Re: Routing 10-40 Mpps on OpenBSD

2016-09-11 Thread K K
> I think Intel and Myricom are going to be the best-supported 10GbE on > OpenBSD at the moment. I thought Intel, but I speak out of impressions, not backed by any facts. > The best performance today will be with a processor that packs a lot > of punch into a smaller number of cores. I'm using

Routing 10-40 Mpps on OpenBSD

2016-09-11 Thread K K
// Previous email bounced, so I resend it. Sorry for duplicate // All, This message is a call for people who are interested to benchmark commodity hardware with the goal of pushing as much PPS as possible through OpenBSD. The initial target is to reach 10 Mpps at 64 bytes (or more precisely 84

Re: way to help: laptops and weekly

2010-01-26 Thread K K
Perhaps this is an application for /usr/bin/batch? @reboot batch -f /etc/fortnightly now + 1 hour Could it be beneficial to break up /etc/weekly into separate tasks, where the parent script can tell when each task last completed, and only re-run a task if it's been 6+ days since that task

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-04 Thread K K
2009/11/4 Jean-Frangois SIMON jfsimon1...@gmail.com: Hello, Is there any particular problem with installing OpenBSD on a SSD HD ? I once could on one machine but on my actual machine it simply does'nt work. After a while, the SSD disk becomes like overloaded and unavailable to continue the

Re: Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard HELP!

2009-10-21 Thread K K
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Stuart VanZee stua...@datalinesys.com wrote: The company I work for is having their yearly Payment Card Industry (PCI) assessment and while I believe that OpenBSD is the most secure OS going, I am having some problems proving it. Here are some of the issues I

Re: Wireless help, please

2009-06-02 Thread K K
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Ben Goren b...@trumpetpower.com wrote: Anybody else have any suggestions? Nick? I have similar problems with a 'rum' USB stick in AP mode using WPA. See the man page for specific know issues with using this chipset in Host AP mode. Can anybody suggest a readily

Re: European orders

2009-03-27 Thread K K
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 1:48 PM, dt...@drizzle.com wrote: Assuming that a flat envelope will cost far less to ship to Brazil than will a CD, why not offer to send just the booklet and/or stickers in response to some appropriate minimum donation? Throw in *two* sets of stickers and LightScribe

Re: European orders

2009-03-25 Thread K K
I know both Floor and Wim personally, and have done thousands of dollars of business with KD85. I trust both men, and have never known either to act rashly. Until Mr. Vandeputte responds, I suggest refraining from speculation. On 3/25/09, frantisek holop min...@obiit.org wrote: hmm, on Wed,

Re: Size of SD devices supported?

2009-01-07 Thread K K
My understanding is that when a device appears as 'umass', support for large cards and/or SDHC is entirely at the mercy of the reader chipset 'behind' the USB interface that hides it from the host. For the Thinkpad, it looks like the card reader is detected as an actual SDHC device (sdhc0 at pci6

Hack In The Box Security Conference 2008 - Malaysia?

2008-10-18 Thread K K
Any plan for an official or unofficial OpenBSD presence at the HITB conference? (I don't see it listed on http://openbsd.org/events.html) Any opportunity to purchase CDs or T-shirts at this event? On a related note, anybody who might be in Kuala Lumpur through the weekend of November 1st, any

Re: LDAP and OpenBSD

2008-10-10 Thread K K
On 10/10/08, raven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm thinking how my users into an ldap db can login into my openbsd machine as users. I try to use google but no clue at all. Thanks guys :) Easiest solution would be to use RADIUS via login_radius. Perhaps your LDAP is hooked into a RADIUS server

Cold boot failures on Net5501?

2008-06-06 Thread K K
Is anybody else seeing cold boot failures on Soekris Net5501-70 with comBIOS v1.33b and OpenBSD 4.3? I asked earlier on the soekris-tech list, received no replies. The console shows the following, and then hangs for about five seconds: 1 Seconds to automatic boot. Press Ctrl-P for entering

glxsb?

