Re: Getting vim to work correctly.

2007-09-28 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Friday 28 September 2007 11:56, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2007-09-27 23:05, Jay Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Eric Schuele wrote: > >> On 09/27/2007 21:01, Jay Chandler wrote: > >>> Howdy. > >>> Sorry to keep hitting the list with questions today, but does anyone > >>> know how to

Re: PPPoE Doesn't Connect

2007-10-03 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 06:48:47 Sean McLaughlin wrote: > After following that "Cheaper Broadband with FreeBSD on DSL" article > referenced in the handbook, I am not getting PPP to work with ADSL. > ppp(8)'s prompt stays all lowercase after "dial", whether I do > pap/chap or not. Authenticat

Re: Odd PF Denied Message

2007-10-18 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Thursday 18 October 2007 17:59:49 Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote: > Hello All: > > We're getting a ton of these. > > +Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:113 from 127.0.0.1:52655 flags:0x02 This doesn't look like a pf(4) message. This looks like sysctl net.inet.tcp.log_in_vain is 1. It logs ev

Re: Odd PF Denied Message

2007-10-18 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Thursday 18 October 2007 18:39:56 Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote: > Thank you for the clue! We are using log in vain as part of our > security logging for this particular box, but this is the only message > I've ever seen so I'm not sure it's really needed. It must be a local program trying t

Re: Odd PF Denied Message

2007-10-19 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Friday 19 October 2007 07:06:35 Ian Smith wrote: > On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:36:27 +0300 Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > > If that's the only message you get > > you must be protected, at least packet_filtering-wise. Here > > I think log_in_vain can be used w

Re: Source code of cal

2007-10-19 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Friday 19 October 2007 06:42:37 Yang You Yong wrote: > I want to get a source code of cal (calendar tool), where > can I get it? cal is ncal as mentioned in the manual page. So, /usr/src/usr.bin/ncal if you have the source installed. Or here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/

Re: Secure Wireless Router using FreeBSD ...

2007-10-19 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Taking this to questions@, since it feels like a more appropriate place than [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Friday 19 October 2007 08:27:02 Marc G. Fournier wrote: > Within my Linksys, I can restrict wireless to MAC addresses, as well as > using stuff like WPA ... quick search on google, and I found: > >

Re: user ppp and PPPoE bridging

2007-10-23 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Tuesday 23 October 2007 05:31:45 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm attempting to change a DSL link from using PPPoE in the DSL modem > to doing PPPoE on 6.1, with the modem in bridging mode. > > I've put the DSL modem in bridging mode, and it brings up the link > properly -- or at least it reports

Re: trafshow and IPFW

2007-10-23 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Saturday 20 October 2007 15:11:48 Grant Peel wrote: > Hi all, > > If I write a rule to block irc ports (6669), and I see them being > blocked in ipfw, will I still see the connection attemps in trafshow? You seem to ask, yet I believe you already know the answer :) Is trafshow using BPF? I too

Re: user ppp and PPPoE bridging

2007-10-24 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Tuesday 23 October 2007 21:04:48 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is a zyxel 642r modem; I can't try my other modem, a cisco 678, > because it doesn't support a vci > 63. Oh cisco :) Be thankful to cisco for not creating other proprietary protocols to replace the existing ATM/DSL combination :)

Re: Live video streaming on FreeBSD?

2007-10-24 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Wednesday 24 October 2007 17:03:57 Brian A. Seklecki wrote: > > /usr/ports/multimedia/mencoder can encode/recode videos to many > > different formats, including wmv9 and H.264. > > > > /usr/ports/multimedia/vlc contains a streaming server, IIRC. > > Do any of these support multicast? Cisco is p

Re: Live video streaming on FreeBSD?

2007-10-24 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Wednesday 24 October 2007 17:44:13 Brian A. Seklecki wrote: > Well, no, its just that the 99% of the managed switches & routers out > there are going to ("need to") support multicast video delivery > they way they want. I guess there are many possible solutions. YMMV. Many solutions to many dif

Re: user ppp and PPPoE bridging

2007-10-25 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Thursday 25 October 2007 00:11:39 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Oct 24 12:33:35 nightmare ppp[859]: tun0: Debug: deflink: PPPoE:ed1: > Cannot determine bandwidth > > I presume this is a result of the lost LQR packets. No, bandwidth isn't known to ppp. You can ignore this warning. There is no conne

Re: how many IPFW rules?

