Re: Intel SR1325TP1-E & 3ware 9xxx RAID thoughts

2004-10-15 Thread Dave Watkins
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Dave Watkins wrote: > > >>The reason i2c won't work on these boards is because they use IPMI >>rather than i2c and have a BMC on them which does much more in the way >>of management than desktop type bo

Re: Intel SR1325TP1-E & 3ware 9xxx RAID thoughts

2004-10-14 Thread Dave Watkins
Achim Schmidt wrote: >Am Do, 2004-10-14 um 22.01 schrieb Franz Georg Köhler: > > >>Isn't i2c supposed to be standardized? >> >> >> > >today i had to speak to their support and the hint given was to take the >redhats rpm and create a own deb using alien :/ Further i was told using >lm_senors

Re: RAID-1 to RAID-5 online migration?

2004-09-02 Thread Dave Watkins
Ralph Paßgang wrote: >Am Donnerstag 02 September 2004 15:18 schrieb Mark Janssen: > > >>On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 13:43, Gavin Hamill wrote: >> >> >>>Hello - just a quickie :) >>> >>>If I construct a RAID1 with two 200GB disks, will I be able to add a >>>third disk and convert the whole set to

Re: lm-sensors support for SE7501BR2 ?

2004-07-14 Thread Dave Watkins
Marcin Owsiany wrote: >Hi! > >[ sorry for the cross-post, but both lists seem relevant ] > >I have an Intel SE7501BR2 server motherboard, and using lm-sensors >2.6.3-5+ only detects successfully four chips like this: (using eeprom >driver) > > * Bus `SMBus I801 adapter at 0580' (Non-I2C SMBus ada

Re: MySQL with temporary high load on shared server

2004-06-30 Thread Dave Watkins
Stefan Neufeind wrote: >Hi folks, > >does anybody have with MySQL running on a shared server, which gets temporary >high load? My problem is that a friend uses an online-shop on a shared-sytem. >No problem with that - but when he uses update-scripts to upload his >products/prices/... from scrat

Re: email server - how to

2004-06-30 Thread Dave Watkins
Andreas John wrote: > >> Best to use 2U machines with the maximum number of disks IMHO. A 2U >> machine should be able to have 5 disks. > > > I say: 9 Disks without problems. e.g. pcicase > http://www.pcicase.de/catalog/produktweb/IPC-C2-X/IPC-C2D.htm > > The question is with that many disks is

Re: MySQL with temporary high load on shared server

2004-06-30 Thread Dave Watkins
Stefan Neufeind wrote: >Hi folks, > >does anybody have with MySQL running on a shared server, which gets temporary >high load? My problem is that a friend uses an online-shop on a shared-sytem. >No problem with that - but when he uses update-scripts to upload his >products/prices/... from scrat

Re: email server - how to

2004-06-30 Thread Dave Watkins
Andreas John wrote: > >> Best to use 2U machines with the maximum number of disks IMHO. A 2U >> machine should be able to have 5 disks. > > > I say: 9 Disks without problems. e.g. pcicase > http://www.pcicase.de/catalog/produktweb/IPC-C2-X/IPC-C2D.htm > > The question is with that many disks is

Re: relay protection for Postfix

2004-06-18 Thread Dave Watkins
Aaron Goulding wrote: > Okay, there's a lot of talk on -user about spam control, and I'd like > to make sure my own server is properly secured. Could anyone recomend > basic steps for Debian STABLE running Postfix for the MTA, to make > sure it's not being used as a relay point? I want to be able

Re: relay protection for Postfix

2004-06-18 Thread Dave Watkins
Aaron Goulding wrote: > Okay, there's a lot of talk on -user about spam control, and I'd like > to make sure my own server is properly secured. Could anyone recomend > basic steps for Debian STABLE running Postfix for the MTA, to make > sure it's not being used as a relay point? I want to be able

Snort and satable/testing

2004-05-08 Thread Dave Watkins
Hi All I'm after some suggestions as to the easiest way to run Snort (and keep it reasonable up to date), preferably without having to maintain it manually or upgrading from stable as this is a firewall and the security updates are important. Snort in stable is still at 1.84 and so can't even pro

Snort and satable/testing

2004-05-08 Thread Dave Watkins
Hi All I'm after some suggestions as to the easiest way to run Snort (and keep it reasonable up to date), preferably without having to maintain it manually or upgrading from stable as this is a firewall and the security updates are important. Snort in stable is still at 1.84 and so can't even pro

Re: OSF for an ISP (was Re: ..idea; ddos spam hosts off Internet?)

