Re: Speed Problems

2007-09-26 Thread Bryan Irvine
What have you looked at? are you running pf? what kind of ruleset? Tried simplifying it? --Bryan On 9/25/07, rezidue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been having problems with throughput on a box I'm using as an edge gateway. I can't seem to get it to push out more than 150Mb/sec at about 20k

Re: Speed Problems

2007-09-26 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 11:57:37PM -0500, rezidue wrote: I've been having problems with throughput on a box I'm using as an edge gateway. I can't seem to get it to push out more than 150Mb/sec at about 20k pps. It's a Tyan Thunder K8SR (S2881) board that has two gig broadcom interfaces on a

Re: SMTP flood + spamdb

2007-09-26 Thread Craig Skinner
Chris Smith wrote: On Tuesday 25 September 2007, Craig Skinner wrote: If you are using postfix: /etc/postfix/main.cf: .. .. smtpd_recipient_restrictions = reject_non_fqdn_hostname reject_invalid_hostname reject_non_fqdn_sender reject_non_fqdn_recipient

Re: spamd shows up as an open relay

2007-09-26 Thread Craig Skinner
Rob wrote: You're right, then. If I explicitly block inbound connections to the outbound mail server (instead of redirecting them), that might fix the problem ... depending on just what kind of check the recipient's mail server is doing. A sending MTA is not required to accept SMTP

Re: SMTP flood + spamdb

2007-09-26 Thread Craig Skinner
RW wrote: What I was getting looked like backscatter and smelled like backscatter it is just that some of the IPs sending it didn't check out as MTAs. i.e. they were not listed MXs for the domain they came from AND the domain was not likely someone with separate outbound senders. They all

9GB Wide SCSI HDDs useful?

2007-09-26 Thread knitti
Hi, we have here six 9GB Wide SCSI HDDs (68 pin), which are of no use to us anymore. Each has been surface-scanned, so (at the moment) they are working well. Details: 4 IBM DDRS-39130 manufactured in October 1998 2 Quantum Atlas IV (should also be from the last century) *If* someone from the

man strnlen mistake?

2007-09-26 Thread Karel Kulhavy
In doing this, strnlen() looks only at the first maxlen characters at s and never beyond s+maxlen. Shouldn't it be never beyond s+maxlen-1? CL

Re: SMTP flood + spamdb

2007-09-26 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Craig Skinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 'bots getting smart eh? Bugger! If that is the trend, greylisting starts to lose its value as spammers adapt to the RFCs. If they adapt to greylisting and start following relevant RFCs, we've succeeded in making spamming more expensive. I don't see that

Cannot fork

2007-09-26 Thread Edd Barrett
Hi all, Yesterday my workstation started doing this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:eddlocal ifconfig ksh: cannot fork - try again It usually only lasts a couple of minutes, but during which time the machine is pretty useless. Top tells me that I have 500MB of RAM free, and that the OS has not even started

Re: spamd shows up as an open relay

2007-09-26 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 02:50:41PM -0700, Rob said that We just ran across an odd intermittent problem with email that we traced back to spamd showing up as an open relay. I double-checked the documentation and mailing list archives and didn't find anything relevant. dnsstuff.com is

Re: Speed Problems

2007-09-26 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/09/25 23:57, rezidue wrote: I've been having problems with throughput on a box I'm using as an edge gateway. dmesg and vmstat -i might give clues. Also try bsd.mp if you use bsd (or vice-versa), and Claudio's suggestion of 4.2 is a good one.

Re: Cannot fork

2007-09-26 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Edd Barrett wrote: Hi all, Yesterday my workstation started doing this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:eddlocal ifconfig ksh: cannot fork - try again It usually only lasts a couple of minutes, but during which time the machine is pretty useless. you sure you've not got your maximum number of

Re: spamd shows up as an open relay

2007-09-26 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 11:22:23AM +0200, frantisek holop said that dnsstuff.com is great to have a look what an admin left out/forgot/doesn't know :D i was quite dismayed too when it showed me as an open relay... (http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=obiit.org) sorry,

Re: Cannot fork

2007-09-26 Thread Markus Lude
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 10:11:57AM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote: Hi all, Yesterday my workstation started doing this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:eddlocal ifconfig ksh: cannot fork - try again It usually only lasts a couple of minutes, but during which time the machine is pretty useless. Top tells

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Re: SMTP flood + spamdb

2007-09-26 Thread Liviu Daia
On 26 September 2007, Craig Skinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RW wrote: What I was getting looked like backscatter and smelled like backscatter it is just that some of the IPs sending it didn't check out as MTAs. i.e. they were not listed MXs for the domain they came from AND the domain

wi driver: maximal output power question

2007-09-26 Thread Marcus Andree
Dear all, First, let me say a big hello to everyone here. I've been out of this list for almost three years... Just came back less than a week ago and Chuck Yerkes is sorely missing... I don't know if this question will be better answered here or on [EMAIL PROTECTED] After reading an email

Re: The Atheros story ... Rui trolling again.

2007-09-26 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra [EMAIL PROTECTED] lol it's always bullshit when it's not convenient to you, right? and you are a troll. can you please troll around somewhere else, you are wasting precious magnetic domains. eris will not set you free, she will eat you alive. -sm

Re: Cannot fork

2007-09-26 Thread Edd Barrett
On 26/09/2007, Markus Lude [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You have reached the limit of the maximal allowed processes run by you. Correct I am only allowed 64. A quick login class switch to staff should fix this. Thanks for the help. -- Best Regards Edd

Re: OpenBSD on decTOP?

2007-09-26 Thread Diana Eichert
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Jonathan Gray wrote: SNIP There has been at least one dmesg submitted for these, Did you see any serial ports detected in the dmesg? If so how many? thanks diana

Re: SMTP flood + spamdb

2007-09-26 Thread Damien Miller
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Liviu Daia wrote: Greylisting is trivial to bypass, with or without a queue: just send the same messages twice. Some spammers have figured that out long ago. Ever wondered why sometimes you receive 2 or 3 copies of the same spam, from the same IP, with the same

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-26 Thread Gilles Chehade
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 02:32:05PM +0200, Siegbert Marschall wrote: You don't seem to get the fact that I'm not even talking about what's more or less free (in your definition). The BSD has fewer requirements, but it allows some users to not have the freedoms you claim to defend. ROTFL. I

hoststated and remote ip address

2007-09-26 Thread holger glaess
hi i run the hoststated and ic have a small problem. my config are table hobbithosts { #check http /ldirector.html code 200 check icmp timeout 300 real port 443 host $hobbit_predmz_ip } service hobbit01 { virtual host $hobbit_dmz_ip port 443

Re: OpenBSD on decTOP?

2007-09-26 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/09/26 06:38, Diana Eichert wrote: On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Jonathan Gray wrote: SNIP There has been at least one dmesg submitted for these, Did you see any serial ports detected in the dmesg? If so how many? none showing.

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-26 Thread ttw+bsd
but it allows some users to not have the freedoms you claim to defend. think you'll struggle to find people here who claim to defend freedom. personally, i'm a believer and practitioner, i leave the defending to the mis-guided and the hypocrites.

Re: OpenBSD on decTOP?

2007-09-26 Thread David Redhouse
On 26/09/2007, Diana Eichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Jonathan Gray wrote: SNIP There has been at least one dmesg submitted for these, Did you see any serial ports detected in the dmesg? If so how many? T'was mine: OpenBSD 4.2 (GENERIC) #375: Tue Aug 28 10:38:44 MDT

Re: SMTP flood + spamdb

2007-09-26 Thread Liviu Daia
On 26 September 2007, Damien Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Liviu Daia wrote: Greylisting is trivial to bypass, with or without a queue: just send the same messages twice. Some spammers have figured that out long ago. Ever wondered why sometimes you receive 2 or

Re: OpenBSD on decTOP?