2007-10-31 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Tuesday 30 October 2007 22:57:31 eBoundHost: Artur wrote: > Hello FreeBSD people! > > I have a smtp server under attack by what seems like a large botnet. My > inetd is choking under the load and not allowing real mail through. > I've successfully used tshark to find the offenders and put them

Re: ICMP and discard oversize frame

2007-10-31 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Wednesday 31 October 2007 12:37:43 Eric Boudrand wrote: > Hello, > > I am running a FreeBSD router with two ethernet cards. I have reduced > the MTU to 800 in order to generate ICMP packet "Fragmentation needed > but DF was set". I can find in log : > > rl1: discard oversize frame (ether type 80

Re: ipfw rule question ... all possible interfaces ?

2007-11-05 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Monday 05 November 2007 02:10:12 Juri Mianovich wrote: > Is there a way to tell ipfw: > > "all interfaces currently configured on this system" ? That's not possible directly, I think. > I have a laptop and at any time I could plug in a USB > NIC or plug in a pccard, in addition to the onboard

Re: ip6fw without ipfw?

2007-11-06 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Tuesday 06 November 2007 00:54:36 Bob Johnson wrote: > So is it a bug or a feature that enabling ip6fw (/etc/rc.d/ip6fw > start) also enables ipfw (the ipv4 version)? I didn't see it mentioned > in IP6FW(8). > > It sure surprised me when I was exploring IPv6 setup and I enabled > ip6fw without c

Re: ip6fw without ipfw?

2007-11-06 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Tuesday 06 November 2007 17:14:24 Bob Johnson wrote: > Since this is apparently a bug, I'll file a PR. I'm going to install > 7.0-BETA2 later today, I'll try again on that. Not saying that this is not a bug, but keep in mind that there is no ip6fw in RELENG_7. IPv6 filtering is integrated in ip

Re: X screen film recording

2007-11-07 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Wednesday 07 November 2007 09:25:19 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > is there any app for this. to simply record what's going on X server as > movie file (like .mov, .avi) or animated .gif? Yes, sysutils/xvidcap. Don't really remember what are the outputs that it supports. It works, the only negative

Re: TCP/IP questions

2007-11-08 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Wednesday 07 November 2007 18:02:44 Bram wrote: > Hi all, > > Can you change the timeout for a tcp connection ? > I need to do the following: start a tcp connection , unplug the network > cable (it's actually wifi but the effect is the same),send some data > over the connection,wait 20 seconds ,

Re: IP packet with options

2007-11-08 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Wednesday 07 November 2007 18:04:48 Malcolm Clarke wrote: > I have configured a machine with 2 NIC and IPFW in a rather simplistic > way as we are using it to emulate different link characteristics rather > than as an actual firewall. > > 00100 4 355 pipe 1 ip from any to any via de0 in > 00200

Re: TCP/IP questions

2007-11-09 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Thursday 08 November 2007 18:40:58 Bram wrote: > Nikos Vassiliadis schreef: > > On Wednesday 07 November 2007 18:02:44 Bram wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> Can you change the timeout for a tcp connection ? > >> I need to do the following: start a t

Re: jails in 6.3 and 7.0

2007-11-15 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Wednesday 14 November 2007 20:24:14 Erik Cederstrand wrote: > Jonathan Horne wrote: > > I was reading a while back that the jails tcp system was getting an > > overhaul, possibly in the 7.0 release. I don't remember all the > > particulars, but things along the lines to make jails function even

Re: Kernel pty limit

2007-11-16 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Thursday 15 November 2007 22:39:12 Christopher Cowart wrote: > I suppose that counts as Good News. Does this mean the change will be > part of the increasingly anticipated 7.0 release? It seems that the change is already merged to RELENG_7 and RELENG_6. Nikos ___

Re: Download freebsd sourcecode for building in machine not have internet connection

2007-12-03 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Monday 03 December 2007 11:20:57 cuongvt wrote: > sarek wrote: > > to allow for csup/cvsup'ing the source code. > > Yes, it is solution for freebsd on usb stick. > But you know, They are hosting internal LAN for file sharing, so I think > usb solution is not suitable ;) > ANy idea? You probably

Re: SSH disconnects very troubling

2007-12-04 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 02:40:35 Anne Moore wrote: > Thanks, Kevin. This may well work with the SSH, but it's actually > disconnecting all my clients, telnet, Oracle, etc. There is a config for > telnet, but nothing for Oracle (that I know of). Also, ldap, etc. It's > the strangest thing!! No

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.

