Re: Options to use winxp and netbsd together with xen

2018-07-19 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 04:43:17PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 07:50:06PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 10:20:00AM +0300, pierre-philipp braun wrote: > > > 2. try to install the GPLPV drivers before the conversion -- > > >

Re: NetBSD 7.1 i386 on Virtualbox (fatal breakpoint trap in supervisor mode)

2017-07-16 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 05:35:09PM +, Valery Ushakov wrote: > > Right, because you use VT-x. Older CPUs and low-end CPUs (atoms) > don't have VT-x. Even if your CPU supports it, you might also need to > explicitly enable VT-x in BIOS (not a problem for OSX). I think even all

Re: [NetBSD 8.0] Another panic in ffs_newvnode()

2017-07-10 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 12:15:15AM +0200, BERTRAND Jo??l wrote: > Robert Elz a ?crit : > > Date:Sun, 9 Jul 2017 17:11:13 - (UTC) > > From:mlel...@serpens.de (Michael van Elst) > > Message-ID: > > > > | That sounds like some heavier

Re: Can NetBSD cgd be used for encrypted backup?

2017-06-12 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 02:55:48PM +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: > On 12.06.2017 14:45, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 06:41:56PM +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: > >> > >> You would need to push large part image of an encrypted volume for

Re: Can NetBSD cgd be used for encrypted backup?

2017-06-12 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 06:41:56PM +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: > > You would need to push large part image of an encrypted volume for every > change to files. That doesn't make sense to me. Why would you need to push more blocks than actually changed? -- Thor Lance

Re: NetBSD on embedded devices

2017-06-04 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Sun, Jun 04, 2017 at 08:16:16PM +0200, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote: > Thor Lancelot Simon <t...@panix.com> wrote: > > > One key idea that may help you is not mine -- it's due to Matt Thomas. It > > is > > the idea of, making an *additional* bunch of sets files s

Re: NetBSD on embedded devices

2017-06-04 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 02:37:17PM +0300, Jukka Marin wrote: > > I'm wondering what would be the best way of system updates. I would > like to have two separate system images, one that is active and running > and another which can be updated. At boot time, the system would have > to check which

Re: Why are there physmem and physmem64?

2017-02-17 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 11:22:06PM +0900, Miwa Susumu wrote: > 2017-02-17 23:06 GMT+09:00 Martin Husemann : > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 11:00:10PM +0900, Miwa Susumu wrote: > >> If change it, sysctl work correctly. > > > > Unless you have more than 4 GB. > > of course. > > >

Re: Why are there physmem and physmem64?

2017-02-16 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
en present, as a 32-bit value, in the sysctl MIB for roughly 30 years. We can't just break binary compatibility with programs that use it. In fact, changing the type in question would probably break source compatibility for numerous programs, too. -- Thor Lancelot Simon

Re: Serial console setup

2016-12-24 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 08:36:47PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote: > > Note that there are two separate issues with modem control. One is > rts/cts. Probably that is not your problem if text is being output. > The other is that traditionally, the open from getty on the device did > not succeed until

Re: APU2 routing speed NetBSD

2016-12-21 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 11:03:33AM +0100, 76nem...@gmx.ch wrote: > > Here is the result of the difference on the router. I have had > a look on it and I see that no "fast forward" are used. It is indeed odd that you're not fast forwarding. Do you have firewall rules or IPsec policies installed?

Re: HP DL380G9 Disk Controllers

2016-11-27 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
42 > HP Smart Array 6400 > HP Smart Array 6400 EM > HP Smart Array E200 > HP Smart Array E200i > HP Smart Array P400 > HP Smart Array P400i > HP Smart Array P410i > HP Smart Array P600 > HP Smart Array P800 > HP Smart Array V100 > HP Smart Array 1 through 1

Re: A single-board computer for NetBSD

2016-11-19 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 12:59:14PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote: > > If you can use serial instead of VGA and don't mind running -current, > the ERLITE Edge Router 3 is a more or less plug & play solution (though > from a NetBSD POV not 100% finished and stable yet, but getting better > quickly).

Re: bozohttpd support for SNI

2016-09-30 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
about six dinners for debugging, and would be about 1500 lines long. -- Thor Lancelot Simont...@panix.com "The dirtiest word in art is the C-word. I can't even say 'craft' without feeling dirty."-Chuck Close

Re: HP Smart Array P410i support

2016-09-02 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
he disks go for a walk, you don't have to worry unless the controller did too, and you no longer have to trust the quality of so-called "Secure Erase" in disk or SSD firmware (a particular issue with SSDs). -- Thor Lancelot Simont...@panix.com

Re: Compiling minimal userland?

2016-09-02 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 10:26:51AM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 03:25:52AM +0200, William Z. wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm currently trying to replace Linux with NetBSD in some of > > my embedded devices. > > > > I have read

Re: Compiling minimal userland?

