Re: OpenBGPd SNMP

2015-10-06 Thread Bret Lambert
On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 10:34:01AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2015-10-04, Mike Hammett wrote: > > Are there any packages out there that expose OpenBGPd or other OpenBSD > > parameters via SNMP? Would like to check generic health of the system, > > number of

Re: SNMP on 5.7/5.8

2015-08-09 Thread Bret Lambert
On Sat, Aug 08, 2015 at 08:47:21PM +0300, Kapetanakis Giannis wrote: sorry for top post. I believe I had the problem with both base and netsnmpd versions. Believe and have verified that are two functionally different statements. I've only seen evidence that netsnmp, not snmpd from OpenBSD

Re: httpd

2014-11-18 Thread Bret Lambert
On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 02:20:40PM +0200, Gregory Edigarov wrote: Hi, While downloading a big file from httpd it eats somewhere from 77 to 100% or even 150% cpu. Is it normal? I've never seen such numbers with nginx. There was a known issue with that that has been fixed in -current; if you

Re: Shadow TCP stacks

2014-10-17 Thread Bret Lambert
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 02:48:22PM +0200, Martin Schr??der wrote: 2014-10-16 13:16 GMT+02:00 Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk: I still don't see the benefit though but do see added complexity or more code to audit. Reducing DDOS against a visible SSH service maybe? Reduce password

Re: Shadow TCP stacks

2014-10-17 Thread Bret Lambert
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 12:56:48PM +0200, Martin Schr??der wrote: 2014-10-17 10:24 GMT+02:00 Bret Lambert bret.lamb...@gmail.com: On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 02:48:22PM +0200, Martin Schr??der wrote: The impossibility to scan for services - which the NSA/GHCQ/... do. It's a good thing

Re: Shadow TCP stacks

2014-10-17 Thread Bret Lambert
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 12:13:55PM -0400, Ian Grant wrote: On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 4:24 AM, Bret Lambert bret.lamb...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 02:48:22PM +0200, Martin Schr??der wrote: 2014-10-16 13:16 GMT+02:00 Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk: The impossibility to scan

Re: Shadow TCP stacks

2014-10-17 Thread Bret Lambert
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 02:59:26PM -0400, Ian Grant wrote: On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Bret Lambert bret.lamb...@gmail.com wrote: Well, if, as Herr Schroeder seems to be implying, this is used to avoid port scans, I'd look for traffic to/from address:port which don't show up on scans

Re: Does OpenBSD's wpa_supplicant support PSK?

2014-02-10 Thread Bret Lambert
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 10:20:44PM +0100, Zbigniew wrote: 2014-02-10 22:00 GMT+01:00, Jeff Goettsch j...@primal.ucdavis.edu: I don't know anything about wpa_supplicant, but does # ifconfig rum0 nwid nwid wpakey wpakey work? No, it says it wants passphrase length in range from 8

Re: Documentation on rc.conf.local lacks important warning

2014-02-09 Thread Bret Lambert
On Sun, Feb 09, 2014 at 08:28:43PM +0200, VaZub wrote: Hi all, There is a small nuisance I've stumbled upon during my first experiments with OpenBSD. Both the man page for rc.conf(8) as well as the official OpenBSD FAQ (10.3) suggest to avoid editing /etc/rc.conf directly and instead copy

Re: More detailed information about last commands executed than lastcomm

2013-09-16 Thread Bret Lambert
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 07:28:21AM -0400, Jiri B wrote: On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 11:38:18AM +0200, Wies??aw Kielas wrote: Dear misc@, Is there any way to get information about last commands executed on a OpenBSD machine? I'm interested in getting the command name along with arguments

Re: More detailed information about last commands executed than lastcomm

2013-09-16 Thread Bret Lambert
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 01:31:58PM +0200, Bret Lambert wrote: On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 07:28:21AM -0400, Jiri B wrote: On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 11:38:18AM +0200, Wies??aw Kielas wrote: Dear misc@, Is there any way to get information about last commands executed on a OpenBSD machine

Re: More detailed information about last commands executed than lastcomm

2013-09-16 Thread Bret Lambert
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 07:48:14AM -0400, Jiri B wrote: On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 01:33:33PM +0200, Bret Lambert wrote: On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 01:31:58PM +0200, Bret Lambert wrote: On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 07:28:21AM -0400, Jiri B wrote: Usual unix process accounting does not take care

Re: bioctl replacing a failed mirror

2013-09-02 Thread Bret Lambert
On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 02:30:23PM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote: On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 08:17:27AM -0400, John Hynes wrote: On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 8:10 AM, Stefan Sperling s...@openbsd.org wrote: What commands did you run to copy the disklabel? Oh - I did a disklabel sd0 disklabel.sd2;

Re: OpenBSD's webpage desing

2012-06-28 Thread Bret Lambert
Talk ajax to me, baby. On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Marc Espie es...@nerim.net wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 03:46:12PM -0700, Chris Cappuccio wrote: IIRC, Theo did the current design himself after everyone else failed to come up with something good. Well, Theo had some rather fun

Re: OpenBSD's webpage desing

2012-06-27 Thread Bret Lambert
PHP is like s early 2000s.  When's Python gonna go into base? You're behind the times; python's been replaced by ruby running on top of mongodb

Re: Can someone describe these possible long term effects and provide an explicit description of these kernel parameters?

2012-06-14 Thread Bret Lambert
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 8:54 PM, Tristin Davis tristin.co...@gmail.com wrote: Upgrading is simply not an option. It all comes down to having the engineering staff, money, and downtime available. Unfortunatly, we have none of the above right now.  I realize we *need* to upgrade, but right now,

Re: spamd-setup fails from cron

2012-05-29 Thread Bret Lambert
Please avoid 15 minutes past the hour ;-) sleep $(($RANDOM % 2048)) /usr/libexec/spamd-setup -d

Re: undeadly

2012-04-24 Thread Bret Lambert
well, I've been gathering responses off-list, and have been putting together at least two articles. Sorry if the speed is not to your satisfaction, but major version release time at work is eating me right now. /snark On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Marc Espie es...@nerim.net wrote: Come on

Re: No schizophrenia

2012-01-11 Thread Bret Lambert
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:19 AM, John Tate j...@johntate.org wrote: Just an idiot, Jan Stary, who turned the sentence 7 years of FreeBSD/OpenBSD experience into OpenBSD Guru. I wish I had more time and less faith in minds like hers. What an embarrassment... oh dear. She should learn to read.

Re: pfsync and ifstated

2011-03-23 Thread Bret Lambert
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Kapetanakis Giannis bil...@edu.physics.uoc.gr wrote: Hi, I'm testing a new setup of a pair of firewalls (master/backup) using carp, pfsync etc. Can I use ifstated to monitor virtual interfaces like pfsync0 and enc0? I want the master after it reboots (if

Re: Removing secondary groups with usermod -G

2011-03-22 Thread Bret Lambert
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 9:45 PM, William Boshuck bos...@math.mcgill.ca wrote: On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 01:18:41PM -0500, Chris Bennett wrote: OpenBSD's form of sed requires you to output to a new file and mv that back to original. .. or one could use ed, or perl, to change a file in place.

Re: Firewall rules to block unwanted protocolls on given ports

2011-03-19 Thread Bret Lambert
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 2:05 PM, johhny_at_poland77 johhny_at_polan...@zoho.com wrote: Does somebody has an idea, that what kind of iptables/pf rule must i use to achieve this?: i only want to allow these connections [on the output chain]: on port 53 output only allow udp - dns on port 80

Re: Choosing a window manager...

2011-03-15 Thread Bret Lambert
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 8:03 PM, Kevin Smith openbsd...@gmail.com wrote: I'm deciding between kde, xfce, gnome, and fluxbox (in order of preference). Any experiences? Any relevant security issues on any of them? What you're asking is akin to: Hey everyone, I'm trying to decide between:

Re: kernel leaks (was: Re: network bandwith with em(4))

2011-03-10 Thread Bret Lambert
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 12:22 AM, Leen Besselink open...@consolejunkie.net Hi folks, Sorry for hijacking this thread. I also have a Dell machine with em(4)'s. When I upgraded a machine from 4.3 or 4.4 to 4.7 the kernel is leaking memory I've been looking at it ever since. This was just

Re: is SHA256 file used or not ?

2011-02-08 Thread Bret Lambert
Maybe some of user will eventually get a clue glueing all the answer scattered on this list and FAQ. http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#shamismatch That entry contains all the relevant details end users should need, which is we're aware that checksum mismatches happen on snapshots; it's not

Re: nat static-port option

2011-02-04 Thread Bret Lambert
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Martin Schrvder mar...@oneiros.de wrote: 2011/2/4 Pete Vickers p...@systemnet.no: He don't appear to 'have' IPv6... DTAG will offer v6 to all it's customers later this year. It's only the largest telco in Germany. :-) The US has been offering freedom to the

Re: nat static-port option

2011-02-03 Thread Bret Lambert
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:57 PM, Martin Schrvder mar...@oneiros.de wrote: 2011/2/2 Bret S. Lambert bret.lamb...@gmail.com: On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 10:23:43PM +0100, Martin Schr?der wrote: Yeah. And there'll never be more than 2^32 IP devices in the world. Inorite? I mean, if I can't get an IP

Re: nat static-port option

2011-02-03 Thread Bret Lambert
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Martin Schrvder mar...@oneiros.de wrote: 2011/2/3 Bret Lambert bret.lamb...@gmail.com: Counting my toaster? Your toaster has an IP? yes, and can be viewed at http://www.goldentoasting.com/

Re: Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-19 Thread Bret Lambert
I think you mispelled gene...@mozilla.org On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:29 PM, S Mathias smathias1...@yahoo.com wrote: Ok. It's a Firefox Add-on: https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere Questions: 1) But: Why can't i find it on the offical Firefox Add-ons site?:

Re: Final Penultimate last Call for Papers for CanSecWest 2011 (deadline Jan. 17th, conf March 9-11)

2011-01-13 Thread Bret Lambert
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Randal L. Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.com wrote: Dragos == Dragos Ruiu d...@kyx.net writes: Dragos It's been up on the site for a while with a Dec 29 deadline, Dragos but this is the real last call for submissions. Really? Then why did you use Penultimate

Re: remove users from group

2010-12-25 Thread Bret Lambert
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: * Bret Lambert bret.lamb...@gmail.com [2010-12-13 10:32]: You're all wrong. We obviously need XML user databases. go play with phk, only JSON is web scale. Talk YAML to me, baby. -- Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de

Re: remove users from group

2010-12-13 Thread Bret Lambert
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:14 AM, MERIGHI Marcus mcmer-open...@tor.at wrote: h...@stare.cz (Jan Stary), 2010.12.13 (Mon) 09:15 (CET): On Dec 13 12:01:58, OpenBSD Geek wrote: I have 100 users in groups : clients, and ftp_group How can i remove these 100 users from ftp_group ? I have already

Re: OpenBSD in Rock Band 3

2010-12-08 Thread Bret Lambert
My guess would be strlcpy() and/or friends, but IIRC that's millert@'s copyright. Time to get a lawyer, Todd! On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Ted Unangst ted.unan...@gmail.com wrote: That's a little strange, because I don't think there is any code anywhere copyrighted by OpenBSD. All the

