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Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Compact Flash install

[Andrzej O. <an...@ma...>]

Jan Hugo Prins wrote:
> Hi Andrzej,
> 
> 
>>This is probably a completely new motherboard (by the way, show off what the MBs).
>>
> 
> 
> Not completely new. The board I'm working with at the moment is an Aewin
> CB-8902 board and the board is probably about 5 or 6 years old. Attached
> is some board information.
> 
>>I wrote on a Devil-linux-Develop list, that the new MBs have USB 3.0 
>>controllers instead of USB 2.0 and for this chips xHCI host driver is 
>>required. This driver is by default compiled with the kernel as a module.
>>

Dear Jan Hugo,

Well, a quick installation guide has nothing about the CF controller. We also
have a question: how long will live capacitors on the board, since it already
has six years?

I was expecting, CF controller is connected as Mass Storage device via USB but
you can see that it does not. However, the scenario is as described, which
means that the initial stage of the boot is missing appropriate driver and the
kernel does not see CF card. When later CD is mounted and all modules are
present in filesystems, udev loads the appropriate drivers and CF card will be
displayed.

You need to determine which module is responsible for access to CF eg reading
lspci, lsmod, watching /proc/bus, /proc/scsi etc under full system (when a CD
is already mounted (with the default configuration or the configuration loaded
from the CD as well) and CF is visible. As you suspected a module, remove it
using rmmod and then check whether the device CF disappeared and then load it
back using modprobe and check if it had come again. Then you can try to
compile the apropriate driver as linked statically into the kernel. This is
simplest way; when driver is linked into the kernel, device is present
immediatelly after kernel is loaded, without modules from initrd and explicite
loading this modules by init script.

If you are not prepared for such a compilation, let me know about needed
module and I will try to compile an experimental mod for you.

Regards

Andrzej Odyniec



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Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Compact Flash install

[Jan H. P. <jh...@jh...>]

Hi Andrzej,

> This is probably a completely new motherboard (by the way, show off what the MBs).
>

Not completely new. The board I'm working with at the moment is an Aewin
CB-8902 board and the board is probably about 5 or 6 years old. Attached
is some board information.
> I wrote on a Devil-linux-Develop list, that the new MBs have USB 3.0 
> controllers instead of USB 2.0 and for this chips xHCI host driver is 
> required. This driver is by default compiled with the kernel as a module.
>
> BIOS sees the USB storage device and can boot. The kernel sees them only when 
> udev loads device drivers. This happens when a configuration is already 
> unpacked on a ramdisk and the CD is mounted. For configuration was seen when 
> on USB 3.0 mass storage device, xHCI driver must be loaded before, which 
> requires either modification scripts in the initrd and addition the driver to 
> the initrd or static linking xHCI driver to the kernel via 
> CONFIG_USB_XHCI_HCD=y setting.
>
> Heiko made ​​this change to CVS on my request at February 8.

Although the problem is probably not the same (no USB 3.0) the solution
might indeed be something I have to look at. I would need to find out
what driver I need to compile static into my kernel.

The build I created was from somewhere in the beginning of this month, I
would guess that your change is allready in it.
Let me quickly check ....

build/dist/dist/devil-linux-1.6.5-2014-03-10-pentium4/DL-kernel-config:CONFIG_USB_XHCI_HCD=y

So indeed, this one is in it. I will have to do some digging.

> Try D-L compiled after that date, or compile D-L yourself with current 
> sources. If this is not possible for you, please contact me on priv and I will 
> give you link to my mod compilation - you will see if this works for you.

Thanks,
Jan Hugo Prins

Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Compact Flash install

[Andrzej O. <an...@ma...>]

Jan Hugo Prins wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm currently setting up a new router and I run into a strange issue.
> After I created the build I first used it to upgrade a running router.
> This was perfectly fine. The configuration was picked up just fine and
> everything worked again.
>
> Now I have a new router with some special motherboard with a CF slot and
> 8 1G interfaces. Very nice for a router.

Dear Jan Hugo,

This is probably a completely new motherboard (by the way, show off what the MBs).

> I took a CF card, put the
> install on this CF card on partition 1 (400G) and on a second partition
> (100G) I put the configuration set. The system boots fine but then .....
>
> It is not able to find the configuration on the second partition of the
> CF card and it looks like it doesn't see the CF card at all.
>
> I have to put in a USB stick with the complete content of the CDROM and
> the configuration set to be able to get it working because it still
> searches for the CDROM while everything should be on the CF card. If I
> put in a USB stick with just the configuration set it will start
> searching for the Devil-Linux CDROM and it won't find it and then it fails.

