enabling if_bridge STP

2007-12-06 Thread Atrox
Hello! I've just built myself a VPN-network for testing bridge STP. I installed 3 FreeBSD boxes (2 FreeBSD-6.2 and 1 FreeBSD-6.1) and connected all of them with OpenVPN with TAP-bridging: * 1st box is OpenVPN server only and has tap0 bridged with its inner interface (192.168.1.1). * 2nd box is Op

Re: Scanner Compatibility

2007-12-06 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Jason C. Wells wrote: Does this represent the state of the art in scanners under FreeBSD? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/scanners.html Any other up to the minute tips on purchasing a scanner? Does 7.0-RELEASE present any new issues? Thanks, Jason C. Wells

fsck of big disk

2007-12-06 Thread Valerio Daelli
Hi list we have a freshly installed FreeBSD 6.2 machine with a gstriped external disk, of 5.3Tb. The disk is composed of two slices of 2.6 Tb. We are trying to have a (background) fsck of it but few hours later since the start of the check the host get unresponsive: it responds to ping but it does

Re: enabling if_bridge STP

2007-12-06 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Thursday 06 December 2007 10:17:36 Atrox wrote: > Am I doing smth wrong? Hm, are these FreeBSD boxes you are trying to bridge, on the same ethernet? STP will create a tree by disabling some ports to eliminate loops in the topology. If you have a loop-free topology, all ports should be active.

geom gmirror question

2007-12-06 Thread Dino Vliet
Forwarded Message From: "Dino Vliet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.orgDate: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 03:55:20 -0700 (PDT)Subject: hardware problems?..how to disable geom?Plain Text Attachment [ Scan and Save to Computer ] Hi

HSBC Online Banking Account Reminder

2007-12-06 Thread HSBC Online Banking Service
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Re: enabling if_bridge STP

2007-12-06 Thread Atrox
Nikos Vassiliadis-2 wrote: > > On Thursday 06 December 2007 10:17:36 Atrox wrote: >> Am I doing smth wrong? > > Hm, are these FreeBSD boxes you are trying to bridge, > on the same ethernet? > Yes, all these boxes are connected to our LAN with their ext_ifs. Also, one of them has a switch and

Re: enabling if_bridge STP

2007-12-06 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Thursday 06 December 2007 12:20:18 Atrox wrote: > Well, as I understand, in my case, STP should be enabled mainly on > TAP-interfaces as it would eliminate the scenario where, for an example, > ARP-requests from 192.168.1.1 for 192.168.3.1 reach 192.168.2.1. Have I > understood it correctly? It

Re: problem with network card in P35+ICH9

2007-12-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
is your phy (mii) detected OK? FreeBSD 6.2 server# ifconfig -a re0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 options=1b inet 192.168.2.54 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255 ether 00:1a:4d:53:54:4d media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: no carrier server# dmesg |grep re0 re0: port 0xc000-0xc0ff me

Re: enabling if_bridge STP

2007-12-06 Thread Silver Salonen
On Thursday 06 December 2007 13:21, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > On Thursday 06 December 2007 12:20:18 Atrox wrote: > > Well, as I understand, in my case, STP should be enabled mainly on > > TAP-interfaces as it would eliminate the scenario where, for an example, > > ARP-requests from 192.168.1.1 for

Re: enabling if_bridge STP

2007-12-06 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Thursday 06 December 2007 13:31:38 Silver Salonen wrote: > On Thursday 06 December 2007 13:21, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > > On Thursday 06 December 2007 12:20:18 Atrox wrote: > > > Well, as I understand, in my case, STP should be enabled mainly on > > > TAP-interfaces as it would eliminate the s

huawei e220 hsdpa on freebsd 6.3-BETA2

2007-12-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgedv.net
hi folks, i've got a huawei e220 hsdpa modem, which is connected to a hp nx8220 notebook (ICH6 usb controller) w. 6.3-BETA2. i tried GENERIC as well as custom kernels. this is my current situation: - custom kernel with just [u,o,e]hci and usb(4) support. (removed all other usb device support e

Re: enabling if_bridge STP

2007-12-06 Thread Silver Salonen
On Thursday 06 December 2007 15:01, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > On Thursday 06 December 2007 13:31:38 Silver Salonen wrote: > > On Thursday 06 December 2007 13:21, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > > > On Thursday 06 December 2007 12:20:18 Atrox wrote: > > > > Well, as I understand, in my case, STP should

Re: geom gmirror question

2007-12-06 Thread Eric Crist
On Dec 6, 2007, at 4:01 AM, Dino Vliet wrote: Hi folks, I've bought my new hardware and want to give this another try. On the documentation sacttered around on the net I read that it's better to have 3 harddisks where one is for the main os and the other two are mirrored in stead of a situation

Re: enabling if_bridge STP

2007-12-06 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Thursday 06 December 2007 15:37:21 Silver Salonen wrote: > Is all the traffic pass through the root-bridge in this case, so that if > bridge1 wants to talk to bridge2, it has to go through root-bridge and > not straight? Yes, they'll have to go through the root-bridge. STP will create a tree b

Re: copying just / (not /tmp, /usr, etc) (rsync -x failed)

2007-12-06 Thread Konstantinos Pachnis
James Harrison wrote: > On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 10:41 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > >> On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 05:38:20PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: >> >> >>> I have / on one slice, and [usr,tmp,var] on others. I want to move >>> just / to a new disk, which seemed to be what rsync -x ("do

FreeBSD 6.2 inside VMWare Fusion ?

