Two password prompts with 'su'

All, Recently my machine (FreeBSD) started showing 2 password prompts when using su. The first password seems to suffice, then hitting 'enter' on the second one lets me in. Any ideas what is going on? While I was writing this, it occurred to me that it may have something to do with Winbindd an

iSCSI (revisited?)

All, I was wondering what people thought of iSCSI and FreeBSD. Is it a viable option for creating SANs? I want to move away from tape backups, and have numerous production FreeBSD machines that I need to back up data from. Any other ideas for a disk to disk backup solution that people have used

Supported SATA Cards

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 All, I was looking into getting an Adaptec 2410SA SATA (Serial ATA RAID card). I just wanted to ensure this is supported by FreeBSD. I looked at the hardware list, and there is a card listed under the aac driver as a SCSI device, but with the 2410SA des

Re: ipfw pipes: theoretical speed vs. reality

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 | | | Justin Bennett wrote: | | All, | | I have recently been setting up pipes to shape bandwidth on our local | net. | | However, unless I am missing something, the TCP overhead seems quite | large. | | If I configure the following pipe: | | $IPFW

ipfw pipes: theoretical speed vs. reality

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 All, I have recently been setting up pipes to shape bandwidth on our local net. However, unless I am missing something, the TCP overhead seems quite large. If I configure the following pipe: $IPFW pipe 1 config bw 64Kbit/s $IPFW add 31 pipe 1 ip from 19