Re: Low/Jerky performance in FreeBSD 7

2008-05-28 Thread Jeremie Le Hen
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 08:45:41AM -0700, Yani Brankov wrote: > I recently updated to FreeBSD 7 and noticed that my box started to perform > as windows does under heavier loads. The mouse starts to be jerky when > compiling, window updates/redraws are slow and bump the CPU usage up to > 100%

Re: FreeBSD based router ...

2008-05-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Does anyone know of anyone make an enterprise level router based off of FreeBSD? define what "enterprise level router" is - -- Marc G. FournierHub.Org Hosting Solutions S.A. (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo . ysc

Re: Survive from DDoS

2008-05-28 Thread Ivailo Tanusheff
Hi, you may use ipf to drop packets from the attacking host I suppose. Or even limit the packets to the specified port. Regards, Ivailo Tanusheff Kalpin Erlangga Silaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 28.05.2008 05:01 To "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" cc Subject Survive

Re: Survive from DDoS

2008-05-28 Thread Kalpin Erlangga Silaen
Dear Ivailo, thank you for your response. I am using ipfw to limit all packets for all open port in my server. But the packet size was 600 Mbps which could not filtered by our ISP. Ivailo Tanusheff wrote: Hi, you may use ipf to drop packets from the attacking host I suppose. Or even limit

Re: dump and remote file fetching

2008-05-28 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Zbigniew Szalbot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > Need a word of advice. I use dump to backup my data. All fine. Dump saves >>> compressed *.bz2 files. Nice. All I need now is a way to copy them from the >>> server to a remote backup machine. The problem

Re: FreeBSD based router ...

2008-05-28 Thread Steve Bertrand
Wojciech Puchar wrote: Does anyone know of anyone make an enterprise level router based off of FreeBSD? define what "enterprise level router" is Something that doesn't say 'Vista capable' on the box? :) Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mail

Re: FreeBSD based router ...

2008-05-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
FreeBSD? define what "enterprise level router" is Something that doesn't say 'Vista capable' on the box? so get 486, 16MB RAM, needed amount of network cards, install FreeBSD and configure :) (pentium may be needed for full 100Mb/s capability)

RE: FreeBSD based router ...

2008-05-28 Thread Robert Huff
Bob McConnell writes: > >>> define what "enterprise level router" is > >> > >> Something that doesn't say 'Vista capable' on the box? > > > > so get 486, 16MB RAM, needed amount of network cards, install FreeBSD > and > > configure :) > > > > (pentium may be needed for full 100Mb/s ca

RE: FreeBSD based router ...

2008-05-28 Thread Bob McConnell
From: Robert Huff > Bob McConnell writes: > >> >>> define what "enterprise level router" is >> >> >> >> Something that doesn't say 'Vista capable' on the box? >> > >> > so get 486, 16MB RAM, needed amount of network cards, install FreeBSD >> and >> > configure :) >> > >> > (pentium may

Re: FreeBSD based router ...

2008-05-28 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 09:51:35AM -0400, Bob McConnell wrote: > From: Robert Huff > > Bob McConnell writes: > > > >> >>> define what "enterprise level router" is > >> >> > >> >> Something that doesn't say 'Vista capable' on the box? > >> > > >> > so get 486, 16MB RAM, needed amount of netwo

RE: FreeBSD based router ...

2008-05-28 Thread Bob McConnell
Wojciech Puchar >>> define what "enterprise level router" is >> >> Something that doesn't say 'Vista capable' on the box? > > so get 486, 16MB RAM, needed amount of network cards, install FreeBSD and > configure :) > > (pentium may be needed for full 100Mb/s capability) Finding a box with that

Re: Survive from DDoS

2008-05-28 Thread Jos Chrispijn
Kalpin Erlangga Silaen wrote: > yesterday, our shell server was attack and server immeditiately reboot. > I checked logs, it likes UDP flood with destination port 53. Is there > any way how to survive from this kind attack? (i) Do a "grep 53 /etc/services" and search for ports 53 on both tcp and u

