Re: USB CD-ROM support

2008-11-03 Thread James Shupe
I know it's not a direct answer to your question, but OpenBSD's PXE installation is extremely easy to implement. It is probably the best option you have at the moment. On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 07:20 -0500, Bob Hope wrote: When (if ever) will support for installing OpenBSD with a USB CD-ROM be

Re: Hardware recomendations please

2008-12-01 Thread James Shupe
I'd recommend building some Supermicro boxes on the 512L-260B/PDSBM-LN2+ (1u, s775, 946gz) platform. You can build a very nice box and pair it with riser card and a quad port DFE-570TX NIC and come in well under your $1500 budget. If you need exact part numbers, I can get you the ones we use. On

Routerboard 450G

2011-10-17 Thread James Shupe
Has anybody successfully installed and tested OpenBSD on a Routerboard 450G? I searched the archive for a dmesg and/ or confirmation, but couldn't find a definitive answer. http://routerboard.com/RB450G Thank you, James Shupe

Re: Routerboard 450G

2011-10-17 Thread James Shupe
Thank you. After doing a bit more research and finding no mention of the RB450G in INSTALL.socppc, I decided to go with the Alix.2D13 board. On 10/17/11 1:31 PM, Christiano F. Haesbaert wrote: On 17 October 2011 16:26, James Shupe jsh...@osre.org wrote: Has anybody successfully installed

Re: Performance problems with OpenBSD 4.9 under ESXi 5

2011-10-19 Thread James Shupe
What's it take to get an actual dmesg around here? Just post the output for us to look at regardless of whether or not you think the messages at boot are important. They're needed to troubleshoot any problem like this.

Re: packet loss

2011-11-28 Thread James Shupe
Run ifconfig carp | grep status on both machines... If they're pre 4.8, do: ifconfig carp | grep 'carp: ' . If both think they're masters, they'll do what you're seeing. Thank you, James Shupe On 11/28/11 12:53 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote: dmesg? On 2011-11-28, rik rikc...@gmail.com

Re: packet loss

2011-11-28 Thread James Shupe
are in backup status (and the backup, using the phisical interface, can ping without any packet loss). Thanks Alessandro On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 8:08 PM, James Shupe jsh...@osre.org wrote: Run ifconfig carp | grep status on both machines... If they're pre 4.8, do: ifconfig carp | grep 'carp

Re: USB to ethernet adapter

2011-12-07 Thread James Shupe
The Trentnet, or another from this list: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=axesektion=4 -- James Shupe

Re: What is wrong with this pf config

2011-12-11 Thread James Shupe
No. Modifying a general purpose tool for a specific (albeit common) use case is stupid. Any properly implemented warning would cause pfctl to exit non-zero, which would break automated scripts that check the exit code of pfctl. You would have to add a whole new option to ignore your specific use

Re: OpenBSD in a dual stack anycast DNS resolving setup

2011-12-15 Thread James Shupe
server running the software of your choice. Thanks for the very good and hard work on the system. I would be interested to hear any thoughts even off-list. Regards, Kostas -- James Shupe

Re: OpenBSD in a dual stack anycast DNS resolving setup

2011-12-15 Thread James Shupe
On 12/15/11 9:40 AM, David Coppa wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 3:49 PM, James Shupe jsh...@osre.org wrote: I've never used it, but I wouldn't even bother because there are no native Java builds available for OpenBSD, and thus it's going to be untested and completely unsupported. Uh

Re: OpenBSD in a dual stack anycast DNS resolving setup

2011-12-16 Thread James Shupe
On 12/16/11 4:57 AM, Kostas Zorbadelos wrote: James Shupe jsh...@osre.org writes: I can't speak for anycast DNS deployments, but I use OSPF heavily in large production environments and have had a great experiences with it. This is very nice to know, thank you. - what is your opinion

Re: OpenBSD in a dual stack anycast DNS resolving setup

2011-12-16 Thread James Shupe
On Fri, 2011-12-16 at 21:33 +, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2011-12-16, James Shupe jsh...@osre.org wrote: Reporting shouldn't be done on your production servers. Set up a centralized syslog server and send your query logs there for analysis. sending dns query logs via syslog to a remote

Re: Backup Redundancy Etcetera

2012-02-06 Thread James Shupe
On 02/06/2012 03:10 AM, David Walker wrote: Hey. Currently my backup regime is woeful. I have years worth of work on a Windows machine and some stuff scattered across OpenBSD machines. You might want to look at Bacula. [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature

Re: Backup Redundancy Etcetera

2012-02-06 Thread James Shupe
I'll try scripting NFS maybe in combination with dump on the OpenBSD machines and see how that goes. Best wishes. Seriously, look at Bacula. It'll do a better job and be less headache. [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]

