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So far I've tried virtio on the disk controller and on my nics and it has been proven to be the fastest choice. FreeBSD needs no additional modules to be loaded (or kernel recompilation) since at least 10.0, so devices are recognised automatically. ProxMox disks and nics need to be configured...

Hi all, I have a few FreeBSD VPS' running under KVM (most of them are running FreeBSD 10.2 or later) and I was wondering what the best configuration would be with respect to performance. I found a few guides about using virtio drivers for network and disks on FreeBSD guests, but they seemed to...

Thanks, will do. PS. Maybe the title is not the best, but it is exactly what I was looking for wrt to Xen documentation.

Hi usdmatt, and thanks for your answers. The truth is that I had seen both resources you mentioned before writing this post, so unfortunately: I knew thus far :). What I wanted to double check was that: IOMMU == VT-d, and that due to this, Xen Dom0 won't work. PS. By the way, I can run...

Hi all. I'm trying to setup a FreeBSD Dom0 Xen host following these directions, and my configuration fails to start xencommons service. The prerequisites of making FreeBSD work as a host (Dom0), based on the aforementioned guide, is to have a FreeBSD kernel r280954 or later (mine is r286666 -...

phoenix, thank's for the mailing-list-discussion-link. I had read a similar discussion in the same list which wasn't that analytic.

SirDice, I understand what you're saying, and generally I agree, but not having met any problems until now doesn't mean that I won't meet problems in the future with the choices I've made. E.g. the fact that my today's firewalls are only supporting IPv4, will have to change soon, and if IPv6...

Hi all, Lately I've realised that some of FreeBSD's firewall platforms are not very active. OpenBSD's PF seems to be way ahead while FreeBSD's version of PF is heavily modified (to cater for SMP) and is now hard with respect to merging new OpenBSD-PF code. Moreover, IPv6 support seems to be...

If they didn't have an MX record at all, would SMTP use the A record instead? Because if not, then no MX record would just suffice, wouldn't it? But then again, why should someone use a bogus MX record just to say that they don't want to receive mails. Isn't that superfluous? No MX record...

Hey everybody, I wanted to test my DNS configuration and ran: $ host www.freebsd.org www.freebsd.org is an alias for wfe0.ysv.freebsd.org. wfe0.ysv.freebsd.org has address 8.8.178.110 wfe0.ysv.freebsd.org has IPv6 address 2001:1900:2254:206a::50:0 wfe0.ysv.freebsd.org mail is handled by 0 ...

Same problem here as well, when upgrading from FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE-p1 to FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE-p2 (amd64). Of course no problems occurred when updating, but when I first saw freebsd-update wanting to remove /, I have to admit that I got a little bit scared :). drhowarddrfine, I understand your...

Thanks for the answer, SirDice. I was thinking the same thing (about uname and freebsd-version) but hoped it wouldn't be that bad. That's because freebsd-version shows the right version inside the jails. What I further thought I could have done - if that was the case, which it seems to be -...

Hi all, I have a FreeBSD amd64 system which was running FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE and I've used freebsd-update (for the first time in my life) for my security updates successfully. I am running a couple of jails on the same system on some paths, in a configuration somewhat like the one mentioned in...

Are you running any firewalls on your machine? What is the output of sysctl net.inet.ip.forwarding? On your netstat -r command I don't see a subnet mask for subnet 10.0.0.0, which -to me- seems weird. What is your subnet mask (ifconfig re0) and what is the subnet mask you're sending to your...

Thanks SirDice. This is what I thought as well... Nevertheless, I grep'ed a bit in the sources and found /etc/passwd and the like to be hard coded in /usr/src/include/pwd.h. I am not sure that this is the header file used by the nsswitch mechanism, but I assume it is. woodsb02: unfortunately...

Thanks junovitch, this was the answer. I hoped I wouldn't have to scrub packets though, because I've had problems with packet reassembling in other pf based setups and some random sites. Nevertheless, it works just fine, thanks again! PS. How do I change the subject to RESOLVED in this new forum?

Oko, are you sure you mean port 54 and not 53? Whatever the case, as you can see from my simple pf.conf, all outgoing TCP and UDP ports are open and if you see my tcpdump excerpts, the blocked replies are for UDP port 53 (not TCP) for a connection that should have been stateful. Thank you for...

Hi all! I am trying to set unbound by following the handbook (I am running FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p9). When I run drill -S FreeBSD.org @8.8.8.8 using Google's DNS servers and have pf on, the DNSKEY response is blocked by pf. When pf is off, the query works just fine. My pf.conf is very simple...

Hi all! I was wondering if I could tell /etc/nsswitch.conf to consult an additional file on e.g. users' lookups after it has read /etc/passwd. I know how to use nss with ldap, nis or databases, I was just wondering (because I need it) if the files source is configurable. Thanks all for any help!

Sorry @gkontos, you're right, I misunderstood your post! I read your answer right after SD's, so I related your "That is correct..." part with SD's answer:). OK, what do you guys propose we do? Send an email to the stable or the doc list? Cause I am not sure if sending a pr would be...