Need help with multicast routing over VPN

2008-05-28 Thread Michael Doyle
My organisation has successfully used FreeBSD to set up a VPN between three sites. Now, in order to facilitate a phone system using VOIP between two of those sites, I have attempted to enable multi-cast routing between those sites. I looked at the mrouted manual, and attempted to configure

Re: Survive from DDoS

2008-05-28 Thread Ivailo Tanusheff
Hi, What I wanted to say was to use pf, not ipf. You may use something like this: table persist block log quick from # sshspammer # more than 6 ssh attempts in 15 seconds will be blocked ;) pass in quick on $ext_if proto tcp to ($ext_if) port ssh keep state (max-src-conn 10, max-src-conn-rat

RE: FreeBSD based router ...

2008-05-28 Thread Bob McConnell
From: Jerry B. Altzman > On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Erik Trulsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> (Putting a total of 6 quad-port NICs on a single PCI-bus would totally swamp >> that bus though, so if one were to actually use so many NICs I would rather >> recommend e.g. the Asus P5BP-E/4L mot

Re: FreeBSD based router ...

2008-05-28 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:31:24AM -0400, Jerry B. Altzman wrote: > On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Erik Trulsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (Putting a total of 6 quad-port NICs on a single PCI-bus would totally swamp > > that bus though, so if one were to actually use so many NICs I would ra

Re: FreeBSD based router ...

2008-05-28 Thread Jerry B. Altzman
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Erik Trulsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (Putting a total of 6 quad-port NICs on a single PCI-bus would totally swamp > that bus though, so if one were to actually use so many NICs I would rather > recommend e.g. the Asus P5BP-E/4L motherboard. It has 3 PCI slots

Re: FreeBSD based router ...

2008-05-28 Thread Jerry B. Altzman
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Erik Trulsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:31:24AM -0400, Jerry B. Altzman wrote: >> And all this just to *pass packets*; if you're making real *routing* >> decisions based upon that (i.e. you're making a router rather than a >> switch),

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Re: FreeBSD based router ...

2008-05-28 Thread Rob
Bob McConnell wrote: I don't need that many Ethernet ports, but I do need most of those PCI slots. I was unable to locate a box with more than four slots and a warranty that was acceptable to our Production group. I'm still not sure about the warranty or that we can buy it in a case with power su

Re: Survive from DDoS

2008-05-28 Thread Patrick C
I think the size and the fact that his ISP could not filter this indicates that the problem cannot be solved locally. You can do all the blocking on your end you want, but they can (and did) still saturate links ahead of you. Your ISP (or even their uplink, I'm guessing your ISP was also pretty af

RE: FreeBSD based router ...

2008-05-28 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Giorgos > Keramidas > Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 7:38 PM > To: Matthew Donovan > Cc: Marc G. Fournier; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: FreeBSD based router ... > > > On Tue, 27 May 2008 22

RE: FreeBSD based router ...

2008-05-28 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jerry B. > Altzman > Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 7:31 AM > To: Erik Trulsson > Cc: Bob McConnell; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: FreeBSD based router ... > > > On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10

RE: FreeBSD based router ...

2008-05-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
(pentium may be needed for full 100Mb/s capability) Finding a box with that enough PCI slots might be problematic. not true. 5 PCI slots isn't uncommon+ISA slots. ISA slot is OK for video card (easy to find in scraps ;). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd

RE: FreeBSD based router ...

2008-05-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Finding a box with that enough PCI slots might be problematic. Six slots X quad-port network cards = 24 interfaces. If you need more than that, it's probably worth investing in specialized hard-/software. Robert Huff Where did you find a box

RE: FreeBSD based router ...

2008-05-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
And all this just to *pass packets*; if you're making real *routing* decisions based upon that (i.e. you're making a router rather than a switch), which requires that packets take a trip to the CPU, you'll packet headers find yourself coming to the realization that Cisco and Juniper might fo

Re: FreeBSD based router ...

