On 01/31/2010 04:58 AM, James Stocks wrote:
Hello everybody,
I use a Soekris net5501 running OpenBSD 4.6 (i386) to firewall my small
network. I want to follow the -stable release to ensure that the system
remains secure. From reading the OpenBSD documentation, I am left with the
impression that:
- The only way to keep OpenBSD up to date in terms of security patches is to
build my own system from -stable.
- Cross compiling a system is not supported.
I would rather not build a release on the Soekris box because it is quite slow
and because it doesn't presently have enough disk space to store a complete
source tree. All my other computers are either PowerPC or AMD64, so I don't
believe these can be used to build an i386 release.
I would welcome any suggestions regarding the best way to accomplish this.
Regards,
James.
For the month or so I was running -stable on my net5501, I booted the CF
card in Virtualbox, and then attached a second virtual disk on which I
kept /usr/source, and mounted that over /usr/src on the CF. The VM
environment on a Core i7-920 workstation is considerably faster than the
Soekris.
I run -current from snaps now, but I still use the VM environment to
update. The Soekris is a home network router, and for backup I
temporarily turn on the firewall in my wireless router (normally used
only as an access point). I'm also looking at doing the same in my new
DSL modem, which seems to have a lot of built-in intelligence that I'm
not using.
Corey
