RE: Welcome to Hell / Mysterious networking troubles on FreeBSD

2007-11-26 Thread Andresen, Jason R.
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Mohler > >On Nov 24, 2007 2:08 PM, Julian Elischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Joel V. wrote: >> > Hello. >> > >> > A big thanks to everyone who contacted me. FreeBSD really >has the best >> > community one could help for.

RE: Support for WD Advanced Format disks

2010-09-01 Thread Andresen, Jason R.
From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav: > >Ilya Bakulin writes: >> May you suggest any other tests? > >What other tests? The disks suck, how are more tests going to improve >the situation? > >> Or let's live with sucking WD Green and look for other 4096K-sector >> models from other manufacturers? > >I see no

RE: Distributed SSH attack

2009-10-07 Thread Andresen, Jason R.
>-Original Message- >From: owner-freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- >hack...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Xin LI >Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2009 4:35 AM >To: Daniel O'Connor >Cc: jruoho...@iki.fi; freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; krad >Subject: Re: Distributed SSH attack > >-BE

RE: Does FreeBSD issue messages about MAC/IP conflicts?

2010-01-04 Thread Andresen, Jason R.
>From: owner-freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org >[mailto:owner-freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Outback Dingo > >my curiousity is howd he get duplicate mac addresses > The most common cause that I've seen is duplicating virtual machines and not telling VMWare (or whatever you use) to re-jigger

Re: IOmega ZIP problem

2001-02-23 Thread Andresen,Jason R.
Torbjorn Kristoffersen wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 01:19:33PM -0600, Michael C . Wu wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 07:40:16PM +0100, Torbjorn Kristoffersen scribbled: > > > | Hi I'm using 4.2-RELEASE, with a parallel port ZIP drive (1

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-23 Thread Andresen,Jason R.
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Jason Andresen wrote: > > > > If only FreeBSD could boot from those funky M-Systems flash disks. > > It can. How? Nothing I found in the documentation indicated this, or gave any sort hint as to how I might go about doing it. The Linux driver has

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-23 Thread Andresen,Jason R.
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Jason Andresen wrote: > > > > Results: > > ufs+softupdates is a little slower than ext2fs+wc for low numbers of > > files, but scales better. I wish I had a Reiserfs partition to > > test with. > > Ext2fs is a non-contender. > > Note, though, that t

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-23 Thread Andresen,Jason R.
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Shannon Hendrix wrote: > On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 09:31:34AM -0400, Jason Andresen wrote: > > > We only have three Linux boxes here (and one is a PC104 with a flash > > disk) and already I've had to reinstall the entire OS once when we had a > > power glitch. ext2fsck managed

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-23 Thread Andresen,Jason R.
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Shannon Hendrix wrote: > On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 02:49:21PM -0400, Jason Andresen wrote: > > > 6 files took ~15 minutes to create as is. I'm going to have to wait > > until tonight to run larger sets. 2.2.16 is what we have here. > > I'm still waiting to see how much fa

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-23 Thread Andresen,Jason R.
I just finished the FreeBSD test with vfs.vmiodirenable=1 (it was 0 before) 6 simlultanious files, 1 transactions, FreeBSD 4.0-Release+Softupdates with write cacheing disabled. Results are pretty much unchanged. Do you have to enable vmiodirenable at boot time for it to take affect? T

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-23 Thread Andresen,Jason R.
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: > I don't understand the inability to perform the trivial > design engineering necessary to keep from needing to put > 60,000 files in one directory. > > However, we can take it as a given that people who need > to do this are incapable of doing computer

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-23 Thread Andresen,Jason R.
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Shannon Hendrix wrote: > On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 12:03:33PM -0400, Jason Andresen wrote: > > > The data: > > > > Hardware: > > Both machines have the same hardware on paper (although it is TWO > > machines, > > YMMV). > > PII-300 > > Intel PIIX4 ATA33 controller > > IBM-DHEA-

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-23 Thread Andresen,Jason R.
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Shannon Hendrix wrote: > Where I live, the power gets worse every year. I lost quite a few ext > filesystems, but only a couple of ufs and ext2 filesystems. Then I > bought a 1920VA UPS and it's no longer an issue. I just found it easier > to not lose power than to worry abou

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-23 Thread Andresen,Jason R.
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 08:17:12AM -0400, Andresen,Jason R. wrote: > > > > Did you enable write caching? You didn't mention, and it's off by > > > default in 4.3, but I think enabled by default on Linux. > > &g

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-23 Thread Andresen,Jason R.
On Wed, 23 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Tell them to fire 20K packets/second at the linux box and watch it crumble. > Linux has lots of little kludges to make it appear faster on some benchmarks, > but from a networking standpoint it cant handle significant network loads. > Are you sure

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-24 Thread Andresen,Jason R.
On Thu, 24 May 2001, void wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:20:51AM -0400, Andresen,Jason R. wrote: > > > > Why is knowing the file names cheating? It is almost certain > > that the application will know the names of it's own files > > (and won't be greppi

Re: IDE drives doing BBR?

2000-10-04 Thread Andresen,Jason R.
Jaye Mathisen wrote: > > Used ABBR on SCSI disks all the time, very nice. > > Remember reading on hackers somewhere that newer drives like IBM supported > this feature. I'm getting a few bad blocks on a 75GB IBM drive (at least > according to the ata driver), and rather than replacing it and mo

Re: Logging users out

2000-10-30 Thread Andresen,Jason R.
Joe Greco wrote: > > > > I wrote a little line program to do a revoke(), it was basically > > > > > > int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { revoke(argv[1]); } > > > > > > Now this doesn't kill a darn thing. And you should be aware of it! But it > > > does forcibly "close" any open fd's pointing

Re: FreeBSD boot manager, where is latest version?

2001-01-11 Thread Andresen,Jason R.
You might also try xosl (http://www.xosl.org), which has a lot of addtional features over both os-bs and booteasy, including an optional partition manager. It is also being maintained currently, unlike both Booteasy and OS-BS. Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > * Bob Willcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01

Re: FreeBSD boot manager, where is latest version?

2001-01-12 Thread Andresen,Jason R.
Bob Willcox wrote: > > Well, ob-bs didn't work either. I went to the referenced site for > XOSL and it certainly looked interesting...but was way more than I was > looking for at this time (I was happy with the default FreeBSD installed > boot manager before W98 trashed it and I certainly didn