vbox + bce == sporactic ethernet hangs

2013-04-23 Thread Marc G. Fournier
I am running FreeBSD 9-STABLE (updated yesterday: FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE #15: Mon Apr 22 07:45:07 UTC 2013) with VirtualBox 4.2.6 from ports … the hardware is using a Broadcom ethernet: bce0: mem 0xf400-0xf5ff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci7 miibus0: on bce0 bce0: Ethernet address: 00:22:19

VirtualBox + FreeBSD 9-STABLE == Frozen Ethernet

2013-05-06 Thread Marc G. Fournier
I'm having an odd issue with FreeBSD that I'm not sure how to trace / where to look … I have 6 servers, all identical RAM / CPU / Ethernet / etc … 4 of them are running VirtualBox, 2 are running Jails … one of the 4 I just switched from Jail -> Virtualbox … When running jail(s), the servers

Re: VirtualBox + FreeBSD 9-STABLE == Frozen Ethernet

2013-05-07 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On 2013-05-06 2:49 PM, Norbert Beckmann wrote: To Marc G. Fournier I do not think it's an issue with VirtualBox. I am running VirtualBox under Solaris. And I never had problems with it. Guests: ubuntu, Windows 7, Linux Mint, FreeBSD, Chrome OS. But the people of VirtualBox themselves state

Re: VirtualBox + FreeBSD 9-STABLE == Frozen Ethernet

2013-05-08 Thread Marc G. Fournier
get > problems when using more than one VM. > > regards > > On 05/08/2013 03:49, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> On 2013-05-06 2:49 PM, Norbert Beckmann wrote: >>> To Marc G. Fournier >>> >>> I do not think it's an issue with VirtualBox. I am running Vir

status of a tap device ...

2013-05-09 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Quick question ... is there a command I can run that will tell me if a tap device is open? I know I can do 'ifconfig tap0' and see the 'Opened by' line, but I want to do this within a perl script, for instance, akin to how I can use the fstat function to get information about a file ... Rat

Re: status of a tap device ...

2013-05-09 Thread Marc G. Fournier
t it would be similar to... ifconfig tap create && export MYTUNIS="$?" echo "tap$MYTAPIS" /-- / /*Jason Hellenthal*/ IS&T Services Professional Inbox: /jhellent...@dataix.net <mailto:jhellent...@dataix.net>/ JJH48-ARIN On May 10, 2013, at 1:03, &q

nfs error: No route to host when starting apache ...

2011-04-01 Thread Marc G. Fournier
I just setup an nfs mount between two servers ... ServerA, nfsd on 192.168.1.8 ServerB, nfs client on 192.168.1.7 I have a jail, ServerC, running on 192.168.1.7 ... most operations appear to work, but it looks like 'special files' of a sort aren't working, for when I try and startup Apache, I

Re: nfs error: No route to host when starting apache ...

2011-04-01 Thread Marc G. Fournier
7;t appear to be any responses ... so either all responses were private to Robert, or ... ? This is my last 6.x box, so it is not overly critical, but would be nice if I could get it to work properly ... On Fri, 1 Apr 2011, Marc G. Fournier wrote: I just setup an nfs mount between t

Re: nfs error: No route to host when starting apache ...

2011-04-02 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 1 Apr 2011, Rick Macklem wrote: Since rpc.lockd and rpc.statd expect to be able to do IP broadcast (same goes for rpcbind), I suspect that might be a problem w.r.t. jails, although I know nothing about how jails work? Oh, and you can use the "nolock" mount option to avoid use of rpc.lo

7-STABLE NFS: fatal: "select lock: Permission denied"

2011-04-02 Thread Marc G. Fournier
/ hoped that things would run just fine ... am I wrong in that assumption? Or have I just overlooked a key setting in getting the nfs to work? Any suggestions / pointers are most welcome ... Marc G. FournierHub.Org Hosting Solutions S.

