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John Dakos [ Enovation Technologies ]
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Tue Jul 29 06:09:12 UTC 2008
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>> 1. Re: malloc options (Karl Vogel)
>> 2. Re: malloc options (Giorgos Keramidas)
>> 3. Network, routers, DHCP and PXE (Svein Halvor Halvorsen)
>> 4. Re: Network, routers, DHCP and PXE (Manolis Kiagias)
>> 5. Re: Binary upgrade from legacy version + ports
>> (Jan Henrik Sylvester)
>> 6. Re: Network, routers, DHCP and PXE (Subhro)
>> 7. Re: Network, routers, DHCP and PXE (Svein Halvor Halvorsen)
>> 8. Re: Network, routers, DHCP and PXE (Manolis Kiagias)
>> 9. Re: Network, routers, DHCP and PXE (Svein Halvor Halvorsen)
>> 10. Re: Network, routers, DHCP and PXE (Manolis Kiagias)
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:55:39 -0400 (EDT)
>> From: vogelke+software at pobox.com (Karl Vogel)
>> Subject: Re: malloc options
>> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr>
>> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> Message-ID: <20080728015539.70030B7B9 at kev.msw.wpafb.af.mil>
>>
>>>> On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:36:35 -0700,
>>>> Doug Hardie <bc979 at lafn.org> wrote:
>>
>> D> The program has worked under considerable load for many years with
>> versions
>> D> 3.7 to 6.2. Problems only occur with 7.0. The program is quite
>> complex
>> D> and big. It uses probably hundreds of mallocs in a typical use. The
>> D> problems only occur reasonably randomly and only under quite heavy
>> load.
>> D> The developer is looking into it, but the problem only occurs on
>> FreeBSD
>> D> 7.0, not any other Unix systems. In the meantime I am losing money
>> because
>> D> of it.
>>
>>>> On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 05:03:58 +0300,
>>>> Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> said:
>>
>> G> While that's understandable, the current malloc() has undergone quite
>> G> extensive testing by Jason Evans and a lot of people who use it in
>> FreeBSD
>> G> 7.X or later. Its ability to expose bugs in this way was deemed
>> important
>> G> enough that it is now used by other projects too.
>>
>> I ran into a similar problem with the BSD allocator running under heavy
>> load that didn't happen under any Solaris or Linux system I used. I
>> finally fixed it by using Doug Lea's malloc just for this one
>> application:
>>
>> http://shell.siscom.net/~vogelke/Software/Languages/C/Libraries/malloc/
>>
>> This was under FreeBSD 6.*, but it might provide another data point if
>> you
>> want to give it a try.
>>
>> --
>> Karl Vogel I don't speak for the USAF or my company
>> vogelke at pobox dot com http://www.pobox.com/~vogelke
>>
>> And God said, "Let there be vodka!" And saw that it was good. Then God
>> said, "Let there be light!" And then said, "Whoa - too much light."
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 2
>> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:13:50 +0300
>> From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr>
>> Subject: Re: malloc options
>> To: vogelke+software at pobox.com
>> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> Message-ID: <87k5f6odc1.fsf at kobe.laptop>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>>
>> On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:55:39 -0400 (EDT), vogelke+software at pobox.com
>> (Karl
>> Vogel) wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:36:35 -0700,
>>>>> Doug Hardie <bc979 at lafn.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> D> The program has worked under considerable load for many years with
>>> D> versions 3.7 to 6.2. Problems only occur with 7.0. The program is
>>> D> quite complex and big. It uses probably hundreds of mallocs in a
>>> D> typical use. The problems only occur reasonably randomly and only
>>> D> under quite heavy load. The developer is looking into it, but the
>>> D> problem only occurs on FreeBSD 7.0, not any other Unix systems. In
>>> D> the meantime I am losing money because of it.
>>>
>>>>> On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 05:03:58 +0300,
>>>>> Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> said:
>>>
>>> G> While that's understandable, the current malloc() has undergone
>>> G> quite extensive testing by Jason Evans and a lot of people who use
>>> G> it in FreeBSD 7.X or later. Its ability to expose bugs in this way
>>> G> was deemed important enough that it is now used by other projects
>>> G> too.
>>>
>>> I ran into a similar problem with the BSD allocator running under
>>> heavy load that didn't happen under any Solaris or Linux system I
>>> used. I finally fixed it by using Doug Lea's malloc just for this one
>>> application:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://shell.siscom.net/~vogelke/Software/Languages/C/Libraries/malloc/
>>>
>>> This was under FreeBSD 6.*, but it might provide another data point if
>>> you want to give it a try.
>>
>> I'm not sure how similar the two problems are. I quite frankly know
>> _very_ little of what the original problem was, other than "I am
>> encountering issues where values just seem to arbitrarily change".
>>
>> Memory exhaustion is a potential problem with almost any sort of
>> allocator that fragments memory in any way, but random corruption of
>> user data is probably a different issue :/
>>
>> If you have some sort of description of the workload that triggered the
>> memory exhaustion with jemalloc (the current malloc implementation in
>> FreeBSD), it's probably a good idea to talk to Jason Evans about it (his
>> email is "jasone" at FreeBSD.org). He may be able to help you tune
>> malloc or even make changes to the system version of malloc that make it
>> less vulnerable to this sort of problem.
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 3
>> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:18:23 +0200
>> From: Svein Halvor Halvorsen <svein.h at lvor.halvorsen.cc>
>> Subject: Network, routers, DHCP and PXE
>> To: questions at freebsd.org
>> Message-ID: <488D72BF.80205 at lvor.halvorsen.cc>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>>
>> Hi, list!
>>
>>
>> I have a private home network, on an ADSL2+ connection to the
>> internet. The home network is behind NAT, all automatically set up
>> by the router/dhcp server/wlan access point/adsl modem that I got
>> from my ISP. It's a Thomson SpeedTouch 585 router.
>>
>> Now, on this network, most of the computers get their IP by means of
>> DHCP. Except our home audio server, which have a hard coded ip
>> address in rc.conf, set to something within the range of the dhcp
>> server (10.0.0.2-10.0.0.253). The server seems to pick this up, and
>> don't give that address away to someone else.
>>
>> I've tried using other addresses outside this range, like 10.0.1.1,
>> but that doesn't work. All network access is lost when I do that.
>>
>> Now, on my local network I'd like to put a diskless machine. As I
>> understand it, my DHCP server needs to tell the client about the
>> "filename" and a "next-server" to use. I don't think I can setup the
>> Thomson router to do this. All the instruction I can find online
>> advises me to install a DHCP server on the same machine that serves
>> the pxe boot image. But if I do that, I'll get two DHCP servers on
>> my local network. Is that ok? Will there be a race condition, when a
>> client asks for an IP address?
>>
>>
>> sv.
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 4
>> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:48:19 +0300
>> From: Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: Network, routers, DHCP and PXE
>> To: Svein Halvor Halvorsen <svein.h at lvor.halvorsen.cc>
>> Cc: questions at freebsd.org
>> Message-ID: <488D79C3.6070000 at gmail.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>>
>> Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote:
>>> Hi, list!
>>>
>>>
>>> I have a private home network, on an ADSL2+ connection to the
>>> internet. The home network is behind NAT, all automatically set up
>>> by the router/dhcp server/wlan access point/adsl modem that I got
>>> from my ISP. It's a Thomson SpeedTouch 585 router.
>>>
>>> Now, on this network, most of the computers get their IP by means of
>>> DHCP. Except our home audio server, which have a hard coded ip
>>> address in rc.conf, set to something within the range of the dhcp
>>> server (10.0.0.2-10.0.0.253). The server seems to pick this up, and
>>> don't give that address away to someone else.
>>>
>>
>> You may also want to ensure that the router will never allocate your
>> static IP address to someone else.
