Re: Intermittent problems with LAN transfer speeds

2004-01-08 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Adam McLaurin wrote: > First, both speed & duplex are set manualyl at both ends. In fact, I did > this more than a year ago as a recommendation to solve this particular > problem we're discussing now. In other words, the problem existed before > I manually set speed/duplex, an

Re: crossover between gigE?

2003-12-20 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > Any suggestion of the kind of cable one should look for at Frys > to run between two gigE card (intel em0) to function as a crossover? GigE uses all 8, so: 1 ---> 3 2 ---> 6 3 ---> 1 4 ---> 7 5 ---> 8 6 ---> 2 7 ---> 4 8 ---> 5 -M

Re: Translate MAC address to IP address

2003-08-14 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
If you ping the broadcast addr you will (should) get a reply from all hosts. This will give you a full arp table that can be grep'd programatically. The only hitch is that it's possible for someone to put a firewall or other custom setup on a machine to prevent it from replying to ping. Another

Re: Sendmail AUTH agains passwd?

2003-03-04 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, John Angelmo wrote: > I'm intrested in implementing sendmail with AUTH agains passwd, I have > only been able to do this agains TSL with their database, has anyone > tried agains passwd and got it to work? One approach that has been used with success by many folks, me include

Re: Redundant NIC/Connections

2002-12-31 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, David J Duchscher wrote: > I was wondering how people are handling redundant connections? We > would like to have dual NICs in the FreeBSD box with each NIC connected > to a different switch. Both switches are in the same broadcast domain. > In pointers, hints on this may do

Re: My ISP dislikes my dhclient

2001-10-23 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Landon Stewart wrote: > I'm using dhclient to obtain an IP address from my ISP. They claim that I > am "hard coding" an IP because my IP doesn't seem to change. I know that > dhclient keeps a database of past leases and attempts to renew the same IP > whenever possible.

Re: Gratuitous ARP

2001-08-28 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
It's not clear what Jushua is asking for, but my guess is proxy arp. See arp(8), in particular the -s flag. -Mitch On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 01:47:20PM +0100, Joshua Goodall wrote: > > > > Easy question time, but I can't find it documented. How can

Re: How to find the bandwidth between two machines under freeBSD?

2001-03-30 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Daniel Wong wrote: > I'm trying to find out how to get the bandwidth speed for a connection > between two machines. Programmatically in the kernel. http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Software/pchar/ -Mitch To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe free

Re: How to send arp request with no other traffic

2001-01-23 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
You've asked two different questions here, with differing answers: 1) How to do an arp resolution without sending traffic to the IP, and 2) Is it possible to do it all in one command. The answer to 2) is: of course. The answer to 1) goes something like this: arp doesn't send traffic to the IP.

Re: general question re: PTR records.

2001-01-06 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Peter Brezny wrote: > Why are PTR records placed in zone db files separate from all other resource > records? Because they're not in the same zone. > For small domains, wouldn't it be simpler to just have your reverse ip to > name mappings in the same zone db file as your