2007-09-26 Thread Diana Eichert
according to the datasheet for the CS5535 there are 2 UARTS on the chip. http://www.amd.com/files/connectivitysolutions/geode/geode_gx/31506_cs5535_databook.pdf that would suck if it was permanently disabled diana

Re: SMTP flood + spamdb

2007-09-26 Thread Craig Skinner
Liviu Daia wrote: How does spamd distinguish between a legitimate retry and a re-injection of the same message with the same Message-Id, sender etc.? It doesn't. Just what you described would probably be within the default 25 mins grey period. Another delivery attempt would be needed

Re: SMTP flood + spamdb

2007-09-26 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Liviu Daia wrote: On 26 September 2007, Damien Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Liviu Daia wrote: Greylisting is trivial to bypass, with or without a queue: just send the same messages twice. Some spammers have figured that out long ago.

Re: OpenBSD on decTOP?

2007-09-26 Thread Diana Eichert
hmmm, further reading of the data sheet makes me wonder if the serial UART is at address 2E8H for com3, if so that is disabled in GENERIC. #pccom3 at isa? port 0x2e8 irq 9# (conflicts with some video cards) I'm not completely familiar with the device scan when the kernel is loaded.

Re: SMTP flood + spamdb

2007-09-26 Thread Liviu Daia
On 26 September 2007, Craig Skinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Liviu Daia wrote: How does spamd distinguish between a legitimate retry and a re-injection of the same message with the same Message-Id, sender etc.? It doesn't. Just what you described would probably be within the

Re: OpenBSD on decTOP?

2007-09-26 Thread Markus Hennecke
Diana Eichert schrieb: hmmm, further reading of the data sheet makes me wonder if the serial UART is at address 2E8H for com3, if so that is disabled in GENERIC. #pccom3 at isa? port 0x2e8 irq 9# (conflicts with some video cards) I'm not completely familiar with the device scan when the

Re: SMTP flood + spamdb

2007-09-26 Thread Luca Corti
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 17:02 +0300, Liviu Daia wrote: Another delivery attempt would be needed after this time to pass spamd. Moral: randomize the greylisting time... Between which min/max valuse? Keep in mind that this corresponds to the (minimum) delay introduced in delivering a good

Re: SMTP flood + spamdb

2007-09-26 Thread Craig Skinner
Liviu Daia wrote: Why should it? The second copy is sent in a separate run, that's the whole point. The only thing the bot has to figure out is how long to wait until the second run. A smart one would send a second copy after 10 minutes, and a third one after, say, 35 minutes. OK, but

Re: SMTP flood + spamdb

2007-09-26 Thread Liviu Daia
On 26 September 2007, Luca Corti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 17:02 +0300, Liviu Daia wrote: Another delivery attempt would be needed after this time to pass spamd. Moral: randomize the greylisting time... Between which min/max valuse? Keep in mind that this

Re: OpenBSD on decTOP?

2007-09-26 Thread Diana Eichert
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Markus Hennecke wrote: As it won't probe on port 0x2e8 it will not find it. Thats why it was disabled, the probe will have negative effects on other hardware. Greetings Markus that's what I assumed, but I thought I'd ask anyway. thanks

Re: SMTP flood + spamdb

2007-09-26 Thread Liviu Daia
On 26 September 2007, Liviu Daia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26 September 2007, Luca Corti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 17:02 +0300, Liviu Daia wrote: Another delivery attempt would be needed after this time to pass spamd. Moral: randomize the greylisting

Re: SMTP flood + spamdb

2007-09-26 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Liviu Daia [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why should it? The second copy is sent in a separate run, that's the whole point. The only thing the bot has to figure out is how long to wait until the second run. A smart one would send a second copy after 10 minutes, and a third one after, say,

Re: SMTP flood + spamdb

2007-09-26 Thread Craig Skinner
Liviu Daia wrote: That's up to you. The minimum should be large enough to keep away naive bots, as it does now. The maximum should be as large as you can afford without being too anti-social. :) Some crap will still pass through anyway. The maximum should also leave plenty of time

Re: SMTP flood + spamdb

2007-09-26 Thread Dave Anderson
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Liviu Daia wrote: On 26 September 2007, Craig Skinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Liviu Daia wrote: How does spamd distinguish between a legitimate retry and a re-injection of the same message with the same Message-Id, sender etc.? It doesn't. Just what you

Re: SMTP flood + spamdb

2007-09-26 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/09/26 11:03, Dave Anderson wrote: Or take advantage of the (by default) 25 minute window to use other means to detect that this address is sending spam. Perhaps spamd should be extended to look for excessive attempts to send messages from an address during that period? google:

