Is it possible to set-up a USB Printer in Freebsd?

Hi, I have an old model Epson C20UX USB Printer and I usually print in my Windows OS(dual boot) using that printer. For long, I did not bother to read the section in the handbook(setting up printer) because as I have said earlier.. I print my MSWord document in Windows.. But now that I have dele

Re: First time CUPS user, config problems?

Hi, I hope this would work for you.. I have recently installed my printer and be able to print successfully using CUPS and gimp-print drivers. What I did was: 1. Install the latest cups printing daemon and gimp-print or whatever port you will need to drive your printer(I don't know if you stil

Re: First time CUPS user, config problems?(success story)

Hi, I hope this would work for you.. I have recently installed my printer and be able to print successfully using CUPS and gimp-print drivers. What I did was: 1. Install the latest cups printing daemon and gimp-print or whatever port you will need to drive your printer(I don't know if you stil

Re: openoffice install and java JRE on 4.10

Peter, JRE is the acronym for Java Runtime Environment. Because java is an interpreted language, a java program needs an interpreter to be able to translate a java program into a machine readable form. Perhaps some of the openoffice.org's functionality were develop using java, maybe that's the r

Re: Removing FreeBSD from my machine

--- mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do remove freebsd from my machine? I want to > format the drive to > install windows xp. > > Thanks, > Mark Estes I'm afraid you can no longer remove freebsd from your system. Specially if it will be replaced by a Windows operating system. It was intele

Re: new guy has a perl/port question

--- Kent Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 23 July 2004 01:41 am, Steve wrote: > > how do i upgrade fbsd 4.9 perl 5.8.0 installed > from ports, to perl > > 5.8.4 > > portupgrade perl > use.perl port <-- don't forget this command though. just for additional info: FreeBSD has alrea

Re: Are you truly a M$ desktop alternative?

pany of yours, you will be facing a very tough decision and perhaps a huge amount of careful considerations. Anyway, good luck to you then. Hope you find this one helpful. -Mark Jayson Alvarez Bachelor of Science in Information Technology Polytechnic University of the Philippines 2000-2004

Compiling Application, always a nightmare.

Hi, I have one main question to ask: Do I always have to wait for freebsd to make a port for a certain application(that there might be somewhat special process involve) or is it possible for me to compile it from its sources by myself? For example, I am looking for kaffeine and as its depe

Is there an English Dictionary for FreeBSD?(not online like kdict)

Hi, I'm looking for a dictionary software which I can use even if I'm not connected to the internet as oppose to what kdict in KDE does. Do you happen to know one? Thanks!! -jay __ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB fr

Re: BigApache for Windows - Why doesn't BSD have an installer package like this ???

uot; lately and just kept quiet because I know that those names that have been replying to you where the kindest, most experienced, most humble persons in this list. I just couldn't imagine how did they ever ran out of their patience and have treated you such a "troll".=) Goodluck sir

Freebsd 4.10 release(do you know any browser with flash support???)

Hi, I'm using quanta to develop html applications with embedded .swf in it. What I want to do is to see its preview in a browser while I'm doing the programming in quanta. The problem is.. I don't know if there's any browser that supports it. The konqueror flash plugin instruction in freebsd.kde.

Humble questions for web developers in freebsd.

Greetings, I have installed the latest Apache http server for the first time and I have just started programming perl cgi scripts as well. It didn't brought me any trouble installing it, but when I wrote my first "Hello World" cgi script, I end up with an internal server error. Eventually

1 cpu + 2 monitors + 2 keybord/mouse + FreeBSD, is it possible??

Hi, FreeBSD is multi-user right? I know this setup but only when other users are logging in remotely via another pc. I just want to know if it is possible for me to just buy 1 more monitor, a mouse and a keyboard and just dig a hole between my brother's room and mine and share with him my pc. I

FreeBSD ACPI shutdown -p fails on my Motherboard

Good day, I have an old Jetway Motherboard(830 CH) together with AMD Athlon 1.2 Ghz. It's currently running FreeBSD 5.3. The ACPI is already enabled in BIOS but whenever I shutdown -p now, the computer doesn't totally goes off at all, it just reboots itself. I'm thinking that the APCI interface o

How come uunlnk flag doesn't permit me to check out a file from it???

