Re: [leaf-user] Kernel Panic Error

2008-04-01 Thread Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp.
I think one possible issue is that VMWare has an issue with the larger floppy size. I ran into this on VMWare Server and it has been a while so I don't know if that is still a problem. Try copying the files to a standard 1.44MB floppy. --

Re: [leaf-user] RealTek RTL8100 BL NIC Driver

2008-05-28 Thread Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp.
I've run into one situation where dhcpcd would not pull an address from the ISP and pump worked fine. Perhaps you are running into something like that rather than a driver problem? - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Micro

Re: [leaf-user] Upgrade instructions

2008-06-23 Thread Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp.
Tony, >I've tried what I thought would work (booting with the CD, loading the modules into /lib/modules and trying to save to diskette) but it hasn't worked. I think you are on the right track. Take a look at your leaf.cfg. The following is noted there: # The first entry is the backup de

Re: [leaf-user] [OT] Windows 2003 SBS behind leaf router

2008-09-04 Thread Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp.
Boris, Is your SBS pointed to itself for DNS? It should be. You can use the DNS server on Leaf as a forwarder. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based a

Re: [leaf-user] FW: Hyper-V unable to boot bering3.1 floppy image

2008-12-21 Thread Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp.
Just a guess: nonstandard floppy size (if it is?) not usable under Hyper-V -- leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lis

[leaf-user] 2.6 Branch?

2009-08-04 Thread Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp.
I see some emails from March of 2008 discussing some initial work on a 2.6 branch of Leaf. Can anyone tell me what came of that? I found a scenario where a 2.6 branch is necessary. I'm trying to do multi-ISP & traffic control on the same box, and because Shorewall requires some 2.6 features to

Re: [leaf-user] 2.6 Branch?

2009-08-05 Thread Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp.
Gordon, > Call me stupid Never! I'm relieved to hear that this proposed solution is running at least one other place. I had Leaf running on VMWare for a long time, but I moved it off of it not because of performance issues, of which there were none, but only because I didn't want to lose intern

Re: [leaf-user] Project Admin

2009-08-05 Thread Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp.
> Erich Titl (etitl) promoted to project admin, and Jeff Newmiller For those of us on the user list only, any comment on a 2.6 branch? :) Congratulations Erich. - Bob -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Fre

Re: [leaf-user] 2.6 Branch?

2009-08-05 Thread Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp.
>> I'm considering chaining two Leaf Routers together, one to handle the >> multiple ISPs and one for TC as a temporary solution, >How does this solve the 2.6 requirement? Erich, The basic issue is I can't use HIGH_ROUTE_MARKS=Yes in Shorewall. As a result, I can't do both Multi-ISP and Traff

Re: [leaf-user] Problems with BlackBerry device and Leaf Router

2011-01-01 Thread Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp.
On 1/1/2011 7:19 PM, Jim Dancer wrote: > no matter what I try the phone simply > won't make a connection to the internet What does that mean? Does DNS work? Can you ping by name? By IP? Neither? -- Learn how Oracle

[leaf-user] NIC Modules

2011-10-13 Thread Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp.
I'm starting to roll out 4.x and I have a few questions. 1. NIC modules - how are these loaded? I used to control which NIC was eth0 / eth1 by the module load order in /etc/modules. I can't find how these get loaded now. 2. Is upgrading the 4.x series as simple as copying the .LRP/ files

[leaf-user] Leaf Upgrade

2012-02-22 Thread Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp.
I'm testing procedures for doing remote upgrade of Leaf. I'm wondering if this is even possible because of the modules? Basically, I'd like to copy the new LRP/LWP/Linux/*.tgz etc files up to a running router, put everything in its proper place, and reboot to bring it back online. Can this

Re: [leaf-user] Leaf Upgrade

2012-02-23 Thread Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp.
> I run LEAF for several clients all on WRAP PC hardware with 2GB compact > flash. This allows me to build the config and verify it before writing > to flash. I see no reason you couldn't push this to a live system and > reboot into the new flash. Hope this helps, > I'm running it on older low

[leaf-user] Backup Issue

2012-04-17 Thread Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp.
I'm having the following issue when trying to run configdb backup. Moddb backup works. Copying configdb.lrp Please wait: \Terminated If I run from /bin/sh: with_storage /var/lib/lrpkg/mnt lrcfg.backup configdb Same issue. I can mount the backup partition, write to it, etc. It is an IDE har

Re: [leaf-user] Backup Issue

2012-04-18 Thread Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp.
> It's a known issue. 'Terminated' message, that appears sometime, is > caused by killing shellscript that prints rotating slash (shellscript It is very disconcerting when doing something important like saving the configuration! As Dave Dillabough reported, I also verified that the backup is

Re: [leaf-user] scp?

