USB pcmcia card recommendation

2009-03-17 Thread Marcus Andree
Hi, Can anyone recommend a working PCMCIA-to-USB adapter for use with a Soekris net4521 OpenBSD-based access point and router? thanks in advance. marcus.

Re: openbsd fail2ban

2008-12-05 Thread Marcus Andree
, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Marcus Andree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've written a small program about 5 years ago. It was a daemon that implemented a service similar to port knocking but entirely in user level, calling pfctl by exec() system calls to insert/remove remote IP addresses in a pf table

Re: How can I mount a NTFS( sharing) remote partition on openBSD?

2008-11-25 Thread Marcus Andree
If I understood your problem correctly, the NTFS thing plays no role here, since you need to mount a remotely exported filesystem via SMB/CIFS protocol. Sharity or sharity-light is your friend. Google for it. Also, check if you can install as NFS server on your windows machine. This may simplify

Re: Packet Filter: how to keep device names on hardware failure?

2008-11-07 Thread Marcus Andree
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 01:22:08PM +0100, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: Unless we make some other unique identifier part of the way PF evaluates rules (the MAC address comes to mind, but that too can be changed in any

Re: openbsd fail2ban

2008-11-06 Thread Marcus Andree
I've written a small program about 5 years ago. It was a daemon that implemented a service similar to port knocking but entirely in user level, calling pfctl by exec() system calls to insert/remove remote IP addresses in a pf table holding machines able to connect to the ssh daemon via port 22.

Re: openbsd fail2ban

2008-11-06 Thread Marcus Andree
, Charlie Marcus Andree wrote: I've written a small program about 5 years ago. It was a daemon that implemented a service similar to port knocking but entirely in user level, calling pfctl by exec() system calls to insert/remove remote IP addresses in a pf table holding machines able

Re: maybe OT 4 year anniversay of Chuck Yerkes death

2008-08-28 Thread Marcus Andree
I sorely miss his clever and funny comments. This list isn't the same without him. Rest in peace, Chuck. Or should I say hack in peace? :) On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Diana Eichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think it's off topic but others might. I'm writing this post to remember

Re: question about raidframe getting stuck

2008-08-13 Thread Marcus Andree
snip Almost every RAID system out there handles the sudden removal of a disk from the system pretty well. Why? Because it's EASY to create that failure mode. Problem is, in 25 years in this business, I don't recall having seen a hard disk fall out of a computer as a mode of actual failure

Re: This is what Linus Torvalds calls openBSD crowd

2008-07-17 Thread Marcus Andree
Don't forget some amoebas wearing suits and t-shirts with a penguin stamp. agreed. I barely can wait to see Ty Semaka artwork for 4.4. Definitively it should include monkeys. And amoebas too. I agree, monkeys should definitely be somehow incorporated into the artwork for the next release.

Re: This is what Linus Torvalds calls openBSD crowd

2008-07-16 Thread Marcus Andree
snip I may completely disagree with him, but I'm not going to invest in a flame fest over his comments. snip Being here when Stallman started the last flame nuclear holocaust war, I feel a weird sense of deja-vu right now.

Re: GPL version 4

2008-07-16 Thread Marcus Andree
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Morton Harrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear gentlemen (and included list-members), Let me first introduce myself. My name is Morton Harrow, senior GNU/Linux Hmmm... something is telling me this message won't have a happy end. consultant in the London

Re: This is what Linus Torvalds calls openBSD crowd

2008-07-16 Thread Marcus Andree
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/706950 Again a mis representation in pulic? To me, security is important. But it's no less important than everything *else* that is also important! I.e. there are no shades of gray in import hence importance is black-and-while. H... IMO,

Re: OT: App to get detailed http measurements

2008-06-16 Thread Marcus Andree
http_load may be of help. I've used it a few times before. Had to do some enhancements to the source code, enabling it to deal better with dynamic pages. http://www.acme.com/software/http_load/ On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 7:55 AM, Mikolaj Kucharski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, This is off topic,

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-12 Thread Marcus Andree
There's some doubt if someone will achieve a valid OpenBSD binary. Also, the program may be subject to virus and trojan horses on its way to an OpenBSD system. :) 2008/5/9 David Gwynne [EMAIL PROTECTED]: copy con program.exe

Re: How to filter based on application protocol being used

2008-05-12 Thread Marcus Andree
snip Snort may also be of interest here. You can do it using open-source software as Bro (http://bro-ids.org), it's an open-source, Unix-based Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) that passively monitors network traffic and looks for suspicious activity. Bro has the DPD (dynamic

Re: MS and OpenBSD interportability, a lil list with patented and non patented protocols

2008-04-23 Thread Marcus Andree
snip So if you think it would be handy if you could remotely shutdown your whole network from the Firewall you may could code the daemon right now 'course the protocol itself is not patented. snip Probably the windows machines lying on the network are already shutting down to apply hourly

Re: [OT] need 32MB and 64 MB 72-pin SIMMS

2008-03-25 Thread Marcus Andree
http://www.ebay.com I wonder if anyone knows of a source for such old memory. I'm near Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

Re: the death of the oldest OpenBSD system on the net...