Re: nis/ldap/login class

2010-12-08 Thread Bret Lambert
login_ldap (not in base) or ypldap (in base) On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Friedrich Locke friedrich.lo...@gmail.com wrote: Dear friends, i am running my OBSD server using NIS and i would like to change this for LDAP. My doubt is: how is the login class field handle in a scenario defined

Re: Advice on learning C as first language

2010-11-24 Thread Bret Lambert
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 3:55 PM, James Hozier guitars...@yahoo.com wrote: My first programming language ever was Visual Basic, but I was 11 years old at the time and it was just a mandatory elective class I had to take to get credits in order to graduate school, and I didn't even know what a

Re: OT: Disadvantages of using virtual firewalls like OpenBSd

2010-11-23 Thread Bret Lambert
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 1:38 PM, carlopmart carlopm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, First of all, I don't want to start a flame. I will to know your opinion about using virtual firewalls in virtual infraestructures like vmware, kvm ,xen, etc ... like OpenBSD. Advantages are very clear for me:

Re: Problems with 4.6

2010-04-07 Thread Bret Lambert
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Mark Leisher b: mleis...@math.nmsu.edu wrote: On 04/07/2010 09:43 AM, Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 09:13:57AM -0600, Mark Leisher ??? wrote: I didn't see anything obvious in the archives, so apologies if I missed them. OpenBSD 4.6, Dell

Re: routing and pf at 10Gbps

2010-02-12 Thread Bret Lambert
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Diana Eichert deich...@wrench.com wrote: On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Claudio Jeker wrote: Henning, I told you, we should not talk about unfinsihed projects. We planned to announce this in exactly 7 weeks. Anyway, to late, the cat is out of the bag. So Henning and

Re: GNOBSD-Project introduction

2010-01-25 Thread Bret Lambert
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Chris Dukes pak...@pr.neotoma.org wrote: On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 07:34:24PM +0100, Stefan Rinkes wrote: [SNEEP] Generally the best day to post these announcements is the first day of the fourth month of the year. But the day these ideas are traditionally

Re: obsd as domU?

2010-01-12 Thread Bret Lambert
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Vadkan Jozsef jozsi.avad...@gmail.com wrote: Can I run obsd as a xen guest? http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Can+I+run+obsd+as+a+xen+guest The internet: you're doing it wrong.

Re: obsd as domU?

2010-01-12 Thread Bret Lambert
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Ciprian Dorin, Craciun ciprian.crac...@gmail.com wrote: [snipz0rz] So I bet that the initial poster expected an (authoritative) answer that should have came in the form of an advice based on experience or at least something useful... (Not lmgtfy, which I'm

Re: Looking for Secure Architectures with OpenBSD pdf.

2009-12-10 Thread Bret Lambert
Awesome; another aggravating, whiny, entitled jackass. You'll fit right in on the internet; the kool-aid's to the left. On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 2:47 PM, jackwssp q jackw...@gmail.com wrote: 2 Tomas Bodzar: Why you so ugly? I don't looking for pf manual. As you can see above, i'm not alone.

Re: Why is getaddrinfo breaking POSIX?

2009-12-09 Thread Bret Lambert
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Jonathan Schleifer js-openbsd-m...@webkeks.org wrote: Am 08.12.2009 um 15:52 schrieb Bret Lambert: The existing resolver code is compleat balls, as oga@ would spell it. Frankly, it needs to be dragged behind the chemical sheds and quietly suffocated

Re: Why is getaddrinfo breaking POSIX?

2009-12-09 Thread Bret Lambert
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Jonathan Schleifer js-openbsd-m...@webkeks.org wrote: Am 08.12.2009 um 15:41 schrieb Otto Moerbeek: Nobody did the work yet. If it's very important to you, consider spending effort making it thread safe. I believe netbsd and freebsd have thread safe

Re: Why is getaddrinfo breaking POSIX?