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: 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-interface

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: Connecting networks

2007-12-11 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Tuesday 11 December 2007 15:29:29 Alaor Barroso de Carvalho Neto wrote: > Hi guyz, it's me again. I think I don't know what I'm doing, so I ask > for help. I have three private networks(192.168.1, 10.10.0, 192.168.2) > and a link to the external world 200.212.X, what I want to do is that my > Fr

Re: performance impact of large /etc/hosts files

2007-12-11 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Tuesday 11 December 2007 05:18:40 Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > I wonder what the performance impact of the entries in /etc/hosts really > is. > > What is your experience? > > Google tells me a lot of hosts running FreeBSD but I could not find > anything regarding the hosts file itself. > > I

Re: performance impact of large /etc/hosts files

2007-12-11 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
And it just occured to me that you really mean /etc/hosts.allow and not /etc/hosts... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: performance impact of large /etc/hosts files

2007-12-11 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Wednesday 12 December 2007 04:06:01 Erich Dollansky wrote: > > There's no clean solutions to getting different lookups per-user that > > I > > The clen solution is hosts. But hosts is operating system-wide. Both ipfw and pf support tables, which is what you want, large sets or unrelated (addre

Re: performance impact of large /etc/hosts files

2007-12-12 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Wednesday 12 December 2007 10:05:28 Erich Dollansky wrote: > The beauty is, Internet feels still faster then before. > > It has one advantage over all those ad removal tools. It filters what I > do not like. It has nothing to do with censorship, it just gets rid of > all the crap hanging around

Re: performance impact of large /etc/hosts files

2007-12-12 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Wednesday 12 December 2007 14:01:14 Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > but I'm going to spend *forever* before I get all those IP addresses > from a round-robin DNS entry to put into some ipfw table, No, it's going to take something like 5 minutes. At least for a 1420 lines hosts file. > and if any of > t

Re: mounted cd and tray locking

2007-12-12 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Wednesday 12 December 2007 13:13:48 Andriy Gapon wrote: > I recently noticed that FreeBSD doesn't prevent tray opening (via a > button on CD/DVD drive) even if I mount a CD with ISO 9660 filesystem on > it. This at least happens with ATAPI CD drive (acd driver/device). > > Maybe my memory is fai

Re: mounted cd and tray locking

2007-12-12 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Wednesday 12 December 2007 18:58:44 Andriy Gapon wrote: > Hmm. Looked at the code and it should be as expected. Played with > various stuff and here's what I think: it seems that having atapicam and > hald and maybe something in KDE that polls for CD change is to blame. I have no atapicam in my

Re: mounted cd and tray locking

2007-12-13 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Thursday 13 December 2007 11:42:00 Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 13/12/2007 09:30 Nikos Vassiliadis said the following: > > On Wednesday 12 December 2007 18:58:44 Andriy Gapon wrote: > >> Hmm. Looked at the code and it should be as expected. Played with > >> various stuff

Re: mounted cd and tray locking

2007-12-13 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Thursday 13 December 2007 12:28:39 Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 13/12/2007 12:13 Nikos Vassiliadis said the following: > > On Thursday 13 December 2007 11:42:00 Andriy Gapon wrote: > >> on 13/12/2007 09:30 Nikos Vassiliadis said the following: > >>> On Wednesday 12

Re: can't add interfaces to bridge

2008-09-29 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Saturday 27 September 2008 20:52:43 Steve Franks wrote: > I'm getting the following error - ifconfig: BRDGADD ath0: Invalid > argument > > Given the following commands (which work for my tap interface with > qemu on 7.1, but apparently not with two regular network cards on > 6.3): > > sudo kldlo