2016-09-02 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 03:25:52AM +0200, William Z. wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently trying to replace Linux with NetBSD in some of > my embedded devices. > > I have read "The Guide" and found out how to create a crosscompiler and > compile a tiny custom kernel. However, I also want to create a

Re: still upgrading from 2.0 to 7.0

2016-08-21 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 12:47:36PM +0100, Steve Blinkhorn wrote: > > Kernelized RAIDframe activated > ataraid0: found 1 RAID volume > ld0 at ataraid0 vendtype 0 unit 0: Promise ATA SPAN array > ld0: 76319 MB, 9729 cyl, 255 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 156301425 You have one or more drives

Re: read/write slow on nvme drive - Supermicro X10DRL-CT

2016-08-11 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 11:47:20AM -0400, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: > On Thu, 11 Aug 2016 11:06:15 -0400 (EDT) > Derrick Lobo wrote: > > No they are not setup as log file system > > > > /dev/dk1/data_local ffs rw 2 1 > > /dev/dk0/mnt

Re: Proxy server, mode intercept on NetBSD 7.0.1

2016-08-01 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 11:19:35PM -0400, metalli...@fastmail.fm wrote: > On Mon, Aug 1, 2016, at 10:40 PM, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 05:20:11PM -0400, metalli...@fastmail.fm wrote: > > > > > > FWIW, I don't think my standards ar

Re: Proxy server, mode intercept on NetBSD 7.0.1

2016-08-01 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 05:20:11PM -0400, metalli...@fastmail.fm wrote: > > FWIW, I don't think my standards are higher than Darren Reed's: You understand that he's the author of exactly the code you're complaining about, right? This is not a swipe at Darren or his decades of work. When I've

Re: NetBSD 7.0 i386 mkdep fails

2016-06-05 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Sun, Jun 05, 2016 at 12:18:14PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > On Sun, Jun 05, 2016 at 11:58:47AM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 04, 2016 at 09:39:23PM +, co...@sdf.org wrote: > > > Are you building i386 on amd64? > > > > Sorry for a hasty previous reply. I am trying to build i386 on

Re: NetBSD 7.0 i386 mkdep fails

2016-06-03 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 08:25:46AM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 10:02:16PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > > When running make depend I get this: > > > > sorry, unimplemented: 64-bit mode not compiled in > > > > I had installed comp from NetBSD 7.0 installation sets. > > > > What

Re: Simple IPSEC client with certificate - phase 1 time out

2016-03-01 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
Consider disabling dead peer detection? Thor

Re: Exist operating systems that ship without blobs?

2016-02-21 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 04:33:40PM -0600, David Young wrote: > > BTW, I think a reasonable precaution to take with a lot of devices, > their firmware and drivers, open- or closed-source (but especially > closed source), is to put them under supervision of, say, an IOMMU. It's reasonable, for

Re: Exist operating systems that ship without blobs?

2016-02-19 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 04:00:25PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote: > > > If yes, because? > > You would either have to redo all the firmware yourself or drop support for > that device. Never mind that OpenBSD's position is basically horseshit: they have not, after all, removed support for all

Re: [netbsd-7] Critical issue with ffs+log

2016-01-20 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 04:23:32PM +0100, BERTRAND Jo??l wrote: > Martin Husemann a ?crit : > >>rld0 contains two disks (wd0 and wd1). Both are clean (smartctl > >>doesn't return any error) and new. > > > >Can you please provide the full dmesg? > > > >Martin > > > > Of course. Ugh,

Re: [netbsd-7] Critical issue with ffs+log

2016-01-20 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 05:15:09PM +0100, BERTRAND Jo??l wrote: > Thor Lancelot Simon a ?crit : > > >Ugh, ataraid. > > > >If you skip the first 1MB or thereabouts, do the drives have exactly > >the same contents? > > I suppose you say that ataraid is not

Re: syspkg equivalent of pkgsrc audit?

2015-12-22 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 04:43:53PM +1100, Malcolm Herbert wrote: > Folks - I'm coming to the conclusion that for host which I'm using the system > version of various tools[1] I have bad visibility for when these versions of > the package become insecure and require an update. We issue

Re: Replace default SSH with pkgsrc version

2015-12-09 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 01:15:07AM +, Eric Haszlakiewicz wrote: > > Which is a great way to run into problems. Even if you need to manually do > so, if you're using ssh from pkgsrc I highly suggest removing the base ssh > binaries. I strongly disagree with my esteemed colleague on this

Re: priocscan vs fcfs

2015-12-03 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 07:43:10PM +0100, Petar Bogdanovic wrote: > On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 08:23:28PM +, Michael van Elst wrote: > > > > That's probably why setting the queues all to fcfs is the best > > for you. > > Not as dramatic as Emile's numbers but significantly higher read >

Re: Beating a dead horse

2015-11-26 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 08:57:24AM +, Michael van Elst wrote: > w...@hiwaay.net ("William A. Mahaffey III") writes: > > >H I thought that the RAID5 would write 1 parity byte & 4 data > >bytes in parallel, i.e. no '1 drive bottleneck'. > > That only happens when the "4 data bytes"

