Installation of 6.7 does not start on Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 3

2020-10-11 Thread Todd Brewster

Re: Encrypted notepad software suggestions

2020-10-11 Thread Teno Deuter
https://tiddlywiki.com/ this can be very handy and you can store and encrypt a whole bunch of data (not only passwords) in a single html file. On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 5:28 PM bijan wrote: > On 9/28/20 11:12 PM, Jacqueline Jolicoeur wrote: > >> Simply Text File encryption is suitable too to

Re: Using ports and updates to the release

2020-10-11 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Ed, Ed Gray wrote on Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 07:21:32PM +0100: > I'm still fairly new to openbsd and the idea of using ports > in general rather than binary packages. You are usually better off using packages than using ports, especially as a new user. Even as an experienced user doing lots of

Re: sysupgrade doesn't like the path

2020-10-11 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 16:04:52 -0600 "Theo de Raadt" wrote: > Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: > > [...] > > fw_update, sysupgrade, pkg_add, syspatch, and some other things have > heuristic issues near release, and it is difficult to fix because > what we release gets a bit incoherent and weird. we

Using ports and updates to the release

2020-10-11 Thread Ed Gray
Hi, I'm still fairly new to openbsd and the idea of using ports in general rather than binary packages. Is it necessary to keep the ports tree updated if using a release version of openbsd e.g. pulling the stable tree from CVS before building new software? Regards Ed Fray

Router advertisements for dynamic IPv6 prefix

2020-10-11 Thread Henrik Friedrichsen
Hey, my ISP provides connectivity via PPPoE. An IPv6 prefix is handed out via DHCPv6 PD, which my OpenBSD gateway passes on to clients with the help of router advertisements using rad. This works fine until the ISP disconnects me after 24h (force disconnect on ISP side). The gateway receives a

Re: Understanding download speed reduction by introducing an inline Ubiquity ERL device

2020-10-11 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 1:08 AM Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2020-10-04, Amarendra Godbole wrote: > > 1. config #1: MacBook - Linksys WRT1200AC - xfinity cable modem > > (speed: ~210 Mbits/s down, 6 Mbits/s up) > > 2. config #2: MacBook - Linksys WRT1200AC - Ubiquiti ERL - xfinity > > cable

Re: sysupgrade doesn't like the path

2020-10-11 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2020-10-10, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: > sysupgrade is looking for files in 6.9 (which isn't being found). Is > this due to a slow mirror upgrade or just "near release stuff"? > sysupgrade sees that the current version (6.8) has no suffix, so assumes you're running a release and want to upgrade