>> Look at the DHCP router settings either for DHCP scope (set it to
>> narrower values, and use a static IP outside the range) or for something
>> like exceptions / exclusion where you can mark a specific IP that DHCP
>> will never assign.
>>> I've tried using other addresses outside this range, like 10.0.1.1,
>>> but that doesn't work. All network access is lost when I do that.
>>>
>>
>> 10.0.1.1 is a different network (I assume your netmask is
>> 255.255.255.0, but check your router or your clients)
>>
>>> Now, on my local network I'd like to put a diskless machine. As I
>>> understand it, my DHCP server needs to tell the client about the
>>> "filename" and a "next-server" to use. I don't think I can setup the
>>> Thomson router to do this. All the instruction I can find online
>>> advises me to install a DHCP server on the same machine that serves
>>> the pxe boot image. But if I do that, I'll get two DHCP servers on
>>> my local network. Is that ok? Will there be a race condition, when a
>>> client asks for an IP address?
>>>
>>
>> You will have to shutdown the router's DHCP. Probably disable it
>> permanently and assign this function to a machine.
>> The DHCP of the router also sends you the following information (besides
>> IP address):
>>
>> - DNS Server(s): Either the ones used by your ISP (consult its website)
>> or its own address (i.e. 10.0.0.1). Most routers send their own address
>> as a DNS server and perform the resolution by sending your request to
>> ISP servers.
>> - Gateway address: This is always the router's local IP address (i.e.
>> 10.0.0.1)
>>
>> If you setup your own DHCP server, make sure it is set to send this info
>> as well. (These are commonly known as DHCP options)
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 5
>> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:52:48 +0200
>> From: Jan Henrik Sylvester <me at janh.de>
>> Subject: Re: Binary upgrade from legacy version + ports
>> To: Svein Halvor Halvorsen <svein.h at lvor.halvorsen.cc>
>> Cc: questions-list freebsd <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
>> Message-ID: <488D7AD0.5090804 at janh.de>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>>
>> Svein wrote:
>> > Is there a problem using the prebuilt packages from STABLE on a
>> > RELEASE box? If I want to run RELEASE, and still use the latest
>> > packages? The ABI is consistent between STABLE and RELEASE, right?
>>
>> Yes, there is a problem. See my posting here:
>>
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-June/177553.html
>>
>> Unfortunatelly, I have not got an answer, but it is obvious packages
>> using this new symbol must fail:
>>
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-src/2008-May/091586.html
>>
>> The question is, if other package may fail as well.
>>
>> I have had one more error that went away after recompiling a STABLE
>> package:
>>
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2008-July/020520.html
>>
>> I do not know if this is related, though.
>>
>> If you find out more, please, let me know.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jan Henrik
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 6
>> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:35:55 +0530
>> From: Subhro <subhro.kar at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: Network, routers, DHCP and PXE
>> To: "Manolis Kiagias" <sonic2000gr at gmail.com>
>> Cc: Svein Halvor Halvorsen <svein.h at lvor.halvorsen.cc>,
>> questions at freebsd.org
>> Message-ID:
>> <b2807d040807280105o531be87awa5dba3b408af65a6 at mail.gmail.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>>
>> Just to add to that suggestion, if you have a separate DHCP server,
>> make sure your router works as a DHCP client for the internal network
>> as well. You should be able to do that by telnetting into the
>> management port. You may use a serial cable as well.
>>
>> This is required in order to get the NAT working properly.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Subhro
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi, list!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have a private home network, on an ADSL2+ connection to the
>>>> internet. The home network is behind NAT, all automatically set up
>>>> by the router/dhcp server/wlan access point/adsl modem that I got
>>>> from my ISP. It's a Thomson SpeedTouch 585 router.
>>>>
>>>> Now, on this network, most of the computers get their IP by means of
>>>> DHCP. Except our home audio server, which have a hard coded ip
>>>> address in rc.conf, set to something within the range of the dhcp
>>>> server (10.0.0.2-10.0.0.253). The server seems to pick this up, and
>>>> don't give that address away to someone else.
>>>>
>>>
>>> You may also want to ensure that the router will never allocate your
>>> static
>>> IP address to someone else.
>>> Look at the DHCP router settings either for DHCP scope (set it to
>>> narrower
>>> values, and use a static IP outside the range) or for something like
>>> exceptions / exclusion where you can mark a specific IP that DHCP will
>>> never
>>> assign.
>>>>
>>>> I've tried using other addresses outside this range, like 10.0.1.1,
>>>> but that doesn't work. All network access is lost when I do that.
>>>>
>>>
>>> 10.0.1.1 is a different network (I assume your netmask is 255.255.255.0,
>>> but
>>> check your router or your clients)
>>>
>>>> Now, on my local network I'd like to put a diskless machine. As I
>>>> understand it, my DHCP server needs to tell the client about the
>>>> "filename" and a "next-server" to use. I don't think I can setup the
>>>> Thomson router to do this. All the instruction I can find online
>>>> advises me to install a DHCP server on the same machine that serves
>>>> the pxe boot image. But if I do that, I'll get two DHCP servers on
>>>> my local network. Is that ok? Will there be a race condition, when a
>>>> client asks for an IP address?
>>>>
>>>
>>> You will have to shutdown the router's DHCP. Probably disable it
>>> permanently
>>> and assign this function to a machine.
>>> The DHCP of the router also sends you the following information (besides
>>> IP
>>> address):
>>>
>>> - DNS Server(s): Either the ones used by your ISP (consult its website)
>>> or
>>> its own address (i.e. 10.0.0.1). Most routers send their own address as
>>> a
>>> DNS server and perform the resolution by sending your request to ISP
>>> servers.
>>> - Gateway address: This is always the router's local IP address (i.e.
>>> 10.0.0.1)
>>>
>>> If you setup your own DHCP server, make sure it is set to send this info
>>> as
>>> well. (These are commonly known as DHCP options)
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Subhro Kar
>> Software Engineer
>> Dynamic Digital Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
>> EPY-3, Sector: V
>> Salt Lake City
>> 700091
>> India
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 7
>> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:56:47 +0200
>> From: Svein Halvor Halvorsen <svein.h at lvor.halvorsen.cc>
>> Subject: Re: Network, routers, DHCP and PXE
>> To: Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr at gmail.com>
>> Cc: questions at freebsd.org
>> Message-ID: <488D89CF.1040100 at lvor.halvorsen.cc>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>>
>> Manolis Kiagias wrote:
>>>> Now, on this network, most of the computers get their IP by means of
>>>> DHCP. Except our home audio server, which have a hard coded ip
>>>> address in rc.conf, set to something within the range of the dhcp
>>>> server (10.0.0.2-10.0.0.253). The server seems to pick this up, and
>>>> don't give that address away to someone else.
>>>
>>> You may also want to ensure that the router will never allocate your
>>> static IP address to someone else.
>>> Look at the DHCP router settings either for DHCP scope (set it to
>>> narrower values, and use a static IP outside the range) or for something
>>> like exceptions / exclusion where you can mark a specific IP that DHCP
>>> will never assign.
>>
>> Yeah, but even though the router has customizable values for this
>>range, and issues a warning when i try to change them, it still
>> doesn't change them when I click "yes" on the warning. It is
>> pre-configured to 10.0.0.2-10.0.0.253
>>
>> I could of course use 10.0.0.254 for my static ip, but my room mate
>> also wants a static address.
>>
>>>> I've tried using other addresses outside this range, like 10.0.1.1,
>>>> but that doesn't work. All network access is lost when I do that.
>>>
>>> 10.0.1.1 is a different network (I assume your netmask is
>>> 255.255.255.0, but check your router or your clients)
>>
>> You're right! But how do I make the entire 10/24 adress space
>> available? It would be "clean" (I guess) to have a different adresse
>> scheme for the static adresses.
