bruteforce

2006-04-11 Thread Matteo 'egon' Baldi
Hy, I'm triing to find a solution to bruteforce attack, mostly on port 22, without moving services on different ports. I've try something similar to this: table persist block in quick from pass in on $ext_if proto tcp from any to ($ext_if) port ssh \ flags S/SA keep state \ (max

Re: Maximum Swapsize

2006-04-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Mon, 2006-Apr-10 18:45:53 -0700, Pete Slagle wrote: >When you have very limited physical RAM you need a lot of swap space. >When you have more than enough RAM you don't need any swap space at all. >For a given set of applications, as RAM increases you need less swap >space, not more. And vice

Re: Maximum Swapsize

2006-04-11 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 19:28:19 +1000 Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2006-Apr-10 18:45:53 -0700, Pete Slagle wrote: > >When you have very limited physical RAM you need a lot of swap space. > >When you have more than enough RAM you don't need any swap space at all. > >For a given

Re: Maximum Swapsize

2006-04-11 Thread Michael Schuh
2006/4/10, Michael Schuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello @all, > > last weekend i have setted up an new Machine with > 6.1-Beta4. By Installation i have made an Swappartition > with the size of 4GB after install in runtime in top > it sseems to me that the maximum swap-size is > limitied to 2GB or bet

Re: Needs suggestion for redundant Storage

2006-04-11 Thread Michael Schuh
> You probably can't replace defective hardware so fast that the users > don't notice. They will probably also notice when a system crash > garbles the filesystem. that was the reason why i would make a mirrored system with CARP and ggated... > > Based on your comments of low cost and massiv

Re: bruteforce

2006-04-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 18:28, Matteo 'egon' Baldi wrote: > gate# pfctl -f /etc/pf.conf > /etc/pf.conf:48: illegal timeout name max-src-conn-rate > pfctl: Syntax error in config file: pf rules not loaded Your version of FreeBSD is too old and has a version of pf that pre-dates this feature. I s

Re: truss problems

2006-04-11 Thread Jonas Wolz
Am Montag, 10. April 2006 11:45 schrieb Jonas Wolz: > Other applications I tested (xedit, bash) seem to work fine. I've made some more tests and it seems to me that the "fork following" feature (-f switch) of truss obviously is buggy. Even the following simple shell script sometimes (in about a t

FreeBSD 6.0 panics - sbdrop

2006-04-11 Thread Konstantin Saurbier
Hi, I've encountered a strange problem while using FreeBSD 6.0 for our local mirror (mirror.math.uni-bielefeld.de) and thus is providing access via ftp, http, rsync and cvsup (all local and remote). The system crashes periodically with a kernel panic (panic: sbdrop). The uptimes between two cras

Serial ATA Errors

2006-04-11 Thread Holtor
Hello Everyone, I started seeing some ata errors on a server running FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE that I've never seen before. This probably has something to do with it but we just upgraded the RAM on the server from 1 GB to 2 GB (DDR 400), perhaps a cable got slightly loose. I'm pretty certain the hard dri

Re: truss problems

2006-04-11 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 11), Jonas Wolz said: > Am Montag, 10. April 2006 11:45 schrieb Jonas Wolz: > > Other applications I tested (xedit, bash) seem to work fine. > > I've made some more tests and it seems to me that the "fork > following" feature (-f switch) of truss obviously is buggy. Even t

Re: truss problems

2006-04-11 Thread Jonas Wolz
Am Dienstag, 11. April 2006 17:52 schrieb Dan Nelson: > In the last episode (Apr 11), Jonas Wolz said: > > If I call "truss -f sh test.sh" I get errors when execve() is called > > to start /bin/echo, for example: (56179 is the first /bin/echo > > (started without error), 56178 is /bin/sh) > > I thi

panic: vinvalbuf: dirty bufs on 6.1-RC

2006-04-11 Thread Anton Yuzhaninov
Hello, I have faced a panic when I use external HDD with USB interface after disconnect mounted drive: # uname -a FreeBSD hius.citrin.ru 6.1-RC FreeBSD 6.1-RC #0: Sun Apr 9 11:51:55 MSD 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/data/usr/obj/data/usr/src/sys/NK i386 # kgdb -c /var/crash/vmcore.0 kernel.debu

