Re: Kernel Scheduler
With more recent kernels, you don't have to compile your own to select a different scheduler. It can be done at boot time. (And maybe even while running by setting a value in /proc. I forget...) I have found the deadline scheduler the best for database systems. The cfq (default) scheduler was second. I have no idea for desktops or other types of uses. http://www.devshed.com/c/a/BrainDump/Configuring-and-Optimizing-Your-IO-Scheduler/ alex On Jan 27, 2009, at 3:29 AM, Nathan England wrote: Hello Hello, For those who compile their own kernels, I have a question for you. Which scheduler do you use, and why? I have tried the newer scheduler in the past, but so far I have stuck with the anticipatory scheduler. What have you done/tried/currently use? Or, if you're using a stock kernel, what does your distro use? nathan --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Dead Firewall!
If the hard drive is good, just put it in a new machine and reconfigure the NIC's, if the hard drive is going then pull it out and stick it in a good machien and then DD it over to a new drive. On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 1:20 PM, farli fa...@deru.com wrote: It is an old Pentium 200 MMX box with no usb access ;) If I get a chance to bring it to the installfest, should i bring a monitor and kb too? Lisa Kachold wrote: I have an external CDROM, but it's not going to work with boot installation software. If someone can boot into a Knoppix floppy and hand dd the source over? Do you have a BIOS that will allow a USB boot? www.Obnosis.com | http://wiki.obnosis.com | http://hackfest.obnosis.com | http://nuke.obnosis.com (503)754-4452 PLUG HACKFESTS - http://uat.edu Second Saturday of Each Month Noon - 3PM To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us From: e...@shubes.net Subject: Re: Dead Firewall! Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:05:54 -0700 farli wrote: I have a firewall computer that is dying a slow death! I need someone to upgrade the firewall software! I would try it myself except that the firewall box has no cd drive. Installing something like IPCop (I have a copy of IPCop v1.4.10) ona box without a cd drive is not something I am able to do alone. Anyone willing to assist? I am located near 19th Ave and Glendale. If you think you can get me back up and running with full internet access through this cdless computer, please contact me off the list. TIA Jim I think we could get it going with IPCop if you bring it to the InstallFest next Saturday. I have a spare drive that can be used for the install. Please acknowledge if this is what you'd like to do, and we'll be sure to have everything needed. -- -Eric 'shubes' --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss Hotmail(R) goes where you go. On a PC, on the Web, on your phone. See how. http://www.windowslive-hotmail.com/learnmore/versatility.aspx#mobile?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_WL_HM_versatility_121208 --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Dead Firewall!
Yes, it is the same box, Kevin! It does have a floppy drive, but I have no idea whether it still works. Until lately, the box has been humming along nicely so I have had no need to do anything with it. Didnt you do a network install of the current firewall software way back when? KevinO wrote: farli wrote: OK - I will plan on being there with the computer, a monitor, and the kb! FYI, I use the firewall on a small network - two other computers - on a dialup network! This firewall is our only access to the internet. You guys (and girls) are great! If you are using the little white box that I think you are, it will not boot from CD (even if opened up and an external drive connected), and has no floppy either. There is a 34 pin connector for a floppy, accessible once the plastic shell is removed. By connecting an external floppy, a network (or CDROM) install can be performed. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Dead Firewall!
Good ideas, Shawn. Farli, what sort of HDD does this bugger have? Shawn Badger wrote: If the hard drive is good, just put it in a new machine and reconfigure the NIC's, if the hard drive is going then pull it out and stick it in a good machien and then DD it over to a new drive. On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 1:20 PM, farli fa...@deru.com mailto:fa...@deru.com wrote: It is an old Pentium 200 MMX box with no usb access ;) If I get a chance to bring it to the installfest, should i bring a monitor and kb too? Lisa Kachold wrote: I have an external CDROM, but it's not going to work with boot installation software. If someone can boot into a Knoppix floppy and hand dd the source over? Do you have a BIOS that will allow a USB boot? www.Obnosis.com http://www.Obnosis.com | http://wiki.obnosis.com | http://hackfest.obnosis.com | http://nuke.obnosis.com (503)754-4452 PLUG HACKFESTS - http://uat.edu Second Saturday of Each Month Noon - 3PM To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us mailto:plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us From: e...@shubes.net mailto:e...@shubes.net Subject: Re: Dead Firewall! Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:05:54 -0700 farli wrote: I have a firewall computer that is dying a slow death! I need someone to upgrade the firewall software! I would try it myself except that the firewall box has no cd drive. Installing something like IPCop (I have a copy of IPCop v1.4.10) ona box without a cd drive is not something I am able to do alone. Anyone willing to assist? I am located near 19th Ave and Glendale. If you think you can get me back up and running with full internet access through this cdless computer, please contact me off the list. TIA Jim I think we could get it going with IPCop if you bring it to the InstallFest next Saturday. I have a spare drive that can be used for the install. Please acknowledge if this is what you'd like to do, and we'll be sure to have everything needed. -- -Eric 'shubes' --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss Hotmail® goes where you go. On a PC, on the Web, on your phone. See how. http://www.windowslive-hotmail.com/learnmore/versatility.aspx#mobile?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_WL_HM_versatility_121208 --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- -Eric 'shubes' --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
OT: ThinkPad 600E/600X Battery
I have one of these new in the box, never been used. I've no idea how good it might be, as it's sorta old. If anyone can use it, they're welcome to try it out. I trust that the recipient would feel like giving me a few bucks for it if it works well. ;) Please contact me off list if you're interested. -- -Eric 'shubes' --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Dead Firewall!
Geez! Its been so long that I dont even remember how to find out what the hard drive is! Eric Shubert wrote: Good ideas, Shawn. Farli, what sort of HDD does this bugger have? Shawn Badger wrote: If the hard drive is good, just put it in a new machine and reconfigure the NIC's, if the hard drive is going then pull it out and stick it in a good machien and then DD it over to a new drive. On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 1:20 PM, farli fa...@deru.com mailto:fa...@deru.com wrote: It is an old Pentium 200 MMX box with no usb access ;) If I get a chance to bring it to the installfest, should i bring a monitor and kb too? Lisa Kachold wrote: I have an external CDROM, but it's not going to work with boot installation software. If someone can boot into a Knoppix floppy and hand dd the source over? Do you have a BIOS that will allow a USB boot? www.Obnosis.com http://www.Obnosis.com | http://wiki.obnosis.com | http://hackfest.obnosis.com | http://nuke.obnosis.com (503)754-4452 PLUG HACKFESTS - http://uat.edu Second Saturday of Each Month Noon - 3PM To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us mailto:plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us From: e...@shubes.net mailto:e...@shubes.net Subject: Re: Dead Firewall! Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:05:54 -0700 farli wrote: I have a firewall computer that is dying a slow death! I need someone to upgrade the firewall software! I would try it myself except that the firewall box has no cd drive. Installing something like IPCop (I have a copy of IPCop v1.4.10) ona box without a cd drive is not something I am able to do alone. Anyone willing to assist? I am located near 19th Ave and Glendale. If you think you can get me back up and running with full internet access through this cdless computer, please contact me off the list. TIA Jim I think we could get it going with IPCop if you bring it to the InstallFest next Saturday. I have a spare drive that can be used for the install. Please acknowledge if this is what you'd like to do, and we'll be sure to have everything needed. -- -Eric 'shubes' --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss Hotmail® goes where you go. On a PC, on the Web, on your phone. See how. http://www.windowslive-hotmail.com/learnmore/versatility.aspx#mobile?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_WL_HM_versatility_121208 --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
