NFS server reccomendations...

2002-05-13 Thread Mike Hoskins
Just grabbed a new Dell 4600 to replace an aging NFS server. I'm done with the 4.5-R install. This box does NFS for our Dev and QA environments, so often seens quite a bit of load. I'll be doing SMP, and was wondering, a) Would I be better off grabbing the latest security

Re: 4.5 and mpd "no buffer space available on high load" ??

2002-05-13 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 09:16, Michael Sierchio wrote: > Andrew Reilly wrote: > > > I ran a script using jot to send ping packets across the link, with > > sizes varying from 1300 to 2300 bytes, while also watching the link with > > tcpdump. > > > > Only one ping failed (it didn't even get out), w

Re: 4.5 and mpd "no buffer space available on high load" ??

2002-05-13 Thread Juha Saarinen
On Mon, 13 May 2002, Michael Sierchio wrote: > I've noticed problems with some servers out *there* on the net, which > send large TCP packets with DF set, but seemingly ignore the ICPM NEED > FRAG error response. Ack. Pppt. Sounds like it might be the old "block all ICMP at the firewall" st

Re: 4.5 and mpd "no buffer space available on high load" ??

2002-05-13 Thread Michael Sierchio
Andrew Reilly wrote: > I ran a script using jot to send ping packets across the link, with > sizes varying from 1300 to 2300 bytes, while also watching the link with > tcpdump. > > Only one ping failed (it didn't even get out), with the following error > message: > ping: sendto: Message too long

Re: 4.5 and mpd "no buffer space available on high load" ??

2002-05-13 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 02:32, Karl M. Joch wrote: > Hi, > > i have a fine working configuration at one customer: > > > INET >|| > >|| >|

Re: hosts file question

2002-05-13 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 02:43:14PM -0700, Philip J. Koenig wrote: > > I'd like to clarify this. In upgrading a 4.3-Stable box yesterday, I > noted that there seems to be conflicting info in the hosts file about > how to format the localhost entry. > > Stranger yet, the syntax for regular entr