2008-05-22 Thread K K
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Paul de Weerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: glxsb (4/i386) - Geode LX Security Block crypto accelerator In other words, there's onboard crypto support in these machines that is supported in OpenBSD. You may not need a separate accelerator. Thanks for the reminder,

Re: 1U IBM or Dell server for firewall

2008-05-05 Thread K K
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 8:09 AM, LEVAI Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm in need of a 1U IBM (or Dell as a last resort) server for a firewall in our office. ... working perfectly with OpenBSD 4.3. We started out pricing Dell and IBM, but ran into the same issue -- it can be tricky to price

Re: Poor OpenBGPD performances on soekris net5501 ?

2008-04-30 Thread K K
You might want to post your dmesg (e.g. /var/run/dmesg.boot) OpenBSD 4.3, released today, has many enhancements directly applicable to the Net5501. We have 4.3 running on a rackmount model from KD85, and subjectively it feels much faster than my personal Net5501, not yet upgraded. Kevin

Re: Internship (Summer,Chicago,Paid)

2008-03-27 Thread K K
We have two summer internships, one of which is specifically available even if you do not have the specific Data Security skills called for, just a willingness to learn and the ability to commute to downtown Chicago. Kevin (P.S. Details below.) -- M3W5R($1A=[EMAIL PROTECTED])I='[EMAIL

Internship (Summer,Chicago,Paid)

2008-03-22 Thread K K
I have arranged with my employer to offer a paid internship this summer, with a focus on OpenBSD, and approval to release developed code as open source (as we did with ISIC). If you live (or attend college) in or near Chicago, are in a full-time undergraduate or graduate CS/IS program, and are

Re: rtorrent + OpenBSD = freeze

2008-02-19 Thread K K
I've left rTorrent running on 4.1 for weeks on end, (on both i386 and Sparc64), never had the OS freeze. I will try it again with 4.2, see if the results are different. Recently I've seen several unexplained freezes on very simple 4.2 servers (e.g running nothing but BIND and arpwatch), similar

Re: delete deleted data

2008-01-04 Thread K K
If you never write cleartext, there is nothing to recover. http://dlock.com.tw/ Kevin (P.S. I might be a satisfied dLock customer, if only they'd make it easier to buy their product!)

Re: Embedding OpenBSD

2007-12-31 Thread K K
Getting an off-the-shelf MP3 player to play one sound file is not too difficult. Ah, heck, a tape loop would work fine, too. There are commercial MP3 modules which are designed to do exactly what you are looking for, one example: http://www.hobbyengineering.com/H2168.html By itself, the

Re: seeking hardware token recommendations

2007-12-07 Thread K K
One thing I didn't see mentioned is public key certificates. Jacob's need to control access in a granular fashion might be solvable through the use of client certificates and SSL, rather than one-time passwords? Overall Vin makes good points, and includes useful links, so I won't re-write my

Re: Putting partition in RAM

2007-12-07 Thread K K
On Dec 7, 2007 5:06 PM, Jake Conk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I have it so that anyone can write to the directory when the computer starts up? The answer to your question is in man mount_mfs: If the -P file option is not used, the owner and mode of the created mfs file system will

Re: OpenBSD 4.2 (AMSTERDAM) #1: Fri Nov 02 20:00:00 CEST 2007

2007-10-19 Thread K K
On 10/13/07, Floor Terra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a small OpenBSD social event in Amsterdam (The Netherlands). It's nothing official, just a few OpenBSD users getting together. The date is Friday November 2nd, a perfect date to celebrate the 4.2 release. Cafi De Deugniet is the location, it's

Re: OpenBSD Install Goal

2007-09-14 Thread K K
On 9/14/07, Pau Amaro-Seoane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please don't touch the installer. It's just perfect. Ditto. Talking to new users, the feedback I get is that they tend to screw up partitioning, but other than that, no substantial complaints about the install process. Sure, it's not

Options for 1U server with watchdog?

