Re: Hardware/System Question

2012-06-23 Thread Michael Lechtermann
On 23.06.12 20:12, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2012/06/23 11:02, Ben Calvert wrote: Optiplexes have a reputation for spontaneously letting the magic smoke out of their own power supply capacitors. hard to recommend unless you have a good support deal with dell Knowing which way round to

Re: ipsec tunnel speeds

2012-06-21 Thread Michael Lechtermann
On 21.06.12 19:27, Mark Romer wrote: Can anyone please let me know what kind of through-put I can expect from one client machine to another through an openbsd ipsec tunnel? Thanks, Mark 42

Re: System crash due to kernel locking?

2012-06-20 Thread Michael Lechtermann
Forgot to mention that since uhci was offline I wasn't able to execute any trace or os commands. On 20.06.12 23:20, bele...@bsdmail.de wrote: Hi, just had one of my servers crash with the following message: http://v68i.img-up.net/crash113b41.JPG Was this specific issue fixed in

Re: hardware looking for a new home

2011-11-08 Thread Michael Lechtermann
Hi all, just wanted to give a little update. So far I receive a fewed mails from people who are interested in some of the items, but I am still collecting and will sort it out during the next weekend or so. Regards, Michael Am 06.11.11 14:38, schrieb Michael Lechtermann: Hi all, I am

hardware looking for a new home

2011-11-06 Thread Michael Lechtermann
Hi all, I am moving soon and want to take that opportunity to get rid of some old hardware I either don't need anymore or don't have the space for. All items are located in Germany, about an hour drive north of Frankfurt. 1x 19 Schroff rack - 2x door, 1 key - 2x side walls (from another

Re: carp issues

2011-08-10 Thread Michael Lechtermann
Hi, just wanted to let you know that the problematic IP it is working to now and no problems has been seen in the last 16-18 hours. Problem vanished while trying to figure out the root cause. -Michael On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:39:54 +0200, Michael Lechtermann wrote: Hi, # ifconfig carp0

carp issues

2011-08-09 Thread Michael Lechtermann
Hi all, we are having some issues with CARP. One IP of three configured is causing trouble. The systems are running OpenBSD 4.9-release. Description: IP 10.0.1.9 and 10.0.1.13 are working just fine, however, sometimes it isn't possible to connect using IP 10.0.1.12. Destroying the

Re: carp issues

2011-08-09 Thread Michael Lechtermann
Hi, # ifconfig carp0 carp0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 lladdr 00:00:5e:00:01:0a priority: 0 carp: carpdev em0 advbase 1 balancing ip-stealth carppeer 10.0.1.11 state MASTER vhid 10 advskew 0 state

OpenBSD on Dell PowerEdge

2011-08-08 Thread Michael Lechtermann
is running on that hardware and what raid controller would be a good choice? The boxes are also to have 6 network interfaces. Which additional Quad NIC would be the best to take, Broadcom or Intel? Thanks in advance. Best regards, Michael Lechtermann

Re: cannot reboot system with softraid(4) volumes

2011-03-08 Thread Michael Lechtermann
The same happens with my v440 most of the time, but not always. Am 08.03.2011 11:10, schrieb Mattieu Baptiste: Hi all, I know this setup might not be fully supported but I wanted to report this. On my Sun Fire V240 I have two softraid(4) volumes: - sd4 (UUID a45b5629cc97897e), RAID1 for

nfs / mail related freezes with OpenBSD 4.8-current

2010-12-09 Thread Michael Lechtermann
Hello, since updating to 4.8-current two of my boxes, one i386 and one sparc64, keep freezing just seconds after the boot. I managed to find out that it has something to do with mail and the mailboxes being inside an NFS share on another server. For now I moved the mailboxes back into the

Re: nfs / mail related freezes with OpenBSD 4.8-current

2010-12-09 Thread Michael Lechtermann
Hi, since updating to 4.8-current two of my boxes, one i386 and one sparc64, keep freezing just seconds after the boot. I managed to find out that it has something to do with mail and the mailboxes being inside an NFS share on another server. For now I moved the mailboxes back into the

Re: ospf6d trouble

2010-12-08 Thread Michael Lechtermann
Hello Claudio, Hallo Stefan, and hello misc@, since we've already talked osp6d stuff in earlier this year, I directly write to you (Claudio and Stefan) in addition to m...@. I am having some issues with ospf6d. The same setup works without issues with ospfd and IPv4 routes. Please excuse the

