Re: OpenBSD and the Blind

2006-10-14 Thread Han Boetes
Zachary Kline wrote: > What I am interested in here are ways that an OpenBSD system > might be made accessible. Does anyone here have any thoughts on > this issue? I'm more than willing to discuss possible > approaches. Don't get overexited when reading the header, but do read the whole thread,

Re: Soekris network problems - 48 hour deadline - SOLVED!!

2006-10-14 Thread Melameth, Daniel D.
Richard P. Koett wrote: > I guess it was a stupid autonegotiation problem after all. I didn't > know that could affect traffic in only 1 direction. Live and learn :) FWIW, if you're not autonegotiating, you should make certain both sides (NIC and switch) are hard coded/not set to negotiate.

Re: best hardware plattform for openbsd

2006-10-14 Thread STeve Andre'
On Saturday 14 October 2006 08:28, Rogier Krieger wrote: > On 10/13/06, Toni Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for pointing me to bioctl - I was unaware about that - but I > > don't offhand see how I could eg. collect SMART status on the drives > > hanging off such a card. > > IIRC, you

OpenBSD and the Blind

2006-10-14 Thread Zachary Kline
Hello, Let me start things out here by saying I'm not a Unix programmer. I've no overwhelming need, commercial or otherwise, to use the operating system at all. I'm a hobbiest, which I suppose is a bit of a rarer breed for BSD than for something like Linux. However,, to add interest

Re: C unit tests seen by OpenBSD developpers

2006-10-14 Thread Steve Fairhead
Bruno said: >> I'm currently learning C. In many languages, you hear lots of stuff likes 'unit testing', 'refactoring', 'agile programming' and others... It seems that these techniques are not very present in C programming (whereas check framework is in packages, it seems too complex) Looking quic

Static code analysis tools?

2006-10-14 Thread John Richard Moser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been looking for static code analysis tools for a while, and the only real free tools I've found are rats and flawfinder. The other stuff is... not very useful. Either incomplete, reliant on non-free parts, reliant on Java (not GNU classpath, bu

Re: Soekris network problems - 48 hour deadline

2006-10-14 Thread Bob DeBolt
On Saturday 14 October 2006 4:10 am, you wrote: Hi Richard I dealt with an ISP on behalf of a client that required a MSS of 1100 during one particular phase of troubleshooting. Funny thing (not) they forgot to notify everyone when said problem was corrected and the client ran with that MSS for

Re: Soekris network problems - 48 hour deadline

2006-10-14 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/10/14 02:42, Richard P. Koett wrote: > >> I won't post a dmesg unless requested because I think this platform > >> is pretty well known. it probably won't make a difference here, but in general, the dmesg doesn't just tell about the platform, it tells about the OS you're using on it too.

Re: best hardware plattform for openbsd

2006-10-14 Thread Rogier Krieger
On 10/13/06, Toni Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for pointing me to bioctl - I was unaware about that - but I don't offhand see how I could eg. collect SMART status on the drives hanging off such a card. IIRC, you cannot collect the SMART status on individual drives. Personally, I do

Re: Firefox/Iceweasel in OpenBSD

2006-10-14 Thread Henrik Enberg
> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:11:52 -0400 > From: Kurt Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Thursday 12 October 2006 10:13 am, Tobias Ulmer wrote: > > We are modifying the source code, which is ok with the "porting > > software" paragraph in the document above, but contradicts with a > > private mail f

Re: Soekris network problems - 48 hour deadline - SOLVED!!

2006-10-14 Thread Richard P. Koett
A huge thank you to all who offered advice on my network problem. It appears that the problem has been fixed by changing hostname.sis0 from "dhcp NONE NONE NONE" to "dhcp media 10baseT". Previous output from ifconfig showed: sis0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX fu

Re: c.93.3 not found when installing packages

2006-10-14 Thread patrick keshishian
"Christian Weisgerber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I expect a new snapshot to be available by Monday. (Building a full package snapshot now takes ~68 hours on the Xeon 2.66 GHz dedicated to the job. If somebody wants to donate a new high-end machine for the task, talk to Theo what his rack can

Re: Soekris network problems - 48 hour deadline

2006-10-14 Thread Matt Radtke
Good morning > I tried the following variations: > > scrub out on sis0 max-mss 1440 > scrub out max-mss 1440 > scrub max-mss 1440 > scrub max-mss 1400 You should be able to figure out the problem, actually. Good ole tcpdump should show you something. I'd specifically look for icmp that you mig

eagle DSL driver which card to try to ngrep :)

