Re: Specs for a firewall.

2011-03-01 Thread Michael Grigoni
On 1 Mar 2011 at 21:19, SJP Lists wrote: With my link at about 12Mbit/S worth of web traffic and altq keeping my VoIP calls nice and clean, my Soekris 5501 with OpenBSD 4.6 hovers around 85% idle. Would you please describe what you do for inbound traffic shaping / rate limiting; do you route

Re: confusion over getrusage(2)

2010-12-29 Thread Michael Grigoni
On 29 Dec 2010 at 14:25, patsy wrote: Hello list, I have written a program and would like to trace its memory usage as it runs and output the data to a file for easy logging/comparison/graphing. getrusage(2) looks as though it would be appropriate for this. Unfortunately I seem to be

Re: Architeture Choose

2010-11-07 Thread Michael Grigoni
On 7 Nov 2010 at 11:32, Henning Brauer wrote: even the really ancient ipxes are pbly still ok. can't be bothered to check tho. Still using several ipxes here, online 24/7, one is the obsd border router.

Re: European orders - Thank you Theo and your team, some of us appreciate you!

2009-04-30 Thread Michael Grigoni
Steve Fairhead wrote: snip Second, you mentioned embedded work, which is my main work area. Yes, embedded stuff needs to be stable long-term - but the Internet isn't: threats change, and OpenBSD evolves. A classic solution to that (which I've used) is to simply accept that the legacy embedded

Re: European orders - Thank you Theo and your team, some of us appreciate you!

2009-04-30 Thread Michael Grigoni
Henning Brauer wrote: * Michael Grigoni michael.grig...@cybertheque.org [2009-04-30 19:51]: snip we do not tend to drop support for hardware. happens for really really ancient stuff (10years) from time to time, but even that seldom. In the context of this discussion, the hardware is about

Re: European orders - Thank you Theo and your team,some of us appreciate you!

2009-04-30 Thread Michael Grigoni
to this, but hey: Michael Grigoni wrote: William Chivers wrote: Thank you Theo and your team of developers for OpenBSD. snip I also add my thanks to the discussion. I do have a fundamental question to pose however... snip First, let me add my thanks to Theo and the guys

Re: European orders - Thank you Theo and your team, some of us appreciate you!

2009-03-30 Thread Michael Grigoni
William Chivers wrote: Hello, Thank you Theo and your team of developers for OpenBSD. Some people responding to the European Orders thread seem to have lost sight of what OpenBSD is and who develops it. I am a bit of a newbie here (although I have been using computers in my career since

Re: Silly serial console question

2009-02-10 Thread Michael Grigoni
Nick Bender wrote: snip Teletype (tty) # # These are the hardcopy Teletypes from before ATT bought the company, # clattering electromechanical dinosaurs in Bakelite cases that printed on # pulpy yellow roll paper. If you remember these you go back a ways. # Teletype-branded VDTs are

Bad State errors (stalling http connections) on PF/NAT

2009-01-26 Thread Michael Grigoni
Greetings, Our obsd border router has worked for years with our PF ruleset, but sometime in the middle of January, we discovered that our webpages were stalling when viewed 'externally' (from remote Internet clients) but not internally; the webserver is a box on the 10.0.0.0/24 internal LAN that

Re: Bad State errors (stalling http connections) on PF/NAT

2009-01-26 Thread Michael Grigoni
(second posting attempt, it didn't appear on the list at my end) Michael Grigoni wrote: Greetings, Our obsd border router has worked for years with our PF ruleset, but sometime in the middle of January, we discovered that our webpages were stalling when viewed 'externally' (from remote

isakmpd: how to add flow from distant lan to gateway host running the daemon?

2006-05-15 Thread Michael Grigoni
much appreciated. Regards, Michael Grigoni Cybertheque Museum