2008-05-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
These guys have a 2 or 4 port nic for < $100: http://www.soekris.com/lan16x1.htm Try Ebay for the Adaptec ANA-6944-TX. It's a 4 port based on the old DEC chipset (de driver) Usual can be had for <= $10. but prepare for problems connecting this with other devices. usually works well with sw

RE: FreeBSD based router ...

2008-05-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
They are very expensive. A Juniper is not based on FreeBSD. It uses FreeBSD as the control interface. The actual routing happens in specialized ASICS that Juniper custom-builds. good for multiple gigabits traffic or more. for lower speed - not worth of. __

External USB disk won't mount

2008-05-28 Thread Mark Ovens
Bought an external USB HD enclosure but it doesn't work under FreeBSD. Under FreeBSD-6.3-STABLE: umass0: Super Top USB 2.0 IDE DEVICE, rev 2.00/2.01, addr 2 da2 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da2: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device da2: 40.000MB/s transfers da2: 38172MB (78177792 512 byte s

Re: External USB disk won't mount

2008-05-28 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Ovens wrote: > Bought an external USB HD enclosure but it doesn't work under FreeBSD. > > Under FreeBSD-6.3-STABLE: > > umass0: Super Top USB 2.0 IDE DEVICE, rev 2.00/2.01, addr 2 > da2 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > da2: Fixed Direct Ac

Re: External USB disk won't mount

2008-05-28 Thread Mark Ovens
Chuck Robey wrote: I saw a mail yesterday about something nearly like this, from nej, except with him, the umass device wasn't reporting anything at all, no device when he plugged it in. I sent him a little piece of usb driver code that resets his usb buss, just to experiment and see if that got

Re: FreeBSD based router ...

2008-05-28 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On May 28, 2008, at 11:06 AM, Rob wrote: These guys have a 2 or 4 port nic for < $100: http://www.soekris.com/lan16x1.htm For small and medium sized enterprises that really just need firewall, NAT, static routing and are fine with 100Mb ether on the router, I've been happy with using soekr

Re: External USB disk won't mount

2008-05-28 Thread Mark Ovens
Mark Ovens wrote: Chuck Robey wrote: I saw a mail yesterday about something nearly like this, from nej, except with him, the umass device wasn't reporting anything at all, no device when he plugged it in. I sent him a little piece of usb driver code that resets his usb buss, just to experiment

Re: External USB disk won't mount

2008-05-28 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
> > Chuck Robey wrote: > > I saw a mail yesterday about something nearly like this, from nej, except > > with > > him, the umass device wasn't reporting anything at all, no device when he > > plugged it in. I sent him a little piece of usb driver code that resets > > his usb > > buss, just to e

Does FreeBSD supports TCP Offload Engine (TOE) from Broadcom in Dell PE2950?

2008-05-28 Thread VeeJay
Hi guys Any clue? Does FreeBSD supports TCP Offload Engine (TOE) from Broadcom in Dell PE2950? -- Thanks! BR / vj ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: External USB disk won't mount

2008-05-28 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 07:27:06PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > Bought an external USB HD enclosure but it doesn't work under FreeBSD. > > Under FreeBSD-6.3-STABLE: > > umass0: Super Top USB 2.0 IDE DEVICE, rev 2.00/2.01, addr 2 > da2 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > da2: Fixed Direct Access

Re: External USB disk won't mount

2008-05-28 Thread Mark Ovens
Roland Smith wrote: You could try using the atausb driver instead of umass. Unfortunately it doesn't have a manpage yet, but you have to unload umass if you want to use atausb. Thanks Roland, but I can't find atausb in either 6.3 or 7.0 - is it a kld module? Presumably, it would not work w

perl 5.10 port

2008-05-28 Thread Nickolay D. Hodyunya
Hello. I'm interesting when perl 5.10 will be available in freebsd ports? Always Want to ask same question about qt4.4. -- Regards, Nickolay D. Hodyunya. mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

Re: Does FreeBSD supports TCP Offload Engine (TOE) from Broadcom in Dell PE2950?

