Re: Mother board compatibility and CF card usage as main storage device for small DNS server

2010-09-30 Thread Paul Wootton
On 09/30/10 14:54, Kaya Saman wrote: On 30/09/2010 17:54, Brent Bloxam wrote: Kaya Saman wrote: From what you mention it sounds like a bad idea as the system disk will have many R/W's going through it it seems as /tmp and Swap get written to all the time. You can skip swap altogether and

Re: USB disk on CS5536 unstable

2010-09-30 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:10:59 +0200, Anselm Strauss a écrit : > Maybe sending it to just the USB list was too specific ... > > On 09/30/10 00:08, Anselm Strauss wrote: > > I have an ALIX board that has an AMD Geode and the CS5536 companion > > chip with integrated USB on it. When I connect a USB

router / firewall with PF and carp.

2010-09-30 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Hi, We are in the process to replace two Cisco Pix firewalls and one Cisco router with two servers running PF with carp. The network is large (it is an University) and all will depend on this two machines. We have made some tests with OpenBSD, PF and OpenBGPD and it looks to work (but we have to

Re: USB disk on CS5536 unstable

2010-09-30 Thread Hans Petter Selasky
On Thursday 30 September 2010 21:10:59 Anselm Strauss wrote: > Maybe sending it to just the USB list was too specific ... > > On 09/30/10 00:08, Anselm Strauss wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have an ALIX board that has an AMD Geode and the CS5536 companion chip > > with integrated USB on it. When I conn

Re: USB disk on CS5536 unstable

2010-09-30 Thread Anselm Strauss
Maybe sending it to just the USB list was too specific ... On 09/30/10 00:08, Anselm Strauss wrote: > Hi > > I have an ALIX board that has an AMD Geode and the CS5536 companion chip > with integrated USB on it. When I connect a USB disk I have observed > various problems. For example when I run f

Re: what is from [sic (wrong)] with this picture? -- Answer: It's Ubuntu, not FreeBSD

2010-09-30 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 05:14:25PM -0400, Jon Radel wrote: > On 9/29/10 4:24 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > > Yes! changing the line in main.cf lets things get thru to my > > server cleanly, thanks for the tip. I still don't understand > > what's wrong with my DNS files. Hopefully, other f

Re: pondering my DNS config....

2010-09-30 Thread doug
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, Gary Kline wrote: I spent hours yesterday checking around my named/DNS files. I thing the guy who rewrote how I _had_ things set up, messup. pinging ns1.thought.org is void. It is plato.thought.org that is my pfSense server that might better be my primary nameserver. (

Re: Upgrading autoconf

2010-09-30 Thread Daniel Bye
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 06:50:22PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > I am trying this out: > > #portupgrade -f 'autoconf*' 'automake*' Try upgrading the failing ports by hand. portupgrade tends to suppress full error output, making it difficult to ascertain exactly what's gone wrong. Alternati

Upgrading autoconf

2010-09-30 Thread Odhiambo Washington
I am trying this out: #portupgrade -f 'autoconf*' 'automake*' and I end up with: ===> Building for autoconf-2.67 gmake all-recursive gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/devel/autoconf267/work/autoconf-2.67' Making all in bin gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/devel/autoconf267/work/

pgt driver for Intersil PRISM ISL3890 cardbus wireless?

2010-09-30 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I've this wireless cardbus card: no...@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x1260 chip=0x38901260 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intersil Americas Inc (Was: Harris Semiconductor)' device = 'PRISM GT 802.11g 54Mbps Wireless Controller (ISL3890)' class = network I can't

Re: Mother board compatibility and CF card usage as main storage device for small DNS server

2010-09-30 Thread Nathan Vidican
MFS == memory filesystem; aka ram-disk. The problem being that on reboot, MFS looses all its contents, therefore practices like storing the 'startup' state for a filesystem in an archive (tar file works well) and mounting/copying on startup works well. Conversely, if you need to modify that startup

