What are all these core files?

2018-07-30 Thread D'Arcy Cain
I have suddenly started getting all of these core files in my home directory. If I delete them they just show up the next day again. They don't even appear to relate to actual programs. They seem to be related to screensavers. Does anyone know where they are coming from? Running NetBSD

Re: NetBSD disk performance on VirtualBox

2018-03-18 Thread D'Arcy Cain
On 03/18/2018 08:41 AM, Sad Clouds wrote: > Hello, are there known I/O performance issues with NetBSD on VirtualBox? > I've setup two similar VMs, one Linux, another one NetBSD, both use > SATA virtual controller with one disk. > > Writing 1GB file sequentially: > - Linux gives 425MB/sec, So

Re: thinkpad : e470 : bootup : barfs at acpi

2018-02-03 Thread D'Arcy Cain
On 02/03/2018 10:05 PM, Kathe wrote: > have got myself a new lenovo thinkpad e470, it's my only machine. > attempted running netbsd 7.1.1 and found out that netbsd barfs > on the first-boot itself, it get's stuck at acpi phase. > now running ubuntu linux 16.04, working fine, but prefer netbsd. > i

Re: DHCP client: dhclient vs dhcpcd ?

2018-01-31 Thread D'Arcy Cain
On 01/31/2018 10:44 AM, Gua Chung Lim wrote: >> I recommend using dhcpcd :) > I did read from somewhere, dhclient is obsolete. > I think its existence nowadays is only for backward compatibility. > dhcpcd is smaller in size but higher performance and being actively developed. Also, if you put

Re: VPN - almost got it

2017-09-14 Thread D'Arcy Cain
On 09/13/2017 01:54 PM, Andy Ruhl wrote: On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 8:59 AM, D'Arcy Cain <da...@netbsd.org> wrote: ifconfig tun0 create ifconfig tun0 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.2 netmask 0xfffc route add 10.0.0.2/32 10.0.0.1 # should this be necessary? route add 192.168.215.0/24 10.0.0.2 On the in

VPN - almost got it

2017-09-13 Thread D'Arcy Cain
I am trying to set up a VPN between two NetBSD boxes, one of which has a public address. Here is what I do on the public machine in rc.local: ifconfig tun0 create ifconfig tun0 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.2 netmask 0xfffc route add 10.0.0.2/32 10.0.0.1 # should this be necessary? route add

Re: Error trying to create gre tunnel

2017-08-12 Thread D'Arcy Cain
On 08/12/2017 09:08 AM, Valery Ushakov wrote: I don't think so. I am pretty sure that I read that the first argument to tunnel must be an address on the host server. Not sure where I read that though as I have been doing a lot of research in the last day or two. I couldn't find it in the man

Re: Error trying to create gre tunnel

2017-08-12 Thread D'Arcy Cain
On 08/12/2017 12:16 AM, Valery Ushakov wrote: You can forward all trafic from the consumer gizmo internet facing router (with single public IP address from the provider) to the internal netbsd router. It's usually called "DMZ host" in the web interface. I considered that but it seems

Re: Error trying to create gre tunnel

2017-08-11 Thread D'Arcy Cain
On 08/11/2017 09:04 PM, Andy Ruhl wrote: I suppose you could try forwarding all GRE (ip protocol 47) inward to wherever the GRE tunnel lives inside the network. Have you tried that? I thought about that but my Linksys WRT router doesn't appear to have the ability to forward anything but TCP

Re: Error trying to create gre tunnel

2017-08-11 Thread D'Arcy Cain
On 08/11/2017 12:37 PM, D'Arcy Cain wrote: I made this work on one NetBSD system but two machines on the local side fail. One is a 7.1 server and the other is current. ifconfig gre0 create ifconfig gre0 10.255.255.1 10.255.255.2 netmask 255.255.255.252 ifconfig gre0 tunnel 207.35.13.14

Error trying to create gre tunnel

2017-08-11 Thread D'Arcy Cain
I made this work on one NetBSD system but two machines on the local side fail. One is a 7.1 server and the other is current. ifconfig gre0 create ifconfig gre0 10.255.255.1 10.255.255.2 netmask 255.255.255.252 ifconfig gre0 tunnel 207.35.13.14 98.158.139.79 The last line gives this error.

Re: NetBSD 8 install image for amd64?

2017-06-21 Thread D'Arcy Cain
On 06/21/17 07:13, Jukka Marin wrote: I was able to install NetBSD 8 on the Qotom box I have been playing with, but when it boots it doesn't find root device (wd0) and when I hit a key on the USB keyboard, kernel panics.. ;-( The install kernel was working ok, though. I'll experiment more. I

Re: installboot command failed

2017-01-28 Thread D'Arcy Cain
On 2017-01-28 08:01 AM, Marco Beishuizen wrote: On Fri, 27 Jan 2017, the wise Christos Zoulas wrote: Can you try zeroing out the beginning of the disk manually from the shell? $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd0d count=10 I decided to write the complete failed command on a piece of paper and