I wrote on a Devil-linux-Develop list, that the new MBs have USB 3.0 
controllers instead of USB 2.0 and for this chips xHCI host driver is 
required. This driver is by default compiled with the kernel as a module.

BIOS sees the USB storage device and can boot. The kernel sees them only when 
udev loads device drivers. This happens when a configuration is already 
unpacked on a ramdisk and the CD is mounted. For configuration was seen when 
on USB 3.0 mass storage device, xHCI driver must be loaded before, which 
requires either modification scripts in the initrd and addition the driver to 
the initrd or static linking xHCI driver to the kernel via 
CONFIG_USB_XHCI_HCD=y setting.

Heiko made ​​this change to CVS on my request at February 8.

> Does anyone have a sollution for this?

Try D-L compiled after that date, or compile D-L yourself with current 
sources. If this is not possible for you, please contact me on priv and I will 
give you link to my mod compilation - you will see if this works for you.

Regards

Andrzej Odyniec


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Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Compact Flash install

[Jan H. P. <jh...@jh...>]

The sizes of the disks are 400MB and 100MB and not 400GB and 100GB.
It's just a 500MB CF card.

Jan Hugo


On 03/19/2014 12:07 AM, Jan Hugo Prins wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm currently setting up a new router and I run into a strange issue.
> After I created the build I first used it to upgrade a running router.
> This was perfectly fine. The configuration was picked up just fine and
> everything worked again.
>
> Now I have a new router with some special motherboard with a CF slot and
> 8 1G interfaces. Very nice for a router. I took a CF card, put the
> install on this CF card on partition 1 (400G) and on a second partition
> (100G) I put the configuration set. The system boots fine but then .....
>
> It is not able to find the configuration on the second partition of the
> CF card and it looks like it doesn't see the CF card at all.
>
> I have to put in a USB stick with the complete content of the CDROM and
> the configuration set to be able to get it working because it still
> searches for the CDROM while everything should be on the CF card. If I
> put in a USB stick with just the configuration set it will start
> searching for the Devil-Linux CDROM and it won't find it and then it fails.
>
> Does anyone have a sollution for this?
>
> Jan Hugo Prins
>
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[Devil-Linux-discuss] Compact Flash install

[Jan H. P. <jh...@jh...>]

Hi everyone,

I'm currently setting up a new router and I run into a strange issue.
After I created the build I first used it to upgrade a running router.
This was perfectly fine. The configuration was picked up just fine and
everything worked again.

Now I have a new router with some special motherboard with a CF slot and
8 1G interfaces. Very nice for a router. I took a CF card, put the
install on this CF card on partition 1 (400G) and on a second partition
(100G) I put the configuration set. The system boots fine but then .....

It is not able to find the configuration on the second partition of the
CF card and it looks like it doesn't see the CF card at all.

I have to put in a USB stick with the complete content of the CDROM and
the configuration set to be able to get it working because it still
searches for the CDROM while everything should be on the CF card. If I
put in a USB stick with just the configuration set it will start
searching for the Devil-Linux CDROM and it won't find it and then it fails.

Does anyone have a sollution for this?

Jan Hugo Prins

Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Devil Linux Version

[Dominic R. <dl...@ed...>]

cat /DEVIL-LINUX

The latest release is 1.6.4.

... and a Merry Christmas to you too!

Dominic

On 24/12/13 23:45, Kontra Bulate wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Can someone please tell me how to check the specific version I'm 
> currently running? I can't seem to remember since it was installed on 
> a hard drive like eight years ago and I lost the cd too.
>
> Thanks so much and Happy Holidays to all...!
>
> Regards,
>
> Kontra
>
>

[Devil-Linux-discuss] Devil Linux Version

[Kontra B. <k0n...@ya...>]

Hi All,

 

Can someone please tell me how to check the specific version I'm currently
running? I can't seem to remember since it was installed on a hard drive
like eight years ago and I lost the cd too.

 

Thanks so much and Happy Holidays to all...!

 

Regards,

Kontra

 

Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] shorewall update

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Andrzej,

Thanks for the patch, I added it to CVS.
The new shorewall will be included in the next DL release.

