Without running into this issue (yet), I decided to dump AT&Thanks for your money and goodluck getting a reception Wireless just yesterday.
I honestly just got sick and tired of having to find a good location in the house to walk to when recieving calls.
I switched to Verizon and got the Audiovox CDM-8900 color photo flip phone for $130. It's vastly superior in audio quality, reception, features, and its just a sexy design for a phone etc...
It really is surprising that AT&T lacks so much in this market, it should be right at the top.
mrtg would not come close. For one you need a browser to look at the graphs. And unless your poll time was every second, it wouldn't accomplish the same things.
As for porting vs rewriting, maybe it would be easier to rewrite it. If you have access to a linux box, run iptraf on it, look at the lan station monitor, pick the interface. Then try and come up with a solution on par with that for viewing real-time LAN traffic. Who is using what bandwidth at that very moment in time. ("who" could be whatever name you associate with the mac address).
And yet with 10,015 ports, they STILL don't have the best live traffic monitor from linux... IPTraf.
The alternatives for freebsd are just garbage in comparison. ifstat is as bland as it gets. trafshow comes close in a few respects but still doesn't touch IPtraf. Where is the "Lan Station Monitor", where are the detailed interface statistics?
Ntop is not an option, its a for browsers, not the console.
So many ports, so many contributors, it must be a conscious effort to avoid porting this program. Is it that difficult? Yes I know it relies too heavily on linux's/proc to get its data. So its not a project that takes 5 minutes to port to freebsd. Does that mean its not worth doing?
I'm not a programmer and I don't wish to become one. I just hope that some day, at some point someone decides to port this. Afterall there is a ton of garbage in ports right now, it'd be nice to add some *new* AND *useful* tools.
I thought Toshiba and NEC were responsible for the blu-ray technology, and sony and company were doing the enhanced red-laser stuff. This suggests otherwise, and its the first to do so.
are you familiar with the GPL?
Linus doesn't own linux, why would MS come to him? They may as well come to me, and I don't know how to program anything, just some bash scripting.
If MS were to somehow wind up with linux code in the NT kernel then it to would become opensource and we could all compile NT as we do linux today.
I chainload my windows install after having read the fine manual a few years ago, but it first must be able to read the filesystem, which apparently grub can't do with UFS2, rtfp.
I made the mistake of replacing the MBR that freebsd installs with that of grub from my gentoo install and realized after that it looks like grub 0.93 from gentoo cannot read or mount the UFS2 filesystem from my 5.1-RELEASE install.
How can I fix this/boot back into freebsd now? And does anyone know if installing grub from freebsd's ports will support UFS2? Or am I just going to have to reinstall fbsd with UFS1.
-Robert
Is there any documentation on this feature or any other QoS/traffic shaping for linux?
I'm really interested in finding a way to limit bandwidth based on IP or MAC address or both. I understand dummynet for freebsd is great at this but I don't think it will work with my shuttle box due to the SiS 740/961 north/south bridge combo. I could barely get it working in linux.
Anybody have a good howto or something for linux traffic shaping?
I can't imagine that a cap is implemented. If it is then its not accomplishing much, because my highest burst was 900 KB/sec, nearly 1 meg!
I average about 350-400K/sec to faster sites.
I'm in orange county, cox cable.
Slackware 8.1 is currently my linux distro of choice. I've used redhat, debian, gentoo, and mandrake (for about 20 min) in the past. But I settled on Slackware because, like FreeBSD, its easier to figure out what is going on behind the system, and why. The/etc/rc.d directory is very easy to follow and understand.
My ONLY complaint with slackware is installing new software, and updating existing software. I don't mind the source approach, but I wish it implemented FreeBSD's ports, or emerge from Gentoo, or something similar. Basically, some option to update or install something with minimal effort. I would have stuck with gentoo if it didn't change/etc so radically. Learning Gentoo is like learning a whole new flavor of unix, rather than "another linux distro".
Does anyone know if slackware plans on coming up with its own package or source based install/update solution akin to FBSD's ports, pkg_add, or gentoo's emerge, or debian's apt-get? Something that settles dependencies.
Yes I know you can use a usb nic for the needed 2nd interface for a router. What I was saying was that a USB nic is unacceptable for a router (even configured as the external interface).