Good day! I've been editing our mrtg configuration files using the Revision Control System. To edit the file, I've always check it out first and then check it back in with a '-u' option to leave a copy of the config file so that the mrtg can always find the file when it needs it.Recently, I'v

HELP!!!: I've accidentally deleted /dev

Hi, I was playing with file flags and decided to change the entire / hierarchy with "uunlnk". After doing that, I've cd into one of my file folders and then tried rm -rf *. It says operation not permitted. It worked. The uunlnk file flag worked. So I immediately cd'd into / and tried doing the sa

How will I rename every file in a directory to their filenames appending anything?

Example. I would want to rename every file that ends in .mp3 to their filename with appended .old. so that, test.mp3 will be renamed test.mp3.old? my initial command would then be: ls |grep mp3 |xargs -J # mv #..[this part is what trying to figure out] How will I tell the mv that its arguments w

Using yahoo's free SMS service for nagios and mrtg alert.

Good day! Do you know any library or module that can be use for interfacing with the yahoo's api that can send sms messages? I've seen some applications related to yahoo in the ports but I haven't tried one yet, such as libyahoo2, ari-yahoo, jabber-yahoo etc.

Make fails because of missing library but I can see it's there, why???

Hi, This always happens to me whenever I'm compiling third party applications. Make fails because it says that it cannot find a certain library.. and when I try to search for that file, I usually finds it. For example, I'm compiling, nagios-plugins but it fails with this error messages: check_ld

Any success in extracting mpeg from a vcd?

Hi, Do you have any success extracting mpeg files from a vcd?For sure I can play them with mplayer with vcd option but I haven't had any luck extracting them. I've been trying to figure out how vcdgear(console) or vcdxrip(vcdimager) works but still no luck. Any idea how they work?? I'm using Fre

Is there a file where I can specify the location of my header files??(like that of ld.so.hints)

Hi, I think I did something horrible with my machine. I cannot complete a "make" anywhere in ports. For example, I'm compiling iperf and got this error. headers.h:82:19: errno.h: No such file or directory headers.h:139:24: syslog.h: No such file or directory I used find to search for these file

Is there a file where I can specify the location of my header files??(like that of ld.so.hints)

Hi, I think I did something horrible with my machine. I cannot complete a "make" anywhere in ports. For example, I'm compiling iperf and got this error. headers.h:82:19: errno.h: No such file or directory headers.h:139:24: syslog.h: No such file or directory I used find to search for these file

recommended trouble ticketing system

Hi, I'm looking for a software that we can use for trouble ticketing system. We are using Open Ticket Request System(OTRS) before but my superiors, told me that I can search for another better software for this purpose. Can you suggest me some of the trouble ticketing systems you have used before

Word counting by Kernighan won't compile =(

Hi, Sorry for asking this question here. I just thought that this might be a platform specific issue=). I'm reading this book(The C Programming Language 2nd Edition by Brian W. Kernighan. Upon reading the book, I came up with this example code. It says, it will count the number of words, lines an

Re: Word counting by Kernighan won't compile =(

--- Mark Jayson Alvarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, everyone! No need to answer this one. I think I know what my problem is. The book contains typographical errors such that example programs might not work if one would just copy and paste it. Particularly in the example below, the secon

This is a cool shell prompt question

Good day! I'm just wondrin if its possible for me to run applications at boot time but on another terminal. I find it cool to have a huge digital clock (grdc) running on background so that I can just shift to another terminal whenever I want to know the time. Actually, all I really want is a cloc

Why can't I mount a Video CD in FreeBSD??

Good day! I'm getting an error whenever I mount a video cd. I can't remember the error right now because I already brought it back to the rental shop (its already overdue). I was also told by my friend that he too can't mount a video cd in his linux box. Do you happen to know why? Thanks.

Why does qmake port still needs qt source when I already have qt installed?

Good day! Upon learning the instruction on http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/view/9553 on creating a simple qt hello world program, I fired up my konsole and issued "qmake" in the directory of "myfirstqt.pro" I received this error message: QMAKESPEC has not been set, so configuration cannot be d

RE: Why can't I mount a Video CD in FreeBSD??

ROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Adam Fabian > Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 1:58 PM > To: Mark Jayson Alvarez > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Why can't I mount a Video CD in > FreeBSD?? > > On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 05:40:09PM -0800, Mar

CVSUP Routing question

Good day! Is it possible to tell cvsup to use another machine's global access in fetching the freebsd source updates?? Here's my office workstation setup: (private ip) (pri/pub ip) (all public) workstation > router >proxy server--->internet mail serve

Shell hacker and freebsd booting experts, I need some serious investigation regarding cups.sh

Good day, I found out this very weired experience on freebsd(4.10, 5.3) booting process one time when I was using my home pc. I've installed cups and renamed the cups.sh.sample to cups.sh to be able to run it at boot time. I have successfully set up my printer and be able to print some test page

3com 3c2000-T gigabyte ethernet support fbsd410

I think this has been asked in this list before, I've found it at the archive but there's no useful reply. Is 3com 3c2000-T gigabyte ethernet card supported on freebsd 4.10? If so, what's the driver? Thanks... - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easie

Is this new hard drive going to be useless with freebsd?

Good day, I currently have this setup at home and its working fine with FreeBSD 4.10. Motherboard: Jetway 830CH Hard Drive: 10 Gb Samsung Video Card: SiS on-board Processor:AMD Athlon 1200 Mhz (this is not an Athlon XP) Memory: 256 mb PC100 SDRAM I bought a new 80 Gb Sea

Help: Speeding up Boot Process

Sir, I've heard a lot of comments about the booting process of freebsd, that it is much faster than booting into Linux. I'm not experiencing quite as much as what their saying right now. Is there any link that you can give me so that I could learn how to speed up my booting process? Just for in

Out of curiousity: Who am I mailing to?

Sir, I'm totally a beginner and I'm glad cause it seems to me that I always get response to every question that I send to freebsd mailing list. And not just one, but I always receive more than what I really need!(isn't it cool!) I'm just wondrin' who exactly am I mailing to? Are you all emp

Help: Configuring PPP.conf after installing ltmdm

Hi, I've already installed ltmdm and I have found the following device nodes where added to /dev. cuaia0-cuaia3 and cuala0-cuala3. Question: Are those device where really made during the installation of ltmdm? What will be the proper device that I will tell the ppp.conf to talk to? I have o

help: Software for Finding the Details of Your Winmodem

Hi, I have a winmodem and a remote friend of mine says that he can make a driver for me if and only if I can tell him the specific details of my winmodem. He advice me to use scanmodem but I believe its an application for linux. Can I use it on freebsd? I know it can, but it didn't work, even

help: Winmodem Advice

Hi, I'm using freebsd 4.9 and I know already that i'm using a winmodem. Aside from buying an external modem(which would take me a couple of months to save my allowance for it), is there any possible way that I may be able to send this e-mail to you on my freebsd system? I'm not an expert in fre

help: VCD Player for FreeBSD

Hi, If I already have the video cd, what else do I need to be able to play vcd movies on X windows(im using kde 3.1.4, freebsd4.9). In Windows, I usually locate the .dat file in Mpeg folder inside the vcd itself and open it in Media player. thanks. _

help: Linux Drivers on FreeBSD

Hi, I've installed an internal "Smartlink HSP56 Micromodem" pci modem on the first pci slot of my H30CF jetway motherboard with(if i'm not mistakem) only one com1 port and a com2 header which i think is just an extra or something. I'm really having a hard time configuring it unlike before when i

Help: Tip on Buying External modem

Sir, I've post something about my internal modem and unfortunately you've replied that there could be no possible solution in using a winmodem except if you are expert in either linux or freebsd. My question is, if ever I will buy an external modem and to be sure that I will not waste my

Help: Setting up FTP server is not in the handbook... or is it?

Hi, I have a lot of files in my computer that i wanted to share with my friends remotely via ftp server. I'm currently using freebsd 4.9 and I've been repeatedly scanning through the handbook but I cant seem to find the portion about setting up an ftp server. Did I miss something in the handbook

Help: Uncommenting FTP line in Inetd.conf: What's Next???

hi, I've posted a question here regarding the enabling of ftp server.. Some responses said, its as easy as just uncommenting out one of these lines in inetd.conf. #ftpstream tcp nowait root /usr/libexec/ftpd ftpd -l #ftpstream tcp6nowait root /usr/libexec/ftpd

HELP: I ran /stand/sysinstall...upgrade(100 % completed) But nothing happened..

