Re: SSH login takes very long time...sometimes

2006-02-16 Thread Carl Makin
Hi Atanas, Atanas wrote: Does anybody know whether ipfw (or something else within FreeBSD-4) is capable of setting connection rate limits? I'm using SEC to monitor the auth.log file and block any IP addresses that fail a password 3 times within 60 seconds. I use the following sec.conf file;

Re: 5.x/6.x network stability

2005-10-27 Thread Carl Makin
John Pettitt wrote: Carl Makin wrote: Morning All, the interface would just go dead. Nothing in ifconfig or syslog or dmesg would indicate a problem, but nothing would go in or out. The only way to fix it was reboot. What sort of network card? I've been having the same sy

Easy way to kill a 5.x/6.x box as a basic user.

2005-10-27 Thread Carl Makin
Morning All, I've been playing with some GIS software and 32Mb TIFF images. Running ImageMagick's "convert" utility under my normal user login to convert the image to gif or jpeg blows away the system every time. No panic seen on the console and no core dump found, the system just quietly

5.x/6.x network stability

2005-10-27 Thread Carl Makin
Morning All, I've been having a heap of trouble with the primary network interface on a box that was running 5.4 and recently upgraded to 6.0-Beta5 where the interface would just go dead. Nothing in ifconfig or syslog or dmesg would indicate a problem, but nothing would go in or out. The only

Re: Dell PowerEdge 1855

2005-04-28 Thread Carl Makin
Hi Doug, Sorry for taking so long to reply on this, been on 3 weeks leave... On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Doug White wrote: > On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Carl Makin wrote: > > The boot sequence will hang if the USB drive is attached at boot. There > It seems to be acting like Uthe USB cont

Re: IBM eServer 346 ServeRaid is too slow

2005-04-06 Thread Carl Makin
Hi Eugene, Eugene Mitrofanov wrote: I've got Subj and FreeBSD-5.4PRE on it. But RAID0 is too slow: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:eugene# dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/tmp/1 bs=1m count=100 100+0 records in 100+0 records out 104857600 bytes transferred in 31.949508 secs (3281979 bytes/sec) mpt0: port 0x4000-0x40ff m

Re: Dell PowerEdge 1855

2005-04-05 Thread Carl Makin
Afternoon! Just had more success with the Dell 1855. I split the disks into two individual drives visible to the OS and am now getting much better results. Bonnie and iozone transfer rates to and from a single drive of 50 to 60MB/s. This obviously just confirms the previous emails regarding this

Re: Dell PowerEdge 1855

2005-04-05 Thread Carl Makin
Hi Robert, Robert Blayzor wrote: I'd like to know if anyone has experience with the Dell PowerEdge 1855 blade servers running on either FreeBSD_4 or FreeBSD_5. I've just installed 5.4-RC1 on one and am testing it now. Apparently the 1855's integrated RAID uses the LSI (mpt) driver. I've heard m

5-Stable on a Dell 1855 blade

2005-02-20 Thread Carl Makin
Morning All, Is anyone running 5-stable on a Dell 1855 Blade Server? We're looking at a couple of enclosures to replace a heap of Dell 4300/6300s that have been running FreeBSD 4 without any problems over the past few years. I'm interested in SMP war stories, PERC4/IM support (The mpt driver ho

Re: Unkillable OpenOffice.org process in 5.3p2

2005-01-16 Thread Carl Makin
Hi Peter, Peter Jeremy wrote: I have an OOo process that refuses to die. ps says it is stopped and waiting I had the same problem here as well however I upgraded to 5.3-STABLE as of Jan 6 and have had no problems since. I also had "PREEMPTION" enabled in the kernel, which I have removed. Ca

Re: freebsd 5.3 have any problem with vinum ?

2004-10-31 Thread Carl Makin
Hi Greg, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Monday, 25 October 2004 at 14:21:33 -0600, secmgr wrote: It's beginning to look like that's a bad idea. Lukas is (understandably) working only on gvinum, and since I know it's nearly there, I'm not going to do any further work on Vinum in FreeBSD 5. Given

Re: QLogic 2200 makedev?

2002-07-02 Thread Carl Makin
On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 01:37, Lasse Laursen wrote: > We have a QLogic 2200 controller installed in one of our FreeBSD 4.6 > machines > isp0: port 0x6800-0x68ff mem > 0xe2101000-0xe2101fff irq 10 at device 11.0 on pci0 > da1: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device > da1: 100.000MB/s transfers, Tagge

Linux emulation, path substitution and (of course) TSM.

2002-02-05 Thread Carl Makin
Morning all, Time to drag this one out again. Has anyone got the Linux version of the TSM client working and backing up all filesystems under stable yet? I've tried things like the UNION fs but that still seems to have major problems. I'm still using the SCO v2 client which is becoming a majo

Is make release broken?

2001-01-02 Thread Carl Makin
I'm trying to roll a -stable snapshot using "make release" and it's dying consistantly when it tries to run mkwhatis across the /usr/share/man directories. Is anyone else having problems with make release at the moment? Carl. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: Netatalk--printing from a MAC...

2000-12-07 Thread Carl Makin
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Eric M Logan wrote: > No, it's just a regular DeskJet printer. I have apsfilter installed but > shouldn't the specification of the ppd file attend to the conversion? No. The PPD specifies things like what Postscript level to use, how many bins the printer has, memory, env

Re: QLogic 2200 to IBM ESS (Shark) via SAN Data Gateway.

2000-05-31 Thread Carl Makin
Hi Ken, On Wed, 31 May 2000, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 12:58:18 +1000, Carl Makin wrote: > > Is anyone using a QLogic 2200 FC card that can help me with a problem. > You probably won't get much help on the QLogic side of things until Matt >

AMI MegaRAID performance (was HPDA/DAC960PL errors)

2000-05-04 Thread Carl Makin
On Thu, 4 May 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > That's OK. At this point in time, I don't have any outstanding reports > of problems with the MegaRAID driver in 4-stable. The 4-release version > is capable of locking up the adapter, however. Here is the rawio stats for a 3.4-STABLE box running a De

Fibre Channel Adaptors for 3.4-S/R

2000-03-08 Thread Carl Makin
Hi, Is anyone using Fibre Channel Adaptors in FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE? It so, what are you using and how does it perform? We're about to start hooking up Dell 4300/6300s to a large disk array to do image and web work and I would like to go FC rather than scsi. Thanks, Carl. To Unsubscribe: se

FibreChannel, FC-Al and NetApp.

1999-12-20 Thread Carl Makin
Is anyone using FC, FC-AL or NetApp filers on a FreeBSD 3.x-STABLE system? I'm very interested in some real world comparisons of the various technologies. Carl. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

CODA and a SMP machine.

1999-09-21 Thread Carl Makin
A couple of weeks ago it was mentioned on this list that the CODA filesystem was not safe for SMP machines. Is this actually the case? Is this likely to change? Carl. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Re: Sun's StarOffice 5.1, again

1999-09-21 Thread Carl Makin
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Greg Lewis wrote: > > Actually, there is one other option, I used it. Compile a single CPU kernel, > > install StarOffice , then compile you SMP kernel and use StarOffice... > Ahh, so it only tries the forking during install then. I wasn't aware of Doesn't work for me. I