Re: dd ... of=/dev/sd0 creates a file instead of writing to disk

2006-06-13 Thread viq
On Tuesday 13 June 2006 21:14, Joe wrote: > I've having a problem understanding how to write data to a disk. > I want to wipe an old hard drive before getting rid of it. > I have attached the hard drive to my system via usb. > > Normally, this would work (in different OS's): > > # dd if=/dev/urando

Re: developing a backup strategy

2006-06-13 Thread Siju George
On 6/13/06, Bob Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * prad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-12 11:54]: > i've gone through the threads: > > Recommendations for an OpenBSD-based Backup Solution > remote data backup > > and am contemplating the ideas as they apply to my rather simple setup - 2 > webservers

Re: Hifn policy on documentation

2006-06-13 Thread Siju George
On 6/13/06, Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >There has been some discussion of late on this list about Hifn's policy >with respect to releasing documentation to the general public. That >discussion lead to a great deal of uninformed speculation and >unflattering statement's about Hifn's

Re: Hifn policy on documentation

2006-06-13 Thread Tony Abernethy
Travers Buda wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 21:10:13 -0700 > "Hank Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Folks, > > There has been some discussion of late on this list about Hifn's > > policy with respect to releasing documentation to the general > > public. That discussion lead to a great dea

Re: Hifn policy on documentation

2006-06-13 Thread Bryan Irvine
> Registration at our extranet is required along with an email address > that can be confirmed. We cannot support anonymous FTP or http > downloads. The reason for this is that we are required by the > conditions of our US export licenses to know who and where our customers > are. If anyone obje

Re: IP Routing Question.

2006-06-13 Thread Bryan Irvine
YOu mean you want all 6(?) IP's on the same interface? Ya, it's called aliases. I think you are looking for man(5) hostname.if. --Bryan On 6/13/06, User Beastie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear All. > > I have one simple question. > If my ISP assign one point to point ip address and one fu

Re: Hifn policy on documentation

2006-06-13 Thread Travers Buda
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 21:10:13 -0700 "Hank Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Folks, > There has been some discussion of late on this list about Hifn's > policy with respect to releasing documentation to the general > public. That discussion lead to a great deal of uninformed > speculation and unf

IP Routing Question.

2006-06-13 Thread User Beastie
Dear All. I have one simple question. If my ISP assign one point to point ip address and one full subnet mask address (/28), can i have those in one my ethernet interface ? If it's possible, is there any network routing problem ? FYI , i have one private network and DMZ . regards Beastie

Re: SMP issue involving Dual Xeon

2006-06-13 Thread Jesse Gumm
After doing more research, I've concluded that the 2nd cpu is indeed running properly, but I still don't know why exactly the bit flags are different for the 2nd as for the 1st. That's a mystery. But reading information on APIC IDs on Intel's site yielded some answers http://www.intel.com/cd/id

Re: developing a backup strategy

2006-06-13 Thread Travers Buda
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 10:41:55 -0700 prad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i've gone through the threads: > > Recommendations for an OpenBSD-based Backup Solution > remote data backup > > and am contemplating the ideas as they apply to my rather simple > setup - 2 webservers (one does email as well).

Re: Hifn policy on documentation

2006-06-13 Thread Barry, Christopher
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Hank Cohen > Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 12:10 AM > To: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Hifn policy on documentation > > Folks, > There has been some discussion of late on this list about > Hifn's policy

Re: Curious on NAT traversal possibility on PF

2006-06-13 Thread Nick Guenther
On 6/13/06, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2006/06/13 22:07, Nick Guenther wrote: > What is the prefered method for NAT-traversal these days? The options > I know are: > UPnP I suppose this one doesn't work unless the protocol bends well to it, and both ends support it too, whic

Re: Hifn policy on documentation

2006-06-13 Thread Nick Guenther
On 6/13/06, Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >There has been some discussion of late on this list about Hifn's policy >with respect to releasing documentation to the general public. That >discussion lead to a great deal of uninformed speculation and >unflattering statement's about Hifn's

