Re: [gentoo-user] Fine Tuning NTP Server

2013-05-09 Thread Nick Khamis
ntp:ntp I would have liked to be better prepared for this but the gentoo wiki page has been down for a few weeks now. We are not looking for microsecond synchronization however, down to the second would be nice! Kind Regards, Nick.

Re: [gentoo-user] Fine Tuning NTP Server

2013-05-10 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Andrea, Thank you so much for your time. I missed the part about log^2 in the documentation. Kind Regards, Nick. On 5/10/13, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On May 10, 2013 5:23 PM, Andrea Conti a...@alyf.net wrote: Hello, server tick.nrc.ca minpoll 64 maxpoll 1024 iburst

[gentoo-user] Traffic Intensive IPSec Tunnel

2013-05-11 Thread Nick Khamis
kernel modules, ipsec-tools and iptables, we see that as keeping it simple and effective. Your insight, suggested how-to pages are greatly appreciated. Thanks in Advance, Nick.

[gentoo-user] Real qucik question - Copying over kernel configuration for same machines

2013-05-11 Thread Nick Khamis
like to run make and make modules_install on the new machine. Thanks in Advance, Nick.

Re: [gentoo-user] Traffic Intensive IPSec Tunnel

2013-05-11 Thread Nick Khamis
Thanks yet again Michael! Enjoy your weekend. N. On 5/11/13, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/11/2013 03:13 PM, Nick Khamis wrote: Hello Everyone, Our service provider requires all connections between us be done through IPSec IKE. From the little bit of research, I found

Re: [gentoo-user] Real qucik question - Copying over kernel configuration for same machines

2013-05-12 Thread Nick Khamis
Thank you!!! On 5/12/13, staticsafe m...@staticsafe.ca wrote: On 5/11/2013 20:39, Nick Khamis wrote: Hello Everyone, Just running an installation on another IBM machine, and wanted to know which kernel config files can we copy over from one machine to another, and have the same exact

Re: [gentoo-user] Real qucik question - Copying over kernel configuration for same machines

2013-05-12 Thread Nick Khamis
I just realized that we were running 3.5.7 on the older systems, and the current version is 3.7.10. Would I be cutting too many corners to copy over the ..config from the older machine. Thanks in Advance, Nick. On 5/12/13, Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you!!! On 5/12/13

Re: [gentoo-user] Real qucik question - Copying over kernel configuration for same machines

2013-05-12 Thread Nick Khamis
Please forgive me! Gmail client from hell!

[gentoo-user] IPTables - Going Stateless

2013-05-21 Thread Nick Khamis
, but when included SSH access is blocked out. Not sure why, isn't the sequence correct (i.e., the ACCPET entries before the DROP and REJECT)? Also, any pointers or heads up when going stateless would be greatly appreciated. Kind Regards, Nick

[gentoo-user] Re: IPTables - Going Stateless

2013-05-21 Thread Nick Khamis
For testing purposes I changed the ssh rule to: -A TCP -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT -A TCP -p tcp -m tcp -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d 192.168.2.5 --dport 22 -j DROP And still no go. As mentioned before, everything works fine until I try to close up the rest of the ports not opened up in the chains UDP

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] IPTables - Going Stateless

2013-05-21 Thread Nick Khamis
to remaining protocols sent to closed ports -A INPUT -i $INTIF1 -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-proto-unreachable #echo -e- Dropping output traffic to remaining protocols sent to closed ports -A OUTPUT -o $INTIF1 -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-proto-unreachable Thanks in Advance, Nick.

Re: [gentoo-user] IPTables - Going Stateless

2013-05-21 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, Thank you so much for your responses. I agree Alan, total pain in the neck!!! But it's a ticket that was passed down to me. We moved the stateful firewalls inside the network, broken down to each department. But as a first on site defense on our BGP router running Quagga, we only

[gentoo-user] Re: IPTables - Going Stateless

2013-05-21 Thread Nick Khamis
Neal, As for the --sport flag for OUTPUT, should it not be left arbitrary? The SSH daemon should use unprivileged ports between 1024 and 65535. The only daemon I know thus far that does not is NTP which is hardwired to 123 both ways. Thanks Guys, Nick.

[gentoo-user] IP Load Sharing - Per Packet Load Balancing (Linux router)

2013-05-25 Thread Nick Khamis
could be balanced, it would be great! Kind Regards, Nick.

