Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI IPv4 Stack setting DF flag on fragmented UDP packets

2017-12-04 Thread James Carlson
es > not set the DF flag. That's not the default behavior. The default is to have DF on, at least on the Solaris versions I'm familiar with. (I guess Oracle could have changed this, though I think it would be wrong to do so

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Best way to map SAS drives to physical positions

2011-10-03 Thread James Carlson
"cfgadm -lv"? -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Best way to map SAS drives to physical positions

2011-10-03 Thread James Carlson
Jeppe Toustrup wrote: > On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 16:00, James Carlson wrote: >> Have you tried "cfgadm -lv"? > > Yes, "cfgadm -lv" does not list the drives connected through SAS, but > "cfgadm -lav" does. The output does however not make me much wis

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] USB wireless network LinkSys WUSB100

2011-10-12 Thread James Carlson
(a somewhat unsettled area of the USB world), but will include the ability to open the device with libusb and communicate from user space. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindia

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ce networks and aggregations

2011-10-12 Thread James Carlson
newer Ethernet cards. Many of them perform better than Cassini anyway. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Static IP configuration problem

2011-10-12 Thread James Carlson
/netmasks # echo 10.1.0.1 > /etc/hostname.foo0 I recommend doing this instead: # echo 10.1.0.1/16 > /etc/hostname.foo0 It's easier, and it has the great benefit that it works right with CIDR netmasks without fuss. Or just use "ipadm" to administer the addresses ... --

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ce networks and aggregations

2011-10-13 Thread James Carlson
s 10. I think you're much better off calling Oracle for support, because I think you're pretty far afield right now ... -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ssh sessions timing out?

2011-10-13 Thread James Carlson
this, including having a duplicate IP address configured somewhere on your network. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] smb keeps failing?

2011-10-13 Thread James Carlson
ally both symptoms of underlying network trouble? -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ssh sessions timing out?

2011-10-13 Thread James Carlson
2.168.254.200 ... but replace that address with the address of the client. If that query doesn't return immediately with a useful answer (such as "192.168.254.200 dhcp-200"), that's what's wrong. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ce networks and aggregations

2011-10-13 Thread James Carlson
a good plan B for an over-constrained problem. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ssh sessions timing out?

2011-10-13 Thread James Carlson
nuscule bump in performance, they extract many hours and days of wasted administrative effort. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ssh sessions timing out?

2011-10-13 Thread James Carlson
tation.) If you want to use an event hook, create a /etc/dhcp/eventhook script. See the dhcpagent(1M) man page for details. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ssh sessions timing out?

2011-10-13 Thread James Carlson
nt dhcpagent from writing the > /etc/resolv.conf file. The overwrite occurs when svc:/network/service:default runs. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://ope

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ssh sessions timing out?

2011-10-13 Thread James Carlson
#x27;ll almost certainly want to leave the IPv6 loopback address alone. The v6 folks do a lot of compatibility testing without external v6 addresses, but not without loopback.) -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ssh sessions timing out?

2011-10-13 Thread James Carlson
r, "kstat" may be helpful in getting really low-level diagnostic information. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ssh sessions timing out?

2011-10-13 Thread James Carlson
t, then it's possible that there's a corner case here (new entries in llp) that nwamd doesn't handle too well. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ssh sessions timing out?

2011-10-13 Thread James Carlson
nual control. (It's was originally designed primarily for laptops. Yes, quite a few of us at Sun ran Solaris on laptops.) One option might be trying to contact the project team at nwam-disc...@opensolaris.org, or by searching around for the project lead, Renee Sommerfeld (nee Danson). -

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ssh sessions timing out?

2011-10-13 Thread James Carlson
what it's worth, I'd *really* recommend updating that e1000g configuration to avoid the known problem areas and switching from NWAM to static configuration for such a system. But it's obviously your call. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] nagios/nrpe?

