Re: two ISP connections, three nics, and a NAT
At 11:06 AM 5/12/2005, you wrote: I have two ISP connections, a DSL line and a Cable Modem line. I want to plug both connections into a FreeBSD box that has three nics in it, one nic for each ISP connection and the last nic for my NAT. How can I bind the connections together without any other sort of router? I setup something similar that may be useful We have a small office with a 12/24ths of a T-1 line for an absurd amount of money as our primary connection. Cheap residential cable service became available with quadruple the bandwidth [incoming only] for cheap. I installed an extra NIC the to cable modem and setup the Squid proxy / cache on a f'bsd box that was already running other services. Then used some Squid options and IPFW to get all Squid's traffic running over the cable line. This gets us faster web and ftp downloads, and off-loads the T-1 for other things. -Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Redirect *:port to ip:port on the same machine?
At 12:56 PM 5/12/2005, you wrote: I have a program that binds to ip:port. What are my options, if I want it to listen on all interfaces (*:port)? Let's say reconfiguring the program and/or running one instance per interface is not possible. How 'bout: * Install ports/net/redir * Config original program to listen on localhost * Config redir to pass from the other IPs to localhost. -Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: swap space problems
At 01:20 PM 5/9/2005, Chris Fedde wrote: Occasionaly my system hangs for a few seconds while loading a process from swap that has been idle for some time. ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=161663 What type of driver interface and controller is this? And what FBSD version? I used to get this error when I was trying to get a SATA drive working last summer. There were bugs in the ata driver (circa 5.2.1) that are about 96% fixed in 5.3. It would happen under heavy disk IO doing a lot of random seeks. The hang really is a hang, not just a delay from the swapping activity. 40 or 50% of the time, it resulted in a hard full system hang (ie: had to power cycle or hit the reset button.) Often there was severe data corruption, also. -Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Low HDD tranfer rate with FreeBSD 5.3-Release
At 03:50 PM 5/9/2005, you wrote: So how does the block size makes the difference?? What is the true transfer rate.? FWIW, there's a nice little disk IO benchmark Bonnie available in the ports packages. Tests several variations of sequential and random IO. I don't know how accurate its numbers in absolute terms, but it's at least good for relative comparisons of devices on similar systems. Be sure to use the -s option to increase the test file size to something larger than your ram. Sample Output: /datatel bonnie -s 1000 File './Bonnie.709', size: 1048576000 Writing with putc()...done Rewriting...done Writing intelligently...done Reading with getc()...done Reading intelligently...done Seeker 1...Seeker 3...Seeker 2...start 'em...done...done...done... ---Sequential Output ---Sequential Input-- --Random-- -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks--- MachineMB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU 1000 10835 98.5 26996 18.1 19876 15.2 8925 83.6 62490 23.0 325.9 3.3 -Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: serial console
At 02:16 PM 5/5/2005, Paul T. Root wrote: trying to get a HP Vectra up without keyboard or monitor with Serial A as the console. What I've tried (loader.conf) doesn't seem to work. Shot in the dark, as I've never messed with serial much. But I think you have to enable it in /etc/ttys for it to work post-install. -Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
