Gina/Adityha, followup on donation request re OpenPower devices Re: Interest in POWER platform?

email. I personally think Power9/Power8 support is a useful thing and if 10x2,850USD would have been less than say 0.2% of my wealth, I'd simply have taken this matter through a web shopping cart. Have a good day. Thanks!, Mikael More 2017-05-25 13:52 GMT+08:00 Mikael <mikael.ml...@gmail.

Re: Interest in POWER platform?

the authority to sign off on a donation. People like you and me are free to shop and donate. Mikael 2017-05-25 1:57 GMT+08:00 Kai Wetlesen <kwetle...@mac.com>: > Hi all, > > What is the current community interest in getting OpenBSD running on the > newer POWER processors? I have

Any efforts to make sector size configurable file/disk IO subsystem locking?

and sequential modes.) Thanks! Mikael

Re: OpenBSD 6.1 - bravo

Also from me, big thanks! 2017-04-12 16:45 GMT+08:00 Clément.J : > Thank you OpenBSD team for this new release 6.1 > OpenBSD makes me happy every day for so many usages > so thank you so much everyone for your great work. 2017-04-12 16:45 GMT+08:00 Clément.J

Re: Per-device multiqueuing would be fantastic. Are there any plans? Are donations a matter here?

Bump 2017-02-10 22:11 GMT+08:00 Mikael <mikael.ml...@gmail.com>: > 2017-02-10 18:39 GMT+08:00 David Gwynne <da...@gwynne.id.au>: > >> > 2017-02-09 16:41 GMT+08:00 David Gwynne <da...@gwynne.id.au>: >> > .. > >> i can go into more detai

Re: Per-device multiqueuing would be fantastic. Are there any plans? Are donations a matter here?

and higher IOPS would require a reconstruction of the IO system where IO operations are represented internally rather by data structures run by an asynchronous mechanism. How is it actually, and where is it going? Regarding mp-safe drivers, I would guess ahci.4 and nvme.4 are the most commonly used interfaces for SSD:s. Best regards, Mikael

Re: Per-device multiqueuing would be fantastic. Are there any plans? Are donations a matter here?

2017-02-09 16:41 GMT+08:00 David Gwynne <da...@gwynne.id.au>: .. > hey mikael, > > can you be more specific about what you mean by multiqueuing for disks? > even a > reference to an implementation of what you’re asking about would help me > answer this question. > &g

Re: SSD read performance benchmark OpenBSD 6.0 vs. Linux 4.7: OpenBSD will benefit of multiqueueing and also a speedup for sequential reads, and Linux' mmap() is extremely slow for random reads.

2017-02-09 Mikael <mikael.ml...@gmail.com>: > Dear misc@, > > *## Intro, environment* > Find below a comparative benchmark of OpenBSD 6.0 vs Linux 4.7 read speeds > on a 3.3Ghz Xeon E3 server with a Samsung 850 Pro 256GB SATA SSD, which is > one of the very fastest SSD

Per-device multiqueuing would be fantastic. Are there any plans? Are donations a matter here?

? Are donations a matter here, if so about what size of donations and to who? Someone suggested that implementing it would take a year of work. Any clarifications of what's going on and what's possible and how would be much appreciated. Thanks, Mikael

SSD read performance benchmark OpenBSD 6.0 vs. Linux 4.7: OpenBSD will benefit of multiqueueing and also a speedup for sequential reads, and Linux' mmap() is extremely slow for random reads.

nchmark being constructed to minimize buffer cache utilization through random lseek()). Details follow below. Best regards, Mikael *## Detail benchmark results* *# OpenBSD results* System: GENERIC.MP, 6.0, AMD64, dmesg below. Sequential reads (single-threaded) [1] are around 120MB/sec all

IBM Power roundup for the year: Inaction, likely due to stupid greed from budget managers

g they'll get ever in perpetuity. The Power tech is useful. It would be nice to see donations happen. I will be the happiest to post public thanks to IBM for doing the right thing. As of yet I have no indication whatsoever that they will do that. I would be glad to be positively surprised in this respect in 2017. Of course others can donate too. In either case, the world will go on. Mikael

Re: Would you use OpenBSD on Power8, and if so what applications? (IBM asks! They're thinking about donating hw.)

