RE: hdd error
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthias F. Brandstetter Sent: November 29, 2004 12:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: hdd error -- quoting LiQuiD -- I've installed 5.3 on the same machine (an IBM Aptiva k6-2 450) but using two different hard drives, both times giving me the same error. In both cases, I was able to install 4.10-STABLE without any problems. I've seen several people complain about this problem on 5.3 machines, with the only solution thus far using a sysctl variable to disable udma for the hard drive. For some reason it seems no one (that would know how to fix it) is acknowledging the problem, which makes finding a solution even more difficult. I hava a similar problem with 5.3 and two SATA disks. I am getting: ad4: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=145402687 ad4: FAILURE - ATA_IDENTIFY timed out ad4: FAILURE - ATA_IDENTIFY timed out ar0: WARNING - mirror lost ad4: deleted from ar0 disk ad4: WARNING - removed from configuration ata2-master: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out How did you disable udma for your disks? http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-questions/2004-November/0 63807.html That's where I found it.. Greetings and TIA, Matthias -- You know, some of these stories are pretty good. I never knew mice lived such interesting lives. -- Homer Simpson Itchy Scratchy Marge ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: hdd error
After trying what Chuck suggested, if you're using 5.3 and it still doesn't work don't sweat it. I've installed 5.3 on the same machine (an IBM Aptiva k6-2 450) but using two different hard drives, both times giving me the same error. In both cases, I was able to install 4.10-STABLE without any problems. I've seen several people complain about this problem on 5.3 machines, with the only solution thus far using a sysctl variable to disable udma for the hard drive. For some reason it seems no one (that would know how to fix it) is acknowledging the problem, which makes finding a solution even more difficult. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chuck Swiger Sent: November 28, 2004 7:36 PM To: Marta Resende Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: hdd error Marta Resende wrote: everytime i compile any program, or make world, it gives me that: ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=74623 anyone knows what's that ?thx I'd try replacing your IDE cable. Possibly something else is wrong, perhaps with your master/slave/CS jumper settings on your drive and other ATA devices, so double-check those too. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Soekris engineering routers
Hi all, I've noticed a few people mention this company, http://www.soekris.com in the list now. Their website claims they can be used with a compact flash card. I'm curious regarding their usage with a flash card as a hard drive. Has anyone successfully been able to install FreeBSD on one of those boxes using a compact flash card? If this were possible, I could replace my router with that, and a couple clients' machines with something far smaller and with much less power consumption. Thanks, Sandro M ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: minor gcc 3.4 issue
Please forgive me if there was an easy way to find this out and I'm retarded, but uhm... how can I know if the issue brought forward in the post last month by the person below applies to the 4.x or 5.x branch? I have a FreeBSD system that was cvsup'd to -STABLE on jul. 24th and I'd like to do so again in the next few weeks. However, I'm reluctant to do so if this new compiler is an issue as this machine is a mail server and dns server for my network. Thank you, Sandro -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Huff Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 7:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: minor gcc 3.4 issue According to UPDATING: 20040728: System compiler has been upgraded to GCC 3.4.2-pre. As with any major compiler upgrade, there are several issues to be aware of. GCC 3.4.x has broken C++ ABI compatibility with previous releases yet again and users will have to rebuild all their C++ programs with the new compiler. Is there any way to determine which programs those would be, short of running them and watching them break? (I'm thinking something which looks at the source code or makefiles ) Robert Huff ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: NIS on a school network - need some clarifications
Hi Hugo, Look to NFS to do that for you. Here's a link to a page in the online handbook. NFS can do exactly what you want http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-nfs.ht ml -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hugo Silva Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 10:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NIS on a school network - need some clarifications Hi, I'm working on a project to change the network on my school to open source software only (FreeBSD/Linux workstations only). I knew about NIS from readings of the handbook years ago, so I revisited it today, but there' is something that's missing. I understand the NIS accounts reside on the master server and I have to add users on the master server. But then, users on workstations will have their home directories etc referring only to the local machine. I want to have users get their home directories from a central location too. Is there any 'official' process to make this work, with NIS if possible ? I plan to have a 'student-shared-area' that will be NFS mounted on every workstation on boot, but I want each user to have their files available, wherever they login from. Also, I assume there is no problem in using NIS accounts with X. From the logic of it, there shouldn't be any problems. A few last questions, Since I plan to switch the whole network from windows to FreeBSD / Linux (only adding linux because other people want it :-P), I'll need to substitute the following applications: - Visual C++ (anjuta) - MS Access (?) I don't know much about access, but I believe it's possible to have a ms-access database server.. if that's the case, is there a open source client with a similiar GUI to ms access available ? (note: mysql/etc won't do, the school program says ms access, so we need something similiar) Any insight on these issues is most welcome Regards, Hugo ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: installed ATA RAID, now cannot boot - get mountroot prompt
I'm by no means an expert, and thus the reason for my crude and unscientific solution that I'm proposing Seeing as you now know what it'll turn into upon adding this RAID card to your system, why don't you try the crude method of undoing everything, booting successfully, and then editing /etc/fstab accordingly just prior to shutting it back down to allow for a successful boot once you put the new hardware back in? The link to the FAQ mentioned below won't work for this scenario IMO because his /etc/fstab is currently inaccurate. Merely typing mount / would still generate an error. You could however type mount /dev/da0s1e / perhaps to get what you want though. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lowell Gilbert Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 12:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: installed ATA RAID, now cannot boot - get mountroot prompt DA Forsyth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm searching the web for answers on this too, but so far nothing useful. hard to know what question to ask the search engines! I made a mistake in rc.conf, or another startup file, and now I cannot edit it because the filesystem is read-only. What should I do? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#RCCONF- READONLY ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
