Re: television cable internet service
To make life easy, I had a windows box laying around for the technician to verify a live line with. Once it was live and he was gone, I switched to using a BSD router on the connection. I did the same here. Although to be honest, nothing the tech did here should have made any difference whatsoever. He plugged in the modem, booted the computer ( DHCP ), and went into the browser for a couple of minutes. Yeah, they are paranoid about servers, but never do anything about them until it starts to cost them money. If they were really strict on the no servers policy, they would be able to allow any windows box to connect to their network. The tech didn't mention anything about servers to me. But in all honesty I haven't bothered to try and see if they're blocking ports or not. I would suspect that they are though. BSD should work fine with Comcast. I am not sure how comcast in your area differs from the seattle area, but they should all be BSD friendly. The big trouble is that initial service with cable/dsl is rather flaky. It usually takes the ISP a month or so to figure out how a network is to be expanded or something. My BSD stuff works fine here. And yes, for the first couple of months the service would flake out daily in the early afternoon. Lately it's been solid. Depending on what your needs are, you could also consider a cheap router ( linksys or others ) as they're down to ~50$ or so. That's not much more than a cheap switch at this point, so even if you don't decide to use it as a router you can use it for your network anyway. Much of it is point and click, which may be useful until you learn more about how to fully set up your BSD box's firewalling and such. As the DHCP server and NAT are already built in, this might also be helpful until you get DHCP server set up on your BSD box as well. Hope this helps. -Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Are there STABLE/CURRENT/RELEASE tags for ports?
You could try specifying a date in your cvsupfile. This isn't exactly what you are looking for but if you tried to update a port and find it no longer works, you could then roll back the changes made with another cvsup for the ports. I have done this in the past but don't recall the exact syntax. Try man cvsup. I would consider setting up another cvsup file for just this purpose if you think it will happen often. You could set the date to when the new version came out, sort of a release date, or just increment it until you get it to the point where you know it builds and go from there. Hope this helps a little. -Chris - Original Message - From: DoubleF [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mark Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 12 June, 2003 0:23 Subject: Re: Are there STABLE/CURRENT/RELEASE tags for ports? Are there any equivalents to STABLE/RELEASE/CURRENT for ports? I've been cvsup'ing with tag=. for awhile and I keep getting build errors (bug reports will be filed soon). Is there a way to just track -STABLE ports (maybe that only have bugfixes and security updates) that are more likely to play nicely with each other? If not, is there any way to make this happen? Arghh I wish there were such tags. In the meantime you might consider CTM for ports, downloading the deltas from the FTP. If you do that and NEVER EVER remove the deltas, you may be able to 'roll back' to any date you want to try to find the non-broken port version (if there was any, of course...). I am also rather tired of build errors. What I can suggest is probably kludgy, but it is the least kludgy way I could find to compile some ports. Before you install any ports, 1) Save the deltas... hier kludge start 2) Symlink /usr/X11R6 to /usr/local. Many ports put files in the wrong one, and symlinking individual files is, ahm,... AFAIK, there are no colliding files in them. 3) Try putting /usr/local and /var/db/pkg (and /etc/X11, and /usr/ports maybe, but I don't) on a separate filesystem. Make two such filesystems, current and stable. Make / and the remaining /usr as read-only as possible. Make a mountpoint, say, /switch. Symlink /usr/local to /switch/usr.local, /var/db/pkg to /switch/var.db.pkg... Then change the fstab file to mount stable at startup. You can always mount current after boot on top of stable and so emulate what you wish. You may want to make the WRKDIRPREFIX to point to a directory shared between the current and stable to save compilation time (otherwise you will compile each port twice), but I wouldn't recommend it (to be on the safe side). hier kludge end It's just what I do. I know it breaks the normal hierarchy (and takes 2x space), but at least it does it in a polite way. HTH, DoubleF ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A couple of questions for 5.1rc1....
- Original Message - From: Derrick Ryalls [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'chris corayer' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 06 June, 2003 2:50 Subject: RE: A couple of questions for 5.1rc1 I run 4.8, but here are my suggestions: The final question I have is one that's probably obscure. I remember a switch used to tell the dhcp client to send the host name of the laptop to a dhcp server. While it gets a man dhclient.conf lease perfectly fine, opening up my linksys dhcp table ( at home ) or the NT dhcp server at work I can only see that a machine has that lease. The name of the laptop isn't listed. I had enabled something on a laptop I had a couple of years ago that made it so the name showed up, but I haven't been able to find anything on this since and I have no idea how I did it before or even where I found it. I don't think dhclient is the issue. If you want your machine to appear on the network, install samba. You don't need to share anything out unless you want to, but samba contains the network name service (nmbd). Then again, maybe I misunderstood you. I neglected to mention that I had read through the dhcp related man pages. Probably due to my lack of sleep I missed it but I managed to find what I needed. It was not what I expected it to be. I had put in the line send host-name myhost; into my dhclient.conf file. However, the line I was actually looking for wassend dhcp-client-identifier myhost; I'm not entirely sure why you would use the first one I tried, perhaps if the server always assigns a particular system the same IP address? Then again, wouldn't the line I ended up using do the same thing? Anyway, with the dhcp-client-identifier line, the system now shows up in the NT server/linksys router dhcp clients table. So that's one part down. I will likely be adding samba soon as it will be nice for the laptop to show up in the browse lists as well. Now I just need to spend some more time this weekend and see if I can't fix those ACPI/APM issues. -Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A couple of questions for 5.1rc1....
I am trying to figure out how to fix an niggling dhcp issue and permanently disable ACPI and enable apm on my HP Omnibook 900. I'm running 5.1RC1, which is great since this is the first time I've managed to get 5.x on this unit. Even my xircom realport cards work. However, I'm having trouble figuring out exactly where to put the ACPI disable line as this machine just crashes and reboots if I leave it enabled. I think it should go in loader.conf, but I'm unsure exactly on the syntax or if that's where it belongs. Also, I seem to remember that you could enable APM with the generic kernel by inserting a line into loader.conf as well. The final question I have is one that's probably obscure. I remember a switch used to tell the dhcp client to send the host name of the laptop to a dhcp server. While it gets a lease perfectly fine, opening up my linksys dhcp table ( at home ) or the NT dhcp server at work I can only see that a machine has that lease. The name of the laptop isn't listed. I had enabled something on a laptop I had a couple of years ago that made it so the name showed up, but I haven't been able to find anything on this since and I have no idea how I did it before or even where I found it. I think I'm missing some probably obvious things. Can anyone at least point me in the proper direction? Thanks. -Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