2004-04-09 Thread Dave Watkins
If I remember right (and someone correct me if I'm wrong) a mail server doesn't have to have an MX record. If no MX record exists then the sending server drops back to normal host records and this is perfectly legitimate. So the MX record checking may not work so well Pulu 'Anau wrote: To kind

Re: OSF for an ISP (was Re: ..idea; ddos spam hosts off Internet?)

2004-04-09 Thread Dave Watkins
If I remember right (and someone correct me if I'm wrong) a mail server doesn't have to have an MX record. If no MX record exists then the sending server drops back to normal host records and this is perfectly legitimate. So the MX record checking may not work so well Pulu 'Anau wrote: To kind

Re: Fixed (hardisk) device names?

2004-03-31 Thread Dave Watkins
Arnd Vehling wrote: Hello, does anyone know how to fix the device name on a debian linux system? For example. If i have two IDE hardisks, the devices will be named like this. /dev/hda /dev/hdb If i now must remove the first harddisk (/dev/hda) the second (/dev/hdb) will be renamed to (/dev/hda) aft

Re: Fixed (hardisk) device names?

2004-03-31 Thread Dave Watkins
Arnd Vehling wrote: Hello, does anyone know how to fix the device name on a debian linux system? For example. If i have two IDE hardisks, the devices will be named like this. /dev/hda /dev/hdb If i now must remove the first harddisk (/dev/hda) the second (/dev/hdb) will be renamed to (/dev/hda) a

Re: Mondo and Debian

2004-02-22 Thread Dave Watkins
Christopher Davis wrote: Hello all! I've been switching from Red Hat to Debian the last 6 months and have become very partial to Mondo Rescue -- mondorescue.org for backups. This and Debian do not seem to like each other too much What types of software do you use to run backups on Debian ser

Re: Debian and SAN support

2004-02-10 Thread Dave Watkins
This seems to be another one http://www.sistina.com/products_gfs.htm Michael Loftis wrote: Yes but if you have need of sharing a single filesystem, on a single volume, you need a FS capable of such. --On Monday, February 09, 2004 18:33 -0600 Alex Borges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Im not shure

Re: Debian and SAN support

2004-02-09 Thread Dave Watkins
This seems to be another one http://www.sistina.com/products_gfs.htm Michael Loftis wrote: Yes but if you have need of sharing a single filesystem, on a single volume, you need a FS capable of such. --On Monday, February 09, 2004 18:33 -0600 Alex Borges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Im not sh

Re: Remote server management

2004-02-06 Thread Dave Watkins
Not sure if you were after comments or if there was a question in there somewhere but Intel whitebox servers offer the capabilities of a add-in server management card intergrated onto the motherboard and also have serial redirection over IP, so you can have full BIOS access from a remote lan st

Re: Remote server management

2004-02-06 Thread Dave Watkins
Not sure if you were after comments or if there was a question in there somewhere but Intel whitebox servers offer the capabilities of a add-in server management card intergrated onto the motherboard and also have serial redirection over IP, so you can have full BIOS access from a remote lan st

Re: Intel SRCU42X SCSI RAID contoller

2004-01-28 Thread Dave Watkins
Sebastiaan wrote: Hi, On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Marcin Owsiany wrote: Hi! Forgive me the cross-post, but this is rather urgent for me :-/ Does anyone know if the Debian kernel in woody-proposed-updates (2.4.22) supports Intel SRCU42X SCSI RAID contoller? Intel's web page says that it is supported by Su

Re: Intel SRCU42X SCSI RAID contoller

2004-01-28 Thread Dave Watkins
Sebastiaan wrote: Hi, On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Marcin Owsiany wrote: Hi! Forgive me the cross-post, but this is rather urgent for me :-/ Does anyone know if the Debian kernel in woody-proposed-updates (2.4.22) supports Intel SRCU42X SCSI RAID contoller? Intel's web page says that it is supported

Re: ftp server

2004-01-16 Thread Dave Watkins
Robert Cates wrote: Hi, I'm hoping someone on this list can help me with an FTP server issue. I'm running a handful of Internet services on my ADSL line - DNS, Web, e-Mail, and FTP servers. All seem to be running fine, very fast as well, but the FTP server is very slow, e.g. first logging on

