[Q] disklabel magic number

1999-05-23 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
Hi! Just out of curiosity, is there any hidden meaning of #define DISKMAGIC ((u_int32_t)0x82564557) /* The disk magic number */ Or is it just a random number? -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the r...@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank +380.652.247.647Simfero

security: what does OpenBSD have, that FreeBSD doesn't have...

1999-05-23 Thread Andreas Klemm
Hi ! Am currently discussing FreeBSD vs. OpenBSD in private e-mail. What make OpenBSD so "secure" ? Or can this kind of security be reproduced with FreeBSD ports ? I think of tools like: bjorb - secure TCP relay software, http://www.hitachi-ms.co.jp/bjorb/ b

RE: security: what does OpenBSD have, that FreeBSD doesn't have.

1999-05-23 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
Hi Andreas =) On 23-May-99 Andreas Klemm wrote: > Am currently discussing FreeBSD vs. OpenBSD in private e-mail. > > What make OpenBSD so "secure" ? Or can this kind of security be > reproduced with FreeBSD ports ? I think of tools like: Ye missed one of the most important things: auditing of th

RE: IPv6 and -current?

1999-05-23 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
On 23-May-99 Alex Zepeda wrote: > Out of a perhaps morbid curiosity, I'm somewhat interested in setting up > an IPv6 stack on my computer. From what I can tell there are two well > supported stacks. Kame and Inria, and both support 2.2.8, Kame also > supports 3.x. Has anyone tried to port either

RE: security: what does OpenBSD have, that FreeBSD doesn't have.

1999-05-23 Thread sthaug
> The OpenBSD team does a lot wrt auditing of the complete sourcetree, but > then the question is: is this valid concern or is this pure paranoia. > OpenBSD does a lot of valid changes but borders (and sometimes crosses thta > border) on paranoia, wrt code. Given the number of postings to BUGTRAQ

RE: security: what does OpenBSD have, that FreeBSD doesn't have.

1999-05-23 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
On 23-May-99 sth...@nethelp.no wrote: >> The OpenBSD team does a lot wrt auditing of the complete sourcetree, but >> then the question is: is this valid concern or is this pure paranoia. >> OpenBSD does a lot of valid changes but borders (and sometimes crosses >> that border) on paranoia, wrt code.

RE: FreeBSD/USENIX Ocean Cruise

1999-05-23 Thread Keith Anderson
Hi All Has this idea sunk ? Keith On 15-May-99 Randall Hopper wrote: > http://www.geekcruises.com/ > > What a cool idea. > > Maybe we'll see a FreeBSD/USENIX conference on-deck someday. > > Randall > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-ha

Re: Suggestion...

1999-05-23 Thread Brian Somers
> >> I plan on doing some work on it and the dgm driver. They're almost > >> the same and should be merged. They both violate style(9) in almost > >> every way too :-[ > >> > >> I know of only one person with an Xem card (dgm driver), but he's > >> promised to send me the specs by snail mail.

UFS parameter survey: HELP WANTED!

1999-05-23 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
--- Begin Message --- I recently made a 15GB filesystem and ended up with almost 500 cylinder groups. That is unlikely to be optimal. I talked to Kirk about the right parameters for UFS on modern disks some years back, and he said that no more than maybe a hundred cylinder groups made any sense.

RE: security: what does OpenBSD have, that FreeBSD doesn't have.

1999-05-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, 23 May 1999 sth...@nethelp.no wrote: > > The OpenBSD team does a lot wrt auditing of the complete sourcetree, but > > then the question is: is this valid concern or is this pure paranoia. > > OpenBSD does a lot of valid changes but borders (and sometimes crosses thta > > border) on paranoi

[johnathan.f.mee...@bankerstrust.com: FreeBSD Configuration]

1999-05-23 Thread Wolfram Schneider
- Forwarded message from johnathan.f.mee...@bankerstrust.com - From: johnathan.f.mee...@bankerstrust.com To: w...@freebsd.org Message-Id: <8525677a.003d42ac...@nysmtp4000.svc.btco.com> Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 12:08:50 +0100 Subject: FreeBSD Configuration Hi, I currently run FreeBSD 3.1 at

Re: Logging "promiscuous mode disabled"

1999-05-23 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Sat, 22 May 1999 17:24:32 +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > Would make intrusion detection easier, etc etc =) Hi Jeroen, I don't know about that. I'd hate for anyone to think that this "improves security". I see it as a convenience option, and wanted feedback on any negative side-effe

Re: security: what does OpenBSD have, that FreeBSD doesn't have.