Re: 7-STABLE NFS: fatal: "select lock: Permission denied"

2011-04-04 Thread Marc G. Fournier
sue all things considered :( On Sun, 3 Apr 2011, Marc G. Fournier wrote: I'm trying to simulate a diskless boot of FreeBSD, as am looking at moving to a more 'thin client' environment, using a Netapp as a filer to provide the file systems for FreeBSD front ends ... To simulate

Re: 7-STABLE NFS: fatal: "select lock: Permission denied"

2011-04-04 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Apr 4, 2011, at 11:09 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: 'k, based on someone else's recommendation, I add 'nolockd' to the mount entry,a nd postfix now appears to work ... since I can safely guarantee that only the one host will have a

Re: 7-STABLE NFS: fatal: "select lock: Permission denied"

2011-04-04 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Apr 4, 2011, at 11:58 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Be careful; multiple access from different processes even on a single host can still run into locking issues against NFS filesystems, or data corruption if locking isn't available. You'

Re: 7-STABLE NFS: fatal: "select lock: Permission denied"

2011-04-04 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Apr 4, 2011, at 12:14 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: OK-- Cyrus IMAP uses a variant of maildir, so you're relatively safe even if locking is not available. So, just to get this clear ... If I were to boot a diskless station using an NFS backend,

Re: 7-STABLE NFS: fatal: "select lock: Permission denied"

2011-04-04 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Thank you, this answers things perfectly ... On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Apr 4, 2011, at 12:37 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Okay, next question ... if lockd is running, should fcntl locks work? My read of the NFS_README.html above indicates to me that they should ... but if

mounting nfs: what options available for /etc/fstab?

2011-04-07 Thread Marc G. Fournier
1. how do I know what version *is* being used? showmount doesn't seem to show that sort of info, nor does the mount command ... 2. what would I use in /etc/fstab to force it *if* I needed to? Thx ... Marc G. FournierHub.Org Hosting Solutions S.A. scra..

Re: mounting nfs: what options available for /etc/fstab?

2011-04-07 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Apr 7, 2011, at 8:02 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Part of the recent thread I had about mounting nfs point to using nolockd to disable locking ... checking the mount_nfs man page, it lists 'lockd' as a deprecated option, but doesn'

One final question about NFS ... or so I hope ...

2011-04-10 Thread Marc G. Fournier
,hard,nointr,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,tcp,actimeo=0,nfsvers=3,timeo=600,addr=10.1.13.165) I've checked the 'SEE ALSO' in both the 7.x and 8.x man page, to make sure it wasn't some other command I should be running, and nadda ... So, do we *really* hide this information,

SNMP Network Auto Discovery software ... ?

2011-04-27 Thread Marc G. Fournier
that runs on FreeBSD that ppl are happily using? Thx ... Marc G. FournierHub.Org Hosting Solutions S.A. scra...@hub.org http://www.hub.org Yahoo:yscrappySkype: hub.orgICQ:7615664MSN:scra...@hub.org

Re: SNMP Network Auto Discovery software ... ?

2011-05-02 Thread Marc G. Fournier
pr 27, 2011 at 03:55:11PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Would like to find something that runs on FreeBSD that I can use to map our network, preferrably dumping to a database, and grabbing information like: interface / ip / cpus / hostname, etc ... Server needs to run on FreeBSD ... needs to b

quagga:zebra errors on FreeBSD 6.x ...

2010-05-03 Thread Marc G. Fournier
7-STABLE boxes, the 7-STABLE boxes all work fine ... is there an issue with em/fxp devices and zebra? Or am I overlooking something in my config? Thx ... ---- Marc G. FournierHub.Org Hosting Solutions S.A. scra...@hub.org

6-STABLE + zebra == Can't bind to stream socket

2010-05-03 Thread Marc G. Fournier
In order to deal with a lack of layer 3 switch, last week I installed Quagga/OSPF on all of my servers, and got it configured. Works *great* on my 7.x servers, but, using the same config (and port), my 6-STABLE boxes all generate the same error when I try and start up zebra: 2010/05/01 01:4

Re: [quagga-users 11570] Re: quagga:zebra errors on FreeBSD 6.x ...

