Multiple obsd installations on one harddrive

Hi @all, I have a question regarding openbsd and partitions. I want to have more than one obsd installation on one harddrive. The idea behind that question ist to be able to install a newer release in parallel, chroot into it, compile stuff, install packages etc and boot into that partition when

in-kernel pppoe problems

Hello, it looks like the in-kernel pppoe causes systems to hang up sometimes. I testet with two systems (completly different hardware) and two different dsl-modems (I'm from germany - standard tcom modems). Did someone else notice such problems? Here is my hostname.pppoe0: #cat

hardware problem?! strangely ssh error

Hello, I have a system with openbsd 4.1 installed. Everything works fine (lynx / ping / ...) but I'm not able to connect to another system via ssh. I'm not able to connect to the system, too. The error I got: 2: Bad packet length integer I googled a bit, but I wasn't able to find out what

openldap-client / cyrus-sasl-2.1.21p3-ldap problem

Hello, I have a strange problem: --8 # pkg_add -i cyrus-sasl-2.1.21p3-ldap Error from http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/OpenBSD/4.1/packages/i386/: ftp: Writing -: Broken pipe Can't install cyrus-sasl-2.1.21p3-ldap: can't resolve openldap-client-2.3.33 Can't install

VPN Howto

Hello, I want to replace my linux firewall/vpn-server with an openbsd 4.0 installation. My problem is, that the linux server is a vpn-endpoint with two draytek vigor 2900. At the moment I'm looking for a vpn-documentation (or a howto) for ipsec and openbsd 4.0. Does somebody have a link for me?