pppoe(4) outage on Swisscom DSL lines since yesterday

2009-07-14 Thread michael hamerski
Hi, I have several systems (4.2) running over bridged modems which can no longer connect to the service provider's PPPOE servers since last night. They seem to be stuck at the PADI step (1045 retries and counting. As the version number indicates, the system has been in place for quite a while

Re: pppoe(4) outage on Swisscom DSL lines since yesterday

2009-07-14 Thread michael hamerski
Zyxel Prestige 2802HWL-I, they work correctly when they bring up the connection themselves. Swisscom apparently migrated their central PPPoE server last night, although their support were seemingly not informed of the fact, other people running the modems in bridge mode are also experiencing

Re: pppoe(4) outage on Swisscom DSL lines since yesterday

2009-07-14 Thread michael hamerski
As I say in my second post I have no access and am not on site. The modems were delivered less than a month ago, they work when non-bridged, and until they migrated their PPPoE server last night, the pppoe links from the OpenBSD boxes were running fine for the past few weeks. I'm somewhat

Re: PC Camera?

2008-03-26 Thread michael hamerski
Sure, I wasn't really thinking of bktr, which as I understand is a video capture card and as such has onboard electronics for image processing. Evidently, this in combo with a normal cam is the best in terms of resolution/low cpu load. I was aiming more for the post comparing 40$ usb webcam/100$

Re: PC Camera?

2008-03-25 Thread michael hamerski
I guess for security monitoring stuff, having a decent driver for a decent webcam would be nice. However, with the current trend to offload all peripheral processing onto the host CPU this can be a mixed blessing. For example, in '96 with a BW Quickcam my PC hardly broke sweat for

vpn altq voip question

2008-02-14 Thread michael hamerski
Hi, I have a three site vpn on 4.2 with a voip enabled PBX on each lan, linked with SDSL lines. This works as expected. However, I need to prioritize the PBX to PBX traffic, they have fixed lan IPs, and am looking for pointers on the best way to accomplish this. After reading the docs, I am not

Re: low-MHz server

2008-02-02 Thread michael hamerski
Personally, I would look into industrial-grade i386 SBCs. Old server systems will suck juice, have non-standard weird bits and odds (old Macs are a great example for RAM) and although I readily admit to knowing next to nothing about EM shielding, it would seem easier to shield properly a small box

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-14 Thread michael hamerski
On Dec 14, 2007 9:09 AM, David H. Lynch Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have turrets or aspergers or some other reason why you are compelled to insult virtually everyone ? Wow, now we're taking potshots at the handicapped. There goes that fluffy PC do-gooder image then.

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-14 Thread michael hamerski
Sorry, back to list, public debate. On Dec 14, 2007 11:51 AM, David H. Lynch Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: michael hamerski wrote: In other words, a society in which non-free software more or less doesn't exist. And there you go denying non-free software, by your definition

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-14 Thread michael hamerski
Richard, you're being cc'ed because people speak in your name. On Dec 14, 2007 9:35 AM, David H. Lynch Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: michael hamerski wrote: I think it's a worthy public debate. Let him expound his theories and ethics and let's dissect them layer by layer. For the record

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-14 Thread michael hamerski
On Dec 14, 2007 5:43 PM, Breen Ouellette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - This is a reply to David's email to me. I have left out his original message since it was sent privately and without permission to repost to the list. - Yeah, I have a bunch of emails from him, which despite my best

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread michael hamerski
On Dec 13, 2007 5:52 PM, Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Freedom means having control of your own life; Freedom of choice is a partly accurate and partly misleading way to describe that, and taking that expression too literally leads to mistaken conclusions. Thus, I say I advocate

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread michael hamerski
Richard, I may be unfriendly, but you are a lying hypocritical asshole. this pretty much sums up everything. can we all stop now? (-: aaron.glenn Nah, it's too much fun... seriously though, even though ultimately pointless, I think it's a worthy public debate. Let him expound his

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-12 Thread michael hamerski
Mine is more free than yours is usually a pointless discussion, even more so when the participants cannot even agree on the definition of free. Stallman conveniently omits the fact that his definition of free was, is and will be at odds with that of a significant portion of the free software

Re: Skype on the OpenBSD

2007-12-07 Thread michael hamerski
Ok, fair enough. I just went through their feature list on the site, my two cents are it should be on by default. I'm not saying anything bad about it though, as I haven't used it. My point still stands though, ultimately the weakest links in any such app will probably be the username/password

Re: Skype on the OpenBSD

2007-12-06 Thread michael hamerski
Lars NoodC)n [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=95261 I have no intention of refueling this debate but I found this an interesting read some time ago: paper by Garfinkel http://skypetips.internetvisitation.org/files/VoIP%20and%20Skype.pdf your link

Re: machine which freeze with openbsd 4.2

2007-11-14 Thread michael hamerski
This machine freezes if re0 is NOT forced to 100baseTX. same here on -current/amd64, forcing to 100baseTX solves it for me even with an OSX box next to it mike OpenBSD 4.2-current (GENERIC) #1239: Mon Nov 12 16:26:56 MST 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC real

trunk failover on -current problem

2007-11-14 Thread michael hamerski
hi, I'm trying to do wired/wireless failover with dhcp on -current/amd64: $ cat /etc/hostname.re0 up media 100baseTX $ cat /etc/hostname.bwi0 up media DS11 nwid nwkey $ cat /etc/hostname.trunk0 trunkproto failover trunkport re0 trunkport bwi0 dhcp $ ifconfig lo0:

Re: google team and the DIY way of life

2007-11-11 Thread michael hamerski
Posted by Reza Behforooz, Software Engineer In my first month at Google, I complained to a friend on the Gmail team about a couple of small things that I disliked about Gmail. I ... Dear Google, Could you get Reza to fix contact/label whitelisting in Gmail while he's at it? thanks, mike

Re: detecting bad disks

2007-11-08 Thread michael hamerski
try a new IDE cable or if you can take the system offline, and assuming you can boot off cd/floppy I would suggest trying MHDD from http://hddguru.com/ it does some pretty nice low-level diagnostics. I've fixed some disks with this {crosses fingers} docs are very basic but there's more info on

Re: First install: Grub doesn't find partitions

2007-10-29 Thread michael hamerski
is it a recent grub? if you're reading grub source I will assume you know more about it than I do, but am writing this on a box which boots debian/openbsd/xp without problems, from grub installed circa 6 months ago. I certainly did not dd any sectors around. I can send you my grub conf when I

Re: The Name: UNIX

2007-10-10 Thread michael hamerski
On 10/9/07, Sean Darby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does OpenBSD = UNIX? Or, does OpenBSD = Unix? (or unix or unix-like or etc.)? my mother recently called it that Unisex thing you like, though am not sure of the capitalization :) mike

Re: How can I install 4 OS'es on one disk?

2007-10-10 Thread michael hamerski
On 10/7/07, stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a new laptop that I would like to set up to have 4 different OS's on. The OS's I would like to install are: I used to favour the ranish partition manager for creating my primary partitions and assigning ids. the installers should pick up on the

Re: jails in openbsd

2007-03-02 Thread michael hamerski
On 3/2/07, Chris Cappuccio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: openbsd supposedly runs great under xen 3 with hardware virtualization. i'll let you know after i get xen 3 installed on a pentium d 920 with some piece of shit OS running dom0. I had -current running under Debian/kvm off a file a few

Re: Managed UPS on OpenBSD

2006-09-23 Thread michael hamerski
djgoku wrote: First I would add NUT from packages, then follow: http://www.networkupstools.org/doc/2.0.0/INSTALL.html This should go through mostly everything you need to configure NUT to work with your UPS. I have this one: APC BACK-UPS 350. Although listed by my supplier as available

Re: sshfs on OpenBSD

2006-03-08 Thread michael hamerski
smith wrote: Are there any plans for an OpenBSD implementation of sshfs? Or has someone successfully installed fuse and sshfs on OpenBSD (preferably 3.8)? Yea, that would be very useful. Sadly, I have neither the skills nor the finances to fund someone possesing them. But I'll offer up

Re: EPIA issues...

2006-03-08 Thread michael hamerski
Steve Fairhead wrote: ... snip... Summary: with small fans, it should work, but you've introduced a mechanism whereby a fan failure could destroy the machine. Aha, I just knew there was more to my attraction to the zalman fan mate than my instinctive aversion to electricity since staying

Re: EPIA issues...

2006-03-07 Thread michael hamerski
hw.sensors.9=viaenv0, VSENS4, volts_dc, 12.07 V the top temp. I have seen for TSENS2 is 60.60 degC. Does anyone else run a box similar to this? Does anyone know of any big advantages of Soekris boxes rather than EPIA? I've got a feeling the little box will just give up or even worse blow up.

Re: Hardware RAID

2005-11-11 Thread michael hamerski
Karl Kopp wrote: Hi Jason, Like yr idea - LOTS :) We may still use a disk for some logs, but if that goes, no big deal! Any idea how to mount a CF as a boot device? Quick search on Google didn't bring much back of interest. Is their a faq / how-to? Also, what kinds of CF adapters work -

rtl8139 problem on 3.8 bsd.rd

2005-08-23 Thread Michael Hamerski
Trying to test the snapshots but the last two bsd.rd's seem to fail on rl0 detection at boot. bsd.rd from 14.08 exits with a dump error 19 at the end of hardware detection. bsd.rd from 22.08 comes up but the rl0 is not configured. nor does it seem possible to do anything to change that.

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Michael Hamerski
Nick Holland wrote: Gary Clemans-Gibbon wrote: Hi All, I just built a OpenBSD 3.7 samba file server for my home lan. It's a P3 500, 128mb RAM, with a 2 gig IDE HDD for the OS and two x Maxtor 200 GB IDE drives for data. whoa. no where near enough RAM. Trip over the power cord, you will end

Re: mozilla-firefox problem, was: kdeinit problems in 3.7-current

2005-07-18 Thread Michael Hamerski
matt lawless wrote: On 7/17/05, Bruno Delbono [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does mozilla-firefox perform on OpenBSD? Are there any differences in performance compared to Linux/Windows? pkg/DESCR says that extensions don't work. Has anyone had any luck with changing that? some do, at least

Re: OpenBSD in commercial firewalls?

2005-06-14 Thread Michael Hamerski
James Harless wrote: I know that several firewall vendors use various flavors of Linux as the basis for their devices. Are there any that use OpenBSD similarly? If so, which? Any comments on the devices? Links would be appreciated. -James One I can remember is at