Re: setting up a noiseless workstation

2008-02-02 Thread Clint Pachl
Zbigniew Baniewski wrote: On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 08:16:49PM +0200, Imre Oolberg wrote: As an operating system my first choice would OpenBSD and second is Linux. In fact at the moment i run such a kind of setup using Linux but i feel need to upgrade my hardware, i have old 700 MHz Celeron,

Re: photo/ image viewing software

2008-02-02 Thread Clint Pachl
Chris wrote: I am after a software that would allow me to view photos from my digital camera which I usually mount in /mnt/camera. I tried from the ports tree: digikam, gphoto, gtkam, kphotoalbum, wmphoto, kamera - none of them really work well in showing the pictures; some of them want to

Prolific USB-Serial Controller

2008-02-02 Thread Chris
I am trying to a access a switch connected to a USB-Serial controller to my laptop's USB port. When I plug in the USB port to my laptop I get the following in my /var/log/messages. But I am not sure which /dev/device to use in minicom to access the switch. I can see there is no /dev/uplcom0 or

Re: Prolific USB-Serial Controller

2008-02-02 Thread Stuart Henderson
/dev/ttyU0 On 2008/02/02 20:53, Chris wrote: I am trying to a access a switch connected to a USB-Serial controller to my laptop's USB port. When I plug in the USB port to my laptop I get the following in my /var/log/messages. But I am not sure which /dev/device to use in minicom to access the

Re: Prolific USB-Serial Controller

2008-02-02 Thread Sigi Rudzio
2008/2/2, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am trying to a access a switch connected to a USB-Serial controller to my laptop's USB port. When I plug in the USB port to my laptop I get the following in my /var/log/messages. But I am not sure which /dev/device to use in minicom to access the switch. I

Re: avoid logging useless ssh brute force attempts

2008-02-02 Thread elpinguim
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 05:28:11PM +0100, Martin Schr?der wrote: 2008/2/1, elpinguim [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Configuring pf to not even respond to unallocated ip space also helps. Search for Bogon filtering. No. This just adds another way for things to go wrong. KISS. :-) Really, what things?

USB harddrive

2008-02-02 Thread Christian Rudolph
Hi, I'm using OpenBSD 4.2 on a soekris 4501. I have attached a USB controller and plugged in a harddrive. The problem is, the device doesn't get recognized by OpenBSD. Then I tried another box and plugged in the same harddrive. result: it works. But I need to run this disk at my soekris box.

Looks like MSFT is pleased that RMS makes software for windows

2008-02-02 Thread Rod Whitworth
In an article at http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1142 there is an opinion: Microsoft is looking at open-source software (OSS) as just another flavor of independent software vendors (ISV) software. Microsofts goal is to convince OSS vendors to port their software to Windows. Looks like the

Re: avoid logging useless ssh brute force attempts

2008-02-02 Thread Tony Abernethy
elpinguim wrote: On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 05:28:11PM +0100, Martin Schr?der wrote: 2008/2/1, elpinguim [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Configuring pf to not even respond to unallocated ip space also helps. Search for Bogon filtering. No. This just adds another way for things to go wrong. KISS.

Re: Prolific USB-Serial Controller

2008-02-02 Thread Marc Balmer
Chris wrote: I am trying to a access a switch connected to a USB-Serial controller to my laptop's USB port. When I plug in the USB port to my laptop I get the following in my /var/log/messages. But I am not sure which /dev/device to use in minicom to access the switch. I can see there is no

Re: Prolific USB-Serial Controller

2008-02-02 Thread Marc Balmer
Stuart Henderson wrote: /dev/ttyU0 you should use /dev/cuaU0 for dial-out. On 2008/02/02 20:53, Chris wrote: I am trying to a access a switch connected to a USB-Serial controller to my laptop's USB port. When I plug in the USB port to my laptop I get the following in my /var/log/messages.

