Re: Monitoring system

2018-10-05 Thread Tom Smyth
Howdy Create a atest phpinfo(); file in ur webserver htdocs directory And open the url to that file in ur browser to show you what php configuration and modules are loaded Check this page for details http://php.net/manual/en/function.phpinfo.php On a side note This function is useful in testing

Re: Monitoring system

2018-10-05 Thread Tom Smyth
Make sure the module is enabled... check php info Installed is neq enabled On Fri 5 Oct 2018, 21:51 flipchan, wrote: > Maybe I need to set some sys variable or something similar cuz > php-mysqli > php-pdo_mysql > php-mysql is installed > > On October 5, 2018 6:16:07 PM UTC, Stuart Henderson >

Re: Monitoring system

2018-10-04 Thread Tom Smyth
Both of of the ones I emailed to you are in ports also there is pmmact by the Legend paulo Lucende that can aggregate and convert multiple logs to different formats worth having a look at that also ... On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 at 04:08, Tom Smyth wrote: > > > Librenms would be worth a look

Re: Monitoring system

2018-10-04 Thread Tom Smyth
graphs so use SSDs and make sure that when formatting the system that you align with 1MB offset ... 2048 sectors (instead the default 64 bytes) Peace Tom Smyth On Thu, 4 Oct 2018 at 23:57, flipchan wrote: > > Greetings all, > > I need to install a monitoring system with email noti

Re: Performance impact of PF on APU2

2018-10-03 Thread Tom Smyth
can you show us a copy of your sysctl output? check if smt is disabled ... (Hyper Threading ) Im not sure if this would have an effect on the APU2C2 ... but worth checking as it is a change in behaviour between 6.3 and current AFIK Thanks Tom Smyth On Thu, 4 Oct 2018 at 04:58, Benjamin Petit

Re: Performance impact of PF on APU2

2018-10-03 Thread Tom Smyth
evious discussion, from late 2017. > > Do you know where we can follow the work that is being done? I would be more > than > happy to test early version. > -- Kindest regards, Tom Smyth Mobile: +353 87 6193172 The information contained in this E-mail is intended only for the confiden

Re: checking source with pvs-studio

2018-10-03 Thread Tom Smyth
:/ PS awesome talk in euroBSD Con :) Thanks anyway Tom Smyth On Wed, 3 Oct 2018 at 18:02, Todd C. Miller wrote: > > On Wed, 03 Oct 2018 17:42:16 +0100, Tom Smyth wrote: > > > ... is it just 750 for a License ? > > If one were to donate a License ? would that work for the

Re: checking source with pvs-studio

2018-10-03 Thread Tom Smyth
... is it just 750 for a License ? If one were to donate a License ? would that work for the project ? Thanks Tom Smyth On Wed, 3 Oct 2018 at 17:33, Todd C. Miller wrote: > > On Wed, 03 Oct 2018 10:20:45 +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > > > Which is of course trivial to do - you wr

Re: network architecture question

2018-10-01 Thread Tom Smyth
hat dated, i think the part about > > topologies still holds. > > Would you recommend any other books in addition to "Building Internet > Firewalls"? > > Thanks. > > Regards, > ab > -----|-|-|-|-|-|-|-- >

Re: syslogd restarts randomly

2018-09-30 Thread Tom Smyth
2 syslogd: restart > > Any ideas on how I can start investigate this issue? Also what would > be your thinking on what is going on? > > Thank you a lot > > -- > --- > Best regards, > Bogdan > -- Kindest regards, Tom Smyth Mobile: +353 87 6193172 The informat

Re: Minimum Holdtime for BGP OpenBGPd in Production

2018-09-21 Thread Tom Smyth
ion culling), > perhaps they could do that. Thankfully it is not an IXP wide issue.. > > - If so and it's individual peers, maybe consider dropping them if > they're unreliable and not that important, or talking to them if they > are important? They are internal p

EuroBSD Con 2018 1 Free Ticket for Ansible Tutorial and LibTLS Tutorial Thursday

2018-09-18 Thread Tom Smyth
the ticket for the either or both tutorials ... first come first served, Hope this helps, Tom Smyth,

Minimum Holdtime for BGP OpenBGPd in Production

2018-09-17 Thread Tom Smyth
enviornment Thanks Tom Smyth

Re: Vultr hosting of OpenBSD

2018-09-08 Thread Tom Smyth
>> on my openbsd current laptop involves sometimes using alpine linux on vmm an >> using docker on that to spin up different things I want to check out. Ken >> > -- Kindest regards, Tom Smyth Mobile: +353 87 6193172 The information contained in this E-mail is intended onl