2016-10-20 1:15 GMT+08:00 Ralph Siegler : .. > Their ecosystem? > > closed source softwares including for x86-64 like Websphere, DB2, MQ, > .. > Hardware platforms limited to Power ($11,000 and up), Z series ($60,000 > A silly example of interest in the Power architecture

Re: Would you use OpenBSD on Power8, and if so what applications? (IBM asks! They're thinking about donating hw.)

2016-10-20 1:15 GMT+08:00 Ralph Siegler <rsieg...@rsiegler.org>: > On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 23:50:11 +0800, Mikael wrote: > > > 2016-10-19 23:18 GMT+08:00 Ralph Siegler <rsieg...@rsiegler.org>: > > > >> On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 15:18:02 +0200, Otto Moerbeek wro

Re: Would you use OpenBSD on Power8, and if so what applications? (IBM asks! They're thinking about donating hw.)

rds, so I will be the cruel and > heartless one that translates those kind and diplomatic words to Mikael > into the common tongue. What she was really saying was: > I see what you mean and I am unconvinced that you are correct about your suggestion. They are a for-profit thoug

Re ARM64 server hw availability and low-end Sparc64

t; On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 7:23 AM, Mikael <mikael.ml...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Oracle have been talking about making a low-end server model of their new > > Sparc64 chip, I guess that one will sell at around 5000 USD too. > > I guess you talk about so called Son

Re: Would you use OpenBSD on Power8, and if so what applications? (IBM asks! They're thinking about donating hw.)

2016-10-19 12:59 GMT+08:00 Ralph Siegler : .. > too expensive to have for development, too expensive to run, to > expensive for a userbase while businesses waited for a mature version, no > compelling use case in the open source world that couldn't be done with > Xeon

Re: Would you use OpenBSD on Power8, and if so what applications? (IBM asks! They're thinking about donating hw.)

2016-10-19 6:51 GMT+08:00 Ralph Siegler : .. > no one is going to buy box from product line that starts at $11,000 (non- > Power8 machine offers start at USD 2,850: http://www.tyan.com/campaign/openpower/index.html And their standard prices are USD 5,530 and up, that is

Re: Would you use OpenBSD on Power8, and if so what applications? (IBM asks! They're thinking about donating hw.)

2016-10-19 0:48 GMT+08:00 Kapetanakis Giannis : > > pf, relayd, bgpd ;) > > G > > ps. after the unlocking > Giannis, this is too little info to be useful. Please describe the practical and technical utility and value, the organization/social context, scope, duration,

Would you use OpenBSD on Power8, and if so what applications? (IBM asks! They're thinking about donating hw.)

this question and post them here in this thread, or PM them to me. I'll forward your responses and they'll decide whether to donate Power8 devices to OpenBSD, based on them. ** Please tell the next 6-7 days! Thanks! Mikael

Re: "dd if=/dev/srandom of=/dev/wd0e bs=1024 count=1" WIPES my wd0 disklabel. Is this intended, bug, how come, how workaround ??? Incl reproduction script+console output+dmesg

Thanks everyone for clarifying that the sectors 0 to 79 should be considered reserved on OpenBSD MBR partitions (and thus within the context of the "disklabel" tool). There is just one thing I don't understand now, and that is what dysfunction-potential there is in inappropriate handling of

Re: "dd if=/dev/srandom of=/dev/wd0e bs=1024 count=1" WIPES my wd0 disklabel. Is this intended, bug, how come, how workaround ??? Incl reproduction script+console output+dmesg

2015-10-07 1:38 GMT+08:00 Ted Unangst <t...@tedunangst.com>: > Mikael wrote: > > 2015-10-07 0:58 GMT+08:00 Ted Unangst <t...@tedunangst.com>: > > > > > > the disklabel is the second sector of the openbsd part of the disk. > > > > >