Re: bruteforce

2006-04-11 Thread Dmitriy Kirhlarov
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 10:58:48AM +0200, Matteo 'egon' Baldi wrote: > Hy, I'm triing to find a solution to bruteforce attack, mostly on port 22, > without > moving services on different ports. try to use /usr/ports/security/sshit By. Dmitriy ___ free

Re[2]: bruteforce

2006-04-11 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Dmitriy, Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 7:04:37 PM, you typed the following: > On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 10:58:48AM +0200, Matteo 'egon' Baldi wrote: >> Hy, I'm triing to find a solution to bruteforce attack, mostly on port 22, >> without >> moving services on different ports. > try to use > /us

Re: Re[2]: bruteforce

2006-04-11 Thread Jordan Sissel
On 4/11/06, Daniel Gerzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Dmitriy, > > Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 7:04:37 PM, you typed the following: > > > On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 10:58:48AM +0200, Matteo 'egon' Baldi wrote: > >> Hy, I'm triing to find a solution to bruteforce attack, mostly on port > 22, witho

Re: Maximum Swapsize

2006-04-11 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Michael Schuh wrote this message on Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 12:56 +0200: > My Problem was that i can't show my configured swapsize > right... > Partitionsize for swap was 4GB > Showing Value was 2GB, could you post swapinfo -k and disklabel of the appropriate disks? -- John-Mark Gurney

Re: bruteforce

2006-04-11 Thread Patrick Tracanelli
Jordan Sissel wrote: On 4/11/06, Daniel Gerzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Dmitriy, Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 7:04:37 PM, you typed the following: On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 10:58:48AM +0200, Matteo 'egon' Baldi wrote: Hy, I'm triing to find a solution to bruteforce attack, mostly on port

Re: Needs suggestion for redundant Storage

2006-04-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Tue, 2006-Apr-11 13:15:48 +0200, Michael Schuh wrote: >> You probably can't replace defective hardware so fast that the users >> don't notice. They will probably also notice when a system crash >> garbles the filesystem. > >that was the reason why i would make a mirrored system with CARP >and g

Re: Maximum Swapsize

2006-04-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 10:48:08AM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Tuesday 11 April 2006 01:47, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 06:13:07PM +0200, Michael Schuh wrote: > > > Hello @all, > > > > > > last weekend i have setted up an new Machine with > > > 6.1-Beta4. By Installation

Re: Maximum Swapsize

2006-04-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 12:56:30PM +0200, Michael Schuh wrote: > 2006/4/10, Michael Schuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hello @all, > > > > last weekend i have setted up an new Machine with > > 6.1-Beta4. By Installation i have made an Swappartition > > with the size of 4GB after install in runtime in t

Re: panic: vinvalbuf: dirty bufs on 6.1-RC

2006-04-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 08:59:01PM +0400, Anton Yuzhaninov wrote: > Hello, > > I have faced a panic when I use external HDD with USB interface after > disconnect mounted drive: Don't do that :( It's a well-known limitation that FreeBSD doesn't handle devices with mounted filesystems spontaneousl

Re: Maximum Swapsize

2006-04-11 Thread Matthew Dillon
From 'man tuning' (I think I wrote this, a long time ago): You should typically size your swap space to approximately 2x main mem- ory. If you do not have a lot of RAM, though, you will generally want a lot more swap. It is not recommended that you configure any less than

Re: high interrupt load under 6.0?