Re: protected domain for tap for vmm vms

2018-08-22 Thread Tom Smyth
(necessity being the mother of invention ) ... but protected domains allow one to use the same vlan and minimise the amount of vlans / simplify configuration of the (network /hardware switches) Hope this Helps Tom Smyth On 22 August 2018 at 07:08, Mike Larkin wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 06

Re: Problem from OpenBSD User

2018-07-24 Thread Tom Smyth
Hello Sobin I dont use gnome but Xfce is a light enough destop enviornment ...it works well in openbsd Check the following video to help you https://youtu.be/oC5D9fenQBs There are videos and guides on gnome and openbsd but i havent used it /them to make a comment Cwm is quite popular amongst oth

Re: Questions about crypto and USA laws, concerns today

2018-07-24 Thread Tom Smyth
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_the_import_of_cryptography ... I hope this helps, Tom Smyth On 24 July 2018 at 19:50, Chris Bennett wrote: > I don't watch any news on TV and for the most part only read headlines > that show up on my phone despite the fact I don't want them. >

Re: Best way to serve files to Windows?

2018-07-18 Thread Tom Smyth
eventlog (system event log) with the following windows command eventvwr will spew errors if there are a mismatches in your security settings and you will get hints by looking up errors as you see them, I hope this helps Tom Smyth On 18 July 2018 at 16:29, John Long wrote: > @tom @solene > &g

Re: Best way to serve files to Windows?

2018-07-18 Thread Tom Smyth
gt; > > /jl > > Hello, > > I would recommend samba. You can also try using NFS, I've heard that > windows can mount NFS shares. > > About the security thing, I don't know if the protocol used by samba is > secure between clients, but you can still run a V

Re: Employers, Jobs and OpenBSD

2018-07-14 Thread Tom Smyth
Hello Man, all, please find my answers in line and a little more in line On 14 July 2018 at 03:05, Man Hobby wrote: > Hi, > > What is the opinion of employers about OpenBSD? > as a small business owner who has benefited and use OpenBSD in some critical components of our infrastructure we thin

Re: ISDN Card /PRI Card support on OpenBSD

2018-07-13 Thread Tom Smyth
Hi Stuart thanks it is for a client who wants to take faxes multiple numbers in on a hardline ... and then convert to email and vice versa any suggestions you have would be appreciated... On Wed 11 Jul 2018, 22:34 Stuart Henderson, wrote: > On 2018-07-11, Tom Smyth wrote: > >

Re: Weird routing problem on simple CARP setup

2018-07-11 Thread Tom Smyth
OpenBSD Admins Devs take on it Thanks Tom Smyth On 11 July 2018 at 16:47, BARDOU Pierre wrote: > Hellom > > Sorry for the long delay, I've been very busy recently. > > Putting the carp in /32 works. > What's the best practice when you have a physical IP + CARP in the sam

Re: ISDN Card /PRI Card support on OpenBSD

2018-07-11 Thread Tom Smyth
Thanks Guys :) Appreciate the confirmation :) On 11 July 2018 at 17:52, Theo de Raadt wrote: > Christian Weisgerber wrote: > >> On 2018-07-11, Tom Smyth wrote: >> >> > this is an odd one but I have a client that needs to >> > migrate some legacy services

ISDN Card /PRI Card support on OpenBSD

2018-07-11 Thread Tom Smyth
) is ISDN support available under a different name by any chance Thanks Tom Smyth

Re: Ratgod leadership?

2018-07-10 Thread Tom Smyth
Hmm. That is one F**ked up stream of consciousness... that email is probably will be the posterboy of being an warning to kids "don't do drugs!" if you need assistance with finding a decent translator or grammar and spell check tool, just ask and include a dmesg. it is useful to know what you ar

Re: "Cannot allocate memory" error when memory is enough

2018-07-07 Thread Tom Smyth
Hello yeah the installurl functionality appears to have been added to after 6.1 thanks Otto On 7 July 2018 at 17:10, Tom Smyth wrote: > Hi otto > > I must check that last time i read man page it was related it was for > syspatch > > > Thanks > > > > On Sa

Re: "Cannot allocate memory" error when memory is enough

2018-07-07 Thread Tom Smyth
Hi otto I must check that last time i read man page it was related it was for syspatch Thanks On Sat 7 Jul 2018, 17:07 Otto Moerbeek, wrote: > On Sat, Jul 07, 2018 at 03:52:44PM +0100, Tom Smyth wrote: > > > Hello Nan, > > you need to set the PKG_path as Stuart su

Re: "Cannot allocate memory" error when memory is enough

2018-07-07 Thread Tom Smyth
rent version of the >> gdb package installed. >> >> The one in 6.3 should look like this: >> >> $ ls -l /usr/local/bin/egdb >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 9452688 Mar 28 00:40 /usr/local/bin/egdb >> >> $ readelf -Wl /usr/local/bin/egdb | awk '/RANDOM/{p

Re: em0: couldn't map interrupt (No support for my Intel NIC?)

2018-07-05 Thread Tom Smyth
o other hosts. > > The settings for virtualization on the hardware are correct to my knowledge. > I have several other hosts running in bhyve without problems. > One FreeBSD host using passthrough the same way as I intend to do with > OpenBSD. > > > On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at

Re: em0: couldn't map interrupt (No support for my Intel NIC?)

2018-07-05 Thread Tom Smyth
gt;> > Could it be that the quad variant of the NIC is not supported by OpenBSD? >> > Is there anything I can do to make it work? >> > Is it possible to use the igb driver in OpenBSD somehow? >> > >> > Thanks. >> >> Before anyone at all spends a

Re: Rewards of Up to $500,000 Offered for OpenBSD Zero-Days (and other dist.)

2018-07-04 Thread Tom Smyth
Ok sorry ididnt get it woops ;) On Wed 4 Jul 2018, 19:21 Marko Cupać, wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jul 2018 19:02:56 +0100 > Tom Smyth wrote: > > > Hello Marko /Sekeres > > > > I dont mean to start a flame war as it is counterproductive but Idont > > f

Re: Rewards of Up to $500,000 Offered for OpenBSD Zero-Days (and other dist.)

2018-07-04 Thread Tom Smyth
rom the developers of the software is probably the antithesis of what this project stands for. Regards, Tom Smyth On 4 July 2018 at 18:23, Marko Cupać wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jul 2018 18:06:04 +0200 > Reyk Floeter wrote: > >> I hope somebody steps up and donates $500,000 to

Re: Backup of OpenBSD under VMware

2018-06-30 Thread Tom Smyth
; risk of a bad backup) capturing the filesystem while writing a file > > Think of a restored vm and disk using this backup method > as a vm and disk that was not properly shutdown last time round... > > > Hope this helps > > Tom smyth > > > > > On Sat 30 Jun 2018

Re: Is Intel PRO/1000 CT Desktop Adapter supported on amd64?

2018-06-27 Thread Tom Smyth
the Intel chipset model listed in the Manpage Check out the em(4) man page for the capabilities supported in the driver in OpenBSD Suck it and see but if i was a betting man id bet it will work thanks Tom Smyth Thanks On 27 June 2018 at 16:09, John Long wrote: > I found a lot of PRO/1

Re: httpd chroot outbound

2018-06-25 Thread Tom Smyth
php to retrieve files while > under httpd chrooted ? > I recall the need of /etc/resolv.conf on the jail but that didn't work. > > Cheers. > Elias. > -- Kindest regards, Tom Smyth Mobile: +353 87 6193172 The information contained in this E-mail is intended only for the

Re: OpenBSD in qemu freezes randomly

2018-06-19 Thread Tom Smyth
sounds interesting and may be a more permanent fix (on my to do list to try ...) Thanks Tom Smyth On 19 June 2018 at 21:09, Stuart Longland wrote: > On 20/06/18 00:21, Leo Unglaub wrote: >> Hi, >> i have searched the list archive and found some similar reports but none >

Re: Limit CPU usage of a process?

2018-05-27 Thread Tom Smyth
PM, Consus wrote: > >> On 20:02 Sun 27 May, Kevin Chadwick wrote: >> > Umatrix is a good javascript control extension. Some websites are even >> > running bitcoin mining without asking your permission. Theft of >> > electricity in my book. >> >>

Re: no route to host (when there is a route )

2018-05-02 Thread Tom Smyth
Ingo , Martin, All, i can confirm when the issue occured the command arp -s gateway-ip-address gateway-mac-address worked to restore connectivity Cheers, Tom Smyth On 1 May 2018 at 21:16, Tom Smyth wrote: > Hello Ingo, Martin,All, > > I think you hit the nail on the head, (I was

Re: no route to host (when there is a route )

2018-05-01 Thread Tom Smyth
Hello Ingo, Martin,All, I think you hit the nail on the head, (I was too busy looking at the routing table (and forgot the fundamental principle of longest prefix match) so if I have a static arp entry before adding in the (more specific than the connected route) i should be OK just to explain

no route to host (when there is a route )

