Re: 4.6 postponed to Nov 1

2009-09-18 Thread Siegbert Marschall
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:18:30AM +0200, Stephan A. Rickauer wrote: On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 11:09 +0200, Alexander Hall wrote: Theo de Raadt wrote: The 4.6 release will be postponed to Nov 1. Heh. I just cannot help being a little amused by this, since we are expecting our second kid

Re: dd performance question

2008-08-28 Thread Siegbert Marschall
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 06:58:30PM -0700, Neko wrote: Hi all, having a 250 GB drive on a PATA strip using lowest PIO mode (without dma if possible), drive specs show a 8 MB buffer , .. i had ran mine at 4mb block space thinking ill use the 16mb bus transfer divided at most in 4,

Re: TV out for Xorg/OpenBSD?

2008-08-18 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, Edd Barrett wrote: On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 07:16:51PM +0300, Jussi Peltola wrote: On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 04:22:33PM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote: Hi, We have this BSD box with some films on, and someone had the idea of hookiing it up to the TV so we can watch DVD's etc in the living room.

Re: TV out for Xorg/OpenBSD?

2008-08-18 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Antti Harri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Edd Barrett wrote: The card is a NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420 rev 0xa3 I'm not 100% sure but I don't think that will work without the blobby nvidia driver. Which of course isn't available on OpenBSD.

Re: Hardware recommendation for firewalls (more than 4 NICs)

2008-08-11 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, Forget this. Cisco does CEF (cisco express forwarding) that's stream forwarding in hardware. You don't have a chance to reach this PPS with a yeah, expect that it doesn't route everything and in the moment it falls back to cpu your router is dead. then there I saw all kind of funny and

Re: ral(4) hostap plea

2008-05-07 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hello, Personally, I've given up on using OpenBSD as an AP--though I have for years. Back when I used wi, everything worked very well. However, 802.11g drivers/cards work very poorly as APs. While speed with them can be good at times, different wireless clients performed erratically and

Re: Rolling release?

2008-04-23 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hello, AFAIK OpenBSD has 2 releases a year - which means, that devs are trying to keep the packages and OS itself fresh. But I'm wondering: wouldn't be in such situation reasonable to switch to s.c. rolling release model - and even more convenient for both devs and users? I as a user am very

Re: Is there a badblocks-equivalent for OpenBSD?

2008-04-20 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hello, I don't know if anyone brought this up, and I hate to state the obvious, but if you're getting bad blocks then the hard drive has exhausted its ability to deal with them on its own and should be replaced. Otherwise you'll see data loss/corruption and a higher probability of a total

Re: Is there a badblocks-equivalent for OpenBSD?

2008-04-20 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hello, I'm curious how much more failure in the new perpendicular drives you are seeing. I can certainly see various drive makers pushing capacity irrespective of reliability. Germane to this case, some of them reduce the reserve storage for bad sectors for that extra storage. Tisk tisk.

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

2008-03-18 Thread Siegbert Marschall
On Monday 17 March 2008 22:12:05 you wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Marc Balmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

DEC - Alpha giveaway 3000-300 X,LX

2008-03-07 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hello, I have too many alphas in the cellar some need to go, it's 1x175MHz and 2x125MHz DEC3000-300 machines. The alphas are clean and working. I have several harddisks for them 1gb,2gb, 1x4gb, 1x9gb and one external storage-enclosure. Memory options are also available at least 64MB for each and

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-23 Thread Siegbert Marschall
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 07:43:05PM +, Jacob Meuser wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 03:01:40PM +0100, Marc Espie wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 04:18:42PM +0100, Miod Vallat wrote: SO now do you want FireEngine? Or rather SMPng networking? Or would you like

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, It gets stranger. How is a bare bones code ever going to be useful to a non developing user? Its useful to them only when its part of an overall system. And that overall system in a really usable state is only available via CDs which need to be purchased. aehm, hello ? I do buy the cd's,

Re: setting up a noiseless workstation

2008-02-02 Thread Siegbert Marschall
2008/2/1, Zbigniew Baniewski [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You can use old Pentium II 400 MHz - there are still many of them available, which doesn't need any cooler, its radiator will do. Such way the only And where do you get a PCI graphics card with DVI capable of doing 1920x1200? Everywhere ? ATI

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-11 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Is it April 2008 already, or what is happening on this mailing list ? I am about two weeks behind reading but out of curiosity I read a few emails in this thread and well, almost can't believe it. I better stop reading this list for a while and come back after doing something usefull, like

Re: The Atheros story ... Rui trolling again.