Re: ftp server

2004-01-16 Thread Dave Watkins
Robert Cates wrote: Hi, I'm hoping someone on this list can help me with an FTP server issue. I'm running a handful of Internet services on my ADSL line - DNS, Web, e-Mail, and FTP servers. All seem to be running fine, very fast as well, but the FTP server is very slow, e.g. first logging on

Re: Exim accepting mail from specific hosts

2003-12-18 Thread Dave Watkins
ption? thanks, Adam Dave Watkins wrote: Configuring Exim to do this would seem like a bad idea, in that your machine then has to accept a connection to determine if you do in fact even want to accept the mail. Ideally you would get the MX record for your domain pointing to your providers mail server

Re: Exim accepting mail from specific hosts

2003-12-18 Thread Dave Watkins
ption? thanks, Adam Dave Watkins wrote: Configuring Exim to do this would seem like a bad idea, in that your machine then has to accept a connection to determine if you do in fact even want to accept the mail. Ideally you would get the MX record for your domain pointing to your providers mail server

Re: Exim accepting mail from specific hosts

2003-12-17 Thread Dave Watkins
Configuring Exim to do this would seem like a bad idea, in that your machine then has to accept a connection to determine if you do in fact even want to accept the mail. Ideally you would get the MX record for your domain pointing to your providers mail server (with perhaps a backup MX pointing

Re: Exim accepting mail from specific hosts

2003-12-17 Thread Dave Watkins
Configuring Exim to do this would seem like a bad idea, in that your machine then has to accept a connection to determine if you do in fact even want to accept the mail. Ideally you would get the MX record for your domain pointing to your providers mail server (with perhaps a backup MX pointing

Re: spec-ing/dimensioning a server?

2003-11-27 Thread Dave Watkins
Mark Ferlatte wrote: Dave Watkins said on Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 06:38:39PM +1300: Mark Ferlatte wrote: Which lists? I've had a hell of a time with SCSI SCA connected disks; a single bad SCSI disk can wipe out the whole chain, whereas with SATA that seems to be less likely. I'd be int

Re: spec-ing/dimensioning a server?

2003-11-27 Thread Dave Watkins
Mark Ferlatte wrote: Dave Watkins said on Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 06:38:39PM +1300: Mark Ferlatte wrote: Which lists? I've had a hell of a time with SCSI SCA connected disks; a single bad SCSI disk can wipe out the whole chain, whereas with SATA that seems to be less likely. I'd be int

Re: spec-ing/dimensioning a server?

2003-11-25 Thread Dave Watkins
Mark Ferlatte wrote: Nate Duehr said on Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 09:13:48AM -0700: Agreed on the "as fast a CPU as you can afford" and the 10K RPM disk comments. However I'm not a huge fan of SATA yet. There's been quite a bit of discussion on various mailing lists of people having trouble with th

Re: spec-ing/dimensioning a server?

2003-11-25 Thread Dave Watkins
Mark Ferlatte wrote: Nate Duehr said on Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 09:13:48AM -0700: Agreed on the "as fast a CPU as you can afford" and the 10K RPM disk comments. However I'm not a huge fan of SATA yet. There's been quite a bit of discussion on various mailing lists of people having trouble with

Re: spec-ing/dimensioning a server?

2003-11-25 Thread Dave Watkins
Hi Neale I would look at changing a few things here. Of course these depend on the budget avaliable and the uptime required from the server. I would look at getting a different CPU, specifically an 800MHz FSB CPU. The 2.4C should be the same price if not cheaper and will give you the same or be

Re: spec-ing/dimensioning a server?

2003-11-25 Thread Dave Watkins
Hi Neale I would look at changing a few things here. Of course these depend on the budget avaliable and the uptime required from the server. I would look at getting a different CPU, specifically an 800MHz FSB CPU. The 2.4C should be the same price if not cheaper and will give you the same or b

Re: On SMP, getting: Message from watchdog: The system will be rebooted because of error -3!