1999-05-23 Thread Dan Moschuk
| One of my plans is to merge all of these changes into our tree (along with all | the other minor changes/manpage corrections, etc). | | Longer term, I'd like to work on porting some of their kernel code like | randomized sin_port selection and TCP initial sequence numbering, probably | hidden b

Re: [ALERT] a.out support is broken in 3.2-STABLE and 4.0-CURRENT

1999-05-23 Thread Adrian Filipi-Martin
On Sat, 22 May 1999, David O'Brien wrote: > > And would it be possible to MFC this stuff > > After it is tested in -CURRENT first. > > > and add an 3.2-ERRATA entry... > > Why? The compat22 distribution on the FTP site has ld.so in it, as wil > the CDROM. Did you install 3.2 on the very first

converting Multia riser card into a generic NCR810

1999-05-23 Thread Wilko Bulte
People interested in converting a riser card of a DEC Multia into a generic NCR810 card please refer to: http://www.tcja.nl/~wilko/ncr_hack.html | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands- Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) BulteWWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebs

Re: security: what does OpenBSD have, that FreeBSD doesn't have.

1999-05-23 Thread Warner Losh
In message Kris Kennaway writes: : One of my plans is to merge all of these changes into our tree : (along with all the other minor changes/manpage corrections, etc). Which ones are currently missing? Also, beware. Most of the patches will not come into the FreeBSD tree w/o some tweaking to

Re: [ALERT] a.out support is broken in 3.2-STABLE and 4.0-CURRENT

1999-05-23 Thread David O'Brien
> > Why? The compat22 distribution on the FTP site has ld.so in it, as wil > > the CDROM. Did you install 3.2 on the very first day? > > Just about. Did a make release for local internal use. Is there a > slightly newer CVS tag other than RELENG_3_2_0_RELEASE that gets us all we > need t

[Q] LKM linking

1999-05-23 Thread Constantine Shkolnyy
Hi All, 1. Is this possible to produce an LKM device driver that would export functions to another LKM driver? 2. If the 1. is possible, will it be possible to load the "another LKM driver" without loading the "exporting" driver? Which references would you suggest me to look into? Maybe some kno

Re: freebsd-hackers-digest V4 #466

1999-05-23 Thread B1oL0g1c
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getopt.c in gnu/*/*

1999-05-23 Thread Warner Losh
Is there any reason to have getopt.c replicated in so many different programs: cvs, grep, gzip, patch, ptx, sort, tar and maybe a few others that I missed... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: security: what does OpenBSD have, that FreeBSD doesn't have.

1999-05-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, 23 May 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > In message > > Kris Kennaway writes: > : One of my plans is to merge all of these changes into our tree > : (along with all the other minor changes/manpage corrections, etc). > > Which ones are currently missing? I'm not sure..I've been wandering thro

RE: IPv6 and -current?

1999-05-23 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Sun, 23 May 1999, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > I already mailed Itojun-san about the status of the KAME/Inria merger and > hope to hear from him soon. Well, I finally got the userland shit working! This would make an awesome port, it compiles out of the box, and works with bpf to do ipv6 i

Re: [johnathan.f.mee...@bankerstrust.com: FreeBSD Configuration]

1999-05-23 Thread Studded
Wolfram Schneider wrote: > I like the idea of easy configuration as an /option/ to those who would > like it - particularly newcomers to UNIX. With this in mind, I searched my > install set for such utilities but couldn't find them, nor see them on the > wanted projects list. Your best