RE: Linus Torvalds Switches to Gnome
Those of us already on Gnome, could feel his presence. _ From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Ryan Rix Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 8:49 AM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: Linus Torvalds Switches to Gnome On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Joshua Zeidner jjzeid...@gmail.com wrote: I'm shocked. -jmz http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F24%2F1842218 http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F24%2F1842218from=rss from=rss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss And still, NO ONE CARED. -- Thanks and best regards, Ryan Rix TamsPalm - The PalmOS Blog (623)-239-1103 -- Grand Central, baby! Jasmine Bowden - Class of 2009, Marc Rasmussen - Class of 2008, Erica Sheffey - Class of 2009, Rest in peace. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
RE: Storage mangement advice
How long after a restart does it become unresponsive ? couple hours ? a day ? a week ? Any processes running with high usage ? either % cpu, or Time used ? A ps listing might help us. Do you run hobbit or Big brother ? I find running hobbit, lets me see when things change. -Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Stephen Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 8:53 AM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: Storage mangement advice ok here is where it gets interesting the system has 0 RX/TX errors and i can ssh in just fine. its just as responsive as it should be. And the Volumes are listed and running according to plan: [r...@mim-openfiler ~]# lvm lvdisplay --- Logical volume --- LV Name/dev/data/generaldata VG Namedata LV UUIDU38s47-ze5g-d71C-BecT-ILch-l7zx-uGt5Z1 LV Write Accessread/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size500.00 GB Current LE 16000 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors auto - currently set to 256 Block device 253:0 --- Logical volume --- LV Name/dev/data/esxidata VG Namedata LV UUID0xH2jc-dJxn-u36f-X7rc-JMed-zBzB-KFipik LV Write Accessread/write LV Status available # open 0 LV Size244.16 GB Current LE 7813 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors auto - currently set to 256 Block device 253:1 --- Logical volume --- LV Name/dev/data/it VG Namedata LV UUIDoG0pCW-KP3L-svit-uIJr-C6Lg-cuV4-hWEJM4 LV Write Accessread/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size500.00 GB Current LE 16000 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors auto - currently set to 256 Block device 253:2 --- Logical volume --- LV Name/dev/data/itresource VG Namedata LV UUIDyTH8FM-WxKT-vOIH-AqnZ-HXzY-i7FG-3DPM7h LV Write Accessread/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size500.00 GB Current LE 16000 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors auto - currently set to 256 Block device 253:3 I want to remove all but the /dev/data/generaldata iSCSI share and create a new share, however the Web Interface has basically just come to a unuaseable crawl... And better yet i have no idea what the web interface is anmed to even try and restart jsut that daemon. but having ssh open and running helps, and i can keep looking from there. On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: I will have to see if I left ash open. And I think I used ext3, as for the memory available it is at a default so all 8gb. Ill have to look at the rest. Thank you. On 1/25/09, Lisa Kachold lisakach...@obnosis.com wrote: Let's dissect this: 1) 3Ware Optimization is key: 2) OS? 3) Openfiler Openfiler is GREAT STUFF. Admin user is sensitive; i.e. you cannot change the admin user name. Also the tree permissions are picky for SMB shares and home folders: So for instance, if this is your tree: VG LV Folder1 --- allocated as share, cannot be made homes folder Folder2 --- not allocated as share, can be made homes folder I.E. any folders allocated as shares should not be listed for allocation to homes Questions: a) You are not using ZFS are you? b) Are you using tracd? c) What memory do you have allocated to openfiler? d) Openfiler with USB devices and various kernel drivers has known issues with Volume allocation. Solution: Load the volume group and logical volumes manually... fdisk -l shows the partition but lvm vgdisplay says no volume groups found [r...@openfiler ~]# lvm vgdisplay No volume groups found [r...@openfiler ~]# lvm lvdisplay shows the same message... So the next thing to do is to load the volume group manually.. [r...@openfiler ~]# lvm vgscan Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... Found volume group rac using metadata type lvm2 [r...@openfiler ~]# Now that the volume group is loaded, the lvdisplay shows the logical volumes but they are in NOT Available status [r...@openfiler ~]# lvm lvdisplay --- Logical volume --- LV Name/dev/rac/crs VG Namerac LV UUIDiKo4Jn-s2sX-pVda-RD8n-JxNr-EbiA-azLPIi LV Write Accessread/write LV Status NOT available
RE: Storage mangement advice