Re: Laptop recommendations

2006-06-13 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 05:40:47PM -0600, Christopher Snell wrote: > I'm still looking for a laptop. Does anybody know of a laptop that > will do at least 1600x___ resolution and have rudimentary power > management (ie., I can pull the AC plug and the laptop does not lock > up)? If you want a big

Re: Curious on NAT traversal possibility on PF

2006-06-13 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/06/13 22:07, Nick Guenther wrote: > What is the prefered method for NAT-traversal these days? The options > I know are: > UPnP > a proxy > having the in-kernel NAT code do the work itself Look at how /usr/sbin/ftp-proxy works with anchors - it's a nice hybrid, keeping L7 work out of the ke

Re: Hifn policy on documentation

2006-06-13 Thread Eliah Kagan
On 6/13/06, Marcus Watts wrote: In this case, the vendor appears to be talking about documentation, which means they're actually confused. EAR covers chips but not documentation. By US law they *have* to care about the chips. Otherwise they're not in business. However the same law and a bunch

Re: Curious on NAT traversal possibility on PF

2006-06-13 Thread Nick Guenther
On 6/13/06, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (warning, a bit long and might not be of very general interest, but some of the points probably need getting down somewhere...) executive summary: passing some protocols through NAT can be pretty hairy. Of course this is quite like active-

Re: Hifn policy on documentation

2006-06-13 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
>This is just another symptom of the US slide towards isolationism. >External competitive pressures are increasing every year and many >American institutions, both in government and private sector, are >seeking to restrict the trade of goods and ideas as a band aid to fix >the problem. i have

Re: Hifn policy on documentation

2006-06-13 Thread Breen Ouellette
Dag Richards wrote: Marc Balmer wrote: I live in Switzerland. Do I give a fuckin' rats ass for US Export Regulations? Not care about US Export Regs? But that just means you want the terrorists to win. After all our President is your President right? I think nearly everyone here is fully

Re: Laptop recommendations

2006-06-13 Thread Graeme Neilson
dell inspiron 8100 On 6/14/06, Christopher Snell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm still looking for a laptop. Does anybody know of a laptop that > will do at least 1600x___ resolution and have rudimentary power > management (ie., I can pull the AC plug and the laptop does not lock > up)? > > Ch

Re: wikipedia article

2006-06-13 Thread Marcus Watts
Various wrote: > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:50:53 +0200 > From: Johnny Billquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Organization: Update Computer Club > User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) > X-Accept-Language: en-us, en > MIME-Version: 1.0 > To: =?ISO-8859-1

Re: Hifn policy on documentation

2006-06-13 Thread NetNeanderthal
On 6/13/06, Hank Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Folks, There has been some discussion of late on this list about Hifn's policy with respect to releasing documentation to the general public. That discussion lead to a great deal of uninformed speculation and unflattering statement's about Hifn's

Re: Hifn policy on documentation

2006-06-13 Thread Andrew Dalgleish
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 08:43:16AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: [snip] > And if you continue baiting me, I will delete the driver from our > source tree. You may as well. By the time Hifn release the documentation the speed of cheap processors will have increased enough to make their current produc

Re: Laptop recommendations

2006-06-13 Thread Christopher Snell
I'm still looking for a laptop. Does anybody know of a laptop that will do at least 1600x___ resolution and have rudimentary power management (ie., I can pull the AC plug and the laptop does not lock up)? Chris On 5/29/06, Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/26/06, Christopher Snel

Re: Hifn policy on documentation

2006-06-13 Thread Michael Scheliga
-Original Message- From: Michael Scheliga Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 4:21 PM To: 'Dag Richards' Subject: RE: Hifn policy on documentation > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Dag Richards > Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 3:49 PM