Best Regards
  Heiko Zuerker

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrzej Odyniec [mailto:an...@ma...] 
Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2013 6:26 PM
To: dev...@li...
Subject: Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] shorewall update

Dear Heiko,

> The newer shorewall version requires updates to the build script and 
> thus also more testing.
>
> Unfortunately I don't have much time anymore to work on these types of 
> tasks. But if anybody can figure it out and send in a patch, then I'll 
> be more than happy to add it.

I started to try a new Shorewall month ago. From less than two weeks I test it on a production router. It seems that it is OK.

I built version 4.5.21.3. For this you need two files: shorewall-core-4.5.21.3.tar.bz2 and shorewall-4.5.21.3.tar.bz2. Hope, my patch will be good for next versions.

Now Shorewall requires a configuration file shorewallrc and is looking for it in the /usr/share/shorewall. Because of it I edit built script not only for compile both source files, but also for solve shorewallrc problem according to the architecture of the DL. I put shorewallrc into /etc/shorewall and this is linked to the original position, so shorewallrc can be modified.
Initial contents of shorewallrc is sufficient for my existing shorewall configurations to work without changes.

I warn all, that my production tests has only two weeks and may go into some surprises.

With Christmas regards

Andrzej Odyniec

Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] shorewall update

[Andrzej O. <an...@ma...>]

Dear Heiko,

> The newer shorewall version requires updates to the build script and thus
> also more testing.
>
> Unfortunately I don't have much time anymore to work on these types of
> tasks. But if anybody can figure it out and send in a patch, then I'll be more than happy to add
> it.

I started to try a new Shorewall month ago. From less than two weeks I test it on a production
router. It seems that it is OK.

I built version 4.5.21.3. For this you need two files: shorewall-core-4.5.21.3.tar.bz2 and
shorewall-4.5.21.3.tar.bz2. Hope, my patch will be good for next versions.

Now Shorewall requires a configuration file shorewallrc and is looking for it in the
/usr/share/shorewall. Because of it I edit built script not only for compile both source files,
but also for solve shorewallrc problem according to the architecture of the DL. I put shorewallrc
into /etc/shorewall and this is linked to the original position, so shorewallrc can be modified.
Initial contents of shorewallrc is sufficient for my existing shorewall configurations to work
without changes.

I warn all, that my production tests has only two weeks and may go into some surprises.

With Christmas regards

Andrzej Odyniec

Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Fixing 1.4x build system

[<gd...@tx...>]

Heiko,

Thanks for the reply.

I already have the LFS build system you refer to installed. In fact I tried a
 completely new install/build on a different computer and it also failed. The
 problem is that doing an update of the source breaks the build! Not only did
 update_src download the "experimental" 3.0 kernel file, it (or make unpack)
 deleted the 2.6 kernel file from the lfssystem/data/build/src * directory.
 The 2.6 kernel file is no longer available at the main update source download
 site or any of the mirrors so there is no way to back out of the kernel
 "upgrade" which is why I was trying to find it in the CVS repository. Since
 is was never officially supported and irreversibly breaks the build shouldn't
 the 3.0 kernel file be removed from all the update source sites and replaced
 with the 2.6 kernel file so that it will build?

No, it's not a stupid question. I considered moving to 1.6 and if I was just
 starting out with DL I probably would have but:

1) If it ain’t broke ..., I've been using it for the last couple of years with
    no problems. All I wanted to do was make sure it was fully upgraded, make a
    few tweaks, and rebuild it with a minimum of changes (see 2).
2) I spent considerable time and effort generating sha256 check sums for ALL of
    the executables and the script to verify them every night. The LFS system
    used to build DL is not designed to generate an application optimized Linux
    so it creates LOTS of executables that are irrelevant for a firewall/router/
    server. I'd rather be safe than sorry so I created check sums for all of them
    and this was a very time consuming task that I'd rather not do again.
3) I really, really, really do not like GRUB 2. I can't figure out what problem
    it was supposed to fix (supposedly supporting other architectures was the
    main one but AFAIK it still only works with x86) and using/modifying GRUB
    "legacy" is something I already know how to do and is much easier for me.


Gary Stewart


 * There is an error in documentation on the DL web site for installing source
    from the CVS repository. It does not work as described because this line in
    Chapter 3, section 1.3.2.:

     Go into your LFS System directory (e.g. /usr/src/lfssystem)

    should be:

     Go into your LFS System data directory (e.g. /usr/src/lfssystem/data)

    Several years ago I contacted this forum about problems I was having building
    DL and I believe it was you that pointed out to me that DL will not build
    unless the build path is lfssystem/data/build not lfssystem/build as the first
    line describes. Luckily I remembered this when I did the new install.