2007-09-07 Thread K K
I am looking for recommendations for a new rackmount server with a watchdog(4) device fully supported under OpenBSD 4.2. Currently I have a pair of Sun Fire v100 servers providing recursive DNS services; each of these handles a peak of perhaps 50 requests/second. One of the two servers will

Re: Options for 1U server with watchdog?

2007-09-07 Thread K K
On 9/7/07, Lawrence Horvath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If power is a suspect why not get a UPS, it sounds like even a small one would do, and it would probly work out better than buying a new server? Like many larger corporate and colocation data centers, there is an explicit policy forbidding

Re: OT: serial console through S-Video 7-pin locking dub connector?

2007-07-20 Thread K K
On 7/20/07, Rob Schmersel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That looks like an old Mac modem cable (RS-422 RS-232), different beast. S-video does not even have the correct signals. The Macintosh (and some old Sun hardware) serial port uses a 8-pin Mini-DIN, a different pinout than other more common

Re: Remote Syslogd

2007-05-18 Thread K K
On 5/18/07, djgoku [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to filter remote syslog information that is coming from Motherboard Monitor on Windows. If all I do is change syslogd startup options in /etc/rc.conf from syslogd=-u all information is logged to /var/log/daemon. But I would really like the

Re: Monitoring with labels

2007-05-16 Thread K K
On 5/16/07, Frans Haarman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I was wondering about using pf to monitor what is happening on our network. The idea is to connect a pf machine to the management port on the switch. You might be better served using a tool designed for this purpose, such as Argus:

Re: Dual-port Gigabit SX NICs?

2007-05-07 Thread K K
Am I the only one having a difficult time keeping track of which cards on the Supported hardware list are merely tolerated, and which vendors/chipsets are truly supported and cooperative? On 5/5/07, Henning Brauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/4/07, K K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This would

Dual-port Gigabit SX NICs?

2007-05-03 Thread K K
I have a need to set up a sniffer based off NetOptics Fiber tap, collecting data from two different segments (so four interfaces total), with a total of around 800Mbps receive traffic, zero transmit. This would be our first foray into Fiber NICs on OpenBSD, looking for recommendations for on

Re: No Blob without Puffy

2007-03-16 Thread K K
It'd be great if Theo could make a clear statement on Puffy, the same as Marshall Kirk McKusick has for the daemon. I had cause to use a variant of Marshall's beastie for a project which was marginally within his published guidelines, and had no problem getting permission. On 3/16/07, Karel

Re: OT: Google-mini equivalent on OpenBSD suggestions needed

2007-03-08 Thread K K
On 3/8/07, Daniel Ouellet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But, I am at a lost as to find something that would run very nicely on OpenBSD that would be similar to a google mini search engine. If you are interested in indexing both web sites remotely and local files (e.g. the contents of

Re: 4.0 on Dell 2650

2007-02-09 Thread K K
On 2/9/07, Beavis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a PERC 3/Di on an old Dell 2650, dmesg doesn't show that much info it's just that there's no disk and PERC 3/Di is not-configured seems like dell still hasn't budge .. seems like it's an old issue old donkey-dell.. Yank out the RAID KEY and

Re: 4.0 frozen

2006-12-16 Thread K K
On 12/16/06, Stephen Schaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday it inexplicably went dark. I went down to check it out, and hooked up the monitor and keyboard. I could see the welcoming login prompt, but it wouldn't accept any input. It wasn't accepting any pings from a remote system on the

Re: rapidly rewriting a file causes filesystem to become full

2006-12-05 Thread K K
On 12/5/06, Joe Advisor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If this is the case, does this mean that I am in an either / or situation... as in, it is not possible to have rapid rewrites and rapid reboot simultaneously. Or is sync in cron a reasonable approach? The best option would be to redesign the