Re: USB harddrive

2008-02-02 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008/02/02 11:55, Christian Rudolph wrote: I'm using OpenBSD 4.2 on a soekris 4501. you have to be careful with PCI cards in 4501, the power supply is very limited, it's quite possible to damage your soekris with the wrong card.

Re: avoid logging useless ssh brute force attempts

2008-02-02 Thread Martin Schröder
2008/2/2, elpinguim [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 05:28:11PM +0100, Martin Schr?der wrote: No. This just adds another way for things to go wrong. KISS. :-) Really, what things? Script it, set cron to call it, done. Simple. IP addresses that are bogon today may not be bogon

Re: solaris 10. 'most' secure OS?

2008-02-02 Thread Gilles Chehade
I knew this picture would become handy when I took it at SL2008 ... http://www.evilkittens.org/~gilles/pictures/vrac/secure-solaris.jpg Gilles On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 11:44:10PM +, Bryan wrote: That's okay, I saw a presentation that had a quote from RMS talking about how Sun is helping

Re: low-MHz server

2008-02-02 Thread michael hamerski
Personally, I would look into industrial-grade i386 SBCs. Old server systems will suck juice, have non-standard weird bits and odds (old Macs are a great example for RAM) and although I readily admit to knowing next to nothing about EM shielding, it would seem easier to shield properly a small box

Re: avoid logging useless ssh brute force attempts

2008-02-02 Thread elpinguim
On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 05:26:59AM -0600, Tony Abernethy wrote: elpinguim wrote: On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 05:28:11PM +0100, Martin Schr?der wrote: 2008/2/1, elpinguim [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Configuring pf to not even respond to unallocated ip space also helps. Search for Bogon filtering.

Re: avoid logging useless ssh brute force attempts

2008-02-02 Thread elpinguim
On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 12:47:54PM +0100, Martin Schr?der wrote: 2008/2/2, elpinguim [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 05:28:11PM +0100, Martin Schr?der wrote: No. This just adds another way for things to go wrong. KISS. :-) Really, what things? Script it, set cron to call it,

Re: solaris 10. 'most' secure OS?

2008-02-02 Thread Pierre Ancelot
On Sat, 02 Feb 2008 01:24:44 +0100 Peichaer Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Daemon schrieb: On Feb 1, 2008 5:14 PM, badeguruji [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From Sun's own mouth: ...Solaris 10 OS, the most secure OS worldwide holding 176 records... is that so?

Re: avoid logging useless ssh brute force attempts

2008-02-02 Thread Wijnand Wiersma
I don't think bogons are able to complete the TCP handshake since you don't know how to route back. Filtering those will not make sure there are less log messages about ssh logins Wijnand

Re: setting up a noiseless workstation

2008-02-02 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Martin Schrvder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And where do you get a PCI graphics card with DVI capable of doing 1920x1200? Matrox Millennium P690 PCI. X.org doesn't have a driver for it, though. -- Christian naddy Weisgerber [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: avoid logging useless ssh brute force attempts

2008-02-02 Thread johan beisser
On Feb 2, 2008, at 6:32 AM, Wijnand Wiersma wrote: I don't think bogons are able to complete the TCP handshake since you don't know how to route back. Filtering those will not make sure there are less log messages about ssh logins Not entirely true. Bogons are not supposed to be routed,

Re: setting up a noiseless workstation

2008-02-02 Thread Siegbert Marschall
2008/2/1, Zbigniew Baniewski [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You can use old Pentium II 400 MHz - there are still many of them available, which doesn't need any cooler, its radiator will do. Such way the only And where do you get a PCI graphics card with DVI capable of doing 1920x1200? Everywhere ? ATI

Got a panic by ipforwarding

2008-02-02 Thread Konrad
Hey misc, so I know there is a better way to posting Bugs. But i not really got all information needed to post it to bugs@ or better: i have the information in a unpropper way. So I dont really mind if you not answer i just thought it would be a nice information that my panic happened. So I