Re: SMTP flood + spamdb

2007-09-26 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Dave Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Or take advantage of the (by default) 25 minute window to use other means to detect that this address is sending spam. Perhaps spamd should be extended to look for excessive attempts to send messages from an address during that period? (How often do

Re: Internet slowdown when pf is enabled? Running on i386 -current

2007-09-26 Thread Reza Muhammad
I know it's weird that's why I posted this in the first place :P anyway, the OpenBSD gateway is running web server (apache+php), and mail server (postfix+dovecot). The thing is, it doesn't seem there are alot of connections from those daemons. and like i said before, if i tried to connect to

Re: Porting OpenBSD to OLPC XO laptops.

2007-09-26 Thread Paul de Weerd
[diverted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 08:08:41AM -0700, big one wrote: | OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) had released XO AMD Geode LX Laptops | using G1G1 (Buy 2 Get 1). One laptop will be sent to the buyer and the | 2nd laptop will be sent to a child in a poor, developing country. |

Loading PF after ppp

2007-09-26 Thread Amit Finkler
I connect to the internet using pppoe(8) by putting the following line in /etc/rc.local.conf: ppp -ddial pppoe However, the pf rules load before I have an internet connection and therefore pfctl reports an error. How does one load PF after ppp? Amit.

Re: SMTP flood + spamdb

2007-09-26 Thread Luca Corti
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 17:38 +0300, Liviu Daia wrote: That's up to you. The minimum should be large enough to keep away naive bots, as it does now. The maximum should be as large as you can afford without being too anti-social. :) Some crap will still pass through anyway. Sometimes is

Re: SMTP flood + spamdb

2007-09-26 Thread Luca Corti
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 16:01 +0100, Craig Skinner wrote: The defaults work very well: See: http://www.ualberta.ca/~beck/nycbug06/spamd/mgp1.html Hear: http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbsdcon06/2.4.mp3 Maybe this also has to do with amount and type of traffic you get. Small shops are

OpenBSD configuration file for Samhain

2007-09-26 Thread Siju George
Hi, I got Samhain http://www.la-samhna.de/samhain/ installed on a 4.1 The default configuration file for it is written for a FreeBSD system. Are there people out there who use Samhain on OpenBSD if so could you please help me tune the configuration file to use it with OpenBSD. The default

Re: Internet slowdown when pf is enabled? Running on i386 -current

2007-09-26 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/09/26 22:32, Reza Muhammad wrote: Would a tcpdump log be any helpful at this point? maybe; try ifconfig pfsync0 create and tcpdump -nipfsync0 -vvs1000 inserts 280924 1221.4/s removals 280226 1218.4/s expect it

Re: Loading PF after ppp

2007-09-26 Thread Martin Schröder
2007/9/26, Amit Finkler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: How does one load PF after ppp? By using ppp.linkup cat /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup MYADDR: !bg sh -c /sbin/pfctl -e -f /etc/pf.conf Best Martin

Re: Loading PF after ppp

2007-09-26 Thread Cezary Morga
I connect to the internet using pppoe(8) by putting the following line in /etc/rc.local.conf: ppp -ddial pppoe However, the pf rules load before I have an internet connection and therefore pfctl reports an error. How does one load PF after ppp? Being in the same situation I had not

Re: spamd shows up as an open relay

2007-09-26 Thread Bob Beck
I'm not 100% certain I'm getting your idea here ... we do currently run inbound/outbound mail on different IPs, but the problem isn't with the connections themselves. From the example session transcript with spamd that I posted earlier: 250 Hello, spam sender. Pleased to be wasting your

Re: Loading PF after ppp

2007-09-26 Thread Andreas Maus
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 05:54:58PM +0200, Amit Finkler wrote: I connect to the internet using pppoe(8) by putting the following line in /etc/rc.local.conf: ppp -ddial pppoe However, the pf rules load before I have an internet connection and therefore pfctl reports an error. How does

Re: SMTP flood + spamdb

2007-09-26 Thread Liviu Daia
On 26 September 2007, Peter N. M. Hansteen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Liviu Daia [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why should it? The second copy is sent in a separate run, that's the whole point. The only thing the bot has to figure out is how long to wait until the second run. A smart one

Re: Loading PF after ppp

2007-09-26 Thread Stuart Henderson
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 05:54:58PM +0200, Amit Finkler wrote: I connect to the internet using pppoe(8) by putting the following line in /etc/rc.local.conf: ppp -ddial pppoe However, the pf rules load before I have an internet connection and therefore pfctl reports an error.