2008-05-28 Thread Rob
VeeJay wrote: Does FreeBSD supports TCP Offload Engine (TOE) from Broadcom in Dell PE2950? from man bge: X v1.0 compliant. It supports IP, TCP and UDP checksum offload for both receive and transmit, multiple RX and TX DMA rings for QoS applications, rules-based receive filtering,

Re: FreeBSD based router ...

2008-05-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
For small and medium sized enterprises that really just need firewall, NAT, static routing and are fine with 100Mb ether on the router, I've been happy with using soekris net48XX boxes using m0n0wall http://m0n0.ch/wall/ or pfsense http://www.pfsense.com/ both FreeBSD based. small but exp

Re: External USB disk won't mount

2008-05-28 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 08:37:55PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > Roland Smith wrote: >> >> You could try using the atausb driver instead of umass. Unfortunately it >> doesn't have a manpage yet, but you have to unload umass if you want to >> use atausb. >> > > Thanks Roland, but I can't find atausb

Re: External USB disk won't mount

2008-05-28 Thread Mark Ovens
Roland Smith wrote: Yes; $ locate atausb /usr/src/sys/modules/ata/atausb /usr/src/sys/modules/ata/atausb/Makefile (This is on 7-STABLE) Ah, so it's not built by default! Presumably, it would not work with other usb mass storage devices like memory sticks or phones? It should work with al

Re: FreeBSD based router ...

2008-05-28 Thread Tom Van Looy
Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: On May 28, 2008, at 11:06 AM, Rob wrote: These guys have a 2 or 4 port nic for < $100: http://www.soekris.com/lan16x1.htm For small and medium sized enterprises that really just need firewall, NAT, static routing and are fine with 100Mb ether on the router, I've been

Re: FreeBSD based router ...

2008-05-28 Thread Tom Van Looy
Wojciech Puchar wrote: been happy with using soekris net48XX boxes using m0n0wall small but expensive. used 486-pentium hardware is for free. No it's not, they consume electricity. Soekris boxes are designed for low-power. I had a 4501 and now have a 5501. ___

amd64 ?!

2008-05-28 Thread kalin m
hi all... i have dilemma. i asked a hosting faclity to set up freebsd 7 on new server. and i mentioned that it should be 64 bit. now they when i get into the machine i get: srv391# uname -a FreeBSD srv391.carpathiahost.com 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 10:35:36 UTC 2008

Re: amd64 ?!

2008-05-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
kalin m wrote: hi all... i have dilemma. i asked a hosting faclity to set up freebsd 7 on new server. and i mentioned that it should be 64 bit. now they when i get into the machine i get: srv391# uname -a FreeBSD srv391.carpathiahost.com 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 10:35

Re: amd64 ?!

2008-05-28 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 04:56:26PM -0400, kalin m wrote: > hi all... > > i have dilemma. > > i asked a hosting faclity to set up freebsd 7 on new server. and i > mentioned that it should be 64 bit. > now they when i get into the machine i get: > srv391# uname -a > FreeBSD srv391.carpathiahost.

Re: amd64 ?!

2008-05-28 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 04:56:26PM -0400, kalin m wrote: > hi all... > > i have dilemma. > > i asked a hosting faclity to set up freebsd 7 on new server. and i > mentioned that it should be 64 bit. > now they when i get into the machine i get: > srv391# uname -a > FreeBSD srv391.carpathiahost.

Re: amd64 ?!

2008-05-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
so i'm a bit confused about the the 64 bit and why the machine is identifying itself as amd64 and not i686? because this intel CPU is 64-bit AMD compatible (x86-64 standard). the rules changed and now intel make AMD-compatible CPUs ___ freebsd-questi

Re: Does FreeBSD supports TCP Offload Engine (TOE) from Broadcom in Dell PE2950?

