Re: Bluetooth support status

2019-08-07 Thread John Brahy
Ha. I was about to start out with how I can guess how complicated managing an operating system is. Then I see the last line of your email saying, "How about if you don't know, stop making guesses". My comments only apply to my experience coding for bluetooth on mobile devices and it was just

Re: Bluetooth support status

2019-08-07 Thread John Brahy
Right, without reading the code and only reading this commit message it's all conjecture. I was just hoping to hear something more if someone was inclined to share. inclined. The commit message seems like some sort of inside joke. Log message: "It's not the years, honey; it's the mileage."

Re: Bluetooth support status

2019-08-07 Thread John Brahy
ok, thanks. Bluetooth is overcomplicated and if it's not managed properly it just opens up the attack surface for no reason. It definitely makes some things easy but there are always workarounds. On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 11:52 PM Consus wrote: > On 17:12 Tue 06 Aug, John Brahy wrote: > &

Bluetooth support status

2019-08-06 Thread John Brahy
Hello, Just curious if there was any change in OpenBSD supporting bluetooth. In this commit from tedu@ it's saying that support was ripped out of the kernel because it never really worked. https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs=140511572108715=2 man -k blue brings up nothing appros. Thanks, JB

Apple Display via Thunderbolt on macbook pro

2019-08-05 Thread John Brahy
Hello, I have OpenBSD 6.5 installed on a MacBook Pro (mid-2015) and I was hoping to use a couple of my 27" Apple Displays with it. Has anyone had any success with them? I don't see anything pop up in dmesg when I plug them in so not sure if the system detects them or of OpenBSD recognizes the

Re: Broadcom BCM5716 support in 4.6/snapshots

2009-09-17 Thread John Brahy
Sorry for the delay. Her'es the dmesg On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 6:42 PM, David Gwynne l...@animata.net wrote: which dells specifically? are you able to get a dmesg off it? dlg On 14/09/2009, at 6:47 AM, John Brahy wrote: Hi, I bought a couple new dells with Broadcom BCM5716 chips

Re: Broadcom BCM5716 support in 4.6/snapshots

2009-09-17 Thread John Brahy
off it? dlg On 14/09/2009, at 6:47 AM, John Brahy wrote: Hi, I bought a couple new dells with Broadcom BCM5716 chips on the motherboard for network support but everytime I boot and it gets to the starting network it reboots on me. Anyone have any ideas on this? thanks, JB

Broadcom BCM5716 support in 4.6/snapshots

2009-09-13 Thread John Brahy
Hi, I bought a couple new dells with Broadcom BCM5716 chips on the motherboard for network support but everytime I boot and it gets to the starting network it reboots on me. Anyone have any ideas on this? thanks, JB

newfs block device

2009-04-22 Thread John Brahy
Have I completely lost my mind or should I be able to give newfs a block device? # df -ht ffs Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/wd0a 1006M203M753M21%/ /dev/wd0j 7.9G6.0G1.5G81%/home /dev/wd0i 1006M6.0K956M 0%

PF/NAT Issue

2009-01-26 Thread John Brahy
Hello, I'm having a problem with NAT. I have given up trying fancy pf stuff and I am using a barely modified version of the example ruleset from the using pf guide on the OpenBSD site: # OpenBSD Packet Filter Configuration # # macros ext_if=dc0 int_if=sis0 tcp_services={ 22, 113 }

Re: PF/NAT Issue

2009-01-26 Thread John Brahy
It must have been a hardware issue, I just replaced the ethernet card and things are working fine. thanks anyway.

Best hardware platform for home automation system

2008-04-02 Thread John Brahy
Hi Everyone, I wanted to find out if anyone has experience with creating home automation systems using OpenBSD. I was planning on buying a random fanless micro atx system. I was hoping to get some suggestions from y'all. I know there is a hardware compatibility list at http://www.openbsd.org but

what's the best way to configure a 3.75TB datastore?

2007-05-10 Thread John Brahy
Hello List, We're the proud new owner of a 10x750GB appliance. We're going to put OpenBSD on it and I was looking for suggestions or feedback on a configuration we were considering. This server is going to be stored at our colo and we have a point to point T1 directly connected to it. (We're

Re: what's the best way to configure a 3.75TB datastore?

