Re: [CentOS] OpenVPN throughput

2010-08-30 Thread J.Witvliet
See below... -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Gordon Messmer Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2010 12:03 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] OpenVPN throughput On 08/20/2010 10:19 AM, Bill Campbell wrote:

Re: [CentOS] Freezing gnome terminals...

2010-08-30 Thread John Doe
From: Kahlil Hodgson kahlil.hodg...@dealmax.com.au On 08/28/2010 01:40 AM, didi wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 4:38 PM, John Doe jd...@yahoo.com wrote: just wondering if you also experience gnome terminals freezing after a while...? It mainly happens over the week-end. I would leave

Re: [CentOS] OpenVPN throughput

2010-08-30 Thread drew einhorn
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 4:20 AM, j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote: Last year i've been doing some experiments with openvpn. Just as the O.P. I was curious about sustainable throughput, and was disapointed about the results To obtain maximum resulst, i did: - use two rather heavy machines (HP

Re: [CentOS] Freezing gnome terminals...

2010-08-30 Thread Eduardo Grosclaude
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 9:47 AM, John Doe jd...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Kahlil Hodgson kahlil.hodg...@dealmax.com.au I would leave a terminal open (with an ssh session to a remote site), come back on monday and type a few commands and it jwould just freeze. But it also happen from

Re: [CentOS] Freezing gnome terminals...

2010-08-30 Thread John Doe
From: Eduardo Grosclaude eduardo.groscla...@gmail.com I am having a similar problem. I have some CentOS boxes serving SSH inside the network, and I reach them from home across an older Fedora 3 gateway box. Some variable time after I quit working for a while (perhaps around two

[CentOS] kvm boot options

2010-08-30 Thread Jerry Geis
I am trying to use -boot order=dc,once=d for kvm. It did not seem to work as it booted from CDROM (d) the second time around and was wanting to re-install centos again. 1st boot installs centos and auto reboots 2nd boot then begins OTHER things to do. Did I not have the command options correct

[CentOS] pam changes - service restart reqd?

2010-08-30 Thread Carlos S
Howdy, Do we need to restart any service after making changed to pam modules? I have changed system-auth config, but not sure if I need to restart any service after making changes, e.g. ssh which uses pam. Any help? -- Thanks, CS. ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] OpenVPN throughput

2010-08-30 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/30/10 6:10 AM, drew einhorn wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 4:20 AM,j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote: Last year i've been doing some experiments with openvpn. Just as the O.P. I was curious about sustainable throughput, and was disapointed about the results To obtain maximum resulst, i

Re: [CentOS] pam changes - service restart reqd?

2010-08-30 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Mon, 30 Aug 2010, Carlos S wrote: Howdy, Do we need to restart any service after making changed to pam modules? I have changed system-auth config, but not sure if I need to restart any service after making changes, e.g. ssh which uses pam. Any help? Depends on what changes you

Re: [CentOS] pam changes - service restart reqd?

2010-08-30 Thread Carlos S
Changed system-auth config to use LDAP. The sshd config is configured to use PAM. I am not sure whether it load that file at daemon start or refers to it every time a login attempt with password is made. When would it be requiring restart in general? -- CS. On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:41 PM,

Re: [CentOS] pam changes - service restart reqd?

2010-08-30 Thread m . roth
Carlos S wrote: Changed system-auth config to use LDAP. The sshd config is configured to use PAM. I am not sure whether it load that file at daemon start or refers to it every time a login attempt with password is made. When would it be requiring restart in general? I think you need to

Re: [CentOS] pam changes - service restart reqd?

2010-08-30 Thread Robert Heller
At Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:26:29 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Carlos S wrote: Changed system-auth config to use LDAP. The sshd config is configured to use PAM. I am not sure whether it load that file at daemon start or refers to it every time a login attempt with

Re: [CentOS] pam changes - service restart reqd?

2010-08-30 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Mon, 30 Aug 2010, Carlos S wrote: Changed system-auth config to use LDAP. The sshd config is configured to use PAM. I am not sure whether it load that file at daemon start or refers to it every time a login attempt with password is made. When would it be requiring restart in general?

Re: [CentOS] pam changes - service restart reqd?