Re: SMTP flood + spamdb

2007-09-26 Thread Bob Beck
Oh, I'm not saying it doesn't work. What I'm saying is, greylisting is trivial to bypass, and some spammers have figured that out. Amazingly, most of them still haven't, which is why it still works in a significant number of cases. greylisting does what it does. It delays the

Re: SMTP flood + spamdb

2007-09-26 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Liviu Daia wrote: Same, 28 minutes later: Sep 25 18:42:52 ns1 postfix-localhost/smtpd[13055]: 72BCD142A7: client=unknown[212.239.40.101] Sep 25 18:42:53 ns1 postfix/cleanup[21622]: 72BCD142A7: message-id=[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sep 25 18:42:53 ns1 postfix/qmgr[1554]:

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Re: Speed Problems

2007-09-26 Thread Tom Bombadil
Hi Claudio... What does 'net.inet.ip.ifq.maxlen=256' do for us? Tried a few 'man', and a few google searches and I wasn't very successful. Found tons of other posts telling ppl to bump up that sysctl, but never found what it does exactly. Cheers, g.

Re: Porting OpenBSD to OLPC XO laptops.

2007-09-26 Thread Joshua Smith
Maybe I've missed something but what makes it impossible to write a device driver for the Wireless chipset? -Josh On 9/26/07, Paul de Weerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [diverted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 08:08:41AM -0700, big one wrote: | OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) had

Re: SMTP flood + spamdb

2007-09-26 Thread Liviu Daia
On 26 September 2007, Jeremy C. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Liviu Daia wrote: Same, 28 minutes later: Sep 25 18:42:52 ns1 postfix-localhost/smtpd[13055]: 72BCD142A7: client=unknown[212.239.40.101] Sep 25 18:42:53 ns1 postfix/cleanup[21622]: 72BCD142A7:

Re: SMTP flood + spamdb

2007-09-26 Thread Liviu Daia
On 26 September 2007, Bob Beck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, I'm not saying it doesn't work. What I'm saying is, greylisting is trivial to bypass, and some spammers have figured that out. Amazingly, most of them still haven't, which is why it still works in a significant number of

Re: Porting OpenBSD to OLPC XO laptops.

2007-09-26 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 26/09/2007, Paul de Weerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [diverted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 08:08:41AM -0700, big one wrote: | OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) had released XO AMD Geode LX Laptops | using G1G1 (Buy 2 Get 1). One laptop will be sent to the buyer and the | 2nd

Re: Porting OpenBSD to OLPC XO laptops.

2007-09-26 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/09/26 13:58, Joshua Smith wrote: Maybe I've missed something but what makes it impossible to write a device driver for the Wireless chipset? not impossible, but I think it was fiddly. it's malo(4), isn't it? there's the usual silly games with firmware files too, you need to get them

Re: Porting OpenBSD to OLPC XO laptops.

2007-09-26 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 26/09/2007, Joshua Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I've missed something but what makes it impossible to write a device driver for the Wireless chipset? Nothing is impossible, but the problem is that so many parts of the OLPC hardware are proprietary and without readily available

Re: Internet slowdown when pf is enabled? Running on i386 -current

2007-09-26 Thread Can E. Acar
Reza Muhammad wrote: Hi guys, I'm having a problem with my Internet connection in my home network. I noticed that \ my Internet connection has been very slow since I upgraded to -current a week ago. \ First, I thought it was just my ISP problem. Then, I tried to connect to the \

4.2 and compactflash

2007-09-26 Thread Chris Cohen
Hi, maybe this is a bit off-topic, but: I'm planning to upgrade my firewall box which is running 4.1-STABLE on a 512Mb Kingston compactflash card to 4.2 on a 1-2gb (also Kingston) cf card. Currently I have / mounted ro and /var and /etc on an mfs which can be tricky... Question is: do I still