2007-05-10 Thread John Brahy
I'd really recommend to run, if possible, Solaris and take advantage of ZFS with all its nice tools and features. That's a great idea, I always think OpenBSD for everything but I don't want to know how long it would take to fsck 3.75TB. I'm going to go with Solaris w/ZFS. Thanks!

rmoption INET6

2007-03-28 Thread John Brahy
Is there any reason I shouldn't add rmoption INET6 to my kernel? I don't use IPV6.

Re: rmoption INET6

2007-03-28 Thread John Brahy
You don't recompile your kernel? Isn't that part of keeping with stable? -Original Message- From: Paul de Weerd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 2:27 PM To: John Brahy Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: rmoption INET6 On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 01:54:48PM -0700

Re: rmoption INET6

2007-03-28 Thread John Brahy
So if I use GENERIC and then disable ipv6 is that a safe thing do to? In light of the recent security issue and since I don't use ipv6 I thought it would make the system more secure, but I definitely don't want to make it unstable.

Problem routing 10.x.x.x networks through a firewall

2007-01-30 Thread John Brahy
Hello, I am having a problem routing IP traffic on my network. my firewall has three interfaces. | +-+--+ | P2P - t1 | | router | | 10.1.2.1 | +-+--+ | +-+--+ | 10.1.2.2 | | router | | 10.1.3.1 | +-+--+ | +-+--+

Re: Problem routing 10.x.x.x networks through a firewall

2007-01-30 Thread John Brahy
On 1/30/07, Will H. Backman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Brahy wrote: Hello, I am having a problem routing IP traffic on my network. my firewall has three interfaces. | +-+--+ | P2P - t1 | | router | | 10.1.2.1

Re: Problem routing 10.x.x.x networks through a firewall

2007-01-30 Thread John Brahy
On 1/30/07, John Brahy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/30/07, Will H. Backman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Brahy wrote: Hello, I am having a problem routing IP traffic on my network. my firewall has three interfaces. | +-+--+ | P2P - t1 | | router

carp for one server?

2007-01-09 Thread John Brahy
I know carp is the way to go to provide address redundancy but I was wondering if it's the best way to do it on one server? I've got two interfaces and I'd like to only use one public ip address. Is carp the way to go or is there a better way? thanks!

Re: carp for one server?

2007-01-09 Thread John Brahy
perfect! thank you! On 1/9/07, Bret Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 10:12 -0800, John Brahy wrote: I know carp is the way to go to provide address redundancy but I was wondering if it's the best way to do it on one server? I've got two interfaces and I'd like to only

ifconfig commands for trunk0 to hostname.trunk0

2007-01-09 Thread John Brahy
How would I translate this into /etc/hostname.trunk0? ifconfig em0 up ifconfig em1 up ifconfig trunk0 trunkport em0 trunkport em1 xx.xx.xx.xx netmask 255.255.255.0 should it just be !/sbin/ifconfig em0 up !/sbin/ifconfig em1 up !/sbin/ifconfig trunk0 trunkport em0 trunkport em1 xx.xx.xx.xx

Partitions

2006-06-29 Thread John Brahy
At first I didn't understand the reason for all the partitions ( http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2001-01/1654.html) now I can't have enough partitions In my official OpenBSD CD sleeve it says to create these partitions: / swap /tmp /var /usr /home and over time I have learned to

T1 and DSL failover? redundancy?

2006-06-21 Thread John Brahy
I was hoping to get some suggestions on the best way to handle this. We just put a DSL line for inet backup and I'd like to have it automagically failover. We are running OpenBSD 3.9 -stable on a box with four interfaces. Currently we have one interface connected to our private network and one

problems booting off wrong drive

2006-06-02 Thread John Brahy
I've got two drives in a OpenBSD 3.9 amd64 server. one that used to be the root drive in an old 3.8 system and a new drive that I've installed a fresh copy of OpenBSD 3.9. I want to boot up on just one of the drives but for some reason when I put the second drive in the server it tries to take

Re: problems booting off wrong drive

2006-06-02 Thread John Brahy
maintainer! On 6/2/06, John Brahy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got two drives in a OpenBSD 3.9 amd64 server. one that used to be the root drive in an old 3.8 system and a new drive that I've installed a fresh copy of OpenBSD 3.9. I want to boot up on just one of the drives but for some reason

Re: one drive in a raid 0 failed, can I save any data?

2006-06-02 Thread John Brahy
It turned out that I actually configured it as a raid 1 so I have a mirrored disk. I appreciate everyone's help and now I have options if I'm ever in the situation that I thought I was in. The best advice that I got was from Samuri Chef telling me to check out this software:

one drive in a raid 0 failed, can I save any data?