2009-12-08 Thread Bret Lambert
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Otto Moerbeek o...@drijf.net wrote: On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 02:44:27PM +0100, Jonathan Schleifer wrote: Just wondering: Why is getaddrinfo breaking POSIX by not being thread-safe and what is the thread-safe alternative to it? (Please don't tell me to use locks,

Re: Variable ping time

2009-11-24 Thread Bret Lambert
I start rain(6) on the server, via ssh, and the ping times immediatly increases to an average of +/- 25ms : spltty splnet; man spl for further information

Re: Why I Love Open Source - NSA helped with Windows 7 development

2009-11-20 Thread Bret Lambert
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 9:19 AM, patrick keshishian pkesh...@gmail.com wrote: Same reason there exist unconstitutional congressional acts/bills that allow for secret torture prisons, detention of persons without due process, complete bypassing of fouth and sixth amendments, voiding of the

Re: openbsd programming resources?

2009-11-13 Thread Bret Lambert
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 3:35 PM, elias r. obs...@crudp.ath.cx wrote: Hey out there! I started thinking about improving my C-programming knowledge, especially towards OpenBSD (and unix in general) -programming as well as secure programming. Does anyone have a hint which resources are worth

Re: openbsd programming resources?

2009-11-13 Thread Bret Lambert
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 4:28 PM, David Gwynne l...@animata.net wrote: On 14/11/2009, at 12:56 AM, Bret Lambert wrote: On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 3:35 PM, elias r. obs...@crudp.ath.cx wrote: Hey out there! I started thinking about improving my C-programming knowledge, especially towards OpenBSD

Re: Header re-writing and smtpd(8)

2009-10-30 Thread Bret Lambert
the modules API that isn't written yet ;-) ponies?

Re: Header re-writing and smtpd(8)

2009-10-30 Thread Bret Lambert
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Gilles Chehade gil...@openbsd.org wrote: On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:28:27AM +0100, Bret Lambert wrote: the modules API that isn't written yet ;-) ponies? ponies! 8===D~~ -- Gilles Chehade freelance developer/sysadmin/consultant

Re: mailq: unsupported mode with smtpd

2009-10-26 Thread Bret Lambert
and by maulq i mean mailq ;-) but maulq is much more full of awesome and win

Re: Reading kernel limit usage at runtime

2009-10-22 Thread Bret Lambert
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 3:24 PM, stan st...@panix.com wrote: I have a nachine that has run out of process table entries. One of my co-workers asked how one could check for this, and I am afraid that I did not know the answwer. So, how can one read the usage of kernel limits at rutime? sysctl

Re: how to trace a hardcore-bug in OpenBSD-4.5

2009-09-16 Thread Bret Lambert
More of that string leadership we've been warned about... On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:40 AM, paranoid.gand...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:08:03 -0500 Marco Peereboom sl...@peereboom.us wrote: For everyone's reading pleasure: *cut* If violence makes you happy you might get

Re: 4.6 will be released on October 1st?

2009-08-18 Thread Bret Lambert
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Nice Daemonnicedae...@googlemail.com wrote: I don't mind. There's a plethora of free email accounts out there. And I'm sure you'll touch yourself inappropriately when hitting send from those too.

Re: How to write drivers?

2008-05-01 Thread Bret Lambert
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 20:15 +0300, Sviatoslav Chagaev wrote: Hello! I need to write a driver for a primitive device which connects to the LPT port, so I was wondering, are there any manuals/tutorials/HOWTOs/... on this subject? I could probably just read the source code of OpenBSD and

Re: OpenBSD kernel janitors

2007-10-31 Thread Bret Lambert
On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 13:41 -0200, Marcus Andree wrote: snip If we had such documentation, even if it isn't kept up-to-date, it would be a start point. As I stated in an earlier message, OpenBSD code is very, very Design and Implementation of the 4.4. BSD Operating System

Re: E-mail/calendar suite on OpenBSD (Kerio on OpenBSD)?

2007-08-24 Thread Bret Lambert
On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 15:14 +0200, Nikolaus Hiebaum wrote: Hi, I am currently searching for an e-mail/calendar application which is capable of the following: - support clients running on Windows machines (Outlook) - support clients running on Linux/OpenBSD machines (Evolution) - provide

Re: port knocking?

2007-06-25 Thread Bret Lambert
On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 10:48 -0700, John N. Brahy wrote: Hi Misc@, I was wondering what the general census on port knocking in the OpenBSD community is. I like the idea of hiding services but I don't like the idea of relying on a piece of code that's not part of the OpenBSD core. I know

Re: Snapshots src/sys tarballs

2007-05-30 Thread Bret Lambert
On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 09:51 -0800, Jimmy Mitchener wrote: Is there a reason snapshots do not currently come with a src/sys.tar.gz as releases do? I would think this to be quite useful for people wishing/requiring building their own kernels, and using snapshots, as it would help to minimize

Re: extenal storage and backup

2007-05-16 Thread Bret Lambert
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 10:21 -0400, Jason Dixon wrote: On Wed, 16 May 2007 11:10:06 -0300, John Nietzsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear gentleman, i am searching a dell 1u rack server for usage with openbsd 4.1 as a storage (nfs) device. I wonder which external backup option have

Re: Prevent circumventing dansguardian with pf

2007-05-04 Thread Bret Lambert
On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 07:26 -0600, Open Phugu wrote: if you deny icmp, you shall burn in hell You may burn in hell, but ICMP can be used to infiltrate and exfiltrate data: http://www.cs.uit.no/~daniels/PingTunnel/ This looks like it's pretty trivially defeated; bzero()'ing the data

Re: Loading a Second Kernel

2007-04-17 Thread Bret Lambert
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 14:33 -0400, Jon Steel wrote: Hi Im trying to find a way to do a sort of very soft reboot. For example I want to boot up the computer into a kernel on one drive, and then after saying reboot, the computer loads up a kernel from a second drive. I have gotten this to

Re: Routerboard 532 Bounty

2007-04-11 Thread Bret Lambert
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 12:05 -0500, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: Well, I would like to see the router board simply because, I would like to make a router / switch device to replace a Linksys 54G Router, maybe 3 or 4 lan ports and a 1 or 2 MPCI slots, 1 for hardware crypto and the other for a wireless

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-05 Thread Bret Lambert
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 13:16 -0600, Diana Eichert wrote: and info why here, http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/1558/ With apologies to everyone for off-color language... What a bunch of douches.

Re: Saving memory on small machines

2007-03-22 Thread Bret Lambert
On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 11:11 +, David Given wrote: I have a machine with 48MB of RAM that I want to use as a server. The OpenBSD kernel is a bit over 5MB. I assume that gets loaded into memory and is not swappable, giving me 43MB left, which isn't a lot. Is it worth recompiling the

Re: ctrl+alt+del reboot

2007-03-06 Thread Bret Lambert
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 23:02 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i know about that sysctl.conf i will just uncomment machdep.kbdreset=1 but it will halt the system or in rc.shutdown change powerdown to YES. but what i want is a reboot, not halt or powerdown. Code for allowing a shutdown on

OT: parallel programming book recs

2007-03-06 Thread Bret Lambert
Sorry for the OT post, but I wanted to pick the list's hive mind as to any recommendations for solid, in-depth references for parallel programming. College-level textbooks would be preferred. Thanks! - Bert

Re: fd.o HAL support / OpenBSD alternative for NetworkManager

2007-02-09 Thread Bret Lambert
On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 17:39 +0200, Stefan Parviainen wrote: Is there any work going on to get support for the freedesktop.org HAL specification (http://wiki.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fhal)? It seems that there are quite a few programs that would benefit from this. Is there a technical

Re: No buffer space available with a lot of queueing

2007-01-31 Thread Bret Lambert
On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 15:46 +0100, Federico Giannici wrote: We have a PC with OpenBSD 4.0-stable i386 that we use as a firewall/gateway. It has a lot of HFSC queues. Today we had a flood if traffic and the outgoing interface started to loss packets. If I tried to ping through the

semi-OT: trunk usage poll

2007-01-12 Thread Bret Lambert
Good morning- Some free time and inspiration last night got me to hack together a shell script for trunk(4) startup. This morning, I realized that I need to have a better understanding of how people use trunk to make it usable by and for the masses. So, if some of the good people of [EMAIL

Re: carp for one server?