2006-04-11 Thread David E. Cross
Zuh, holy delayed reply.. but I figured for at least the sake of web-search engines I should reply and say that this was indeed the fix. Thank you. -- David E. Cross On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 15:05 -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 07:52:02PM +, David E. Cross wrote: > > I hav

swap performance under 6.1

2006-04-11 Thread David E. Cross
I saw under http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/todo.html that swap performance under 6.x is slower then 4.X, and this is listed as "not done". I noticed that 6.1 seemed to be a dog, but 6.0 I thought was better. As a test I installed 6.0 and 6.1 in parallel on my laptop with identical ports tr

Re: Odd "phantom MFS mountpoint" issue

2006-04-11 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 04:07:51PM -0400, H. Wade Minter wrote: > On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Michael Proto wrote: > > >Does /tmp exist and is writable when the system is started? Looking at > >the test in /etc/rc.d/tmp, it looks like /tmp will be mounted as a mfs > >if "/bin/mkdir -p /tmp/.diskless" fai

help ith burncd (Input/output error, 6.1-RC, plextor PX-740a)

2006-04-11 Thread George Hartzell
I have a new system which includes a Plextor PX-740a DVD+-R/RW CD-R/RW drive attached to an Asus A8V-MX motherboard. When I try to use burncd to burn a cd, it writes all of the data, says "fixating CD, please wait.." and then reports burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCFIXATE): Input/output error Oddly enoug

Re: help ith burncd (Input/output error, 6.1-RC, plextor PX-740a)

2006-04-11 Thread Scott Robbins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 06:49:02PM -0700, George Hartzell wrote: > > I have a new system which includes a Plextor PX-740a DVD+-R/RW CD-R/RW > drive attached to an Asus A8V-MX motherboard. > > When I try to use burncd to burn a cd, it writes all of th

Re: Xorg hang on recent 6.1 build

2006-04-11 Thread Robert Whamond
On Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:22, Kent Stewart wrote: > I cvsuped RELENG_6 and went through the usual motions to make the world, > kernel and install them. Everything was ok until I rebooted and started > KDE and the x-session stopped. I could login for other computers and > xorg was using 97% of th

Re: help ith burncd (Input/output error, 6.1-RC, plextor PX-740a)

2006-04-11 Thread Seán C . Farley
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, George Hartzell wrote: I have a new system which includes a Plextor PX-740a DVD+-R/RW CD-R/RW drive attached to an Asus A8V-MX motherboard. When I try to use burncd to burn a cd, it writes all of the data, says "fixating CD, please wait.." and then reports burncd: ioctl(C

Re: bruteforce

2006-04-11 Thread Adam Stroud
I have been using pf (on an OpenBSD box) to automatically block offending IP address using pf and it seems to work well for me. Basically when an attackers tries to connect x number of times in y minutes, I have the firewall set up to block the automatically. Works like a charm. A Patrick Tr

Re: bruteforce

2006-04-11 Thread Adam Stroud
I forgot to mention that pf is also available on FreeBSD too. Adam Stroud wrote: I have been using pf (on an OpenBSD box) to automatically block offending IP address using pf and it seems to work well for me. Basically when an attackers tries to connect x number of times in y minutes, I have

Re: bruteforce

2006-04-11 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Adam Stroud ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [11/04/06 23:49]: : I have been using pf (on an OpenBSD box) to automatically block : offending IP address using pf and it seems to work well for me. : Basically when an attackers tries to connect x number of times in y : minutes, I have the firewall s

Re: swap performance under 6.1

2006-04-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 10:43:32PM +, David E. Cross wrote: > I saw under http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/todo.html that swap > performance under 6.x is slower then 4.X, and this is listed as "not > done". > > I noticed that 6.1 seemed to be a dog, but 6.0 I thought was better. As > a t

Re: PAE and gvinum

2006-04-11 Thread Stoyan Dimov
On Saturday 08 April 2006 20:27, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Stoyan Dimov wrote: > > SD> Hi all, > SD> > SD> I got a machine with 8GB of RAM and plenty of disk space. I need gvinum to > SD> manage big number of file systems but PAE enabled kernel does not compile > SD> module

Re: Pros and Cons of amd64 (versus i386).

2006-04-11 Thread Tuomo Latto
Chris H. wrote: > Interesting to note (to me anyway) is my SCSI reports fastest on the outside > whereas my (earlier reported) ATA reports faster in the center (middle). You get better seek times on average in the center. Maybe that affected your results? -- Tuomo ... Nitpicking - not just a h