---- Heiko Zuerker <he...@zu...> wrote: 
> Garry,
> 
> 1.4 only supports the 2.6 kernel. We might have been experimenting with 3.0
> and that's why you saw it download.
> 
> You get the correct LFS system from our FTP server:
> ftp://ftp.devil-linux.org/pub/devel/sources/lfssystem-for-DL-1.3.4_and_up/lf
> ssystem-SVN-20070314-cleaned.tar.bz2
> 
> Stupid question, why are you even messing around with 1.4? I would rather
> focus my energy on 1.6.
> 
> Best Regards
>   Heiko Zuerker
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gd...@tx... [mailto:gd...@tx...] 
> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 2:26 PM
> To: dev...@li...
> Subject: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Fixing 1.4x build system
> 
> I recently needed to add an app to My Devil Linux 1.4x (previous last update
> and  build was ~ May 2011) and while checking the repository packages
> noticed that  there were several packages (last ~ Oct. 2011) I needed to
> update so I did an  update-src during which I noticed that it downloaded a
> 3.0 Linux kernel. After  unpacking I did a make menuconfig to add the app I
> needed as well as a couple  of other apps I decided I might need and dropped
> a few that I no longer needed  and then through the entire configuration
> menu. When I got to the menu entry to  select the kernel revision it only
> had an entry for a 2.6 kernel. I went ahead  and did a "make prepare build
> install iso dist" which failed in prepare because  it failed to find a (2.6)
> kernel.
> 
> I then did a CVS update using cvs update -d -P which did not produce any
> error  messages and then attempted to build it again:
> 
>  root:/data/build# make prepare build install iso dist
>  mount: proc already mounted
>  mount: none already mounted or /sys busy
>  mount: according to mtab, none is already mounted on /sys
>  make: Entering directory `/data/build'
>  prepare: prepare                      log:
> /data/build/tmp/LOGS/prepare/prepare
>  make: *** [prepare] Error 1
>  make: Leaving directory `/data/build'
>  make: *** [prepare] Error 1
> 
>  root:/data/build# cat tmp/LOGS/prepare/prepare  ERROR  The lfssystem you're
> using is not correct  Please download version 1.1
> 
> I tried to list the projects in the sourceforge repository to see if there
> were  separate repositories for the 1.4 and 1.6 versions but the server does
> not  support the ls command. I also tried checkout -c and it appeared to
> show two  different sets of the same directories (1.4, 1.6 ?) but I have no
> idea how to  differentiate between them.
> 
> How do fix or I re-install a fully updated DL 1.4 build environment ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Gary Stewart
> 
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Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] shorewall update

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Didi,

 

The newer shorewall version requires updates to the build script and thus
also more testing.

Unfortunately I don't have much time anymore to work on these types of
tasks. But if anybody can figure it out and send in a patch, then I'll be
more than happy to add it.

 

Best Regards

  Heiko Zuerker

 

From: Dietmar Rieder [mailto:die...@gm...] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 4:13 AM
To: dev...@li...
Subject: [Devil-Linux-discuss] shorewall update

 

Hi all,

 

is there a shorewall update planned for the next release of DevilLinux?
There are quite some newer versions available now.

 

Thanks

  Didi

Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Fixing 1.4x build system

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Garry,

1.4 only supports the 2.6 kernel. We might have been experimenting with 3.0
and that's why you saw it download.

You get the correct LFS system from our FTP server:
ftp://ftp.devil-linux.org/pub/devel/sources/lfssystem-for-DL-1.3.4_and_up/lf
ssystem-SVN-20070314-cleaned.tar.bz2

Stupid question, why are you even messing around with 1.4? I would rather
focus my energy on 1.6.

Best Regards
  Heiko Zuerker

-----Original Message-----
From: gd...@tx... [mailto:gd...@tx...] 
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 2:26 PM
To: dev...@li...
Subject: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Fixing 1.4x build system

I recently needed to add an app to My Devil Linux 1.4x (previous last update
and  build was ~ May 2011) and while checking the repository packages
noticed that  there were several packages (last ~ Oct. 2011) I needed to
update so I did an  update-src during which I noticed that it downloaded a
3.0 Linux kernel. After  unpacking I did a make menuconfig to add the app I
needed as well as a couple  of other apps I decided I might need and dropped
a few that I no longer needed  and then through the entire configuration
menu. When I got to the menu entry to  select the kernel revision it only
had an entry for a 2.6 kernel. I went ahead  and did a "make prepare build
install iso dist" which failed in prepare because  it failed to find a (2.6)
kernel.