problem with portupgrade.. or so it seems
Hi all, I have a machine running 4.10 stable that has a problem whenever I try to run portsdb -Uu. The message the scrolls down the screen is as follows: /usr/ports/INDEX:11586:Port info line must consist of 10 fields. That number changes... it basically goes from 0 to that (for all I know) as I can only go as far back as about 11300 I tried deleting the INDEX, INDEX.db files and such from /usr/ports and running make index to generate a new one, and I keep getting this error. I have even tried using a new tool I recently learned of here on this list called portindex, and I get the same error, except I don't have to wait 2 hours to see it. I even went as far as to delete /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db and even rm -rf /usr/ports/* and using sysinstall to reinstall the ports. I can't avoid getting that error, and the result is portinstall simply doesn't work because it can't find any packages. The odd thing is that another box had freebsd installed and upgraded to -STABLE at about the same time, and while it at first had the same error, forcing portsdb to reconstruct the database worked for that machine, as was suggested on the man page. Why on earth wouldn't it work for this other machine? Thanks in advance for any insight into this Sandro M. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: routing, was: Re: blank subject
Charles Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi, Liquid-- On Dec 6, 2003, at 3:06 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm going to have a static IP - say xx.xx.yy.zz - and a subnet as follows: xx.xx.xx.zz/28 Do you mean, I am switching from a single static IP to a 16-address subnet, or are you going to have both a static IP on one connection AND a /28 subnet over a second connection? Sorry I wasn't clearer on that. I have one corporate DSL connection with a static IP. Along with the static IP, I'll get an additional /28 1. Do I need to inform the ISP of my intentions so that people can actually connect to an IP which is part of my subnet, but behind this router I intend to build? (I didn't think it was necessary until I read 19.2.5 in the handbook - it doesn't seem like it's necessary based on that alone, but it has placed some doubt in my mind). No, your ISP will route IP traffic for the subnet to you. On the other hand, certainly you should talk to your ISP about your network topology if you have any specific issues or questions for them. 2. I currently run my FreeBSD router on a cable connection while waiting for the new ISP to get setup. I use NAT to translate the EXT. IP to the internal ones of my lan. I don't need to run nat for the setup I plan to have do I? No, you don't need NAT for IPs on your new subnet: they are directly Internet routable if you want a buzzword. :-) However, you should spend some time considering security and setting up a firewall. That's what I thought. Again I just needed someone else to say so too for me to be 100% certain. The whole reason for this is in fact security. I plan to do some webhosting, and also, to generate some additional revenue, give out a few accounts for irc bots. You KNOW that can be alot of trouble ;) I'm actually using an openbsd bridged firewall right now, have been for a couple of years and I like it. Firewalling on the FreeBSD box I intend to use as a router will only increase the security. Are there tricks regarding running ipf on the router that I should look into? Sometime later, you might want to consider how to have machines on your new network be able to fail-over to your single-IP connection; and one way of doing so would be to use a NAT gateway of your public IPs from the /28 subnet via your original connection. [The inverse of -unregistered_only.] 3. Finally, I've read (briefly thus far) about routed on FreeBSD. Would this daemon be used in such a way that I don't even need to add static routes for LAN? Yes, but routed is really intended for dynamic routing within an intranet, and is overkill for your situation. Specificly, you would accomplish more by configuring DHCP on your FreeBSD machine and broadcasting the correct default router IP than you would gain by using routed. Ping all of your machines (or use the subnet broadcast address), and do an arp -a to get MAC addrs, then set up host sections to allocate static IPs via DHCP, so your machines can all be network auto-configured even if you rebuild/reinstall the OS on a particular box. I think I'll just add the static routes for now. Sounds much simpler. Besides, with all these IP's, I still only have 6 machines behind this router... route add default gw my.isp.gateway route add net my./28.sub.net Those appear to be the only two route commands needed. Of course, I can only know for sure once I get my connection (sometime next week) and set it all up. In the future I may toy with routed just so I can know how it works. each of my machines will have wireless NIC's so they can interconnect using non-routable addresses and so I can connect to them from my desktop machine locally. Obviously I'm quite a routing nubile... my goal would be to setup routing so that from one machine who's address is in my subnet, I can connect to another machine within my subnet but ensure it's all done locally without going out beyond the router for two reasons: A) My monthly bandwidth is capped, B) It would only go at my internet connection speed, and not the full 10/100mbit of the LAN. Again, this address is not subscribed, so please answer by putting my address in the cc: field. Done. Thanks, and thanks also for the responses. Very helpful :) -- -Chuck -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hi all, (My mailserver is currently offline and this address is not subscribed, please cc me in all replies, thanks) I'm waiting for my new internet connection to be setup here, and in the meantime I'm starting to configure my network accordingly. I'm going to have a static IP - say xx.xx.yy.zz - and a subnet as follows: xx.xx.xx.zz/28 My plan is to run a FreeBSD router to have the subnet routed through the static IP. I've already got the static routes I need to add figured out. I still have some questions at this point (this setup is new to me): 1. Do I need to inform the ISP of my intentions so that people can actually connect to an IP which is part of my subnet, but behind this router I intend to build? (I didn't think it was necessary until I read 19.2.5 in the handbook - it doesn't seem like it's necessary based on that alone, but it has placed some doubt in my mind). 2. I currently run my FreeBSD router on a cable connection while waiting for the new ISP to get setup. I use NAT to translate the EXT. IP to the internal ones of my lan. I don't need to run nat for the setup I plan to have do I? 3. Finally, I've read (briefly thus far) about routed on FreeBSD. Would this daemon be used in such a way that I don't even need to add static routes for LAN? Again, this address is not subscribed, so please answer by putting my address in the cc: field. Thanks ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How do I get my NIC going again using ifconfig?
Hi everyone, Last night I was helping a guy out trying to install FreeBSD for the first time. His cable connection is DHCP and I have very little knowledge of how to set that up since it's been so long since I've had to do so. The result is I went to /stand/sysinstall and pretended to setup my interface through there so I'd be able to see what he was seeing. I chose no to IPV6, yes to DHCP.. As it's searching for a dhcp server, I wind up getting disconnected because my interface that has the public IP suddenly loses that IP. Somehow, from this point forward the inet6 IP (which is bogus, I have ipv6 installed for ipv6-ipv4 tunneling only) takes precedence. As such, despite all my efforts, and 3-4 re-reads of the ifconfig and route man pages, I was unable to get online without rebooting. Is there any other way around this in case this happens another time? I recall that many months ago I was tinkering with ifconfig and the same scenario reproduced itself. I had to reboot in order to get back online. Also, inconfig rl0 destroy doesn't appear to work. When I'd try to remove the inet6 address it would give me an error, something about PROTO.localhost-v6.rev. Sorry I can't remember more - by this time it was already 4 AM, and it didn't appear to log anywhere unfortunately. If anyone has any tips on how to avoid this for next time it would be greatly appreciated. TIA, Sandro ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: ADSL modem ip addresses
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Moore Sent: October 10, 2003 9:59 AM To: freebsd-questions Subject: ADSL modem ip addresses Hi, I'm organising an ADSL connection and I'm a bit confused about our options. We need to provide web, ssh and mail access to our network for users from home across the Internet with an ADSL connection. I figure the best way to do this is to setup a new machine to act as a firewall and run a web server sendmail on this box. (or I have seen something about using socket to divert these services to our existing server which has a private address). It's not a wise move to run the services on the same machine as your firewall. You can setup an openbsd machine to serve as your firewall on a very inexpensive old machine, running it as a gateway as well. You can then forward specific ports (80, 25, 110 in your case) to your services machine running either in a DMZ or behind the firewall. Regarding the whole diverting issue, I encourage you to google dual homed hosts I had some pretty favourites on my windows machine but I lost them all when a hard drive died or I'd have some good ones for you. The firewall would have a NIC with a private IP address to connect to the rest of our network. What's the best way then to connect it to the ADSL line? Do we have a second NIC in the firewall machine with a real IP address connected to an ADSL modem and use ppp -natd on that interface? Does that mean we'd need 2 static IP addresses - one for the firewall one for the modem? (We really don't want to pay for 2 addresses) If you use pppoe, you can run ppp -ddial -quiet on startup by including that in rc.conf. Checkout /etc/defaults/rc.conf. I setup a machine to act as a gateway/firewall for 5 PC's on a 3mbit dsl line once... on a P120 and it ran flawlessly. You don't need two IP's. Your modem *shouldn't* have to have an IP. If it does, it's because it also acts as a router and hence does the pppoe auth. I suppose you can use that as a router instead.. it's your network ;) I like the flexibility my router provides me however. It's remarkably easy to setup as well. Again I don't have any links right now off-hand, but if you search for pppoe + freebsd + ipnat or something you'll find some very good tutorials. There was this one for a cable connection I used as a guide the first time, and just followed the steps from other sources for setting up PPPoE. Or can we use a USB connection instead - are there FBSD drivers for ADSL modems? I can't see any in the supported hardware list. AFAIK, there is no support (yet?) for a usb modem. I don't like them anyway - I keep my apples with my apples, my oranges with... you guessed it, the oranges. ADSL = network related stuff = runs on Ethernet. Or do we use a combined modem/router device to do the nat firewalling and have it redirect mail, web ssh access to our main server? (is that possible or do such devices not allow access into the network from the 'net?) by default they will not. As I said they work, but I'm not sure the devices that are a modem + router built-in will also include firewalling. HTH, Sandro Cheers, Ian ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: ADSL modem ip addresses
*snipped* Actually quite a few of the SOHO DSL routers I've seen do include simple firewalling but often enough they are only configurable via a browser and have a kind of all or nothing stance. For fine granular control over the firewall it is hard to beat FBSD and IPFilter / IPFW for the price - it just doesn't come with a pretty web interface ( not that you couldn't build one if you had the time or the energy I suppose. You don't have to build one. Someone already did. I remember accidentally running into it a few months back while googling other stuff. I personally have no need now that I have a ruleset that I like, I just use the same one over and over wherever I need it changing the IP addresses where necessary ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: FreeBSD,Linux and any other os besides Microsoft.
