Oldest Server you run
Hello List! We're trying to put an old server to good use again and would like to know what's exactly the oldest machine running OpenBSD? As machine we defined something with processor, ram, network, hard disk and a connection to the internet. So no Newton or toaster (at least not if there's no disk being toasted). Thank you in advance, Falk
Mixing S-ATA and P-ATA
Hello list! It's me again (http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/ 2006-06/1876.html). My system doesn't make it past the bootloader where it says disk: fd0. S- and P-ATA disks don't get listed and the system hangs. My system consists of two Sil3152 with four S-ATA disks, a P-ATA PSD20268 controller with two disks, a DVD-Rom on the onbard primary and a (openbsd system)harddisk on the onboard seconday P-ATA channel. I was able to boot to the Installation routine, if I removed the two S-ATA controllers. Everything gets detected correctly by the BIOS. Booting after the Installation with one or two S-ATA controllers - nada. Same goes if I remove all P-ATA Equipment beside the DVD-ROM - everything works fine and the box boots from CD. Thanks in advance, Falk
Re: Recommendation for RAID-Array
Hi again! I'll be buying four SATA disks, three for a RAID5 using RAIDframe and one as spare (put in my closet). It'll run via two SATA controllers. I'll stick with the cheapo stuff, as Stuart suggested and add some 2gig memory to the box too. Karsten, I'm a student, I won't need no hw raid. Someone sent mail to me offlist, here's what he said: PLEASE know that RAID5 is not a BACKUP solution! PLEASE backup to REMOVABLE and RELIABLE storage! I bet he's right ;-) Thanks for the replys (it really helped me), Falk
Re: Configuring pppoe during installation?
On 22.06.2006, at 10:06, Michael Lechtermann wrote: Hi! I doubt anyone would be totally angry when he needs to hit ENTER one more time to skip that question. No doubt my name is anyone. I'd be angry. It's not about hitting Return one more time, it's integrating something new into the Installation Floppy. And you REALLY don't want to drop Floppy Installation support or favor CDs. Do we need dumb question asking wizards that mutch? I came to this place to avoid them. The hostname.if system is good, as it is. Falk
Re: Configuring pppoe during installation?
On 22.06.2006, at 12:04, Michael Lechtermann wrote: Hi! You surely do not want to say no to dozens of network questions (and maybe a lot of other stuff) Thats why I suggested to make just one question that asks if you would like to to any optional setup. Default answer [n]. If you choose yes, only then you'll get the additional questions, whatever they might be. Why do you insist on adding more stuff to the Installation instead of removing some? You're confusing people with additional optional Installation questions. The routine is good, as it is now. If you need this addition to happen so badly, do it (as Paul suggested). Falk
Re: multiple publicIPs
On 06.05.2006, at 15:25, Peter Blair wrote: Perhaps I'm confused, but it doesn't look (from your diagram) that your pf machine is acting as a firewall for anything but itself. I'd bet 4 ClubMate that he'd drawn the diagram wrogn
Re: using torrents for packages?
Isn`t it be possible to switch to torrents to install packages? Are you talking about a torrent for each package? No thanks. Grab them while you can, honey ;-) http://charybdis.xenon-nrw.net/~josen/OpenBSD_39_amd64_torrent/ This thread is the funniest and most useless I ever saw on misc. Who would really want to distribute OpenBSD by torrent? For each single package... LOL -Falk
Re: Anyone Interested in Programmable AMD Coprocessors?
I (maybe like you) just read the corresponding article on TheRegister (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/21/drc_fpga_module/). I'd bet it wont make it to mainstream if compilers don't support it. What do you think? Greets, Falk
Re: pf blocking nets in a way like *.google.com ?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That doesn`t mean I can use *.google.com but I would be able to use www.google.com if I understood the FAQ and the manual correctly. Because I may not be bale to know every Hostname in a foreign network a Joker would be a neat solution. Is it maybe planed to add any joker to PF so that such stuff would be possible in the future if it isn`t already possible? Why isn't it feasible to use Googles allocated netblock (216.239.32.0/19)? Maybe you could use a script to update a table in pf using whois and grep for the CIDR/Netrange in the reply. Greets, Falk
Which Hardware for Firewall
Hello misc! We're using OpenBSD on our Hardware since 2003 and have run our Firewall on OpenBSD since that time too (always following -STABLE). Now the box i once built for that purpose has broken down and I'm in need of a replacement I'll assemble myself again. The box serves a squid, a pf (with 2 and 1/2 pages DinA4 ruleset), named and httpd-SSL The hardware will be on the low to medium end (budget 400-600 EURO). Which processor architecture is faster for firewalling purposes? pf runs in kernelspace AFAIK, so will dual-core be useless? AMD64? Pentium 4? I thought about buying 2GB+ of RAM and running parts of the system from RAM (tmp, squid-cache). Is this possible on OpenBSD? A quick google search did not turn up anything. A quick hint would be sufficent, I don't want to get on someones wick, but theres no information about firewall hardware and obsd on the net. Thanks in advance, Falk
Re: writing to /var/log/ftpd
RTFM.