Re: can't add interfaces to bridge

2008-09-30 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Monday 29 September 2008 19:40:56 Steve Franks wrote: > Just trying to string some old printers & the like off my rl0 and get > them onto the local wifi net via ath0. ath0 is connected to an AP. Well, currently, you can't bridge rl0 and ath0. If I understood correctly, you want to make the pr

Re: cross-link serial console

2009-10-20 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Gary Gatten wrote: Ahh A Null modem cable? Or, perhaps BSD will allow you to configure the serial interface in the software - make one end a DCE type and the other by default will remain a DTE. He has to use a null-modem cable. The wires sending and receiving data are fixed, so one cannot

Re: Loadbalance outgoing traffic over two cable modems in same network

2009-12-21 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 12/21/2009 6:03 AM, Mel Flynn wrote: Hi, I've looked over http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/pools.html but this assumes two different gateways for the two interfaces. I'm faced with two cable modems from the same ISP, with the same gateway. I can't lagg(4) the interfaces, since specific IP's are

Re: which IP+gateway for Freebsd guest VM in VMware workstation

2009-12-27 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 12/27/2009 12:10 AM, Len Conrad wrote: VMWare has lots of info how to set up the (Windows XP) VMWare Workstation networking side, but not much on setting up networking in the guest OS. I've tried NAT and bridging, no DHCP, and can't ping anything except the localhost IPs. XP ipconfig show

Re: which IP+gateway for Freebsd guest VM in VMware workstation

2009-12-28 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 12/27/2009 2:36 PM, Len Conrad wrote: Take a look here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/config-network-setup.html thanks, I've been setting up FreeBSD for 10 years, and have multimple FreeBSD VMs running in several ESXi hosts. Sorry, I didn't mean to offend you. I just didn't

Re: "Checksum mismatch -- will transfer entire file"

2009-12-28 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 12/28/2009 7:46 AM, Victor Sudakov wrote: To cut a long story short, I would rather continue using cvs, perhaps until there is subversion-light in the base system. I use successfully cvs for the same reasons. Most of the time I use the French mirror and I have also used the two USA ones. I h

Re: "Checksum mismatch -- will transfer entire file"

2009-12-28 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 12/28/2009 11:11 AM, Victor Sudakov wrote: Are you sure you understand me? I was talking about mirroring the whole repository with cvsup/cvsupd protocol, that's where the "Checksum mismatch -- will transfer entire file" error occurs. Sorry, I missed the part of conversation about cvs mode in

Re: Buld echo

2010-01-12 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 1/12/2010 12:21 PM, Jos Chrispijn wrote: I have 35 log files that I want to flush once a day. In order to keep them exist I now do an 'echo > logfile.log' How can I do such in one command having the same effect on all log files? You could use truncate(1). Something like: truncate -s 0 file1

Re: traceroute problems

2008-03-12 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Tuesday 11 March 2008 00:30:05 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > Right - thanks. I will see if I can unblock it then. Hm, I wouldn't bet on it, since most of these devices tend to have preconfigured well-hidden firewall rules. > traceroute uses UDP packets, no special port numbers. FreeBSD's tracero

Re: pptpd server on a Samba PDC

2008-03-18 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Tuesday 18 March 2008 14:28:22 Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: > My goal is to make our PDC (FreeBSD 7.0 - Samba 3.0.28) available > through VPN from Windows clients so clients can authenticate via > Winbind, join the domain and access there home shares. > I have tried to follow the instructions by And

OT: using arts & noatun

2008-03-21 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Hello, I just updated(actually re-installed) my system from 6-STABLE to 7-STABLE. I spent two days choosing and compilling this and that, and now it seems that it's usable again. But, I have trouble with arts or maybe noatun. It skips audio, no matter what. Zero load and it skips. I tried to use

pcm0: primary codec not ready!