2007-12-06 Thread Michael Doyle
Has anyone got FreeBSD 6.2 to load as a guest OS in VMWare Fusion on a new MacBook Pro ? If so, could they give me pointers on what I need to do, since I have tried this and failed. It's mostly just to see if I can do it - I have a number of "real" servers running FreeBSD 6 and was looking

Re: copying just / (not /tmp, /usr, etc) (rsync -x failed)

2007-12-06 Thread Vince
Konstantinos Pachnis wrote: > James Harrison wrote: >> On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 10:41 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 05:38:20PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: >>> >>> I have / on one slice, and [usr,tmp,var] on others. I want to move just / to a new disk,

Determining bus speed/memory

2007-12-06 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have a couple of servers (5.5 and 6.2) at a remote location that I need to order additional memory. I need to know bus speed and, if possible, how many chips currently installed to help determine whether I need to replace or match and fill available slots. For instance, I know one server has 1GB

Re: huawei e220 hsdpa on freebsd 6.3-BETA2

2007-12-06 Thread Hans Petter Selasky
Hi, Can you make your modem show up like "ugen" by loading "ugen" before plugging your device. Then install "/usr/ports/sysutils/udesc_dump" and dump all the descriptors of your device. --HPS ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://list

Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )

2007-12-06 Thread Randy Ramsdell
We started using FreeBSD for some network monitoring, but have found that a hard reboot forces us to answer filesytem questions on boot. Is there a way to mount each filesystem without this? Or how can we use FreeBSD in a remote location without needing to intervene in situatutions like this?

Re: Determining bus speed/memory

2007-12-06 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 10:20:28AM -0500, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > I have a couple of servers (5.5 and 6.2) at a remote location that I > need to order additional memory. I need to know bus speed and, if > possible, how many chips currently installed to help determine whether I > need to replace

Re: copying just / (not /tmp, /usr, etc) (rsync -x failed)

2007-12-06 Thread Eric Crist
On Dec 6, 2007, at 8:48 AM, Konstantinos Pachnis wrote: James Harrison wrote: On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 10:41 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 05:38:20PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: I have / on one slice, and [usr,tmp,var] on others. I want to move just / to a new disk, w

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 inside VMWare Fusion ?

2007-12-06 Thread Doug Poland
Michael Doyle wrote: Has anyone got FreeBSD 6.2 to load as a guest OS in VMWare Fusion on a new MacBook Pro ? I have been running 6.2 on an iMac since early betas of VMWare Fusion If so, could they give me pointers on what I need to do, since I have tried this and failed. > Could you give s

Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )

2007-12-06 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Randy Ramsdell wrote: We started using FreeBSD for some network monitoring, but have found that a hard reboot forces us to answer filesytem questions on boot. Is there a way to mount each filesystem without this? Or how can we use FreeBSD in a remote location without needing to intervene in si

Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )

2007-12-06 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Bart Silverstrim wrote: Randy Ramsdell wrote: We started using FreeBSD for some network monitoring, but have found that a hard reboot forces us to answer filesytem questions on boot. Is there a way to mount each filesystem without this? Or how can we use FreeBSD in a remote location without ne

Re: BSDstats: Stand up and be counted! -- November Statistics

2007-12-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 10:45:04PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > - --On Wednesday, December 05, 2007 23:40:07 +0100 Tore Lund > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Bill Moran wrote: > >> Huh? > > > > The figure for PC-BSD in November was

Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )

2007-12-06 Thread Vince
Randy Ramsdell wrote: > We started using FreeBSD for some network monitoring, but have found > that a hard reboot forces us to answer filesytem questions on boot. Is > there a way to mount each filesystem without this? Or how can we use > FreeBSD in a remote location without needing to intervene in

Re: copying just / (not /tmp, /usr, etc) (rsync -x failed)

2007-12-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 04:48:40PM +0200, Konstantinos Pachnis wrote: > James Harrison wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 10:41 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > >> On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 05:38:20PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: > >> > >>> I have / on one slice, and [usr,tmp,var] on others.

Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )

2007-12-06 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Vince wrote: Randy Ramsdell wrote: We started using FreeBSD for some network monitoring, but have found that a hard reboot forces us to answer filesytem questions on boot. Is there a way to mount each filesystem without this? Or how can we use FreeBSD in a remote location without needing to i

Re: huawei e220 hsdpa on freebsd 6.3-BETA2

2007-12-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgedv.net
Can you make your modem show up like "ugen" by loading "ugen" before plugging your device. here it is ;) Standard Device Descriptor: bLength18 bDescriptorType01 bcdUSB 0110 bDeviceClass 00 bDeviceSubClass00 bDeviceProtocol00 bMaxPacketSize

Re: How to stop screen from resizing my window??

2007-12-06 Thread Andy Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/3/07, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > Hi all - > > I connect to a FreeBSD server from OSX (via iTerm). I then start up > screen. > > And it resizes my windows to 80 characters wide. This doesn't happen on > linux. It's more likely that it's an is

CD/DVD writer no longer works

2007-12-06 Thread Paul Schmehl
Sometime in the past (I don't know when) my CD/DVD write device stopped working. I can no longer burn cds or even put known good cds in the drive and mount them. I *used* to be able to burn cds fine using burncd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] burncd -ef /dev/acd1 data /home/pauls/Downloads/FreeBSD/6.2-R

Re: enabling if_bridge STP

2007-12-06 Thread RW
On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 15:37:21 +0200 Silver Salonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is all the traffic pass through the root-bridge in this case, so that > if bridge1 wants to talk to bridge2, it has to go through root-bridge > and not straight? In my case there's a straight connection between > bridge

Re: Determining bus speed/memory

2007-12-06 Thread Derek Ragona
At 09:20 AM 12/6/2007, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I have a couple of servers (5.5 and 6.2) at a remote location that I need to order additional memory. I need to know bus speed and, if possible, how many chips currently installed to help determine whether I need to replace or match and fill availa

Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )

2007-12-06 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Robert Huff wrote: Randy Ramsdell writes: > What is the value of background_fsck in /etc/rc.conf ? > This isn't set. Was is supposed to be? So far, I have only installed applications we need. And everything seem fine except the reboot issue. I'm going to jump in here.

Re: How to stop screen from resizing my window??

2007-12-06 Thread Erwan David
Le Thu 6/12/2007, Andy Harrison disait > > > On 12/3/07, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > > Hi all - > > > > I connect to a FreeBSD server from OSX (via iTerm). I then start up > > screen. > > > > And it resizes my windows to 80 characters wide. This doesn't happen on > > linux. > > It's more likel

Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )

2007-12-06 Thread Daniel Bye
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 11:42:22AM -0500, Randy Ramsdell wrote: > Oh, Is there a way to not receive 2 messages for every reply to this thread? Something like this in ~/.procmailrc :0 Wh: msgid.lock | $FORMAIL -D 8192 msgid.cache or like this in ~/.mailfilter `reformail -D 8000 duplicate.cache`

Wine compatibility and performance on FreeBSD 7

2007-12-06 Thread Tom Wickline
Hello Everyone, I have a small blog about running Wine on Unix operating systems and over the last couple days I've been experimenting with Wine on FreeBSD 7 beta 2 (I see beta 4 is out, many thanks!) If anyone here is interested I ran Office 97 and 2000 out of the box on FreeBSD 7beta no registr

Wine compatibility and performance on FreeBSD 7

2007-12-06 Thread Tom Wickline
Hello Everyone, I have a small blog about running Wine on Unix operating systems and over the last couple days I've been experimenting with Wine on FreeBSD 7 beta 2 (I see beta 4 is out, many thanks!) If anyone here is interested I ran Office 97 and 2000 out of the box on FreeBSD 7beta no regist

Re: CD/DVD writer no longer works

2007-12-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
/home/pauls/Downloads/FreeBSD/6.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso fixate burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCWRITESPEED): Input/output error [EMAIL PROTECTED] mount /dev/acd acd0 acd1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mount /dev/acd1 /mnt/cdrom/ mount: /dev/acd1: Input/output error mount_cd9660 - unless you use FFS on CD/DVD. CDB:

ng_netflow on PF + CARP firewall question

2007-12-06 Thread shinny knight
Hello all, I'm trying to use ng_netflow module along with PF+CARP implementation on freebsd 6.2. I understand from different posts that ng_netflow module is performing quite well and does not add so much cpu load since packets are processed in the kernel. However, ng_netflow documentat

Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )

2007-12-06 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 12:50:55PM -0500, Randy Ramsdell wrote: > > > PS. I am confused about why so many people are replying to the list and my > personal e-mail. This one was sent to me only. Others were sent to me and > the list. Actually, every other reply. Is this normal for the list as I

Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )

2007-12-06 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Randy Ramsdell wrote: I think I will just set the rc.conf variable to answer "Y" to fsck questions unless there is a better way. A side note, this system has been hard shutdown two times and each time required intervention. We also use several Linux system ( reiserfs and ext3 ) and raely do I