2011-10-14 Thread James Carlson
ed by the Borgacle. http://blogs.oracle.com/drapeau/entry/nagios_is_available_for_opensolaris Perhaps this would be a better starting point: http://gibbontech.blogspot.com/2007/04/compiling-nagios-30a3-and-plugins-for.html -- James Carlso

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Aggregation performance measurement

2011-10-17 Thread James Carlson
" one > Looks like aggregation is not using all the available throughput......what am > I missing? is there > any incompatibility between Solaris10/08 and OpenIndiana? I don't expect that there should be any. More likely, I expect a misconfiguration somewhere in this set-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mixing zfs raids and mirrors

2011-10-17 Thread James Carlson
ipe the data across the available devices, parallelizing the I/O operations. To get better error tolerance, use raidz2 or raidz3. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NFS and aggregation

2011-10-20 Thread James Carlson
that'll still be a single flow. Ethernet trunking works great for high levels of aggregation and (with LACP) as a low-level redundancy mechanism. It doesn't magically make things go faster, though. If you want that, then you'll

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with high cpu load (oi_151a)

2011-10-20 Thread James Carlson
Gernot Wolf wrote: > Ok, for some reason this attachement refuses to go out :( Have to figure > that out... Probably just because it's huge. Try "tail -100 /var/adm/messages". It's likely that if there's something going nuts on your system, there'll be enough

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Configuring span ports on oi151

2011-10-24 Thread James Carlson
eature will probably have to be added to the code. It's not present in the current code because the observability node covered the known uses of that sort of port without extra complications. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Configuring span ports on oi151

2011-10-24 Thread James Carlson
carlopmart wrote: > On 10/24/2011 06:13 PM, James Carlson wrote: >> carlopmart wrote: >>> Is it possible to configure a bridge (with n physical nics) with a >>> span >>> port like for example FreeBSD does?? >> >> No, mirror port functionality

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Configuring span ports on oi151

2011-10-24 Thread James Carlson
ier method? (tcpdump on Linux allows "-i > any" to capture across interfaces but it's not promiscuous capture and > I'm not sure if the Solaris version supports it.) No. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Configuring span ports on oi151

2011-10-24 Thread James Carlson
carlopmart wrote: > On 10/24/2011 07:08 PM, James Carlson wrote: >> You didn't say how you're sniffing traffic. If you mean that you must >> use an _external_ network monitoring device to do this, then the >> existing built-in mechanism obviously won't be suf

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Poor relative performance of SAS over SATA drives

2011-10-26 Thread James Carlson
SATA drives), and the other dedicated for SAS. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] inetutils 1.8

2011-10-27 Thread James Carlson
tils. http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.inetutils.bugs/1318 In any event "sig_t" isn't defined on OpenIndiana. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] About auto snapshots

2011-10-28 Thread James Carlson
svcs -xv", and then examine the log files that the system tells you about in the svcs output. What happened when you did that? -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.or

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] log messages from failed time-slider daemon

2011-10-28 Thread James Carlson
crontab /tmp/root.cron what happens? -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] e2fsprogs header file bug

2011-10-28 Thread James Carlson
sent. Writing portable software is harder than that. Reading through that problem report, though, makes it sound like those other developers aren't going to agree with me. :-/ -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-d

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] e2fsprogs header file bug

2011-10-28 Thread James Carlson
Andrey N. Oktyabrski wrote: > On 28.10.11 16:29, James Carlson wrote: >>> In which bug tracker I must create a bug report for this issue? >>> >>> The problem is that on OI-151 EXT2_IOC_GETFLAGS is defined as >>> _IOR('f', 1, long) >>>

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] e2fsprogs header file bug

2011-10-28 Thread James Carlson
Andrey N. Oktyabrski wrote: > On 28.10.11 18:29, James Carlson wrote: >> You might have an argument that e2fsprogs shouldn't include this header >> file. Most projects (for what it's worth) just toss in the kitchen sink >> -- anything that's built is shipp

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] e2fsprogs header file bug

2011-11-03 Thread James Carlson
RC/2009/232/pfp-psarc.txt -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] e2fsprogs header file bug

2011-11-04 Thread James Carlson
Andrey N. Oktyabrski wrote: > On 03.11.11 16:22, James Carlson wrote: >> Andrey N. Oktyabrski wrote: >>> More about e2fsprogs. Now from the pkgsrc. There is a same bug as here: >>> http://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=45499 >>> >>>