Hi, I'm currently using freebsd 4.9 and I've wanted to upgrade to freebsd 4.10. What I did was I've followed the instructions on the site which says that the most convinient way is to use the /stand/sysinstall utility and choose the Upgrade from the list... when I'm on it... I've chosen to downlo

Help: Upgrading from 4.9 to 4.10 using cvsup

Hi, I'm using freebsd 4.9 and I wanted to upgrade to version 4.10. The first step I made was to select the 'upgrade' in the /stand/sysinstall utility and I've selected only the system binaries(bin) to lessen the amount of files that I have to download. After finishing, I think it didn't work bec

Upgrading to 4.10 using cvsup(Pleeeease! I'm halfway there!!!)

I'm currently on freebsd 4.9 and wanted to upgrade to 4.10 using cvsup This is my supfile *default host=cvsup1.ph.FReeBSD.org (Philippines... my home) *default base=/usr (...said this is to track down the download status... right?) *default prefix=/usr (...said this is the place where the files

Help:Compiling and Installing of new kernel Without making buildworld(is it possible?)

Hi, This is just a follow up with my previous mailings I'm upgrading my 4.9 system to 4.10. The steps I made were as follows and also what happened after doing so. First: I used the /stand/sysinstall-->Ugrade (only bin selected..)--->100 % completed--->rebooted says: can't load kernel... booting

Help:Lilo killed Beastie!!!

Hi, I'm currently using freebsd 4.10 and after installing slackware on the primary partition I have reserved for it, when I booted to Freebsd... These are the errors that I have encountered: Problem: # Manual root filesystem specification : mountroot> I've tried typing ufs:/dev/ad0s1a

Help: After installing linux, I can no longer boot my freebsd...

Hi, I have a 20gb harddisk with 3 primary partitions: 1st: DOS 2nd: Freebsd 3rd: reserved for linux and an extended partition(which contains my windows files) Before installing linux.. I can see this at freebsd boot manager menu F1:DOS F3:Freebsd After installing linux and lilo.. F1:DOS F2

Re: Devil Mascot(That

--- Jan Muenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You may think that is a small issue, but when > you are trying to create > > market awareness you need a mascot that evokes > simplicity and goodwill, not > > one that evokes evil and deception. > > Man... either you're a (moderately funny) trol

Help: I think I've been hacked! what can I do??

Hi, Last night before this morning, I was browsing fine with kde's konqueror. I don't remember doing anything about my system rather than dialing through ppp. This morning, when I ppp to dial into internet... my external modem established a successful connection(because I can see the LED's are li

Re: cvsup & make world

--- John Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All, > > I installed a clean 4.10-RC2 and CVSUP to the > latest, > while makeing world, I encountered this error > and tried a few times but same error. Please advise. > I'm using a P4 2.8Ghz 1U server system. > > >>> stage 1: bootstrap tools > -

Re: FreeBSD weakness(It's not. hear my story)

Hi Lloyd, Let me share you my experience with learning freebsd. I promise you... you'll throw away those expensive books that you have bought after reading my story.. A few months ago, I was totally a Windows user. I've already heard about Linux from a friend but not exactly Unix.. That f

How can I upgrade my FreeBSD Handbook?

Hi, I've already upgraded my freebsd 4.9 to 4.10 using make buildworld and installworld. I also have rebuilded the kernel. I'm totally sure that when I used cvsup to fetch the sources for FreeBSD 4.10, I have included an "src-all" line in the cvsup file, but when I visited freebsd.org, their ha

Can I back-up my sources?

Hi, I only have a 4.9 cd and to upgrade to 4.10 or later versions, first, I install the sources from my 4.9 cd and then I use cvsup. Same as with FreeBSD Handbook and Ports. Question: In upgrading to a higher version of FreeBSD(e.g; 4.9 to 4.10) using cvsup, and I burned the contents of my upg

A few simple questions(...if you don't mind)

Hello, Questions: 1. What is the command for ejecting the cdrom? 2. Do you know if viruses exist in freebsd, like in Windows? 3. When I issued a netstat command, and i see something like 192.135.15... connected to 192.262.33..., what is the command for terminating such connections? 4. When I

Merging a directory to the search path of includes and libs permanently(ldconfig -m....)