Kernel Crash on OpenBSD_3_9

2006-06-13 Thread Nicholas Young
We have a Tyan S2882-D that has been having some problems. A previous panic seemed to be related to the Broadcom chipset. Details at http://cvs.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-wrapper?full=yes&numbers=5144 Since disabling the Broadcom on the 5/June no other problems have been seen with the machine. T

Re: Hifn policy on documentation

2006-06-13 Thread Marcus Watts
From: Marc Balmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:22:12 +0200 > From: Marc Balmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Michael Scheliga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Hank Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Re: Hifn policy on documentation > > * Michael Scheliga wrote:

Re: Help in Setting up "Open-ended" VPN connections

2006-06-13 Thread Spruell, Darren-Perot
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Behalf Of Bharj, Gagan > but they know our VPN gateway's IP address. I tried setting up our > isakmpd.conf in a similar manner, except that I put 0.0.0.0/0 > for the peer > gateway, but then isakmpd complains that it can't create a > connection to the > IP address 0.0.0

Re: wikipedia article

2006-06-13 Thread Johnny Billquist
Per Fogelstrvm wrote: On Tuesday 13 June 2006 14:23, Rick Kelly wrote: Johnny Billquist said: There's actually a cheesy way to do demand paging with microprocessors that don't support demand paging (such as the original 68000--another "16 bit" machine). The way to do this is to run two proce

Re: Hifn policy on documentation

2006-06-13 Thread Dag Richards
Marc Balmer wrote: * Michael Scheliga wrote: truly open to the "general public" anonymous download site. I doubt that the documentation that is being requested by developers is putting you in violation of US Export Regulations. Your customer's locations I live in Switzerland. Do I give a f

Re: suspended zaurus doesn't wake up (-CURRENT)

2006-06-13 Thread Okan Demirmen
On Wed 2006.06.14 at 00:05 +0200, Matthias Kilian wrote: > Hi, > > when suspending the zaurus using a -CURRENT kernel or the latest > snapshot (from june, 8th), it isn't possible to wake up the system. > > This happens both with power supply connected and with battery only, > as well as with pres

Re: suspended zaurus doesn't wake up (-CURRENT)

2006-06-13 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/06/14 00:05, Matthias Kilian wrote: > when suspending the zaurus using a -CURRENT kernel or the latest > snapshot (from june, 8th), it isn't possible to wake up the system. me too.

Re: Curious on NAT traversal possibility on PF

2006-06-13 Thread Stuart Henderson
(warning, a bit long and might not be of very general interest, but some of the points probably need getting down somewhere...) executive summary: passing some protocols through NAT can be pretty hairy. On 2006/06/13 16:47, Daniel Ouellet wrote: > Stuart Henderson wrote: > >On 2006/06/13 14:58, D

Re: dd ... of=/dev/sd0 creates a file instead of writing to disk

2006-06-13 Thread Nick Guenther
On 6/13/06, Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Miod Vallat wrote: >> Normally, this would work (in different OS's): >> >> # dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sd0 >> >> However, this command creates a file /dev/sd0 and fills it with random >> data. I want to write this data to the disk instead. >> >> The sam

Help in Setting up "Open-ended" VPN connections

2006-06-13 Thread Bharj, Gagan
Hello Folks, I'm able to set up a VPN connection between two networks when I know my peer VPN gateway address. I need to set up our VPN gateway in such a way that our staff can access our internal network from any where in the world. What this means is that we don't know the IP address that they w

Re: [Fwd: Re: Hifn policy on documentation]

2006-06-13 Thread Jason Wright
Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Some information will > >probably always require a non-disclosure agreement. Information that > >falls into that category is generally of a sensitive competitive nature, > >contains trade secrets or is relat

Re: Hifn policy on documentation

2006-06-13 Thread Marc Balmer
* Michael Scheliga wrote: > truly open to the "general public" anonymous download site. I doubt > that the documentation that is being requested by developers is putting > you in violation of US Export Regulations. Your customer's locations I live in Switzerland. Do I give a fuckin' rats ass f

suspended zaurus doesn't wake up (-CURRENT)