2008-03-18 Thread Marcus Andree
snip back in time (but not to long ago), I served 3000 email accounts for a Swiss multinational insurance company on a P133 with 32MB RAM. That is no big deal, however. sendmail and any Unix like system can handle that without problem. Agreed. People nowadays seem to wrongly

Re: the death of the oldest OpenBSD system on the net...

2008-03-17 Thread Marcus Andree
I've just finished a small argument with some colleages here at work. They just couldn't believe a Pentium 133 was serving a hundred e-mail accounts... Even in death we can count on OpenBSD to show how things should be done. RIP. On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Alexander Bochmann [EMAIL

Re: sftp: Umlauts and Spaces in filenames

2008-03-13 Thread Marcus Andree
From someone who speaks a native language with several extended characters: even non-unix systems (has Windows earned the system status already?) sucks with weird file names. snip That should work.. but, spaces and extended characters are so unclean in the Unix world, it was never designed

Re: [OT] beefy steel cases

2008-02-22 Thread Marcus Andree
Hi, Doug. My suggetion is: - start with good, standard but not-so-bulky case; - build a cage around the commercial grade, made from thick sheets of steel; - do lots of small, tiny drills on the external cage, for proper ventilation; - do a couple of larger holes for cables and wires on

Re: low-MHz server

2008-01-31 Thread Marcus Andree
Douglas, I'm really sorry about you wife's health problems. I was unaware about this condition and, as a matter of fact, will relay some of the information passed along this thread to my own wife (she is a trained doctor). Maybe she provide additional insights that could improve your wife's

Re: low-MHz server

2008-01-30 Thread Marcus Andree
The condition your wife is subject to, IMO, is _very_ unusual and deserves better study... I'm increasing the off-topicness of this thread, but Daniel is right. If your wife is more sensitive to higher frequencies, it should be more easier to isolate her from electromagnetic fields. Lower

Re: Developers: First Reply Gets My Copy Of /On Bullshit/

2007-12-14 Thread Marcus Andree
Man, that's the best thing I've got on misc@ in the last two or three days. On 12/14/07, Breen Ouellette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip For everyone else, we are all lucky enough to be able to access the full text at the following link:

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-12 Thread Marcus Andree
On 12/12/07, ropers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/12/2007, ropers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/12/2007, Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a last question. Will gNewSense become non-free if I start a ports-like software install package project for it? If

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-12 Thread Marcus Andree
On 12/12/07, Rodrigo V. Raimundo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 12 December 2007 06:37, Richard Stallman wrote: However, if distribution D includes this easier way to install in its ports system, by doing so distribution D endorses it and takes on the ethical responsibility for it.

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-11 Thread Marcus Andree
Sir, please check my inline comments. On 12/11/07, Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the list at: http://www.gnu.org/links/links.html#FreeGNULinuxDistributions the list of operating systems that meet your criteria? It appears that gNewSense includes LAME in binary

Re: About non-free software in OpenBSD

2007-12-10 Thread Marcus Andree
After reading the pearls of human thought described below, I've just chmod 000 {L,z}505 This guy's just too smart and he's able to see things no one can Better spend my time on a copy of Solitaire that came free on my windows machine. :) I do not agree 100% with Stallman. I've met with him

Re: OpenBSD4.1 IPSEC - transport_send_messages: giving up on exchange

2007-12-06 Thread Marcus Andree
We've got similar problems about a year ago, when we deployed a massive installation of vpn/ipsec clients based on isakmpd. When testing the client robustness to a series of events, like physically disconnecting network cables, simulating power failures and such, we saw the same pattern. Our

Re: netstat question

2007-11-23 Thread Marcus Andree
Connections listed as in close_wait state weren't closed in full sync and may have data still waiting to be processed. snip but what does it mean when a connection in CLOSE_WAIT has packets in the Recv-Q? how can that be? -f -- what we do not understand we do not possess. -- goethe

Re: lost root account

2007-11-19 Thread Marcus Andree
Boot your machine in single user mode (boot -s) and use plain vi and pwd_mkdb soon after that. There's no need to use vipw when running in boot -s. On Nov 19, 2007 5:18 PM, Jumping Mouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I have inherited an openBSD machine with no root account. When I boot

Re: altroot is not mentioned in FAQ [diff]

2007-11-06 Thread Marcus Andree
snip 20G disks don't really exist anymore. shouting O RLY? /shouting I always thought my 20 Gig HDD was the largest of my eight drives. Are you saying it's Schroedinger's hard drive? What about the others? My 200 MB would like to have a little word with you, and it doesn't look