>>
>> Anyway, it this point this isn't really critical, as the router
>> figures out that the addresses I use, are in fact in use, and keeps
>> them out of its dhcp address pool.
>>
>>
>>> You will have to shutdown the router's DHCP. Probably disable it
>>> permanently and assign this function to a machine.
>>> The DHCP of the router also sends you the following information (besides
>>> IP address):
>>>
>>> - DNS Server(s): Either the ones used by your ISP (consult its website)
>>> or its own address (i.e. 10.0.0.1). Most routers send their own address
>>> as a DNS server and perform the resolution by sending your request to
>>> ISP servers.
>>> - Gateway address: This is always the router's local IP address (i.e.
>>> 10.0.0.1)
>>>
>>> If you setup your own DHCP server, make sure it is set to send this info
>>> as well. (These are commonly known as DHCP options)
>>
>> So as long as I make my own DHCP server act the same way as the
>> router one, I should be fine? NAT and all will work?
>>
>> Is there a way to debug the DHCP response from the current router
>> dhcp server? So I can see what options it actually sends? dhclient
>> doesn't seem to have a "more verbose" option, only less.
>>
>>
>> sv.
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 8
>> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:42:52 +0300
>> From: Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: Network, routers, DHCP and PXE
>> To: Svein Halvor Halvorsen <svein.h at lvor.halvorsen.cc>
>> Cc: questions at freebsd.org
>> Message-ID: <488D949C.5020002 at gmail.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>>
>> Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote:
>>> Manolis Kiagias wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Now, on this network, most of the computers get their IP by means of
>>>>> DHCP. Except our home audio server, which have a hard coded ip
>>>>> address in rc.conf, set to something within the range of the dhcp
>>>>> server (10.0.0.2-10.0.0.253). The server seems to pick this up, and
>>>>> don't give that address away to someone else.
>>>>>
>>>> You may also want to ensure that the router will never allocate your
>>>> static IP address to someone else.
>>>> Look at the DHCP router settings either for DHCP scope (set it to
>>>> narrower values, and use a static IP outside the range) or for
>>>> something
>>>> like exceptions / exclusion where you can mark a specific IP that DHCP
>>>> will never assign.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yeah, but even though the router has customizable values for this
>>> range, and issues a warning when i try to change them, it still
>>> doesn't change them when I click "yes" on the warning. It is
>>> pre-configured to 10.0.0.2-10.0.0.253
>>>
>>> I could of course use 10.0.0.254 for my static ip, but my room mate
>>> also wants a static address.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> What are you trying to set it at? I would just lower the 253 value, so I
>> could use the upper end for my static addresses. If you try to set it to
>> a subnet outside it's own address, it will definitely not accept it.
>> I would also try a factory reset or firmware upgrade of the router. I
>> have been using a Speedtouch 500 series for years, and never had any
>> problems with settings not getting registered. AFAIR the 585 has one of
>> the new web interfaces and it is kind of confusing. I found the 500
>> easier to use.
>>
>>>>> I've tried using other addresses outside this range, like 10.0.1.1,
>>>>> but that doesn't work. All network access is lost when I do that.
>>>>>
>>>> 10.0.1.1 is a different network (I assume your netmask is
>>>> 255.255.255.0, but check your router or your clients)
>>>>
>>>
>>> You're right! But how do I make the entire 10/24 adress space
>>> available? It would be "clean" (I guess) to have a different adresse
>>> scheme for the static adresses.
>>>
>>
>> Well problem is, a netmask of 255.255.255.0 means only the last octet
>> can be used for hosts. Your DHCP server is already assigning addresses
>> from this space.
>>
>>> Anyway, it this point this isn't really critical, as the router
>>> figures out that the addresses I use, are in fact in use, and keeps
>>> them out of its dhcp address pool.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> You will have to shutdown the router's DHCP. Probably disable it
>>>> permanently and assign this function to a machine.
>>>> The DHCP of the router also sends you the following information
>>>> (besides
>>>> IP address):
>>>>
>>>> - DNS Server(s): Either the ones used by your ISP (consult its website)
>>>> or its own address (i.e. 10.0.0.1). Most routers send their own address
>>>> as a DNS server and perform the resolution by sending your request to
>>>> ISP servers.
>>>> - Gateway address: This is always the router's local IP address (i.e.
>>>> 10.0.0.1)
>>>>
>>>> If you setup your own DHCP server, make sure it is set to send this
>>>> info
>>>> as well. (These are commonly known as DHCP options)
>>>>
>>>
>>> So as long as I make my own DHCP server act the same way as the
>>> router one, I should be fine? NAT and all will work?
>>>
>>
>> Yes. As long as the clients have a valid DNS to ask, and a valid gateway
>> to send their packets, everything will work properly. If you come to
>> think about it, you are already doing this on the system with the static
>> configuration.
>>
>>> Is there a way to debug the DHCP response from the current router
>>> dhcp server? So I can see what options it actually sends? dhclient
>>> doesn't seem to have a "more verbose" option, only less.
>>>
>>>
>>> sv.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Not sure about this, sorry. However, don't expect much more than
>> IP/Netmask, DNS Server, Gateway from a simple router. These should not
>> be difficult to configure in isc-dhcp3 (net/isc-dhcp3-server).
>>
>> Have a look at this article:
>>
>> http://www.howtoforge.com/dhcp_server_linux_debian_sarge
>>
>> It is linux oriented, but very easy to adjust for FreeBSD.
>> You will also need to add:
>>
>> option domain-name-servers 10.0.0.1;
>>
>> to set the DNS server address to your clients.
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 9
>> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:59:41 +0200
>> From: Svein Halvor Halvorsen <svein.h at lvor.halvorsen.cc>
>> Subject: Re: Network, routers, DHCP and PXE
>> To: Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr at gmail.com>
>> Cc: questions at freebsd.org
>> Message-ID: <488D988D.10901 at lvor.halvorsen.cc>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>>
>> Manolis Kiagias wrote:
>>>> Yeah, but even though the router has customizable values for this
>>>> range, and issues a warning when i try to change them, it still
>>>> doesn't change them when I click "yes" on the warning. It is
>>>> pre-configured to 10.0.0.2-10.0.0.253
>>>>
>>>> I could of course use 10.0.0.254 for my static ip, but my room mate
>>>> also wants a static address.
>>>
>>> What are you trying to set it at? I would just lower the 253 value, so I
>>> could use the upper end for my static addresses. If you try to set it to
>>> a subnet outside it's own address, it will definitely not accept it.
>>
>> I managed to change the router ip address to 10.0.0.1/23 and just
>> keep the default dhcp address space as 10.0.0.2-10.0.0.253. Now I
>> seem to be able to use 10.0.1.1/24 for my own private use.
>>
>> (I don't think I really know what I'm doing here, but it works!)
>>
>>
>>> Well problem is, a netmask of 255.255.255.0 means only the last octet
>>> can be used for hosts. Your DHCP server is already assigning addresses
>>> from this space.
>>
>> Well, I changed it to 255.255.254.0 (0xfffffe00) but kept the dhcp
>> range as it was.
>>
>>
>>>> So as long as I make my own DHCP server act the same way as the
>>>> router one, I should be fine? NAT and all will work?
>>>
>>> Yes. As long as the clients have a valid DNS to ask, and a valid gateway
>>> to send their packets, everything will work properly. If you come to
>>> think about it, you are already doing this on the system with the static
>>> configuration.
>>
>> Ok, I will look into this.
>>
>> Also, looking through the telnet interface options (which are far
>> more than the web interface gives), I see that I can add "dhch
>> server option templates", "dhcp server option instances" and that I
>> can assign such an instance to the "dhcp server pool options".