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] e2fsprogs header file bug

2011-11-05 Thread James Carlson
On 11/5/11 5:40 AM, Andrey N. Oktyabrski wrote: > On 04.11.11 14:14, James Carlson wrote: >> I'd say #1. ... > So it is a lot of words in the justification of not to change anything > in the OI/Illumos... That's not entirely true. If someone wants to change OI to ma

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] server power cycling at very predictable moments

2011-11-05 Thread James Carlson
I suspect this is caused by an automated installer that is enabled on this system. I don't know what they might be calling it these days, but there was a product called "Sun Update Manager" that would do this sort of thing. Since this is S10 (rather than OpenIndiana or even OpenSolaris

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] XtreemeFS on Openindiana

2011-11-08 Thread James Carlson
t; on the core file itself. Or use mdb and the "$c" command to print a stack trace. And show the result to the developer of the code -- he's likely the only one who can diagnose the problem correctly. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W __

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Configuring span ports on oi151

2011-11-08 Thread James Carlson
he named pipe: tcpdump -i bridge0 -s0 -w /dev/stdout | ssh ids "snort-etc-capture" -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] is the newly released orac-sol 11 an advance compared to oi?

2011-11-10 Thread James Carlson
ying their products. Whatever you feel is best. But speculating here about their motives is probably pointless. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 is out - so?

2011-11-11 Thread James Carlson
gh. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2010-August/059310.html -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 is out - so?

2011-11-11 Thread James Carlson
Edward Martinez wrote: > On 11/11/11 06:48, James Carlson wrote: >> But sources were indeed promised at some unspecified date after the >> binary release. Hope they carry through. >> >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2010-August/059310.html &g

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 is out - so?

2011-11-11 Thread James Carlson
ting technical challenges. One is that the zpool and zfs version numbering space is flat, so unless the new on-disk (and in-stream) formats can be reverse-engineered, the compatibility story will be unusual, to say the least. -- James Carlson 4

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] IPv6 question

2011-11-17 Thread James Carlson
t does "ifconfig -a" say about the state of the interfaces? You will see "DHCP" on the IPv6 interface if DHCPv6 is running. - If the interface is already running DHCPv6, then try: dhcpinfo -i bge0 -v6 DNSAddresses (Replace "bge0" with the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] IPv6 question

2011-11-17 Thread James Carlson
/etc/resolv.conf.new mv /etc/resolv.conf.new /etc/resolv.conf ;; esac exit 0 The exact details will vary depending on how you want your network to operate. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] IPv6 question

2011-11-17 Thread James Carlson
t; will see what I can find. No. If you're getting output from dhcpinfo, then DHCP is running. As I noted before "ifconfig -a" will also show you that DHCP is running. The problem appears to be the local plumbing, not the router. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] some problem with oi151a

2011-11-21 Thread James Carlson
> then press enter, and b > what I can see is the picture which right bottom corner is "Powered by > illumo" You need to turn off graphical boot as well. Use "d" in GRUB to remove the spashimage, foreground, and background lines, and then remove &quo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] some problem with oi151a

2011-11-21 Thread James Carlson
darkblue wrote: > 2011/11/21 James Carlson >> You need to turn off graphical boot as well. Use "d" in GRUB to remove >> the spashimage, foreground, and background lines, and then remove >> "console=graphics" from the kernel$ line. That should allow you

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Disable DHCP on a IPv6 configuration

2011-11-24 Thread James Carlson
On 11/23/2011 08:28 AM, Jeppe Toustrup wrote: Hi I am in the process of setting up IPv6 for some servers running OpenIndiana. Each server/zone has it's own IPv6 address which is configured statically in /etc/hostname6. such as: addif dead:beef:1000::11/64 up A default gateway has been se

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Disable DHCP on a IPv6 configuration

2011-11-26 Thread James Carlson
On 11/24/11 16:45, Jeppe Toustrup wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 22:27, James Carlson wrote: >> Read the ndpd.conf(4) man page. And set "ifdefault StatelessAddrConf off" >> in /etc/inet/ndpd.conf. > > Ah, thank you for the pointer. I tried it out and It is in