2018-04-30 Thread Tom Smyth
Hello, I have encountered this issue for a while, it happens irregularly on my systems on this lan basically when the issue occurs I cant route out the interface with the default route on it, I cant ping the gateway I cant see the arp of the gateway but i can see the routes installed in the routin

OpenVPN error (code=49) flushing routes /sh /etc/netstart seems to fix

2018-04-16 Thread Tom Smyth
Lads, and ladies, I was wondering if anyone else comes across this issue where Openvpn client gives the following error 04:38:33 78906 openvpn[56335]: Control Channel Authentication: using '/etc/openvpn/tlsauth.pem' as a OpenVPN static key file Apr 16 04:38:33 78906 openvpn[56335]: UDPv4 link l

Re: question regarding architecture mailing lists

2018-04-16 Thread Tom Smyth
d be super awesome for OpenBSD it would be alot of work with limited help from the new owners of the CPU all the Best, Tom Smyth On 16 April 2018 at 23:21, Theo de Raadt wrote: > Diana Eichert wrote: > >> On Mon, 16 Apr 2018, Theo de Raadt wrote: >> >> > Diana Eichert wrote:

Re: question regarding architecture mailing lists

2018-04-16 Thread Tom Smyth
be a waste of time... Also im not sure how open the architecture and if they have some bsd licensed code / reference implentation to get development started on it I hope this helps Tom Smyth On Mon 16 Apr 2018, 19:42 Diana Eichert, wrote: > I subscribe to the OpenBSD arm list but was wo

Re: 4-ports router under $150

2018-04-12 Thread Tom Smyth
Not at 150$ ... sorry will u get 10G kit let alone line rate 10G kit... On Fri 13 Apr 2018, 01:46 Joel Wirāmu Pauling, wrote: > Can they do 14MPPS aka 10GBIT ? > > That's what I am looking for in pretty much in anything I would vaguely > consider to replace the n3160's I have as my target devic

Fwd: httpd - serving index.html & index.php at the same time

2018-04-11 Thread Tom Smyth
Hi Mischa directory index "index.*" To allow serving of index.php if its in the directory or index.html if that is in the directory When both are present in a directory im not sure what would happen though On Wed 11 Apr 2018, 21:55 Mischa, wrote: > > > On 11 Apr 2018,

Re: httpd - serving index.html & index.php at the same time

2018-04-11 Thread Tom Smyth
Mischa Hows it going ? have you tried index.* for both html and php index support ? I have been bailed out by the * before on php apps with seo friendly urls On Wed 11 Apr 2018, 21:50 Mischa, wrote: > > > On 11 Apr 2018, at 22:40, Bryan Harris wrote: > > > > I'll ask a dumb question. Why do y

Re: 4-ports router under $150

2018-04-10 Thread Tom Smyth
or to run my home network on. >> >> >> >> >> > >> >Just curious, why this and not amd64 bit with something like the >> >pcengine apu2 board? I know it only has three NICs, so it's likely a >> >non-started for the OP, but it's 64bi

Re: 4-ports router under $150

2018-04-10 Thread Tom Smyth
idea >>> of having a niche architecture for my internet facing machines. >> >> niche archs are nice, but if you do not have code of firmware to see what's >> its doing inside, then it's kind of meaningless. >> PC Engines can provide you with their coreboot

Re: Date of yesterday

2018-04-09 Thread Tom Smyth
running this particular job between 11PM and 1am prevent the edge case from having an impact Peace out Tom Smyth On 9 April 2018 at 21:45, Philip Guenther wrote: > On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 1:36 PM, Stephane HUC "PengouinBSD" < > b...@stephane-huc.net> wrote: > >>

Re: relayd stops processing traffic intermittently

2018-03-14 Thread Tom Smyth
y: error:04FFF071:rsa >> routines:CRYPTO_internal:null before block missing > > Not sure if this is supposed to be taken care of, but I am still seeing the > following messages in 6.3-beta. > $ uname -a > OpenBSD lb2l 6.3 GENERIC.MP#58 amd64 > > Mar 13 23:43:38 lb2 relayd[96581]: ca

Re: Flow Tools

2018-03-13 Thread Tom Smyth
Peter Thanks Buddy ... I dont know How I missed that :) Got to try that out on OpenBSD So Thanks for the Tipp Peter... On 13 March 2018 at 17:03, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > On 03/13/18 17:44, Tom Smyth wrote: >> Paul ... >> You could look at pmacct by Paulo Lucen