2007-09-26 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra [EMAIL PROTECTED] lol it's always bullshit when it's not convenient to you, right? and you are a troll. can you please troll around somewhere else, you are wasting precious magnetic domains. eris will not set you free, she will eat you alive. -sm

Re: That whole Linux stealing our code thing

2007-09-02 Thread Siegbert Marschall
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 04:55:34PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: The license is not an alternative. The alternative is between two licenses. The moment one chooses one them... it's that one henceforth. And... you are a judge? Theo, be as unreasonable as you want. The copyright notice

Re: That whole Linux stealing our code thing

2007-09-02 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 05:56:44PM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 11:29:11PM +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: Yes. The *rights you received* are the central point of the question. Which did the user receive? The BSD granted ones? Or the GPLv2 granted

Re: That whole Linux stealing our code thing

2007-09-02 Thread Siegbert Marschall
/Putting it down to the legal point of view it implies even a XOR eg. one or the other choice, it's kind of missing the may also part but Inexistant word in this case, so that reasoning doesn't apply. that, so whatever, not

Re: Intel Core 2

2007-06-28 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, On 6/27/07, Theo de Raadt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Various developers are busy implimenting workarounds for serious bugs in Intel's Core 2 cpu. These processors are buggy as hell, and some of these bugs don't just cause development/debugging problems, but will *ASSUREDLY* be

Re: a little small want

2007-06-21 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hello, It would be nice if someone could dig up a single DIMM for me. A Samsung M381L6423ETM-CB0 (512MB PC1200 266MHz 64Mx72 ECC non-buffered). It's to expand a Cisco 2811 that's involved in moving openbsd traffic, in case anyone needs to know. Thanks. Anything within about a week or so

Re: OpenBSD sucks

2007-06-02 Thread Siegbert Marschall
It really sucks. it is slow. Yeah, installing OpenBSD takes a long time and one feels quite drained afterwards. -sm

Re: solar power / openbsd handheld

2007-05-22 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, We have a need for a low power OpenBSD device or handheld that can connect to a small SCADA device (serial or USB) to collect some temperature and voltage data, plus control one light switch, on a remote solar powered wifi repeater tower. Any suggestions on the lowest powered OpenBSD

Re: OpenBSD/alpha Status

2007-04-17 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, Hm, this could point to violated hardware specifications, memory cells that aren't used fast enough and thus not auto-refreshed in time. I presume the Alpha-bug is OpenBSD-only so it's definitely not a hardware problem? Could be that OpenBSD uses certain parts not often enough. Slow

Re: OpenBSD/alpha Status

2007-04-16 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, On Monday 16 April 2007 12:06, Maurice Janssen wrote: On Monday, April 16, 2007 at 11:30:29 -0700, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote: On Apr 16, 2007, at 10:39 AM, J.C. Roberts wrote: I've never seen the alpha bug on my DS20L (equivalent to the CS20) or my 500/500 but I have seen it on my PC*

Re: OpenBSD/alpha Status

2007-04-15 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, On the other hand, there seems to be a 'the alpha bug' around. I don't think it's solved yet, and it's been around for a long time. Apparently, it causes random crashes. only on some machines. I was not aware of this bug. That is unfortunate. Hopefully this might be resolved at some

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-06 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, Now everyone has won, the Linux people, Broadcom and the OpenBSD users. Thank you, Linux BCW developers! actually, although the above is clearly meant in the sense if irony. I take it literally and agree with it. didn't cry a single tear about the adaptec shit either. my laptop has some

Re: Very slow raid performance with ami(4)

2007-04-01 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hello, On 2007/03/30 13:18, Roy Kim wrote: I didn't realize there's two different batteries. What does the 'intelligent' version of the battery do extra? LSIiBBU01 (intelligent) has some kind of comms relating to charge state etc, I think it may also have a longer runtime. LSIBBU03

OT Re: Long WEP key - germany/legalities

2007-03-30 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi Henning, * Siegbert Marschall [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-03-29 22:13]: If somebody does something bad with my unencrypted access-point using my internet-access, here in germany I am liable. no, you're not. it's not that easy. (and I just leave mine wide open) well, I didn't say what you

Re: Long WEP key

2007-03-29 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Well, I'd be more scared of the hacker that can bypass wep, than the average joe without wep. The hacker knows how to exploit your wep-decrypted network traffic, the average joe doesn't even if it were plain-text data. it's not always about sniffing something, sometimes it's about access

Re: Long WEP key

2007-03-29 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, I'd like to hear an actual developer position on that statement. I read it as a criticism of the way WPA is used more than of the protocol itself. As in, it's of little value to encrypt the traffic if you allow anybody to access it. If Theo was saying that it sucks even when you're

Re: Important OpenBSD errata

2007-03-17 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Ray Percival ... attention had patched and been happy for nearly a week. The logic behind the misc posting is so very obvious that to bitch about it is just finding something to complain about. I, of course, don't know the exact numbers but it seems pretty clear that misc has a much larger

OT: Cheap Domains/Service was OT: Domain Name Freedom

2007-02-03 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, can you people sit down and realize that you are turning mice into elephants here ? If you buy a domain from a cheap provider for a $ a month, you can't expect them to have a legal team on call for you 24/7. They have just some person in the noc, skilled enough and trained enough to maintain