2006-06-13 Thread Matthias Kilian
Hi, when suspending the zaurus using a -CURRENT kernel or the latest snapshot (from june, 8th), it isn't possible to wake up the system. This happens both with power supply connected and with battery only, as well as with pressing the on/off button or invoking zzz(8). With a kernel from may, 19t

Re: refund of 3.80

2006-06-13 Thread Wakefield
After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have determined that you are eligible to receive a tax refund of 3.80. I sure hope they update their records so that OpenBSD 3.9 qualifies for a tax refund as well!

Re: Extremely weird PF behaviour

2006-06-13 Thread Alex Stamatis
Dear Stuart your reply is very much appriciated ! Thank you for sparing some time to help me out. I am pasting the rules so you can understand what I did. If I understand correctly I did what you suggest allready! Take a look : Nat - Rdr Rules : nat on $ext_if from { 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.2 192.

Re: Curious on NAT traversal possibility on PF

2006-06-13 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2006/06/13 14:58, Daniel Ouellet wrote: That's cool! No worry, I guess your subject is way more interesting to many, or no one is using NAT traversal or have any needs for it. I don't know much about H.323, but for SIP draft-biggs-sip-nat has some useful information,

Re: Extremely weird PF behaviour

2006-06-13 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/06/13 22:57, Alex Stamatis wrote: > The translation is offcourse BEFORE the filtering ! Any other thoughts about > the problem ? I don't mean, being listed first in pf.conf. I'm talking about the order of actions on the packet. 1. Packets come into your box addressed to port 65500 2. NAT

Re: Stunnel Connection Failure, undeadly.cgi

2006-06-13 Thread Hugo Villeneuve
Was gonna write about this soon. Run into the same problem while upgrading a machine from 3.5 to 3.9. running an exec cmd not in a pty is broken in stunnel since they added --enable-ipv6 in OpenBSD 3.7. It fails in make_sockets() in client.c. I could make it work by not using --enable-ipv6. Was g

Re: Curious on NAT traversal possibility on PF

2006-06-13 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/06/13 14:58, Daniel Ouellet wrote: > That's cool! No worry, I guess your subject is way more interesting to many, > or no one is using NAT traversal or have any needs for it. I don't know much about H.323, but for SIP draft-biggs-sip-nat has some useful information, care needs to be taken

refund of 3.80

2006-06-13 Thread service
\ [IMAGE] After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have determined that you are eligible to receive a tax refund of 3.80. Please submit the tax refund request and allow us 6-9 days in order to process it. A refund can be delayed for a variety of reasons. For example submittin

Re: Hifn policy on documentation

2006-06-13 Thread Michael Scheliga
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Hank Cohen > Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 9:10 PM > To: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Hifn policy on documentation > > Folks, > There has been some discussion of late on this list about Hifn's policy > wit

ichiic0: errors on MP (Sorry about the no subject post!)

2006-06-13 Thread Bill Jones
As anyone seen this? No matter what I do I cant stop this from happing. I am at the point of being forced to use another OS that I DONT want to use. Any help would be very much appreciated. This only happens when running the MP kernel. The GENERIC kernel runs just fine. This sticks out to me,

Re: Extremely weird PF behaviour

2006-06-13 Thread Alex Stamatis
Dear Stuart. The translation is offcourse BEFORE the filtering ! Any other thoughts about the problem ? On 6/13/06, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2006/06/13 05:26, Alex Stamatis wrote: > > I have a veeeryyy veeeryyy weird problem !!! > > Not really... > > > I have small net

Re: dd ... of=/dev/sd0 creates a file instead of writing to disk

2006-06-13 Thread Trombley
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 12:14:21PM -0700, Joe wrote: > I've having a problem understanding how to write data to a disk. > I want to wipe an old hard drive before getting rid of it. > I have attached the hard drive to my system via usb. > > Normally, this would work (in different OS's): > > # dd i