2010-06-01 Thread Marc G. Fournier
t contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples. ___ Quagga-users mailing list quagga-us...@lists.quagga.net http://lists.quagga.ne

tap devices ... restricting IP?

2008-10-21 Thread Marc G. Fournier
27;t match what is attached to tap? I'm not seeing anything to that effect in the tap manual, but the part talking about 'control' seems to indicate that you can do this ... - -- Marc G. FournierHub.Org Hosting Solutions S.A. (http://www.hub.org)

tap+bridge -> ethernet with an alias ...

2008-10-27 Thread Marc G. Fournier
p qemu, I use: qemu winxp.img -net nic -net tap -vnc :1 and I can connect via VNC, but the IP assigned to the image isn't pingable, like it is on my desktop ... Is there something with 'pre-aliased' interfaces that can't be used with a bridge/tap device? Or have I ju

Re: tap+bridge -> ethernet with an alias ...

2008-10-27 Thread Marc G. Fournier
, October 27, 2008 19:46:02 -0300 "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > On my desktop here, I have a qemu-img of Win XP that is using bridging to > connect to the Internet ... everything works great, eve

Problem with Bridging ... and bge devices under FreeBSD 7.x?

2008-10-28 Thread Marc G. Fournier
y look identical also ... So, pointers to what I may be missing here? a sysctl value that I need to set for this interface? Thanks ... - -- Marc G. FournierHub.Org Hosting Solutions S.A. (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Problem with Bridging ... and bge devices under FreeBSD 7.x?

2008-10-28 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Tuesday, October 28, 2008 22:08:18 -0400 Michael Proto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Marc G. Fournier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- &g

Re: Problem with Bridging ... and bge devices under FreeBSD 7.x?

2008-10-28 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I only have one VM running on one server ... - --On Tuesday, October 28, 2008 21:14:28 -0700 Bakul Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:35:35 -0300 "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrot

Re: Problem with Bridging ... and bge devices under FreeBSD 7.x?

2008-10-29 Thread Marc G. Fournier
2008 01:38:38 -0300 "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> I only have one VM running on one server ... > > Ok. > > Here are some debugging suggestions. > - /etc/sysctl.conf should have the following; > net.link.tap.user_open=1

bridged networking disappears ...

2008-11-16 Thread Marc G. Fournier
e a minute, which seems to 'fix' it, but that sounds more a bandaid then a fix ... Is this normal (I can't see how) or am I missing something with setting up the bridge? - -- Marc G. FournierHub.Org Hosting Solutions S.A. (http://www.hub.org)

DDoS attacks ... identifying destination ...

2007-09-06 Thread Marc G. Fournier
tool, that I can use similar to top, or systat -iostat, that will help identify the IP that is being attacked? Thank you ... - ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECT

wireless recommendations ...

2007-10-11 Thread Marc G. Fournier
sed wireless at all under FreeBSD ... what do we support *well*? The machine(s) are going to be remote, so I'd like to go with something that is generally felt to be 'consistently reliable' vs 'cheap' ... or, at least, somewhere in the middle ground would be nice :) -

Secure Wireless Router using FreeBSD ...

2007-10-18 Thread Marc G. Fournier
t; interface to this, vs having someone have to muddle with flat files and reload rules ... Now, I just found 'Chillispot' in ports ... has anyone used this? Is there something else that is better that runs under FreeBSD? Thanks ... - Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networki

IPv6 <-> NAT <-> IPv4 ... possible?

2007-10-18 Thread Marc G. Fournier
s, so was wondering if using IPv6 behind the NAT would be 'simplier' ... If possible, pointers to docs to read would be appreciated ... Thanks ... - Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED]

snmpwalk from jail -> snmp server ...