Re: My OpenBSD 5.0 installation experience (long rant)

2012-03-07 Thread James Shupe
exactly what you tell it to. The OS is by the devs, for the devs, and if you're fortunate enough to be able to use it, good for you. But don't complain about user friendliness being at the bottom of their list. -- James Shupe

Re: installation to (W)hole disk - saner default

2012-03-07 Thread James Shupe
case -- especially for those of us with mass deployments. Take your one-off, single user PC installs and RTFM. -- James Shupe

Re: Problem with installing OpenBSD

2011-09-29 Thread James Shupe
I'm pretty sure this was just a cheap shot at marketing their website. -James

Re: Problem with installing OpenBSD

2011-09-29 Thread James Shupe
for free advertising. -- Thank you, James Shupe

Re: Why I uninstalled OpenBSD…

2011-10-01 Thread James Shupe
this post came along. Thank you, James Shupe

Re: Problem with NAT and UDP packages.

2010-04-08 Thread James Shupe
Barrera On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 00:54, James Shupe professio...@jamesshupe.com wrote: Use log (all) and tcpdump to figure out exactly what is being blocked. On 4/7/10 10:40 PM, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: I'm using OpenBSD 4.6 at home as an access point, firewall and home server (with pf). I've

Re: Problem with NAT and UDP packages.

2010-04-08 Thread James Shupe
solution that would work in future. BTW James: Thank you very much, pointing out that XMPP's video-conference implementation uses RTP helped me google A LOT more info on the subject :) quote who=Hugo Osvaldo Barrera On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:21, James Shupe professio...@jamesshupe.com wrote

Re: Intel Gigabit ET NIC Quad Port

2010-03-10 Thread James Shupe
of production simulation before deploying them, and they passed with flying colors. Running 4.6-stable. Thanks, James Shupe On 3/10/10 9:22 AM, Brad Tilley wrote: We're considering this card for an OpenBSD Snort box. I think em supports it well. It uses the 82576EB controller. Has anyone used the card

ALTQ Gigabit performance

2010-03-21 Thread James Shupe
RAIDframe activated raid0 at root: (RAID Level 1) total number of sectors is 312046464 (152366 MB) as root softraid0 at root root on raid0a swapmount: no device Thank you, James Shupe

Re: routing question: 2 mail servers sending from their own IPs

2010-03-27 Thread James Shupe
Check into smtp_bind_address in Postfix. If you're still having issues, binat rather than rdr to internal IPs so connections will originate properly. Without seeing your pf.conf or master.cf, this is a guess, but I think these tips should lead you in the right direction. ...master.cf: smtp

Re: openbsd / ipsec / hardware

2012-03-30 Thread James Shupe
On 03/30/2012 03:16 PM, Dewey Hylton wrote: i'm getting ready to implement a few new site-to-site vpns using openbsd, and am on the hunt for appropriate hardware. i have several alix (geode) and lanner (intel atom) boxes working wonderfully as firewalls and routers, but neither type are able to

Re: openbsd / ipsec / hardware

2012-03-30 Thread James Shupe
On 03/30/2012 03:16 PM, Dewey Hylton wrote: i'm getting ready to implement a few new site-to-site vpns using openbsd, and am on the hunt for appropriate hardware. i have several alix (geode) and lanner (intel atom) boxes working wonderfully as firewalls and routers, but neither type are able to

Re: openbsd / ipsec / hardware

2012-03-30 Thread James Shupe
I don't see the point with setting kern.usercrypto=1, all support for enc/dec you get already from the hw+kernel. IPSec stack already used the HW if supported, else you get software based enc/dec. //mxb I replied to my original email about 45 seconds after I wrote it, pointing that out. I

Re: openbsd / ipsec / hardware

2012-04-02 Thread James Shupe
14.4 Mbits/sec --- Thank you, James Shupe

Re: openbsd / ipsec / hardware

2012-04-02 Thread James Shupe
as well as your bandwidth measuring method? You may also look at tcpbench, which is in base. It's not on the Alix box because I'm using a stripped down flashboot image... I just grabbed the first thing that came to mind and installed it, which happened to be iperf. -- James Shupe

Re: VLAN on LACP trunk on em

2012-04-18 Thread James Shupe
client has been running that configuration since 4.6. Upgrade and post your configs. -- James Shupe

Re: VLAN on LACP trunk on em

2012-04-19 Thread James Shupe
of those switches laying around to re-test with and check the firmware version, but I know it works. -- James Shupe