>>
>> This uses a different config scheme than the isc dhcp server config
>> files, though. And it seems I need to create a template before I can
>> create an instance. The template takes a name and an option id as
>> paramters. The instance, then takes a name, a template, and a value
>> as mandatory paramters. Also enterprice number, suboption number,
>> and more.
>>
>> How does the "filename", "next-server", etc map to option ids? Are
>> these isomorphic, or do I get this completely wrong?
>>
>> Does this make any sense to you, or anyone else here? Should I try
>> to make the router DHCP server serve the right options, or would you
>> go the isc dhcp route?
>>
>>
>> Thank you very much for your help so far!
>>
>>
>> sv.
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 10
>> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:25:39 +0300
>> From: Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: Network, routers, DHCP and PXE
>> To: Svein Halvor Halvorsen <svein.h at lvor.halvorsen.cc>
>> Cc: questions at freebsd.org
>> Message-ID: <488D9EA3.4010503 at gmail.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>>
>> Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote:
>>> Manolis Kiagias wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Yeah, but even though the router has customizable values for this
>>>>> range, and issues a warning when i try to change them, it still
>>>>> doesn't change them when I click "yes" on the warning. It is
>>>>> pre-configured to 10.0.0.2-10.0.0.253
>>>>>
>>>>> I could of course use 10.0.0.254 for my static ip, but my room mate
>>>>> also wants a static address.
>>>>>
>>>> What are you trying to set it at? I would just lower the 253 value, so
>>>> I
>>>> could use the upper end for my static addresses. If you try to set it
>>>> to
>>>> a subnet outside it's own address, it will definitely not accept it.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I managed to change the router ip address to 10.0.0.1/23 and just
>>> keep the default dhcp address space as 10.0.0.2-10.0.0.253. Now I
>>> seem to be able to use 10.0.1.1/24 for my own private use.
>>>
>>> (I don't think I really know what I'm doing here, but it works!)
>>>
>>
>> Well, a netmask of 255.255.254.0 should give you 10.0.0.1 to 10.0.1.254
>> host addresses.
>> 10.0.1.1 is within range, it should work.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Well problem is, a netmask of 255.255.255.0 means only the last octet
>>>> can be used for hosts. Your DHCP server is already assigning addresses
>>>> from this space.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Well, I changed it to 255.255.254.0 (0xfffffe00) but kept the dhcp
>>> range as it was.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> The DHCP range you are assigning is a subset of what you allowed with
>> the netmask, thus it is valid.
>>
>>>>> So as long as I make my own DHCP server act the same way as the
>>>>> router one, I should be fine? NAT and all will work?
>>>>>
>>>> Yes. As long as the clients have a valid DNS to ask, and a valid
>>>> gateway
>>>> to send their packets, everything will work properly. If you come to
>>>> think about it, you are already doing this on the system with the
>>>> static
>>>> configuration.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ok, I will look into this.
>>>
>>> Also, looking through the telnet interface options (which are far
>>> more than the web interface gives), I see that I can add "dhch
>>> server option templates", "dhcp server option instances" and that I
>>> can assign such an instance to the "dhcp server pool options".
>>>
>>
>> Ah, yes completely forgot the speedtouch has a telnet interface as well.
>> I messed with it a few times myself, mostly for fun ;)
>>
>>> This uses a different config scheme than the isc dhcp server config
>>> files, though. And it seems I need to create a template before I can
>>> create an instance. The template takes a name and an option id as
>>> paramters. The instance, then takes a name, a template, and a value
>>> as mandatory paramters. Also enterprice number, suboption number,
>>> and more.
>>>
>>> How does the "filename", "next-server", etc map to option ids? Are
>>> these isomorphic, or do I get this completely wrong?
>>>
>>> Does this make any sense to you, or anyone else here? Should I try
>>> to make the router DHCP server serve the right options, or would you
>>> go the isc dhcp route?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you very much for your help so far!
>>>
>>>
>>> sv.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> I have only done PXE with Windows servers, and it has been quite some
>> time - cannot remember the details.
>> I certainly would not advise you to use the router for this - even if it
>> is possible it has several drawbacks.
>>
>> - You will, sooner or later, change the router and your new one may not
>> have the capability
>> - You will spend a probably unreasonable amount of time trying to make
>> it work - and it may not even succeed
>> - Learning how to perform this on FreeBSD will help you apply it in many
>> other situations.
>>
>> I would definitely go the isc-dhcp route.
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 11
>> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:09:16 +0200
>> From: "Marcel Grandemange" <thavinci at thavinci.za.net>
>> Subject: wget vs fetch
>> To: <questions at freebsd.org>
>> Cc: steyn at e-soul.co.za
>> Message-ID: <000f01c8f09a$002bf610$0083e230$@za.net>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>>
>> I have a problem with a box I upgraded from FreeBSD 6.2 To FreeBSD7
>>
>>
>>
>> It seems the following is happening when I try use portupgrade -a or even
>> building ports.
>>
>> ALL transfers that are FTP fail.
>>
>>
>>
>> Now to make this simple, I have following environmental variables set..
>>
>>
>>
>> http_proxy=http://192.168.12.4:3128/
>>
>> ftp_proxy=http://192.168.12.1:3128/
>>
>> FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES
>>
>>
>>
>> And here is the strange thing..
>>
>> Fetch fails, but if I use wget there is no problem.
>>
>> The firewall does allow ftp to go directly aswell, so I have also tried
>> leaving out any and all proxy settings, this fails aswell. (Except for
>> wget
>> once again)
>>
>>
>>
>> And here is the crux.
>>
>>
>>
>> I have 5 mahcines on SAME network that has no issues like this, so this
>> makes me think fetch is broke somehow.
>>
>> How can I force FreeBSD to use wget instead of fetch to bypass this?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Ive tried setting env FETCH_CMD=wget but that results in wget failing
>> with
>> msg:
>>
>>
>>
>> Try `wget --help' for more options.
>>
>> => Attempting to fetch from
>> http://mirror.sg.depaul.edu/pub/security/nmap/.
>>
>> wget: invalid option --
>>
>> Usage: wget [OPTION]... [URL]...
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Thankx ahead!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 12
>> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:28:27 +0200
>> From: "Marcel Grandemange" <thavinci at thavinci.za.net>
>> Subject: wget vs fetch
>> To: <questions at freebsd.org>
>> Cc: steyn at e-soul.co.za
>> Message-ID:
>> <!&!AAAAAAAAAAAYAAAAAAAAAGJPLKnJoyJDpeEQzt+keprCgAAAEAAAAJuuPBPd+UJFpVZe5G9ZXmsBAAAAAA==@thavinci.za.net>
>>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>>
>> I have a problem with a box I upgraded from FreeBSD 6.2 To FreeBSD7
>>
>>
>>
>> It seems the following is happening when I try use portupgrade -a or even
>> building ports.
>>
>> ALL transfers that are FTP fail.
>>
>>
>>
>> Now to make this simple, I have following environmental variables set..
>>
>>
>>
>> http_proxy=http://192.168.12.4:3128/
>>
>> ftp_proxy=http://192.168.12.1:3128/
>>
>> FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES
>>
>>
>>
>> And here is the strange thing..
>>
>> Fetch fails, but if I use wget there is no problem.
>>
>> The firewall does allow ftp to go directly aswell, so I have also tried
>> leaving out any and all proxy settings, this fails aswell. (Except for
>> wget
>> once again)
>>
>>
>>
>> And here is the crux.
>>
>>
>>
>> I have 5 mahcines on SAME network that has no issues like this, so this
>> makes me think fetch is broke somehow.