2008-03-24 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Hi, While loading snd_ich, the kernel prints the message on the subject. I haven't noticed any problems; Is it something to worry about? That's on 7-STABLE and the hardware is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:31:5: class=0x040100 card=0xe0018086 chip=0x24d58086 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'In

Re: by MAC blocking

2008-04-09 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Tuesday 08 April 2008 19:52:05 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > i use static arp on my network. > > all existing computers are set in with arp -f /etc/ethers > > and interface has STATICARP option set. > > trying to use unused IP address doesn't work - as should > > BUT trying to use allocated IP addres

Re: Routing to internet addresses ending with 255

2008-05-16 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Friday 16 May 2008 12:32:35 Manolis Kiagias wrote: > I had this weird problem today, and I would like to know what caused it: > > I have two home servers, on different locations, on two ADSL lines using > dynamic DNS. One is running Debian, the other FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. > > I usually ssh from o

Re: VPN (IPSEC)

2008-06-03 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Sunday 01 June 2008 02:49:22 alexus wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to establish a VPN tunnel over internet, I read a > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/ipsec.html on how to set > it up, I'm some what strangeling if my setup will work at all. > > i have box #1 that have 1 primary IP,

Re: Token Ring (really)

2012-04-08 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 4/8/2012 4:41 PM, Jay West wrote: Adam wrote... Otherwise, it's time to abandon steamships for airplanes. Sounds like you have a primed business opportunity just waiting to be exploited. --- Actually, this is for a historical re-creation project. Airplanes would be entirely inapprop

Re: VLANs, default route not working on boot

2012-04-20 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 4/20/2012 9:54 PM, Chad M Stewart wrote: cloned_interfaces="vlan4 vlan7" ifconfig_vlan4="inet 192.168.4.21 netmask 255.255.255.0 vlan 4 vlandev em0" ifconfig_vlan7="inet 192.168.7.21 netmask 255.255.255.0 vlan 7 vlandev em0" ifconfig_vlan7="alias 192.168.7.31 netmask 255.255.255.255" ifconfig_

Re: Regarding PCI-E error display in FreeBSD

2012-05-23 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 5/23/2012 1:45 PM, subramani.p wrote: Does FreeBSD has provision to display PCI-E errors. we are observing a FreeBSD OS hang while performing a phy break of an expander during IOs on the drives attached to the expander. The same test when run under linux we could see Linux OS popping up PCIe

Re: fsck on a mounted fs as read-only

2012-05-31 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 5/31/2012 12:19 PM, dmi...@zhigulinet.ru wrote: Good afternoon. Could not tell whether you can run fsck on checking mounted file system as read-only, if prior to that with which the parameters ftp # mount ... / dev/aacd0 on / var / ftp (ufs, NFS exported, local, read-only) Could you copy

Re: Tuning routing table size in FreeBSD 8.0 and 7.2

2011-02-24 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 2/24/2011 4:51 PM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 2/24/11 3:00 PM, nikitha wrote: Hi, Could you plz share the information on the maximum number of routes that can be added (by default) in FREEBSD 8.0/7.2 kernel? In Linux the sysctl rt_max_size is used. Is there a similar tunable parameter in freeB

Re: Strange behavior of MTU on loopback interfaces.

2011-02-25 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 2/25/2011 9:29 AM, c0re wrote: Hello all! I'm testing setting lower MTU on loopback interfaces to avoid some MTU problems with IPSEC in a path of traffic. ifconfig lo1 create ifconfig lo1 mtu 1300 ifconfig lo1 5.5.5.5/32 # ifconfig lo1 lo1: flags=8049 metric 0 mtu 1300 inet 5.5.5.

Re: lockf command

2011-04-13 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 4/13/2011 12:08 PM, Bastien Semene wrote: I wish that if command #2 can't acquire the lock, lockf exits (exit 0 would be nice). If I set -t 1, lockf is quite what I'm waiting for. But I like to do this in a clear way : if it can't acquire the lock it exits, no timeout wait. Am I misunderstand

Re: Can I bridge the same subnet across a VPN?