Re: mirror.ece.vt.edu syncing

2012-05-03 Thread James Shupe
AboveNet, 1Gbit Cogent, 1Gbit I2, and 1Gbit Cogent/L3 blend through TEA (peering courtesy of OpenBGPD!). I've tried statically routing over specific peers to no avail. Thank you, James Shupe [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]

Re: More bgpd problems

2012-05-29 Thread James Shupe
been rock solid for us. -- James Shupe [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]

Re: More bgpd problems

2012-05-30 Thread James Shupe
On 05/30/2012 04:27 AM, Matt Hamilton wrote: James Shupe jshupe at hermetek.com writes: I've been running it to peer with 3 IPv4 peers and 3 IPv6 peers (full views) and another partial IPv4 view with 12k routes (actually: varying amounts of peers over the years, but that's the current setup

Re: OpenBSD is just an OS, not a firewall...

2012-06-08 Thread James Shupe
the comments to https://plus.google.com/u/0/104027218792812194992/posts/K3NsGE2UrCe I was just reading that and cringing. -- James Shupe [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]

Re: I need your comeback with reverse-proxy

2012-06-09 Thread James Shupe
feedback. Cordialy Nginx, especially since it's in base and works fine for that. -- James Shupe [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]

Re: OpenBSD is just an OS, not a firewall...

2012-06-09 Thread James Shupe
and claim that raw OpenBSD is a firewall, you will get laughed out of the room for lack of clue. Guess I've been wrong all these years: see the comments to https://plus.google.com/u/0/104027218792812194992/posts/K3NsGE2UrCe Troll posts are often lost... -- James Shupe [demime 1.01d removed

Re: OpenBSD is just an OS, not a firewall...

2012-06-10 Thread James Shupe
On 06/10/2012 12:58 PM, Ted Unangst wrote: some nitwit hijacked the comment thread. I couldn't resist feeding the troll. This thread can die now, too. -- James Shupe [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]

Re: Hardware/System Question

2012-06-23 Thread James Shupe
for around $75 (Intel BOXDH61DLB3, for example) and add whatever components you want to it. If you're on a budget, a Celeron G530 should work and would kill an Atom or E-350 at any task. Thank you, -- James Shupe [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name

Re: pfsense and or OpenBSD Home router.

2012-09-11 Thread James Shupe
. -- James Shupe [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]

Re: http/https timeouts with OpenBSD based firewall

2012-10-22 Thread James Shupe
! -- Regards, Marcin Please post the following things: - output of `pfctl -si` - your pf ruleset - output of `vmstat -m` -- James Shupe [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]

Re: Hardware hunting

2012-11-15 Thread James Shupe
throwing some used hardware into. -- James Shupe [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]

Re: OpenBGPd / Juniper 'bug' / BGP session flapping

2012-11-28 Thread James Shupe
.) This patch is running on two of our routers. Thank you, - -- James Shupe Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJQtwhLAAoJECPibMsISQ9adq0QANQIPOXa7yqyDhRs4poH2Tis AlPZBhRTPHtn54rCVKRMcqGJk/xy0bGHSiwgsZMXj29lxrkFPKG312SXT9VgSMnC

Re: PF block log all and ddos issue

2012-12-28 Thread James Shupe
information from the machine, we don't have a lot of advice we can really give. -- James Shupe [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]

Re: Running OpenBSD on Raspberry Pi

2013-01-03 Thread James Shupe
/c528h.jpg -- James Shupe [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]

Re: Running OpenBSD on Raspberry Pi

2013-01-03 Thread James Shupe
On 1/3/2013 8:26 PM, Aaron Mason wrote: On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 11:52 AM, James Shupe jsh...@hermetek.com wrote: On 1/3/2013 1:08 PM, Gene wrote: On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 1:31 AM, Bruno Flückiger inform...@gmx.net wrote: On 12/31/12 14:17, BARDOU Pierre wrote: I would be very interested

Re: Running OpenBSD on Raspberry Pi

2013-01-04 Thread James Shupe
On 1/4/2013 2:58 PM, Dan Shechter wrote: You have all failed to mention that the ALIX devices come with Swiss chocolates in the package! Best regards, Dan Ours didn't! I was unaware of that! NETGATE?!! -- James Shupe [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature

Re: 5.2 amd64 php and apache problem

2013-02-04 Thread James Shupe
Why is that in the cgi-bin directory to begin with? Do you have shorttags enabled in php.ini? -- James Shupe [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]

Re: Attn. VMware users / OpenBSD 5.3 kernel panic on boot

2013-05-02 Thread James Shupe
. Any help would be appreciated. What VMware version? Works fine in my environment so far. -- James Shupe