Hi, Is there a way to merge a certain directory to the library search path or include search path permanently? "ldconfig -m" works only while the computer have not yet been rebooted. I have an experienced that I was able to install a certain application that depends on a library not found in the

Uninstalling software compiled from source

Hi, Is there a way to remove all the components of a software that was installed from its source? Make uninstall doesn't work unlike when using the ports tree. Thanks. __ Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: h

few processor performance questions

Good day, I have an athlon thunderbird 1.2ghz processor and I'm looking forward to overclocking it. My plans are to buy a new motherboard that supports raising the core voltage, fsb or even the multiplier. I have looked at some stores selling motherboard for socketA(462) processors and found o

Are those services in inetd.conf(telnetd, ftpd) kerberized already??

Hi, I'm trying to configure a kerberos realm, and I have already installed heimdal on one FreeBSD5.4 machine and was able to run KDC daemon. I can already acquire a TGT and was about to test it using telnet. First, after acquiring a ticket granting ticket, I launched telnet on another machine wi

Help: krb5_sock_to_principal failed -> Kerberos guru(kindhearted)... Anyone? Here?

Hi, I'm trying to configure a kerberos realm, and I have already installed heimdal on one FreeBSD5.4 machine and was able to run KDC daemon. I can already acquire a TGT and was about to test it using telnet. First, after acquiring a ticket granting ticket, I launched telnet on another machine wi

pptp with mppe on freebsd

Hi, I'm trying to connect my lan to a remote lan through pptp/vpn. I followed the instructions on http://www.freebsddiary.org/pptp.php and created a ppp.conf like this: UPVPN: set authname "myusername" set authkey "mypassword" set timeout 0 set ifaddr 0 0 add 10.40.23.0/24 HISADDR alias e

Is MPPE supported in FreeBSD?

Hi, I'm trying to connect my lan to a remote lan through pptp/vpn. I followed the instructions on http://www.freebsddiary.org/pptp.php and created a ppp.conf like this: UPVPN: set authname "myusername" set authkey "mypassword" set timeout 0 set ifaddr 0 0 add 10.40.23.0/24 HISADDR alias en

Using port system in network using proxy server

Good day! Do you have any idea on how I can install through freebsd port system when my internet connection is on LAN and our LAN uses proxy server? I can set the proxy details easily in my web browsers but I don't know how to do it in making ports. Some sort of proxy environment variable perha

Anyone here using kopete on a Network using proxy?

Good day! Do you know how I can connect to kopete in a network using proxy server? Is there something like that of the http_proxy variable that I can set? Thanks. ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.ya

Help me please: I'm confused about remote log-in.

Good day!!! My home pc is obtaining an internet connection through a dial-up modem. And as for this, I'm using ppp. On my analysis, the ppp program residing in my pc is connecting to some sort of an authenticating server, am i right? Aside from the PPP, I've read the portion in freebsd handbook

commenting/uncommenting a particular line in place

Good Day, I'm looking for a command combinations (not and editor) that would uncomment or comment a line in any configuration file such as inetd.conf with just one single stroke. For example here's the line in inetd.conf that will enable ftpd: #ftpstream tcp nowait root /usr/libe

How can I route through a pc that is also using a router??

Good day! I have two workstations at work, 1 my personal, and the other, a test machine. My boss told me to configure a pcrouter, that is, the testmachine and let my personal pc connect through the internet through the testmachine: Here's the scenario: The testmachine already knows how to con

Re: How can I route through a pc that is also using a router??

My workstation and the testmachine both belongs to the same subnet: Here are the details: workstation --> 10.10.8.110 testmachine --> 10.10.8.111 Gateway --> 10.10.8.254 DNS ---> 202.90.128.3 202.90.158.101 Proxy ---> 202.90.128.14 Port: 3128 --- Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Anyone here already configured wine on freebsd?? Help me please

Good day! I've already installed the binary package of wine for freebsd which i've downloaded from winehq. My problem is that, no matter how hard I read the configuration section of their documentation, I can't figure out how the software works... I've already copied the example config file I fo

Is there a reverse Network Address Translation???