2011-05-05 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 5/5/2011 12:24 AM, David Brodbeck wrote: The problem I've always found with bridged solutions is they don't cope well under heavy traffic loads when the VPN link is slower than the LANs they're bridging between. And the VPN link is usually slower if it's over a WAN. The link tends to get sat

Re: VIMAGE in fbsd 9.0

2011-05-16 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 5/15/2011 7:49 PM, Fbsd8 wrote: What is the current status of VIMAGE in Freebsd 9.0? I *think* all VIMAGE related code in 9.0 has been merged to 8-STABLE. It is still tagged experimental. Most things work. Is there something that doesn't work for you? Is VIMAGE going to be included in the

Re: ARP tables in FreeBSD (vs Linux)

2011-05-24 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 5/23/2011 10:46 PM, Rogelio wrote: I found that a certain Linux gateway was having a difficult time with thousands of ARP entries (about 13K concurrent ARP entries in 10 min from ISP subscribers), so I put it behind a Cisco 7201 router and added an IP helper to the interface. Now it seems to

Re: disappearing files

2011-07-28 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 7/28/2011 10:15 AM, ad...@prnet.org wrote: Hi, I am using FreeBSD 8.2 with an UFS filesystem containing a jail. I do a tar of the whole jail every night. Suddenly after a few weeks of operation, tar complains about being unable to stat /usr/lib/libmilter.so. From inside the jail: ls /usr/

Re: Can gpart create ntfs and FAT-32 partitions?

2011-07-28 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 7/28/2011 7:55 AM, Kevin Oberman wrote: I want to create a GPT disk structure that has the following partitions: MBR NTFS (1.2G) NTFS (200G) FreeBSD OS (250G) NTFS (15G) FAT-32 (100G) (needs to be RW for W7 and FreeBSD and ntfs-3g is just not stable enough) FreeBSD data only (380G) The NTFS p

Re: need help with pf configuration

2011-10-09 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 10/9/2011 10:39 AM, Victor Sudakov wrote: Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: I have a configuration with 2 inside interfaces, 1 outside and 1 dmz interface. The traffic should be able to flow 1) from inside1 to any (and back) 2) from inside2 to any (and back) 3) from dmz to outside only (and back).

Re: Turning system accounting data into money

2011-10-11 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 10/11/2011 5:06 PM, Polytropon wrote: This is _not_ a spam message trying to sell something stupid to the list. I'm just searching for a solution to turn consumed computing resources into a number and a currency symbol. :-) Reason: A growing amount of (my) customers seems to like this concept

Re: Very large swap

2011-10-14 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 10/14/2011 8:08 AM, Dennis Glatting wrote: This is kind of stupid question but at a minimum I thought it would be interesting to know. What is the limitations in terms of swap devices under RELENG_8 (or 9)? A single swap dev appears to be limited to 32GB (there are truncation messages on bo

Re: radiusd-cistron

2011-11-20 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 11/19/2011 10:38 PM, Jim Pazarena wrote: I recently switched from FBSD 7.0 i386 to FBSD 8.2 amd64 my radius only sees garbage in place of the password, so no one can authenticate. Since I changed both OS (7.0->8.2) AND platform (i386->amd64), I am unsure where to start looking for an encrypt

Re: Do you run OSSEC on 9.0?

2011-11-24 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Since /dev contains a special filesystem which cannot be used for "simple" files and directories, I would say that the IDS needs some knowledge about it and generic file-checking rules don't apply there. This sounds like a false alert, something must have changed from 8 to 9 and/or the ossec port

Re: Disabling geom_journal

2011-12-13 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 12/13/2011 5:59 PM, Vincent Hoffman wrote: Hi all, I'm sure I have seen this come up before but a google doesnt help. I am trying to disable gjournal on a disk so i can move to suj as part of moving on to the 9.x series, I have umounted the FS but when i try to stop the journal it aut

Re: Forward error correction routines?