2004-06-14 Thread Marc G. Fournier
ed ... its only from the jail that it doesn't appear to work ... thoughts? ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ___ [EMAIL PRO

em driver worse then fxp driver ... why?

2004-08-10 Thread Marc G. Fournier
xist on the fxp0 devices? Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

Re: em driver worse then fxp driver ... why?

2004-08-10 Thread Marc G. Fournier
hard coded *after* playing with all three *sigh* Thanks ... On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Charles Swiger wrote: [ ...crossposting between stable and freebsd-net trimmed... ] On Aug 10, 2004, at 4:37 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: I've tried in bth half and full duplex mode .. full duplex, Ierrs climb

Reduce effects of DDoS attack ...

2004-10-07 Thread Marc G. Fournier
to be handling the load, is it possible that the unmanaged switch that i have in place between the FreeBSD box and the Cisco switch is 'buckling under the load'? Not able to handle the packets fast enough, and therefore just drop'ng them? The unmanage switch is a 10/100 Link

"bug" with ifconfig ... ?

2004-11-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
quot;Remove the network address specified.", to me, means that if one isn't specified, nothing should/would happen :( Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 _

High ping latency using two ethernet under FreeBSD 4.11 ...

2005-03-14 Thread Marc G. Fournier
ne on the same machine ... I'm plugging everything into a Cisco 2924 ... is there some way, either on the FreeBSD side, or Cisco, of 'cleaning this up'? ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscra

Re: High ping latency using two ethernet under FreeBSD 4.11 ...

2005-03-15 Thread Marc G. Fournier
does it affect things? For instance, do I start configuring an 'ifconfig fec0' device instead of my usual fxp0? or, does everything pretty much stay the same except running that extra daemon/command? any docs other then the man pages that I should read through? Marc G. F

Re[2]: High ping latency using two ethernet under FreeBSD 4.11 ...

2005-03-15 Thread Marc G. Fournier
00.46.208.* C-class, so that I can easily add/remove as required ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org m

Re: High ping latency using two ethernet under FreeBSD 4.11 ...

2005-03-15 Thread Marc G. Fournier
n em0 MGF> In order to provide network redundancy, and simplify our scripting, with MGF> have one network bound to one ethernet port, and the other network bound MGF> to the second one on the same machine ... MGF> I'm plugging everything into a Cisco 2924 ... is there som

Re: Re[2]: High ping latency using two ethernet under FreeBSD 4.11 ...

2005-03-15 Thread Marc G. Fournier
sses while not 200.46.204.2 and 200.46.208.2 That's cool, since those IPs are just for the base server itself, and never get removed ... Thanks ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy

Re[2]: High ping latency using two ethernet under FreeBSD 4.11 ...

2005-03-15 Thread Marc G. Fournier
re IOS (tm) C2950 Software (C2950-I6Q4L2-M), Version 12.1(22)EA1, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1) Copyright (c) 1986-2004 by cisco Systems, Inc. Compiled Mon 12-Jul-04 08:18 by madison Image text-base: 0x8001, data-base: 0x8055C000 Thanks ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Serv

use of ng_fec ...

2005-03-15 Thread Marc G. Fournier
r hte FreeBSD box, or the Cisco switch) is "overly busy", that load balancing would be beneficial? Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664

Re: Re[2]: High ping latency using two ethernet under FreeBSD 4.11 ...

2005-03-16 Thread Marc G. Fournier
ince the servers are remove, can I configure one interface as a fec device, assign its IPs over to it, then "add" the second device? Also, where do you put your start up? SAme as a regular interface, just throw it into a startup.if_fec file or something like that? Marc G. Fournie

Too many IPs assigned to an interface?

2005-03-16 Thread Marc G. Fournier
or traffic is a Dual Athlon (85 IPs) ... the other that is high for traffic is another Dual PIII (21) ... So, is network performance that greatly affected by # of IPs assigned to the interface itself? Or is there maybe another factor involved? ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Netwo

Re: ipfw problems ...