Re: "dd if=/dev/srandom of=/dev/wd0e bs=1024 count=1" WIPES my wd0 disklabel. Is this intended, bug, how come, how workaround ??? Incl reproduction script+console output+dmesg

Aha got it. So then I'll just learn that sector 80 and up are "safe" for "user data", and it's up to all users to take care that any non-UFS/swap/RAID partitions never go below 80. But how does the behavior of the first added partition by default overlapping the disklabel "save butts" - Does

Re: "dd if=/dev/srandom of=/dev/wd0e bs=1024 count=1" WIPES my wd0 disklabel. Is this intended, bug, how come, how workaround ??? Incl reproduction script+console output+dmesg

2015-10-07 1:44 GMT+08:00 Mikael <mikael.tr...@gmail.com>: > > Ah sure. > > Perhaps I misunderstood the level of "foolproofness" that the disklabel > tool's autogenerated default value was intended to give - > > Just curious, now that structural things lik

Re: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mykeydisk; bioctl -k /dev/mykeydisk ... = will use 0x00 as key, or will generate a secure key?

2015-10-06 19:25 GMT+08:00 Jiri B <ji...@devio.us>: > On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 07:17:19PM +0800, Mikael wrote: > > You > > > > 1) Fill your keydisk with zeroes and > > > > 2) Apply "bioctl -k" on it. > > ^^^ this is not exact cmd arg, is it? &

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mykeydisk; bioctl -k /dev/mykeydisk ... = will use 0x00 as key, or will generate a secure key?

You 1) Fill your keydisk with zeroes and 2) Apply "bioctl -k" on it. Does this mean your key is now zeroes, meaning completely unsafe, or did bioctl make a key for you? The keydisk gets some "OPENBSDSR KEYDISK005" header but it says nowhere if it actually made a key for you. If it generates

Re: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mykeydisk; bioctl -k /dev/mykeydisk ... = will use 0x00 as key, or will generate a secure key?

2015-10-06 19:54 GMT+08:00 Stefan Sperling <s...@stsp.name>: > On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 07:32:45PM +0800, Mikael wrote: > > 2015-10-06 19:27 GMT+08:00 Stefan Sperling <s...@stsp.name>: > > > Perhaps this will answer your questions: > > > http://www.ope

"dd if=/dev/srandom of=/dev/wd0e bs=1024 count=1" WIPES my wd0 disklabel. Is this intended, bug, how come, how workaround ??? Incl reproduction script+console output+dmesg

The script below includes extra considerations to see through any kernel caching of the disklabel, by rebooting between every relevant step. "dd if=/dev/srandom of=/dev/rwd0e bs=1024 count=1" does also wipe the disklabel. "dd if=/dev/srandom of=/dev/wd0a bs=1024 count=1" does not wipe the

Re: "dd if=/dev/srandom of=/dev/wd0e bs=1024 count=1" WIPES my wd0 disklabel. Is this intended, bug, how come, how workaround ??? Incl reproduction script+console output+dmesg

2015-10-07 0:58 GMT+08:00 Ted Unangst : > > the disklabel is the second sector of the openbsd part of the disk. > > *3: A6 0 1 2 - 243200 254 63 [ 64: 3907024001 ] OpenBSD > > so, if you overwrite sector 65, you will overwrite disklabel. normally the > 'a'

Re: "dd if=/dev/srandom of=/dev/wd0e bs=1024 count=1" WIPES my wd0 disklabel. Is this intended, bug, how come, how workaround ??? Incl reproduction script+console output+dmesg

2015-10-07 1:07 GMT+08:00 Theo de Raadt : > > > Have I (and some others) misunderstood anything about how BSD > disklabelling > > > works? > > > > the disklabel is the second sector of the openbsd part of the disk. > > > > *3: A6 0 1 2 - 243200 254 63 [

Re: "dd if=/dev/srandom of=/dev/wd0e bs=1024 count=1" WIPES my wd0 disklabel. Is this intended, bug, how come, how workaround ??? Incl reproduction script+console output+dmesg