2003-09-08 Thread Dave Watkins
Russell Coker wrote: On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 17:46, Jason Lim wrote: I had set the loadavg to such an absurd number, I never thought it could be that. It NEVER peaks that high on a single CPU (well... without HT SMP on). Is this normal? Do SMP systems tend to spike a lot higher than regular single CPU

Re: Qmail+Spamassasin

2003-02-25 Thread Dave Watkins
Try this http://www.magma.com.ni/~jorge/spamassassin.html If you have any grief let me know as I've got it running here from these instructions Dave At 13:16 25/02/2003 +0100, Jasper Metselaar wrote: Hi, Is there someone who's using Spamassasin together with Qmail (Gerrit Pape's packages)? I am t

Re: Qmail+Spamassasin

2003-02-25 Thread Dave Watkins
Try this http://www.magma.com.ni/~jorge/spamassassin.html If you have any grief let me know as I've got it running here from these instructions Dave At 13:16 25/02/2003 +0100, Jasper Metselaar wrote: Hi, Is there someone who's using Spamassasin together with Qmail (Gerrit Pape's packages)? I

Re: dhcp3 and next-server

2003-02-01 Thread Dave Watkins
I could be wrong but it is my understanding that the TFTP has to be the same machine as the DHCP server. Certainly that is the onbly way I've ever been able to get it working. At 21:14 1/02/2003 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, Am using dhcp3-server and have noticed that the 'next-server

Re: hard- or software-raid?

2003-01-24 Thread Dave Watkins
or so later. At 21:28 24/01/2003 +0100, Russell Coker wrote: On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 21:04, Dave Watkins wrote: > There is perhaps one extra thing hardware RAID will give you. When it comes > to hardware failures a Hardware RAID card will almost always detect a > failed (or failing) drive befor

Re: hard- or software-raid?

2003-01-24 Thread Dave Watkins
There is perhaps one extra thing hardware RAID will give you. When it comes to hardware failures a Hardware RAID card will almost always detect a failed (or failing) drive before any software based system would. In fact I've seen a RAID card detect a failed drive before the HDD manufacturers ow

Re: Qpopper

2002-08-29 Thread Dave Watkins
Hi Sonny Perhaps it's a DNS issue? You will get LONG delays when daemons can't do reverse lookups on the connecting addresses. Dave At 22:34 28/08/2002 -0500, Sonny Kupka wrote: Hello all. I'm new to Debian .. Switched over from Slackware after years of doing things the manual way figured I woul

Re: multiple webcams via one linux box

2002-08-23 Thread Dave Watkins
At 18:00 23/08/2002 +0200, Nicolas Bougues wrote: On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 10:06:40AM -0500, Bernie Berg wrote: > Hi, I have a project that could potentialy have 85 webcams. The easy > thing to do would be to use an Axis network camera and just link to its > own webserver from my linux web server (

Re: Proftpd+SSL/TLS!!!

2002-08-02 Thread Dave Watkins
Hi, Sorry if this has been said. I haven't been following the thread, but why not setup stunnel and run proftpd through that? I've done it here for mail and it works great (even with qmail and daemontools), so I see no reason why you couldn't do the same for FTP Dave At 14:32 1/08/2002 +0200, J

Re: [Help] ttyS1 is not working!!!!

2002-07-24 Thread Dave Watkins
If it's an internal modem you may/will have to disable COM2 in the BIOS At 17:13 24/07/2002 +0800, axacheng wrote: Hello List : i have two modems that connect to two serial port (ttyS0,ttyS1) when i type "dmesg|grep tty" it show : ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A

Re: [Help] ttyS1 is not working!!!!

2002-07-24 Thread Dave Watkins
If it's an internal modem you may/will have to disable COM2 in the BIOS At 17:13 24/07/2002 +0800, axacheng wrote: >Hello List : > >i have two modems that connect to two serial port (ttyS0,ttyS1) > >when i type "dmesg|grep tty" it show : >ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a >16550A

Re: virtual FTP hosting?

2002-07-15 Thread Dave Watkins
At 18:20 14/07/2002 +0200, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote: + B.C.J.O <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [14.07.02 17:53]: > On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote: > > > I am wondering what FTPDs you are using to support the following: > > > > - non local users in (My)SQL-Database > > - permi

Re: virtual FTP hosting?