2001-09-18 Thread Marc G. Fournier
I recently setup a box on our network, running FreeBSD 4.4-PRERELEASE, with ipfw and dummynet to do bandwidth shaping as well as firewalling ... The machine is a Dual PIII 733 w/1gig of RAM and 2xfxp0 devices ... I've got an /etc/fw.rules file that has ~1200 rules in it so far, and still have m

Re: ipfw problems ...

2001-09-19 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Krzysztof Zaraska wrote: > First, is there any specific reason for allowing only specific 900 subnets > instead of the whole 'cost nothing' network? How big is this network? How > would this increase the risk? CA*Net3 vs "commercial net" traffic ... > Second, with that numb

ipfw: skipto changing value of where I want to skipto?

2001-09-19 Thread Marc G. Fournier
psychopompus# ipfw add 00661 skipto 00708 ip from any to 136.0.0.0/5 00661 skipto 56 ip from any to 136.0.0.0/5 why is the 00708 changing to 56? :( To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: ipfw problems ...

2001-09-20 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Our network layout is such that our ipfw box is purely a pass-thru between our router and our network providers router: [our router] <--> [freebsd box running ipfw] <--> [network provider] / \

using natd to proxy through a jail ... ?

2002-06-24 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Looking at the man page, I'm wondering if its possible to use natd to proxy port X coming into a jail to an IP:port that is sitting behind that jail ... For instance, I have two machines ... one holds the jail, the other holds a database server ... jail is accessible from the 'Net, but the datab

dest vs source ports ...

2002-10-22 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Just a quick question ... how does the OS determine the 'source port' when connecting to a remote site? is it reasonably safe to assume that the lower of the two ports is the dest port? for instance, if I try to telnet to a remote site where the remote site is running a service on port 6667, is

determining "originator/source" of connection ...

2002-10-22 Thread Marc G. Fournier
I've got FreeBSD setup as a firewall to our campus network, and its doing a great job of it, but we want to be able log statistics on traffic going in and out ... I have trafd running on the server, with it dumping its data to a PostgreSQL database, but for every ~8min "segment", it is logging ~1

Re: determining "originator/source" of connection ...

2002-10-22 Thread Marc G. Fournier
pipe 21 ip from any to $my subnet I don't believe I could do this with ipfw ... $my_subnet == 131.162.0.0 :( I fear the machin would strat to smoke, no? :( > > cheers > luigi > > > On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 02:47:36PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > > I'

if_ef doesn't work with if_fxp?

2002-11-13 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Morning ... Been trying to get ncp* to work with FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE, and finally found some docs that refer to the if_ef device for doing this ... but when I try to do: ifconfig fxp0f2 ipx 0x and it gives me back an 'interface does not exist' message ... I have ef configured into the kern

Re: if_ef doesn't work with if_fxp?

2002-11-13 Thread Marc G. Fournier
'K, will try that out ... On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, John Hay wrote: > > > > Been trying to get ncp* to work with FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE, and finally > > found some docs that refer to the if_ef device for doing this ... but when > > I try to do: > > > > ifconfig fxp0f2 ipx 0x > > > > and it gives m

Re: if_ef doesn't work with if_fxp?

2002-11-14 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, John Hay wrote: > > > > Been trying to get ncp* to work with FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE, and finally > > found some docs that refer to the if_ef device for doing this ... but when > > I try to do: > > > > ifconfig fxp0f2 ipx 0x > > > > and it gives me back an 'interface does not

Re: Traffic analysis ports?

2003-09-18 Thread Marc G. Fournier
best I've found so far is ipaudit ... On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Josef Karthauser wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm looking for some software to basically analyse the traffic I've got > going over a particular pipe so that I can work out whether or what to > traffic shape. Can anyone recommend anything? >

Odd behaviour on em0 device in -stable ... I think ...

2004-01-04 Thread Marc G. Fournier
dd an unassigned IP to it, I'm not hitting a limit on # of aliased IPs (currently only 21) ... and I've tried with another assigned IP (unalias from fxp device, move it to em device) and it too becomes unpingable, but works fine if I move it to another fxp device on a different serv

Re: Odd behaviour on em0 device in -stable ... I think ...