2011-12-14 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 12/14/2011 5:45 AM, Dennis Glatting wrote: I am looking for /any/ forward error correction code under FreeBSD, whether Hamming Codes, Golay Codes, Reed-Solomon, BCH codes, etc. or convolution encoders/decoders. All I've found is: * libfec, which only runs under i386 (I am 64 bit), and * reed

Re: 2 distinct DSL lines with same endpoint (8-STABLE)

2012-01-09 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 1/9/2012 10:20 PM, Christoph Egger wrote: Hi all! I'm having a FreeBSD 8 gateway that is supposed to do NAT/firewall stuff with internet coming through 2 distinct DSL modems from the same carrier. Unfortunately I can only run ppp on one of these lines as the endpoint address for both lines

Re: can not destroy ng interface

2012-01-11 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 1/12/2012 7:53 AM, Коньков Евгений wrote: Hi, Freebsd-questions. # ifconfig ng0 ng0: flags=88d1 metric 0 mtu 1400 nd6 options=29 meta-up# ifconfig ng0 destroy ifconfig: SIOCIFDESTROY: Invalid argument why I can not destroy interface? The destroy ifconfig command is meant to be

Re: some kind of binary sed(1) command

2012-02-02 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 2/2/2012 8:22 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, I have a normal ASCII file wich has in some places two lines of '*', separated by an empty line, i.e. \n *\n \n *\n \n and I want to substitute the \n between the star lines by \f; the 'binary' s

Re: vnet without epair

2013-02-09 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 2/9/2013 5:57 PM, Fbsd8 wrote: Has any one been able to get RELEASE 9.1 to enable jail vnet without having to use epair? Yes, you can use vnet-enabled jails with several types of interfaces. Physical ones like em0 etc, virtual ones like vlan0 etc, netgraph ethernet-like interfaces like ngeth

Re: vnet without epair

2013-02-10 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 2/10/2013 1:12 AM, Teske, Devin wrote: On Sat, 9 Feb 2013, Fbsd8 wrote: What I am doing is writing documentation that describes the new 9.1 jail extensions for jail.conf and the rc.conf jail statements. I am going to submit changes to /etc/defaults/rc.conf and as long as I was on the jail sub

Re: packages listing

2013-02-10 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 2/10/2013 8:57 AM, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 9 Feb 2013 22:52:37 -0800 (PST), Dánielisz László wrote: Hi Everybody, Do you have any idea how can I list those installed packages that are not required by any other? You can use sysutils/pkg_cutleaves to determine those. I use this: #!/bi

Re: vnet without epair

2013-02-10 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 2/10/2013 2:54 PM, Teske, Devin wrote: It's not in ports only because I first wanted to see where jail.conf would take us w/respect to vimages. I see. However, this package not being in ports shouldn't prevented you from trying it -- it's extremely stable and as I mentioned, we've been u

Re: packages listing

2013-02-10 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 2/10/2013 3:09 PM, Teske, Devin wrote: Just curious, why not use "pkg_info -Ra" instead of "pkg_info -R '*'" ? Because I didnt know -a;) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: vnet without epair

2013-02-10 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 2/10/2013 3:56 PM, Teske, Devin wrote: Excellent! This is precisely what I was after when I wrote the vimage package and its contents. I'm familiar with IMUNES and netgraph fits the bill well (especially with "ngctl dot" being useful in providing visual confirmation when you've achieved the

Re: vnet without epair

2013-02-10 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 2/10/2013 4:02 PM, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: On 2/10/2013 3:56 PM, Teske, Devin wrote: Excellent! This is precisely what I was after when I wrote the vimage package and its contents. I'm familiar with IMUNES and netgraph fits the bill well (especially with "ngctl dot"

Re: vnet without epair

2013-02-11 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 2/10/2013 11:46 PM, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: On 2/10/2013 4:02 PM, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: On 2/10/2013 3:56 PM, Teske, Devin wrote: Excellent! This is precisely what I was after when I wrote the vimage package and its contents. I'm familiar with IMUNES and netgraph fits the bill

Re: assign IP address to ng interface without destination address

2013-02-18 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 18/2/2013 10:05 πμ, Jack Mc Lauren wrote: Hi fellas Is it possible to assign IP address to ng interfaces without destination address ? Is it possible to assign the destination address later ? Hi, I suspect that you are interested in an ng iface in point-to-point mode and point-to-point

svn.freebsd.org over https fails

2013-02-25 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Hi, Since a few weeks connecting to svn.freebsd.org over https fails. Is this deliberate? It used to work... Thanks in advance, Nikos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscr

Re: svn.freebsd.org over https fails

2013-02-27 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 26/2/2013 4:27 πμ, Shane Ambler wrote: On 26/02/2013 08:39, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: Hi, Since a few weeks connecting to svn.freebsd.org over https fails. Is this deliberate? It used to work... Thanks in advance, Nikos Not sure about it working before but I don't see svn.freebs

Re: Journaling for a flaky FreeBSD VirtualBox guest.