2002-07-14 Thread Dave Watkins
At 18:20 14/07/2002 +0200, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote: >+ B.C.J.O <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [14.07.02 17:53]: > > On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote: > > > > > I am wondering what FTPDs you are using to support the following: > > > > > > - non local users in (My)SQL-Database > > >

Spamassassin and Qmail

2002-06-30 Thread Dave Watkins
Hi All I've been trying to get Spamassassin working with Qmail for a few days with no luck. All I want it to do it tag the messages as spam so they can be filtered by the email clients easily. I've applied the qmail-queue patch and set the qmailqueue variable to point to the script I want it to

Spamassassin and Qmail

2002-06-30 Thread Dave Watkins
Hi All I've been trying to get Spamassassin working with Qmail for a few days with no luck. All I want it to do it tag the messages as spam so they can be filtered by the email clients easily. I've applied the qmail-queue patch and set the qmailqueue variable to point to the script I want it t

Re: [interfaces + route] My new firewall doesn't forward packages

2002-06-05 Thread Dave Watkins
Do you have IP forwarding turned on? echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward At 15:46 4/06/2002 +0200, Davi Leal wrote: Hi there, We have an ISP: email, web, ftp, dns and radius servers. I'm trying to replace an old firewall (2.0.x kernel) with a new one (2.4.18 kernel). I am using the 'mimic' strat

Re: [interfaces + route] My new firewall doesn't forward packages

2002-06-04 Thread Dave Watkins
Do you have IP forwarding turned on? echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward At 15:46 4/06/2002 +0200, Davi Leal wrote: >Hi there, > >We have an ISP: email, web, ftp, dns and radius servers. I'm trying to >replace an old firewall (2.0.x kernel) with a new one (2.4.18 kernel). I am >using the 'mim

Re: how to design mysql clusters with 30,000 clients?

2002-05-22 Thread Dave Watkins
At 16:02 22/05/2002 +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: Hello list, I am expecting to have 30,000 http clients visting my website at the same time. To meet the HA requirement, we use dual firewall, dual Layer-4 switch and multiple web servers in the backend. My problem is, if we use the user-tracking syste

Re: how to design mysql clusters with 30,000 clients?

2002-05-22 Thread Dave Watkins
At 16:02 22/05/2002 +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: >Hello list, > >I am expecting to have 30,000 http clients visting my website at the >same time. To meet the HA requirement, we use dual firewall, dual >Layer-4 switch and multiple web servers in the backend. My problem is, >if we use the user-tracki

Re: Is mysql 3.2x stable enough for HA requirement?

2002-03-31 Thread Dave Watkins
Hi Patrick MySQL replication is only one way in 3.2x so all writes have to be sent to the master server, but the reads can be done from the slaves. If you loose a slave then no big deal round robin DNS alone should take care of that with very little impact, but if you loose the master then you

Re: RAID 0 risky ?

2002-03-19 Thread Dave Watkins
Technically speaking drives don't _wear_ out... Bad sectors are generated because at some time the disk surface has been damaged, usually by the heads hitting the disk. And many faults to do with the components on the controller board can be traced to a poor supply of power (eg spikes and brow

Re: RAID Suggestion for webserver

2002-02-15 Thread Dave Watkins
Hi All RAID 0 gives the best read and write performace as the data is striped across the drives. RAID 1 gives the same write performace as a single drive but read performance is faster than a single drive (as there are always 2 drives that the data can be read from, hence the controller can choo

Re: RAID Suggestion for webserver

2002-02-15 Thread Dave Watkins
Hi All RAID 0 gives the best read and write performace as the data is striped across the drives. RAID 1 gives the same write performace as a single drive but read performance is faster than a single drive (as there are always 2 drives that the data can be read from, hence the controller can ch

Re: Weird SMP problem

2002-01-31 Thread Dave Watkins
On older Asus Dual boards you needed to disable MPS 1.4 in the BIOS otherwise you would get lock ups. I haven't tested this on the newer boards but it might be worth trying. Also make sure the PSU has enough power, a 300watt should be enough for the second machine. Finally are you using ECC me

Re: Multiple dhcp servers.