I then did a CVS update using cvs update -d -P which did not produce any
error  messages and then attempted to build it again:

 root:/data/build# make prepare build install iso dist
 mount: proc already mounted
 mount: none already mounted or /sys busy
 mount: according to mtab, none is already mounted on /sys
 make: Entering directory `/data/build'
 prepare: prepare                      log:
/data/build/tmp/LOGS/prepare/prepare
 make: *** [prepare] Error 1
 make: Leaving directory `/data/build'
 make: *** [prepare] Error 1

 root:/data/build# cat tmp/LOGS/prepare/prepare  ERROR  The lfssystem you're
using is not correct  Please download version 1.1

I tried to list the projects in the sourceforge repository to see if there
were  separate repositories for the 1.4 and 1.6 versions but the server does
not  support the ls command. I also tried checkout -c and it appeared to
show two  different sets of the same directories (1.4, 1.6 ?) but I have no
idea how to  differentiate between them.

How do fix or I re-install a fully updated DL 1.4 build environment ?

Thanks,

Gary Stewart

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[Devil-Linux-discuss] Fixing 1.4x build system

[<gd...@tx...>]

I recently needed to add an app to My Devil Linux 1.4x (previous last update and
 build was ~ May 2011) and while checking the repository packages noticed that
 there were several packages (last ~ Oct. 2011) I needed to update so I did an
 update-src during which I noticed that it downloaded a 3.0 Linux kernel. After
 unpacking I did a make menuconfig to add the app I needed as well as a couple
 of other apps I decided I might need and dropped a few that I no longer needed
 and then through the entire configuration menu. When I got to the menu entry to
 select the kernel revision it only had an entry for a 2.6 kernel. I went ahead
 and did a "make prepare build install iso dist" which failed in prepare because
 it failed to find a (2.6) kernel.

I then did a CVS update using cvs update -d -P which did not produce any error
 messages and then attempted to build it again:

 root:/data/build# make prepare build install iso dist
 mount: proc already mounted
 mount: none already mounted or /sys busy
 mount: according to mtab, none is already mounted on /sys
 make: Entering directory `/data/build'
 prepare: prepare                      log: /data/build/tmp/LOGS/prepare/prepare
 make: *** [prepare] Error 1
 make: Leaving directory `/data/build'
 make: *** [prepare] Error 1

 root:/data/build# cat tmp/LOGS/prepare/prepare
 ERROR
 The lfssystem you're using is not correct
 Please download version 1.1

I tried to list the projects in the sourceforge repository to see if there were
 separate repositories for the 1.4 and 1.6 versions but the server does not
 support the ls command. I also tried checkout -c and it appeared to show two
 different sets of the same directories (1.4, 1.6 ?) but I have no idea how to
 differentiate between them.

How do fix or I re-install a fully updated DL 1.4 build environment ?

Thanks,

Gary Stewart

[Devil-Linux-discuss] shorewall update

[Dietmar R. <die...@gm...>]

Hi all,

is there a shorewall update planned for the next release of DevilLinux?
There are quite some newer versions available now.

Thanks
  Didi

Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Bad routing performance - only app. 100MBit/s

[Udo L. <udo...@al...>]

Hi,
I'm search a little bit more and the issue is not the devil-linux and
also not the firewall-hardware!
If I move the devil-linux-firewall to an kvm-VM the performance is the
same - but if I use only virtual clients the troughput is good (1 - 1.4
Gbit/s).

It's must be something to do with the switch... strange that the
performance from all network to the firewall reach "full" speed, but
routed not.

Must look further to find the issue.


regards

Udo

Am 30.11.2013 01:45, schrieb Heiko Zuerker:
> Uwe,
>
> It's been a very long time since I messed with that, but my first thought is
> the TCP window size.
> Bump that up significantly and check what happens.
>
> How's the CPU utilization doing on the firewall during the test?
>
> One stupid question, just in case: the slow host, is it by any chance using
> a 100mbit card, wrong network cable, or has been throttled down somehow?
>
> Best Regards
>   Heiko Zuerker
>

Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Bad routing performance - only app. 100MBit/s

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Uwe,

It's been a very long time since I messed with that, but my first thought is
the TCP window size.
Bump that up significantly and check what happens.