>>
>> How can I force FreeBSD to use wget instead of fetch to bypass this?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Ive tried setting env FETCH_CMD=wget but that results in wget failing
>> with
>> msg:
>>
>>
>>
>> Try `wget --help' for more options.
>>
>> => Attempting to fetch from
>> http://mirror.sg.depaul.edu/pub/security/nmap/.
>>
>> wget: invalid option --
>>
>> Usage: wget [OPTION]... [URL]...
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Thankx ahead!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 13
>> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:43:47 +0200
>> From: "Marcel Grandemange" <thavinci at thavinci.za.net>
>> Subject: RE: wget vs fetch
>> To: "'Sergey Zaharchenko'" <doublef-ctm at yandex.ru>
>> Cc: questions at freebsd.org
>> Message-ID: <004a01c8f0a7$326df210$9749d630$@za.net>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>>
>> Thank You, Worked Perfectly!
>> Saved My Life ;>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Sergey Zaharchenko [mailto:doublef-ctm at yandex.ru]
>> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 12:35 PM
>> To: Marcel Grandemange
>> Subject: Re: wget vs fetch
>>
>> Hello Marcel!
>>
>> Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:09:16PM +0200 you wrote:
>>
>>> Ive tried setting env FETCH_CMD=wget but that results in wget failing
>>> with
>>> msg:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Try `wget --help' for more options.
>>>
>>> => Attempting to fetch from
>> http://mirror.sg.depaul.edu/pub/security/nmap/.
>>>
>>> wget: invalid option --
>>>
>>> Usage: wget [OPTION]... [URL]...
>>
>> You might want to add `DISABLE_SIZE=YES' to your /etc/make.conf, as the
>> fetch's -S option confuses wget. FWIW I use that in connection with
>> `FETCH_CMD=wget -c --passive-ftp' in make.conf and it has been working
>> for
>> a
>> long time for me.
>>
>> --
>> DoubleF
>> No virus detected in this message. Ehrm, wait a minute...
>> /kernel: pid 56921 (antivirus), uid 32000: exited on signal 9 Oh yes, no
>> virus:)
>>
>>
>>
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>>
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>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:15:53 +0800
> From: vardyh <vardyh at gmail.com>
> Subject: No controller detected when boot FreeBSD 7.0
> To: FreeBSD-questions at FreeBSD.org
> Message-ID: <488DC689.2090102 at gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> Hi all.
> I'm a newbie to FreeBSD. I added
> 'console="comconsole"'
> to /boot/loader.conf and I got
> 'hptrr: no controller detected.'
> on the next boot. I didn't change anything else except for the
> 'console=xxx'.
> And I had had no problem before that. Could anyone tell me why?
> I will very appreciate for your help :>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:10:51 +0200
> From: Torbj?rn <torbjorn at nextline.no>
> Subject: Racoon not identifying host specified in config file
> To: FreeBSD-questions at FreeBSD.org
> Message-ID: <488DD36B.8000300 at nextline.no>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> Hello, everyone ..
>
> Some quick information about the software in use:
> Jul 28 15:51:42 fw0 racoon: INFO: @(#)ipsec-tools 0.7
> (http://ipsec-tools.sourceforge.net)
> Jul 28 15:51:42 fw0 racoon: INFO: @(#)This product linked OpenSSL
> 0.9.7e-p1 25 Oct 2004 (http://www.openssl.org/)
>
> I'm having a problem with my IPSec configuration.
> On one side, everything works out pretty nice.
> On the other side, racoon is making bad noises about not finding a
> correct configuration.
>
> "ERROR: couldn't find configuration."
>
> However, if I kill racoon, and run it in the foreground with debug
> output on, I get some more information.
>
> 2008-07-16 16:06:27: DEBUG: ===
> 2008-07-16 16:06:27: DEBUG: 100 bytes message received from
> 81.167.211.58[57413] to 85.200.211.69[500]
> 2008-07-16 16:06:27: DEBUG:
> ba9d946f 3cf4cf90 00000000 00000000 01100200 00000000 00000064 0d000034
> 00000001 00000001 00000028 01010001 00000020 01010000 800b0001 800c04b0
> 80010005 80030001 80020002 80040002 00000014 afcad713 68a1f1c9 6b8696fc
> 77570100
> 2008-07-16 16:06:27: DEBUG: no remote configuration found.
> 2008-07-16 16:06:27: ERROR: couldn't find configuration.
>
> The configuration is pretty straight forward.
>
> # cat racoon.conf
> path pre_shared_key "/var/etc/psk.txt";
>
> path certificate "/var/etc";
>
> remote 81.167.211.58 {
> exchange_mode main;
> my_identifier address "85.200.211.69";
>
> peers_identifier address 81.167.211.58;
> initial_contact on;
> support_proxy on;
> proposal_check obey;
>
> proposal {
> encryption_algorithm 3des;
> hash_algorithm sha1;
> authentication_method pre_shared_key;
> dh_group 2;
> lifetime time 2400 secs;
> }
> lifetime time 2400 secs;
> }
>
> sainfo address 85.200.211.64/29 any address 192.168.100.0/24 any {
> encryption_algorithm 3des,blowfish,cast128,rijndael,rijndael 256;
> authentication_algorithm hmac_sha1,hmac_md5;
> compression_algorithm deflate;
> lifetime time 1200 secs;
> }
>
> Here is the weird thing; if I change that remote stanza to read
>
> remote anonymous {
> blah;
> }
>
> then everything works out nice, racoon even tells me it uses the
> anonymous stanza for that correct IP.
>
> 2008-07-16 16:11:06: DEBUG: anonymous configuration selected for
> 81.167.211.58.
>
> So, to me this seems really odd, how come racoon isn't picking up that
> stanza when configured for that specified IP ?
> Using the remote stanza is not what I really want ..
>
> So, does anyone have any ideas on what is going on here ?
> Using tcpdump I can see that it is in fact 81.167.211.58 that is coming
> through to racoon, on port 500/UDP.
>
> Thanks for a great product, by the way.
>
> -- Torbjørn / Nextline
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:12:09 -0500
> From: Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey at goldmark.org>
> Subject: Re: Binary upgrade from legacy version + ports
> To: Jan Henrik Sylvester <me at janh.de>
> Cc: Svein Halvor Halvorsen <svein.h at lvor.halvorsen.cc>, questions-list
> freebsd <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> Message-ID: <D0583B6A-3781-43E3-9D24-4A250E268100 at goldmark.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes
>
> On Jul 28, 2008, at 2:52 AM, Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote:
>
>> Svein wrote:
>> > Is there a problem using the prebuilt packages from STABLE on a
>> > RELEASE box? If I want to run RELEASE, and still use the latest
>> > packages? The ABI is consistent between STABLE and RELEASE, right?
>>
>> Yes, there is a problem. See my posting here:
>>
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-June/177553.html
>>
>> Unfortunatelly, I have not got an answer, but it is obvious packages
>> using this new symbol must fail:
>
> I recently discovered this through a blunder of my own. I accidently
> "updated" a 7-STABLE machine to 7-RELEASE, and discovered, among some
> other problems, that sudo failed with the same error you report.
>
> (I've now put a link to USE-THIS-SUPFiLE to stable-supfile in /usr/
> local/etc/cvsup to avoid the blunder in the future.)
>
> -j
>
> --
> Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:30:11 -0700
> From: "Steve Franks" <stevefranks at ieee.org>
> Subject: Re: new vanilla system fails to install many packages/ports
> To: "Kevin Kinsey" <kdk at daleco.biz>
> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> Message-ID:
> <539c60b90807280930tc9f5bdbqadc9c79362e1a39a at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Kevin Kinsey <kdk at daleco.biz> wrote:
>> Steve Franks wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Kevin Kinsey <kdk at daleco.biz> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Steve Franks wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I must be missing something obvious. About 25% of my dependencies
>>>>> fail to install with errors like:
>>>>>
>>>>> "install-info: /usr/local/info/dir: empty file"
>>>>> "pkg-add: command 'install-info --quiet /blah.info' failed"
>>>>>
>>>>> system is 7.0/i386
>>>>>
>>>>> Steve
>>>>
>>>> "info" is GNU-related. Any reason that GNU-stuff, esp.