Re: msk(4) with SK-9S91: Can not set 1000baseSX Single Mode Fiber Media Type

2007-01-31 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, On 1/30/07, Siegbert Marschall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or, are you saying that the Marvell PHY 88112 does not really care about if T, SX or LX is set, because for the optical GBIC electrically all is the same? yupp, from the signal point of view in the moment you have optics it's all

Re: msk(4) with SK-9S91: Can not set 1000baseSX Single Mode Fiber Media Type

2007-01-30 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, # ifconfig -m msk0 msk0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 lladdr 00:00:5a:72:fc:58 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX half-duplex) status: no carrier supported media: media none media 10baseT

Re: Version 4.0 release

2006-10-12 Thread Siegbert Marschall
I'm not saying OpenBSD is a bad operating system. Far from it. However I would only use it for routers, firewalls, bridges, etc... Anything that has to do with networking because after all, OpenBSD's networking is great. Outside these areas OpenBSD is just too slow and doesn't support enough

Re: OpenBSD 4.0 pre-orders are up

2006-09-22 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, On 9/20/06, Theo de Raadt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have activated OpenBSD 4.0 pre-orders. The official release date is November 1. For more information on the release, please see http://www.openbsd.org/40.html And don't forget to order the cute Pluffy:

OT Media-Converters, was Re: BGP router now running desp. low on mem.

2006-09-20 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, ## Physical connection: # ## We are terminating with this carrier in a FE port but due to the distance between them and us at the datacenter location, a FDDI connection was placed in between like: [our

Re: Faster SBC

2006-09-19 Thread Siegbert Marschall
I thought these look interesting, has anyone tried them already? http://www.win-ent.com/MB-06047.htm no and since it is nvidia based i think not many of us are interested. -sm

Re: disk bad block

2006-05-04 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 04:17:57PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2006/05/03 10:24, Paulo Manoel Mafra wrote: I would like to create a large partition on a disk, but this disk has a known bad block. How could I create the partition without the bad block ? Use a different drive?

Re: OpenVPN on OpenBSD with hw crypto acceleration

2006-04-12 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, I have an OpenVPN server interconnecting 5 networks with data center using permanent PtP links - each network has about 30 PCs. Also there is about 30 road-warrior OpenVPN clients. Average traffic on each PtP link is 1-2Mbit/s. The server and end-points of permanent PtP links are

Re: OpenBSD and the money

2006-03-27 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, ... It would be lot easier for a business to write a check to OpenBSD then to Theo de Raadt. look, it's really not about making it easier for some big few letter companies. If they would have been interested to donate they would've done it. Making it easier might give some more money from

Re: Pre-orders for our releases.

2006-03-13 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, On 3/8/06, Theo de Raadt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But financially we are under strain, and it is not letting us grow any of our bigger plans. It sounds like you really have big plans. Maybe it is a good idea to tell about them, maybe that will make the big companies interested in

OT Re: OpenBSD USB question

2006-02-12 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, Please continue posting your help and suggestions. (If there is any other way I can do this authentication, I would be too glad to hear about it) don't know how often this device is going to be used every day, but you should pay attention to the lifetime of the card-reader slot. When

Re: OpenBSD hardware router

2006-02-04 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, On 2006/02/03 20:34, Josh Tolley wrote: All that being said, we 1) didn't have an encryption accelerator in the box that would tend to make things worse anyway - you'll just increase the rate of interrupts and that seems to be the main problem. for a something fast like aes it might be

Re: Bug Hunting 101 - Finding The Alpha Bug

2005-12-21 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, As far as I can tell, the bug smells like a race condition of some sort and if my wild guess is correct, it will be difficult to reproduce consistently. With some (but not all) race conditions, you can increase the chance of triggering them by increasing loads. Since I want the race

Re: solutions that interoperate with win xp

2005-12-19 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, Hello I'm trying to do the same thing as you are. LAN - OpenBSD - internet - NAT - windows_xp_client maybe you should get the NAT out of the way first and get it working without, getting IPSEC to work over nat ist not trivial and depending on the natter sometimes impossible. bye,

Offtopic. Re: OpenBSD website Design.

2005-09-12 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Mexico's greatest exports to the US are poverty and disease. I believe you wanted to say: The US greatest exports to Mexico are poverty and disease. Ansonsten: Wenn man keine Ahnung hat, einfach mal Fresse halten.

Re: BSD PPPoA Hardware

2005-08-17 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, You beat me to the post. Unfortunately for me it doesn't support ADSL over ISDN. I'm one of those poor souls that uses iDSL to connect to the Big-I, to far away from the CO, then I could ditch my ancient iDSL router. you could give this one a try. http://accoom.kd85.com/ iDSL is very

Re: Network performance

2005-05-21 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, More Mhz. Not crappy nics, get xl,fxp,dc etc. Or maybe gigabit nics like em(4). I think he has xl and sk in the machine, sk is probably the most decent thing one can get at the moment. xl I had quite mixed results in the past, so changing that one into another sk might be all the change