How's the CPU utilization doing on the firewall during the test?

One stupid question, just in case: the slow host, is it by any chance using
a 100mbit card, wrong network cable, or has been throttled down somehow?

Best Regards
  Heiko Zuerker

-----Original Message-----
From: udo...@al... [mailto:udo...@al...] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2013 12:35 PM
To: dev...@li...
Subject: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Bad routing performance - only app. 100MBit/s

Hi,
I have an strange issue on a devil-linux-box with 5 gigabit-nics.
 From each network I got an normal performance to/from the firewall:
iperf shows 781 Mbits/sec

a little bit less to the firewall nic from the other lan:
iperf -c 192.168.225.254
775 Mbits/sec

But to an host inside the other lan the performance drop:
iperf -c 192.168.225.2
94.3 Mbits/sec

The network connection or the host seems be ok, because from the firewall I
got normal values (it's an VM):
iperf -c 192.168.225.2
643 Mbits/sec
725 Mbits/sec - to an physical host

The big question: why I'm not able to reach this speed through the
firewall??

The firewall has an 4 core i5 CPU M 520 @ 2.40GHz

and the NICs are:
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit Network
Connection
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit Network
Connection
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit Network
Connection
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit Network
Connection
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit Network
Connection

Devil-Linux 1.6.3-i686

Are there any trick to use only one core for iptables/routing???


Any ideas??

Best regards

Udo

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[Devil-Linux-discuss] Bad routing performance - only app. 100MBit/s

[<udo...@al...>]

Hi,
I have an strange issue on a devil-linux-box with 5 gigabit-nics.
 From each network I got an normal performance to/from the firewall:
iperf shows 781 Mbits/sec

a little bit less to the firewall nic from the other lan:
iperf -c 192.168.225.254
775 Mbits/sec

But to an host inside the other lan the performance drop:
iperf -c 192.168.225.2
94.3 Mbits/sec

The network connection or the host seems be ok, because from the 
firewall I got normal values (it's an VM):
iperf -c 192.168.225.2
643 Mbits/sec
725 Mbits/sec - to an physical host

The big question: why I'm not able to reach this speed through the 
firewall??

The firewall has an 4 core i5 CPU M 520 @ 2.40GHz

and the NICs are:
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit Network 
Connection
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit Network 
Connection
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit Network 
Connection
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit Network 
Connection
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit Network 
Connection

Devil-Linux 1.6.3-i686

Are there any trick to use only one core for iptables/routing???


Any ideas??

Best regards

Udo

Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] openssl issue

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Hey,

I uploaded the latest build into the testing folder on the FTP server. The
mirrors should be updated within a day.

Best Regards
  Heiko Zuerker

-----Original Message-----
From: Heiko Zuerker [mailto:he...@zu...] 
Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 6:43 PM
To: dev...@li...
Subject: Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] openssl issue

Uwe,

It's updated in CVS.

Best Regards
  Heiko Zuerker

-----Original Message-----
From: udo...@al... [mailto:udo...@al...]
Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2013 4:00 AM
To: Devil-linux Discuss
Subject: [Devil-Linux-discuss] openssl issue

Hi,
there is an openssl issue - I have create an bug-ticket:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mantisbt/devil-linux/view.php?id=141

To avoid trouble until update disable disable AES-GCM with Ciphers
aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr,aes128-cbc,3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,cast128-cb
c,aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc

Udo

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Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] openssl issue

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Uwe,

It's updated in CVS.

Best Regards
  Heiko Zuerker

-----Original Message-----
From: udo...@al... [mailto:udo...@al...] 
Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2013 4:00 AM
To: Devil-linux Discuss
Subject: [Devil-Linux-discuss] openssl issue

Hi,
there is an openssl issue - I have create an bug-ticket:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mantisbt/devil-linux/view.php?id=141

To avoid trouble until update disable disable AES-GCM with Ciphers
aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr,aes128-cbc,3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,cast128-cb
c,aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc

Udo

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[Devil-Linux-discuss] openssl issue

[<udo...@al...>]

Hi,
there is an openssl issue - I have create an bug-ticket:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mantisbt/devil-linux/view.php?id=141

To avoid trouble until update disable disable AES-GCM with
Ciphers 
aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr,aes128-cbc,3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,cast128-cbc,aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc

Udo

[Devil-Linux-discuss] Setting up pppoe connection

[Samo Z. <sam...@gm...>]

I'm trying to configure Devil Linux 1.6.3 i686 to establish ADSL PPPoE
connection.