Re: OpenBSD kernel janitors

2007-10-31 Thread Marcus Andree
Agreed I needed to peek OpenBSD code a couple months ago and found it extremely readable. Doing simple tasks can be a better path leading to new kernel engineers. Just posting your task list on this list isn't a commitment to coach new developers, but can provide a solid material to start

Re: OpenBSD kernel janitors

2007-10-31 Thread Marcus Andree
snip as opposed to a majority of people who talk and not code anything? here is a solution for you -- read http://openbsd.org/query-pr.html and start fixing those. pretty simple solution if you get no bugs of your own. cu -- Good point. I was wondering what to do next, once/if I can finish

Re: QEMU /dev/tun issue with tun device number 3 (more than 4 guests)

2007-10-25 Thread Marcus Andree
On 10/25/07, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've tried to run 5 QEMU guests simultanously but when trying to start the 5th I'll get the following error message: warning: could not open /dev/tun7 (No such file or directory): no virtual network emulation Could not initialize device

Re: QEMU /dev/tun issue with tun device number 3 (more than 4 guests)

2007-10-25 Thread Marcus Andree
comments inline. On 10/25/07, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, thanks for your fast answer. Marcus Andree schrieb: Maybe you'll have to compile a new kernel. There's an options(4) option called tun. I had to add something like pseudo-device tun 16 I read something while

Re: Cyrus IMAP performance problems [Long]

2007-10-16 Thread Marcus Andree
snip Got similar problems with imap once, a long time ago... Had to switch from mailbox format to maildir

Re: How can i boot a bsd.rd from windows 2000 ?

2007-10-11 Thread Marcus Andree
That's the best answer so far But, personally, I believe it can be done without programming and hacking OpenBSD installation program to work in the same way as Ubuntu install.exe Here's how I thing it _might_ work. The point is to use a bootable linux partition to bridge from !OpenBSD to

Re: How can i boot a bsd.rd from windows 2000 ?

2007-10-11 Thread Marcus Andree
Once upon a time there was a program called loadlin... I've used it a couple times. It was quite annoying when, by mistake, double clicked somewhere and, without further warning, a Linux distro was booting right in front of me. snip Wasn't there, in the last century, a tool for windows to boot

Re: How can i boot a bsd.rd from windows 2000 ?

2007-10-11 Thread Marcus Andree
Cool. Didn't noticed a version of grub that runs on windows. snip See: http://www.geocities.com/lode_leroy/grubinstall/ snip

Re: Transparent Firewall with NAT

2007-10-10 Thread Marcus Andree
You _may_ be able to apply the following setup (borrowing from someone else's design :-) : inside box (1) firewall/bridge doing nat (2)- default gateway internet if1 if2 Let's just suppose that if2 has the ip address IP2

Re: partition layout

2007-10-04 Thread Marcus Andree
On 10/4/07, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 07:46:01PM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Hello all, I have a 486DX4-100 with 32 MB ram. I bought an 8 GB drive to put in my P-II and it won't boot it so I've put in in the 486 along

Re: Venezuala Change to GMT -4:30

2007-10-03 Thread Marcus Andree
Please, post a copy of this message to our (Brazilian) government. We're telling them the same thing for years. But, for whatever is the reason, they insist to defy nature and often change DST arrival every couple years. On 10/3/07, Constantine A. Murenin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 03/10/2007,

Re: To whom can I direct email for artwork use permission pls?

2007-10-02 Thread Marcus Andree
Theo is the copyright holder of the CD directory structure used by the install CDs. If someone wanna sell a CD (or DVD) legally, s/he will have to: - get a written permission from Theo or - code an entirely new installation procedure snip I say: make your OpenBSD DVDs, sell them cheaply, and

wi driver: maximal output power question

2007-09-26 Thread Marcus Andree
Dear all, First, let me say a big hello to everyone here. I've been out of this list for almost three years... Just came back less than a week ago and Chuck Yerkes is sorely missing... I don't know if this question will be better answered here or on [EMAIL PROTECTED] After reading an email

wi maximal power

2007-09-25 Thread Marcus Andree
Dear all, First, let me say a big hello to everyone here. I've been out of this list for almost three years... Just came back less than a week ago and Chuck Yerkes is sorely missing... I don't know if this question will be better answered here or on [EMAIL PROTECTED] After reading an email

Re: Blocking many accesses to ssh port from single IP

2005-06-30 Thread Marcus Andree S. Magalhaes
snip Tonight I got 800+ attempts from the same IP. I played with manually blocking the IP, but it was over before I got the firewall rules written and looked over them twice. Is there any way to block/limit the number of connections to a port in a given time period? I was getting around 5