2006-06-01 Thread John Brahy
For a couple weeks I was running without backups and one of the drives died. Is there a way to recover any of the data from the drives?

Re: no data channel with pf/ftp-proxy on 3.9

2006-05-30 Thread John Brahy
ok, I just modified my configuration to be the same as the example pf.conf I have ftp-proxy going and I've even tried setting -r but that still doesn't do it. Here is my pf.conf # macros externalInterface=sis0 internalInterface=fxp0 tcp_services={ 22, 113 } icmp_types=echoreq

no data channel with pf/ftp-proxy on 3.9

2006-05-30 Thread John Brahy
on a fresh install of OpenBSD 3.9 from reading http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/ftp.html edited my pf.conf and added these lines: nat-anchor ftp-proxy/* rdr-anchor ftp-proxy/* rdr on $internalInterface proto tcp from any to any port 21 - 127.0.0.1port 8021 anchor ftp-proxy/* I also uncommented

out of filehandles/ too many users/ mysql and apache problem

2006-05-05 Thread John Brahy
How do I increase my available filehandles? I tried sysctl kern.maxfiles=32768 but it doesn't seem to help. The reason that i think I need to increase my filehandles is because I'm averaging about 1200 simutaneos users on a website that I'm hosting and the mysql database keeps crashing with

no content when sending mail to a program via .forward

2006-04-28 Thread John Brahy
I'm writing a program that will take email based searches, .forward seems like the simplest way to accomplish this. The problem that I am having is that I don't know how to access the content of the email. I tried argv and env but neither gave me a clue on how to access the actual message. I know

Re: no content when sending mail to a program via .forward

2006-04-28 Thread John Brahy
yeah, that was it. I should have thought of that. Too many beers and jager shots last night at a punk rock show. On 4/28/06, Darrin Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last time I messed with that I think everything was on stdin... -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD Users Group

Where can I buy Accoom Networks Artery WAN card?

2006-04-17 Thread John Brahy
ok, since an OpenBSD developer wrote the driver for the Accoom Networks Artery WAN card, I'm going to use that over the other two but I can't find anywhere to purchase it. The www.accoom.net site only has a pdf of it that doen't have any contact information. Does anyone know where I can purchase

Best WAN Adaper?

2006-04-15 Thread John Brahy
On http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html#hardware it lists three WAN Adapters, does anyone have any suggestions on one over the other? - Accoom Networks Artery T1/E1 WAN interfaces (arthttp://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=artarch=i386sektion=4) (G) - SBE (formerly Lan Media

Is there a OpenBSD friendly hardware vendor out there?

2005-11-22 Thread John Brahy
I have always purchased dell servers but I got screwed by adaptec. Does HP, IBM, or anyone else provide a 1u rack mount server with hardware raid that is fully supported by OpenBSD? Or do I have to go to each vendor and get them to tell me the chipset for each part? Thanks,

Re: perl interface to pf?

2005-11-01 Thread John Brahy
You're totally correct and I replied to him and apologized. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Thomas Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 1:09 PM To: OpenBSD-Misc Subject: Re: perl interface to pf? On 11/1/05, John Brahy [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: perl script for postfix logs to create spamd tables

2005-10-31 Thread John Brahy
Does anyone have a script that parses postfix logs and adds servers to the spamd tables? I do use and love spamd, but what I want to accomplish is to add servers that are attempting dictionary attacks and such into the spamd tables. Someone else emailed me directly and mentioned adding

Re: OpenBSD 3.8 song

2005-09-27 Thread John Brahy
I totally love the idea but it's not a song. The skit was great but I was really hoping to blast some music everything I got a error from my raid array because of this problem. It should be a good punk rock song! How about God Save the RAID? God save the RAID her fascist regime Share the

Re: Dell PowerEdge 2650

2005-09-20 Thread John Brahy
I've got two poweredge 2650's w/ PERC 3/di raid cards and I've tried OpenBSD 3.7, 3.6 and 3.5. I've found that the aac in 3.7 is completely unstable, the aac in 3.6 would have problems after an hour or so of heavy use. BUT, 3.5 seems to be stable but now I'm stuck on a version of an os that is

Re: MaxDB on 3.6? or just ndb_mgm[d ]?

2005-08-31 Thread John Brahy
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Spruell, Darren-Perot Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 1:11 PM To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: MaxDB on 3.6? or just ndb_mgm[d ]? From: John N. Brahy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm trying to build a