[leaf-user] dnsmasq and /etc/hosts
Hello List, after using Bering 1.2 and Lince, stuffed in flashes on two Soekris 4801 boards for a year or so, I am playing with Bering uClibc 2.2.3. I find dnsmasq handy for resolving the /etc/hosts for local workstations. But I find it strange that dnsmasq will not resolve a machine name without a final dot in the string: --- example --- C:\Documents and Settings\Tango Echoping isildur Ping request could not find host isildur. Please check the name and try again. C:\Documents and Settings\Tango Echoping isildur. Pinging isildur [10.8.0.2] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 10.8.0.2: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64 Reply from 10.8.0.2: bytes=32 time1ms TTL=64 --- end of example --- My /etc/hosts looks like: - 127.0.0.1 localhost 10.8.0.1isengard 10.8.0.2isildur 10.12.5.12 gandalf - and my dnsmasq.conf has: local=// If I use: --- local=/home/ expand-hosts domain=home --- then still there is no response to ping isildur while there is response to both ping isildur. and ping islidur.home. There are no dnsmasq error messages in the daemon.log. Is this behaviour due to my configuration error or is it normal? - Tom --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
[leaf-user] Best 4-port NICs?
I'd appreciate a recommendation from the list on which 4-port NICs work best with the Bering uClibc distro? Any known problems using them with single-port NICs on the same machine? Thanks! --Cal Webster --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
[leaf-user] NoCatSplash on bering-uclibc Beta
Hi All, I've got bering uclibc 2.3.1 beta version running fine and have setup buildtool so that I could get OpenVPN 2.0rc16 running. I've also got my asterisk server configured so I can call home with certain CLI and open/close straight public key ssh access to the box for when i'm away from the machines with openvpn on. The one thing I can;t seem to find is how to get nocatsplash built so that the other interface on my pc-engines wrap board can operate with a captive portal for open-wifi access. Any pointers welcome. Jon --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
RE: [leaf-user] Best 4-port NICs?
I'd appreciate a recommendation from the list on which 4-port NICs work best with the Bering uClibc distro? Any known problems using them with single-port NICs on the same machine? The situation is the same as with a normal distro. uClibc uses modules; therefore, you can insert commands just like with a regular distro. Stay away from Tulip based 4-port cards. I have used Intel cards to good effect, especially with newer machines. Older servers sometimes have IRQ issues. On 4 servers here we are using 2 dual 64bit 66mhz+ Intel gigabit adapters to good effect. It is important to get 64bit 66mhz+ cards if you want to push a lot of bandwidth. Regards, P --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95alloc_id396op=click leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
RE: [leaf-user] Best 4-port NICs?
Thanks for the info Peter. Here are my choices so far: Intel: Intel PRO/1000 MT Quad Port Server Adapter $337 Osicom: FE-2404-TX - 10/100BTX PCI FAST ENET NIC $329 Adaptec: ANA-64044LV 4-Port, 64-bit/66 MHz PCI NIC $409 Obsolete but available in obscure locations: D-Link: DFE-570TX 4 port 21143 card (avail only on eBay) $80 Phobos: P430 4-port 10/100 NIC (kernelsoftware.com) $248 I'm thinking the Intel NIC would be best, but after looking at it on intel.com I'm not sure it'll fit in a PCI slot. It looks like a PCI/X card. My next choice would be the Osicom card for price/performance, but I've never heard of them before. They say it's based on the Intel 82559 and list Linux as a supported OS so it should work. Adaptec has had the quad NIC for quite a while, but I'm not sure if it uses the tulip drivers that you warned against. Adaptec doesn't say what chip set is used. The two obsolete cards I found while searching. I hesitate to get these because (1) I'm not sure if they're supported, and (2) they may not be available when we need replacements. Our firewall hardware platform uses a passive backplane chassis with Cyber Research PIII-based single board computers. I can't find the SBC documentation so I'm not sure if it'll handle 64-bit PCI transfers. Even so, it shouldn't be worse than 4 single port NICs. Which would you favor? Thanks! --Cal Webster On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 14:08, Peter Mueller wrote: I'd appreciate a recommendation from the list on which 4-port NICs work best with the Bering uClibc distro? Any known problems using them with single-port NICs on the same machine? The situation is the same as with a normal distro. uClibc uses modules; therefore, you can insert commands just like with a regular distro. Stay away from Tulip based 4-port cards. I have used Intel cards to good effect, especially with newer machines. Older servers sometimes have IRQ issues. On 4 servers here we are using 2 dual 64bit 66mhz+ Intel gigabit adapters to good effect. It is important to get 64bit 66mhz+ cards if you want to push a lot of bandwidth. Regards, P --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95alloc_id396op=click leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95alloc_id396op=click leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
RE: [leaf-user] Best 4-port NICs?
