Layer 2 Fail-over w/ CARP?

2007-04-28 Thread Clint Pachl
I was working on a network design and was wondering if CARP can provide fail-over for a group of layer 2 firewalls? I was thinking one could just associate an interface using carpdev without specifying the IP address or netmask. Would that work? firewall 1 # ifconfig bridge0 create #

Sierra Aigu saw this pledge and thought of you

2007-04-28 Thread Sierra Aigu
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Listen to spanport from another box

2007-04-28 Thread michel bédard
Hi, I've installed OpenBSD as a bridge to allow network monitoring for my network. So, I put 3 network cards inside the box. Two cards are actually part of the bridge. The third one is a spanport that takes all the traffic from the bridge. The purpose is to listen on the spanport from

OSPF + BGP + emX watchdog timeout - box freezes

2007-04-28 Thread Falk Brockerhoff
Hello, I played around with two boxes and installed OpenBSD 4.1 from CD, configured OSPF und BGP between this two boxes (I connected them via a crossover cable) and finally tested everything doing a reboot: both boxes are booting fine 'till the login-prompt. But one of the two boxes always

Re: Layer 2 Fail-over w/ CARP?

2007-04-28 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/04/28 04:17, Clint Pachl wrote: I was working on a network design and was wondering if CARP can provide fail-over for a group of layer 2 firewalls? I was thinking one could just associate an interface using carpdev without specifying the IP address or netmask. Would that work?

Virtual consoles : device not configured, ultrasparc IIi

2007-04-28 Thread Pierre-Etienne Meunier
Hi, I'm trying to install openbsd on an ultrasparc IIi, and I need to run an X server on it. Unfortunately, I can't get several consoles : # echo Hi, console /dev/ttyC0 Hi, console # echo Are you configured ?/dev/ttyC1 ksh: cannot create /dev/ttyC1 : Device not configured Is this a bug, or

Re: Binary kernel and base update

2007-04-28 Thread Maurice Janssen
On Thursday, April 19, 2007 at 23:45:51 +0200, Maurice Janssen wrote: Some progress was made in the last couple of days. First results are up at ftp://ftp.su.se/pub/mirrors/openbsd_stable/ I hope to add amd64, alpha and hppa in the near future. I don't have the hardware to build other

Re: Layer 2 Fail-over w/ CARP?

2007-04-28 Thread Darren Spruell
On 4/28/07, Clint Pachl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was working on a network design and was wondering if CARP can provide fail-over for a group of layer 2 firewalls? At layer 2, shouldn't spanning tree handle redundant paths correctly? Besides, by all indications in carp(4) it is only a method

Re: : HP ProLiant DL140 G3 problems

2007-04-28 Thread Darth Lists
No. Basic 80x25 console redirection is free. You only need to pay for the graphical interface bit. Honestly, it blows big-time compared to a real serial console since it has a more or less useless scroll-back buffer. I have only ever used the iLO console for the initial installation

more, vs less, for default man pager - why?

2007-04-28 Thread Jeffrey 'jf' Lim
hi, folks, i've been thinking about this for some time now, but havent actually figured it out - is there any reason why more should be preferred over less as the default MANPAGER? I cant think of any reasons myself, and just recently discovered that 'more' is the same binary as 'less' as well!

acpi vaio lcd brightness driver

2007-04-28 Thread giovanni
hello, because I could not change the excessive lcd brightness of my laptop under openbsd I started searching for... this article http://www.linux.it/~malattia/wiki/index.php/Sony-laptop was the inspiration and I wrote this humble basic driver. here it works well and I think it should also

Re: Virtual consoles : device not configured, ultrasparc IIi

2007-04-28 Thread Maxime DERCHE
Hello. This is not a bug, according to http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq7.html#SwitchConsole this is not possible on OpenBSD/sparc64. Best regards, Maxime DERCHE Pierre-Etienne Meunier wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install openbsd on an ultrasparc IIi, and I need to run an X server on it.

Re: Virtual consoles : device not configured, ultrasparc IIi

2007-04-28 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 05:30:52PM +0200, Pierre-Etienne Meunier wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install openbsd on an ultrasparc IIi, and I need to run an X server on it. Unfortunately, I can't get several consoles : # echo Hi, console /dev/ttyC0 Hi, console # echo Are you configured

Re: more, vs less, for default man pager - why?

2007-04-28 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 09:46:32PM +0800, Jeffrey 'jf' Lim wrote: So it's just a difference in prompt, and behaviour when the pager gets to the end of the file? does anybody have any insight into this issue? I think it's just always been that way in UNIX, there are valid points on both sides of

Re: Binary kernel and base update

2007-04-28 Thread Rico Secada
On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 02:35:06 +0100 mal content [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 28/04/07, Maurice Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday, April 19, 2007 at 23:45:51 +0200, Maurice Janssen wrote: Some progress was made in the last couple of days. First results are up at

gnu EDA on open BSD?

2007-04-28 Thread JOHN LUCKEY
Has anyone used the gnu Electronics Design Automation package on open BSD? If so, what problems? I really don't to blaze a new trail, but would really like to use a good stable BSD. See gda at www.geda.seul.orghttp://www.geda.seul.org/ John

bgpd crash

2007-04-28 Thread Jon Morby
I've updated to the latest snapshot and am seeing the following from bgpd Apr 29 03:35:18 l3-c1 bgpd[28142]: fatal in RDE: aspath_count: bula bula Apr 29 03:35:18 l3-c1 bgpd[30043]: Lost child: route decision engine exited Apr 29 03:35:18 l3-c1 bgpd[765]: fatal in SE: pipe write error:

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Re: gnu EDA on open BSD?

2007-04-28 Thread Andreas Bihlmaier
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 08:12:31PM -0700, JOHN LUCKEY wrote: Has anyone used the gnu Electronics Design Automation package on open BSD? If so, what problems? I really don't to blaze a new trail, but would really like to use a good stable BSD. See gda at