Re: How to allow root telnet to a NetBSD 6.1.5 box

2015-11-08 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Sun, Nov 08, 2015 at 02:17:40PM -0500, jmitchel wrote: > Hello, > > I have an appliance that I'm upgrading from 1.6.2 (I know, I know) to 6.1.5. > The appliance currently only has the root account. I want users to be able > to set up the box without having to use a serial cable, so I'm

Re: 7.0_RC1 slow boot

2015-08-09 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
of this hardware (embedded, NAS, etc.). I think the performance issue is serious enough to justify reverting the change in its entirety. -- Thor Lancelot Simont...@panix.com We cannot usually in social life pursue a single value or a single moral aim

Re: Security and PAX

2015-06-07 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
debug it, it's PIE. Sigh... -- Thor Lancelot Simon t...@panix.com From the tooth paste you use in the morning to the salt on your evening meal, it's easy to take for granted the many products brought to us with explosives. - Institute of Manufacturers

Re: 7.0_BETA feedback sought

2015-01-07 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 11:04:59PM -0500, rod...@netbsd.org wrote: Other networking hardware = bluetooth and WWAN. re0 and fwip are nice, but WWAN or WLAN? Thor

Re: pf and rpi

2014-10-06 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 05:03:41AM +0200, Zoran Kolic wrote: I'm afraid it does not work like that. Last win is firewall's internal. Having not used npf ever, I might say that final word makes it stop further checking. At the moment I stranded myself on securelevel. For some reason I just

Re: ixg(4) performances

2014-07-07 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 08:19:57AM +, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote: On Sun, Jul 06, 2014 at 11:44:58PM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: As a first step, ensure your socket buffer sizes are adequate. The default, and default maximum, socket buffer sizes in NetBSD are inappropriate for 10Gb

Re: ixg(4) performances

2014-07-06 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 12:50:42PM -0700, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote: That's what I should've said if I wanted to be helpful. On Linux I suggest iperf (multiple threads) or multiple concurrent copies of netperf. It takes more than one thread to saturate the link. Then after you made sure that

Re: IPV6 issues

2014-04-20 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 10:50:20AM -0700, John Nemeth wrote: On Apr 16, 8:08pm, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: } On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 06:29:02PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: } } So I would ask: why do you think you need to disable it? By default, } the system will have no v6 addresses

Re: IPV6 issues

2014-04-16 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 06:29:02PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: So I would ask: why do you think you need to disable it? By default, the system will have no v6 addresses configured and should not incur delays due to this. Are you having a problem? The system will have link-local addresses

Re: Issues with agr interface?

2014-04-06 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 11:37:07AM +0200, Havard Eidnes wrote: I just tried to use agr(4) for the first time on NetBSD, on a host running NetBSD 1.6.3. It's coupled to a pair of Juniper stacked switches upstream. Ifconfig on the host does not show flags=COLLECTING,DISTRIBUTING for one of

Re: Install i386 or amd64?

2014-01-30 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 04:07:17PM -0500, jmitc...@bigjar.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 06:26:13AM -0500, Jason Mitchell wrote: Not to advocate i386 over amd64, but doesn't NetBSD/i386 support PAE and thus can access 2GB of RAM? You are still limited to a 32bit address space in

Re: Emacsen segfaulting on startup

2014-01-28 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 09:33:27AM +, Matthias Scheler wrote: This is nothing that NetBSD can ensure. A good example is the 64-bit time_t change in NetBSD 6.0. If you compile a shared library and a program using this type under NetBSD 5.0 they will use a 32-bit time_t. If you now

Re: Make USB/SCSI delay to avoid timeouts?

2014-01-13 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 12:59:34AM +, Thomas Mueller wrote: Manuel Bouyer responded: A better question would be: why is 2s not enough ? How is that for an evasive answer? Not so good, actually. Unless one is an insane person desperately seeking a way to feel offended-against. Or

Re: [RAIDframe] system hangs while manipulating large files

2014-01-03 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 07:38:21PM +0100, Emile `iMil' Heitor wrote: Could one of those mount flags cause any harm with a RAIDframe array ? /dev/dk0 on /export type ffs (asynchronous, log, noatime, NFS exported, local) I am surprised you can combine async and log but I would strongly

Re: MD5 failing on optical media

2013-08-04 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 09:57:47PM +0100, Andrew Smallshaw wrote: I've been encountering odd errors whenever I attempt to verify files on optical discs. Right now this is on a couple of DVD-RAM discs but I've encoutered similar issues on +R and +RW discs in the past. Before now I've put it

Re: pkgsrc use curl or wget

2013-07-11 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 12:46:48PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 10:41:04PM -0400, matthew sporleder wrote: Try FETCH_USING= curl in mk.conf I know you can use it in individual packages so maybe it will just work. I was looking for something similar. Would an