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I'm trying to run Samba on a gigabit network. On the server side I've got Samba 2.2.1 running on an sgi Origin200 with a gigabit ethernet card plugged into a gigabit switch, and the files are being served off a fibrechannel raid array. On the client side I have a windows 2k box with a gigabit card plugged into the same switch. Both machines and the switch claim that everything is

Hi, All, My understanding is u32 filter is very powerful filter and could do anything about IP header filtering, then why do we sometimes use netfilering in IPtables? One advantege I guess is in netfilering, there is usage counter? Are there other advantges using netfilter (such as delay, flexibility)? What is the disadvantages to us Netfilter? In summary, what are the considerations to select u32 or netfilter as classifier for QoS? Thanks, James

Anybody out there use Ser along with *? Any advantages disadvantages? Is this even a good idea?

I've got a server running CentOS 4.2; installed as 4.1, kept updated by yum. A few days ago it crashed. I picked it up from the datacenter, and brought it back to the office, where it took a long time to boot because it couldn't find anything. When it finally booted and I logged in I discovered an interesting problem. Only the / partition had loaded. /etc/fstab had all the