>>>> "info", wouldn't have been installed/built thus far?
>>>> (I dunno, but, maybe a csup with the GNU stuff rejected
>>>> or commented out ...)
>>>>
>>>
>>> All I did was a "developer" (not x developer) sysinstall off 7.0 disk
>>> 1. No tweaking, hacking, or extra packages until I got a clean boot
>>> onto the new disk. I'm somewhere between user and power user. I have
>>> 5 running freebsd systems under my belt, and was going to do my laptop
>>> (I've given up on it several times already - bloody compaq).
>>>
>>>> And anything these ports have in common (assuming they're
>>>> all GNU for starters). They aren't Linuxolator stuff?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Seems to me, they all use gnuinfo instead of manpages? I don't even
>>> know what gnuinfo is, nor linuxulator.
>>>
>>
>> Right, GNU programs may have manpages, but they also have
>> "info" pages which were developed by GNU as a replacement
>> for the UNIX manual (I'm assuming based on past reading ...
>> memory ain't all it used to be).
>>
>> "Linuxulator" or however it's spelled is just a colloquialism
>> for the FreeBSD linux emulation.
>>
>> I've got few guesses for ya. "Developer" package has documentation,
>> correct? Or not?
>>
>> What's "ls -ld /usr/local/info" give?
>>
>>> (!) Bison won't even install (makes fine, but install fails), and
>>> that's pretty darn basic, no?
>>>
>>> Steve
>>
>> Yup, 'tis. Tho' I figure someday BSD'ers would like to have
>> their own implementation. Again, just a guess.
>>
>> KDK
>> --
>> When all else fails, EAT!!!
>>
>
> Well,
>
> No idea what the problem was, but portupgrade -aO ... <long babysit>
> seems to have made it go away.
>
> Steve
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:35:17 -0700
> From: "Steve Franks" <stevefranks at ieee.org>
> Subject: 'stray irq7's cause hang?
> To: "FreeBSD Mailing List" <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> Message-ID:
> <539c60b90807280935i50041623pe54b6ad65d5b89b8 at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> I've got a new system that hangs after about 2 hours - no
> ctrl-alt-esc, not ctrl-alt-Fn, no ctrl-alt-delete.
>
> I tried hints.0.apic.disabled="YES" (that's apic, not acpi) (or
> whatever the correct syntax from the handbook is), but I still get the
> hang, and the stray irq 7's. As far as I can see, there's no other
> dmesg output related.
>
> Ideas?
>
> Steve
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:23:04 +0100
> From: Chris Hastie <lists at oak-wood.co.uk>
> Subject: Cleaning data off a remote machine
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Message-ID: <20080728172304.dk4itqk4aooc80wg at imp.oak-wood.co.uk>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> I'm about to give up a FreeBSD dedicated server and would like to make
> sure I
> don't inadvertantly leave any bits of sensitive data on it. What is the
> best
> way to remove all data from the hard drive? I have no problem if this
> removes
> the OS along the way, but ideally I would like to be able to do what ever
> I do
> from an SSH session. If there's no alternative I can arange KVMoIP console
> access.
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Chris Hastie
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:10:53 +0200
> From: bsd <bsd at todoo.biz>
> Subject: amavisd-new needs lib32 on amd64 ?
> To: Liste FreeBSD <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> Message-ID: <BDDC02A2-587A-4A62-96E1-0715CBB8C11D at todoo.biz>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed;
> delsp=yes
>
> Hello folks,
>
>
> I am trying to install amavisd-new for filtering purposes on an amd64
> install.
>
> It complains at compile startup not to be able to install it
>
>
>> ===> amavisd-new-2.6.1,1 requires 32-bit libraries installed under /
>> usr/lib32.
>> *** Error code 1
>>
>> Stop in /usr/ports/security/amavisd-new.
>> *** Error code 1
>>
>> Stop in /usr/ports/security/amavisd-new.
>
>
>
> I don't know how to install such library.
>
> What should I do ?
>
>
>
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> Message: 9
> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:12:25 -0500
> From: "Andrew L. Gould" <andrewlylegould at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Cleaning data off a remote machine
> To: Chris Hastie <lists at oak-wood.co.uk>
> Cc: "freebsd-questions at freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> Message-ID: <FF8ECCD5-64B7-4FB2-866D-318D251C1C67 at gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes
>
> On Jul 28, 2008, at 11:23, Chris Hastie <lists at oak-wood.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> I'm about to give up a FreeBSD dedicated server and would like to
>> make sure I
>> don't inadvertantly leave any bits of sensitive data on it. What is
>> the best
>> way to remove all data from the hard drive? I have no problem if
>> this removes
>> the OS along the way, but ideally I would like to be able to do what
>> ever I do
>> from an SSH session. If there's no alternative I can arange KVMoIP
>> console
>> access.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> --
>> Chris Hastie
>
> Is there anyone onsite that you could trust to run DBAN (Derik's Boot
> And Nuke)?
>
> Andrew
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 10
> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:14:45 +0100
> From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: No controller detected when boot FreeBSD 7.0
> To: vardyh <vardyh at gmail.com>
> Cc: FreeBSD-questions at freebsd.org
> Message-ID: <488DFE85.4030504 at infracaninophile.co.uk>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> vardyh wrote:
>> Hi all.
>> I'm a newbie to FreeBSD. I added
>> 'console="comconsole"'
>> to /boot/loader.conf and I got
>> 'hptrr: no controller detected.'
>> on the next boot. I didn't change anything else except for the
>> 'console=xxx'.
>> And I had had no problem before that. Could anyone tell me why?
>> I will very appreciate for your help :>
>
> This is just the driver for the HighPoint Rocket Raid controller being
> a bit too verbose. It's detected that you don't have anything compatible
> with hptrr(4) and (unlike the usual behaviour of most Raid Controller
> drivers (or drivers for any sort of hardware really)) it considers this
> fact to be of such vital importance that it really had to print out
> something on the console. Needless to say such behaviour has already been
> quashed in 7-STABLE and will not appear in 7.1-RELEASE.
>
> In other words, it's harmless and you can just ignore it.
>
> I suspect that this output wasn't actually triggered by your changing
> the console setting -- there's no conceivable way changing one should
> affect the other -- but that changing the way the boot messages are
> displayed has managed to draw your attention to it. You probably had it
> before but never noticed.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew
>
> --
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> Flat 3
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> Message: 11
> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:15:58 +0200
> From: bsd <bsd at todoo.biz>
> Subject: Re: Deinstalling X and all dependencies[SOLVED]
> To: Liste FreeBSD <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> Message-ID: <91610C8C-EAC6-49C0-9CAB-D5836592A08E at todoo.biz>
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> I have opted for the:
>
> pkg_delete -a
>
> Which has done a great job cleaning everything.
> Only had to "make clean" in one of the port directory to properly
> recompile all needed apps.
>
> As I had configured root to use /usr/local/bin/bash had to take care
> to change that with vipw before doing the uninstall / reinstall.
>
>
> Took me half a day for three servers. But at least I have a very clean
> install with 30 ports instead of 250 !!
>
>
> Thanks everybody for your wise answers.
>
>
> Le 27 juil. 08 à 15:17, andrew clarke a écrit :
>
>> On Sun 2008-07-27 12:52:56 UTC+0200, bsd (bsd at todoo.biz) wrote:
>>
>>> I have just received a new system that's planned to be a large
>>> scale DNS
>>> server.
>>> I have asked the guy who has setup the hardware not to install X?
>>>
>>> This has been useless!!
>>>
>>> I am now ending up with 250 apps in the port tree!!
>>
>> He probably just went with the defaults.
>>
>>> Is there a good way to get rid of all these useless apps without
>>> breaking the system?
>>> What would you suggest?
>>>
>>> Like removing X and It's dependencies?
>>>
>>>
>>> I can also remove all apps in the port tree and recompile only the
>>> one
>>> needed?
>>>
>>> What's best what do you suggest.
>>
>> FreeBSD provides a "base system" with software such as a SSH daemon,
>> Sendmail, BIND, etc. You can uninstall all the packages on your
>> system, but the FreeBSD base system will still remain. This allows
>> FreeBSD to boot normally without any packages installed.
>>
>> I recommend you uninstall all packages (with 'pkg_delete -a', or
>> 'pkg_delete -av' if you want to watch all the files being deleted),
>> then install only what you need from the Ports tree.
>>
>> Your DNS server should probably not require any packages to be
>> installed, as DNS server software (BIND) is provided with the FreeBSD
>> base system. But that really depends what your requirements are.
>>
>> Regards
>> Andrew
>
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> Message: 12
> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:29:09 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
> Subject: Re: Cleaning data off a remote machine
> To: Chris Hastie <lists at oak-wood.co.uk>
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Message-ID: <20080728192801.X44373 at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
>
>> don't inadvertantly leave any bits of sensitive data on it. What is the
>> best
>> way to remove all data from the hard drive? I have no problem if this
>> removes
>> the OS along the way, but ideally I would like to be able to do what ever
>> I do
>> from an SSH session. If there's no alternative I can arange KVMoIP
>> console
>> access.
> remove all your files, then
>
>
> cat /dev/zero >file
>
> on every partition
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 13
> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:37:24 +0200
> From: Roland Smith <rsmith at xs4all.nl>
> Subject: Re: Cleaning data off a remote machine
> To: Chris Hastie <lists at oak-wood.co.uk>
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Message-ID: <20080728173724.GA19106 at slackbox.xs4all.nl>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 05:23:04PM +0100, Chris Hastie wrote:
>> I'm about to give up a FreeBSD dedicated server and would like to make
>> sure I
>> don't inadvertantly leave any bits of sensitive data on it. What is the
>> best
>> way to remove all data from the hard drive?
>
> Remove the harddive and move a seriously strong magnet over it. This
> will render the drive unreadable and useless, since it will also destroy
> the servo control data used for locating the tracks.
>
>> I have no problem if this removes the OS along the way, but ideally I
>> would like to be able to do what ever I do from an SSH session.
>
> The security/wipe port comes to mind.
>
> Roland
> --
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> Message: 14
> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:45:02 -0400
> From: "Jean-Paul Natola" <jnatola at familycareintl.org>
> Subject: OT: Custmoize VNC
> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> Message-ID: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E9703639 at www.fcimail.org>
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>
> I know there are two apps (open source) that will allow you to customize
> vnc
> but I just cant remember, in essence I want the remote users (outside the
> lan) to be able to download the file click run and it will automatically,
> upon launch connect to the viewer here at HQ (ip add encryption port #
> etc..)
>
> I was looking at this a few weeks ago and like a fool I didn't bookmark
> the
> page, any help would be appreciated
>
>
> TIA
> JP
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 15
> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:35:27 +0530
> From: "N. Raghavendra" <raghu at mri.ernet.in>
> Subject: LispWorks Personal on FreeBSD 7
> To: FreeBSD Users Questions <questions at freebsd.org>
> Message-ID: <86fxpuym5k.fsf at riemann.mri.ernet.in>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
> Recently I had some difficulty in installing the Common Lisp
> implementation LispWorks Personal 5.1 on FreeBSD 7, and am posting my
> experience here. It may be useful to others, if any, interested in
> running this CL implementation on FreeBSD 7. The problem was due to
> the fact that LW depends on several libraries from FreeBSD 5 and 6.
> Following suggestions on the LW mailing list, the right installation
> sequence seems to be:
>
> 1. Ensure that the kernel options `COMPAT_FREEBSD5' and
> `COMPAT_FREEBSD6' are on.
>
> 2. Install the ports `misc/compat5x' and `misc/compat6x'.
>
> 3. Install the package `compatXm-6.3_1.tgz'.
>
> 4. Install the package `lispworks-personal-5.1.tgz'.
>
> The packages in 3 and 4 are available from the LispWorks FTP server.
> There's more information in the LW Knowledge Base article at
> http://www.lispworks.com/kb/67634814074628b180257490005cb9d3.html and
> in the LW mailing list thread
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.lispworks.general/8422 which also
> describes some minor tweaking of LD_LIBRARY_PATH that was needed.
>
> Raghavendra.
>
> --
> N. Raghavendra <raghu at mri.ernet.in> | http://www.retrotexts.net/
> Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/
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>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 16
> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:51:04 -0400
> From: kalin m <mail at godfur.com>
> Subject: pci compliance
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Message-ID: <488E0708.2060207 at godfur.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> hi all...
>
> i'm about to submit a freebsd system to be scanned for pci compliance...
>
> is there any particular gotchas with bsd systems that can be detected at
> the time of pci compliance scanning?
> i know they use something like nmap if not nmap itself and i did myself
> on that machine and didn't find anything interesting.
> but one of the consultants that was 'advising' the company i work for
> said "we use similar (as in nmap) approach but it's (much) more
> intrusive". anybody knows what does that mean?
>
> thanks...
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 17
> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:01:14 +0200
> From: bsd <bsd at todoo.biz>
> Subject: Re: amavisd-new needs lib32 on amd64 ?
> To: Liste FreeBSD <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> Message-ID: <A1655D7F-2F38-4F34-B23C-80A19334CB5F at todoo.biz>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed;
> delsp=yes
>
> Ok,
>
> After digging a little bit more into the code, It seems that It was
> due to rar decompile which is a 32bit ports;
>
> I uncommented the rar options for this port and It went ok.
>
> I would still be interested in a more detailed answer to my own
> question regarding 32/64 bit compatibility.
>
>
> Sincerly yours.
>
> G.B.
>
>
> Le 28 juil. 08 à 19:10, bsd a écrit :
>
>> Hello folks,
>>
>>
>> I am trying to install amavisd-new for filtering purposes on an
>> amd64 install.
>>
>> It complains at compile startup not to be able to install it
>>
>>
>>> ===> amavisd-new-2.6.1,1 requires 32-bit libraries installed
>>> under /usr/lib32.
>>> *** Error code 1
>>>
>>> Stop in /usr/ports/security/amavisd-new.
>>> *** Error code 1
>>>
>>> Stop in /usr/ports/security/amavisd-new.
>>
>>
>>
>> I don't know how to install such library.
>>
>> What should I do ?
>>
>>
>>
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> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 18
> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:02:40 +0200
> From: "Ross Cameron" <ross.cameron at linuxpro.co.za>
> Subject: Re: pci compliance
> To: "kalin m" <mail at godfur.com>
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Message-ID:
> <35f70db10807281102q5a0b73c3h554338292e3b751a at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 7:51 PM, kalin m <mail at godfur.com> wrote:
>
>> hi all...
>>
>> i'm about to submit a freebsd system to be scanned for pci compliance...
>>
>> is there any particular gotchas with bsd systems that can be detected at
>> the time of pci compliance scanning?
>> i know they use something like nmap if not nmap itself and i did myself
>> on
>> that machine and didn't find anything interesting.