Re: OpenBSD not forwarding to specific sites

2013-09-30 Thread James Shupe
On 2013-09-30 08:18, John Tate wrote: I am having trouble with IP forwarding to specific sites on a very typical configuration. The router itself can access these sites but clients can not. I have looked in obvious places on the clients, but I cannot find a cause. I reinstalled OpenBSD on the

Re: OpenBSD not forwarding to specific sites

2013-09-30 Thread James Shupe
1440' match on pppoe0 all scrub (max-mss 1440) -- James Shupe

Re: OpenBSD not forwarding to specific sites

2013-09-30 Thread James Shupe
set reassemble yes no-df match in on pppoe0 scrub (max-mss 1440 no-df reassemble tcp) match in on? You need to match both directions. Also, stop top posting. -- James Shupe

Re: OpenBSD not forwarding to specific sites

2013-09-30 Thread James Shupe
Try just match on pppoe0 scrub (max-mss 1400 no-df) and remove the reassemble line. -- James Shupe

[OT] OpenBSD Network Specialist wanted in Kilgore, Texas

2013-10-01 Thread James Shupe
position, but any applicants would unfortunately be expected to cover their own relocation costs because of the way funding is distributed. This is an on site position and telecommuting is off the table. Email me privately for more information. -- James Shupe, HermeTek developer/ engineer BSD

Re: Sorry: Facebook again

2013-10-21 Thread James Shupe
On 10/21/2013 9:08 PM, Chris Cappuccio wrote: I wrote up a guide for all you fascists to exercise your power with relayd. Here's the early, unedited version: http://www.nmedia.net/chris/url.blacklist.txt FYI: 403 forbidden -- James Shupe

Re: OpenBSD VPS Providers

2013-12-11 Thread James Shupe
opinions may draw at different points. plugIf anybody from this list needs a VM, contact me and I'll see what kind of deal I can make you./plug -- James Shupe, HermeTek developer/ engineer BSD/ Linux support hosting jsh...@hermetek.com | www.hermetek.com Office 8662351288 | Mobile 9035223425

Does anybody know if suspend/resume works on Lenovo X1C?

2013-12-27 Thread James Shupe
It's time for a new laptop and I can't find this specific bit of information online. Can anybody tell me if suspend/resume works properly on the Lenovo X1C? -- James Shupe

Re: OpenBSD email provider

2014-03-18 Thread James Shupe
an inexpensive OpenBSD VPS and do it yourself. You don't have to muck with your ISP at that point. -- James Shupe

Re: reload isakmpd

2014-07-25 Thread James Shupe
them from the main ipsec.conf. Then you can ipsecctl -df /etc/ipsec/peer.conf... When you have several dozen peers, it makes troubleshooting individual ones a bit easier. -- James Shupe

Re: Donations to OpenBSD

2014-08-15 Thread James Shupe
Why not just set up a recurring Paypal donation? Even $20/mo should help, if enough people do it. -James Shupe

Re: Mapping pf syslog rule numbers to lines in pf.conf

2015-01-26 Thread James Shupe
in my pf.conf Could someone enlighten me? thanks, -Alan pfctl -sr -R rulenum Further details can be found in the man page. -- James Shupe

Re: per-vlan traffic control

2015-08-19 Thread James Shupe
On 8/19/2015 3:39 PM, Paulo Coimbra wrote: hi, This is my first mail to the list. It's possible limit traffic by Vlan with openbsd? For example I would like to limit 50mb for Vlan 100. Br, Paulo Coimbra

Re: pf vs mp

2015-09-01 Thread James Shupe
On 9/1/2015 3:40 PM, Joseph Borg wrote: > Maybe this webpage would help you make an informed choice? > > https://calomel.org/pf_config.html > You must be new around here. -- James Shupe

Re: OpenBSD 5.8 on VMware 5.5

2015-12-01 Thread James Shupe
ing production OpenBSD servers on VMware? Thanks in advance! It runs just fine for me. I use "Other (64bit)" and change the NICs to vmxnet3. Everything else remains the default. -- James Shupe

support update

2016-02-19 Thread James Shupe
0 C USA P Texas T Pflugerville Z 78691 O HermeTek Network Solutions I James Shupe A P.O. Box 2264 M sa...@hermetek.com U https://www.hermetek.com/bsd-linux-support B 512.792.2525 X 512.888.9889 N We provide open infrastructure design, development, deployment, maintenance and training. We

Re: OpenBSD-based ISP

2017-08-16 Thread James Shupe
mance configurations but I think > that OpenBSD can handle 400mbps without tweaking. > > I'm wrong? > What am I doing bad? > > Thank you! > > > > -- James Shupe, HermeTek developer/ engineer BSD/ Linux support & hosting jsh...@hermetek.com | www.hermetek.com Office 5127922525 | Mobile 5122846350