Re: dd ... of=/dev/sd0 creates a file instead of writing to disk

2006-06-13 Thread Joe
Miod Vallat wrote: Normally, this would work (in different OS's): # dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sd0 However, this command creates a file /dev/sd0 and fills it with random data. I want to write this data to the disk instead. The same thing happens when I use /dev/rsd0. You want sd0c or rsd0c

Re: dd ... of=/dev/sd0 creates a file instead of writing to disk

2006-06-13 Thread jared r r spiegel
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 12:14:21PM -0700, Joe wrote: > I've having a problem understanding how to write data to a disk. > I want to wipe an old hard drive before getting rid of it. > I have attached the hard drive to my system via usb. > > Normally, this would work (in different OS's): > > # dd i

Re: Hifn policy on documentation

2006-06-13 Thread Raja Subramanian
On 6/13/06, Breen Ouellette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm behind Theo 100%. The average person might consider him to be over-reacting. I would counter that the average person will never be involved in the purchase of a Hifn product. Adding to your statement: I would be what you call "the aver

Re: dd ... of=/dev/sd0 creates a file instead of writing to disk

2006-06-13 Thread Miod Vallat
> Normally, this would work (in different OS's): > > # dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sd0 > > However, this command creates a file /dev/sd0 and fills it with random > data. I want to write this data to the disk instead. > > The same thing happens when I use /dev/rsd0. You want sd0c or rsd0c (hint:

dd ... of=/dev/sd0 creates a file instead of writing to disk

2006-06-13 Thread Joe
I've having a problem understanding how to write data to a disk. I want to wipe an old hard drive before getting rid of it. I have attached the hard drive to my system via usb. Normally, this would work (in different OS's): # dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sd0 However, this command creates a file /

Re: Recommendations for an OpenBSD-based Backup Solution

2006-06-13 Thread Andrew Smith
The last time I looks there was no Firewire or Firewire disk support in the Kernel. Expect that if it is done at some stage that it is done correctly, you won't get Disk support without Firewire being supported as a bus type (no quick hacks here). -Andy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PR

Re: Hifn policy on documentation

2006-06-13 Thread Breen Ouellette
Hank Cohen wrote: I hope that this clears the air. I was hopeful too, at the beginning of your message. As I neared the end I was becoming skeptical, and by the time I clicked through to the registration page I was fairly certain where this was heading. Several posts later and it looks l

Re: err packets on Intel PRO/1000T

2006-06-13 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Matt Wilkins wrote: hi, i just recently upgraded our firewall from 3.7 to 3.8 and am now seeing errors on our internal interface: fw:~> netstat -i -I em1 1 em1 inem1 out total in total out packets errs packets errs colls packets errs packets errs colls 86877

Re: Curious on NAT traversal possibility on PF

2006-06-13 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Martin Toft wrote: To Daniel Quellet: Sorry for disturbing the topic of your thread. That's cool! No worry, I guess your subject is way more interesting to many, or no one is using NAT traversal or have any needs for it. That's fair game. (;> Daniel

Re: Hifn policy on documentation

2006-06-13 Thread Daniel Ouellet
2006/6/13, Hank Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Folks, There has been some discussion of late on this list about Hifn's policy with respect to releasing documentation to the general public. That discussion lead to a great deal of uninformed speculation and unflattering statement's about Hifn's unfrie

Re: wi: ifconfig txpower wrong for non 100mW wireless cards?

