Re: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-11 Thread matt
On 10/11/12 07:54, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: Hey guys, I need to replace an aging Pentium IV system that has been serving as my router, access point, file- and mediaserver for quite some time now. The replacement should have: - amd64 CPU (for ZFS, obviously) - 2x GigE (igress, egress interfaces) -

Re: [HEADSUP] FYI: patch to ports that do not build with clang has been committed

2012-10-11 Thread matt
I have made changes to ports/Mk/bsd.gcc.mk that allow the addition of "USE_GCC=any" to a port's Makefile, and then committed that change to various ports. In most (but not all!) cases this will tell the port "build with gcc instead of clang" (*) . Why not USE_GCC ?= any for the poor guys li

Re: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-11 Thread Nenhum_de_Nos
On Thu, October 11, 2012 14:53, Rainer Duffner wrote: > > Am 11.10.2012 um 18:52 schrieb Adam McDougall : >> >> Be wary of the Soekris net6501, > > […] > > The Soekris, AFAIK, is an embedded platform. > It doesn't surprise me the least that it's not good at I/O. I second that. Tried to use a 6501

Re: WITHOUT_GNU_[COMPAT|SUPPORT]

2012-10-11 Thread Ian Lepore
On Thu, 2012-10-11 at 19:45 +0200, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: > Em 11-10-2012 19:09, Ian Lepore escreveu: > > I want to build grep without the gnu regex library. The makefile for > > usr.bin/grep contains > > > > .if !defined(WITHOUT_GNU_COMPAT) > > > > And man src.conf documents WITHOUT_GNU_SUPPO

Re: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-11 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 11.10.2012 um 18:52 schrieb Adam McDougall : > > Be wary of the Soekris net6501, […] The Soekris, AFAIK, is an embedded platform. It doesn't surprise me the least that it's not good at I/O. That's the reason why I suggested the HP. At least, it does decent I/O, if you want to believe report

Re: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-11 Thread Adrian Chadd
Did you ever file a PR for the slow SATA behaviour? Adrian On 11 October 2012 09:52, Adam McDougall wrote: > On 10/11/12 12:05, Gary Palmer wrote: >> >> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 04:54:53PM +0200, Ulrich Sp??rlein wrote: >>> >>> Hey guys, >>> >>> I need to replace an aging Pentium IV system tha

Re: WITHOUT_GNU_[COMPAT|SUPPORT]

2012-10-11 Thread Gabor Kovesdan
Em 11-10-2012 19:09, Ian Lepore escreveu: > I want to build grep without the gnu regex library. The makefile for > usr.bin/grep contains > > .if !defined(WITHOUT_GNU_COMPAT) > > And man src.conf documents WITHOUT_GNU_SUPPORT but doesn't mention > WITHOUT_GNU_COMPAT. Is this a typo in the mak

WITHOUT_GNU_[COMPAT|SUPPORT]

2012-10-11 Thread Ian Lepore
I want to build grep without the gnu regex library. The makefile for usr.bin/grep contains .if !defined(WITHOUT_GNU_COMPAT) And man src.conf documents WITHOUT_GNU_SUPPORT but doesn't mention WITHOUT_GNU_COMPAT. Is this a typo in the makefile, or an ommision from the src.conf manpage? -- Ian

Re: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-11 Thread Adam McDougall
On 10/11/12 12:05, Gary Palmer wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 04:54:53PM +0200, Ulrich Sp??rlein wrote: Hey guys, I need to replace an aging Pentium IV system that has been serving as my router, access point, file- and mediaserver for quite some time now. The replacement should have: - amd64 C

Re: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-11 Thread Guido Falsi
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 12:05:45PM -0400, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: owner-freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > > curr...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Ulrich Spörlein > > Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 10:55 AM > > To: curr...@freebsd.org > > Subje

RE: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-11 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
> -Original Message- > From: owner-freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > curr...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Ulrich Spörlein > Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 10:55 AM > To: curr...@freebsd.org > Subject: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver > > Hey guys, > > I

Re: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-11 Thread Gary Palmer
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 04:54:53PM +0200, Ulrich Sp??rlein wrote: > Hey guys, > > I need to replace an aging Pentium IV system that has been serving as my > router, access point, file- and mediaserver for quite some time now. The > replacement should have: > > - amd64 CPU (for ZFS, obviously) > -

Re: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-11 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: > Hey guys, > > I need to replace an aging Pentium IV system that has been serving as my > router, access point, file- and mediaserver for quite some time now. The > replacement should have: > > - amd64 CPU (for ZFS, obviously) > - 2x GigE (i

Re: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-11 Thread Mark Blackman
On 11 Oct 2012, at 16:05, Rainer Duffner wrote: > Am Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:54:53 +0200 > schrieb Ulrich Spörlein : >> >> So how well is networking going to be supported by FreeBSD? Should I >> just bite the bullet and find out? > > > > What about the > > HP ProLiant N40L > ? > > It's not fa

Re: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-11 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:54:53 +0200 schrieb Ulrich Spörlein : > Hey guys, > > I need to replace an aging Pentium IV system that has been serving as > my router, access point, file- and mediaserver for quite some time > now. The replacement should have: > > - amd64 CPU (for ZFS, obviously) > - 2x

Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-11 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
Hey guys, I need to replace an aging Pentium IV system that has been serving as my router, access point, file- and mediaserver for quite some time now. The replacement should have: - amd64 CPU (for ZFS, obviously) - 2x GigE (igress, egress interfaces) - some form of wlan interface (I currently us

Re: [HEADSUP] current switched by default to pkgng

2012-10-11 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 11.10.2012 08:02, schrieb Matthew Seaman: > On 10/10/2012 23:20, Vincent Hoffman wrote: >>> That's if you were to patch an already installed copy of >>> portmaster. The patch is designed to be placed in ${PORTSDIR}/ports-mgmt/portmaster/files/ so it would be applied as