Re: Which of these NICs will work?
On 03/09/2010 18:32:49, Robert Huff wrote: > > Ryan Coleman writes: > >> Any thoughts? I need/want to get a multi-port NIC for my new >> system but I haven't purchased the guts for the server yet. >> >> >> http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100010064+600013872+600016290&QksAutoSuggestion=&ShowDeactivatedMark=False&Configurator=&IsNodeId=1&Subcategory=27&description=&Ntk=&CFG=&SpeTabStoreType=&srchInDesc= >> >> >> Basically, this machine will have two external (real-world) IPs >> and one network LAN (10.0.1.0/24) address, finding three-NIC >> motherboards is not exactly possible so this is my alternative. > > Intel network cards have a very good reputation; I have been > running a dual-port Pro/1000 GT for years and the thing is still a > rock. Others will have a better opinion on performance issues. > The Intel employee who maintains the driver is frequently seen > on current@ and occasionally on questi...@. Nice guy, very > responsive. I second all the other respondents praise of the Intel cards. Intel is a safe choice of NIC -- basically you can be sure that it will not only be supported, but it will work very well. Of the other branded NICs there, unfortunately it is impossible to say much about them based on the manufacturers name. The important thing is the chipset. If the chipset is supported then you can be 99% certain the card will work. (The other 1% are manufacturers who do stupid things to the card firmware.) Unfortunately that is the sort of useful information that vendors almost never tell you on a website. Probably because they think all those letters and numbers will scare people away. They're right of course: that sort of cheap card tends to use chipsets from people like RealTek, many of whose products attract a wholly justified level of opprobrium. [Definitely avoid things that use the rl(4) driver. Stuff that uses re(4) is passable for some uses.] Also "working well" is quite subjective. It depends on the sort of traffic patterns and load levels you need to deal with. Cheaper NICs will not be able to cope with sustained mega-bit levels of traffic and complicated networking layouts, but they will be fine for occasional light use in a desktop box. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Benchmark tool
Hi, I am looking for a tool (or a configuration setup) that will allow me to benchmark (performance test) couple of firewall based on pfSense, and eventualy to compare them with other software / hard solution. Any idea, clue, link will be highly appreciated. Thanks Gregober ---> PGP ID --> 0x1BA3C2FD bsd @at@ todoo.biz ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Need to run a Command Once on Boot. FreeBSD8.1
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Jason wrote: > On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 02:50:48PM -0500, Martin McCormick thus spake: > > Robert Bonomi writes: >> >>> /etc/rc.local maybe? contrary to the 'rc.d' way of doing things, but >>> 'simple'. :) >>> >> >>Thanks so much to both people who answered. I thought >> there was more to it than that but I may be thinking of the >> rcx.d directories in Linux. If you don't watch out, you can be >> scratching your head all day trying to figure out why the job >> isn't getting done. I use and like both FreeBSD and Linux but >> some things are easier in one than the other. >> >>Again, many thanks. >> > > man 5 crontab has: > > @reboot Run once, at startup But this will always run every reboot, no? I think there used to be something along the lines of rc.early which could do what he wants. Then you can schedule a task to delete rc.early once it's served it's purpose:) > > > >> Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK >> Systems Engineer >> OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group >> > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "If you have nothing good to say about someone, just shut up!." -- Lucky Dube ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Updating KDE4
From the UPDATING file: 20100902: AFFECTS: users of KDE4 AUTHOR: k...@freebsd.org KDE SC ports has been updated to 4.5.1. A number of files were moved between packages, manual intervention into update procedure is required: # pkg_delete -f kdehier4\* kdelibs-4\* kdebase-4\* kdebase-runtime-4\* kdebase-workspace-4\* # rm -rf /usr/local/kde4/share/PolicyKit/policy # cd /usr/ports/misc/kdehier4 && make install clean # portmaster -a I don't use 'portmaster'. I am assuming that 'portupgrade -a' would accomplish the same thing. Would that be correct? -- Jerry ✌ freebsd.u...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Which of these NICs will work?
based on 10+ exprience and working with a dozen models, I recommend intel cards: - Intel explicitly supports freebsd. - the cards are highly stable - have best performance among all other cards on freebsd and if you look for best performance, buy a card based on 82575 or 82576 controllers. On 9/3/2010 8:28 PM, Ryan Coleman wrote: Any thoughts? I need/want to get a multi-port NIC for my new system but I haven't purchased the guts for the server yet. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100010064+600013872+600016290&QksAutoSuggestion=&ShowDeactivatedMark=False&Configurator=&IsNodeId=1&Subcategory=27&description=&Ntk=&CFG=&SpeTabStoreType=&srchInDesc= Basically, this machine will have two external (real-world) IPs and one network LAN (10.0.1.0/24) address, finding three-NIC motherboards is not exactly possible so this is my alternative. I'm looking for FreeBSD 7-9 support. Rather run 8.1-RELEASE (same as my other two machines right now). Thanks, Ryan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
FreeBSD8.1 AMD64 UFS2 file system size issues.