Do you know what version of samba is running ? I see this reply on the samba mailing list http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2005-December/115159.html -Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Stephen Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 10:16 AM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: Storage mangement advice I am not sure what is going on here. the web interface is still not reponding correctly still very slow/sluggish to the point of uselessness. the server seems to be running well in all other aspects, the iSCSI share is fine and anything i do via ssh is fine When looking at top winbindd is listed as useing 100% cpu but ram looks fine Mem: 8190744k total, 686688k used, 7504056k free,58704k buffers Swap: 2040244k total, 68k used, 2040176k free, 341684k cached restarted the winbindd and everything is fine.. what would cause this? On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Alex Dean a...@crackpot.org wrote: On Jan 26, 2009, at 8:52 AM, Stephen wrote: And better yet i have no idea what the web interface is anmed to even try and restart jsut that daemon. but having ssh open and running helps, and i can keep looking from there. Is netstat available? You could use that to figure out which process is listening on port 80 or 443. alex --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Storage mangement advice
not sure what version of samba is running, but for the moment it is running smoothly. but i am thinking of dropping samba form that server entirely, if its an option as it is being used almost entirely as iSCSI storage for some of my servers right now. somethign i will need to get nailed down however. Have not yet installed anything for process monitoring, am still shopping as i need to watching linux and windows servers. and have some other things i need to nail dwn before i cna find a home for a monitoring tool. On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Bob Elzer bob.el...@gmail.com wrote: Do you know what version of samba is running ? I see this reply on the samba mailing list http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2005-December/115159.html -Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Stephen Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 10:16 AM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: Storage mangement advice I am not sure what is going on here. the web interface is still not reponding correctly still very slow/sluggish to the point of uselessness. the server seems to be running well in all other aspects, the iSCSI share is fine and anything i do via ssh is fine When looking at top winbindd is listed as useing 100% cpu but ram looks fine Mem: 8190744k total, 686688k used, 7504056k free,58704k buffers Swap: 2040244k total, 68k used, 2040176k free, 341684k cached restarted the winbindd and everything is fine.. what would cause this? On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Alex Dean a...@crackpot.org wrote: On Jan 26, 2009, at 8:52 AM, Stephen wrote: And better yet i have no idea what the web interface is anmed to even try and restart jsut that daemon. but having ssh open and running helps, and i can keep looking from there. Is netstat available? You could use that to figure out which process is listening on port 80 or 443. alex --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Compact Flash memory test
We maintaining an embedded Linux device performing the routing functions in an Etherswitch. Up till now, we have sent the boards or entire boxes back to the vendor (G.E.) for any firmware or hardware repair. We are now rethinking this, since the most common hardware failure is the power supply, and they use generic, open frame PC switching power supplies, and defective firmware, which is stored on a 64Mb Compact Flash card. We have now removed one of the flash cards and tarballed the contents and we want to transfer it onto a fresh, never been to GE flash card, plug it in and see if everything works right. So I just bought a lot of 10 128Mb Compact Flash cards that were sold 'As Is. I want to know if anyone knows of a memory tester for Compact Flash cards that are being used as the main file system for a small Linux box. The Flash Card is formatted ext3, but we can probably test them first, then format them for Linux and install the system from the tarball. It would be helpful if the file system test could be run under Ubuntu or Windows XP. Anybody have any suggestions? Does the built in fsck do enough of a check to find bad cells in a Compact Flash card/drive? Mike --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Compact Flash memory test
From: Mike Bushroe mbush...@gmail.com I want to know if anyone knows of a memory tester for Compact Flash cards. It would be helpful if the file system test could be run under Ubuntu or Windows XP. When flash goes bad, reads of the same bit may or may not return the same value. So I'd think that doing md5sum /dev/blah 4 times and making sure you got the same result each time would work. Not sure how you'd do this in 'Doze though. Device files exist under 'Doze, they're just a PITA to access and use. Does the built in fsck do enough of a check to find bad cells in a Compact Flash card/drive? Not necessarily. -- Matt G / Dances With Crows The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Dead Firewall!