I've got one of those little shuttle beasts as my router right now, its equally small, but taller and more cube shaped than the xbox is. Anyways it does all the xbox does except play xbox games =\ It also is considerably faster and more powerful than the xbox is as PCs go since I was forced to get somewhat new hardware anyway.
More likely the reason it wont happen is because MS is taking a sizable loss with each xbox sold.
The only way for each xbox to turn a profit is with royalties in game purchases, which, I'm sure MS assumes will never occur for those who plan to run Linux on it.
I was going to get an Xbox and use it as a NAT/firewall until I learned that there really aren't any acceptable USB nics for NAT application.
I really wanted to try gentoo for its portage system, but the install process is fundamentally flawed.
I have an Asus P4PE with an onboard broadcom gigabit nic... and gentoo does not support this nic, even though it says it supports every nic out there (as it should since it is required to go about installing gentoo).
So... I'm unable to progress to whatever stage install requires online connectivity. If only they had a traditional self-contained CD install system like every single other OS as an option.... I could at least get gentoo up and running. Then install the drivers from the Asus cd that came with the motherboard.
But until that happens, I have to stick with other distros. I hope FreeBSD supports it too in the future.
The only thing preventing me from going back to freebsd as my primary *nix based OS is lack of support for my sound card, an SB Audigy Gamer.
Does anyone know if/when they plan on supporting the Audigy?
I feared this. Well I guess this is a step in the right direction, better than nothing. But why it only applies to premium channels escapes me.
Whats right is right, and that shouldn't be specific to TV without commercials.
Does this apply for everything under the sun including the likes of ESPN, TNT, etc?
Could I merely order 5 channels and have a $15-20/month bill? It sounded like that businessweek article was only referring to the premium stations like HBO and Showtime.
I don't mind the idea of varied prices for different bandwidth figures.... but what good does that do me if my current AT&T connection is utterly saturated already at a 1.5 mbit cap?
What I'd like to see is some package that runs on a separate network that is NEVER oversubscribed, so that pings don't go from 20, to 40, to 200 on a whim. I don't need 3mbit downstream, heck I don't even need 1.5, I'd take 1mbit down, 256k up and pay a little bit more for it if I could be guaranteed that the network would be consistant, and never saturated.
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Without running into this issue (yet), I decided to dump AT&Thanks for your money and goodluck getting a reception Wireless just yesterday. I honestly just got sick and tired of having to find a good location in the house to walk to when recieving calls.
I switched to Verizon and got the Audiovox CDM-8900 color photo flip phone for $130. It's vastly superior in audio quality, reception, features, and its just a sexy design for a phone etc... It really is surprising that AT&T lacks so much in this market, it should be right at the top.Good insight about why it hasn't been ported, thanks. But for the record I'm no troll. I rarely post at all and I enjoy both linux and *bsd.
mrtg would not come close. For one you need a browser to look at the graphs. And unless your poll time was every second, it wouldn't accomplish the same things. As for porting vs rewriting, maybe it would be easier to rewrite it. If you have access to a linux box, run iptraf on it, look at the lan station monitor, pick the interface. Then try and come up with a solution on par with that for viewing real-time LAN traffic. Who is using what bandwidth at that very moment in time. ("who" could be whatever name you associate with the mac address).
The alternatives for freebsd are just garbage in comparison. ifstat is as bland as it gets. trafshow comes close in a few respects but still doesn't touch IPtraf. Where is the "Lan Station Monitor", where are the detailed interface statistics?
Ntop is not an option, its a for browsers, not the console.
So many ports, so many contributors, it must be a conscious effort to avoid porting this program. Is it that difficult? Yes I know it relies too heavily on linux's /proc to get its data. So its not a project that takes 5 minutes to port to freebsd. Does that mean its not worth doing?
I'm not a programmer and I don't wish to become one. I just hope that some day, at some point someone decides to port this. Afterall there is a ton of garbage in ports right now, it'd be nice to add some *new* AND *useful* tools.
I thought Toshiba and NEC were responsible for the blu-ray technology, and sony and company were doing the enhanced red-laser stuff. This suggests otherwise, and its the first to do so.
are you familiar with the GPL? Linus doesn't own linux, why would MS come to him? They may as well come to me, and I don't know how to program anything, just some bash scripting. If MS were to somehow wind up with linux code in the NT kernel then it to would become opensource and we could all compile NT as we do linux today.