Re: dhcp error message

2008-02-02 Thread Stefan Kell
Hello, On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Jim M wrote: Sorry I wasn't clear. What my mind was thinking wasn't coming across. I hope this helps. I have a firewall that runs on a Sun Ultra 5. It is a dhcp client on the WAN side and a dhcp server inside the house. The firewall connects to a switch that has

Re: Got a panic by ipforwarding

2008-02-02 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 08:17:01PM +0100, Konrad wrote: Hey misc, so I know there is a better way to posting Bugs. But i not really got all information needed to post it to bugs@ or better: i have the information in a unpropper way. So I dont really mind if you not answer i just thought it

Re: booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom

2008-02-02 Thread Niels de Vos
frantisek holop minusf at obiit.org writes: i had a nother idea today, the eee comes with grub... the more knowledgable are already holding their heads :] because i dont have the boot sector and /boot, i thought grub could maybe load bsd.rd but all i got was the 'boot too old' message

Re: Prolific USB-Serial Controller

2008-02-02 Thread Chris
On Feb 2, 2008 10:29 PM, Marc Balmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /dev/ttyU0 you should use /dev/cuaU0 for dial-out. Thanks. I tried both /dev/ttyU0 and /dev/cuaU0 in minicom. They both seem to go to the initializing modem phase but when I turn on the switch with /dev/cuaU0 configuration, minicom

Re: Prolific USB-Serial Controller

2008-02-02 Thread johan beisser
A) don't bother initializing a modem. Forget minicom. It's nearly useless for what you're doing. B) openbsd has a utility built in to do just these kinds of things: cu(1) C) to use cu(1) with a USB serial: cu -l /dev/cuaU0 On Feb 2, 2008, at 1:57 PM, Chris wrote: On Feb 2, 2008 10:29

Re: Prolific USB-Serial Controller

2008-02-02 Thread Okan Demirmen
On Sun 2008.02.03 at 08:57 +1100, Chris wrote: On Feb 2, 2008 10:29 PM, Marc Balmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /dev/ttyU0 you should use /dev/cuaU0 for dial-out. Thanks. I tried both /dev/ttyU0 and /dev/cuaU0 in minicom. They both seem to go to the initializing modem phase but when I turn

Re: Prolific USB-Serial Controller

2008-02-02 Thread Chris
On Feb 3, 2008 9:27 AM, johan beisser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: C) to use cu(1) with a USB serial: cu -l /dev/cuaU0 I tried cu -l /dev/cuaU0, cu -l /dev/cuaU0 -s 9600 - it says Connected after that nothing happens. Should I try changing the baud rate? This Cisco 3950 switch is usually connected

Re: Prolific USB-Serial Controller

2008-02-02 Thread johan beisser
On Feb 2, 2008, at 3:17 PM, Chris wrote: On Feb 3, 2008 9:27 AM, johan beisser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: C) to use cu(1) with a USB serial: cu -l /dev/cuaU0 I tried cu -l /dev/cuaU0, cu -l /dev/cuaU0 -s 9600 - it says Connected after that nothing happens. Should I try changing the baud rate?

[Fwd: [Fwd: setting up a noiseless workstation]]

2008-02-02 Thread Imre Oolberg
Hi! Thank you all for your feedback on my question about noiseless workstation and providing details of your setups and links to appropriate places! Idea about connecting keyboard, mouse and monitor with looong cables is clearly thinking outside a box! :) Once i even though myself about it but

Re: Prolific USB-Serial Controller

2008-02-02 Thread Chris
On Feb 3, 2008 10:22 AM, johan beisser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You may hit space or enter. I did but looks like it just hangs in there - jammed. Nothing happens. Sometimes it just has to wake up. Cisco, by default, uses 9600 8,N,1 if i remember correctly. Yes. You are right. Is there any

Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: setting up a noiseless workstation]]