Hi, I wan't to access my pc at work from home through freebsd's sshd. Is it possible?, knowing that it doesn't have a public ip address? That workstation of mine is only gaining internet access through LAN servers and routers. Will it help if I know the gateway ip where my workstation passes thro

Using fetch in http server that requires authentication

Hi, I want to use fetch to get some files from our http snap server but it requires username and password; Here's the details username: renem password: mhall[;] How will I tell fetch to use those details and automatically provide it when the server asks for it? The reason why I want to do thi

Questions on file descriptors and squid

Good day, I have a pc which I am going to turn into one of our siblings proxy servers. The squid book says, the file descriptor values should not go below 1024. Qestion1: Do you know how do freebsd 4.10 sets its default(fresh install) file descriptor value? For example, here are the components

Can no longer boot 4.10 after installing 5.3RC1 on different partition.

Good day, A have a serious problem going on with my hard drive. My hard disk, 80 GB seagate has 4 partitions. 1 freebsd 4.10 2 openbsd 3.5 3 linux 4 Win2k I've downloaded the miniinst iso of FreeBSD 5.3 and decided to install it in linux partition. During the installation, I've deleted the l

CTM first time user needs your help

Good day, I have a workstation at office but I can only access the internet through our proxy server. Someone in this list have the same situation which was told to use CTM. I'm currently using 5.3RC1 and would want to keep in sync with the latest sources of 5.3 and recompile my system. I alread

How can I specify the ipaddress in smbfs entry in fstab?

Good day! I wanted to mount our samba server whenever my computer boots so I added an entry in fstab like this mountpt //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/mp3s /mp3 but I have no idea how will I specify the ip address of the server. using the mount_smbfs, I can mount it by pr

Re: How can I specify the ipaddress in smbfs entry in fstab?

--- albi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > > mountpt > > //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/mp3s /mp3 > > you can probably use e.g. > > //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/mp3s /mp3 It still doesn't work. I remember mounting it manually using the command mount_smbfs -I ipaddress //[

What is the best way to obtain an exact copy download?-->wrong md5 after downloading 5.3dsc1,2=(

Good day! After downloading disc1 and disc2 of freebsd 5.3, my boss told me to verify the download using md5. And to my surprise, none of those two iso's have the same md5 as that of the md5 written in CHECKSUM.md5. This is the first time I ever use the md5 and for so long, I didn't bother doi

Question regarding X windows client-server implementation

Good day! Something is bothering me for so long regarding the X windows client-server architecture. First of all, I know that X server(eg; xorg) manages my monitor, keyboard, mouse and video card. And also, the clients are those applications that I run (eg, kde, mozilla). Since I ran them b

Where can I find those various make arguments (e.g. install, search, maintainer, build)

I want to know where can I find those various make arguments. For example, when invoking 'make search key=.." while inside /usr/ports, I can easily locate the ports I am looking for. I want to know what else can I 'make' aside from: search key="value" install buildkernel buildworld maintainer clea

nfs server pid310 not responding ---> why does this line appear continuesly???

Good day! I don't know what have I done with my machine. I haven't enabled the nfs server or anything that has to do with nfs but why does these line continuesly appearing in my terminal?? Any idea?? My machine's hostname is layline and i'm running 5.3-release. Here are the lines: layline kern

Is this a function or a structure???(once again, a mind-boggling example from Kernighan)

Hi, On chapter 6 section 2 of The C Programming Language, the topic is Structures and Function. His very first example for this topic contains the lines of code: struct point makepoint(int x, int y) { struct point temp; temp.x = x; temp.y = y; return temp; } As I can understand it, he

cvsup through ssh forwarding

Good day, I'm looking for some sort of way to update the ports collection in my (private-ip'd) workstation via cvsup by tunneling it through on of our public-ip'd machines. Have you ever accomplished the same thing. Isn't it that ssh forwarding requires you to supply your username and password in

Can FreeBSD withstand this kind of network load??

Hi, Someone consulted me about building a pc router for multiple networks using a single interface card. Actually there are two, one facing a network going to the internet, and the other facing those multiple networks. The setup looks like this. There are three /24 networks, A, B, C All of these

FreeBSD User questions Mailing List

Hey there BSD people, I'm an IT student from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines and a newbie to FreeBSD/Unix environment. Swear I've havn't typed on any unix prompt before! I've read a lot of positive-side article about your operating system and have tried it on myself. I've downl

network monitoring system with downtime reporting

Hi, I'm looking for a network monitoring system with downtime reporting. Currently, we are using nagios for services monitoring and mrtg for traffic monitoring. Do you know any tool which can report the downtimes of a particular customer's internet link? We need it because from time to time, cust

Trouble with apache ports (finding it hard to enable particular modules)

Hi, I'm trying to install phpldapadmin-0.9.8 This is just as simple as doing a make install inside /usr/ports/net/phpldapadmin. It requires an installation of php4 plus ldap and xml extensions. So far no problem. If I do a make install inside php4-extensions, php4 and apache13 gets installed autom

/dev/cuaa gone in 6.0?? /dev/console doesn't work...