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ajax Munroe Sent: September 22, 2003 10:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FreeBSD,Linux and any other os besides Microsoft. Hello, *snipped* Your Friend; AJAX Don't let familiarity blur your judgement. FreeBSD's installation is probably one of the easiest in the *nix world. I've setup a few linux machines, openbsd machines and freebsd machines so I've personally dealt with them all. I don't find it to be much more complicated than the windows 2000 install at all. The issue here is that you're so used to the windows 2000 installation, and the way it goes about doing things that anything else seems odd, and wrong. I know - I felt the same way the first time I tried to install FreeBSD. We're creatures of habit you know. All the other arguments brought forth by other list members I am absolutely in agreement with. User-friendliness comes at a price. *mumbles something about RPC on Windows machines* You said, I made a bootable CD (the best I could, It's not as easy as making a bootable windows CD) put the cd in my rom and found that BSD is not for me. Look, Im not trying to put BSD down or anything, I would love to have it on my computer fully working so that I could use something other than Windows! Im by no means bored with Windows, I find new and exciting things out with it all the time. I sincerely doubt you'd make a statement like this not wanting to put down FreeBSD right where you'll find its most loyal followers, but I won't engage in that sort of argument - I don't like giving people that satisfaction. I'm confused about the statement regarding the ease of making a bootable windows CD. Quite honestly, I think you are too. Legally you can't make a windows installation CD. You have to buy one. Creating a disc from an iso (or bin/cue - for an illegal windows disc) is a pretty brain-dead type of function. Lastly, where's the fun in putting in a CD and walking away for coffee, and having a system that works when you return? Knowing how to do that doesn't necessarily mean you are computer literate. The beauty of open-source is the fact that you feel this sense of accomplishment after setting something up because it's more hands-on. An analogy would be the guy who buys a Ferrari, but has no idea about the internals - and probably doesn't know how to drive it fast anyway Vs the guy who buys a cheap little hatchback (say a golf) and modifies things here and there, gets a hands-on feeling about it and turns it into a machine that can do laps (likely) faster than someone who doesn't drive as well in a Ferrari. I prefer to be the latter of the two. Others prefer the approach of the former. To each his own. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: question on cvsup
To be completely honest, I don't think it's good practise to use cvsup to go from freebsd 4-series to freebsd 5. I use cvsup all the time to stick to the latest -STABLE branch. Others use the -CURRENT branch. If I were to setup a machine and then decide I wanted to use the new 5.1 I'd probably tarball /etc, /usr/local/, /usr/home and /var/qmail and throw them on CD or something and just start from scratch. Of course this is my own opinion, and everyone will share with you different thoughts on this. I don't know for a fact that using cvsup will break anything, I just go by the fact that it's entirely a new release from the ground up and has many different things. HTH, Sandro ALIAS wrote: i read the manual that came with my freebsd4 package. and i see on the website that there's a freebsd5, i want to use cvsup to update my system to version 5, and i don't know how to do that, the manual doesn't explain it well. can someone help me? In the supfile that you use with cvsup, there's a line similar to *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_8. This specifies which version of the sources you want to sync to. The handbook has a list of all the tags at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs- tags.html But you should also be aware that 5.x (aka CURRENT) is not for everyone, you should read the handbook section at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current- stable.html that discusses who should use STABLE and who should use CURRENT. Brian ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Migrating to BIND 9 (WAS: RE: BIND fix for VeriSign's unregistered domain redirections?)
Also, anyone know of a workaround for BIND 8 at this time? If I were to simply install bind9 on my system from the ports, does it in fact simply overwrite the default installation included with FreeBSD? No. It installs it under /usr/local. Ok, Stupid question now. I'm just really concerned about breaking my dns server because it means I'll stop receiving mail to 3 domains. I also don't have a spare machine right now I can toy with. If I go ahead and portinstall bind9 - will I still be able to start bind up using rc.conf (by changing named_program=..) or does some .sh script get placed into /usr/local/etc/rc.d ? Also, the existing named.conf I've written... will it work if I make it really simplified(for now - I know that bind 9 adds new functionality so eventually I'd find myself tweaking that a little)? Thanks in advance for any insight. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: FreeBSD 5.1 i386 not allowing incoming ftp connects?