Am 27. Jan, 2009 schwätzte farli so: Geez! Its been so long that I dont even remember how to find out what the hard drive is! Pentium 200 with no USB, so the drive is almost certainly and IDE drive. It's for a firewall, so pretty well any old IDE drive at this point will be large enough to hold the necessary OS. ciao, der.hans -- # http://www.LuftHans.com/http://www.LuftHans.com/Classes/ # So the environment is not a luxury ... It is an economically important # insurance policy whose wisdom we ignore at our peril. # -- Klaus Toepfer, U.N. environment agency Executive Director--- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Dead Firewall!
farli wrote: Yes, it is the same box, Kevin! It does have a floppy drive, but I have no idea whether it still works. Until lately, the box has been humming along nicely so I have had no need to do anything with it. Didnt you do a network install of the current firewall software way back when? I may have done a network install. If the box has a floppy drive, it is not the type of box I was thinking of, and may be able to boot from a CDROM. -- KevinO --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
RE: Dead Firewall!
Yes, installing first in another system and just moving the drive should work - might also want to choose a similar and video card for the base install box and consider doing a full source install (including nice kernel sources depending on distro) in case the kernel might need something later. www.Obnosis.com | http://wiki.obnosis.com | http://hackfest.obnosis.com | http://nuke.obnosis.com (503)754-4452 PLUG HACKFESTS - http://uat.edu Second Saturday of Each Month Noon - 3PM To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us From: e...@shubes.net Subject: Re: Dead Firewall! Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:51:36 -0700 der.hans wrote: Am 27. Jan, 2009 schwätzte farli so: Geez! Its been so long that I dont even remember how to find out what the hard drive is! Pentium 200 with no USB, so the drive is almost certainly and IDE drive. It's for a firewall, so pretty well any old IDE drive at this point will be large enough to hold the necessary OS. ciao, der.hans Sounds like we might want to do as Shawn suggested then. I'll have a spare PC we can connect/mount the IDE drive in, then install from CD, then move the IDE drive back to its home and run setup. I'm assuming we can remove/reinstall the HDD in whatever boxen this is. -- -Eric 'shubes' --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss _ Windows Live™ Hotmail®…more than just e-mail. http://windowslive.com/howitworks?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t2_hm_justgotbetter_howitworks_012009--- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
RE: Dead Firewall!
Yes, installing first in another system and just moving the drive should work - might also want to choose a similar and video card for the base install box and consider doing a full source install (including nice kernel sources depending on distro) in case the kernel might need something later. www.Obnosis.com | http://wiki.obnosis.com | http://hackfest.obnosis.com | http://nuke.obnosis.com (503)754-4452 PLUG HACKFESTS - http://uat.edu Second Saturday of Each Month Noon - 3PM To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us From: e...@shubes.net Subject: Re: Dead Firewall! Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:51:36 -0700 der.hans wrote: Am 27. Jan, 2009 schwätzte farli so: Geez! Its been so long that I dont even remember how to find out what the hard drive is! Pentium 200 with no USB, so the drive is almost certainly and IDE drive. It's for a firewall, so pretty well any old IDE drive at this point will be large enough to hold the necessary OS. ciao, der.hans Sounds like we might want to do as Shawn suggested then. I'll have a spare PC we can connect/mount the IDE drive in, then install from CD, then move the IDE drive back to its home and run setup. I'm assuming we can remove/reinstall the HDD in whatever boxen this is. -- -Eric 'shubes' --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss _ Windows Live™ Hotmail®:…more than just e-mail. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t2_hm_justgotbetter_explore_012009--- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Compact Flash memory test
On Tuesday 27 January 2009 15:10:16 Matt Graham wrote: From: Mike Bushroe mbush...@gmail.com I want to know if anyone knows of a memory tester for Compact Flash cards. It would be helpful if the file system test could be run under Ubuntu or Windows XP. When flash goes bad, reads of the same bit may or may not return the same value. So I'd think that doing md5sum /dev/blah 4 times and making sure you got the same result each time would work. Not sure how you'd do this in 'Doze though. Device files exist under 'Doze, they're just a PITA to access and use. Does the built in fsck do enough of a check to find bad cells in a Compact Flash card/drive? Not necessarily. Running badblocks -svfw /dev/flashdevice will perform a butteryfly test with 4 passes, which aught to be way more than efficient to notify you of a failing flash volume. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Dead Firewall!