Hi, I'm trying to secure our cisco router by hooking its console to a freebsd 6.0 box. I was reading this document: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/10/11/FreeBSD_Basics.html It seems like /dev/cuaaN has been replaced by /dev/console. On my 6.0 box, I can't seem to find /dev/cuaaN...

Re: /dev/cuaa gone in 6.0?? /dev/console doesn't work...

Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: No, they're different. Anyway, /dev/cuaaN was replaced by /dev/cuadN. Kris Ok, its working now.. How about multiple console connections using just a single console cable?? sort of like pseudo terminal used by ssh.

Re: /dev/cuaa gone in 6.0?? /dev/console doesn't work...

Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 09:13:51PM -0800, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: > > > Kris Kennaway wrote: > No, they're different. Anyway, /dev/cuaaN was replaced by /dev/cuadN. > > Kris > > Ok, its working now.. How about

net-im is not in my supfile..

Hi, I'm trying to install the latest jabberd but first I would like to cvsup the latest ports tree. I only want the ports-net-im to speed up the process, however, to my surprise, net-im is not in my /usr/share/example/cvsup/ports-supfile. Adding that line and commenting ports-all doesn't mak

How do you keep users from stealing other user's ip??

Good day, We are trying to reorganize our local area network and I need some tips on how you are managing your own lan... We have a vanilla pc router with interface facing our private lan and interface facing the Internet. One problem which we are experiencing right now is that a

Re: How do you keep users from stealing other user's ip??

Hi, Ok here's our problems. Mostly pertaining to tracking down who is this user eating up our bandwidth or who is this user flooding our network. 1. Users when they want to plug a machine to the network... let's say their own testbeds, they will choose whatever ip they want possibly stealin

Need some tips in reorganizing our LAN.

Hi, Right now, I'm working in a poor government agency where the network is not well organized. Its hard to trace users that are doing this stuff and doing that.IP addresses are scattered all around the 3 story building.Switches are cascading everywhere.. Everything is a disaster. When a mach

Re: Need some tips in reorganizing our LAN.

Hi everyone, Thanks for replying.. I'm currently on the phase I of the plan. Its not finalized yet. I hope you can add some more. What else do you want to know if you will be reorganizing your own LAN? Also, if you have a clue on what the succeeding phase should be..Anyway, I will try to

Re: Need some tips in reorganizing our LAN.

Hi everyone, Thanks for replying.. I'm currently on the phase I of the plan. Its not finalized yet. I hope you can add some more. What else do you want to know if you will be reorganizing your own LAN? Also, if you have a clue on what the succeeding phase should be..Anyway, I will try to

Re: Need some tips in reorganizing our LAN.

Benjamin Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello jay, I see no place for a wireless network in a professional network. It's hard to secure it (it's possible, encrypted-VPN-over-WLAN works, but it's difficult and expensive to set up). Stick with a wired LAN, and there'll be one security threat

Re: Need some tips in reorganizing our LAN.

Benjamin Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello jay, I see no place for a wireless network in a professional network. It's hard to secure it (it's possible, encrypted-VPN-over-WLAN works, but it's difficult and expensive to set up). Stick with a wired LAN, and there'll be one security threat

How do you divide your network?? (do you use vlan??)

Hi, How do you divide your network?? Our current setup looks like this. Given all switch are unmanaged. 1 pc router has two interfaces. 1st is the uplink to the internet and the 2nd is connected to our private lan switch. Now this private lan switch is then connected to each switch of every

ipfw plus authentication???

Hi I am looking for ways to manage our LAN by having each user register their ipaddress, mac address, workstation os, etc. in our ldap directory. Now in our pcrouter, the users will first send his login credentials to the pcrouter, and then the pcrouter will check against ldap if this login i

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