2015-10-07 0:45 GMT+08:00 Ted Unangst <t...@tedunangst.com>: > Mikael wrote: > > The script below includes extra considerations to see through any kernel > > caching of the disklabel, by rebooting between every relevant step. > > > > "dd if=/dev/srandom of

Re: "dd if=/dev/srandom of=/dev/wd0e bs=1024 count=1" WIPES my wd0 disklabel. Is this intended, bug, how come, how workaround ??? Incl reproduction script+console output+dmesg

2015-10-07 1:14 GMT+08:00 Theo de Raadt : > > > But your fingers don't know it. > > > > > > > > Right, time for fingers to learn. > > > > Will look forward to learn how it "saved many a butt" and what's the > lowest > > "safe" offset (..64 + 8*2 = 81+?..) (if that will

Re: disklabel fs types, where can I find the whole list of supported types?

"e a" asks nothing about fs type. What do you say? Mikael 2015-10-05 15:03 GMT+08:00 Ingo Schwarze <schwa...@usta.de>: > Hi Mikael, > > Mikael wrote on Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 01:44:36PM +0800: > > > Hi, > > > > Where can I see a complete list of disk

Re: disklabel fs types, where can I find the whole list of supported types?

.com>: > Yes, but beside ffs HEX id inside fdisk prompt you have also ffs partition > id values in plain English.. > > Regards, > > Dusan > > 2015-10-05 9:28 GMT+02:00 Mikael <mikael.tr...@gmail.com>: > > > > > And, the disklabel filesystem type is re

Include "wsconsctl" on installer CD so keyboard repeat can be disabled = make VNC KVM install smooth on laggy connection?

e keyboard repeat on the installer CD - What do you say about including "wsconsctl" on it? Thanks, Mikael

Re: disklabel fs types, where can I find the whole list of supported types?

2015-10-05 17:14 GMT+08:00 Ingo Schwarze <schwa...@usta.de>: > Mikael, why do you ask? What is the actual problem you want to > solve? Read a disk that nobody touched for 35 years? Write a disk > that can be read by a machine which hadn't its operating system > upgraded for

Re: Include "wsconsctl" on installer CD so keyboard repeat can be disabled = make VNC KVM install smooth on laggy connection?

Unangst <t...@tedunangst.com>: > Mikael wrote: > > VNC KVM install means some keypresses will be interpreted as > seconds-long, > > ordinarily leading to multiple unintended "enter" or character key > presses > > which easily seriously breaks things, wh

disklabel fs types, where can I find the whole list of supported types?

ot;help" is interpreted as choosing the fs type "unknown". Thanks, Mikael

Re: when SSDs are not so solid or why no TRIM support can be a good thing :)

??), then at least the OS would be able to detect corruption (??, fix anything??) and return proper read failures (or sigsegv) properly. Mikael 2015-06-18 16:23 GMT+07:00 Karel Gardas gard...@gmail.com: On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 9:08 AM, David Dahlberg david.dahlb...@fkie.fraunhofer.de wrote: Am Donnerstag, den

Re: when SSDs are not so solid or why no TRIM support can be a good thing :)

Wait, just for my (and I guesss some others') clarity, three questions here: 1) From the article, what can we see that Ext4/Linux actually did wrong here? - Is it that the TRUNCATE command should be abandoned completely, or was it how it matched supported/unsupported drives, or something else?

Re: when SSDs are not so solid or why no TRIM support can be a good thing :)

2015-06-18 2:07 GMT+05:30 Gareth Nelson gar...@garethnelson.com: On point 3, hybrid SSD drives usually just present a standard IDE interface - just use a SATA controller and you don't need to worry about it No I meant, you plug in a 2TB SSD and a 2TB magnet HD, is there any way to make them

Re: when SSDs are not so solid or why no TRIM support can be a good thing :)

2015-06-18 0:53 GMT+05:30 Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.org: 2) General on SSD: When an SSD starts to shrink because it starts to wear out, how is this handled and how does this appear to the OS, logs, and system software? Invisible. Even when a few drives make it visible in some

SSD failure handling

2015-06-18 8:57 GMT+05:30 Nick Holland n...@holland-consulting.net: What is then proper behavior for a program or system using an SSD, to deal with SSD degradation?: replace drive before it is an issue. So say you have a program altering a file's contents all the time, or you have

Re: mac mini - virtualbox - openbsd amd64?