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their drivers work for 4.7 through 5.1 beta2, beyond that (which includes this release) the drivers wont compile =\
I chainload my windows install after having read the fine manual a few years ago, but it first must be able to read the filesystem, which apparently grub can't do with UFS2, rtfp.
I made the mistake of replacing the MBR that freebsd installs with that of grub from my gentoo install and realized after that it looks like grub 0.93 from gentoo cannot read or mount the UFS2 filesystem from my 5.1-RELEASE install. How can I fix this/boot back into freebsd now? And does anyone know if installing grub from freebsd's ports will support UFS2? Or am I just going to have to reinstall fbsd with UFS1. -Robert
Is there any documentation on this feature or any other QoS/traffic shaping for linux?
I'm really interested in finding a way to limit bandwidth based on IP or MAC address or both. I understand dummynet for freebsd is great at this but I don't think it will work with my shuttle box due to the SiS 740/961 north/south bridge combo. I could barely get it working in linux.
Anybody have a good howto or something for linux traffic shaping?
-RobertI can't imagine that a cap is implemented. If it is then its not accomplishing much, because my highest burst was 900 KB/sec, nearly 1 meg! I average about 350-400K/sec to faster sites. I'm in orange county, cox cable.
Slackware 8.1 is currently my linux distro of choice. I've used redhat, debian, gentoo, and mandrake (for about 20 min) in the past. But I settled on Slackware because, like FreeBSD, its easier to figure out what is going on behind the system, and why. The /etc/rc.d directory is very easy to follow and understand.
My ONLY complaint with slackware is installing new software, and updating existing software. I don't mind the source approach, but I wish it implemented FreeBSD's ports, or emerge from Gentoo, or something similar. Basically, some option to update or install something with minimal effort. I would have stuck with gentoo if it didn't change /etc so radically. Learning Gentoo is like learning a whole new flavor of unix, rather than "another linux distro".
Does anyone know if slackware plans on coming up with its own package or source based install/update solution akin to FBSD's ports, pkg_add, or gentoo's emerge, or debian's apt-get? Something that settles dependencies.
-RobertYes I know you can use a usb nic for the needed 2nd interface for a router. What I was saying was that a USB nic is unacceptable for a router (even configured as the external interface). I've got one of those little shuttle beasts as my router right now, its equally small, but taller and more cube shaped than the xbox is. Anyways it does all the xbox does except play xbox games =\ It also is considerably faster and more powerful than the xbox is as PCs go since I was forced to get somewhat new hardware anyway.
More likely the reason it wont happen is because MS is taking a sizable loss with each xbox sold.
The only way for each xbox to turn a profit is with royalties in game purchases, which, I'm sure MS assumes will never occur for those who plan to run Linux on it.
I was going to get an Xbox and use it as a NAT/firewall until I learned that there really aren't any acceptable USB nics for NAT application.
I really wanted to try gentoo for its portage system, but the install process is fundamentally flawed. I have an Asus P4PE with an onboard broadcom gigabit nic... and gentoo does not support this nic, even though it says it supports every nic out there (as it should since it is required to go about installing gentoo). So... I'm unable to progress to whatever stage install requires online connectivity. If only they had a traditional self-contained CD install system like every single other OS as an option.... I could at least get gentoo up and running. Then install the drivers from the Asus cd that came with the motherboard. But until that happens, I have to stick with other distros. I hope FreeBSD supports it too in the future.
The only thing preventing me from going back to freebsd as my primary *nix based OS is lack of support for my sound card, an SB Audigy Gamer. Does anyone know if/when they plan on supporting the Audigy?
I feared this. Well I guess this is a step in the right direction, better than nothing. But why it only applies to premium channels escapes me. Whats right is right, and that shouldn't be specific to TV without commercials.
Does this apply for everything under the sun including the likes of ESPN, TNT, etc? Could I merely order 5 channels and have a $15-20/month bill? It sounded like that businessweek article was only referring to the premium stations like HBO and Showtime.
I don't mind the idea of varied prices for different bandwidth figures.... but what good does that do me if my current AT&T connection is utterly saturated already at a 1.5 mbit cap? What I'd like to see is some package that runs on a separate network that is NEVER oversubscribed, so that pings don't go from 20, to 40, to 200 on a whim. I don't need 3mbit downstream, heck I don't even need 1.5, I'd take 1mbit down, 256k up and pay a little bit more for it if I could be guaranteed that the network would be consistant, and never saturated.