It is turned on *IF* you say so during the install. What does or does not run by default is actually determined by /etc/defaults/rc.conf. /etc/rc.conf is an override file, if you will. My guess here is that if you choose not to use the internet super server during the installation, it alters the rc.conf located in /etc/defaults rather than adding a line in /etc/rc.conf to disable inetd. Sandro -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Ulrich Kruppa Sent: September 2, 2003 12:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.1 i386 not allowing incoming ftp connects? On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm... funny, i have thought that inetd_enabled=YES was default regardless if it's in rc.conf or not. Because even it it's not in rc.conf, you can still see it running when you ps -ax (/usr/sbin/inetd -wW). I have my pop3 (which requires editing the inetd.conf) working even if that line is not in my rc.conf. THE Handbook - http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/inetd.html - says: inetd is initialized through the /etc/rc.conf system. The inetd_enable option is set to ``NO'' by default, but is often times turned on by sysinstall with the medium security profile. Placing: inetd_enable=YES or inetd_enable=NO into /etc/rc.conf can enable or disable inetd starting at boot time. But you are right, I could swear it was always turned by default. Regards, Uli. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 9:29 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.1 i386 not allowing incoming ftp connects? As it turns out, a one liner: inetd_enabled=YES added to rc.conf caused it to come up correctly. Now it is running fine! Thanks all Bob Keys ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+ |Peter Ulrich Kruppa| | Wuppertal | | Germany | +---+ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Approved
LOL! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barbara Griffin Sent: August 23, 2003 2:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Approved You have a virus. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: how to install on fbsd 4.8 new version of KDE?
You can always install portinstall from the ports. Then cvsup your ports tree regularly and run ports db -Uu (or something similar, I can't recall right now - it's in the portinstall man page) and simply type: Portupgrade kde And it'll go through the whole thing. Be warned, it can take a LONG time to compile and stuff. On my athlon 800 it took something like 12 hours to go from 3.1.1 to 3.1.2 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam McLaurin Sent: August 17, 2003 10:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: how to install on fbsd 4.8 new version of KDE? On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 10:28, Denis wrote: Does anybody know how can i to install on fbsd 4.8 new version of KDE, such as in fbsd 5.1 Or it's impossible? You'll need to first cvsup your ports tree, then install the KDE meta-port (x11/kde3). Here's how I update my ports: #!/bin/sh CVSUP_MIRROR=cvsup16.FreeBSD.org OUTDATED_LOG=/home/eskimo/logs/outdated.ports.txt CVSUP_SUPFILE=/usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile /usr/local/bin/cvsup -h $CVSUP_MIRROR -P - -g -L 2 $CVSUP_SUPFILE /usr/local/sbin/pkgdb -aF cd /usr/ports /usr/bin/make -v index /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -u /usr/local/sbin/portsclean -C /usr/local/sbin/pkgdb -u /usr/local/sbin/portversion -v |/usr/bin/fgrep needs $OUTDATED_LOG Note that you'll need net/cvsup-without-gui and sysutils/portupgrade to run my script. Read the Handbook for more information about updating your ports tree -- Adam McLaurin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: ipfilter - port forward question
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darryl Hoar Sent: August 8, 2003 2:38 PM To: 'Mike Maltese' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: ipfilter - port forward question Well, it does in fact use udp. Here is what I have done. Added to /etc/ipfilter.rules pass in quick on ep0 proto tcp from any to any port = 31240 keep state you *did* infact mean to say pass in quick on ep0 proto udp from (etc) Added to /etc/ipnat.rules rdr ep0 0/0 port 31240 - 192.168.1.35 port 31240 udp This appears to be OK. first question. I can reload the ipfilter rules with the ipf -Fa -f /etc/ipfilter.rules you certainly can how do I reload the ipnat rules ? I tried ipnat -F then ipnat -f /etc/ipnat.rules. Try ipnat -Cf -f /etc/ipnat.rules But when I did a ipnat -l it showed that it just added the new rdr (so I had two listed). I rebooted. External users still couldn't connect. So, I create a new ipfilter.rules file with: pass in quick on ep0 all keep state pass out quick on ep0 all keep state. reloaded the filewall rules. Users tried to connect but couldn't. I looked at the nat table I saw: map 192.168.1.35 1256 - - 24.225.33.88 1256 [24.225.17.163 5101] rdr 192.168.1.35 31240 - - 24.225.33.88 31240 [24.225.17.163 1131] snip out duplicate entries with 1131 changing to different values I feel I'm close. What am I missing/screwing up ? thanks, Darryl Freebsd 4.7S OK, you must be close. I'm not entirely sure why that wouldn't be working using the firewall rules you mentioned after rebooting. I've never forwarded anything other than tcp though for basic stuff like www, smtp etc... so I'm unsure if ipnat is picky about udp traffic. I know that on my ipnat.rules I have this line, unclear though if this would make a difference: map dc0 192.168.0.0/24 - xx.xx.xx.xx/32 portmap tcp/udp 3:5 I strongly suggest you look at this site... I like to think I'm quite good with ipf/ipnat, and it's solely because of the knowledge of it I got out of the whitepaper located there. www.obfuscation.org/ipf HTH, Sandro ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: named.conf et al and home network segments
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David S. Jackson
Sent: July 29, 2003 6:10 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: named.conf et al and home network segments
Hi,
I'm trying to setup dns for my two home network segments,
192.168.0/24 and 192.168.1/24. I just need internal dns access,
no outside access.