2008-02-02 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 01:23:08AM +0200, Imre Oolberg wrote: But I am surprised people aint using much VIA low-power offerings like C3, Eden or C7 in a form of mini-itx motherboard. I was using during almost 2 years VIA C3-700 - and this one didn't need any cooler (the stronger ones

Re: Prolific USB-Serial Controller

2008-02-02 Thread Okan Demirmen
On Sun 2008.02.03 at 10:28 +1100, Chris wrote: On Feb 3, 2008 10:22 AM, johan beisser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You may hit space or enter. I did but looks like it just hangs in there - jammed. Nothing happens. Sometimes it just has to wake up. Cisco, by default, uses 9600 8,N,1 if i

Using Altq?

2008-02-02 Thread Brian
I read the following document: http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=articlesid=20061109202501 and I understand the general concepts, but I have a few questions. * How do I determine my actual up and down provided to me from my service provider? * How do I make a decision as to what queue

Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: setting up a noiseless workstation]]

2008-02-02 Thread scott
The C37 per-watt performance is outstanding; however, their benchmark performance, exclusive of crypto and/or multimedia acceleration, is not on par with like MHz intel or amd processors. The amd turion is the benchmark *AND* per-watt performance king. Yes, there are desktop turion-compatible

Re: Using Altq?

2008-02-02 Thread Daniel Melameth
On 2/2/08, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically, I want to attempt to avoid getting watchdog timeouts on my bittorrent connections. altq will not help you with this. This is an IRQ, driver or hardware problem. I would suggest trying an ACPI kernel (see archives), filing a bug report or

ntop -w disabled due to security issues...?

2008-02-02 Thread Richard Daemon
Is there a way to still use this, locally or in a more secure manner or by some other means with the same results as would be with -w working? TIA.

Re: dhcp error message

2008-02-02 Thread Richard Daemon
On Feb 2, 2008 2:49 PM, Stefan Kell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Jim M wrote: Sorry I wasn't clear. What my mind was thinking wasn't coming across. I hope this helps. I have a firewall that runs on a Sun Ultra 5. It is a dhcp client on the WAN side and a

anyone have a port of cacti?

2008-02-02 Thread Richard Daemon
anyone have a port of cacti? www.cacti.net

Re: Using Altq?

2008-02-02 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Feb 2, 2008 3:17 PM, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * How do I determine my actual up and down provided to me from my service provider? The way I did it was to find a very popular torrent with lots of seeders and leechers (a new linux distro would suffice) and leech as much as possible

Re: anyone have a port of cacti?

2008-02-02 Thread Brian
Richard Daemon wrote: anyone have a port of cacti? www.cacti.net Heres a link to the freebsd port if you want to have a hack at it.. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/net-mgmt/cacti/ Brian

Re: photo/ image viewing software

2008-02-02 Thread Jason Beaudoin
Cheap USB memory card readers are well recognized as a mass storage device and probably should be the last resort for the most stubborn digital cameras. agreed. Personally, I use Sony Cybershot DSC-W70. Unfortunately the camera can not be mounted directly as a file system. As with

hotplugd: detach script needed?

2008-02-02 Thread Chris
My USB drive and camera get automagically mounted by hotplugd attach script. I was wondering if I need to write a detach script as well. Bob Beck mentioned in his undeadly post that the detach script is not really needed. Could anyone shed some light on this please? Thanks.

pkg_delete: removing the resulting port/package file

2008-02-02 Thread Juan Miscaro
When I install by port a package is first built. When deleting the package with pkg_delete the package is removed (no longer installed) but that built package file remains. Is there any way to get rid of it during the deletion? I'm running the latest snapshot. /juan Looking for the

Re: photo/ image viewing software

2008-02-02 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Jason Beaudoin wrote: Cheap USB memory card readers are well recognized as a mass storage device and probably should be the last resort for the most stubborn digital cameras. agreed. Personally, I use Sony Cybershot DSC-W70. Unfortunately the camera can not be mounted directly as a