Re: Thanks Jacek Artymiak: Book PDF's

2010-04-15 Thread Mark Smith
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Bill Dunshie gho...@suddenlink.net wrote: A huge Thanks to Jacek Artymiak for the PDF's of Building Firewalls with OpenBSD and PF, 3rd ed. and The OpenBSD Command-LineCompanion. The wait was worth it !!! Link or didn't happen.

Re: dhclient regression? 4.3 - 4.4

2008-11-30 Thread Mark Smith
On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 15:23 -0500, System Administrator wrote: The two configuration files are shown below. The only significant difference is in how the alternate location uses a non-zero key index. working hostname.rum0 (in primary location): dhcp nwid HOME nwkey HomeWEPString

Re: Disappointment: New browser - *sigh*

2008-09-04 Thread Mark Smith
Tomas Bodzar wrote: Eh? What about New browser are you talking? ;-) I don't know,that lynx(1) which is in base (! ;-)) has option about:plugins . All others are not in base,just option and every user of OpenBSD know,that he/she must be careful about installing SW,which is not in base.

Re: DNS cache poisoning patch and PF

2008-08-12 Thread Mark Smith
Kyle Drake wrote: Regarding the new DNS cache poisoning problems: I was told that the way they resolved the problem was to randomize the source ports. I was wondering if I needed to make any changes to PF firewall, as I'm currently running DNS through a single port (TCP/UDP domain port). I have

Re: Is this an fsck_ffs memory issue?

2008-08-09 Thread Mark Smith
Jan Stary wrote: On Aug 02 20:55:56, Mark Smith wrote: So yes it is a memory issue, your 500G disk is too big for your Alix1c. To be precise: the 500G _filesystem_ is too big, not the disk, right? fsck'ing 10 separate 50g filesystems would be less of a problem, right? jan Yes.

wpi (4) and 4.4

2008-08-07 Thread Mark Smith
Hi guys, I've just seen the we are no longer in -beta commit. Wpi doesn't seem to work with the 06/08 snapshot for me and I don't know if it is the same for other wpi owners out there. It wasn't working a couple of few months ago either and it was reported on this list. There was some

Re: wpi (4) and 4.4

2008-08-07 Thread Mark Smith
Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: If you got wpi working on the latest snapshots could you please let me know in case somehow my setup would be fucked up ... august 5th snapshot working OK with wpi here (as in, no worse than usual), I was just about to upgrade my laptop to the Aug 6th one after

Re: wpi (4) and 4.4

2008-08-07 Thread Mark Smith
Ok so I have done some tests. Was fiddling a little bit with wep/no wep options on my router, lots of $ sudo sh /etc/netstart on the client ... Then got the same fatal errors plus a new error : ifconfig: SIOCS80211CHANNEL: invalid argument Oki so now looks like you don't like the channel I

Re: zyd(4) {xfer,frame} too short (length=XX)

2008-08-03 Thread Mark Smith
Pau wrote: The guy who sold me the thingamabob (WLAN SET Omni Antenna 9dBi RP-SMA with Minitar MWGUH - USB 54 Mbit) is willing to change it for another one which works for me (i.e. openbsd) Which one would you suggest? Cheers, Pau Hi Pau, If you want something in USB have a look at man

Re: Is this an fsck_ffs memory issue?

2008-08-02 Thread Mark Smith
M. Feenstra wrote: What surprices me is that is hangs the whole system. I can not login, reboot, access the kernel debugger or anything. I can only unplug the power and reboot after issueing this command. Is this caused because the system has no enough memory or am I missing something obvious

Re: Continuation of OpenBSD's Stop the Blob

2008-06-28 Thread Mark Smith
Andre van Zyl wrote: On the contrary, Mark, right now I personally have a higher regard for Thilo, who actually posted an opinion. Dear Andre, We are not at a popularity contest so it's not about having a higher regard for someone, but about technical facts ( -- eepc, documentation). Nor

Re: Continuation of OpenBSD's Stop the Blob

2008-06-27 Thread Mark Smith
Thilo Pfennig wrote: The popularity of Linux has helped to create a market that has better and more open documentation - and machines that are made to work perfect with Linux (like eeepc) are more easily made to work perfectly for OpenBSD and other free OSes. Hehe, thanks for the good laugh !