It sounds like a relatively simple problem, but I'm just not sure
how to go about it. Do I just set up 2 reverse zones,
0.168.192.in-addr.arpa and 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa in named.conf?
Then put all the A records for both segments in the db.dsj.net
zone file?
Or should I create a separate name server for each segment?
I'd like the internal (192.168.1/24) segment to be able to access
all servers on the external segment (192.168.0/24), but not allow
any of the external services to query the internal. Does that
mean I need two dns servers?
You don't need to setup two servers. You can simply create two reverse
zones for each of those networks. Something like this (I just did a
quick copy paste, so most of this will not apply to you, be warned!)
zone 0.168.192.in-addr.arpa in {
type master;
file db.192.168.0;
allow-query { 192.168.0.1/16; };
};
followed by...
zone 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa in {
type master;
file db.192.168.1;
allow-query { 192.168.0.1/16; };
};
Of course, replace db.192.168.x with whatever you named your files.
Also look at
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=named.confapropos=0sektion=0;
manpath=FreeBSD+4.8-RELEASEformat=html#ADDRESS+MATCH for more on
allow-query
Hope this helps you,
Sandro
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RE: Problems with Apache+ssl
You aren't running any sort of httpd. What do you do to start it? Try apachectl startssl. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daryl Hunt Sent: July 29, 2003 11:55 PM To: William Knechtel Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problems with Apache+ssl - Original Message - From: William Knechtel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Daryl Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 9:34 PM Subject: RE: Problems with Apache+ssl When you run a ps ax|grep http what are the results? 6598 p0 S+ 0:00.01 grep http Do you get ANY page (i.e. the default it worked page), and if not, what is the error your browser gives you? No page whatsoever. It's the standard DNS (can't find nothun) page. what happens when you try telnetting to localost port 80 and port 443? Same thing. It just does the Can't find it page. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Daryl Hunt Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 9:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problems with Apache+ssl am having a bear of a time getting apache+ssl to run on the system. It installs fine but I can't seem to get a page to display using localhost, the ipnumber or the Domain name. I come from the Windows World where it works right out of the box so bare with me. I run httpsd and it seems to load. I edited the httpd.conf with the correct entries as far as I can see. But it still will not run a page in the browser. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Is there any way to disable passive mode on ftpd?
Sorry Alvaro, I forgot to send this to the list... oops. -Original Message- From: Liquid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: December 3, 2002 11:39 AM To: 'Alvaro Gil' Subject: RE: Is there any way to disable passive mode on ftpd? I have a better question perhaps... Is it possible to set specific ports for passive mode on the ftpd? Though it is possible to simply rdr the ports to the machine running this anonymous ftp, I don't think it would be wise to redirect ports in that range as they are often used by other services aren't they? If that's not possible, I guess I need to know the same thing as Alvaro here was asking... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Alvaro Gil Sent: December 3, 2002 10:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Is there any way to disable passive mode on ftpd? My server is behind a NAT firewall until I have time to put it in front of it. People are having trouble downloading from the anonymous FTP server. I understand that normal the ftp sever goes into passive mode and opens a new port in the high 1000-5000 ranges. How can i force it to use port 21 for all connections? Even though I urged everyone to set their clients correctly, some people cannot do so. Some people are having trouble with this movie. I cannot assume everyone knows what they are doing, I would like to set up a fail-safe downloading point. ftp://alvarogil.com/pub/muni/TourneMuniS3MPG4.mov Thanks.! -- Alvaro Gil http://www.AlvaroGil.com '84 Volvo 242 Turbo (Silver) 15 psi '97 Leopard Gecko (White, Yellow, Black) NJIT Mechanical Engineering Student To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
RE: Is there any way to disable passive mode on ftpd?
Now I don't know if that's a result of using a certain NAT setup vs another, but I'm using ipnat + ipfilter, and I had ftp forwarded to a windows box, and it worked fine for ftp, setting ports 10010-1030 for passive mode. I then decided to play with ncftpd on a linux box a while back, and it too worked, using the same ports and such. When the NAT does its thing, if I'm to understand this correctly, the ftp will think that anything coming in is coming from the gateway anyway... so its ok if it's the LAN IP's.. or something like that. I'm going to read through the ipfilter whitepaper again and find exactly what was said there. (If you're using ipf already, you really must look at www.obfuscation.org/ipf ) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Alvaro Gil Sent: December 3, 2002 11:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Is there any way to disable passive mode on ftpd? If that's not possible, I guess I need to know the same thing as Alvaro here was asking... The other problem is that when it goes into passive mode, the ip changes form a global one to the local ip the machine is on! So it really only works well on the local network -- Alvaro Gil http://www.AlvaroGil.com '84 Volvo 242 Turbo (Silver) 15 psi '97 Leopard Gecko (White, Yellow, Black) NJIT Mechanical Engineering Student To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
RE: ARP flood = Firewall locks up???
That 10.0.whatever crap is from your modem. When I had a box running on cable, I'd see a horrific amount of that crap in my logs. It never caused my firewall to stop working mind you. Mine, for instance was 10.0.80.31 - which, it appears, was my modem's IP address although I do not recall seeing it in traceroutes (this was several years ago, so don't take my word for it - best thing to do is to check your traceroute to say... yahoo.com and see what comes up as first gateway). Why this is so? I can't answer that. My present adsl modem has a fixed IP, specifically to telnet to in the event I want to use it as a router - I haven't logged the interface because I know firewall tun0, but I'd bet I'd see a lot of junk on the NIC interface acting as the pppoe transport if I'd log it... Are you assigned a static IP or is it dhcp? I used to get an arp msg and stuff when someone was mistakenly typing my IP as his static IP, a typo caused both of us to share the IP - except that obviously didn't work out quite nicely. I was being assigned the IP via DHCP - and their dhcp server kept giving me xx.yy.ab.ab and the guy's static IP was xx.yy.ab.ba... u can see where he made his typo Just something to think about... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. Sent: November 27, 2002 4:07 PM To: Mark; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ARP flood = Firewall locks up??? From: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ARP flood = Firewall locks up??? Hi! Not being a terribly monstrous expert with FreeBSD firewalls, I was quite relieved when I managed to get my FreeBSD 4.3 machine up and running with a simple firewall and NAT for my subnet to my local cable modem provider. The firewall configuration was, indeed, the pure 'simple', with a couple of extra rules to allow DNS (udp to and from 53). Now, the problem is, about three weeks ago, I started seeing a FLOOD of ARP messages on xl0, my interface to the internet over the cable modem. They are mostly of the nature: snip Questions: 1. Any ideas what this ARP flood is? Is it some tool the ISP is using or something? Looks like common DNS traffic, up to a point. It is quite a bit, I suppose, since your log excerpt is just a few seconds worth. Is this a firewall log we're looking at, or a tcpdump? If you use 'tcpdump' on the WAN if, you're getting your neighbors packets also, right? You mention not being able to get more infocheck most of the files in /var/log...anything showing up on the console, or it that directed to a text log.? What services are you running on your own subnet...I don't find a DNS server there I wonder about the 10.x.x.x addysomething wrong in someone's config, perhaps?... 2. Any idea what's up with the firewall? Why would it be locking up? I must confess to being a bit of a firewall newbie, so i'm not 100% sure how to go about getting it to give me more information, logging, etc ... I might just upgrade to 4.7 and see what happens, but I'd rather understand this first I'm newb also, but are we sure it's just the firewall? If you're rebooting to fix the problem, you're resetting more than just the FW. Any suggestions would be appreciated... Thanks, mark. That's about all I've done, suggested... G'luck, Kevin Kinsey To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
RE: Find abandoned packages
If you check out /var/db/pkg it lists what ports are installed essentially. I don't know how to tell whether or not its a dependency though, so maybe someone else can answer that. I'd like to know that too come to think of it. -SM -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Pascal Giannakakis Sent: November 21, 2002 8:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Find abandoned packages Lo folks, how do you find installed ports / packages on your system, that are not required by others? Thanx. -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
resent - in txt format - using PPP to establish a PPPoE connection - won't renew if connection is dropped
Sorry everyone, forgot to convert to txt before sending this, so I'll resend I'm having this huge problem: I have adsl, and I connect using that PPPoE garbage. I also just changed ISP for a less expensive one, and I'm beginning to realize why its less expensive. I'm running a machine with FreeBSD 4.7 stable on it and whenever it gets disconnected (about twice daily, believe it or not) it can't seem to realize that such is the case and thus never reconnects to get a new IP. Does anyone have any idea what I can do to fix this? Whenever I'm not around, and this happens, I have to go out of my way to drive to where this box is located to reboot it. It's the only way I'm able to force it to reconnect. TIA To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
RE: Your experiences using PPPoE