2015-03-24 22:17 GMT+05:30 Jeremiah Ford m...@jeremiahford.com: On 2015-03-24 11:48, frantisek holop wrote: has anybody tried running openbsd in virtualbox on a mac mini? is X11, etc feasable? -f Never on a macmini, but I have on imac and many others. If you are seeking a virtual

Re: OpenBSD as base OS for Virtualization

If someone wanted to hack together a Bhyve OBSD port would be complete awesomeness. Even as a custom patch only for the stupid guys like me who love this unsafe virtualization stuff that so many use now. It would be awesome. I know the whole virtualization thing is crap from a strict security

NetMap in OpenBSD

NetMap (http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/) in OpenBSD would be a great idea. It's a simple API for solving an important problem, at least its core parts. Is OBSD's kernel structure suited as it is for NetMap? What's the interest out there for NetMap on OBSD? Thanks, Mikael

Re: NetMap in OpenBSD

Dear Henning, Thank you for your thoughtful response. 2014-10-14 11:02 GMT+02:00 Henning Brauer hb-open...@ml.bsws.de: * Mikael mikael.tr...@gmail.com [2014-10-14 10:24]: NetMap (http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/) in OpenBSD would be a great idea. We kinda like our stack

Re: NetMap in OpenBSD

2014-10-14 16:15 GMT+02:00 Henning Brauer hb-open...@ml.bsws.de: Of course, OBSD has a very good stack as it is, but it has no NetMap functionality yeah, and that is good. netmap bypasses teh stack and you look at reimplementing the stack in userland, repeating mistakes, bugs and whatnot

Re: low power device

Zé, What does the abbreviation OP stand for? Thanks. 2014-09-12 17:22 GMT+02:00 Zé Loff zel...@zeloff.org: On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 04:28:46PM +0200, Lars wrote: On 12.09.2014 15:27, Martijn van Duren wrote: Hello misc@, Hi, Currently I have an old desktop PC running as a home

Re: OpenBSD on Utilite pro device

2014-07-30 16:05 GMT+02:00 Maciej Jan Broniarz gau...@gausus.net: On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 03:48:23PM +0200, Mikael wrote: Maciej, At least there is an iMX6 port of OBSD. Please let the ML know what you got to. Hi, Where can i find the instalaltion files? 26 Jan

Re: DNS resolver retries configurable? (or: Anything to make DNS resolves always work!)

that the resolve will actually look, as the server does caching between resolves so if the first resolve took 17 seconds then the fourth one will be the succeeding one? Thanks, Mikael 2013/12/20 Matthew Dempsky matt...@dempsky.org On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Mikael mikael.tr...@gmail.com

DNS resolver retries configurable? (or: Anything to make DNS resolves always work!)

before failing, and b) Running a DNSMasq and using that as only DNS server on a machine should be a perfect safeguard agains failing resolves? If so, is there any way to do a)? Thanks, Mikael

Re: Should Android have used OpenBSD instead of Linux?

and quantify now - Thanks, Mikael 2013/11/29 frantisek holop min...@obiit.org hmm, on Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 02:00:53PM -0800, Chris Cappuccio said that So the next question is, why would someone want to switch to OpenBSD on one of these platforms? 1. Concise ecosystem (less maintenance

How handle multiple G++ versions' compiled code in one and the same process (without SIGSEGV)?

in the newer G++ version, then, is there a way to build ports and their dependencies with a specific G++ version and then install them all in a separate directory i.e. /usr/local/lib/g++-4.7-compiled/ ? Thanks! Mikael

How compile a port and all of its dependencies that use G++ with a specific G++ version (boost/QT etc.) and then install in a separate dir?