2006-06-13 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/06/13 17:59, Walter Haidinger wrote: > > I think CR31 just maps over the whole range of the card, > > so for a card with a more powerful amp, a particular CR31 setting > > relates to higher power output than it would on an ordinary card. > > Yes, that is what I figured too from the source.

err packets on Intel PRO/1000T

2006-06-13 Thread Matt Wilkins
hi, i just recently upgraded our firewall from 3.7 to 3.8 and am now seeing errors on our internal interface: fw:~> netstat -i -I em1 1 em1 inem1 out total in total out packets errs packets errs colls packets errs packets errs colls 868776781 9354286 861778095

Re: Recommendations for an OpenBSD-based Backup Solution

2006-06-13 Thread Dag Wastberg
On 3/20/06, Donald J. Ankney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I threw together a Perl script that uses tar and external firewire drives. Tar has flags that will let it backup over SMB (for the windows boxes) and one can always do use scp (via certificates) piped through tar for remote linux/BSD boxes.

Re: Weird problem with PF and Load Balancing

2006-06-13 Thread Steven Surdock
Giancarlo Razzolini wrote: ... > my problem. My 2 ADSL had different downstream bandwidth. And, as i'm > using round-robin, i don't know where the connection is going. I don't > kndow how to implement altq in this especific situation. I > was thinking > in something like: one queue for "normal" tra

Re: Hifn policy on documentation

2006-06-13 Thread Spruell, Darren-Perot
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > There has been some discussion of late on this list about > Hifn's policy > with respect to releasing documentation to the general public. That > discussion lead to a great deal of uninformed speculation and > unflattering statement's about Hifn's unfriendliness towards

Re: wikipedia article

2006-06-13 Thread Per Fogelström
On Tuesday 13 June 2006 14:23, Rick Kelly wrote: > Johnny Billquist said: > >> There's actually a cheesy way to do demand paging with microprocessors > >> that don't support demand paging (such as the original 68000--another > >> "16 bit" machine). The way to do this is to run two processors in >

Re: wi: ifconfig txpower wrong for non 100mW wireless cards?

2006-06-13 Thread Walter Haidinger
Thanks for the reply! On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Stuart Henderson wrote: > I think CR31 just maps over the whole range of the card, > so for a card with a more powerful amp, a particular CR31 setting > relates to higher power output than it would on an ordinary card. Yes, that is what I figured too fr

Re: Hifn policy on documentation

2006-06-13 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 13/06/06, Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The simple fact is that anyone who wants access to Hifn's documentation >need only log on to our extranet site (http://extranet.hifn.com/home/) >to download as much as they like. That URL is not a place where you can download data sheets. T

Confirmar suscripcion y regalo.

2006-06-13 Thread difusioneducativa
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Re: Hifn policy on documentation

2006-06-13 Thread Wijnand Wiersma
2006/6/13, Hank Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Folks, There has been some discussion of late on this list about Hifn's policy with respect to releasing documentation to the general public. That discussion lead to a great deal of uninformed speculation and unflattering statement's about Hifn's unfrie

Re: Xen domU for OpenBSD/amd64 demo

2006-06-13 Thread Mathieu Ropert
Eduardo Alvarenga wrote: you can now download a beta version of the OpenBSD/amd64 port for Xen at http://cancel.adviseo.net/Open-BSD Is this effort unique for amd64? Will i386 be supported too? Congratulations for the great job! Best Regards, This one is currently working with amd64 arch,

Re: Xen domU for OpenBSD/amd64 demo

2006-06-13 Thread Mathieu Ropert
Eduardo Alvarenga wrote: you can now download a beta version of the OpenBSD/amd64 port for Xen at http://cancel.adviseo.net/Open-BSD Is this effort unique for amd64? Will i386 be supported too? Congratulations for the great job! Best Regards, This one is currently working with amd64 arch,

Re: What is the best way to read kernel memory into user memory?

2006-06-13 Thread Ted Unangst
add a new sysctl? On 6/13/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, What is the best way to read kernel memory into user memory? I want a simple array, eg int x[1024] and would like to read in it my programs. Thanks pn.

