Re: BSD disklabel partition letters in NetBSD

2018-09-25 Thread Don NetBSD
On 9/25/2018 10:52 AM, Michael van Elst wrote: On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 05:05:44PM +0200, Rocky Hotas wrote: only if none is written to disk, a fictious label is generated from other data like an MBR. Sorry, I can't understand this. Maybe it's related to the following description: disklabel

Simple way to securely access remote machine that's behind a NAT?

2018-09-25 Thread Michael Cheponis
Hi, I have a (linux raspberry pi) that's remotely located and NATted in such a way that I cannot control that part of the infrastructure, although do have complete control of the machine otherwise (e.g. access to root). What I'd like to do is access it from my local NetBSD system (which does

Re: Simple way to securely access remote machine that's behind a NAT?

2018-09-25 Thread Don NetBSD
On 9/24/2018 6:04 PM, Michael Cheponis wrote: I have a (linux raspberry pi) that's remotely located and NATted in such a way that I cannot control that part of the infrastructure, although do have complete control of the machine otherwise (e.g. access to root). What I'd like to do is access it

Re: Simple way to securely access remote machine that's behind a NAT?

2018-09-25 Thread Manuel Bouyer
On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 06:04:44PM -0700, Michael Cheponis wrote: > Hi, > > I have a (linux raspberry pi) that's remotely located and NATted in such a > way that I cannot control that part of the infrastructure, although do > have complete control of the machine otherwise (e.g. access to root).

Re: Simple way to securely access remote machine that's behind a NAT?

2018-09-25 Thread Manuel Bouyer
On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 03:04:56PM +0545, Brook Milligan wrote: > Just curious, could one also use either gre or gif to create a tunnel or does > NAT mess that up? Neither uses TCP or UDP packets, but others IP protocols. The NAT router doesn't have port information do demultiplex incoming

Re: BSD disklabel partition letters in NetBSD

2018-09-25 Thread Rocky Hotas
> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2018 at 11:56 PM > From: "Michael van Elst" > To: netbsd-users@netbsd.org > Subject: Re: BSD disklabel partition letters in NetBSD > [...] > The system always uses the disklabel Yes, IIUC the partition which hosts the NetBSD system always has a disklabel at its

Re: Sizing hardware drive capabilities (in the absence of probed devices)

2018-09-25 Thread David Brownlee
On Tue, 25 Sep 2018 at 06:51, Don NetBSD wrote: > > On 9/24/2018 4:14 AM, David Brownlee wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Sep 2018 at 11:08, Don NetBSD wrote: > > > > I have no idea whether this would actually map to your real > > requirements, but a possible workflow could be: > > > > Bringing up new

Working with hdaudio

2018-09-25 Thread Emmanuel Dreyfus
Hello I am trying to get sound output from the built-in speaker of a hdaudio system. The jack outputs sound, but so far I had no success with the speaker; Here is the relevant dmesg output for a -current kernel from last week: hdaudio0 at pci0 dev 31 function 3: HD Audio Controller hdaudio0:

Re: Simple way to securely access remote machine that's behind a NAT?

2018-09-25 Thread Brook Milligan
> On Sep 25, 2018, at 12:55 PM, Manuel Bouyer wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 06:04:44PM -0700, Michael Cheponis wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a (linux raspberry pi) that's remotely located and NATted in such a >> way that I cannot control that part of the infrastructure, although do >> have

Re: BSD disklabel partition letters in NetBSD

2018-09-25 Thread Michael van Elst
On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 05:05:44PM +0200, Rocky Hotas wrote: > > only if none is written to disk, > > a fictious label is generated from other data like an MBR. > > Sorry, I can't understand this. Maybe it's related to the following > description: disklabel is a data structure. If there is none

Re: BSD disklabel partition letters in NetBSD

2018-09-25 Thread Rocky Hotas
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 at 7:01 AM > From: "Don NetBSD" > To: "NetBSD Users Mailing List" > Subject: Re: BSD disklabel partition letters in NetBSD > [...] > I don't want to have to keep notes as to how each machine is (was!) > configured. So, it's easier for me to just standardize

Re: Simple way to securely access remote machine that's behind a NAT?

2018-09-25 Thread Greg Troxel
Two suggestions (but these can be additional - it's good to have multiple ways to win for remote devices): 1) Set up a tor hidden service. Install tor from pkgsrc, nad in the config file find the hidden service section, and set up (if it's running NetBSD; you just have to find the hidden service

Re: Simple way to securely access remote machine that's behind a NAT?

2018-09-25 Thread David Young
On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 03:04:56PM +0545, Brook Milligan wrote: > Just curious, could one also use either gre or gif to create a tunnel or does > NAT mess that up? I added UDP encapsulation to gre(4) in NetBSD specifically to pierce NAT firewalls, however, I don't know if Linux also has a UDP

Re: Sizing hardware drive capabilities (in the absence of probed devices)

2018-09-25 Thread Don NetBSD
On 9/25/2018 3:19 AM, David Brownlee wrote: [attrs elided] I have no idea whether this would actually map to your real requirements, but a possible workflow could be: Bringing up new appliance ("slot mapping") - Assuming you have "ID" devices digitally and physically labelled 1..n. - User is