 

I ran pppoe-setup and confugred the following:

 

Ethernet Interface: eth0

User name:          spiralad

Activate-on-demand: No

DNS addresses:      Supplied by ISP's server

Firewalling:        MASQUERADE

 

When I run pppoe-start, it timed out.

 

root@Devil:~ # pppoe-start

................TIMED OUT

 

In debug mode, it shows that firewall.masq file is missing.

 

root@Devil:~ # DEBUG=1 pppoe-start

*** Running in debug mode... please be patient...

cat: /etc/resolv.conf: No such file or directory

/usr/sbin/pppoe-connect: line 194: /etc/ppp/firewall-masq: No such file or
directory

 

 

I ran pppoe-setup again, but this time I chose firewall NONE instead of
MASQUERADE.

 

Ethernet Interface: eth0

User name:          spiralad

Activate-on-demand: No

DNS addresses:      Supplied by ISP's server

Firewalling:        NONE

 

Now the DL box establishes PPPoE connection and can ping outside domain
names, but machines on my LAN can only ping outside IP addresses, not domain
names,  and also on windows 7 machines Network Diagnostics report the DNS
server isn't responding,  so the DL box can't pass DNS requests to my ISP's
DNS servers, eventhough it can communicate with them itself.

 

What should i do now to make DNS requests from my LAN work? How was it meant
to work in DL?

 

1.       Set firewalling option to MASQUERADE and then create the missing
firewall-masq by hand? How to do that, what's the purpose of this file?
Should I write iptables rules in it, or maybe a script that starts iptables?
Or something else?

2.       If I set firewalling to NONE, how can I make the DNS queries work
then?

3.       Or something else?

 

 

 

Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Please Remove Me

[John B. <jbr...@gm...>]

It's easy. Just click the link at the bottom of any message.

On Sep 4, 2013, at 1:09 PM, Stephen Lange <ste...@gm...> wrote:

> Please Remove me from the Devil Linux Discussion mail list.  This is not due to any type of dissatisfaction, i just have not had the time for it recently.
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Please Remove me from the Devil Linux Discussion mail list.  This is not
due to any type of dissatisfaction, i just have not had the time for it
recently.

Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Requests for next DL release

[Dominic R. <dl...@ed...>]

Thanks Andrzej. In fact I realised I could just burn a real CD (remember 
those?) and F8 on restarting to select boot from the CD drive. It is set 
to load system to RAM so once the load from CD is complete it runs fast.

It's running now, all seems ok but it's early days...

Regards

Dominic

On 03/09/2013 12:15, Andrzej Odyniec wrote:
> Dominic Raferd wrote:
>
>> I would like to try this but I need i386 server build. (My hardware
>> supports x64 but I can't install it because install-on-usb crashes on
>> trying to install x64 build from a i386-running system.)
> Dominic,
>
> This kind of install is possible. Mount boot partition. Copy new 64-bit DL
> image (bootcd.iso or bootcd.squash, accordingly to format which you use to
> boot) with extension "new" (as bootcd.iso.new or bootcd.squash.new) and reboot.
>
> Ofcourse, if You want use both boot's 32-bit and 64-bit, You need separate
> partition, but You can as usually, instal on it 32-bit image and prepare to
> upgrade to 64-bi as above.
>
> Regards
>
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Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Requests for next DL release

[Andrzej O. <an...@ma...>]

Dominic Raferd wrote:

> I would like to try this but I need i386 server build. (My hardware 
> supports x64 but I can't install it because install-on-usb crashes on 
> trying to install x64 build from a i386-running system.)

Dominic,

This kind of install is possible. Mount boot partition. Copy new 64-bit DL 
image (bootcd.iso or bootcd.squash, accordingly to format which you use to 
boot) with extension "new" (as bootcd.iso.new or bootcd.squash.new) and reboot.

Ofcourse, if You want use both boot's 32-bit and 64-bit, You need separate 
partition, but You can as usually, instal on it 32-bit image and prepare to 
upgrade to 64-bi as above.

Regards

Andrzej Odyniec