Re: Re: Re: [solved] Re: Re: Re: diskless - NFS root mount problem

2009-11-19 Thread Tim Judd
On 11/18/09, Mario Pavlov wrote: > oh yes, I got what you meant now > true, I used /usr from the server because I wanted to have all my ports > available to the client. Is there a nice way to install ports only in the > diskless distribution ? > > thank you. > > Regards > Mario Just like any oth

Re: Re: Re: [solved] Re: Re: Re: diskless - NFS root mount problem

2009-11-18 Thread Mario Pavlov
oh yes, I got what you meant now true, I used /usr from the server because I wanted to have all my ports available to the client. Is there a nice way to install ports only in the diskless distribution ? thank you. Regards Mario >On 11/16/09, Mario Pavlov wrote: >> indeed you get bonus po

Re: Re: [solved] Re: Re: Re: diskless - NFS root mount problem

2009-11-18 Thread Tim Judd
On 11/16/09, Mario Pavlov wrote: > indeed you get bonus points if you firewall yourself :) > and of course this is not the first time I do that so my score is pretty > good > however my favourite is to forget about net.inet.ip.forwarding when I > upgrade routers with many clients :) > > Tim, than

Re: Re: [solved] Re: Re: Re: diskless - NFS root mount problem

2009-11-16 Thread Mario Pavlov
indeed you get bonus points if you firewall yourself :) and of course this is not the first time I do that so my score is pretty good however my favourite is to forget about net.inet.ip.forwarding when I upgrade routers with many clients :) Tim, thanks for your hints...but I don't understand thi

Re: [solved] Re: Re: Re: diskless - NFS root mount problem

2009-11-16 Thread Ade Lovett
On Nov 16, 2009, at 13:32 , Doug Barton wrote: > You're not a real sysadmin until you've firewalled yourself out of at > least one mission-critical system. > > Bonus points if it has no out-of-band control plane. > > Further bonus points if it is more than 100 miles away, and you are > the one w

Re: [solved] Re: Re: Re: diskless - NFS root mount problem

2009-11-16 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <4b01c4df.4040...@freebsd.org>, Doug Barton writes: > Mario Pavlov wrote: > > Hi, it turned out I was stupid enough to misconfigure the > > kernel...I forgot that I had left the IPFIREWALL options turned on > > You're not a real sysadmin until you've firewalled yourself out of at > lea

Re: [solved] Re: Re: Re: diskless - NFS root mount problem

2009-11-16 Thread Doug Barton
Mario Pavlov wrote: > Hi, it turned out I was stupid enough to misconfigure the > kernel...I forgot that I had left the IPFIREWALL options turned on You're not a real sysadmin until you've firewalled yourself out of at least one mission-critical system. Bonus points if it has no out-of-band contr

Re: [solved] Re: Re: Re: diskless - NFS root mount problem

2009-11-16 Thread Tim Judd
On 11/16/09, Mario Pavlov wrote: > Hi, > it turned out I was stupid enough to misconfigure the kernel...I forgot that > I had left the IPFIREWALL options turned on and as you know it's default to > deny so once the kernel initializes ipfw it blocks everything including NFS > so that was the whole

[solved] Re: Re: Re: diskless - NFS root mount problem

2009-11-16 Thread Mario Pavlov
Hi, it turned out I was stupid enough to misconfigure the kernel...I forgot that I had left the IPFIREWALL options turned on and as you know it's default to deny so once the kernel initializes ipfw it blocks everything including NFS so that was the whole problem...I removed the IPFIREWALL optio

Re: Re: diskless - NFS root mount problem

2009-11-16 Thread Mario Pavlov
Hi, thanks again for your response: here's what I have, what I do and what I want to happen 1. I have my desktop machine which is running FreeBSD-7.2-STABLE-amd64 from June. I created a new distribution like that (as shown in the handbook - http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/ha

Re: Re: diskless - NFS root mount problem

2009-11-15 Thread Mario Pavlov
Hi Tim, thanks a lot for your answer, I'll try that out tomorrow. cheers, mgp > > >Please compare my working configuration to yours to check. I found >lots of odd problems in your post and I thought it'd be best to just >run with this clean slate. > >Network config: > One low-power PC

Re: diskless - NFS root mount problem

2009-11-15 Thread Tim Judd
Please compare my working configuration to yours to check. I found lots of odd problems in your post and I thought it'd be best to just run with this clean slate. Network config: One low-power PC Engines ALIX board running as the NFS server, with a microdrive partitioned off for it's own syst

diskless - NFS root mount problem

2009-11-15 Thread Mario Pavlov
Hi, I'm trying to setup diskless operation between my FreeBSD desktop (server) and my laptop (client) I have NFS_ROOT and all other necessary options compiled into my kernel, I have this in /etc/exports: == / -ro -maproot=r