update cookies frequently as well, which would reduce your efficiency yet more. There are a lot of factors here, but the real issue is

RE: Multiple DSLs, and switching incoming route upon failure?

2001-05-25 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
Are your DSL uplinks from different ISPs, or from the same IP provider? If they are differing providers, there is no way you can feasably implement BGP. If they are redundant paths to the same ISP you could ask them to issue you a reserved ASN (65512 - 65535) and announce your /28 into their netw

RE: Multiple DSLs, and switching incoming route upon failure?

2001-05-26 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
ginal Message- From: Mike Fedyk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mike Fedyk Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 4:35 PM To: Jeff S Wheeler Cc: debian-isp@lists.debian.org; debian-firewall@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Multiple DSLs, and switching incoming route upon failure? On Fri, May 25, 2001

RE: kernel 2.2.19 limitations.

2001-05-27 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
I have a 2.4.4 machine with two Pentium III 833MHz CPUs and an AcceleRAID 170/64MB with a pair of IBM Ultra160 disks on it, all on a Tyan Thunder 2500 LE3(?) motherboard. It has on-board SCSI as well, symbios 53c1010 chipset, and everything works okay. I can't get the controller's cache to read a

ccbill

2001-06-02 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
ied to do so. Does anyone else use CCBill, and if so have you had differing experiences? How about with other companies that provide similar products? --- Jeff S Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software Development Five Elements, Inc. http://www.five-elements.com/~jsw/ 502-339-3527 Office

colocation space/inexpensive bandwidth

2001-06-07 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
Since we're on the topic of colocation space this morning, I thought I would post and ask if anyone has colocation cabinet space available at a Level(3) or similar facility. Currently we colocate with a small ISP and are very happy with their service, but we would like to be able to offer better p

What is the DUL?

2001-06-07 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
What is the DUL? - jsw -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Doug Alcorn Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 11:28 PM To: Debian ISP List Subject: Re: Have you been hacked by f*ck PoizonBOx? Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > America Onli

privileges problem

2001-06-24 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
Also, stock 2.4.x series kernel limits supplementary groups to 32. There would be a per-process penalty for increasing that limit. You could patch apache to include the supplemental groups when it forks children (if it does not do this already..), but overall that is a bad solution. See NGROUPS

RE: Multiple DSLs, and switching incoming route upon failure?

2001-06-26 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
Quite frankly, it's dumb as hell to try to half-ass a redundancy solution when you evidently need as close to 100% uptime as you can get. You need to either spend the bucks on leased lines from tier-1 carriers and run BGP (contracting with someone for assistance if you don't have the know-how yet)

RE: users bypassing shaper limitation

2001-07-01 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
I have been reading this thread and noticed no one has suggested the MAC address filtering capabilities in Linux 2.4's new ip tables subsystem. I hear there are serious problems with using 2.4.x series kernels as a firewall, though; what are they? - jsw -Original Message- From: Gerard M

RE: users bypassing shaper limitation

2001-07-02 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
bring their laptop in and hop on napster at 100Mbit. - jsw -Original Message- From: Gerard MacNeil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 5:39 AM To: debian-isp@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: users bypassing shaper limitation On Sun, 1 Jul 2001 15:59:34 -0400, "Jef

RE: users bypassing shaper limitation

2001-07-03 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Holger Lubitz Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 9:08 AM To: debian-isp@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: users bypassing shaper limitation Jeff S Wheeler proclaimed: > cards around. If I do not, they will grumble and/or disable the ethernet > ports that unknown MAC addresses

RE: ATA Speed

2001-07-03 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
You can use the hdparm utility to discover what mode your disks are operating in. Notice the second-to-last line that begins with 'DMA modes:'. The '*' next to udma4 indicates it is operating in that mode, which equates to something commonly called ATA/66. :-) intrepid:/home/jsw# hdparm -i /dev/

RE: hardware raid

2001-11-05 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
The 3ware cards work really well. www.3ware.com and check out the Escalade 6200/6400? or 7xxx series if you have 64-bit PCI slots. - jsw -Original Message- From: Andrew Kaplan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 5:20 PM To: Debian-Isp Subject: hardware raid I'm l

RE: "Transparent" IDE RAID controller

2001-11-05 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
Yes, please visit 3ware's web site. Their Escalade controller takes ATA/66 and ATA/100 disks, and provides a SCSI interface to the OS. Drivers for linux and various Windows platforms are available. I've had good experiences with their controllers and use them in production. - jsw -Origina

RE: tape drives

2001-11-07 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
You probably want to use the SCSI Tape driver for that. As I understand, pretty much all SCSI tape drives have a similar set of commands and features. Your Compaq EOD003 probably operates similarly to my HP 88980, which is an ancient 9-track drive :-) The mt(1) program can be used to position th

RE: Simple web log analysis for multiple sites?

2001-11-15 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
I'd also be interested to know what other folks are doing for this. We use webalizer, but we keep seperate stats & reports per each web site. I then have a program that reads the webalizer.hist file for each site and updates an SQL table with information for each site. If someone needed more dat

RE: Strange apache behaviour?

2001-12-07 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
We do all our log processing as a user called "stats" on one of our machines. The root accounts on all our web servers have their ssh public keys in the stats user's authorized_keys file, and they run a nifty log rotation program that uploads the log data to the box we do all our log analysis/etc

RE: System locks up with RealTek 8139 and kernel 2.2.20

2001-12-27 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
>>However, I have noticed something strange. I must keep "outbound" traffic >>flowing or they forget their ARP table for some strange reason. I keep an AFAIK that ethernet chipset is not particularly advanced. ARP is not a function of the card itself, nor the low-level driver. ARP resolution wor

unstable is "unstable"; stable is "outdated"

2002-02-01 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
mailing list, but I always hear that Debian as an organization is often too burdened with internal bickering and politics to move forward with big changes. Is that the case here? Just curious, not trying to start a flame war. -- Jeff S Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software Develop

opinions on swap size and usage?

2002-02-12 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
ap a bit more than I usually do. What do other folks on this list do? Zero swap? As much swap as physical memory? More? Why? Can you change the swapper's priority, and does this help when your machine starts swapping heavily? Thanks for the opinions. -- Jeff S Wheeler [

true x86 PCI bus speeds/specs

2002-02-23 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
Packet > routing, filtering, masquerading really doesn't require much CPU > horsepower. -- Jeff S Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software DevelopmentFive Elements, Inc http://www.five-elements.com/~jsw/

Re: BGP4/OSPF routing daemon for Linux?

2002-03-01 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
IOS doesn't have protected memory, is that not correct? It's like old multitasking systems where you didn't have virtual memory. :/ -- Jeff S Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software DevelopmentFive Elements, Inc http://www.five-elements.com/~jsw/

Re: how to design mysql clusters with 30,000 clients?

2002-05-24 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
et known by all your web servers. This is not a new concept, nor a difficult one. It can even be implemented using PHP, though a C apache module is smarter. -- Jeff S Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software DevelopmentFive Elements, Inc http://www.five-elements.com/~jsw/ --

Re: how to design mysql clusters with 30,000 clients?

2002-05-27 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
ports. 1000baseT works, take advantage of it. I hope you'll think about a solution other than mysql for this problem, though. It's not the right tool for session management on such a scale. -- Jeff S Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software DevelopmentFive Ele

Re: increase mysql max connections over 1024

2002-06-16 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
e copy of libc, but it seems workable. -- Jeff S Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software DevelopmentFive Elements, Inc http://www.five-elements.com/~jsw/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: transfer rate

2002-07-04 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
er and does several mbits/sec 24x7, and that packet loss affected all the TCP sessions going over it, limiting them to around 400Kbits/sec throughput due to TCP backoff :-( I hope this is helpful. -- Jeff S Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software DevelopmentFive Elem

Re: Linux box

2002-07-31 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
successfully deploy BGP, and your two ISPs may not even be staffed or equipped to deliver BGP sessions to you. If you want to undertake it anyway, I strongly urge you to contract a consultant who can help you and possibly your ISPs through the process. I hope this helps. -- Jeff S Wheeler

Re: Linux box

2002-07-31 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
e the general Internet is accessing services at your site, you would be _far_ smarter to colocate one or more PCs with a colocation supplier, than to try to do fail-over with DNS. It's a bad solution, won't work all the time, you'll have TTL issues, etc. etc. but it is possible.

Re: creepy-crawlers from TW

2002-08-08 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
s not very smart, and will do a DNS lookup on every request even if you are trying to block by IP. If the IP route null0 method ever fails me, I will patch apache to fix this. -- Jeff S Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software DevelopmentFive Elements, Inc http://www.five-el

[Fwd: VU#210321]

2002-09-10 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
-hand information only, please. -- Jeff S Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -Forwarded Message- From: CERT(R) Coordination Center <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: nanog@merit.edu Cc: CERT(R) Coordination Center <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: VU#210321 Date: 10 Sep 2002 10:16:14 -0400 -B

Re: Fw: VIRUS IN YOUR MAIL (W32/BugBear.A (Clam))

2002-10-17 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
ully complete an HTTP/1.1 request. -- Jeff S Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software DevelopmentFive Elements, Inc http://www.five-elements.com/~jsw/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

New BIND 4 & 8 Vulnerabilities

2002-11-12 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
See ISC.ORG for information on new BIND vulnerabilities. Current bind package in woody is 8.3.3, which is an affected version. Patches are not available yet, it seems. http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind-security.html -- Jeff S Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software Development