Re: Flow Tools

2018-03-13 Thread Tom Smyth
Paul ... You could look at pmacct by Paulo Lucende he is a cool guy... It has multiple flow aggregation and translation capabilities ... I dont think it is in ports yet... id like to get off my ass and do it some day as i think it is awesome ... On 13 Mar 2018 12:08, "Paul Ammann" wrote: > Hi

Re: block MAC addr, bridge(4), vether(4), carp(4)

2018-03-02 Thread Tom Smyth
check your pf.conf configuration also, as Pf works on Bridged Packets also, another approach would be to tag packets comming in on em2 from bad mac lets call the tag bad-dhcp-requests have a look a puting something like this in your hostname.bridgeX rule pass in on em2 src tag BAD-DHCP

Re: Booting OpenBSD on a HP Compaq Desktop

2018-02-23 Thread Tom Smyth
ets far enough in the boot > process to enable the network (networking *does* work while I am running > through the installer, so I don't think it's just a missing network driver > there). > > What can I do to fix this? > > > -- Kindest regards, Tom Smy

Re: SHA256.sig not contained in install62.iso

2018-02-22 Thread Tom Smyth
gt; >> Comment: >> download, verify and patch bsd.rd image >> >> Description: >> upobsd is a ksh(1) script designed to download, verify and optionally patch >> bsd.rd image. >> >> upobsd will download bsd.rd image using ftp(1) from mirror defined in >> installurl(5), will v

Re: iked and letsencrypt certs

2018-02-21 Thread Tom Smyth
d: loaded ca file ca.crt >> ca_reload: loaded crl file ca.crl >> ca_reload: /O=Digital Signature Trust Co./CN=DST Root CA X3 >> ca_reload: /C=US/O=Let's Encrypt/CN=Let's Encrypt Authority X3 >> ca_reload: loaded 2 ca certificates >> ca_reload: loaded cert file b

Re: Hard disk controller not recognized

2018-02-21 Thread Tom Smyth
. > Your IT department might have figured out how to interfere with that too, but > that might be a solution. You'd have to keep that external disk and its > interface with you, but at least you could use OpenBSD. > > --STeve Andre' > -- Kindest regards, Tom Smyth

Re: gcc-4.9.4 package build signal 11 [Segmentation fault] on Ubiquiti Unifi Security Gateway

2018-02-21 Thread Tom Smyth
little bit before moving onto the PC Engines x86 APU C2 Thanks Tom Smyth On 21 February 2018 at 18:18, Diana Eichert wrote: > Hey, at least some people think these systems are interesting. > > I gave up trying to build much of anything on the Ubiquiti USG. I really > bought it to

Re: nat-to (least-states / round-robin) problem

2018-02-17 Thread Tom Smyth
m. >>> >>> Maybe this is fixed in current but I though I should report. >>> # head -1 /var/run/dmesg.boot >>> OpenBSD 6.2-beta (GENERIC.MP) #104: Mon Sep 18 23:31:27 MDT 2017 >>> >>> I'll try an upgrade later today... >>> >>&g

Re: Windows clients crashing nfs server?

2018-02-14 Thread Tom Smyth
e -- Kindest regards, Tom Smyth Mobile: +353 87 6193172 The information contained in this E-mail is intended only for the confidential use of the named recipient. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or the person responsible for delivering it to the recipient, you are

Re: Syn flood crashed my LAN

2018-02-12 Thread Tom Smyth
advice was that the ability to check counters on each interface can indicate where the packets are being dropped are the being dropped beween switch ports or on the open bas firewall etc On 12 Feb 2018 1:59 PM, "Stuart Henderson" wrote: > On 2018-02-12, Tom Smyth wrote: > >

Re: Syn flood crashed my LAN

2018-02-11 Thread Tom Smyth
for best value By the way... if you are doubting the switch (and you dont have tech specs of the switch or you cant monitor it .. or get counters off it ... then there is no doubt ... :) Regards, Tom Smyth On 12 February 2018 at 00:26, Martin Hanson wrote: > Hi, > > I have a hom

Re: Syn flood crashed my LAN

2018-02-11 Thread Tom Smyth
my humble opinion) check man pf.conf for more details on limits There have been a number of improvements to syn flood handling made by henning so you can try -current if you want to see further improvements Regards, Tom Smyth On 12 February 2018 at 00:26, Martin Hanson wrote: > Hi, > &

Re: Why is so slow the download speed in OpenBSD?

2018-02-11 Thread Tom Smyth
Hi Zolt when your laptop is on line try fw_update -a command to update firmware... you probably were not online when the firmware update command ran (on first boot after install) See what happens when you run that command .. Thanks Tom Smyth On 11 February 2018 at 23:15, Zsolt Kantor wrote

Re: Why is so slow the download speed in OpenBSD?

