Re: FreeBSD NFS server benchmarks vs. OpenBSD, NetBSD?

2002-06-21 Thread Matt Simerson
you need to have an rsize/wsize > larger than the MTU, make sure you are using TCP, not UDP, or > you will be shooting yourself in the foot (most Linux clients > wonder why when they use UDP, their nubers go to hell; that's > why). > > -- Terry > > To Unsubscribe: send m

Re: Hardware for FreeBSD

2002-05-20 Thread Matt Simerson
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Re: Hardware for FreeBSD

2002-05-17 Thread Matt Simerson
brand name, anyways. > > Thank you, > bogdan > > > > iCom Media AG > Kirchweg 36 > Koln, 50858 > Germany > > Phone: +49-(0)221-485-689-16 > Fax : +49-(0)221-485-689-20 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: bug in pw, freebsd 4.5

2002-05-02 Thread Matt Simerson
I'm interested too. I've seen this problem (quite a few times) on a large system (1k-10k+) users. It only happens on systems being provisioned to via pw. Matt On 5/2/02 4:27 PM, "Geoffrey C. Speicher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 9 Mar 2002 04:52:25 -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: >

Re: Is natd the right tool?

2002-04-12 Thread Matt Simerson
ibe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 09:24:24AM -0400, Matt Simerson wrote: >> Natd is a very cool tool for doing stuff like redirecting >> connections from an external networ

Re: Is natd the right tool?

2002-04-11 Thread Matt Simerson
On Thursday, April 11, 2002, at 01:39 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: > check out ipfw's 'fwd' command Cool, never realized that was there. So, I tried it: I recompiled my kernel after adding IPFIREWALL_FORWARD to it. Then: ipfw add fwd 127.0.0.2,53 udp from any to 192.168.7.251 55 ipfw add fwd 12

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2002-04-11 Thread Matt Simerson
Natd is a very cool tool for doing stuff like redirecting connections from an external network to an internal one but I'm have a slightly different problem. I have a single host with one public interface: host - fxp0 = 192.168.7.251 Also on this same host is a bunch more IP's on the loopback i

Re: Is natd the right tool?

2002-04-11 Thread Matt Simerson
My apologies, I didn't realize the default format on my new client was rich text format. Matt On Thursday, April 11, 2002, at 01:17 PM, Asenchi wrote: > could you please not send emails to the list in html. thank you. > asenchi. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsu

Is natd the right tool?

2002-04-11 Thread Matt Simerson
Natd is a very cool tool for doing stuff like redirecting connections from an external network to an internal one but I'm have a slightly different problem. I have a single host with one public interface: host - fxp0 = 192.168.7.251 Also on this same host is a bunch more IP's on the loopback

RE: technical comparison

2001-05-22 Thread Matt Simerson
> -Original Message- > From: Terry Lambert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 10:59 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: technical comparison > > ] I work in an environment consisting of 300+ systems, all FreeBSD > ] and Solaris, along with lots of EMC and F5 s

RE: Quota reporting is inaccurate.

2001-04-13 Thread Matt Simerson
> -Original Message- > From: Richard Hodges [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 1:23 PM > To: Matt Simerson > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: Quota reporting is inaccurate. > > > On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Matt Simerson

RE: Quota reporting is inaccurate.

2001-04-13 Thread Matt Simerson
I have to guess the former because quotacheck's results should not vary dependent on whether the machine is single user or not. Matt > -Original Message- > From: Ken Stox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 12:40 PM > To: Matt Simerson > Su

Quota reporting is inaccurate.

2001-04-13 Thread Matt Simerson
I have an streaming server that does a mere three things in life. It accepts FTP connections from users with local accounts and streams the files back via Real streaming server or Darwin Streaming Server. That's it, other than some log file processing and backups, that's all this machine does. In

The "right" way to build a new world WAS: 4.3-BETA worldcrashin g 4.2-RELEASE kernel ?

2001-03-22 Thread Matt Simerson
ts may happen. If in doubt, reboot into single user. For remote installs, keep a separate kernel around and use a serial console if at all possible. > -Original Message- > From: David O'Brien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, March 22,

RE: 4.3-BETA world crashing 4.2-RELEASE kernel ?