>> but one of the consultants that was 'advising' the company i work for
>> said
>> "we use similar (as in nmap) approach but it's (much) more intrusive".
>> anybody knows what does that mean?
>>
>> thanks...
>
>
> The PCI auditing process is a full penetration test.
> It's very thorough and not at all easy to pass.
>
> Get hold of a copy of "The penetration tester's handbook" and make sure u
> pass all the tests in the book and u should be ok
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 19
> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:24:56 -0400
> From: kalin m <mail at godfur.com>
> Subject: Re: pci compliance
> To: ross.cameron at linuxpro.co.za
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Message-ID: <488E0EF8.4030305 at godfur.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
>
> cool. thanks. i couldn't find anything on google under that name but
> i've been looking and reading on a lot of documentation on line and print.
> so i was just asking if there are any things that pertain in particular
> to the freebsd os that need to be addressed before the scanning.
>
> how full of a penetration can you have if (almost) all incoming ports
> are blocked?
>
> thanks....
>
>
>
> Ross Cameron wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 7:51 PM, kalin m <mail at godfur.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> hi all...
>>>
>>> i'm about to submit a freebsd system to be scanned for pci compliance...
>>>
>>> is there any particular gotchas with bsd systems that can be detected at
>>> the time of pci compliance scanning?
>>> i know they use something like nmap if not nmap itself and i did myself
>>> on
>>> that machine and didn't find anything interesting.
>>> but one of the consultants that was 'advising' the company i work for
>>> said
>>> "we use similar (as in nmap) approach but it's (much) more intrusive".
>>> anybody knows what does that mean?
>>>
>>> thanks...
>>>
>>
>>
>> The PCI auditing process is a full penetration test.
>> It's very thorough and not at all easy to pass.
>>
>> Get hold of a copy of "The penetration tester's handbook" and make sure u
>> pass all the tests in the book and u should be ok
>> _______________________________________________
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>>
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>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 20
> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:22:46 -0400
> From: "Bob McConnell" <rvm at CBORD.com>
> Subject: RE: pci compliance
> To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> Message-ID: <FF8482A96323694490C194BABEAC24A0030A25CF at Email.cbord.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> On Behalf Of Ross Cameron
>> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 7:51 PM, kalin m <mail at godfur.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> i'm about to submit a freebsd system to be scanned for pci
> compliance...
>>>
>>> is there any particular gotchas with bsd systems that can be detected
> at
>>> the time of pci compliance scanning?
>>> i know they use something like nmap if not nmap itself and i did
> myself on
>>> that machine and didn't find anything interesting.
>>> but one of the consultants that was 'advising' the company i work for
> said
>>> "we use similar (as in nmap) approach but it's (much) more
> intrusive".
>>> anybody knows what does that mean?
>>
>> The PCI auditing process is a full penetration test.
>> It's very thorough and not at all easy to pass.
>>
>> Get hold of a copy of "The penetration tester's handbook" and make
> sure u
>> pass all the tests in the book and u should be ok
>
> How intense depends on which PCI level you are aiming for and which
> services you will have running on that server. We have completed level 3
> for our hosted web servers and firewalls, and are shooting for level 1
> by the end of the calendar year. However, I am not yet involved in any
> of those projects.
>
> Bob McConnell
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 21
> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:15:49 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Juan Carlos Villalobos <irobot at sdf.lonestar.org>
> Subject: Component-based Operating System.
> To: freebsd-questions at FreeBSD.org
> Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0807281813020.5391 at sdf.lonestar.org>
> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I am writing a paper on Component-based Operating Systems. I just wanted
> to know if FreeBSD is an Operating System engineered based on Components.
>
> I appreciate your input on this.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> irobot at sdf.lonestar.org
> SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 22
> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:57:37 +0200
> From: Ivan Voras <ivoras at freebsd.org>
> Subject: Re: Component-based Operating System.
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Message-ID: <g6l4r9$hh1$1 at ger.gmane.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>
> Juan Carlos Villalobos wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am writing a paper on Component-based Operating Systems. I just wanted
>> to know if FreeBSD is an Operating System engineered based on Components.
>>
>> I appreciate your input on this.
>
> "Components" is a wide, wide term. Since FreeBSD as an operating system
> consists of separate libraries, headers, executables, and both the
> kernel and the userland have subsystems that are more-or-less autonomic
> and independent, you could say it's componentized. You need to be more
> specific to get a more specific answer.
>
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> Message: 23
> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:58:07 +0200
> From: "Ross Cameron" <ross.cameron at linuxpro.co.za>
> Subject: Re: pci compliance
> To: "kalin m" <mail at godfur.com>
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
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> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 8:24 PM, kalin m <mail at godfur.com> wrote:
>
>> cool. thanks. i couldn't find anything on google under that name but
>> i've
>> been looking and reading on a lot of documentation on line and print.
>> so i was just asking if there are any things that pertain in particular
>> to
>> the freebsd os that need to be addressed before the scanning.
>>
>> how full of a penetration can you have if (almost) all incoming ports are
>> blocked?
>>
>> thanks....
>>
>
> Depends on the PCI level you are being audited for.
>
> But there are any number of attacks you can throw at a box thats fully
> closed up, and the aim is not to get it but rather to chew up all the ram
> and cpu and kill the box off.
>
> I suggest you read the PCI compliance document for the relevant level and
> make sure you test the system to comply with the documented requirements.
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 24
> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:50:19 +0200
> From: Kris Kennaway <kris at FreeBSD.org>
> Subject: Re: 'stray irq7's cause hang?
> To: stevefranks at ieee.org
> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> Message-ID: <488E22FB.60203 at FreeBSD.org>
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>
> Steve Franks wrote:
>> I've got a new system that hangs after about 2 hours - no
>> ctrl-alt-esc, not ctrl-alt-Fn, no ctrl-alt-delete.
>>
>> I tried hints.0.apic.disabled="YES" (that's apic, not acpi) (or
>> whatever the correct syntax from the handbook is), but I still get the
>> hang, and the stray irq 7's. As far as I can see, there's no other
>> dmesg output related.
>
> The stray interrupts may be a red herring. "Stray" means that no driver
> is handling them, and so there is no driver to screw up :)
>
> I see straq irq 7's on a HP proliant blade system, and also the hard
> hangs (it doesn't even reply to a NMI; this means it is almost certainly
> a hardware error). However I am now fairly certain the hangs are
> associated to disk failure. Several of the blades that were hanging
> went on to develop DMA errors from ATA, and after I validated the
> remaining systems with smartctl and took offline yet more blades that
> failed the self-tests, I have not had the problem recur.
>
> Kris
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 25
> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:08:51 -0400
> From: Greg Larkin <glarkin at FreeBSD.org>
> Subject: Re: OT: Custmoize VNC
> To: Jean-Paul Natola <jnatola at familycareintl.org>
> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> Message-ID: <488E2753.5020002 at FreeBSD.org>
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> Jean-Paul Natola wrote:
> | I know there are two apps (open source) that will allow you to
> customize vnc
> | but I just cant remember, in essence I want the remote users (outside
> the
> | lan) to be able to download the file click run and it will
> automatically,
> | upon launch connect to the viewer here at HQ (ip add encryption port #
> etc..)
> |
> | I was looking at this a few weeks ago and like a fool I didn't
> bookmark the
> | page, any help would be appreciated
> |
> |
> | TIA
> | JP
>
> Hi Jean-Paul,
>
> I Googled for "VNC connection manager" and this site was on the first
> page:
>
> http://www.s-code.com/products/vncmanager/compare.aspx
>
> Is that something like what you're looking for?
>
> Best regards,
> Greg
> - --
> Greg Larkin
> http://www.sourcehosting.net/
> http://www.FreeBSD.org/ - The Power To Serve
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