Re: huawei e220 hsdpa on freebsd 6.3-BETA2

2007-12-06 Thread Hans Petter Selasky
On Thursday 06 December 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgedv.net wrote: > > Can you make your modem show up like "ugen" by loading "ugen" before > > plugging > > your device. > > here it is ;) Hi, Your HSDPA modem presented itself like a mass storage device, probably with some autorun and virus like dr

Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )

2007-12-06 Thread Peter Schuller
> Well any number of things, but the most recent was a prolonged power > outage. It is important to differentiate between expected fsck activity and unexpected. If you are running without write caching turned on (which is the default), a power outtage will constitute a crash from which a file s

PF with VLAN's - Reference Physical Interface or VLAN Interface?

2007-12-06 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost
Hello All: Thanks to everyone for the hints on carp_alias interfaces. On a second note, we are implementing 802.1Q trunked interfaces. So, our pre-vlan configuration is: $ext_if="em1" And an associated NAT rule is: nat on $ext_if from $mail_in01_int to any -> $mail_in01_ext With the additi

Plesk in a FreeBSD Jail: My Experiences

2007-12-06 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 First, thanks to all those that have provided some useful pointers on this ... I was finally able to get a working install in place using 8.2.1 ... The main issue I found was that one of the components in the install seems to be calling in Apache 2

Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )

2007-12-06 Thread RW
On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:42:22 -0500 Randy Ramsdell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vince wrote: > > What is the value of background_fsck in /etc/rc.conf ? > > > > > This isn't set. Was is supposed to be? No, it's on by default, but there's an early check to determine if the background check can

ports/database/ruby-dbi and ports/database/ruby-dbd_pg faulty.

2007-12-06 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello. I try to use DBI:Pg and DBI:MySQL within a ruby-skript for accessing either MySQL or PostgreSQL database. Box is FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 Mysql is mysql50-server Postgresql is posgresql82-server and postgresql82-client with unixODBC and ruby-dbi and ruby-dbd_pg and ruby-dbd_mysql installed. W

Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )

2007-12-06 Thread Barnaby Scott
On Thu, December 6, 2007 4:42 pm, Randy Ramsdell wrote: > Vince wrote: > >> Randy Ramsdell wrote: >> >> >>> We started using FreeBSD for some network monitoring, but have found >>> that a hard reboot forces us to answer filesytem questions on boot. Is >>> there a way to mount each filesystem witho

Re: CD/DVD writer no longer works

2007-12-06 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, December 06, 2007 19:14:51 +0100 Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: /home/pauls/Downloads/FreeBSD/6.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso fixate burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCWRITESPEED): Input/output error [EMAIL PROTECTED] mount /dev/acd acd0 acd1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mount /dev/acd1 /mnt/cdro

Re: CD/DVD writer no longer works

2007-12-06 Thread Robert Marella
On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:34:01 -0600 Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The result of this command doesn't change if there's a known good CD > in the drive. And are you saying that the *device* appears to be > bad? Or the *driver* appears to be bad? Is there a way to confirm > this (utili

Boot failure - Recent Kernel(s)

2007-12-06 Thread Mark Jacobs
I am running FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE with my last successful kernel build on 11/1/07. I successfully have built two kernels, one a couple of weeks ago and one just today but when I attempt to boot them these new kernels are not able to identify my boot partition. When I query the devices that the

Re: CD/DVD writer no longer works

2007-12-06 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 11:34:25 Dec 06, Paul Schmehl wrote: > [..] > I can see the device using atacontrol. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] atacontrol info ata0 > Master: acd0 ATA/ATAPI revision 6 > Slave: acd1 ATA/ATAPI revision 5 [..] > Drive buf size : 1016064 = 992 KB > FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB > Track 01: d

Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )

2007-12-06 Thread NetOpsCenter
Randy Ramsdell wrote: Robert Huff wrote: Randy Ramsdell writes: > What is the value of background_fsck in /etc/rc.conf ? >This isn't set. Was is supposed to be? So far, I have only installed applications we need. And everything seem fine except the reboot issue. I'm going t

Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )

2007-12-06 Thread Ivan Voras
Randy Ramsdell wrote: > We started using FreeBSD for some network monitoring, but have found > that a hard reboot forces us to answer filesytem questions on boot. Is > there a way to mount each filesystem without this? Or how can we use > FreeBSD in a remote location without needing to intervene in

Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )

2007-12-06 Thread NetOpsCenter
Randy Ramsdell wrote: Vince wrote: Randy Ramsdell wrote: We started using FreeBSD for some network monitoring, but have found that a hard reboot forces us to answer filesytem questions on boot. Is there a way to mount each filesystem without this? Or how can we use FreeBSD in a remote locatio