2001-03-22 Thread Matt Simerson
> -Original Message- > From: David O'Brien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 8:41 PM > To: Matt Simerson > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: 4.3-BETA world crashing 4.2-RELEASE kernel ? > > First let me say to anyone readi

RE: 4.3-BETA world crashing 4.2-RELEASE kernel ?

2001-03-21 Thread Matt Simerson
Here's how I do a make world: # screen # cvsup /etc/cvsup-stable ; grab the latest sources # cd /usr/src # make buildkernel KERNEL= # ctrl-A c ; creates a new virtual terminal # cd /usr/src; make buildworld # ctrl-A d ; detac

RE: What is the latest "known-good" PXE build ?

2001-02-06 Thread Matt Simerson
I have a "magic floppy" which is nothing more than a DOS boot floppy with the fboot.exe program on it and a BIOS image. This works like a charm for my netbooting purposes: Intel (R) Boot Agent Version 4.0.12 PXE 2.0 Build 082 (Wfm 2.0), RPC v2.7.3 Press Ctrl+S to enter the Setup Menu I've wr

RE: FreeBSD doesn't recognize keyboard unless is plugged in atbo ot t ime.

2001-01-24 Thread Matt Simerson
Heeey, thank you guys. That is very useful information. I just got off the phone with Belkin and my replacement KVM is on the way Thanks, Matt > -Original Message- > From: Chris Shenton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 10:11 AM > To: Jos Backus > Cc:

FreeBSD doesn't recognize keyboard unless is plugged in at boott ime.

2001-01-23 Thread Matt Simerson
OK, one of my biggest pet peeves of late is that unless you have the PS/2 keyboard plugged in at boot time, it's not recognized. In a world of workstations where every machine has a keyboard, this would never really be a problem but in our data center, where we have rows of racks full of machine

RE: Link up/down events

2001-01-10 Thread Matt Simerson
While it can be done (I do it), using MRTG/rateup/Cricket/etc. without SNMP is much like pushing a car down the street. Sometimes it's The Right Thing to do but for the other 99.4% of the time, it's far preferable to use the engine to power it. UCD-SNMP is more than just the UCD SNMP daemon. It'

RE: Silent FreeBSD

2000-12-27 Thread Matt Simerson
I know your pain. At home I have a good sized collection of hardware and the noise level in my office was getting unbearably high. I used to have the mp3 player (xmms) turned up loud enough that I couldn't hear the doorbell ring. I had been drooling over the G4 cube just because they're silent and

RE: hardware Dell or BSDi

2000-12-13 Thread Matt Simerson
We've got a couple BSDI machines in our lab in addition to Micron's, HP's, and some black boxes we build ourselves. The BSDI box is by far the most economical (as far as buying rackmount) and perform as well as anything else. They are also using good "standard" parts which means you can find repla

RE: very big mail spool directory

2000-12-12 Thread Matt Simerson
I do it a little bit differently for my million user mail server. Rather than perform any (more) hackery on my MTA/MDA than necessary, I set up each mail domain as it's own UID/GID on the system. This approach has some limits but so far it's working great for me. With FreeBSD's pw tool and a bit o

RE: Optimal UFS parameters

2000-12-06 Thread Matt Simerson
That's because any "consensus" would be inappropriate for mass consumtion. It really depends on a lot of fun things like the average file size and the number of files that the drives will be storing. For example, a mail server might want more inodes than a database server. The mail server will lik

RE: PXE boot problem. - SOLVED

2000-12-01 Thread Matt Simerson
That was it. Updating the flash on the Intel NIC and she booted right up. Thanks, Matt > -Original Message- > From: Mathew KANNER [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 8:54 AM > To: Matt Simerson > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > S

PXE boot problem.

2000-11-30 Thread Matt Simerson
Hi Folks, I've been trying hard to get a FreeBSD system booted via PXE with only limited success. Maybe someone can have a look at my configs and shed a little light on this for me. Here's what happens at boot time: Intel UNDI, PXE-2.0 (build 067) Copyright (c) 1997, 1998 Intel Corporatio