Re: Mother board compatibility and CF card usage as main storage device for small DNS server

2010-09-30 Thread Brent Bloxam
Kaya Saman wrote: From what you mention it sounds like a bad idea as the system disk will have many R/W's going through it it seems as /tmp and Swap get written to all the time. You can skip swap altogether and use MFS (memory filesystem) like Brian mentioned for other high write partition

Re: Mother board compatibility and CF card usage as main storage device for small DNS server

2010-09-30 Thread Kaya Saman
On 30/09/2010 17:54, Brent Bloxam wrote: Kaya Saman wrote: From what you mention it sounds like a bad idea as the system disk will have many R/W's going through it it seems as /tmp and Swap get written to all the time. You can skip swap altogether and use MFS (memory filesystem) like Bria

Re: Mother board compatibility and CF card usage as main storage device for small DNS server

2010-09-30 Thread Kaya Saman
Thanks very much Brian: On 30/09/2010 17:02, Brian A. Seklecki (CFI NOC) wrote: On 9/30/2010 4:11 AM, Kaya Saman wrote: I mean for a DNS server (all be it a small one) is it wise to use compact flash as storage?? For our GSLB DNS Slaves, we boot embedded/low power (or even VMs these days) s

Re: Mother board compatibility and CF card usage as main storage device for small DNS server

2010-09-30 Thread Brian A. Seklecki (CFI NOC)
On 9/30/2010 4:11 AM, Kaya Saman wrote: I mean for a DNS server (all be it a small one) is it wise to use compact flash as storage?? For our GSLB DNS Slaves, we boot embedded/low power (or even VMs these days) systems with CF images off of flash, keep a shadow copy of /etc around, and progra

Re: Cache Memory in top command

2010-09-30 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 09/30/2010 01:37 PM, RW wrote: > On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:24:58 +0200 > Bas Smeelen wrote: > > > >> *Wired:* number of pages wired down, including cached file data pages >> > That refers to buffer pages (displayed as Buf), which are a subset of > the cached file data pages. > > The pages

Re: Cache Memory in top command

2010-09-30 Thread RW
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:24:58 +0200 Bas Smeelen wrote: > *Wired:* number of pages wired down, including cached file data pages That refers to buffer pages (displayed as Buf), which are a subset of the cached file data pages. The pages in the cache queue are not specifically cached file data pag

/usr/ports via NFS on several servers adn parralell portupgrade

2010-09-30 Thread c0re
Hello all! I found one problem using portupgrade on a number of servers, that has NFS mounter /usr/ports from one server. On one server portupgrade sometimes want to rebuild /usr/ports/INDEX-7.db. While it rebuilds, another portupgrade running on second server suddenly wants to rebuild INDEX-7.db

Re: IPFW firewall and TCP ports

2010-09-30 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, Ian Smith wrote: > countries are long gone. For some scientific (and policy) rationale of > the increasingly fragmented nature of new allocations down to /22 (ie 64 > IP addresses) have a look at http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/ Oops; a /22 allocation is of course 4 t

Re: IPFW firewall and TCP ports

2010-09-30 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 330, Issue 5, Message: 1 On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:16:47 -0400 Carmel wrote: > While perusing my Apache httpd-error.log, I noticed a large number of > attempts to access my phpmyadmin directory, as well as a few less know > others. Most of these probes originated

Mother board compatibility and CF card usage as main storage device for small DNS server

2010-09-30 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi, I'm planning on using FreeBSD 8.0 x64 RELEASE edition for a small primary/secondary DNS server setup. The system will run Bind9 and have some zone files and views for the few people I host for. I am considering using a dual Atom system board with 2GB RAM and for storage was thinking of

Re: Cache Memory in top command

2010-09-30 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 09/29/2010 07:36 PM, RW wrote: >>> Bas Smeelen wrote: >>> >>> *Cache:* number of clean pages caching data that are available for immediate reallocation http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=top&sektion=1 >>> > I don't see why it would be include