2004-01-04 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Barney Wolff wrote: > On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 04:31:41PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > > The problem is that I want to move an IP from one of the other servers > > (all with fxp interfaces) over to the 4th, with the em device ... I -alias > >

Re: Odd behaviour on em0 device in -stable ... I think ...

2004-01-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
e /kernel: em0: Link is up 100 Mbps Full Duplex as if it brought the device down, and then back up again ... is that normal? Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!:

RE: Odd behaviour on em0 device in -stable ... I think ...

2004-01-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
for around 20 seconds) is there a reason why the em driver does this, and the fxp doesn't? or, at least, why the em driver takes longer? it only appears to be the server with em devices that does it ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.o

Re: Odd behaviour on em0 device in -stable ... I think ...

2004-01-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
is problem ... is there anything that maybe I should be checking before a reboot that may indicate an underlying problem? Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy

Re: Odd behaviour on em0 device in -stable ... I think ...

2004-01-09 Thread Marc G. Fournier
aybe? On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > I'm having some odd behaviour with one of my servers ... it is the only > one of 4 that I have that has an em device, and, from what I can tell, the > problem doesn't exist on any of the other 3 ... > > The probl

Odd network issue ... *very* slow scp between two servers

2004-03-06 Thread Marc G. Fournier
to do a reboot on the server Monday, when a tech is easily accessible in case of a problem ... but, before I do that, is there anything I can do to possible debug this? Maybe something I can look at that would show a 'leak', maybe? Thanks ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networki

Re: Odd network issue ... *very* slow scp between two servers

2004-03-07 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Tim Wilde wrote: > On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > I have two servers on the same network switch, sitting one on top of the > > other ... one is running an em (Dual-Xeon 2.4Ghz) device, the other an fxp > > (Dual-PIII 1.3Ghz) devi

Re: Odd network issue ... *very* slow scp between two servers

2004-03-07 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Tim Wilde wrote: > On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > I have two servers on the same network switch, sitting one on top of the > > other ... one is running an em (Dual-Xeon 2.4Ghz) device, the other an fxp > > (Dual-PIII 1.3Ghz) devi

Simple question, what is an inOctet ... ?

2004-03-24 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Just setup net-snmp, and zabbix to monitor it ... what exactly is an Octet? 1 byte? Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664

Looking for switch recommendations ...

2004-03-26 Thread Marc G. Fournier
red. Cisco, of course, is always a big name ... but also expensive ... oen recommendation is the xl 1900, but I can't find any specs on her at cisco's site, so discontinued product? What about Netgear, which I have easy access to? Or Alcatel? models to stay away from? Thanks .

Re: Looking for switch recommendations ...

2004-03-26 Thread Marc G. Fournier
t; oen recommendation is the xl 1900, but I can't find any specs on > > her at cisco's site, so discontinued product? > > > > What about Netgear, which I have easy access to? Or Alcatel? > > > > models to stay away from? >

Re: Looking for switch recommendations ...

2004-03-26 Thread Marc G. Fournier
or a 48 port switch it is 14.29Mpps. so, the closer the Mpps gets to that 7.1Mpps, the better the switch overall? I take it that has to do with the CPU driving the switch itself, or is there other factors that help drive that # up? ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http:/

Stupid question about managed switches

2004-04-07 Thread Marc G. Fournier
e the switch itself? Or is the 'login part' of the switch thought of the same way as adding just another server to the network, for connectivity purposes? As I said, stupid question, but for someone whose never played with a managed switch before ... :( Thanks .. Marc G. Fournier

RE: Stupid question about managed switches

2004-04-08 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Don Bowman wrote: > From: Marc G. Fournier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Please excuse this, but my experience with them is zilch ... > > am going with > > the HP Procurve 2826(?) Layer2/Layer3 switch, as was > > suggested, but I&