Re: SETTLED - Re: proper way to format/use floppies (i386)

2005-08-27 Thread Michael Adam
Hi Richard, Richard P. Koett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm coming in rather late on this discussion - just curious about the > formatting step? Presumably you would do something like: > > $ fdformat fd0 Yes exactly, but the low level formatting was not the question. But thanks for answerin

SETTLED - Re: proper way to format/use floppies (i386)

2005-08-26 Thread Michael Adam
Hi Jonathan, I finally found a satisfactory answer from the sources. See below. Jonathan Schleifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > c is always the whole disk and because the > disk has no disklabel and no partition table, it's also a. Well, the floppy _does_ have a disklabel. By default, it only

problem remounting mfs readonly

2005-08-25 Thread Michael Adam
Hi, I have encountered a problem remounting a memory file system (mfs) read-only. When create a mfs with, say # mount_mfs -s 16384 swap /mfs then I get the following output by mount: mfs:9556 on /mfs type mfs (asynchronous, local, size=16384 512-blocks) where the number 9556 is the proce

Re: PF for OpenVPN

2005-08-25 Thread Michael Adam
Hi Helio, since I do not have the full information on network setup/routing, I can only do a guess: Try making your rules for traffic between the GATEWAYs on ext_if and the rules for traffic between the NETWORKs in tun0 stateful (keep state). Michael these: Helio Santana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: proper way to format/use floppies (i386)

2005-08-25 Thread Michael Adam
Hi JCR, J.C. Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As far as I can tell, you basically asked for the "right or preferred > way" "of putting a filesystem onto a floppy" Yes, that is exactly my question. > The best answer I know is fdformat. It works. It's simple and it's the > most commonly accept

Re: proper way to format/use floppies (i386)

2005-08-24 Thread Michael Adam
Spruell, Darren-Perot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there any reason to use FFS on a floppy? Won't FAT (-12, or whatever) > work fine? Could you just mformat it and be along? Yes, in fact there are: 1. As a matter of principle. 2. I need the FFS file permissions and ownerships on the floppy.

Re: proper way to format/use floppies (i386)

2005-08-24 Thread Michael Adam
Jonathan Schleifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > which is the right or preferred way to do so (since there are, as > > I pointed out several possible ways). > > I already answered that before: > Jonathan Schleifer <

Re: proper way to format/use floppies (i386)

2005-08-23 Thread Michael Adam
Hi, On 8/23/05, J.C. Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 16:58:47 +0200, Michael Adam > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >[...] > >First of all, a floppy needs to be low level formatted, which can be > >achieved by the fdformat pr

Re: proper way to format/use floppies (i386)

2005-08-23 Thread Michael Adam
Hi Steve, On 8/23/05, STeve Andre' wrote: > > I would avoid all this and use the 'mtools' package instead. It deals > with msdos fat-12(?) floppies, and is tons easier to use. Then you > can hand those floppies to others and they can read/write them. Using fat on the floppy is not an option. I

proper way to format/use floppies (i386)

2005-08-23 Thread Michael Adam
Hi, I could not tell from the documentation which is the proper way to setup and use floppy disks on the i386 architecture, i.e. which is the right partition to use. I am talking about the standard 3.5 inch 1.44 MB floppy disks. There are several possibilities to put a file system onto one: Firs

Re: How to change flags of a route?

2005-07-19 Thread Michael Adam
On 7/19/05, Roy Morris wrote: > > sorry, I must be reading this wrong or not understanding. Why > would you not just put in a static arp entry? Is there ever a > time when you don't want traffic to take this route? No, I want all traffic to take this route. There are several imaginable solutions:

Re: How to change flags of a route?

2005-07-19 Thread Michael Adam
Hi, On 7/19/05, Alexander Bochmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That setup is broken by design. Well yes, but sometimes you don't have all aspects of the network setup under your control. > The only real way to make this work is > to have 192.168.1.2 do proxy-arp for > 192.168.1.3, which will so

How to change flags of a route?

2005-07-19 Thread Michael Adam
Hi, I asked this question a week ago but there was no reply, so I am asking it again somewhat differently. I would really greatly appreciate any comments on this! Is it possible to change a cloned link-level host route (generated by arp requests) into a static gateway host route? The scenari

problems with hostroutes / arp routes

2005-07-12 Thread Michael Adam
Hi, I have encountered the (for me) undesired phenomenon that the "route change" command does not overwrite the routing flags of a present route at least for host routes. This has the effect that I cannot change a host route created by an arp entry (which is a LLINFO and clonded route) ino a sta