2012-11-16 Thread Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp.
> I've got SFTP set up to fall back into SCP. Doug, I hardcode this to SCP for Leaf. Also disable "Lookup user groups" under Environment - SCP/Shell. - Bob Coffman -- Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastru

Re: [leaf-user] BuC 5 on Proliant DL380R02

2013-03-30 Thread Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp.
> P.S. IMHO it'll be much better if LEAF will be booted from IDE DOM (this > server seems to have IDE CD-ROM - so it should have IDE connector on > mobo). 10+ years old HDDs IMHO may die too suddenly... I have quite a few old PCs in the field and I've had no trouble with old IDE drives - the stre

Re: [leaf-user] Updating to 5.0.x creates odd problems with Pandora

2014-09-19 Thread Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp.
Art, That's a pretty cool use of Leaf. I'm not sure of the problem, but the first thing I'd look at in your situation would be the iptables helper modules. If this isn't firewall or routing, I'm not sure what else could cause it. - Bob

[leaf-user] Upgrading Many Firewalls

2014-10-23 Thread Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp.
I have a number of 4.x Leaf boxes that it is probably past time to upgrade. I was considering creating a script that I would run on a generically installed, current Leaf box that would copy over the configuration files from the old firewall, so that most of the work in upgrading would be in ima

Re: [leaf-user] Upgrading Many Firewalls

2014-10-24 Thread Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp.
On 10/23/2014 1:45 PM, Andrew wrote: > something like this: > > for i in `ls /mnt`; do wget ftp://.../$i; done > mv init* linux modules.* /moddb /mnt > apkg -u *.lrp # this update configs > mv * /mnt > Andrew, I'll have to trace the logic, I'm not sure exactly what that is doing. I was thinking

Re: [leaf-user] alix2d3 + v5.1.{1,2} Intermittent Boots

2015-02-28 Thread Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp.
Is there a way to send email (log file) from Leaf while using an SMTP server that requires authentication? - Bob -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in

Re: [leaf-user] Unable to upgrade from LEAF Bering-uClibc 5.2 to 5.2.1

2015-11-23 Thread Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp.
> On 11/21/2015 1:14 PM, Erich Titl wrote: > We hope that > from this release the box will be able to upgrade itself This is the best news I've had all year! - Bob Coffman -- Go from Idea to Many App Stores Faster with

Re: [leaf-user] best practice to install LEAF on VMWARE ESxi

2016-01-22 Thread Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp.
I used "Other Linux 32 bit" for the machine type. Make sure your disk is setup as IDE. One thing I'm missing is a VMXNET3 driver. I'm using E1000 which is probably not optimal. - Bob -- Site24x7 APM Insight: Get De

Re: [leaf-user] successful migration - thanks!

2016-02-15 Thread Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp.
>I've added virtio/vmxnet/hyper-v paravirtualized network/storage drivers to Leaf Do you have VMXNET for Leaf 5.1.3 (3.10.69-i686)? I would really appreciate it. If not, anyone know how I can build this? Can I compile for any version if I set up the toolchain? - Bob -

[leaf-user] 5.2.5-rc2

2016-03-20 Thread Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp.
I had a chance to take a quick look at this version. 1. VMXNET3 works on ESXi 5.5, but the adapter type has to be VMXNET3 and not Flexible. Whether or not VMXNET3 is an option depends on the machine type you specify when creating the VM. RH Linux 6 (32 bit) for example will offer VMXNET3. O

Re: [leaf-user] Update(grade) to Bering 5.x

2016-04-08 Thread Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp.
> Last time I looked into this, I wondered if some aspect of Linux thinks the > disk > is only 50% of the size it really is... I've noticed on my Leaf boxes this phenomenon with du -h and a mounted SMB share: router# du . -d 0 91095040. router# du . -d 0 -h 86.9G . Seems like it is o

Re: [leaf-user] Update(grade) to Bering 5.x

2016-04-08 Thread Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp.
Giovanni, > du lists 1k blocks, if I remember well (many years ago 512 and 1k with > - -k flag ) > This is the difference: > 91095040k= 91095040*1024 = 93281320960 > 93281320960/1024/1024/1024= 86.88 GiBytes There was a single approximately 91MB file in that directory. It displays TB for d

Re: [leaf-user] Seeking vmxnet3 driver; was: Re: Missing AMD/PCnet32 Driver from 5.2.*?