Hello. I am having a problem with a fresh install onto a = raid5 file system that is 9TB in size. during the initial install, the syste= m shows the correct disk size and partition sizes, but after it has complete d and rebooted it shows the the large partition as only 1TB. I am using a 3w= are raid controller and even when I look at the boot message, it shows that = the entire drive is of the correct size. On initial install, this is= how I have setup the drive. Total disk size: Sep 4 12:17:51 fi= leserv kernel: da0: 9536640MB (19531038720 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1215= 750C) 1G da0s1a /&nbs= p;UFS 4G da0s1b &nb= sp; swap 2G da0s1d =/varUFS2+S 36G da0s1e &n= bsp; /usrUFS2+S remainder da0s1f &nbs= p; /bigUFS2+S Upon completion of insta= ll and a reboot, The drive partitions show up as this: Filesystem&nbs= p; 1K-blocks Used Avai= l Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a1012974 2= 72248 65969029% = / devfs = ; 1 1 = ;0 100% &n= bsp; /dev /dev/da0s1f 1094909108 4 10= 07316376 0%/big /dev/da0s1e&nb= sp; 36558732 1486022 32148012 4%&n= bsp; /usr /dev/da0s1d2026030 &n= bsp; 5501863398 0% &nb= sp; /var It was my understanding that UFS2 supports drive s= izes well above what I am trying to use. Is there something that I am doing = wrong? Thanks, -Troy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
proper way to setup laptop with apache22
I'm setting up a laptop with apache, just to play, basically. But apache doesn't like the fact that it can't resolve the lappy's hostname to an IP number and it will not load. The laptop gets its IP # via DHCP so it changes at various locations. I could use the localhost name & IP #, which should work. My laptop is named 'laptop' (laptop.mydomain.com) Is there a way to have the system utilize it's assigned IP #? Or do I have to change my apache config to "localhost" ? thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Directory Encryption?
2010-08-23 18:04, Timm Wimmers skrev: Am 23.08.2010 16:36, schrieb Chris Maness: What is a good tool to encrypt a directory? I need an application that is also readily available for Apple OSX, and that does not get mangled when transferring via rsync. How about "openssl'? Encrypt a TARed directory: $ tar cjf - /path/to/source/folder | \ openssl enc -e -bf -out OUTFILE.tgz.enc -pass pass:MYSILLYPASS Decrypt: $ openssl enc -d -bf \ -in OUTFILE.tgz.enc \ -out OUTFILE.tgz \ -pass pass:MYSILLYPASS There are also ways to encrypt with keys, see manpage. Or A single file Encrypt and decrypt: # openssl aes-128-cbc -salt -in file -out file.aes # openssl aes-128-cbc -d -salt -in file.aes -out file Note that the file can of course be a tar archive. tar and encrypt a whole directory # tar -cf - directory | openssl aes-128-cbc -salt -out directory.tar.aes # Encrypt # openssl aes-128-cbc -d -salt -in directory.tar.aes | tar -x -f - # Decrypt tar zip and encrypt a whole directory # tar -zcf - directory | openssl aes-128-cbc -salt -out directory.tar.gz.aes # Encrypt # openssl aes-128-cbc -d -salt -in directory.tar.gz.aes | tar -xz -f - # Decrypt * Use -k mysecretpassword after aes-128-cbc to avoid the interactive password request. However note that this is highly insecure. * Use aes-256-cbc instead of aes-128-cbc to get even stronger encryption. This uses also more CPU. http://cb.vu/unixtoolbox.xhtml#crypt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: proper way to setup laptop with apache22
On 9/4/10 5:59 PM, Jim Pazarena wrote: > I'm setting up a laptop with apache, just to play, basically. > > But apache doesn't like the fact that it can't resolve the > lappy's hostname to an IP number and it will not load. The laptop > gets its IP # via DHCP so it changes at various locations. > > I could use the localhost name & IP #, which should work. > > My laptop is named 'laptop' (laptop.mydomain.com) > > Is there a way to have the system utilize it's assigned IP #? > Or do I have to change my apache config to "localhost" ? > Hi, You can enter (assuming 'lappy' is the hostname): 127.0.0.1 localhost lappy in /etc/hosts and set the ListenAddress directive in Apache to bind to that IP. Regards, -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: proper way to setup laptop with apache22
On 9/4/10 6:34 PM, Glen Barber wrote: > On 9/4/10 5:59 PM, Jim Pazarena wrote: >> I'm setting up a laptop with apache, just to play, basically. >> >> But apache doesn't like the fact that it can't resolve the >> lappy's hostname to an IP number and it will not load. The laptop >> gets its IP # via DHCP so it changes at various locations. >> >> I could use the localhost name & IP #, which should work. >> >> My laptop is named 'laptop' (laptop.mydomain.com) >> >> Is there a way to have the system utilize it's assigned IP #? >> Or do I have to change my apache config to "localhost" ? >> > > Hi, > > You can enter (assuming 'lappy' is the hostname): > > 127.0.0.1 localhost lappy > > in /etc/hosts and set the ListenAddress directive in Apache to bind to > that IP. > Oops. Listen 127.0.0.1:80 Too much SSH config-ing for me lately. :) -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