Intel: Intel(r) PRO/1000 MT Quad Port Server Adapter $337 Osicom: FE-2404-TX - 10/100BTX PCI FAST ENET NIC $329 D-Link: DFE-570TX 4 port 21143 card (avail only on eBay) $80 I'm thinking the Intel NIC would be best, but after looking at it on intel.com I'm not sure it'll fit in a PCI slot. It looks like a PCI/X card. My next choice would be the Osicom card for price/performance, but I've never heard of them before. They say it's based on the Intel 82559 and list Linux as a supported OS so it should work. Our firewall hardware platform uses a passive backplane chassis with Cyber Research PIII-based single board computers. I can't find the SBC documentation so I'm not sure if it'll handle 64-bit PCI transfers. Even so, it shouldn't be worse than 4 single port NICs. Which would you favor? You didn't mention your bandwidth requirements. I have heard the DLINK-DFE570TX card works, but if I were you I'd prefer the Intel-base cards that are new. If price is an issue look at the DLINK. Especially if you have extra time. Regards, P --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95alloc_id396op=click leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
Re: [leaf-user] dnsmasq and /etc/hosts
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 09:36:50AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: after using Bering 1.2 and Lince, stuffed in flashes on two Soekris 4801 boards for a year or so, I am playing with Bering uClibc 2.2.3. I find dnsmasq handy for resolving the /etc/hosts for local workstations. But I find it strange that dnsmasq will not resolve a machine name without a final dot in the string: I have seen similar behaviour too, but this only happened from windows computers. On linux computers the local hostnames without dots would resolve without problems. So this might be a windows problem, but I'm not sure of this. Jaap --- example --- C:\Documents and Settings\Tango Echoping isildur Ping request could not find host isildur. Please check the name and try again. C:\Documents and Settings\Tango Echoping isildur. Pinging isildur [10.8.0.2] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 10.8.0.2: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64 Reply from 10.8.0.2: bytes=32 time1ms TTL=64 --- end of example --- My /etc/hosts looks like: - 127.0.0.1 localhost 10.8.0.1isengard 10.8.0.2isildur 10.12.5.12 gandalf - and my dnsmasq.conf has: local=// If I use: --- local=/home/ expand-hosts domain=home --- then still there is no response to ping isildur while there is response to both ping isildur. and ping islidur.home. There are no dnsmasq error messages in the daemon.log. Is this behaviour due to my configuration error or is it normal? - Tom --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
RE: [leaf-user] Best 4-port NICs?
Nothing over 100 Mb this year. Numbers below are maximum bandwidth. The 2 Mb links are cable Internet, and the 1 Mb are old DSL links used as fail-over inter-building links. Legend: * Expect link saturation during peak times + light to moderate traffic load - light traffic load LEAF1: eth0: 100 Mb* eth1: 2 Mb eth2: 1 Mb eth3: 50 Mb * eth4: 50 Mb + LEAF2: eth0: 100 Mb* eth1: 2 Mb eth2: 1 Mb eth3: 50 Mb + eth4: 100 Mb* eth5: 50 Mb + LEAF3: eth0: 100 Mb* eth1: 2 Mb eth2: 1 Mb eth3: 10 Mb - eth4: 100 Mb+ eth5: 10 Mb - LEAF4: eth0: 100 Mb- eth1: 2 Mb eth2: 10 Mb - eth3: 10 Mb - eth4: 10 Mb - In the next 12 months we may upgrade some of the links to Gig Ethernet, though. I'm pretty sure the PCI bus will be the bottleneck when we try to run GE through the routers. At that point, I'll be looking to upgrade the host computers and NICs to PCI/X. --Cal Webster On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 16:18, Peter Mueller wrote: Intel: Intel(r) PRO/1000 MT Quad Port Server Adapter $337 Osicom: FE-2404-TX - 10/100BTX PCI FAST ENET NIC $329 D-Link: DFE-570TX 4 port 21143 card (avail only on eBay) $80 I'm thinking the Intel NIC would be best, but after looking at it on intel.com I'm not sure it'll fit in a PCI slot. It looks like a PCI/X card. My next choice would be the Osicom card for price/performance, but I've never heard of them before. They say it's based on the Intel 82559 and list Linux as a supported OS so it should work. Our firewall hardware platform uses a passive backplane chassis with Cyber Research PIII-based single board computers. I can't find the SBC documentation so I'm not sure if it'll handle 64-bit PCI transfers. Even so, it shouldn't be worse than 4 single port NICs. Which would you favor? You didn't mention your bandwidth requirements. I have heard the DLINK-DFE570TX card works, but if I were you I'd prefer the Intel-base cards that are new. If price is an issue look at the DLINK. Especially if you have extra time. Regards, P --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