2018-02-11 Thread Tom Smyth
llo, > I'm using the latest release. Where the dl speed in other OS is approx. 1.4 > MB/s in BSD is only approx. 240 KB/s. Why is this? Is about a setting in some > config file that limits download/traffic rate? > > Thanks. > -- Kindest regards, Tom Smyth Mobile: +353

Re: For a FFS on an SSD, which of "-o" nil, "sync" &/ "softdep" is more data-safe and fast?

2018-02-11 Thread Tom Smyth
ation units on the filesystem are aligned with the underlying SSD disk which are usually split in to 1MB blocks I Hope this helps Thanks Tom Smyth On 11 February 2018 at 05:06, Tinker wrote: > My original question was which mounting options are optimal for FFS > filesystems on SSD:s, for

Re: For a FFS on an SSD, which of "-o" nil, "sync" &/ "softdep" is more data-safe and fast?

2018-02-10 Thread Tom Smyth
Hi Martin... can you give a specific case where you have experienced negative impacts from thevmount options i suggested... It would be good to know... Thanks Martin Tom Smyth On 10 Feb 2018 12:50 AM, wrote: > > From tom.sm...@wirelessconnect.eu Thu Feb 8 23:37:59 2018 > > Fro

Re: SWAP should always be inside crypto softRAID, right? (For OS crash dump data to be encrypted.)

2018-02-08 Thread Tom Smyth
Thanks kevin i missed the dump part... agree with disable dump on prod ..enable on dev On 8 Feb 2018 22:51, "Kevin Chadwick" wrote: > On Thu, 8 Feb 2018 19:39:39 + > > > > Afaik swap is encrypted anyway on OpenBSD > > It is with a random key which is actually more secure than the softraid >

Re: considering a move to OpenBSD

2018-02-08 Thread Tom Smyth
Hi Charlie, https://sivers.org/openbsd is another good site to view :) @Joren that is commitment the Tat :) Thanks Tom Smyth On 8 February 2018 at 22:12, Jeroen wrote: > Hi, > > OpenBSD has a clear and proactive stance when it comes to security, > while Arch does not. If you want

Re: How to send a bug report with sendbug? What to configure to actually send the message?

2018-02-08 Thread Tom Smyth
Hi Zolt you can open the message on a command terminal ... copy and paste the message manually into a working email client, make sure the subject and email addresses are consistent I hope this helps ... Tom Smyth On 8 February 2018 at 21:37, Zsolt Kantor wrote: > Hello, I'm very ne

Re: For a FFS on an SSD, which of "-o" nil, "sync" &/ "softdep" is more data-safe and fast?

2018-02-08 Thread Tom Smyth
Also use noatime mount option so whe reading files you are not updating access time Ie there would be writes to disk everytime u access a file if noatime is not set On 8 Feb 2018 7:36 PM, "Tinker" wrote: > Hi! > > If I understand mount(8) (http://man.openbsd.org/mount) right, FFS > moun

Re: For a FFS on an SSD, which of "-o" nil, "sync" &/ "softdep" is more data-safe and fast?

2018-02-08 Thread Tom Smyth
Also use noatime mount option so whe reading files you are not updating access time On 8 Feb 2018 7:36 PM, "Tinker" wrote: > Hi! > > If I understand mount(8) (http://man.openbsd.org/mount) right, FFS > mounts have a metadata I/O mode and a data I/O mode. By default, > metadata is accessed sync

Re: SWAP should always be inside crypto softRAID, right? (For OS crash dump data to be encrypted.)

2018-02-08 Thread Tom Smyth
Afaik swap is encrypted anyway on OpenBSD On 8 Feb 2018 6:52 PM, "Tinker" wrote: Hi misc@, I looked through previous discussions on whether a SWAP partition should be inside or outside the RAID partition when making a crypto softraid. The only argument I stumbled into was that it should be out

Re: Promoting OpenBSD on the Unix & Linux Stack Exchange site

2018-02-06 Thread Tom Smyth
do not personally gain in any way from doing this. > > Regards, > > -- > Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri, > National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden (NBIS), > Uppsala University, Sweden. > -- Kindest regards, Tom Smyth Mobile: +353 87 6193172 The information contained

Re: pcengines apu boards

2018-01-29 Thread Tom Smyth
Hello Im not so sure if this is relevant or not but sometimes when installing 6.2.fs onto a usb stick it wont boot in one of the exterior front USB3 Ports, I pretty much dismissed this as an electrical connection issue but maybe there is more to it ...Unfortunately I only use USB3 for installing Op