Re: ospf6d trouble

2010-12-08 Thread Michael Lechtermann
Hello Stefan, ospf6d doesn't support multiple areas yet: BUGS Virtual links are currently not available in ospf6d. Support for multiple areas is currently not available in ospf6d. Thanks a lot, missed that :-( There might be a routing hackathon this year (Claudio will know

softraid trouble (system crashes)

2010-06-23 Thread Michael Lechtermann
Hi, since upgrading to 4.7 and now 4.7-current I can not really use the softraid with sparc64 (SUN v440) anymore. When copying many small files (something like CVS) I always have the server crash with the following messages. Any ideas? Michael splassert: inodedep_lookup: want 5 have 10

Re: softraid trouble (system crashes)

2010-06-23 Thread Michael Lechtermann
run with kern.splassert=2 in your sysctl.conf. This will produce a panic or at least some more verbose output. As far as I can quickly see, IPL_BIO is expected, but IPL_CLOCK is being seen. With kern.splassert=2: panic: timeout_add: not initialized Starting stack trace... End of

Re: relayd redirection (feature request?)

2010-04-15 Thread Michael Lechtermann
Hi, I would like to use relayd to check if squid is up and working. If it is up and works, it should be used as transparent proxy. If squid isn't working properly for whatever reason (or the squid host isn't reachable) I just want to have normal internet access. When the Squid host is

relayd redirection (feature request?)

2010-04-13 Thread Michael Lechtermann
Hi, I would like to use relayd to check if squid is up and working. If it is up and works, it should be used as transparent proxy. If squid isn't working properly for whatever reason (or the squid host isn't reachable) I just want to have normal internet access. When the Squid host is configured

Re: softraid rebuild hangs at 99%

2010-04-06 Thread Michael Lechtermann
Am 06.04.2010 15:41, schrieb Marco Peereboom: You had a hardware error so the rebuild was halted. This needs some prettying up but it comes down to a bad disk. The source disk has a read error so I suggest you saving everything off the disk before proceeding. I will write a patch to

softraid rebuild hangs at 99%

2010-04-05 Thread Michael Lechtermann
Hi, I guess this says it all: # bioctl -v softraid0 Volume Status Size Device softraid0 0 Rebuild 73543122944 sd3 RAID1 99% done 0 Rebuild 73543122944 0:0.0 noencl sd1a 'unknown serial' 1 Online

Re: Dell PE850 CERC SATA controller

2010-03-04 Thread Michael Lechtermann
Hi, Am 04.03.2010 16:32, schrieb FRLinux: Hello, i read from the current documentation that it is not advised to purchase hardware containing the following (taken from http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html) Adaptec FSA-based RAID controllers (aac), including: (*) Note: In the past years Adaptec

Which webcam?

2010-02-27 Thread Michael Lechtermann
Hi, since my old webcam (some cheap Logitech Quickcam) doesn't work with OpenBSD I was wondering what you guys are using? I would prefer to attach it to my ALIX wireless access point over buying an expensive cam that supports IP connections. Thanks in advance! Michael

Re: pfctl table cleared time is jumping around

2010-02-23 Thread Michael Lechtermann
Hi, I don't remember any changes in that area lately so this puzzles me. do we know when this breakage was introduced, approximately? I found a couple of boxes with May 2009 kernels where expire works as expected. I can't think of anything I have running code dated between then and now to

Re: pfctl table cleared time is jumping around

2010-02-22 Thread Michael Lechtermann
Hi, it's a slightly weird side-effect. a quick glance indicates that the tzero timestamp is part of the stats struct and tables don't keep stats/counters by default any more. for some time tho. i don't remember any recent changes to the table code (as if anybody wanted to touch that mess)

Re: pfctl table cleared time is jumping around

2010-02-22 Thread Michael Lechtermann
Hi, it's a slightly weird side-effect. a quick glance indicates that the tzero timestamp is part of the stats struct and tables don't keep stats/counters by default any more. for some time tho. i don't remember any recent changes to the table code (as if anybody wanted to touch that mess)

pfctl table cleared time is jumping around

2010-01-20 Thread Michael Lechtermann
Hi, it seems there is a bug in pfctl regarding the cleared time of a table entry. The attack actually happend this year, but the date shown is constantly changing: # pfctl -t bruteforce -vT show 81.38.199.134 Cleared: Sun Apr 12 18:24:16 2009 88.183.20.179 Cleared:

Re: pfctl table cleared time is jumping around

2010-01-20 Thread Michael Lechtermann
Am 20.01.2010 23:15, schrieb frantisek holop: hmm, on Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 04:58:32PM +0100, Michael Lechtermann said that it seems there is a bug in pfctl regarding the cleared time of a table entry. The attack actually happend this year, but the date shown is constantly changing: been

iSCSI status

2010-01-19 Thread Michael Lechtermann
Hi, Is it already possible to mount iSCSI devices with OpenBSD(-current)? Michael

OT: SUN v440 power supply

2010-01-14 Thread Michael Lechtermann
Hi, sorry to bring this up on this list, but since sparc64 is supported really well with OpenBSD I couldn't resist. One of the SUN v440 power supplies from my OpenBSD server died and I am looking for a replacement. Since buying a new one is really expensive (sometimes you get a full v440 for

/etc/rc - little change proposal

2008-06-29 Thread Michael Lechtermann
Hello misc@, I was wondering why rc.local is called before the standard daemons and not after? Especially when using hotplugd it would be nice to already have it started before calling rc.local. That way some devices can already get attached and can be used from rc.local. Currently one has

Suggestion for new vnconfig -p option

2008-06-28 Thread Michael Lechtermann
Hi, currently I am writing a script to automount encrypted vnconfig partitions (using hotplugd) when I insert an USB stick. The saltfile is on the USB stick, so basically there is no need to manually enter the encryption key if only I got access to the USB stick. To be able to do that I need

Re: Configuring pppoe during installation?

2006-06-22 Thread Michael Lechtermann
Chris Zakelj schrieb: Sounds great in theory, but as Theo gently reminded me when I asked this a year or two ago, there's only so much space on a single 1.44M floppy. Including even rudimentary PPPoE would crowd out other drivers and tools that are much more useful during an install. Why not

Re: Configuring pppoe during installation?

2006-06-22 Thread Michael Lechtermann
Falk Husemann wrote: 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. If you had actually read what I have written

Re: Configuring pppoe during installation?

2006-06-22 Thread Michael Lechtermann
Guido Tschakert wrote: 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

Re: Configuring pppoe during installation?

2006-06-22 Thread Michael Lechtermann
Since some people are so nice and started bitching around like they were some 12 year olds, I feel the need to set something straight here. Personally, I really don't care if there is an additional, optional, setup routine for anything since I don't need it, would probably never use it and will

Re: Bind popa3d to local interface only

2006-06-08 Thread Michael Lechtermann
Damien Miller schrieb: Why go through all of this trouble when you can just run it out of inetd(8)? Why running inetd for that alone and having an additional process open when popa3d is supposed to be able to do it alone when set to an address in params.h? Imho, that patch, (with my little

Bind popa3d to local interface only

2006-06-07 Thread Michael Lechtermann
now), but it would be much nicer if it wasn't listening on unused ports at all. I am running a week-old snapshot, but used the latest cvs sources from a few hours ago. Thanks in advance, Michael Lechtermann

Which free board software for PostgeSQL?

2006-06-07 Thread Michael Lechtermann
Hi, anyone can recommend a free PHP board/forums software for use with PostgreSQL 8.x? PgSQL isn't mentioned in the vBulletin homepage. PHPBB is supposed to work with 7.x, not sure about 8.x Thanks in advance. Michael

Re: NAT and problem (maybe)

2006-05-26 Thread Michael Lechtermann
How about this? Btw. default options can be left out, makes the rules even simpler to write... Since you are scrubbing everything the same way, try too keep it simple, not sure if just scrub would work too, but try it. If not, scrub in and scrub out will work. fragment reassemble is default

USB -- Ethernet NIC

2006-05-23 Thread Michael Lechtermann
of OpenBSD, or any other BSD for that matter, you are using. Maybe even drop a little dmesg | usbdevs -v output. Thanks in advance, Michael Lechtermann

Re: Problem with USB axe network card

2006-05-16 Thread Michael Lechtermann
correctly with the D-Link DUB E-100. If anyone got a clue on what to do or if I can help someone getting a clue on this problem I would be really happy. Its a really nasty bug that makes the devices almost useless. =( Michael Lechtermann OpenBSD 3.9-current (GENERIC) #739: Sun May 14 16:23:45

Re: Problem with USB axe network card

2006-04-24 Thread Michael Lechtermann
help would really be appreciated. Michael Lechtermann

Problem with USB axe network card

2006-04-23 Thread Michael Lechtermann
and the other around 5MByte/s. I am using 3.9 from snapshots (upgraded from 3.8). Anyone got an idea on how to fix this problem? Thanks in advance, Michael Lechtermann