2013-02-28 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 28/2/2013 9:41 πμ, Alan Gutierrez wrote: I'm getting to know FreeBSD by running a 64-bit FreeBSD guest in a VirtualBox machine on my OS X Mountain Lion laptop. On occasion, when waking up from sleep, the FreeBSD virtual machine will not restart. VirtualBox marks it as "Aborted." Maybe you sh

Re: process eating up all memory - what should happen next?

2013-03-07 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 7/3/2013 12:17 μμ, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 7 Mar 2013 10:01:03 GMT, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I have a process that eats up al memory, in my case science/paraview if I try to analyse a large model. What should FreeBSD do when a process tries to use all RAM or more? In this case, the swap

Re: w and who don't list users in FreeBSD 9.0 and 9.1

2013-03-19 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 19/3/2013 6:03 μμ, Ruben de Groot wrote: On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 04:59:56PM +0100, Istvan Gabor typed: Hello: I have both FreeBSD 9.0 and 9.1 on two different computers. w and who commands do not list logged in users in any of them (either for root or a regular user). The output of w is: r

Re: OT: posix sh problem

2013-04-04 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 4/4/2013 3:32 μμ, Mark Felder wrote: Hi all, Hopefully someone here is much more clever than I am. I've run out of ideas on how to cleanly convert this chunk of ksh to posix sh. This is from a BB/Hobbit/Xymon monitoring script for ZFS. I'd really like to have this working cleanly on FreeBSD w

Re: does ifconfig see netgraph bridges?

2013-05-19 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Hi, On 05/19/2013 04:57 PM, Joe wrote: I create a ng bridge but issuing ifconfig does not show the bridge. Running 9.1-RELEASE. Is this a bug? ifconfig is not supposed to know about a netgraph bridge. So this is by design. Also, since the bridge is supposed to be transparent to the network i w

Re: to gmirror or to ZFS

2013-07-16 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 07/16/13 21:27, Johan Hendriks wrote: Op dinsdag 16 juli 2013 schreef Charles Swiger (cswi...@mac.com) het volgende: Hi-- On Jul 16, 2013, at 10:33 AM, Johan Hendriks > wrote: [ ... ] I would us a zfs for the os. I have a couple of servers that did not survive a power failure with gmirror

zfs flag denoting unclean shutdown?

2013-10-02 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Hi, Is there a way to know if a zfs pool had an unclean shutdown? An attribute or maybe something during mount time similar to what ufs does (WARNING: / was not properly dismounted)? Thanks, Nikos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://l

zfs over geli over zfs (was: Re: zfs flag denoting unclean shutdown?)

2013-10-03 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 10/02/2013 08:13 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 02/10/2013 16:34, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: Is there a way to know if a zfs pool had an unclean shutdown? An attribute or maybe something during mount time similar to what ufs does (WARNING: / was not properly dismounted)? Other than looking at

Re: what's an equivalent for the following Perl one-liner?

2005-12-23 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Thursday 22 December 2005 00:04, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > I'd like a sed string, that will remove both the carriage returns and the > blanks at eol in one go. Perl appears to recognize the \r character and > DTRT: > > perl -p -e 's,[ \r]+$,,' < in > out > > What's the sed's equivalent? Tha

Re: mpd problem

2005-12-29 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Wednesday 28 December 2005 16:59, Mile wrote: > Hi, > > I have a FreeBSD computer acting as gateway to windows clients > Some sites like msn.com, opera.com, hp.com, najdi.si dont work on > LAN... because of MTU problem. > > If i set MTU to 1492 instead of default 1500 then this sites wo

Re: VPN / Bridge

2006-01-27 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Friday 27 January 2006 16:07, Fabian Keil wrote: > Bob Kersten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 25-jan-2006, at 11:57, Fabian Keil wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ #ifconfig gif0 tunnel 1.2.3.4 5.6.7.8 up > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ #ifconfig bridge0 create > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ #ifconfig bri

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