2010-08-30 Thread Carlos S
Thanks for the replies everyone. It seems to be working without any sshd restart. Also, I changed ldap conf to a non standard location for some debugging. It still uses same ldap url over ssl, so I didn't have to restart nscd. But it's good to know of potential pitfalls. -- CS. On Mon, Aug

Re: [CentOS] OpenVPN throughput

2010-08-30 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 08/30/2010 03:20 AM, j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote: Bottleneck was (in my case) the openvpn-process, that was running 100% on a single core, While network was not saturated. I found the same thing on a 1Gbps network. It's no surprise that the situation would be the same on a 10Gbps network.

Re: [CentOS] OpenVPN throughput

2010-08-30 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 08/30/2010 10:35 AM, John R Pierce wrote: did you try forcing the blowfish cipher? I've heard that's lower in CPU overhead than most others, although I've not tested this. Blowfish is the default. I also tested with AES-128-CBC and didn't see much difference in the throughput.

Re: [CentOS] OpenVPN throughput

2010-08-30 Thread Larry Vaden
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: bogomips        : 1993.68 If cost is a factor, you should be able to find used hp/Compaq rack-mount servers with Intel Xeon processors with these bogomips: dmesg | grep -i bogomips Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value

[CentOS] Centos 5.5, not booting latest kernel but older one instead

2010-08-30 Thread fred smith
I've been going along not noticing things happening right under my nose. so imagine my surprise when I discovered last night that my Centos 5 box has installed multiple new kernels over the last few months, as updates come out, and IT IS NOT BOOTING THE NEWST ONE. grub.conf says to boot kernel 0,

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.5, not booting latest kernel but older one instead

2010-08-30 Thread Larry Vaden
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 8:18 PM, fred smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote: Below is some info that shows the problem. Can anyone here provide helpful suggestions on (1) why it is doing this, and more importantly (2) how I can make it stop? Is there a chance /boot is full (read: are all

[CentOS] netinstlal question

2010-08-30 Thread William Warren
my church just got some ibm x335's donated. Cent 5 is only relaly dvd's. I do have a windows server using IIS for internal stuff. How would i setup a local repo for the dvd so i can point the net install iso to the windows box? ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.5, not booting latest kernel but older one instead

2010-08-30 Thread fred smith
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 08:41:31PM -0500, Larry Vaden wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 8:18 PM, fred smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote: Below is some info that shows the problem. Can anyone here provide helpful suggestions on (1) why it is doing this, and more importantly (2) how I

Re: [CentOS] netinstlal question

2010-08-30 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/30/10 6:56 PM, William Warren wrote: my church just got some ibm x335's donated. Cent 5 is only relaly dvd's. I do have a windows server using IIS for internal stuff. How would i setup a local repo for the dvd so i can point the net install iso to the windows box? run a http

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.5, not booting latest kernel but older one instead

2010-08-30 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
another curious thing I just noticed is this: the list of kernels available at boot time (in the actual grub menu shown at boot) IS NOT THE SAME LIST THAT APPEARS IN GRUB.CONF. in the boot-time menu, the kernel it boots is the most recent one shown, and there are other older ones that do not

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.5, not booting latest kernel but older one instead

2010-08-30 Thread Robert
On 08/30/2010 09:24 PM, fred smith informed us: snipanother curious thing I just noticed is this: the list of kernels available at boot time (in the actual grub menu shown at boot) IS NOT THE SAME LIST THAT APPEARS IN GRUB.CONF. in the boot-time menu, the kernel it boots is the most recent

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.5, not booting latest kernel but older one instead

2010-08-30 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 08/30/2010 07:24 PM, fred smith wrote: Aug 30 22:09:08 fcshome kernel: md: created md1 ... Aug 30 22:09:08 fcshome kernel: md: kicking non-fresh sda2 from array! ... Aug 30 22:09:08 fcshome kernel: md: created md0 ... Aug 30 22:09:08 fcshome kernel: md: kicking non-fresh sda1 from array!

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.5, not booting latest kernel but older one instead

2010-08-30 Thread fred smith
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:05:50PM -0400, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: another curious thing I just noticed is this: the list of kernels available at boot time (in the actual grub menu shown at boot) IS NOT THE SAME LIST THAT APPEARS IN GRUB.CONF. in the boot-time menu, the kernel it boots is