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] statfs() problem with HP-UX 11.23, 11.31 client and oi_151a server

2011-11-27 Thread James Carlson
sult doesn't fit in the data structure available. Rather than return a wrong answer, it returns no answer. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] statfs() problem with HP-UX 11.23, 11.31 client and oi_151a server

2011-11-28 Thread James Carlson
Albert Chin wrote: > On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 08:04:33AM -0500, James Carlson wrote: >> On 11/27/11 02:03, Albert Chin wrote: >>> On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 12:48:39AM -0600, Albert Chin wrote: >>>> We're running oi_151a and using it to serve up file systems

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana/ZFS mail server HA config

2011-12-06 Thread James Carlson
t intended to make it work primarily with things other than routing protocols. http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+vrrp/ Maybe you can find some pointers related to that ... -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-dis

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana-discuss Digest, Vol 17, Issue 11

2011-12-06 Thread James Carlson
4L) has been supported for a long time. The former (82579LM) is more recent: https://www.illumos.org/issues/832 -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Will an 82575EB based Supermicro AOC-SG-i2 ethernet work OK in b151a?

2011-12-14 Thread James Carlson
Hans J. Albertsson wrote: > Subject says it all. > > I suppose so, at least one shouldn't need to do anything beyond addig a > line in /etc/driver_aliases, right? The line for 8086,10a7 should already be there; it's served by "igb". -- James

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] set up PPPoE

2011-12-14 Thread James Carlson
d call pppoeisp" or (to do this with debugging enabled, and debug messages written to your terminal) "pppd call pppoeisp debug updetach". More information about the PPP level of configuration (as opposed to the low-level PPPoE plumbing) is a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] set up PPPoE

2011-12-14 Thread James Carlson
ast at the 100Mbps level on cheap commodity hardware. If you're seeing something else, then I think you probably have other problems. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Couldnt install Nagios client nsca

2011-12-25 Thread James Carlson
127.1 5667" rather than attempting to use "0" as an alias for the local system. It's a bit of an old Solaris bug that allows address 0 to work as a local address (even though it's not a valid address), and there's no guarantee that it will work on any modern Solaris

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Crossbow performance & bit rot

2011-12-31 Thread James Carlson
fine and when it's slow; the difference may reveal something, - installing a network interface card that uses a different driver (e.g., if you have Intel, install Broadcom) and see if that interface behaves differently. Note that you'll probably need to know a fair bi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How will this change affect any future source from Oracle ?

2012-01-07 Thread James Carlson
ilding as you've always done (without stub libraries), using all the same dependencies as you've done before, and it'll keep working. The stubs are just a build artifact. They're generated automatically and aren't needed after the build is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtual memory problems

2012-01-11 Thread James Carlson
quot; parameter. That's what sets the actual disk area available for swap. It looks like the existing volume was set to 500MB. Try "zfs list -o name,volsize rpool/swap". To change the swap size, I'd do this: # swap -d /dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap # zfs volsize=2G rp

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Replacing OI 151 ssh with OpenSSH 5.9?

2012-01-17 Thread James Carlson
seful responses if you described what you were hoping to accomplish by replacing that component. For what it's worth, the ssh that comes with OpenIndiana is well integrated with the existing OS features and performs decently. You may end up replicating the hard work the Sun ssh team did gett

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Replacing OI 151 ssh with OpenSSH 5.9?

2012-01-18 Thread James Carlson
gn differences, particularly in the area of privilege separation. Meaningful source patches for this sort of thing are probably at least as hard to manage as are the sources themselves -- meaning that I believe you'd have no real benefit to keeping

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Replacing OI 151 ssh with OpenSSH 5.9?