Re: Speed Problems

2007-09-26 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 10:48:02AM -0700, Tom Bombadil wrote: Hi Claudio... What does 'net.inet.ip.ifq.maxlen=256' do for us? Tried a few 'man', and a few google searches and I wasn't very successful. Found tons of other posts telling ppl to bump up that sysctl, but never found what it

Re: Speed Problems

2007-09-26 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/09/26 10:48, Tom Bombadil wrote: What does 'net.inet.ip.ifq.maxlen=256' do for us? try http://archive.openbsd.nu/?ml=openbsd-techa=2006-10t=2474666

Re: 4.2 and compactflash

2007-09-26 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 9/26/07, Chris Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question is: do I still need to mount / ro on current cf cards or do they have enough write cycles? Go ahead and mount rw. I've put a couple of terabytes through a 256M card with iogen, and it's doing fine. The wear-leveling mechanisms on the

Re: You can't export non-ffs filesystems with NFS, and it isn't documented

2007-09-26 Thread Alexander Hall
[ Answering to a post from two and a half years back. :-) I was fiddling with nfs and stuff and remembered this thread. While reading it, I found out what the problem was. I realize (or at least hope) that Han is not still troubleshooting this issue, but for the archives... :-) ] Han

Re: Speed Problems

2007-09-26 Thread Tom Bombadil
net.inet.ip.ifq.maxlen defines how many packets can be queued in the IP input queue before further packets are dropped. Packets comming from the network card are first put into this queue and the actuall IP packet processing is done later. Gigabit cards with interrupt mitigation may spit out

Re: Speed Problems

2007-09-26 Thread rezidue
Hopefully this makes it through , I've been trying to post comments all day but they don't seem to make it here. To Bryan, I wasn't running pf originally when I noticed this problem but I am now just to block ssh from the outside. I've disabled and re-enabled pf to see if it affects throughput

Speed Problems Part 2

2007-09-26 Thread rezidue
For some reason I can't seem to reply to the earlier responses. Hopefully this gets through. On 9/26/07, Bryan Irvine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What have you looked at? are you running pf? what kind of ruleset? Tried simplifying it? --Bryan I wasn't running pf originally when I

Re: 4.2 and compactflash

2007-09-26 Thread Chris Cohen
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 21:17:00 Chris Kuethe wrote: On 9/26/07, Chris Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question is: do I still need to mount / ro on current cf cards or do they have enough write cycles? Go ahead and mount rw. I've put a couple of terabytes through a 256M card with

Re: Porting OpenBSD to OLPC XO laptops.

2007-09-26 Thread Martin Reindl
Paul de Weerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [diverted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 08:08:41AM -0700, big one wrote: | OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) had released XO AMD Geode LX Laptops | using G1G1 (Buy 2 Get 1). One laptop will be sent to the buyer and the | 2nd laptop will be

Re: SMTP flood + spamdb

2007-09-26 Thread Rob
Oh, I'm not saying it doesn't work. What I'm saying is, greylisting is trivial to bypass, and some spammers have figured that out. Amazingly, most of them still haven't, which is why it still works in a significant number of cases. Just to give an additional data point here: I work for

Re: SMTP flood + spamdb

2007-09-26 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hi! On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 02:03:03PM -0700, Rob wrote: [...] While watching the connection logs, I've noticed that a large majority of spammers get the first spamd response (250 Hello, spam sender. Pleased to be wasting your time.) and immediately disconnect. This suggests to me that rather

Re: SMTP flood + spamdb

2007-09-26 Thread Rob
Hannah, On 9/26/07, Hannah Schroeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 02:03:03PM -0700, Rob wrote: [...] While watching the connection logs, I've noticed that a large majority of spammers get the first spamd response (250 Hello, spam sender. Pleased to be wasting your

Re: SMTP flood + spamdb

2007-09-26 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would guess the latter too, except that they tend to wait the full default 10 seconds until the first 250 response. I'm looking forward to increasing the stutter time to something on the order of 60 seconds and watching to see what happens then. I have reports

Re: SMTP flood + spamdb

2007-09-26 Thread RW
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:26:22 +0200, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: Or take advantage of the (by default) 25 minute window to use other means to detect that this address is sending spam. Perhaps spamd should be extended to look for excessive attempts to send messages from an address during that

Re: Porting OpenBSD to OLPC XO laptops.