Re: OpenBGPD not parsing cluster-id

2018-01-25 Thread Tom Smyth
Hi Andrew Try replacing route-reflector cluster-id 202.49.106.0 With route-reflector 202.49.106.0 On 26 Jan 2018 3:56 AM, "Andrew Thrift" wrote: Hi, I am using OpenBGPD and trying to specify a cluster-id in a route reflector setup. Configuration is: neighbor 43.231.192.241 { remote-as 13

Re: Kernel panic with openbsd 6.2

2018-01-25 Thread Tom Smyth
havent encountered any kernel panics (when I create the VM I use the Freebsd 64 Bit OS as the installed OS setting in vmware) and amd64 OpenBSD Im using Vm virtual hardware version 11 the Nics on physical servers are a mix between Broadcom Netxtreme and intel pro 1000 I hope this helps Tom Smyth On

Re: Openbsd 6.1 and Current Console Freezes and lockup Proxmox PVE5.0

2018-01-15 Thread Tom Smyth
following command echo options kvm-intel preemption_timer=N >>/etc/modprobe.d/kvm-intel.conf Thanks, Tom Smyth On 30 December 2017 at 23:25, Tom Smyth wrote: > Hello I have repeated OpenBSD 6.2 Testng on Proxmox PVE > 5.1 3r Relasee CD > > The console does not hang like in pre

Re: Performance issues as KVM guest?

2018-01-15 Thread Tom Smyth
ed to work fine ) disable kvm_intel.preemption_timer on the host (see \ > /sys/module/kvm_intel/parameters/preemption_timer ) This seems to be buggy in > linux \ > 4.10 and newer On 12 January 2018 at 13:11, Tom Smyth wrote: > Hello Todd, > > This issue (Virtual hardware issue

Re: Performance issues as KVM guest?

2018-01-12 Thread Tom Smyth
Hardware that is incompatible with OpenBSD as opposed to change in OpenBSD that has caused the issue, in my humble opinion it is more likely a old driver incompatibility with newer (Virtual) hardware. I hope this helps Tom Smyth

Re: Kernel memory leaking on Intel CPUs?

2018-01-06 Thread Tom Smyth
>>So I will be most interested to see the OpenBSD take on this after the >> embargo period is over. >How long is embargo period? apparently Intel were aware of one of issues as early as Late June Last year... and late july for another issue ... it will be interesting how quickly a handful of V

Re: Kernel memory leaking on Intel CPUs?

2018-01-04 Thread Tom Smyth
Hello Daniel, I don't know as Im not a core developer... the Vuln was embargoed so my guess is a lot of people were in the dark. Thanks Tom Smyth On 4 January 2018 at 13:31, Daniel Boyd wrote: > On Jan 4, 2018, at 5:43 AM, Tom Smyth wrote: >> >> sorry all, >> &

Re: Kernel memory leaking on Intel CPUs?

2018-01-04 Thread Tom Smyth
sorry all, I had posted to the tech mailing list about this .. I came across these 2 papers and they may be of interest about the CPU Security flaws https://spectreattack.com/ I hope this helps Tom Smyth

6.2 song?

2017-12-31 Thread Tom Smyth
Hi all, happy new year... Above my pay grade... but I did go to sleep thinking about Dancing in the Dark ... THought of KARL ASLR and thought ... this might just work... for a song... Ode to KARL Some OS get up in the evening, and they ain't got nothing to say they come home in the morning,

Re: OpenBSD 6.2 and 6.1 on Proxmox 5.1 irratic ping interval sluggish timer

2017-12-31 Thread Tom Smyth
c0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2 pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 irq 1 irq 12 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot) wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 spkr0 at pcppi0 usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0 at usb0 configu

Re: renice and network forwarding

2017-12-31 Thread Tom Smyth
work better because they don't > require to grab the KERNEL_LOCK(). > >> any advice welcome ... > > What do you want to achieve? Better performances? With which setup? In this case Im simply using OpenBSD as a bridging devices to combine (bridge) a load of vlans into 1vl

OpenBSD 6.2 and 6.1 on Proxmox 5.1 irratic ping interval sluggish timer

2017-12-31 Thread Tom Smyth
Hello when I the following commands in openbsd date;sleep 1;date;uptime I get the following output ads you can see there is a 20 second delay instead of a 1 second delay Sun Dec 31 11:22:15 GMT 2017 Sun Dec 31 11:22:35 GMT 2017 11:22AM up 11:20, 2 users, load averages: 1.02, 0.99, 0.89 kern.ti