2012-01-18 Thread James Carlson
necessary occurred, and the issues were (and are) not trivial. But, hey, it's your system. Install anything you want on it. Much luck. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openin

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Crossbow performance & bit rot

2012-01-19 Thread James Carlson
am considering putting a pre-crossbow S10, > oi148, and/or S11 on the front line here to see if the problem goes away. I > starting to scrape the bottom of the barrel for ideas. Those symptoms seem to point in the direction of something much broader; a system-wide issue with interrupts, perhaps.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Crossbow performance & bit rot

2012-01-24 Thread James Carlson
resting item. The server that has had the 'resets' > where performance returns to normal but then begins the march of death has a > link state of 'unknown' on its two vnics. That is interesting. Unfortunately, I'm not sure what it means. At this point I think the prime s

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-24 Thread James Carlson
horization to do so. I don't think anything about that message should relate to a "freeze-up." It could be a symptom, though, of other issues. If this system is intended for use as a server, it's possible that you might not want to be using NWAM a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-24 Thread James Carlson
uration. That's an interesting observation. When running with one port, do you unplumb the other? Or is "one port" just an application configuration issue? If you run "/sbin/route monitor" when the system is working fine and leave it running until a problem happens, do y

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-24 Thread James Carlson
'm guessing that what's really going on is that you have either interfaces, IREs, or ARP entries flapping in the breeze due to the odd configuration on this system. "route monitor" should reveal that. But it could be almost anything else. Looking at kstats and/or ca

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-25 Thread James Carlson
Robin Axelsson wrote: > On 2012-01-24 21:59, James Carlson wrote: >> Well, unless you get into playing tricks with IP Filter. And if you do >> that, then you're in a much deeper world of hurt, at least in terms of >> performance. > Here's what the virtualbox m

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-25 Thread James Carlson
e). Both connections have now disappeared from 'ifconfig > -a' (also the IPv6 part is gone as well), even after a reboot, so I > consider them permanently unplumbed. It looks like this when issuing > 'ifconfig -a': > > lo0: flags=2001000849 mtu > 8232 index 1 &

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-26 Thread James Carlson
k(3DLPI)), at least on OpenIndiana. If portability to older Solaris systems is necessary, it should be enumerating DLPI interfaces using libdevinfo. Piggybacking on IP isn't right at all. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenI

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-27 Thread James Carlson
On 01/27/12 07:51, Robin Axelsson wrote: > On 2012-01-25 21:50, James Carlson wrote: >> By default, the first IP layer object created on a given datalink layer >> object has the same name as that datalink layer object -- even though >> they're distinct ideas. The

[OpenIndiana-discuss] plumbing for zones [was Re: CIFS performance issues]

2012-01-27 Thread James Carlson
way for the kernel to find it there. And if you could do it, then you could break the security model, so the limitation is a good thing. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openin

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-27 Thread James Carlson
eone is going to a lot of effort to make things more complex in order to avoid problems. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-27 Thread James Carlson
what went wrong. Unfortunately, I only remember details about the "old" one ... > Perhaps it already does so. If not it should at > least unplumb one connection to prevent the interference issues the > James Carlson was talking about, or at least give warning messages about > it

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-27 Thread James Carlson
Robin Axelsson wrote: > On 2012-01-27 15:32, James Carlson wrote: >> What NWAM is supposed to do is configure only one usable interface >> (guided by user selection criteria) for the system. The fact that you >> got multiple interfaces configured is indeed an anomaly, and o

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-27 Thread James Carlson
Robin Axelsson wrote: > On 2012-01-27 16:45, James Carlson wrote: >> Robin Axelsson wrote: >>> On 2012-01-27 15:32, James Carlson wrote: >>>> What NWAM is supposed to do is configure only one usable interface >>>> (guided by user selection criteria) f

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Crossbow performance & bit rot

2012-01-30 Thread James Carlson
an independent > process from the network issue or if they are directly related in some way. It's possible that they're related. It sounds to me like this is a pretty good clue. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] intermittent CIFS loss, spontaneous-reboot with OI148/151a and IBM Megaraid M5015?

2012-02-01 Thread James Carlson
ot;savecore" directory; usually /var/crash. Look for files there. Running mdb on the files and using ::status and ::stack commands might give a good enough signature that someone could identify the cause. (I'm not a CIFS expert, but if you gather some basic l

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Please stop retrofitting packages to require live images

2012-02-18 Thread James Carlson
minating the useful BE creation process, why not fix the broken Chef/Puppet behavior? Modifying the current configuration makes no sense here. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndia

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Upgraded OI to oi_151.1.2, suddenly there's no default route???