2008-05-28 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 28), Rob said: > VeeJay wrote: > > Does FreeBSD supports TCP Offload Engine (TOE) from Broadcom in > > Dell PE2950? > > from man bge: > > X v1.0 compliant. It supports IP, TCP and UDP checksum offload > for both receive and transmit, multiple RX and TX DMA ring

Re: External USB disk won't mount

2008-05-28 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Ovens wrote: > Chuck Robey wrote: >> I saw a mail yesterday about something nearly like this, from nej, >> except with >> him, the umass device wasn't reporting anything at all, no device when he >> plugged it in. I sent him a little piece of usb

Re: FreeBSD based router ...

2008-05-28 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On May 28, 2008, at 3:08 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: For small and medium sized enterprises that really just need firewall, NAT, static routing and are fine with 100Mb ether on the router, I've been happy with using soekris net48XX boxes using m0n0wall small but expensive. used 486-pent

Kernel Panic: isp - page fault while in kernel mode

2008-05-28 Thread Greg Himes
Hello All, Last week, one half of my dual port Qlogic fibre channel interface started causing a page fault panic while probing the second port at boot time. I was able to get the system back up by disabling the BIOS on the second port. The system still sees the 2nd port, but politely display

help with options BRIDGE in freebsd 7.0

2008-05-28 Thread cp
I'd really appreciate if someone can shed some light on this for me. I'm attempting to build a layer2 sniffer using dummynet and ipfw but I'm having some problems building the new kernel with "options BRIDGE". It errors out with the message below. Any suggestions? -cp lois# /usr/sbin/config LOIS

Re: Kernel Panic: isp - page fault while in kernel mode

2008-05-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
Greg Himes wrote: Hello All, Last week, one half of my dual port Qlogic fibre channel interface started causing a page fault panic while probing the second port at boot time. I was able to get the system back up by disabling the BIOS on the second port. The system still sees the 2nd port, bu

Re: Unix command-line tools to edit SharePoint site?

2008-05-28 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Kurt Buff wrote: On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Chris Whitehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kelly Jones wrote: I begrudgingly use a Windows SharePoint server at a customer's request. I'd like to automate (command-line) updating and creating documents, lists, etc. Is there a Unix tool that d

Re: Unix command-line tools to edit SharePoint site?

2008-05-28 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Chris Whitehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kurt Buff wrote: >> >> On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Chris Whitehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Kelly Jones wrote: I begrudgingly use a Windows SharePoint server at a customer's request. >>>

Re: FreeBSD based router ...

2008-05-28 Thread Jon Radel
Tom Van Looy wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: been happy with using soekris net48XX boxes using m0n0wall small but expensive. used 486-pentium hardware is for free. No it's not, they consume electricity. Soekris boxes are designed for low-power. I had a 4501 and now have a 5501. And, other t

Re: amd64 ?!

2008-05-28 Thread Outback Dingo
I think maybe what he was expecting was a FreeBSD IA64 install on the box, but they installed AMD64 instead On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Wojciech Puchar < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> so i'm a bit confused about the the 64 bit and why the machine is >> identifying itself as amd64 and not i6

Re: amd64 ?!

2008-05-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
Outback Dingo wrote: I think maybe what he was expecting was a FreeBSD IA64 install on the box, but they installed AMD64 instead *Correctly* installed. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fre

usb kbd and ums problem

2008-05-28 Thread Lei Chen
I have a problem with my newly installed Freebsd6.3. I use USB keyboard and mouse, when start it all goes well, but after system boot process initalize usb2 controllers, both my keyboard and mouse disappear. I have to physically unplug them and plug them in again to use them. I have ums_load="Y

RE: FreeBSD based router ...

2008-05-28 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jon Radel > Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 5:24 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: FreeBSD based router ... > > > Tom Van Looy wrote: > > > > Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >>> been happy w

Re: FreeBSD based router ...

2008-05-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
small but expensive. used 486-pentium hardware is for free. 486 hardware with three NICs, a CF drive, and run off of a few watts of DC power tend not to free. that's the adventage. but edimax 6104K router with 5 ethernets running netbsd is both cheaper smaller and faster with it's 175Mhz 2