2016-09-07 Thread Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp.
Freeman, Sorry, meant to reply to the list. You are definitely not the only one running leaf on re-purposed PCs! - Bob -- leaf-user mailing list

Re: [leaf-user] CLAMPMSS=Yes requires TCPMSS Target in your kernel and iptables

2016-11-22 Thread Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp.
I'm using i686 syslinux, and I just tried this and did not get that error. I'm unsure that my upgrade technique was the best way to go but it was pretty simple and it worked. I've run into a few small things but so far so good! - Bob -

Re: [leaf-user] build-key missing

2016-12-23 Thread Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp.
Boris, Try this. Some of this is specific to my configuration (certificate names) just ignore that stuff. I don't think build-key is used any longer... Typical usage for initial PKI setup. Build Server and client cert/keys. 1. edit /etc/openvpn/vars with your site-specific info. 2.

[leaf-user] ntpd segfaulting

2017-04-27 Thread Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp.
On HP DC7600 and using Bering-uClibc_6.0.2_i686_syslinux_vga, ntpd segfaults at startup (even something like ntpd --version). Seems to be something with that particular hardware, as I have other machines with the same release loaded that are working fine. I've examined the executables, package

Re: [leaf-user] ntpd segfaulting

2017-04-30 Thread Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp.
> On 4/27/2017 7:52 PM, Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp. wrote: > On HP DC7600 and using Bering-uClibc_6.0.2_i686_syslinux_vga, ntpd > segfaults at startup (even something like ntpd --version). I'm working this with NTP people, however I have found this occurring with

Re: [leaf-user] ntpd segfaulting

2017-05-01 Thread Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp.
>> On HP DC7600 and using Bering-uClibc_6.0.2_i686_syslinux_vga, ntpd >> segfaults at startup (even something like ntpd --version). This appears to affect machines with multiple cores and/or machines with a single core and hyperthreading. I am still looking into it, but I'd like to hear from a

Re: [leaf-user] ntpd segfaulting

2017-05-02 Thread Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp.
User ddrown on IRC looked into this, and confirmed he also experienced this issue. ddrown ok, ntpd works for me on leaf with one processor, trying it with two ddrown yup, two processors = ntpd crash on leaf ddrown ok, that's very odd ddrown cd /usr/sbin ; ./ntpd -- wor

Re: [leaf-user] ntpd segfaulting

2017-05-02 Thread Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp.
> Did you verify that uclibc and/or ntpd had any changes between the two > releases affected? I'm using the i686 release. If I run it under VMWare ESXi with two cores, it crashes. If I reduce the cores to one, it works fine. It seems to affect any machine I run it on that has more than one co

Re: [leaf-user] ntpd segfaulting

2017-05-02 Thread Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp.
> So now there have been a few releases between 5.1.3 and 6.0.2. It might > be interesting to know if 5.2.8 still runs fine. It appears to be fine, with uClibc 0.9.33.2 and ntpd 4.2.8p7. I also loaded the current ntpd (4.2.8p10) on 5.2.8 and it works fine. - Bob ---

Re: [leaf-user] ntpd segfaulting

2017-05-03 Thread Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp.
Eric, IRC user ddrown confirmed the x64 patch I mentioned earlier seems to fix the issue on i386 as well. I'm not really sure what to do with that information. Is it possible to patch Leaf with it? https://gist.github.com/ddrown/15e943b8fe1da398320b0c0518c95554 - Bob > So it really appears

Re: [leaf-user] How to set MAC address

2017-05-30 Thread Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp.
I place the following script in /etc/network/if-pre-up.d. It renames the interfaces, and then renames them to what I want. Make to sure to add this script to your /var/lib/lrpkg/local.local file so that it is retained! - Bob = #!/bin/sh #Only run once. lo comes up first, so this #gua

Re: [leaf-user] How to set MAC address

2017-05-31 Thread Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp.
you have to load the “ bbnameif.lrp “ package, by adding it in your list of packages to load in leaf.cfg, I hate that I reinvented the wheel on this one! I was going to suggest my script as a package but nobody else seemed to have run into this. - Bob

[leaf-user] 6.04 Release

2017-06-29 Thread Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp.
FYI, I've been running the 6.04 release for several days across 4 machines and all seems well. My primary packages are dnsmasq and openvpn. The issue I had with ntp segfaulting is not occurring with this release. - Bob -