[gentoo-user] Re: IP Load Sharing - Per Packet Load Balancing (Linux router)

2013-05-25 Thread Nick Khamis
, Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, I am looking to put together a linux router for small business, and was wondering if there was anything the suite (using quagga etc..) that would allow for load balancing of regular dsl links. Kind of like cisco with fast ethernet 0,1 and ip

[gentoo-user] Re: IP Load Sharing - Per Packet Load Balancing (Linux router)

2013-05-26 Thread Nick Khamis
Any different if the links are VDSL? I have little experience in working with DSL based connections, and was wondering what was possible in terms or bridging/bonding etc.. if anything. N. On 5/25/13, Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: I missed out some crusial info in my last email

Re: [gentoo-user] IP Load Sharing - Per Packet Load Balancing (Linux router)

2013-05-26 Thread Nick Khamis
, maybe the session would suffice (i.e, per network session)? Although per packet would be preferred. Kind Regards, Nick. On 5/26/13, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 26 May 2013 22:35:14 J. Roeleveld wrote: On 25 May 2013, at 22:26, Nick Khamis wrote: ... As mentioned

Re: [gentoo-user] IP Load Sharing - Per Packet Load Balancing (Linux router)

2013-05-26 Thread Nick Khamis
Sorry for the top post. N.

Re: [gentoo-user] IP Load Sharing - Per Packet Load Balancing (Linux router)

2013-05-26 Thread Nick Khamis
By downstream, I mean within our own network. Obviously downstream LB from the ISP's DSLAM would be impossible without MLPP, BGP support... N

Re: [gentoo-user] IP Load Sharing - Per Packet Load Balancing (Linux router)

2013-05-27 Thread Nick Khamis
And who says you can't teach an old man new tricks huh geezer ;)? Thank you so much for your response!!! That sorts out outgoing traffic, have you had to setup rules for incoming traffic? I mean from the outside world to a server for example? Kind Regards, Nick.

[gentoo-user] Linux Fiber SAN

2013-06-11 Thread Nick Khamis
, Nick.

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Fiber SAN

2013-06-12 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Nick, the question is, what are you doing with it and why do you think you need a fibre channel SAN. Our goal indeed is to get rid of the SAN infrastructure as it is delicately to all kinds of failure with nearly zero fault tolerance. An example, you have an hicup or a power failure

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Fiber SAN

2013-06-12 Thread Nick Khamis
be using a black box from HP etc.., but just a general idea. Kind Regards, Nick.

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Fiber SAN

2013-06-12 Thread Nick Khamis
up of virutal storage drives, snapshots etc... Kind Regards, Nick.

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Fiber SAN

2013-06-13 Thread Nick Khamis
, one for storage vlans and one for the production vlans. Performance is not the issue. Good network engineering. I guess also with this setup replication would be handled by rsync? If so, the potential of this setup really starts to shine. WOW, from NAS to SAN? Kind Regards, Nick.

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Fiber SAN

2013-06-15 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Norman, Sorry for the delayed response What do you mean by replication? Oh I was referring to the replication of the entire NFS server with virtual drive images etc.. to other machines for fail over, maybe load balancing. Kind Regards, Nick.

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Fiber SAN

2013-06-15 Thread Nick Khamis
Anyone using Hadoop for managing virtual machines and/or drives. Kind Regards, Nick.

Re: [gentoo-user] How much effort from udev-197-r3 to 206

2013-08-05 Thread Nick Khamis
please read the news it's a must. If your network card drivers are built as modules ''in theory'' you are not effected. If they are built into the kernel, you will have to delete a 70- something file, and replace it with an 80- something empty file, to keep the same ethN wlanN names. Sorry, i do

Re: [gentoo-user] Nut and networked UPS config

2013-12-15 Thread Nick Cameo
What you gents are talking about it stonith. At the UPS and Host level, it's everything off or everything on. If you like individual STONITH per host, it's been a while however, this is done at the PDU and Host level. As for VM, I use Xen, and there we use libvirt and/or fence_virt. There we have

Re: [gentoo-user] how to create a multi-page PDF

2013-12-25 Thread Nick Cameo
Not sure if pdflatex uses Java too however that is what I use.

Re: [gentoo-user] looking a way to create a flash drive from scratch

2014-02-21 Thread Nick Cameo
Gentoo minimal and unetbootin: http://programminglinuxblog.blogspot.ca/2011/02/gentoo-on-usb-stick.html#!/2011/02/gentoo-on-usb-stick.html

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: How about the gentoo server or cluster in production environment?

2014-02-27 Thread Nick Cameo
really solid for us due to many factors, and the idea of being able to build everything from the ground up is Gentoo, with Pacemaker, GFS, and DRBD. This is for our failover system. Kind Regards, Nick from Toronto. On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Franklin Wang touch2...@gmail.com wrote

[gentoo-user] RE: Digest of gentoo-user@gentoo.org issue 925 (51428-51477)

2006-09-20 Thread Zimmerman, Nick MVN-Contractor
Nick Information Management Office - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers +1.504.862.1046 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 9:03 PM To: Zimmerman, Nick MVN-Contractor Subject: Digest of gentoo-user

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