2002-01-25 Thread Dave Watkins
At 11:54 25/01/2002 +, Fred Clausen wrote: >Hi all, > >At the moment I have one dhcp server running ISC dhcpd, and its working >fine. However I wish to add another in case the main one goes down. Is it >as simple as setting it up on another machine with similar config? My >worry is that a clie

Re: blocking ports

2002-01-10 Thread Dave Watkins
Firstly look through the services you run and see if they can be bound to a single interface only. If they run from inetd you can replace it with xinetd to gain this functionality. Secondly (and this may or may not work I've never actually tried it), you could try rejecting the packets rather t

Re: blocking ports

2002-01-10 Thread Dave Watkins
Firstly look through the services you run and see if they can be bound to a single interface only. If they run from inetd you can replace it with xinetd to gain this functionality. Secondly (and this may or may not work I've never actually tried it), you could try rejecting the packets rather

Qmail and Stunnel

2002-01-03 Thread Dave Watkins
Hi All I've just setup qmail to run over stunnel for POP on port 995. Below is the command I use to run it #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 300 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -DRHv -l 0 0 995 /usr/sbin/stunnel -l /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d

Qmail and Stunnel

2002-01-03 Thread Dave Watkins
Hi All I've just setup qmail to run over stunnel for POP on port 995. Below is the command I use to run it #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 300 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -DRHv -l 0 0 995 /usr/sbin/stunnel -l /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3

Re: rogue Chinese crawler

2001-11-24 Thread Dave Watkins
I'm sure it's been said before but why not just configure iptables to drop the packets from 139.175.250.23? Then it CAN'T connect At 07:34 PM 11/24/01 +, Martin WHEELER wrote: >On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, Hereward Cooper wrote: > > > > Despite what I put in any robots.txt, this one disregards all

Re: rogue Chinese crawler

2001-11-24 Thread Dave Watkins
I'm sure it's been said before but why not just configure iptables to drop the packets from 139.175.250.23? Then it CAN'T connect At 07:34 PM 11/24/01 +, Martin WHEELER wrote: On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, Hereward Cooper wrote: > > Despite what I put in any robots.txt, this one disregards all rules a

Re: RAID & Hard disk performance

2001-11-06 Thread Dave Watkins
this isn't too much of a problem. But as numbers increase you spend more and more time in the server room replacing drive and rebuilding arrays. At 03:09 PM 11/6/01 +0100, you wrote: On Tue, 6 Nov 2001 07:26, Dave Watkins wrote: > Not to start a holy war, but there are real reasons to

RE: RAID & Hard disk performance

2001-11-06 Thread Dave Watkins
Original Message- > From: Dave Watkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 11:27 PM > To: debian-isp@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: RAID & Hard disk performance > > > Not to start a holy war, but there are real reasons to use SCSI. > > The bi

Re: RAID & Hard disk performance

2001-11-06 Thread Dave Watkins
Not to start a holy war, but there are real reasons to use SCSI. The big ones are Much larger MTBF, faster access times due to higher spindle speeds, better bus management (eg 2 drives can perform tasks at once unlike IDE), Hot Swapable (This is HUGE) and more cache on the drive. I'll stop now b

Re: Survey .. how many domains do you host? (Now RAID)

2001-11-06 Thread Dave Watkins
ely IDE controllers... whats the advantage to using them over the regular plain vanilla generic IDE controller cards? Don't they offload ANY work from the processor at ALL? They have to have SOME sort of benefit... otherwise, why market them as RAID controllers? Sincerely, Jason ----- Original

Re: Survey .. how many domains do you host? (Now RAID)

2001-11-02 Thread Dave Watkins
Contrary to popular belief the Highpoint chipsets are only software RAID. The driver uses processor time to actually do the RAID work. The chip is just an IDE controller. Based on that even if it isn't supported at a RAID level you can still use the software RAID avaliable in linux as the kerne

Re: Survey .. how many domains do you host? (Now RAID)

2001-11-02 Thread Dave Watkins
Contrary to popular belief the Highpoint chipsets are only software RAID. The driver uses processor time to actually do the RAID work. The chip is just an IDE controller. Based on that even if it isn't supported at a RAID level you can still use the software RAID avaliable in linux as the ker

Re: MASQUERADE problem

2001-10-29 Thread Dave Watkins
At 08:09 PM 10/22/01 +0200, you wrote: The line iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE should be using interface eth1 not ppp0 as you (probably) don't have a ppp interface. Also you should add this echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward to enable IP forwarding. The redirect line isn

Re: MASQUERADE problem

2001-10-28 Thread Dave Watkins
At 08:09 PM 10/22/01 +0200, you wrote: The line iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE should be using interface eth1 not ppp0 as you (probably) don't have a ppp interface. Also you should add this echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward to enable IP forwarding. The redirect li