Ah, something like this should work. I've tried so many different things but in the end, the problem remains that the system itself does not know that tun0 no longer works and I have to manually restart ppp. This essentially does it. The other guy who replied also had good ideas, but all those are on the assumption that FreeBSD notices the link is down... I'm guessing it's the only reason it hasn't worked for me. I've tried using set reconnect x x in ppp.conf - if that doesn't work there's a serious problem as its sole purpose is to redial/reconnect (whatever) as soon as the link is down - which it has failed to do, given the link is never down according to ifconfig anyway. Thanks a lot Tim, Sandro -Original Message- From: Timothy L. Robertson [mailto:timothyr;timothyr.com] Sent: November 14, 2002 1:55 PM To: Liquid; FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Your experiences using PPPoE Sandro, Attached are a set of shell scripts I use to ping a number of sites occasionally, and restart the PPPoE connection if they all fail. (This is on Mindspring DSL over Covad.) This has run for months unattended on a low volume machine, keeping my connection up whenever Mindspring has its act together. There's probably a more elegant way to do this, but the idea is that ppp.linkup.sh calls nettest.sh, which calls pingsites.sh. Pingsites tries to reach a number of high reliability sites, and only fails if all the sites are down. If pingsites fails, it calls reconnect.sh, which kills the old ppp and nettest processes, and tries to get new ones running. I think it should all just work if you put it in /etc/ppp, but no guarantees. Also, at any time you can reset your ppp connection by typing /etc/ppp/reconnect.sh as root. -Tim On 11/14/02 9:20 AM, Liquid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just looking to see how others connect their FreeBSD machine to the internet around here if they have a PPPoE connection. I thought mine was ok, as I never would be offline with one ISP (up to 5 weeks), but now I've changed ISP and my machine is no longer able to realize that the ppp link is down and needs to be renegotiated. I'm especially interested in knowing what 3rd party programs people use. For the networking guru's: I know for a fact my former ISP did not go 5 weeks straight without dropping my connection, they sent mail regarding downtime for repairs twice in that period. Is there something about one isp vs another one that can keep my machine from noticing when the connection is lost? Here is my ppp.conf: FIREWALL# ee /etc/ppp/ppp.conf default: ident user-ppp VERSION (built COMPILATIONDATE) set device PPPoe:rl0 set mru 1492 set mtu 1492 set timeout 0 set log Phase Chat Connect LCP IPCP CCP tun command set ifaddr 1.1.1.1/0 1.1.1.2/0 255.255.255.0 0.0.0.0 set cd 5 set crtscts on enable dns pppoe: # set mode dedicated set authname **@magma.ca set authkey * set dial set login in my rc.conf, I've set it to connect on startup, in dedicated mode, and tried ddial today as well, running the process as root. I also have a ppp.linkup: MYADDR: Add 0 0 HISADDR If anyone sees room for improvement, or knows where I can inform myself on creating a neat hangup script that can kill the ppp process and fire up a new one, by all means let me know Thanks, Sandro M. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Bare minimum requirements for FreeBSD installation
Hey everyone. A family member asked me to setup a gateway in his house so that the internet can be shared between a couple of tenants. I realize it can be very easily done using a router, but I have this 486dx2 50mhz at home with 8mb ram. It has a 300mb and 640mb hd in it too. If I only wish to run a simple router setup using ipfilter and ipnat, will it run FreeBSD? The only other services running being ssh and perhaps ftp and I couldn't care less about how fast it runs, as long as it does its job adequately. One other thing, seeing as it'll be sharing PPPoE adsl, I'll have PPP running in dedicated mode at all times. The reason I'm asking is because it only has 30-pin simm ram slots, and I haven't even seen any for sale anywhere, nevermind whether or not its close to reasonable. I realize that if it would have 16 MHz it would probably run just fine. That brings the list of stuff running to ppp -d ftpd (maybe, I might just use the old burn a cdrom and drive over method instead)0 openssh ipnat ipfilter Any comments more than welcome. Thanks, Sandro M. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
RE: Bare minimum requirements for FreeBSD installation
Thanks everyone for your input. Hopefully my cousin will take some interest in the box and he'll start messing with it until it breaks, so I can start learning again. My machine hasn't broken in months, its nearly boring now ;) -Original Message- From: Fernando Gleiser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: October 1, 2002 9:53 PM To: Liquid Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bare minimum requirements for FreeBSD installation On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Liquid wrote: Hey everyone. A family member asked me to setup a gateway in his house so that the internet can be shared between a couple of tenants. I realize it can be very easily done using a router, but I have this 486dx2 50mhz at home with 8mb ram. It has a 300mb and 640mb hd in it too. If I only wish to run a simple router setup using ipfilter and ipnat, will it run FreeBSD? The only other services running being ssh and perhaps ftp and I couldn't care less about how fast it runs, as long as it does its job adequately. One other thing, seeing as it'll be sharing PPPoE adsl, I'll have PPP running in dedicated mode at all times. My home firewall is an old 486DX 50 MHz with 16 MB RAM. It runs ipf/ipnat/ ipmon and uses DHCP to get its IP addr. The reason I'm asking is because it only has 30-pin simm ram slots, and I haven't even seen any for sale anywhere, nevermind whether or not its close to reasonable. I realize that if it would have 16 MHz it would probably run just fine. I think you need at least 12 MB RAM to install FreeBSD, but it runs with 8. You can try searching EBay, or getting more RAM for other discarded PCs :) Fer That brings the list of stuff running to ppp -d ftpd (maybe, I might just use the old burn a cdrom and drive over method instead)0 openssh ipnat ipfilter Any comments more than welcome. Thanks, Sandro M. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