We're talking IPCop here. Runs headless once configured. I've built it from source, once. I don't think we have that much time. ;) Lisa Kachold wrote: Yes, installing first in another system and just moving the drive should work - might also want to choose a similar and video card for the base install box and consider doing a full source install (including nice kernel sources depending on distro) in case the kernel might need something later. www.Obnosis.com | http://wiki.obnosis.com | http://hackfest.obnosis.com | http://nuke.obnosis.com (503)754-4452 PLUG HACKFESTS - http://uat.edu Second Saturday of Each Month Noon - 3PM To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us From: e...@shubes.net Subject: Re: Dead Firewall! Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:51:36 -0700 der.hans wrote: Am 27. Jan, 2009 schwätzte farli so: Geez! Its been so long that I dont even remember how to find out what the hard drive is! Pentium 200 with no USB, so the drive is almost certainly and IDE drive. It's for a firewall, so pretty well any old IDE drive at this point will be large enough to hold the necessary OS. ciao, der.hans Sounds like we might want to do as Shawn suggested then. I'll have a spare PC we can connect/mount the IDE drive in, then install from CD, then move the IDE drive back to its home and run setup. I'm assuming we can remove/reinstall the HDD in whatever boxen this is. -- -Eric 'shubes' --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss Windows Live™ Hotmail®…more than just e-mail. See how it works. http://windowslive.com/howitworks?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t2_hm_justgotbetter_howitworks_012009 -- -Eric 'shubes' --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Compact Flash memory test
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Nathan England Running badblocks -svfw /dev/flashdevice will perform a butteryfly test with 4 passes, which aught to be way more than efficient to notify you of a failing flash volume. This is good advice. I would add that any test that proves a rotating hard drive is good will prove that a flash drive is good. There simply is not a method accessible by a standard customer to determine if the flash in a flash drive is close to bad. Some of the new SATA or PATA hard drive replacements support S.M.A.R.T. that can inform you of potential problems. But even current Compact Flash cards do not support such commands. A 128MB card is most likely a few years old. Manufacturer differences can matter a lot back then. What brand, model, etc. are the cards you bought? Alan --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Other than frys where would you get server hardware
10 years ago I used to recompile kernels almost every day to get it to support the hardware I had, now days it is a rarety. I'm scheduled to install the firewall on Friday but I've sent the better part of 3 days building and rebuilding smoothwall to try to get it to support the network cards in a Dell T105 server. In their infinite wisdom they won't let you proceed with the install until you've configured at least one network card. Mandriva 2009 shows them as NetXtreme BCM5722 gigabit PCI Express (card on MB) and DGE-560T Ethernet Adapter (PCIe X1). I have the source for both drivers (sk98lin for both). I'm about to give up and try to find a dual nic intel card that will fit in this machine (supposedly supported). This machine only has 1 3.3v pci slot, 1 PCIeX1, and 2 PCIeX8 slots. Who might carry such a network card in town (Fry's only has a Dlink card DGE-560T above)? -- JD Austin Twin Geckos Technology Services LLC j...@twingeckos.com 480.288.8195x201 http://www.twingeckos.com Laurence J. Peter - It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Other than frys where would you get server hardware
