Re: experience with supermicro based Network Devices for 1Gb/s Ipsec throughput

2020-01-28 Thread Andrew Luke Nesbit
On 01/10/2019 21:17, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: >> SYS-5018A-FTN4 > > If you have any of these, replace them. They have known buggy CPUs > and will randomly fail without warning. We replaced about a dozen > of them after >50% failed within the first year of installation. I have several of these

Re: Home NAS

2019-11-15 Thread Andrew Luke Nesbit
On 15/11/2019 10:11, gwes wrote: On 11/14/19 3:52 PM, Andrew Luke Nesbit wrote: On 15/11/2019 07:44, Raymond, David wrote: I hadn't heard about file corruption on OpenBSD.  It would be good to get to the bottom of this if it occurred. I was surprised when I read mention of it too, without

Re: Home NAS

2019-11-14 Thread Andrew Luke Nesbit
Hi Dave, On 15/11/2019 07:44, Raymond, David wrote: I hadn't heard about file corruption on OpenBSD. It would be good to get to the bottom of this if it occurred. I was surprised when I read mention of it too, without any real claim or detailed analysis to back it up. This is why I added

Re: Tools for writers

2019-11-05 Thread Andrew Luke Nesbit
On 05/11/2019 17:38, Ingo Schwarze wrote: Hi, Hello Ingo! Andrew wrote on Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 12:56:58PM +: [ Pandoc ] is one of the most useful tools I have ever used. If you are writing any sort of documentation then I *highly* recommend checking it out I strongly oppose that

Re: Skype alternatives for OpenBSD

2019-11-03 Thread Andrew Luke Nesbit
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 03/11/2019 10:55, Frank Beuth wrote: > Not sure about the original poster but I would be interested in > any end-to-end encrypted video/audio/chat programs that are > available. Have a look at Tox. It might work out for you on a technical

Re: SCM

2019-07-22 Thread Andrew Luke Nesbit
On 22/07/2019 16:13, Raul Miller wrote: Both git and OpenBSD run on patches. That said, OpenBSD has a cultural restriction of requiring people to inspect the patches before incorporating them. Adopting git would be a step away from that practice. Does that help make sense of the current

Re: Ansible install Re: Reboot and re-link

2019-06-22 Thread Andrew Luke Nesbit
On 21/06/2019 19:02, Frank Beuth wrote: > I don't want to re-open the hostilities, but installing OpenBSD via > Ansible is very relevant to my interests. I feel exactly the same way and am surprised that Ansible caused hostilities. Can you send me a link to the thread where this happened please?

Re: Installing OpenBSD on Supermicro A2SDi-4C-HLN4F

2019-06-15 Thread Andrew Luke Nesbit
On 15/06/2019 10:36, Jonathan Gray wrote: > On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 09:02:11AM +0100, Richard Laysell wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I was trying OpenBSD on a Supermicro A2SDi-4C-HLN4F which uses an Intel >> Atom CPU (Denverton). The board boots but most devices are not >> detected because ACPI can't

Re: The su manual doesn't mention use root account by default

2019-06-13 Thread Andrew Luke Nesbit
On 13/06/2019 07:17, Theo de Raadt wrote: > Mihai Popescu wrote: > >>> ... if no account is provided, root is the default >> >> I always considered that su is coming from _s_uper _u_ser. But maybe I >> am wrong, I am not from old UNIX days. > > incorrect. > > NAME > su - substitute user

Re: Problems installing 6.5 on Supermicro X11SDV-8C-TP8 motherboard - can't see/find network interfaces

2019-05-18 Thread Andrew Luke Nesbit
On 19/05/2019 02:08, Don Jackson wrote: > I recently acquired a Supermicro 1019D-FRN8TP server with a X11SDV-8C-TP8 > motherboard. > > When i attempt to install 6.5, (via PXE or USB), none of the network > interfaces are detected. > A dmesg appears below, followed by a dmesg and ifconfig -a

Re: 6.5 PowerPC Packages

2019-05-09 Thread Andrew Luke Nesbit
On 09/05/2019 14:56, Allan Streib wrote: > Unless https://www.openbsd.org/plat.html is out of date, it doesn't look > like OpenBSD is currently supporting POWER8 or POWER9 plaftorms. I wonder what is the best way to determine interest in getting OpenBSD to work on POWER8/9? My first thought is

Re: 6.5 PowerPC Packages

2019-05-09 Thread Andrew Luke Nesbit
On 09/05/2019 14:26, Henry Bonath wrote: > I'm not sure how many folks out there are PowerPC users What exactly do you mean by PowerPC? I am a user of Apple PowerBook G4, POWER8, and POWER9. I am new to OpenBSD and I intend to experiment with it on these architectures. Andrew -- OpenPGP key: