Re: openbsd.org, openssh.com server(s) down

2016-03-15 Thread Gene
nforeveryoneorjustme.com/openbsd.org > > Best >Martin > They're back up. Any info on what caused the outage? (Just curious) -Gene

Re: apu1d as an NTP server

2015-10-26 Thread Gene
On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 3:18 AM, Peter Hessler <phess...@theapt.org> wrote: > works perfectly fine as an ntp server. you won't see any problems. > Thank you. I've read that some hardware just doesn't work well for NTP, so it's good to hear that. > On Oct 23, 2015 5:42 PM, &quo

apu1d as an NTP server

2015-10-23 Thread Gene
Howdy, Has anyone here used the PC Engines apu1d system board as an NTP server? I'm looking at setting up some in house stratum-2 servers so I can be a better neighbor. Wondering what kind of performance/capacity others have seen with this board. Thanks for your time. -Gene

Re: Thinkpad spyware

2015-08-26 Thread Gene
Why should OpenBSD users be concerned? Doesn't this injection method only work when the running OS is Windows? Or are you thinking it would be a matter of principle? -Gene On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Shaun Reiger srei...@sprmail.net wrote: In light of what Lenovo has been doing to its

Re: SuperMicro thin mini itx?

2015-08-20 Thread Gene
. They'll answer your questions and won't require any type of account with them to get their assistance. -Gene

Re: New LibreSSL mailing lists

2015-06-04 Thread Gene
principle that OpenBSD has listed on Security webpage: It's probably a requirement to get advanced notifications from the OpenSSL project. -Gene

Re: C.H.I.P

2015-05-07 Thread Gene
I was actually considering picking up the $150 'KERNEL HACKERS ONLY' tier and passing along the alpha board to someone in September. Does an OpenBSD developer have interest in it? -Gene On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Fred open...@crowsons.com wrote: On 05/07/15 21:49, Gene wrote: A new

C.H.I.P

2015-05-07 Thread Gene
be made to run on this board? -Gene

Re: OpenBSD as base OS for Virtualization

2015-03-14 Thread Gene
. There are a lot of different front-end managers for Xen out there. -Gene

Re: Home server rack recommendations?

2015-03-10 Thread Gene
rackmountgears on eBay has some decent stuff in the $200-$300 price range (not including shipping). http://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?_ssn=rackmountgears_nkw=cabinet I bought an 18U cabinet with casters from them in 2013. Still holding up very well. It's a pain to assemble, though. :) -Gene

Re: lynx is gone?

2015-03-05 Thread Gene
throughout much of it. Respect is something to be earned, don't expect to get it for free. -Gene Il 05/mar/2015 21:43 Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.org ha scritto: So it looks like that, till some months ago, everybody here was on the wrong OS and risking their lives, as lynx

Re: File transfer from NetBSD to OpenBSD

2015-03-03 Thread Gene
On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 12:06 PM, Janjaap van Velthooven janj...@stack.nl wrote: On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 04:40:25PM +, etie...@magickarpet.org wrote: Hello there, Could anyone recommend which filesystem type to use when backing up a few hundred GB of files from NetBSD onto a USB disk,

Re: CPU criteria for OpenBSD firewall

2015-02-18 Thread Gene
To expand on Alexander's point, look at the FAQ: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/perf.html If you aren't doing a lot of filtering, just passing traffic over multiple interfaces, more cores might be beneficial. -Eugene On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Alexander Salmin alexan...@salmin.biz wrote:

Re: Help needed: pkg_add dropps connections

2015-02-17 Thread Gene
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Stefan Wollny stefan.wol...@web.de wrote: Am 02/17/15 um 23:25 schrieb Gene: That is not the extent of the sudo settings. You have to look at the sudoers file to check whether the env settings are kept or not. ??? Sorry - it was a looong day: What

Re: Help needed: pkg_add dropps connections

2015-02-17 Thread Gene
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 2:37 PM, trondd tro...@gmail.com wrote: He's using http protocol. Just because the hostname has ftp in it, doesn't mean it's the ftp protocol. It's not just the hostname I'm basing it off of, it's the error message: ~ $ sudo pkg_add -ui quirks-2.52 signed on

Re: Help needed: pkg_add dropps connections

2015-02-17 Thread Gene
It looks like http_proxy is being set, but you're getting packages from an ftp server. You need to define the ftp_proxy variable as well. -Gene On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 12:58 PM, trondd tro...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/17/15, Stefan Wollny stefan.wol...@web.de wrote: Am 02/17/15 um 20:36 schrieb

Re: Help needed: pkg_add dropps connections

2015-02-17 Thread Gene
and it isn't retaining those variables then the proxy won't be used at all. -Eugene On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Stefan Wollny stefan.wol...@web.de wrote: Am 02/17/15 um 22:20 schrieb Gene: It looks like http_proxy is being set, but you're getting packages from an ftp server. You need

Re: Help needed: pkg_add dropps connections

2015-02-17 Thread Gene
Also, note that the value between the two variables will be the same: e.g. http_proxy=http://192.168.178.23:3128 ftp_proxy=http://192.168.178.23:3128 -Gene On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Gene gh5...@gmail.com wrote: Squid can work as an FTP proxy, and I imagine in your case it probably

Re: Help needed: pkg_add dropps connections

2015-02-17 Thread Gene
That is not the extent of the sudo settings. You have to look at the sudoers file to check whether the env settings are kept or not. Try bypassing sudo entirely: $ sudo su - # export http_proxy=http://192.168.178.23:3128 # export ftp_proxy=http://192.168.178.23:3128 # pkg_add -ui -Gene On Tue

Re: Openbsd broke my hard drive twice! Getting frustrated

2015-02-05 Thread Gene
diagnose further. It's not a bug. It's a security feature... -Gene

Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only

2014-12-19 Thread Gene
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Mihai Popescu mih...@gmail.com wrote: Using any OS on top of any virtual machine is like scratching your left year with your right leg as human. What is the noble purpose of doing that? Gee whiz. How incredibly insightful.

Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only

2014-12-16 Thread Gene
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Richard E. Thornton thornton.rich...@gmail.com wrote: So, its a cloud based server farm? What's the point for the typical user? Inexpensive VPS hosting with fast storage. I have one of their small instances (1 vCPU, 512 MB RAM, 20 GB storage) I'm paying

Re: OpenBSD 5.6/current on Soekris 6501-70

2014-12-08 Thread Gene
On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 8:48 PM, jungle Boogie jungleboog...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Gene, On 7 December 2014 at 20:39, Gene gh5...@gmail.com wrote: I mentioned it one of those threads, I have the 2550L2D-MxPC and one of the NICs died after nine months of use. I might just be unlucky, but I

Re: OpenBSD 5.6-current on ASUS Chromebox

2014-12-07 Thread Gene
window manager and play with more desktop stuff. -Gene On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Amit Kulkarni amitk...@gmail.com wrote: Did you have to do anything special to get HDMI to work? thanks On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Gene gh5...@gmail.com wrote: I'm a fan of the ASUS Chromebox hardware

Re: OpenBSD 5.6/current on Soekris 6501-70

2014-12-07 Thread Gene
Search the mailing list history. If you can't find that specific model Soekris you'll likely be able to find information for that NIC chipset (the Intel 82574L). -Gene On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Martin Hanson greencopperm...@yandex.com wrote: Hi, Anyone running OpenBSD 5.6 or current

Re: OpenBSD 5.6/current on Soekris 6501-70

2014-12-07 Thread Gene
I mentioned it one of those threads, I have the 2550L2D-MxPC and one of the NICs died after nine months of use. I might just be unlucky, but I feel its worth mentioning. -Gene On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 8:05 PM, jungle Boogie jungleboog...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Martin, On 7 December 2014 at 18:18

Re: OpenBSD 5.6/current on Soekris 6501-70

2014-12-07 Thread Gene
I misspoke, in both cases. It died on the 14th month. -Gene On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 8:39 PM, Gene gh5...@gmail.com wrote: I mentioned it one of those threads, I have the 2550L2D-MxPC and one of the NICs died after nine months of use. I might just be unlucky, but I feel its worth mentioning

Re: broken links on site

2014-12-07 Thread Gene
Hahaha. When I went to powercrypt.com it sent me to a different site tried to get me to download an Adobe Flash installer, and not from Adobe's website. -Gene On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 6:05 PM, Luiz Roberto dos Santos arrowscr...@mail.com wrote: Hi, Since I don't know if the OpenBSD Project

OpenBSD 5.6-current on ASUS Chromebox

2014-12-03 Thread Gene
4 umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only scsibus4 at umass0: 2 targets, initiator 0 sd1 at scsibus4 targ 1 lun 0: Generic, Power Saving USB, 0260 SCSI0 0/direct removable serial.05e307270260 sd1: 7580MB, 512 bytes/sector, 15523840 sectors -Gene

Re: OpenBSD embedded? (was: OpenBSD 5.6-current on ASUS Chromebox)

2014-12-03 Thread Gene
series has gigabit NICs and a lot more horse power. If you search the mailing list you'll see several mentions for it. What about one of the Open Firmware firewalls like ASUS? Is there an OpenBSD load for those? Instead of Tomato or the likes ... -Gene (p.s. I'm bad at mailing lists

Re: OpenBSD embedded? (was: OpenBSD 5.6-current on ASUS Chromebox)

2014-12-03 Thread Gene
I have one of those. Ran pfSense on it for 9 months and worked great, until one of the built-in NICs died. I've since repurposed the system as a Xen host, the last NIC hasn't died yet, but I can't really recommend it. -Gene On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Chester T. Field chester.t.fi

Soekris net6501-70 as a router+firewall

2013-02-15 Thread Gene
Is anyone here using the Soekris net6501-70 as a router+firewall? If so what kind of performance are you seeing (throughput, PPS, etc)? I'm considering this system for a 30-40 user environment. It will handle web, ssh, voip, and other basic traffic. QoS will be needed. Thanks. -Gene

Re: Soekris net6501-70 as a router+firewall

2013-02-15 Thread Gene
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 9:52 AM, reza r...@lethalnetworks.com wrote: Gene, I've used the PcEngines Alix2d3 board with Freebsd for a similiarly sized office and had good success with it. We had a 30mbit pipe, 30 users, VoIP/QoS and IPSec to our 3 data centers. Doing IPSec around 15mbit

Re: Running OpenBSD on Raspberry Pi

2013-01-09 Thread Gene
*might* be able to get under $100, but it won't be under 5 watts and it will be a jalopy. USB ethernet adapters start around $25 new. -Gene

Re: Current isolation best practices?

2013-01-08 Thread Gene
on an isolated network and forward that X11 session back to your desktop. Or have a different system on your desk to use for web surfing and use a KVM switch. There are several solutions to the problem you've identified. Let me identify another: you're being way too paranoid. -Gene

Re: Running OpenBSD on Raspberry Pi

2013-01-05 Thread Gene
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 12:07 AM, Sean Kamath kam...@moltingpenguin.com wrote: On Jan 3, 2013, at 11:08 AM, Gene gh5...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 1:31 AM, Bruno Flückiger inform...@gmx.net wrote: My personal favorites are the boxes from this small company in Switzerland: http

Re: Running OpenBSD on Raspberry Pi

2013-01-03 Thread Gene
of accessories to go with it. -Gene (if you see this message twice please forgive me, I'm bad at mailing lists)

