Re: Redirect *:port to ip:port on the same machine?

2005-05-12 Thread WMC
At 12:56 PM 5/12/2005, you wrote: I have a program that binds to ip:port. What are my options, if I want it to listen on all interfaces (*:port)? Let's say reconfiguring the program and/or running one instance per interface is not possible. How 'bout: * Install ports/net/redir * Config original p

Re: two ISP connections, three nics, and a NAT

2005-05-12 Thread WMC
At 11:06 AM 5/12/2005, you wrote: I have two ISP connections, a DSL line and a Cable Modem line. I want to plug both connections into a FreeBSD box that has three nics in it, one nic for each ISP connection and the last nic for my NAT. How can I bind the connections together without any other

Re: Low HDD tranfer rate with FreeBSD 5.3-Release

2005-05-09 Thread WMC
At 03:50 PM 5/9/2005, you wrote: > So how does the block size makes the difference?? What is the true transfer rate.? FWIW, there's a nice little disk IO benchmark "Bonnie" available in the ports & packages. Tests several variations of sequential and random IO. I don't know how accurate its n

Re: swap space problems

2005-05-09 Thread WMC
At 01:20 PM 5/9/2005, Chris Fedde wrote: Occasionaly my system hangs for a few seconds while loading a process from swap that has been idle for some time. ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=161663 What type of driver interface and controller is this? And what FBSD version?

Re: serial console

2005-05-05 Thread WMC
At 02:16 PM 5/5/2005, Paul T. Root wrote: trying to get a HP Vectra up without keyboard or monitor with Serial A as the console. What I've tried (loader.conf) doesn't seem to work. Shot in the dark, as I've never messed with serial much. But I think you have to enable it in /etc/ttys for it to w