Re: Partially functioning vlan

2006-06-13 Thread John R. Shannon
Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2006/06/12 06:26, John R. Shannon wrote: OpenBSD 3.9 stable NEXCOM EBSFL565 (dmesg at end of E-mail) I'm experiencing a problem with vlans on this device where intermittently, and occasionally the interface works, but mostly is inoperative. One minute I can ping a n

Weird problem with PF and Load Balancing

2006-06-13 Thread Giancarlo Razzolini
Hi all, I'm willing to implement altq on my firewall but, right know, there is a problem that i didn't saw a solution for. I do have 2 ADSL links, and I'm doing load balancing for outgoing connections, using the round-robin option, and I'm also using the reply-to option to route back the p

Re: Xen domU for OpenBSD/amd64 demo

2006-06-13 Thread Eduardo Alvarenga
you can now download a beta version of the OpenBSD/amd64 port for Xen at http://cancel.adviseo.net/Open-BSD Is this effort unique for amd64? Will i386 be supported too? Congratulations for the great job! Best Regards, -- Eduardo Alvarenga

Hifn policy on documentation

2006-06-13 Thread sebastian . rother
>Registration at our extranet is required along with an email address >that can be confirmed. We cannot support anonymous FTP or http >downloads. The reason for this is that we are required by the >conditions of our US export licenses to know who and where our customers >are. If anyone objects t

Re: Hifn policy on documentation

2006-06-13 Thread Theo de Raadt
>There has been some discussion of late on this list about Hifn's policy >with respect to releasing documentation to the general public. That >discussion lead to a great deal of uninformed speculation and >unflattering statement's about Hifn's unfriendliness towards the open >source community. I

Xen domU for OpenBSD/amd64 demo

2006-06-13 Thread Mathieu Ropert
Hi, you can now download a beta version of the OpenBSD/amd64 port for Xen at http://cancel.adviseo.net/Open-BSD General notes: - It's a beta, don't expect it to be fully stable. It stills crashes for time to time. Feel free to report backtraces and conditions. (I'm thinking of hosting a debu

What is the best way to read kernel memory into user memory?

2006-06-13 Thread Pnorcott
Hi, What is the best way to read kernel memory into user memory? I want a simple array, eg int x[1024] and would like to read in it my programs. Thanks pn.

Re: wikipedia article

2006-06-13 Thread Rick Kelly
Johnny Billquist said: >> There's actually a cheesy way to do demand paging with microprocessors >> that don't support demand paging (such as the original 68000--another >> "16 bit" machine). The way to do this is to run two processors in parallel >> but skewed by one instruction. If the first o

Re: Curious on NAT traversal possibility on PF

2006-06-13 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/06/13 08:26, Jeff Quast wrote: > On 6/13/06, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 2006/06/13 12:26, Martin Toft wrote: > > > Spruell, Darren-Perot wrote: > > > >Maybe a better-designed application wouldn't have to make use of such a > > > >clusterbag of ports in the first

Re: Curious on NAT traversal possibility on PF

2006-06-13 Thread Jeff Quast
On 6/13/06, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2006/06/13 12:26, Martin Toft wrote: > > Spruell, Darren-Perot wrote: > > >Maybe a better-designed application wouldn't have to make use of such a > > >clusterbag of ports in the first place? > > > > The ports do not belong to a single

Re: Curious on NAT traversal possibility on PF

2006-06-13 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/06/13 12:26, Martin Toft wrote: > Spruell, Darren-Perot wrote: > >Maybe a better-designed application wouldn't have to make use of such a > >clusterbag of ports in the first place? > > The ports do not belong to a single application. I operate a gateway and > want to give high priority to

Re: wikipedia article

2006-06-13 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Johnny Billquist wrote: > Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > > > From: John Nemeth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 1:15 PM > > > > To: Ted Mittelstaedt; Nikolas Br

Re: wikipedia article

2006-06-13 Thread Johnny Billquist
Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: John Nemeth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 1:15 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt; Nikolas Britton; Ted Unangst Cc: Hamorszky Balazs; misc@openbsd.org; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org;