well i have a couple of old cards a rtl and a 3com i think... and the intel dual gig-e... but frys is mostly about it unless you want to order newegg/tiger/other similar mifddle man i suppose if you call about there are shops locally that will do it. On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:17 PM, JD Austin j...@twingeckos.com wrote: 10 years ago I used to recompile kernels almost every day to get it to support the hardware I had, now days it is a rarety. I'm scheduled to install the firewall on Friday but I've sent the better part of 3 days building and rebuilding smoothwall to try to get it to support the network cards in a Dell T105 server. In their infinite wisdom they won't let you proceed with the install until you've configured at least one network card. Mandriva 2009 shows them as NetXtreme BCM5722 gigabit PCI Express (card on MB) and DGE-560T Ethernet Adapter (PCIe X1). I have the source for both drivers (sk98lin for both). I'm about to give up and try to find a dual nic intel card that will fit in this machine (supposedly supported). This machine only has 1 3.3v pci slot, 1 PCIeX1, and 2 PCIeX8 slots. Who might carry such a network card in town (Fry's only has a Dlink card DGE-560T above)? -- JD Austin Twin Geckos Technology Services LLC j...@twingeckos.com 480.288.8195x201 http://www.twingeckos.com Laurence J. Peter - It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Other than frys where would you get server hardware
*waves to JD* I have a server from ebay for REAL cheap. It is a Compaq DL380 G2 that is now running my firewall(IPCop) that I got for $65. It has a pair of pIII cpus, a gig of memory and a pair of 36gigs HD(using just one of them) You might want to try there. IPCop installed just great on it. I then restored the configuration that I saved from my old firewall box. Jon JD Austin j...@twingeckos.com wrote: 10 years ago I used to recompile kernels almost every day to get it to support the hardware I had, now days it is a rarety. I'm scheduled to install the firewall on Friday but I've sent the better part of 3 days building and rebuilding smoothwall to try to get it to support the network cards in a Dell T105 server. In their infinite wisdom they won't let you proceed with the install until you've configured at least one network card. Mandriva 2009 shows them as NetXtreme BCM5722 gigabit PCI Express (card on MB) and DGE-560T Ethernet Adapter (PCIe X1). I have the source for both drivers (sk98lin for both). I'm about to give up and try to find a dual nic intel card that will fit in this machine (supposedly supported). This machine only has 1 3.3v pci slot, 1 PCIeX1, and 2 PCIeX8 slots. Who might carry such a network card in town (Fry's only has a Dlink card DGE-560T above)? -- JD Austin Twin Geckos Technology Services LLC j...@twingeckos.com 480.288.8195x201 http://www.twingeckos.com Laurence J. Peter - It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Other than frys where would you get server hardware
Greetings, Smoothwall might be trying to use sk98lin for the DGE card, but have you tried the sky2 module? Or vise-versa, try removing/disabling sky2 or sk98lin, whichever one smoothwall is detecting trying on boot. The Nextreme (broadcom) uses the tg3 driver. Are you able to switch to another virtual console to 'modprobe sky2 modprobe tg3' before the network configuration section? Also, which version of smoothwall are you working with? I noticed fixes for tg3 in recent releases. Sir Light wrote: *waves to JD* I have a server from ebay for REAL cheap. It is a Compaq DL380 G2 that is now running my firewall(IPCop) that I got for $65. It has a pair of pIII cpus, a gig of memory and a pair of 36gigs HD(using just one of them) You might want to try there. IPCop installed just great on it. I then restored the configuration that I saved from my old firewall box. Jon JD Austin j...@twingeckos.com wrote: 10 years ago I used to recompile kernels almost every day to get it to support the hardware I had, now days it is a rarety. I'm scheduled to install the firewall on Friday but I've sent the better part of 3 days building and rebuilding smoothwall to try to get it to support the network cards in a Dell T105 server. In their infinite wisdom they won't let you proceed with the install until you've configured at least one network card. Mandriva 2009 shows them as NetXtreme BCM5722 gigabit PCI Express (card on MB) and DGE-560T Ethernet Adapter (PCIe X1). I have the source for both drivers (sk98lin for both). I'm about to give up and try to find a dual nic intel card that will fit in this machine (supposedly supported). This machine only has 1 3.3v pci slot, 1 PCIeX1, and 2 PCIeX8 slots. Who might carry such a network card in town (Fry's only has a Dlink card DGE-560T above)? -- JD Austin Twin Geckos Technology Services LLC j...@twingeckos.com 480.288.8195x201 http://www.twingeckos.com Laurence J. Peter - "It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week." --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