Re: Flashboot for OpenBSD 5.0 is now available

2011-11-04 Thread Gene
I'll buy this for someone who's willing and capable to port OpenBSD to it: http://ubnt.com/wiki/RouterStation_Pro (I'm vaguely aware of the bad blood that exists between the OpenBSD project and Atheros) -Gene On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Johan Ryberg jo...@securit.se wrote: Sorry but we

Re: Performance problems with OpenBSD 4.9 under ESXi 5

2011-10-28 Thread Gene
. If it occurs again I'll try the other suggestions provided here. -Gene On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 10:09 PM, Gene gh5...@gmail.com wrote: This problem appears to be resolved. By changing the guest os type from FreeBSD (64-bit) to Other (64-bit) these vm guests perform much better. I found out I

Re: USB mouse

2011-10-26 Thread Gene
Ignore all of these guys. They're just mad that OpenBSD doesn't support new hardware. You'll need an adapter to get an USB mouse to work. Something like this: www.amazon.com/dp/B000K04SB2 On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Zantgo zan...@gmail.com wrote: WTF? I use OpenBSD and hate the other

Re: Performance problems with OpenBSD 4.9 under ESXi 5

2011-10-23 Thread Gene
:22AM0:00.13 sshd: gene [priv] (sshd) gene 27682 0.3 0.9 3420 2312 ?? S 11:22AM0:00.55 sshd: gene@ttyp0 (sshd) gene 18431 0.0 0.2 616 492 p0 Ss11:22AM0:00.14 -ksh (ksh) root 23079 0.1 0.2 692 536 p0 S 11:46AM0:00.07 -ksh (ksh) root 19366

Re: Performance problems with OpenBSD 4.9 under ESXi 5

2011-10-23 Thread Gene
the OS types a couple of times to confirm my findings. With the fix in place the CPU utilisation for that vm guest's core did not go above 75%. Once again, thank you for your help everyone. -Gene On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Gene gh5...@gmail.com wrote: This is just an update, I've still

Performance problems with OpenBSD 4.9 under ESXi 5

2011-10-19 Thread Gene
can do to make it work better? I tried disabling mpbios, that did not have an effect. Thanks. -Gene

Re: Performance problems with OpenBSD 4.9 under ESXi 5

2011-10-19 Thread Gene
the messages from boot. Thank you for the replies, it is much appreciated. -Gene On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Johan Ryberg jo...@securit.se wrote: What hardware version did you use? Have you tried different? // Johan 2011/10/19 Gonzalo L. R. gonz...@x61.com.ar: dmesg? On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11

Re: Performance problems with OpenBSD 4.9 under ESXi 5

2011-10-19 Thread Gene
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Joe S js.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Gene gh5...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to run OpenBSD 4.9 (amd64) under VMware vSphere 5 (ESXi 5). I set up four virtual machines with one core, 256 MB of RAM, and 4 GB of disk

Re: Performance problems with OpenBSD 4.9 under ESXi 5

2011-10-19 Thread Gene
in it? On 2011-10-19, Gene gh5...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to run OpenBSD 4.9 (amd64) under VMware vSphere 5 (ESXi 5). I set up four virtual machines with one core, 256 MB of RAM, and 4 GB of disk space each. I used the install49.iso as my installation medium. Aside from the OS installation

Re: Performance problems with OpenBSD 4.9 under ESXi 5

2011-10-19 Thread Gene
When the initial dmesg question was asked (dmesg?) I didn't understand that it was a request for the entire dmesg output. I thought he was asking if errors were showing up in dmesg. I have attached the entirety of a dmesg output. -Gene On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 6:53 PM, James Shupe jsh

Re: Performance problems with OpenBSD 4.9 under ESXi 5

2011-10-19 Thread Gene
I haven't been able to reproduce the problem since this morning. Nothing has been changed on the vmhosts so I'm at a bit of a loss at the moment. When the issue reoccurs I'll try everything that has been suggested today. Thank you very much for your help everyone. -Gene On Wed, Oct 19, 2011