Re: Perpetually Current

2007-12-28 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Dec 28, 2007 4:07 AM, Ingo Schwarze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Keeping a system up to date involves manual work, either a little easy work for manual upgrades now and then, or lots of hard and scary work for building and maintaining an automatic system. You choose according to your

mfi driver supporting asus SLI mainboards?

2007-12-28 Thread Matthias Tarasiewicz
hello list, i just read that the asus SLI mainboards have a silicon image sata chipset. does that mean we can use this asus mainboards with the mfi driver in openbsd? any experiences? regards, matthias

Re: mfi driver supporting asus SLI mainboards?

2007-12-28 Thread Jonathan Gray
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 11:20:58AM +0100, Matthias Tarasiewicz wrote: hello list, i just read that the asus SLI mainboards have a silicon image sata chipset. does that mean we can use this asus mainboards with the mfi driver in openbsd? any experiences? regards, matthias This is likely

Re: backup firewall connectivity

2007-12-28 Thread Henning Brauer
* Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-28 03:24]: I am wondering, in a dual firewall situation, preemption enabled, carp working just fine (i think), is it normal that the backup firewall (when in backup state) has no connectivity on any of the carped interfaces? that depends wether you

Re: mfi driver supporting asus SLI mainboards?

2007-12-28 Thread Matthias Tarasiewicz
ah, sorry, my bad - the Areca/Tekram TR-822 is said to have the same chipset as the ASUS-A8n-SLI-Deluxe. so the TR-822 seems to be sili not mfi... On 28.12.2007, at 11:48, Jonathan Gray wrote: On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 11:20:58AM +0100, Matthias Tarasiewicz wrote: hello list, i just read that

Re: Linus about C++

2007-12-28 Thread Tom Van Looy
I advise you to read The Art of Unix Programming by Eric Steven Raymond http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch14s04.html#cc_language In this book you can find more about the Unix philosophy, and arguments on why C++ is wrong. - Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: Brian Hansen

glxpcib from apropos has wrong adress

2007-12-28 Thread Markus Bergkvist
apropos on 'glxpcib' gives http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=glxpcibsektion=0manpath=OpenBSD+Currentarch=i386apropos=1format=html which contains a link to 'glxpcib (4/i386)' which is invalid

Re: Linus about C++

2007-12-28 Thread Erik Wikström
On 2007-12-28 07:33, Brian Hansen wrote: [snip] Is he right? Yes and no. First of all you should realise that Linus and most other other kernel hackers are biased. When it comes down to it C++ is not a better or worse language to write a system in than C, it is just a question about how you

Re: Linus about C++

2007-12-28 Thread Marco Peereboom
Wow one comprehensive list of the suckage that is C++. Thanks Miod now I dont need to type examples anymore. On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 07:19:11AM +, Miod Vallat wrote: Is he right? If you just search the archive, even not to long ago, 'few days' you will see pretty much the same

Re: backup firewall connectivity

2007-12-28 Thread Aaron
* Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-28 03:24]: I am wondering, in a dual firewall situation, preemption enabled, carp working just fine (i think), is it normal that the backup firewall (when in backup state) has no connectivity on any of the carped interfaces? that depends wether you

Re: sparc64 on Sun Netra T1 with external CD Drive

2007-12-28 Thread new_guy
Still no go. However, it doesn't appear to be a OpenBSD specific issue. FreeBSD and Debian CD installers won't boot from the external CD drive either. Currently, I can boot the machine with a Solaris install CD or from Solaris that had been installed on the HDD prior to me receiving the computer.

Re: glxpcib from apropos has wrong adress

2007-12-28 Thread Jason McIntyre
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 12:57:18PM +0100, Markus Bergkvist wrote: apropos on 'glxpcib' gives http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=glxpcibsektion=0manpath=OpenBSD+Currentarch=i386apropos=1format=html which contains a link to 'glxpcib (4/i386)' which is invalid it's not invalid. man -S

Re: sparc64 on Sun Netra T1 with external CD Drive

2007-12-28 Thread new_guy
Sorry for all the posts. I figured it out. I dd'ed floppy42.fs to one of the unused drives and booted that way. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/sparc64-on-Sun-Netra-T1-with-external-CD-Drive-tp14518767p14526801.html Sent from the openbsd user - misc mailing list archive

Re: Load balancing

2007-12-28 Thread Manpreet Nehra
I am still working on the same problem, I was able to get 2 ISPs load balanced and even got the bandwidth aggregated. Now i am trying to balance 3 ISPs and even with the multipath routing enabled and cofigureed i am not able to even browse anything. Here is my pf.conf lan_net = 10.15.0.0/16

Re: Linus about C++

2007-12-28 Thread Gary Baluha
On Dec 28, 2007 7:51 AM, Erik Wikstrvm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-12-28 07:33, Brian Hansen wrote: [snip] Is he right? Yes and no. First of all you should realise that Linus and most other other kernel hackers are biased. When it comes down to it C++ is not a better or worse

Re: Linus about C++

2007-12-28 Thread Pieter Verberne
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 10:16:08AM -0500, Gary Baluha wrote: I think that's one of the main problems with programmers today. All the schools I know that teach programming, start by teaching Java to the students. I'm learning Java at school. I told my teachers that I think it is a great pity

Re: Embedding OpenBSD

2007-12-28 Thread Unix Fan
This is a neat idea, but personally I think it'll be hard to make the device 0 maintenance, problems can always occur... If you're set on using OpenBSD in this project, remove everything from the base system that isn't needed... and try running the unit non-stop for 48/hours... just to be

Re: Linus about C++

2007-12-28 Thread Gary Baluha
On Dec 28, 2007 11:21 AM, Pieter Verberne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 10:16:08AM -0500, Gary Baluha wrote: I think that's one of the main problems with programmers today. All the schools I know that teach programming, start by teaching Java to the students. I'm

Re: Linus about C++

2007-12-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 10:16:08AM -0500, Gary Baluha wrote: I'm also not sold on the concept of object oriented programming in general. Along the lines of nothing is impossible with enough layers of indirection, I think too much abstraction also removes the programmer from what he/she is

Re: Embedding OpenBSD

2007-12-28 Thread Henning Brauer
* Unix Fan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-28 17:44]: remove everything from the base system that isn't needed... yeah THAT is certainly going to help... deleting binaries saves the world! -- Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP -

Re: backup firewall connectivity

2007-12-28 Thread Darren Spruell
On Dec 28, 2007 7:13 AM, Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: main firewall Carp0: inet 192.168.3.65 255.255.255.224 192.168.3.95 vhid 1 carpdev fxp0 pass tester1 inet alias 192.168.3.66 255.255.255.224 inet alias 192.168.3.67 255.255.255.224 Not to solution your problem, but the correct netmask

Re: Linus about C++

2007-12-28 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 07:37:54AM -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote: Wow one comprehensive list of the suckage that is C++. Thanks Miod now I dont need to type examples anymore. I will probably regret this, but all of these issues are known, and only show that C++ is not a simple language. Real

Re: Embedding OpenBSD

2007-12-28 Thread Marco Peereboom
What in the world??? Do you drive a car? if the answer is yes you have an unconnected embedded device. Need more examples? On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 08:34:24AM -0800, Unix Fan wrote: This is a neat idea, but personally I think it'll be hard to make the device 0 maintenance, problems can

Re: Linus about C++

2007-12-28 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 10:16:08AM -0500, Gary Baluha wrote: I'm also not sold on the concept of object oriented programming in general. Along the lines of nothing is impossible with enough layers of indirection, I think too much abstraction also removes the programmer from what he/she is

Re: Linus about C++

2007-12-28 Thread Marco Peereboom
I disagree with this sentiment. The quality of programmers these days is abysmal. I think that is due to part of being taught wrong in the first place and then being unable to unlearn bad habits. By teaching kids in a forgiving language they will never get a feel for what they are supposed to

Re: Linus about C++

2007-12-28 Thread Joe S
On Dec 28, 2007 7:16 AM, Gary Baluha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 28, 2007 7:51 AM, Erik Wikstrvm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-12-28 07:33, Brian Hansen wrote: [snip] Is he right? Yes and no. First of all you should realise that Linus and most other other kernel hackers

Re: Linus about C++

2007-12-28 Thread L
Brian Hansen wrote: Hi. This is partly not OpenBSD related, and yet again someone pointed out that perhaps a lot of bug could be avoided using C++. I am writting my big paper on C and C++ and would like some comments from people who are experts. Off-list is okay, but maybe others are

Re: Embedding OpenBSD

2007-12-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 08:34:24AM -0800, Unix Fan wrote: (Consider a modem, or a net card... so remote maintenance is possible..) The problem with a net card is that then the end-user would have to set up a dhcp server or some how have the card set up correctly. With a modem, its pretty

Re: Embedding OpenBSD

2007-12-28 Thread Tobias Weingartner
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nick Holland wrote: What have I forgotten? Is there anything else I can do to avoid slapping my forehead and saying, D'oh! Forgot to ... before I ship it out fully detached? The good news is I'm pretty sure there is at least one OpenBSD developer near-by,

Re: Linus about C++

2007-12-28 Thread Gary Baluha
On Dec 28, 2007 12:36 PM, Marc Espie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rules for types and operators are fairly complex, granted, but there is some actual logic. This is well documented in a few books. The main issue with C++ there is that it it a big language. You want to understand those rules ? You

Programming Course

2007-12-28 Thread Adrian Fisher
I have read some (time does not allow me to read it all) of the threads about C vs.C++ and would like to know if anyone here has worked through the courses from either of the following people and if so, what did you think? I read in the thread with Linus's thoughts of C++ but am curious that if he

Re: Embedding OpenBSD

2007-12-28 Thread Gary Baluha
On Dec 27, 2007 10:41 PM, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd wire in a hardware-type heartbeat detector that will power-cycle the computer if it stops working. I'd have a door over the money slot powered by the computer so that it only accepts money when its working. You could

Re: Linus about C++

2007-12-28 Thread Ted Unangst
On 12/27/07, Miod Vallat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, but no C++ bashing thread can be complete until someone mentions the excellent FQA site: http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/ this one alone was priceless: http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/io.html#fqa-15.1 and i've even written more c++ code than c code.

Re: Embedding OpenBSD

2007-12-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 11:13:18AM -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote: Do you drive a car? if the answer is yes you have an unconnected embedded device. Need more examples? Well, actually, my car doesn't include a digital computer. It has an ignition module that is analog but no sensors. Nice

Re: Embedding OpenBSD

2007-12-28 Thread James Records
Use something like flashboot (www.mindrot.org/projects/flashboot) perfect for this kind of application, take a look at the package managment stuff J On Dec 28, 2007, at 10:18 AM, Tobias Weingartner wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nick Holland wrote: What have I forgotten? Is

Re: Embedding OpenBSD

2007-12-28 Thread Pete Vickers
step 1. get a any old ipod on ebay step 2. put a single mp3 tune on it step 3. place it in a big box, with the play button located right under a coin sized slot openbsd is great, but it's not the hammer for all nails... /Pete On 28 Dec 2007, at 3:34 AM, Nick Holland wrote: I've got a

Re: When spammers get whitelisted...

2007-12-28 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 09:13:33PM -0800, Allie D. wrote: I have had to wipe my spamdb twice in the last month because spammers get past my blacklists (I run the ones that come in spamd.conf) and my greylisting and just hammer a few of my customers. The spam comes from multiple IP's so it's a

Re: Embedding OpenBSD

2007-12-28 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Fri, 28 Dec 2007, Marco Peereboom wrote: What in the world??? Do you drive a car? if the answer is yes you have an unconnected embedded device. Need more examples? Indeed! How many Soekris routers are there in 'production', operating with a config just as suggested? Lee

building xenocara: configure: error: You must have freetype installed

2007-12-28 Thread Juan Miscaro
Hi, I am having trouble building xenocara after updating my sources via cvsup. I have built non-X world and their release sets but when I come to building X world: export XSRCDIR=/usr/xenocara export XOBJDIR=/usr/xobj if [ -d $XOBJDIR ]; then rm -rf $XOBJDIR

Trouble Installing OpenBSD 4.2 stable

2007-12-28 Thread Alan Hamlett
Currently running OpenBSD i386 3.8 with one 20GB IDE drive at wd0a and one 250gb IDE drive all partitioned for bsd. Trying to install OpenBSD i386 4.2 from install42.iso by trading the 250gb drive for a cd-rom drive. I keep getting this error message and I believe it has to do with the missing

Re: Trouble Installing OpenBSD 4.2 stable

2007-12-28 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 17:16 -0600, Alan Hamlett wrote: Currently running OpenBSD i386 3.8 with one 20GB IDE drive at wd0a and one 250gb IDE drive all partitioned for bsd. Trying to install OpenBSD i386 4.2 from install42.iso by trading the 250gb drive for a cd-rom drive. I keep getting

Re: sparc64 on Sun Netra T1 with external CD Drive

2007-12-28 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 07:04:10AM -0800, new_guy wrote: Sorry for all the posts. I figured it out. I dd'ed floppy42.fs to one of the unused drives and booted that way. It's been a while, but iirc you can just do boot cd instead of all the other happy horseshit. -- Darrin Chandler

Re: Linus about C++

2007-12-28 Thread Gerardo Santana Gómez Garrido
On 12/28/07, Marc Espie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - python or perl, which work just fine... perl has about the same set of defects as C++ (except for speed and reflection). python is probably about the same, I don't use it enough to comment. or Ruby (of Smalltalk heritage), which I suppose you

Re: Embedding OpenBSD

2007-12-28 Thread Unix Fan
Marco Peereboom wrote: What in the world??? Do you drive a car? if the answer is yes you have an unconnected embedded device. Need more examples? No, I walk.. batteries not included.. Seriously, I was simply giving my opinion... unfortunately I walked under a bridge and got

OpenBSD as DSL Router using hostname.pppoe0?

2007-12-28 Thread sebastian . rother
Hello guys, I set up OpenBSD as DSL router using the kernel pppoe. Because my DSL connection is faster then 10 MBit I'm using the kernel pppoe to use the bandwith. I've noticed that pf fails to do the routing/nat in such scenarios: 1. OpenBSD Router boots - It takes some seconds until pppoe0

Re: kernel/5690: system crash when running rtorrent

2007-12-28 Thread sebastian . rother
I don't give care. Get lost, little boy. I didn't made this bug report. I just told you weeks ago that people will hit thit bug. And you may please explain me the sense of submitting bug-reports if you've such a attitude? Well as I told you: People will hit thit bug. But please forward at

Re: Linus about C++

2007-12-28 Thread Tony Abernethy
Ted Unangst wrote: On 12/27/07, Miod Vallat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, but no C++ bashing thread can be complete until someone mentions the excellent FQA site: http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/ this one alone was priceless: http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/io.html#fqa-15.1 and i've even written

Re: kernel/5690: system crash when running rtorrent

2007-12-28 Thread Theo de Raadt
Years ago we told Sebastian Rother that we think he's a pest, and we'll ignore everything he says. Go away, Sebastian. The minute you report a bug, everyone else will suffer for it. I don't give care. Get lost, little boy. I didn't made this bug report. I just told you weeks ago that

Re: OpenBSD as DSL Router using hostname.pppoe0?

2007-12-28 Thread Vijay Sankar
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello guys, I set up OpenBSD as DSL router using the kernel pppoe. Because my DSL connection is faster then 10 MBit I'm using the kernel pppoe to use the bandwith. I've noticed that pf fails to do the routing/nat in such scenarios: 1. OpenBSD Router boots - It

Re: OpenBSD as DSL Router using hostname.pppoe0?

2007-12-28 Thread sebastian . rother
Well with static IPs I've no problem either. It's just after the forced disconnect of the ISP and after pppoe0 got a new IP. Then NAT and routing fails. I solve this via a rule reload (after pppoe0 got a new IP) but that looks like some stonge-age method (seriously.. ). I just wonder if somebody

Re: Embedding OpenBSD

2007-12-28 Thread Marco Peereboom
Well thank you for your valuable input captain obvious. On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 05:13:41PM -0800, Unix Fan wrote: Marco Peereboom wrote: What in the world??? Do you drive a car? if the answer is yes you have an unconnected embedded device. Need more examples? No, I walk..