Re: Openbsd 6.1 and Current Console Freezes and lockup Proxmox PVE5.0

2017-12-30 Thread Tom Smyth
27 October 2017 at 07:18, Tom Smyth wrote: > Hello Theo, Mike, All, > > @Theo Understood it is important to protect developers and the project goals > ... @Mike Thanks for your Generosity in the time you took on this thread, > Yes I want Mike to make VMM more awesome :) @Mike keep u

BSDCAN2017 Interview with Peter Hessler Reyk Floeter and Henning Brauer

2017-12-28 Thread Tom Smyth
t me directly and I will give you a download link if you want to archive it or host it on your own website... Thanks for your time and I hope you enjoy the video Tom Smyth

renice and network forwarding

2017-12-03 Thread Tom Smyth
command top -SH) only interrupt handling of packets ? or does it cover processing (e.g. forwarding if enabled ) (either bridging or routing depending on network config) any advice welcome ... Thanks Tom Smyth

Re: KVM / Proxmox Hosted OpenBSD Boxes Multiqueue Virtio Query

2017-12-03 Thread Tom Smyth
, and split the 70 Vlans across 2 interfaces ie I had 35 vlans on 2 virtio interfaces and then the 70 vlans were bridged onto a third virtio interface. This seemed to reduce the loss that I had. Hope this helps and Stefan Thanks for your feedback Tom Smyth On 1 December 2017 at 07:39, Stefan

KVM / Proxmox Hosted OpenBSD Boxes Multiqueue Virtio Query

2017-11-30 Thread Tom Smyth
Hello All I havent seen much by way of advice about multiqueue virtio support on OpenBSD and I was wondering do other users use it ? does anyone have experience with setting the number of virtio queues in Proxmox for an OpenBSD guest ? It is suggested by proxmox / KVM to set the number of Queues p

Re: Openbsd 6.1 and Current Console Freezes and lockup Proxmox PVE5.0

2017-10-26 Thread Tom Smyth
with the PVE Support guys (as I have already done since mid July ) Any further posts on this thread from me will be (hopefully for other OpenBSD users benefit (if I make progress) and certainly not intended as a request or a distraction for Core OpenBSD Developers All the Best, Tom Smyth On 27

Re: Openbsd 6.1 and Current Console Freezes and lockup Proxmox PVE5.0

2017-10-26 Thread Tom Smyth
(-100) when I ping after boot there is the normal 1 Second interval between ping result lines however at after 25 minutes runtime there is about 4 seconds of an interval between the ping result lines Thanks Tom Smyth On 27 October 2017 at 03:51, Tom Smyth wrote: > Hi Mike > > Ju

Re: Openbsd 6.1 and Current Console Freezes and lockup Proxmox PVE5.0

2017-10-26 Thread Tom Smyth
ACPI now to i8254 and report back later on Thanks On 26 October 2017 at 20:25, Mike Belopuhov wrote: > On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 19:05 +0100, Tom Smyth wrote: >> Lads, >> >> Im pleased to say that my testing of OpenBSD 6.1 and OpenBSD 6.2 >> Release >> amd64 , >&

Re: Openbsd 6.1 and Current Console Freezes and lockup Proxmox PVE5.0

2017-10-26 Thread Tom Smyth
0 configuration 1 interface 0 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 uhidev0 at uhub0 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0 "QEMU QEMU USB Tablet" rev 2.00/0.00 addr 2 uhidev0: iclass 3/0 ums0 at uhidev0: 3 buttons, Z dir wsmouse1 at ums0 mux 0 vscsi0 at root scsibus3 at vscsi

Re: Openbsd 6.1 and Current Console Freezes and lockup Proxmox PVE5.0

2017-10-08 Thread Tom Smyth
E 4.4 on the same hardware I hope this helps Tom Smyth

Re: OpenBSD Traning Docs / How Tos

2017-08-08 Thread Tom Smyth
that the term "HOWTO" is very strongly detested round > here, right? It is considered a synonym for so-called documentation > that is imprecise, unsystematic, and tells the user to type some > random commands they won't understand because the HOWTO doesn't > reall

Re: Supporting OpenBSD

2017-08-07 Thread Tom Smyth
@ Radoslav Mirza I should have read your mail thread before writing the OpenBSD Traning Docs / How Tos If you are on for some doc work im happy to work with you on it Thanks Tom

OpenBSD Traning Docs / How Tos

2017-08-07 Thread Tom Smyth
for users and is useful for the OpenBSD Project. thanks for your time, All the best Tom Smyth

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