2007-01-09 Thread Bret Lambert
On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 10:12 -0800, John Brahy wrote: I know carp is the way to go to provide address redundancy but I was wondering if it's the best way to do it on one server? I've got two interfaces and I'd like to only use one public ip address. Is carp the way to go or is there a better

Prospective hardware angels

2006-12-08 Thread Bret Lambert
Good afternoon misc@ - A gentleman in the UK and I have decided to pool our resources, and start semi-regularly trolling want.html for items that we can get for the devs. I'm able to do something like $50 US each month (I have no idea how much he's in for; he keeps talking about quid, which, as

Re: Which tools the OpenBSD developers are using?

2006-11-29 Thread Bret Lambert
Johan P. Lindstrvm wrote: So far, only NetBSD runs on the AK* architecture. Yeah, but it only boots single-user, so it don't count. -- JPL On 11/29/06, Ioan Nemes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's the problem, you should use an AK45! Much-much cheaper than the AR-15 (I've been offred one

Re: openbsd on cisco hardware?

2006-11-13 Thread Bret Lambert
Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote: On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 20:51 -0600, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: i know this is likely not possible for a number of reasons but i figured i'd ask: are there or have there been any plans to port openbsd to run on cisco hardware? It would only be interesting if you were

MosChip USB to Ethernet/Serial adapters

2006-10-16 Thread Bret Lambert
Any devs in the US/Canada who are going to the upcoming hardware hackathon, please contact me off-list so that I can mail these to you for carting to Europe.

Re: OpenBSD and high availability

2006-08-07 Thread Bret Lambert
knitti wrote: On 8/7/06, Jens Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While the networking part can be handled by carp, I'm collecting ideas on how to keep the local file systems in synch - especially for ftp users and the mailinglist archives. The synchronization will be done via a dedicated cross

UltraSparc III possibility in DC

2006-06-09 Thread Bret Lambert
Greetings all - As I posted at undeadly.org, I'm in the DC area, and willing to pony up some of my own cash to get jason@ a Blade 1000 [a]. I've already gotten one solid response, for a grand total of $200 towards the $450 + $50 shipping. Should I get promises of the rest of the needed funds,

Re: OT: opinion on this opinion...

2006-05-03 Thread Bret Lambert
Ted Unangst wrote: On 5/2/06, poncenby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Taken from http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/ TorFAQ#ServerAnonymity FreeBSD 4.x, all versions of OpenBSD, and all versions of NetBSD have broken gethostbyname_r() implementations that cause Tor's threads to stomp on

Re: The Apache Question

2006-02-08 Thread Bret Lambert
Felipe Scarel wrote: Well then, I'll take a look at you suggestion, Joachim, seems reasonable. Too bad most developers actually *prefer* FTP over ssh, so it's going to be difficult to convince them. Well, looks like I'll just have to implement... they'll get used to it anyway =) Talking about

Re: WebTools

2005-12-09 Thread Bret Lambert
, and squidsites scripts seem (without looking too deeply) to most closely match what you seem to want. HTH - Bret Lambert I had installed MRTG and symon, but it's do not feet my necessities. Thank's for your attention -- Ricardo Lucas

Re: Bridge with three IFs

2005-11-07 Thread Bret Lambert
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/tagging.html At the end of that, there's a section titled Tagging Ethernet Frames which tells you how to do what you want. - Bert