Tuning modern (i.e. 9.x) FreeBSD Systems for 'servers' - any guides?

2012-11-20 Thread Karl Pielorz
Hi, We've got a number of 9.x systems in service - replacing a number of older 6/7/8 ones. In the olden days (going back quite a while) you had to fiddle around with stuff like NMBCLUSTERS, MAXUSERS etc. In fact, if you have a look around Google it's littered with guides/articles for this s

Re: FreeBSD systems

2007-08-08 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, August 8, 2007 09:33, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 01:25:59PM -0500, Peter Clark wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> Does anyone have any experience dealing with www.freebsdsystems.com >> I am looking to purchase some servers that will work a with a >> minimum of hardware cha

Re: FreeBSD systems

2007-08-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 01:25:59PM -0500, Peter Clark wrote: > Hello all, > > Does anyone have any experience dealing with www.freebsdsystems.com ? I > am looking to purchase some servers that will work a with a minimum of > hardware challenges. I have seen an occasional good comment, but have

Re: FreeBSD systems

2007-07-17 Thread Tom Grove
Peter Clark wrote: Hello all, Does anyone have any experience dealing with www.freebsdsystems.com ? I am looking to purchase some servers that will work a with a minimum of hardware challenges. Thanks in advance, Pete ___ freebsd-questions@freeb

Re: FreeBSD systems

2007-07-17 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Peter Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello all, > > Does anyone have any experience dealing with www.freebsdsystems.com ? I > am looking to purchase some servers that will work a with a minimum of > hardware challenges. It's been a few years, but I had a good experience with them

FreeBSD systems

2007-07-17 Thread Peter Clark
Hello all, Does anyone have any experience dealing with www.freebsdsystems.com ? I am looking to purchase some servers that will work a with a minimum of hardware challenges. Thanks in advance, Pete ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Dell vs. Silicon Mechanics vs. FreeBSD Systems

2006-04-27 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 03:09:10PM -0500, Greg Barniskis wrote: > Questions wrote: > >Anyone have any opinions about the quality and/or value of these > >respective vendors? > [snip] > > > >How does Dell fit into all of this? I haven't dealt with Dell in > >years but when I have in the past, there

Re: Dell vs. Silicon Mechanics vs. FreeBSD Systems

2006-04-26 Thread Greg Barniskis
Questions wrote: Anyone have any opinions about the quality and/or value of these respective vendors? [snip] How does Dell fit into all of this? I haven't dealt with Dell in years but when I have in the past, there didn't seem to be any major issues. I'm looking at a Power Edge 1850 with the

Re: Dell vs. Silicon Mechanics vs. FreeBSD Systems

2006-04-26 Thread Jim Stapleton
I can't answer this too well unfortunately, but I can give you a bit of info. Dell does not carry AMD, and probably will not for a long time. However they do have AMD64 compatable Intel chips, which are better at bandwidth, though not as good for calculations. Dell treats their business customers

Dell vs. Silicon Mechanics vs. FreeBSD Systems

2006-04-26 Thread Questions
d SATA and/or RAID controllers from Silicon Mechanics but it looks now like their Rackform nServ A206 uses an Adaptec SATA controller and an Adaptec RAID controller (this will do RAID1, right?) Anyone have any experience with FreeBSD Systems IPMI interface? I don't claim to know much about I

Problem with IPSec tunnel, using IPv6 addresses, between Two FreeBSD systems.....

2005-07-01 Thread mohan chandra
Hi All, I need to establish an IPSec tunnel between two FreeBSD systems, using IPv6 addresses.The connetcion is host-to-host between two FreeBSD( RELEASE 4.11) systems with KAME IPSec implementation. I tried to establish the connection, but it has some problems which are explained below

Problem with IPSec tunnel, using IPv6 addresses, between Two FreeBSD systems....

2005-06-30 Thread mohan chandra
Hi All, I need to establish an IPSec tunnel between two FreeBSD systems, using IPv6 addresses.The connetcion is host-to-host between two FreeBSD( RELEASE 4.11) systems with KAME IPSec implementation. I tried to establish the connection, but it has some problems which are explained below

Problem with IPSec tunnel, using IPv6 addresses, between Two FreeBSD systems.....

2005-06-30 Thread mohan chandra
Hi All, I need to establish an IPSec tunnel between two FreeBSD systems using IPv6 addresses.The connetcion is host-to-host between two FreeBSD( RELEASE 4.11) systems with KAME IPSec implementation. |->| host1-[mohan]| |host2-[

Re: How do I set up a ssh tunnel between two FreeBSD systems ?

2003-06-08 Thread Jim Mock
On Saturday, June 7, 2003, at 09:36 PM, Josh Brooks wrote: Hello, Hi, I have read the ssh man page and am not getting the results I think I should. some background: serverA is the client serverB is running sendmail on port 25 I want to telnet to serverA on port 34 and get a response from the

Re: How do I set up a ssh tunnel between two FreeBSD systems ?

2003-06-07 Thread Steve Sapovits
On Sat, 07 Jun 2003 21:36:32 -0700 (PDT) Josh Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have read the ssh man page and am not getting the results I think I > should. some background: > > serverA is the client > > serverB is running sendmail on port 25 > > > I want to telnet to serverA on port 34

How do I set up a ssh tunnel between two FreeBSD systems ?

2003-06-07 Thread Josh Brooks
Hello, I have read the ssh man page and am not getting the results I think I should. some background: serverA is the client serverB is running sendmail on port 25 I want to telnet to serverA on port 34 and get a response from the sendmail daemon running on serverB. I tried this: ssh -L 34: