October 2010

pf – cannot define table: Cannot allocate memory

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I use pf on FreeBSD 8.1-stable as my firewall of choice. Recently I’ve started using the University of Alberta list of trapped addresses. As of the time of writing this, the list contains about 56,000 IP addresses. When combined with my own list of 27,000 SPAMTRAP addresses, I quick ran into a problem when reload my rule set: $ sudo pfctl -f /etc/pf.rules No ALTQ support in kernel ALTQ related functions disabled /etc/pf.rules:69: […]

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Syncing your iPhone and Google contacts

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It was my riding buddy, John Boatman who told me he synced his iPhone and Google contacts. Just before I broke my arm in June, my iPhone died (actually, I lost the contents, it didn’t die) and I was without all my phone numbers when I really needed them. The phone numbers were there, in the backups, but they wouldn’t restore. I did get them restored eventually, but that’s not the point. After

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IPv6 woes

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I’m not sure why I can’t get to the internet from my systems inside my LAN. The gateway can. Interesting: On the client box, I can’t see any IPv6 traffic leaving the except icmp. The following demonstrates: Setting up a $ ifconfig em0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 options=219b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,WOL_MAGIC> ether 00:1b:21:51:ab:2d inet 10.55.0.44 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.55.0.255 inet6 fe80::21b:21ff:fe51:ab2d%em0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet6 2001:470:1f07:b80:21b:21ff:fe51:ab2d prefixlen 64 autoconf nd6 options=3<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV> media: Ethernet autoselect

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zfs send | zfs receive

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For the record, I was doing a copy within a system recently: # time zfs send storage/bacula@transfer | mbuffer | zfs receive storage/compressed/bacula-buffer in @ 0.0 kB/s, out @ 0.0 kB/s, 4394 GB total, buffer 100% fullll summary: 4394 GByte in 35 h 11 min 35.5 MB/s real 2111m18.302s user 11m44.831s sys 258m59.151s I was copying my Bacula Volumes from non-compressed ZFS to compressed ZFS. # zfs list NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT

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