PDF to HTML translations
What PDF to HTML translators, other than pdftohtml, am I likely to be able to find in ports? I went looking for pdf2html, expecting to find that there, but no luck. Before I spend hours sifting through, still without knowing whether I missed something that should be obvious, I figured I'd ask here whether anyone knows of something off the top of his/her head. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpcfXqERGvTX.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: PDF to HTML translations
On 9/4/10, Chad Perrin wrote: > What PDF to HTML translators, other than pdftohtml, am I likely to be > able to find in ports? I went looking for pdf2html, expecting to find > that there, but no luck. Before I spend hours sifting through, still > without knowing whether I missed something that should be obvious, I > figured I'd ask here whether anyone knows of something off the top of > his/her head. > > -- > Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] > Chad, There might be several out there, one that I know from the top of my head is OpenOffice.org, with the pdf import option then use export to pdf? Have not used it to do the task, but I believe it can do the job. An other option without ports is to use google(gmail) and use the option (View as HTML)? Hope this helps in some way. Regards, Antonio ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: PDF to HTML translations
>What PDF to HTML translators, other than pdftohtml, am I likely to be >able to find in ports? I went looking for pdf2html, expecting to find >that there, but no luck. Off the top of my head: OpenOffice graphics/xpdf (via pdftotext -htmlmeta, simplistic) graphics/poppler-utils (pdftohtml) I'm guessing there are others, too. Or maybe, you could use Adobe's service. From: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_onlinetools.html "Adobe PDF Conversion by Email Attachment If the Adobe PDF file is on local media, such as a hard drive, CD-ROM, or internal server, it can be submitted as a MIME attachment to an e-mail message. All converted Adobe PDF documents will be sent back to the sender as MIME attachments. For plain text, mail the attached PDF to pdf2...@adobe.com. For HTML, mail the attached PDF to pdf2h...@adobe.com." b. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: PDF to HTML translations
On 9/5/10, b. f. wrote: >>What PDF to HTML translators, other than pdftohtml, am I likely to be >>able to find in ports? I went looking for pdf2html, expecting to find >>that there, but no luck. > > Off the top of my head: > > OpenOffice > graphics/xpdf (via pdftotext -htmlmeta, simplistic) > graphics/poppler-utils (pdftohtml) > I guess that you could also use converters/pdf2djvu + djvutoxml from graphics/djvulibre[-nox11]. b. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
FreeBSD on Compaq mini CQ10 anyone?
I just got one and was wondering if anyone was running FreeBSD on it and how well does it work out of the box. All comments are welcome. Best Regards. Gonzalo Nemmi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
"gmirror load" broken in 8.1 memstick
Fixit# gmirror label -vb round-robin gm0 /dev/ad0s2a appeared to work properly. (I didn't write down the exact message, but it said something about the metadata having been written successfully.) However: Fixit# gmirror load gmirror: Command 'load' not available. and it did not create /dev/mirror/gm0 or even the /dev/mirror directory. How do I fix this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Can i use tmpfs to mount /tmp ?
>cat /etc/fstab # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options DumpPass# /dev/ad4s3b noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/ad4s3a / ufs rw,noatime 1 1 /dev/ad4s3e /tmpufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad4s3f /usrufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad4s3d /varufs rw 2 2 /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/ad4s7 /media/Fmsdosfs rw 0 0 /dev/ad4s8 /media/Gext2fs rw 0 0 The /dev/ad4s3e is used for /tmp. Now i want to use tmpfs instead of ufs as below none /tmp tmpfs size=64M,nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 If i can, then how to reuse the space of /dev/ad4s3e ? Sincerely! - e^(π⋅i) + 1 = 0 -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Can-i-use-tmpfs-to-mount--tmp---tp29625711p29625711.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: PDF to HTML translations
On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 05:09:20PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > What PDF to HTML translators, other than pdftohtml, am I likely to be > able to find in ports? I went looking for pdf2html, expecting to find > that there, but no luck. Before I spend hours sifting through, still > without knowing whether I missed something that should be obvious, Yes, you did. :-) > I > figured I'd ask here whether anyone knows of something off the top of > his/her head. Try textproc/pdftohtml Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpcasAYd2Ima.pgp Description: PGP signature