2012-02-23 Thread James Carlson
oute. ICMP Router Discovery can also do that. RIP-2 and OSPF can do the same job, but are much more flexible and can provide arbitrary network and host routes as well. If you don't use any of those, then you have to configure the default route manually, along with some way to ma

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Upgraded OI to oi_151.1.2, suddenly there's no default route???

2012-02-24 Thread James Carlson
pful. It should identify the process that is removing the route, which will then help focus the issue. What about logs? -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] etherstub and bridge

2012-02-25 Thread James Carlson
han an etherstub. A simnet is a simulated Ethernet interface. As for the "STATE unknown" bit, I believe that's because etherstubs don't have physical links and thus don't have physical link status. It's probably harmless. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] etherstub and bridge

2012-02-26 Thread James Carlson
- that's sort of the definition of bridging. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Per packet load balancing in openindiana

2012-02-27 Thread James Carlson
tention. I wouldn't be much surprised, with high-speed links, to see the performance drop to less than what you get by putting all the traffic over one link. But if it's worth it to you to try, then by all means, change the driver and publish the results. ;-} --

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] nfs mounting and cascading dataset access?

2012-02-27 Thread James Carlson
te NFS exports for each of the underlying datasets -- one for Video and one for Music in this case. Automount, of course, is your friend. ;-} -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] IPv6 DHCP

2012-02-27 Thread James Carlson
d they all say that you shouldn't run DHCPv6 on a prefix, then it will not be run. If you have no IPv6 routers (a bit of a degenerate case in the standards), then DHCPv6 is required to run, and the system will run it, but it's almost completely useless. See in.ndpd(1M), dhcpagent(1M), and i

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] IPv6 DHCP

2012-02-28 Thread James Carlson
n DHCP on a given network. With IPv6, DHCPv6 is invoked by the actions of in.ndpd, because there's a standard Router Advertisement based mechanism that tells a node whether DHCPv6 is in use. For v6, it should have nothing to do with NWAM.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] IPv6 DHCP

2012-02-28 Thread James Carlson
e NWAM. But it has little to do with how DHCPv6 works. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] USB audio input support in OpenIndiana

2012-03-05 Thread James Carlson
ough the "prtpicl -v" output or in the syslog messages. A key clue is seeing "usb_mid" attaching to the device when it's inserted. That means that no standard class driver works on that device, and you're getting the "generic" driver that

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Spontaneous server reboots

2012-03-19 Thread James Carlson
/messages, and the files are dumped in /var/crash. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Access to /etc on a pool from another system?

2012-03-19 Thread James Carlson
;beadm'. Because you just imported the pool, I suspect that won't work, and you'll have to change the fpool/ROOT/ mount point to something temporary, and then change it back to "/" when done. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W __

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Access to /etc on a pool from another system?

2012-03-19 Thread James Carlson
" mount to fail. Where there errors when you mounted these file systems? Perhaps one saying that the system was unable to mount fpool/ROOT/openindiana because the "/mnt" directory was not empty? -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W __

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Access to /etc on a pool from another system?

2012-03-19 Thread James Carlson
ZFS attributes; they tell you everything you might want to know. zfs get -o all all fpool/ROOT/opensolaris -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Access to /etc on a pool from another system?

2012-03-20 Thread James Carlson
is that it doesn't > quite grok zfs yet. I find myself using "zfs list" quite a bit. > > In any event, the confluence of comments got me to the solution. Which is > what matters. None of that rings true to me, b

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Routing and avahi questions

2012-03-26 Thread James Carlson
he LAN nic? > Does mdns have a similar issue? I discovered this by running "bssh" and > seeing the service both on my bge0 (WAN) and bge1 (LAN) nics. These should be the same thing -- just block UDP port 5353 in the places where you don't want Avahi/mDNS stuff to leak. -- Ja

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] REALTEK network card driver issue

2012-04-05 Thread James Carlson
information produced by the system -- syslog output, command output, error messages, network configuration (netstat -ni, netstat -nr, ifconfig -a) -- would probably be helpful in chasing down problems. Again, posting that information somewhere would be a good idea. -- James Carlson 4

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