/local/bin/eg++? Also then, how install these in a separate directory/directory structure as not to mess up other programs by interfering with the ordinary OS-preinstalled versions of the same libraries, that should indeed remain compiled with the OS-bundled G++ version Thanks! Mikael 2013/11/29

Running out of clusters (due to too low kern.maxclusters) destinies you to reboot or should it self-heal? What parameters should guide one's setting of kern.maxclusters?

- how should number of incoming TCP connections per second, number of concurrent TCP connections, their throughput, and any other relevant parameters, impact the choice of kern.maxclusters ? Thanks and best regards, Mikael

Is there any ordinary/intended code path execution case, where new TCP connections would not be received by their bound processes anymore? Re: Is there any a) TCP network stack state and ...

. but return connection reset by peer, connection refused or just nothing/blocks) For instance, is there * Some queue that when full would have this effect, or * Some malloc() call that could fail in a system-global systemic way if an application's resident memory quota is full? Thanks, Mikael

Re: Is there any ordinary/intended code path execution case, where new TCP connections would not be received by their bound processes anymore? Re: Is there any a) TCP network stack state and ...

Ah sorry, will try to figure out a more concise one if I'll email again. Now to the Q - are you aware of any such code path? I'm trying to understand this behavior I reported at bugs@ .. Thanks, Mikael 2013/7/11 Jan Stary h...@stare.cz Is there any reason why you would annoy everyone

Re: Is there any a) TCP network stack state and b) mbuf 1) prettyprint-dumper and 2) resetter respectively?

Hi Alexey, Awesome. Are you aware if if there's any way to unbind a bound TCP port too? So, there's a process, defunct or not, that is bound to say port 80 - how to force it to close? Thanks, Mikael 2013/7/8 Alexey E. Suslikov alexey.susli...@gmail.com Mikael mikael.trash at gmail.com writes

Is there any a) TCP network stack state and b) mbuf 1) prettyprint-dumper and 2) resetter respectively?

is that such a tool could be of direct or indirect value for figuring out its original reason, the next time it happens. Also I would wildly guess that such a complex piece of code as the TCP stack would be worthy of an introspection tool? Thanks, Mikael

Re: OpenBSD alternative to cpanel/plesk

I use webmin and it works ok, need a few tweaks, but works. Not in ports though. /Mikael 31 jul 2011 kl. 00:56 skrev Paolo Aglialoro paol...@gmail.com: Hi all, I've been through the well known online article: http://lordmatt.co.uk/item/1739/ Also been reviewing ports in www section

Re: Bug Tracking system does not work

Terrible? In what way? I use it in my work and I think it works great. What ticket software do you think is better? /Mikael 2011/7/19 Johan Beisser j...@caustic.org: On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Amit Kulkarni amitk...@gmail.com wrote: http://openports.se/www/rt ? written in perl

Re: Lucent Technologies Orinoco Wifi card (PCMCIA) and OpenBSD?

On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 10:16:28 +0100 (CET) David Vasek va...@fido.cz wrote: On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, David Vasek wrote: On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Mikael Bak wrote: Hi list, Seems to me that this card isn't recognized at boot time (dmesg pasted at the end of this email). It's a PCMCIA card

Re: Lucent Technologies Orinoco Wifi card (PCMCIA) and OpenBSD?

Dorian B|ttner wrote: Mikael Bak schrieb: Hi list, Seems to me that this card isn't recognized at boot time (dmesg pasted at the end of this email). It's a PCMCIA card. Instead of a wifi device OpenBSD tries to allocate a serial port (com3). Hi Mikael, some time ago I had a usb wlan

Lucent Technologies Orinoco Wifi card (PCMCIA) and OpenBSD?