Re: wikipedia article

2006-06-13 Thread Johnny Billquist
Marcus Watts wrote: Various wrote: From: Otto Moerbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... What's more, iirc the MMU of the pdp11 isn't what we call a MMU today, it could not even do paging. The pdp-11 mmu could handle program relocation, segmentation (after a

Re: wikipedia article

2006-06-13 Thread Ignatios Souvatzis
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 01:14:57PM -0700, John Nemeth wrote: > The 80386 was the first x86 > processor with paging (which all modern virtual > memory systems are based around) and 32 bits. -is

Re: wikipedia article

2006-06-13 Thread Johnny Billquist
That qualifies as the answer of the day. My hat goes off to you. :-D Johnny Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 10:27:33PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: What was the bit size of the CPU's originally used to write UNIX in Bell Labs? Rather large. You can get all the

Re: Curious on NAT traversal possibility on PF

2006-06-13 Thread Martin Toft
Spruell, Darren-Perot wrote: Maybe a better-designed application wouldn't have to make use of such a clusterbag of ports in the first place? The ports do not belong to a single application. I operate a gateway and want to give high priority to legitimate protocols and low priority to everythi

Re: SMP issue involving Dual Xeon

2006-06-13 Thread Jesse Gumm
I'd like to know if the 2nd CPU is being used. I'm confused because of the lack of Flags on cpu1 while cpu0 is loaded with them. It looks like the 2nd CPU is actually a virtual CPU via Hyperthreading. If you look at the dmesg I posted, and compare the top with this dmesg ( http://www.nycbug.or

Re: wi: ifconfig txpower wrong for non 100mW wireless cards?

2006-06-13 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/06/13 11:24, Walter Haidinger wrote: > /* Map HFA386x's CR31 to and from dBm with some sort of ad hoc mapping.. > * This version assumes following mapping: > * CR31 is 7-bit value with -64 to +63 range. > * -64 is mapped into +20dBm and +63 into -43dBm. > * This is certainly not an exac

Re: wi: ifconfig txpower wrong for non 100mW wireless cards?

2006-06-13 Thread Walter Haidinger
On Sat, 10 Jun 2006, Walter Haidinger wrote: Replying to myself giving a short answer: yes, it is. > Any references (e.g. to some driver documentation) are appreciated! FYI, I've found the following comments in the Linux Kernel source. linux-2.6.16.17/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_ioctl.c:

Re: SMP issue involving Dual Xeon

2006-06-13 Thread Maxim Bourmistrov
What are you trying to accomplish? AFAIK, HTT is not supported in OpenBSD. So re-enable it in BIOS - OS will ignore it anyway. On Tuesday 13 June 2006 06:01, Jesse Gumm wrote: > Hello, > > I'm booting a Dual Xeon 2.4 Machine (just got it a few days ago), and having > a bit of difficulty discernin

Re: Extremely weird PF behaviour

2006-06-13 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/06/13 05:26, Alex Stamatis wrote: > I have a veeeryyy veeeryyy weird problem !!! Not really... > I have small network. The Openbsd box (3.7 generic) is my firewall. > In 2 of my windows workstations I wont to have remote desktop. So I make a > pass in rule for the ports 65500 and 65501 an

Pulled out an old song..

2006-06-13 Thread Peter Philipp
Hi all, I was just going through my OpenBSD cd's and came across the first cd with a song... Interestingly enough I didn't find an mp3 with it as combined with newer releases. Anyhow can anyone confirm this rmd160 checksum after the song is cdparanoia'd? # rmd160 track02.cdda.wav RMD160 (track0

Re: ddos mail attack thwarted by spamd greylisting!

2006-06-13 Thread Bob Beck
> Luckily, spamd greylisting saved the day. If it wasn't for BASE/snort > reporting of the portscan, I wouldn't have even bothered looking in my logs > tonite, and probably would never have been aware of the thwarted attempt. > Good thing they're only portscanning and mailbombing you th