2007-09-26 Thread Floor Terra
On Sep 26, 2007, at 5:08 PM, big one wrote: OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) had released XO AMD Geode LX Laptops using G1G1 (Buy 2 Get 1). One laptop will be sent to the buyer and the 2nd laptop will be sent to a child in a poor, developing country. According to Mr Theo de Raadt from OpenBSD,

Re: Speed Problems Part 2

2007-09-26 Thread Tobias Weingartner
rezidue wrote: kern.version=OpenBSD 4.0-stable (GENERIC.MP) #0: Thu Mar 15 07:28:19 CST Just for the hell of it, try running GENERIC, instead of GENERIC.MP. --Toby.

Re: Speed Problems Part 2

2007-09-26 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/09/26 13:50, rezidue wrote: Order a 4.2 CD and install it as soon as you get it. 4.2 removed many bottlenecks in the network stack. In the meanwhile check out for the ip ifq len: # sysctl net.inet.ip.ifq net.inet.ip.ifq.len=0 net.inet.ip.ifq.maxlen=256

Re: OpenBSD on decTOP?

2007-09-26 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 08:47:04AM -0600, Diana Eichert wrote: On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Markus Hennecke wrote: As it won't probe on port 0x2e8 it will not find it. Thats why it was disabled, the probe will have negative effects on other hardware. Greetings Markus that's what I assumed,

AX.25

2007-09-26 Thread Christopher Snell
It's been a few years since anybody has asked this. Is anybody working on an AX.25 implementation for OpenBSD? Just passed my Extra exam and would like to start doing some packet radio soon. Would love to put OpenBSD 23km up like this guy did with Linux: http://vpizza.org/~jmeehan/balloon/

Re: Porting OpenBSD to OLPC XO laptops.

2007-09-26 Thread Jonathan Gray
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 01:58:16PM -0400, Joshua Smith wrote: Maybe I've missed something but what makes it impossible to write a device driver for the Wireless chipset? -Josh No one said it is impossible, it is just far harder than it should be due to a lack of documentation and companies

Re: OpenBSD on decTOP?

2007-09-26 Thread Diana Eichert
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 08:47:04AM -0600, Diana Eichert wrote: On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Markus Hennecke wrote: As it won't probe on port 0x2e8 it will not find it. Thats why it was disabled, the probe will have negative effects on other hardware.

Re: Internet slowdown when pf is enabled? Running on i386 -current

2007-09-26 Thread Reza Muhammad
Here's the log: 10:12:28.738263 UPD ST: all 6 122.200.52.134:22 - 125.160.128.35:60387 ESTABLISHED:ESTABLISHED [1381080430 + 65535] wscale 0 [3262031687 + 17040] wscale 0 age 3812101632:33:20, expires in 00:00:00, 482:293 pkts, 38584:35992 bytes id: 46facdc5804b creatorid:

Re: Internet slowdown when pf is enabled? Running on i386 -current

2007-09-26 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/09/27 10:16, Reza Muhammad wrote: Here's the log: Can's suggestion to block the incoming packets on sis0 is good. The problem is caused because you receive a lot of junk traffic from your ISP's network. Since OpenBSD 4.1, PF uses 'keep state' by default (this avoids some problems with

Quotas cause system freeze on 4.1 AMD64 (raid1)

2007-09-26 Thread Matt
Running 4.1 generic kernel w. RAID1 on AMD64. Checking a users quota freezes the system and renders it useless. I have implemented quotas like described in the FAQ 1) alter /etc/fstab: /dev/raid0f /var ffs rw,userquota,softdep,nodev 1 2 -- This is a 60GB slice 2) create a test quota file

Re: Internet slowdown when pf is enabled? Running on i386 -current

2007-09-26 Thread Reza Muhammad
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:37:28 -0700, Can E. Acar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reza Muhammad wrote: ... also There is a lot of external broadcast traffic they are probably the cause of the large number of state insertions/deletions. They are either a badly designed p2p/broadcast/whatever