Hi list, Seems to me that this card isn't recognized at boot time (dmesg pasted at the end of this email). It's a PCMCIA card. Instead of a wifi device OpenBSD tries to allocate a serial port (com3). If I should provide any more info or output, then please let me know. TIA, Mikael My dmesg

Re: Decrypt email in Sylpheed

On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 18:21:40 +0100 Mikael Bak mik...@t-online.hu wrote: Hi list, I know. This is not specific to OpenBSD at all. I just thought you guys use gpg to sign and encrypt email a lot :-) So having OpenBSD 4.6 on my old laptop and one of my favourite email clients (Sylpheed

Re: Scroll with laptop touchpad

Dope Ice Apollyon the Third wrote: On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda acam...@the00z.org wrote: On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 02:36:02PM +0100, Mikael Bak wrote: Hi list, I'm really new to openbsd, so please forgive me if this is faq or rtfm. I did try to search

Decrypt email in Sylpheed

the action say bad passphrase. So if anyone of you uses gpg together with Sylpheed and OpenBSD and got it working, I'm all ears :-) TIA, Mikael

Scroll with laptop touchpad

how to do this in openbsd. My system: $ uname -a OpenBSD neo.my.domain 4.6 GENERIC#58 i386 My laptop: Dell Latitude CPt 400 (it's an old P2 400MHz) In WinXP a driver from synaptics made the scrolling work. TIA, -- Mikael Bak mik...@t-online.hu

Re: relayd http-https-redirects with sticky-address

Thanks for your replies! I agree that this should be solved in the web-app, but in the meantime I'll try reyks workaround. Regards, Mikael 2008/9/17 Michiel van Baak [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 21:39, Wed 17 Sep 08, Reyk Floeter wrote: Hi! On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 05:45:23PM +0200, Mikael Jansson

relayd http-https-redirects with sticky-address

sometimes move over to the other machine. I need the same source-ip to always stay on the same server regardless of which destination port (http or https) is being used. Any suggestions on how to achive this would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Mikael

Re: Dell RAID controller

perc6e/i are sas controllers, you can plug either sata or sas disks into them. They should work fine with 4.3. Hello, Is there any way to check raid status without having to reboot and get into the bios ? Regards, -- Mikael Kermorgant

2 carp devices for same IP on same host (with 2 nics)

/etc/pf.conf and it's ok. Problem is that carp2 never gets MASTER when I take down pcn2... Do you know if there's something inherently wrong with setting up 2 carp devices for the same IP on the same host ? Thanks in advance, Mikael Kermorgant -- Mikael Kermorgant

Re: 2 carp devices for same IP on same host (with 2 nics)

regards, -- Mikael Kermorgant

Re: 2 carp devices for same IP on same host (with 2 nics)

with a single carp device. I'll keep this updated asap. Best regards, -- Mikael Kermorgant

Re: 4.2 and em(4)

, bus 4) and em1 (pci5, bus 5) are on separate buses... but am I right ? But em6 and em7 are on the same bus, right ? Thanks in advance, Mikael Kermorgant On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:14 PM, scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've found the best gateway box -- pf, sshd for ssh -w vpn and ipsec

Disable power button

Is there a way to disable the power button on OpenBSD, like FreeBSD's sysctl hw.acpi.power_button_state=NONE or similar? I'm running OpenBSD 4.2. //Micke

Re: nat or routing problem?

Mitja wrote: Mitja wrote: Andreas Bihlmaier wrote: On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 11:27:11PM +0100, Mitja wrote: Hello, I am trying to configure nat from internal network 192.168.1.0/24 to external nat gateway address 193.189.180.193. The problem is that packets are not passing from nat gateway

Openbsd and vsftpd with virtual users

Hello, I'd like to install vsftpd with virtual users on my openbsd system. I read the documentation and at step 2 it says: Step 2) Create a PAM file which uses your new database. See the example file vsftpd.pam. It contains two lines: auth required /lib/security/pam_userdb.so

Virtual users with openbsd and vsftpd

Hello, I'd like to have vsftpd virtual users on my openbsd system. I followed the readme on how to set up such feature but on step 2 they ask to this: Step 2) Create a PAM file which uses your new database. See the example file vsftpd.pam. It contains two lines: auth required