Re: New BIND 4 & 8 Vulnerabilities

2002-11-12 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
pooky software than known-to-be-exploitable software :-) Thanks for the suggestion, Sonny. -- Jeff S Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software DevelopmentFive Elements, Inc http://www.five-elements.com/~jsw/ On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 13:53, Sonny Kupka wrote: > Why not use Bin

Re: New BIND 4 & 8 Vulnerabilities

2002-11-13 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
apparent differences and I'd be happy to whip up a Perl script and post it to the debian-isp list. We have hundreds of zones as well, and if it there had been a file format problem, I would had to have done so in order to make the upgrade work. -- Jeff S Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> O

Neighbour table overflow problem

2003-03-07 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
I am concerned that might slow down packet forwarding, but I can probably live with that. Has anyone on the list encountered similar problems? If so, is this the approach you took to solve them or did you do something else? Thanks, -- Jeff S Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: BGP memory/cpu req

2003-03-11 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
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RWHOIS daemon options

2003-07-03 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
rwhoisd. Does anyone else on the list run an RWHOIS server, and if so, which one? An apt-cache search revealed little, as did a freshmeat.net query. If other on the list are in the same boat I am, perhaps we could put our heads together and come up with a free-as-in-debian alternative. -- Jeff S

Re: Funny NFS

2003-09-22 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
m but I suppose it is feasable. It would be better to check other options first. Incidentally I am running 2.4.20 on my home NFS server and have no similar problems. I have not upgraded to 2.4.20 on any of my NFS clients yet. -- Jeff S Wheeler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: two ethernet ports on one PCI NIC?

2003-10-09 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
boards with several of these chipsets on-board. I have a number of Tyan mainboards with as many as 3 on-board Intel-based ethernet ports. -- Jeff S Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Route Question!

2003-11-19 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
this is a helpful start. You'll need to do some configuration work on OSPF and Zebra itself as well, but we'll need to look at more specifics of your setup to do that. -- Jeff S Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Five Elements, Inc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CPU Utiliaztion on a ethernet bridge

2003-11-19 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
r flaps, in which case zebra consumes a lot of CPU power reconfiguring the FIB. It's a shame that the Linux kernel doesn't make the FIB structures accessible directly via an interface similar to /dev/kmem so zebra could simply mmap(2) it in and make large writes instead of small ioctl(

Re: CPU Utiliaztion on a ethernet bridge

2003-11-20 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
ng the Intel e100/e1000 drivers, are superb. I suspect the 3c59x driver is not quite so modern, and the kernel is preempted by NIC interrupts frequently when new frames come in under your existing bridge configuration. -- Jeff S Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Five Elements, Inc. -- To UNSUB

ntpd listening on alias interfaces seems non-trivial

2004-01-17 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
I have been attempting, without success, to get ntpd listening on an alias interface on one of my general purpose boxes. It seems that ntpd prefers to listen on localhost:ntp and eth0addr:ntp. It opens a socket for *:ntp as well, but does not respond to queries on other addresses. Here is some LSOF

Re: AOL testing new anti-spam technology

2004-01-25 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 13:07, Joey Hess wrote: > One thing I've been wondering about is pseudo-forged @debian.org From > addresses (like mine) and spf. It would seem we can never turn it on for > toplevel debian.org without some large changes in how developers send > their email. I don't understand

Re: I/O performance issues on 2.4.23 SMP system

2004-01-29 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 16:49, Benjamin Sherman wrote: > I have a server running dual 2.66Ghz Xeons and 4GB RAM, in a > PenguinComputing Relion 230S system. It has a 3ware RAID card with 3 > 120GB SATA drives in RAID5. It is currently running Debian 3.0 w/ > vanilla kernel 2.4.23, HIGHMEM4G=y, HIG

Re: Netgear FA311 and natsemi issue

2004-02-14 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 19:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > OS: Debian 3.0R2 stable > PC: Old Pentium Pro box with Intel 440FX chipset > Kernel: 2.4.18 (standard Debian kernel with natsemi support builtin) > natsemi driver: came with Debian dist (1.14 IIRC) I had endless problems with several Netg

Re: Starting isp and going to use Debian

2004-02-21 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 14:50, charlie derr wrote: > > 5. Drive usage control (i.e. user only get 10M for mail and 15M for web) > > We have quotas implemented on the web and mail servers. This is a daily >task though (raising quotas of people who've exceeded their default) You could automate

Re: apache uses 100 % cpu

2004-02-28 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 10:14, Timo Veith wrote: > This is the output of strace: > > read(8, "", 4096) = 0 > read(8, "", 4096) = 0 > read(8, "", 4096) = 0 > read(8, "", 4096) = 0 > looping forever as it

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