2006-10-14 Thread dreamwvr
Helo, Anyone using eagle driver for Telus High speed ADSL. If so which card would you recommend. Are they still flakey for plunking a server out there? It has been a while. TIA [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: UPS just delivered the 4.0 release CD-set

2006-10-14 Thread Nico Meijer
Hey Ingo, > Please refrain from Vandeputte-bashing... =;-) =;-) Wow, hold your horses. Wim is Belgian, I am Dutch. The Dutch diss the Belgians. This is a fundamental (f)law of the Universe. But nevertheless. My three favorite Belgians are: 1) Urbanus 2) Wim 3) God Be well and keep on smilin

Thanks once more

2006-10-14 Thread Stephan A. Rickauer
Guys, I just browsed over 40.html#new and I'm once more deeply astounded what you guys achieve for each new release. Given the hostile vendor environment you have to deal with one can just be impressed how you guys just did it again - somehow ... even my fully-closed-and-no-docs 88E8053 is now supp

Re: Soekris network problems - 48 hour deadline

2006-10-14 Thread Richard P. Koett
Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2006/10/14 00:56, Richard P. Koett wrote: >> known. Hosts on the internal network are able to access the Internet >> but report that access seems slow. Some operations fail consistently. >> For example, users can send and receive e-mail e-mails but can't send >> e-mail

Re: Soekris network problems - 48 hour deadline

2006-10-14 Thread Richard P. Koett
Adriaan wrote: > On 10/14/06, Richard P. Koett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm having throughput problems using a Soekris net4801 as a firewall >> running OpenBSD 3.9. This is replacing a SonicWALL device that was >> working fine from the user's perspective. (I want to replace it >> because, amon

Re: Soekris network problems - 48 hour deadline

2006-10-14 Thread Richard P. Koett
Matthew Closson wrote: > On Sat, 14 Oct 2006, Richard P. Koett wrote: > >> I'm having throughput problems using a Soekris net4801 as a firewall >> running OpenBSD 3.9. This is replacing a SonicWALL device that was >> working fine from the user's perspective. (I want to replace it >> because, among

Re: Soekris network problems - 48 hour deadline

2006-10-14 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/10/14 00:56, Richard P. Koett wrote: > known. Hosts on the internal network are able to access the Internet > but report that access seems slow. Some operations fail consistently. > For example, users can send and receive e-mail e-mails but can't send > e-mail with attachments larger than a

Re: armish fdisk/disklabel free sectors

2006-10-14 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/10/13 19:37, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > Speaking of zaurus -- any way to get a com0 on this thing? > > You have to buy the special Zaurus adapter for this. It is a little > bit hard to find. If you do so, you can even use it as a serial > console. Sharp ce-170ts (try amazon), there is ano

Re: Soekris network problems - 48 hour deadline

2006-10-14 Thread Adriaan
On 10/14/06, Richard P. Koett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm having throughput problems using a Soekris net4801 as a firewall running OpenBSD 3.9. This is replacing a SonicWALL device that was working fine from the user's perspective. (I want to replace it because, among other things, I abhor Son

Re: Undeadly not responding

2006-10-14 Thread Marc Balmer
* Daniel Ouellet wrote: > What's up with undeadly.org. It's down for maintenance, that's up.

Undeadly not responding

2006-10-14 Thread Daniel Ouellet
What's up with undeadly.org. It's dying at: cat6509-vlan300.edm.tera-byte.com (66.244.192.42) * * *

Re: Soekris network problems - 48 hour deadline

2006-10-14 Thread Matthew Closson
On Sat, 14 Oct 2006, Richard P. Koett wrote: I'm having throughput problems using a Soekris net4801 as a firewall running OpenBSD 3.9. This is replacing a SonicWALL device that was working fine from the user's perspective. (I want to replace it because, among other things, I abhor SonicWALL's li

Soekris network problems - 48 hour deadline

2006-10-14 Thread Richard P. Koett
I'm having throughput problems using a Soekris net4801 as a firewall running OpenBSD 3.9. This is replacing a SonicWALL device that was working fine from the user's perspective. (I want to replace it because, among other things, I abhor SonicWALL's licensing). I won't post a dmesg unless requested