Re: OpenBSD as DSL Router using hostname.pppoe0?

2007-12-28 Thread NetOne - Doichin Dokov
[EMAIL PROTECTED] P=P0P?P8QP0: Well with static IPs I've no problem either. It's just after the forced disconnect of the ISP and after pppoe0 got a new IP. Then NAT and routing fails. I solve this via a rule reload (after pppoe0 got a new IP) but that looks like some stonge-age method

Re: kernel/5690: system crash when running rtorrent

2007-12-28 Thread sebastian . rother
Years ago we told Sebastian Rother that we think he's a pest, and we'll ignore everything he says. Wonderfull. It just wasn't me who reported this bug (please read the original Bug report). So please stop ignoring it. :] Sure I reported it weeks ago but that doesn't matter right now, right?

Hazy top of mind questions on spam control with OpenBSD

2007-12-28 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Dear friends, Please excuse the silly subject line. I am unfortunately not qualified enough to come up with a better one. First my assumptions, then my questions. Request inputs on both. Assumptions - a) Most of the spam

Re: sparc64 on Sun Netra T1 with external CD Drive

2007-12-28 Thread new_guy
Darrin Chandler wrote: It's been a while, but iirc you can just do boot cd instead of all the other happy horseshit. There was no internal IDE CD drive. So boot cd would not work... failed to find boot device So that extra horse shit (and I agree 100% that it is horse shit) was,

Re: OpenBSD as DSL Router using hostname.pppoe0?

2007-12-28 Thread sebastian . rother
I guess you use ($ext_if) - with brackets - instead of the IP address manually entered (which you obviously don't know). This way PF monitors the interface for changes of it's IP address and adjusts rules accordingly. You can verify if it does by doing a 'pfctl -s rules' after a reconnection,

Re: OpenBSD as DSL Router using hostname.pppoe0?

2007-12-28 Thread NetOne - Doichin Dokov
[EMAIL PROTECTED] P=P0P?P8QP0: I guess you use ($ext_if) - with brackets - instead of the IP address manually entered (which you obviously don't know). This way PF monitors the interface for changes of it's IP address and adjusts rules accordingly. You can verify if it does by doing a 'pfctl -s

Re: OpenBSD as DSL Router using hostname.pppoe0?

2007-12-28 Thread sebastian . rother
*cut* I'm unsure of this, too, and the man pages of hostname.if and pppoe seem unclear about this. But I guess you're right - commands will be executed only on system boot or network restart. Yes that's kinda true. I just wonder that nobody asked about a solution before. Does everybody uses a

Re: Hazy top of mind questions on spam control with OpenBSD

2007-12-28 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Girish Venkatachalam wrote: a) Most of the spam originates in USA. And high bandwidth links and busy mail servers are common targets. You haven't looked at China and Korea in a long time looks like. USA is not a clean place, but not the major source of it either. Definitely not in my logs

Re: Hazy top of mind questions on spam control with OpenBSD

2007-12-28 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Also, in case it wasn't obvious either. Make sure to add your spamd-setup to your cron job to update them. And obviously and additional domains will need MX records in DNS obviously too. Not sure if one day the greyscanner will be part of the default install anytime soon? May be they want

Re: Hazy top of mind questions on spam control with OpenBSD

2007-12-28 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Just for the records and for fun as well. Here is how many spammer were trap by greyscanner ONLY in the last ~9 hours only. Also one thousand are trap per hours. # head -n1 maillog Dec 28 15:00:02 smtp1 newsyslog[2273]: logfile turned over # tail -n1 maillog Dec 28 23:55:25 smtp1 . #

Re: Hazy top of mind questions on spam control with OpenBSD

2007-12-28 Thread Daniel Ouellet
OK, I am having to much fun I guess, but that will be my last one. When I say spammer trap, I really mean spammer trap by greyscanner, not only the number of emails block. As examples I see many like this in the logs: Dec 27 16:15:26 smtp1 greytrapper[10139]: Trapped 84.165.240.170: Host

file error: http://www.openbsd.org/art/blow_col_only.jpg

2007-12-28 Thread Bibby
Hi, all. There is a error msg while i access the URL: http://www.openbsd.org/art/blow_col_only.jpg The url can be found in: http://www.openbsd.org/art2.html -- Best Regards. Michael Bibby(Huangbin Zhang) - RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 Client - OpenBSD 4.2 -release

ASUS m2a-vm and 4.2

2007-12-28 Thread Pawel Veselov
Hi, Just had some experience installing 4.2 on ASUS m2a-vm... Wasn't pleasant. 3Gbs drive shows max of 0.2MBs tranfer rate (according to iostat). My old drive shows appx 30MB on IDE bus. Tested using dd if=/dev/zero of=file. Any disk access takes forever. Selecting SATA interface as AHCI

Re: Embedding OpenBSD

2007-12-28 Thread user
Gary Baluha wrote: On Dec 27, 2007 10:41 PM, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd wire in a hardware-type heartbeat detector that will power-cycle the computer if it stops working. I'd have a door over the money slot powered by the computer so that it only accepts money when its

sparc on Tatung COMPstation U10

2007-12-28 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Dear All, A friend of mine is moving out of town and has a couple Tatung COMPstations U10 in mint condition (they come with the original monitors , keyboards, and the mouses ) that can be mine for $10 a piece. He claims that he is running Debian sparc 64 (with X ) but I believe they are

Re: Linus about C++

2007-12-28 Thread L
Tony Abernethy wrote: Ted Unangst wrote: On 12/27/07, Miod Vallat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, but no C++ bashing thread can be complete until someone mentions the excellent FQA site: http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/ this one alone was priceless:

diff of the official FAQ

2007-12-28 Thread Chris
I haven't read the FAQ for a while and realize a lot has been changed. Is there any way I could get a diff on the FAQ for the last 1 year and read only the parts that has been changed? Thanks for any help.

Re: Hazy top of mind questions on spam control with OpenBSD

2007-12-28 Thread Nick Holland
Girish Venkatachalam wrote: Dear friends, Please excuse the silly subject line. I am unfortunately not qualified enough to come up with a better one. First my assumptions, then my questions. Request inputs on both. Assumptions

Re: diff of the official FAQ

2007-12-28 Thread Antti Harri
On Fri, 28 Dec 2007, Chris wrote: I haven't read the FAQ for a while and realize a lot has been changed. Is there any way I could get a diff on the FAQ for the last 1 year and read only the parts that has been changed? Yep use the CVS. -- Antti Harri

Re: diff of the official FAQ

2007-12-28 Thread Nick Holland
Chris wrote: I haven't read the FAQ for a while and realize a lot has been changed. Is there any way I could get a diff on the FAQ for the last 1 year and read only the parts that has been changed? Thanks for any help. cvs web: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/www/faq/ will let you

Re: sparc on Tatung COMPstation U10

2007-12-28 Thread Miod Vallat
A friend of mine is moving out of town and has a couple Tatung COMPstations U10 in mint condition (they come with the original monitors , keyboards, and the mouses ) that can be mine for $10 a piece. He claims that he is running Debian sparc 64 (with X ) but I believe they are actually

Re: OpenBSD as DSL Router using hostname.pppoe0?

2007-12-28 Thread Dieter Rauschenberger
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 05:16:11AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Either no developer uses aDSL at home (with a ISP forcing him to reconnect every 24 hours) or nobody uses OpenBSD as router or nobody uses the connection permanently. :-/ I use the following hostname.pppoe: inet 0.0.0.0

PF, limit remote clients by total bandwidth used over time

2007-12-28 Thread Calomel
Good morning, Can PF be written to filter client connections based on the total amount of bandwidth a remote client uploads/downloads over a given time frame? As far as I know PF does _NOT_ have this ability. Pf can flush the states of a client ip that has connected too many times in a given

Re: PF, limit remote clients by total bandwidth used over time

2007-12-28 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Calomel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can PF be written to filter client connections based on the total amount of bandwidth a remote client uploads/downloads over a given time frame? As far as I know PF does _NOT_ have this ability. Well, you already have the possibility of using variables such