Re: Multi-Threaded SSH/SCP made by university of Puttsburgh

2008-02-13 Thread Matthew Weigel
Matthew Weigel wrote: but b) splitting work across threads will have minimal performance value Hrrrm. "across multiple processes". Sorry for the mistake. -- Matthew Weigel hacker unique & idempot.ent

Re: Multi-Threaded SSH/SCP made by university of Puttsburgh

2008-02-13 Thread Matthew Weigel
Geoff Steckel wrote: I'm sure you're extremely bright and can do it. It's not about me. If the OpenBSD developers *can't*, they should just drop any efforts to refine the big SMP lock, any effort to provide kernel threads, any effort to make libc reentrant. And if they do that, then a) th

Re: good video adapter for OpenBSD and X

2008-02-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 11:32:53PM +, Owain Ainsworth wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:43:46PM +, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 07:08:09PM -0200, Vinicius Vianna wrote: > > > > > Anyone can recommend some good video adapter that has a nice support for > > > OpenBSD?

Avviso Importante

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Re: Multi-Threaded SSH/SCP made by university of Puttsburgh

2008-02-13 Thread Geoff Steckel
Matthew Weigel wrote: This is the same model, albeit with better performance characteristics (assuming kernel threads), that Apache uses, and one of the great things about this model is that it's very easy to tightly control what memory threads share I'm sure you're extremely bright and can do

Program complexity control, was: Re: Multi-Threaded SSH/SCP made by university of Puttsburgh

2008-02-13 Thread Geoff Steckel
Tony Abernethy wrote: Geoff Steckel wrote:>> And yes, error recovery is a very significant part of any non-trivial useful program which does (for instance) network I/O, because the universe of possible errors is large. Error recover? Does anyone ever debug error recover? Is there any way anyone

Re: Multi-Threaded SSH/SCP made by university of Puttsburgh

2008-02-13 Thread Matthew Weigel
Geoff Steckel wrote: This discussion of threads is isomorphic to: Why do CPUs have MMUs? Why don't we write "good guys' timeshared programs" which run cooperatively and noninterfering in a shared unprotected environment? Answer: it's too hard to write perfect programs.

x.org pci stuff

2008-02-13 Thread Brian
Is work being done on this for openBSD: http://www.x.org/wiki/PciReworkProposal I ask because I do not see openBSD listed. Thanks, Brian Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobi

Re: Multi-Threaded SSH/SCP made by university of Puttsburgh

2008-02-13 Thread bofh
On Feb 13, 2008 10:05 PM, Matthew Weigel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yet, somehow, these disinterested developers with no time managed to > support and assist the newcomer to create something useful and > acceptable. How is this any different? > No idea. Since I'm not a developer, I can be v

Re: Multi-Threaded SSH/SCP made by university of Puttsburgh

2008-02-13 Thread Tony Abernethy
Geoff Steckel wrote: > This discussion of threads is isomorphic to: > > Why do CPUs have MMUs? > Why don't we write "good guys' timeshared programs" which run >cooperatively and noninterfering in a shared unprotected >environment? > > Answer: it's too hard to write per

Re: Multi-Threaded SSH/SCP made by university of Puttsburgh

2008-02-13 Thread Darren Spiteri
Not that I've been constrained by CPU in the past few years, but one could easily script a parallel solution with: split -> for loop scp constrain by cores -> cat. A lot less trouble.

Re: Multi-Threaded SSH/SCP made by university of Puttsburgh

2008-02-13 Thread Matthew Weigel
Geoff Steckel wrote: IMnsHO, threads should never be used unless absolutely necessary. They are very bad software practice: they share data and resources in uncontrolled ways It's controlled by the code you write. they encode state implicitly in the program counters of the threads Th

Re: Multi-Threaded SSH/SCP made by university of Puttsburgh

2008-02-13 Thread Geoff Steckel
This discussion of threads is isomorphic to: Why do CPUs have MMUs? Why don't we write "good guys' timeshared programs" which run cooperatively and noninterfering in a shared unprotected environment? Answer: it's too hard to write perfect programs. Compartmentalized se

Re: Multi-Threaded SSH/SCP made by university of Puttsburgh

2008-02-13 Thread Geoff Steckel
bofh wrote: On Feb 13, 2008 6:59 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm no coding guru but I know basics about race conditions. what I don't know is why other OSs don't have these problems or how these things can I think the basic issue boils down to the following: 1) lack of complete thread s

Re: Multi-Threaded SSH/SCP made by university of Puttsburgh

2008-02-13 Thread Matthew Weigel
bofh wrote: Which comes back to - it's not an itch any one of the developers have, and they don't have the tuits to do it. Funny, seems like a decently large number of drivers (yep, running in the kernel, which means they need to be taken seriously) have been developed by people who, at the

Re: Multi-Threaded SSH/SCP made by university of Puttsburgh

2008-02-13 Thread bofh
On Feb 13, 2008 8:23 PM, Matthew Weigel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > bofh wrote: > > > 2) lack of tuits to take on a major change for not really any major > > perceived gains: this is not an itch any of the developers currently > have. > > ...except the developers (outside OpenBSD) who developed

[ANN] OMS, OpenBSD Mail Server

2008-02-13 Thread Zhang Huangbin
Hi, all. I wrote some shell scripts to set up mail server on OpenBSD automatic, and it *seems* works fine now. I hope it can help administrators to set up a OpenBSD-based mail server. The script sets are publiced as *BSD License*, you can use svn client to checkout them. Visit this wiki page for

Re: Multi-Threaded SSH/SCP made by university of Puttsburgh

2008-02-13 Thread Matthew Weigel
bofh wrote: 2) lack of tuits to take on a major change for not really any major perceived gains: this is not an itch any of the developers currently have. ...except the developers (outside OpenBSD) who developed the patch. -- Matthew Weigel hacker [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: good video adapter for OpenBSD and X

2008-02-13 Thread Owain Ainsworth
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:41:10PM -0200, Vinicius Vianna wrote: > Stuart Henderson wrote: >> On 2008/02/13 23:32, Owain Ainsworth wrote: >> >>> (I'm someone who actually works on this) >>> >>> RadeonHD hasn't even started 3d acceleration yet. Intel is a good bet if >>> you don't want anything t

Re: good video adapter for OpenBSD and X

2008-02-13 Thread Owain Ainsworth
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:24:07AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2008/02/13 23:32, Owain Ainsworth wrote: > > (I'm someone who actually works on this) > > > > RadeonHD hasn't even started 3d acceleration yet. Intel is a good bet if > > you don't want anything that powerful. Older radeons are

Re: Multi-Threaded SSH/SCP made by university of Puttsburgh

2008-02-13 Thread bofh
On Feb 13, 2008 6:59 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm no coding guru but I know basics about race conditions. what I don't > know is why other OSs don't have these problems or how these things can > I think the basic issue boils down to the following: 1) lack of complete thread support righ

Re: good video adapter for OpenBSD and X

2008-02-13 Thread Vinicius Vianna
Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2008/02/13 23:32, Owain Ainsworth wrote: (I'm someone who actually works on this) RadeonHD hasn't even started 3d acceleration yet. Intel is a good bet if you don't want anything that powerful. Older radeons are alright, (check for support for specific cards on the

Re: good video adapter for OpenBSD and X

2008-02-13 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008/02/13 23:32, Owain Ainsworth wrote: > (I'm someone who actually works on this) > > RadeonHD hasn't even started 3d acceleration yet. Intel is a good bet if > you don't want anything that powerful. Older radeons are alright, (check > for support for specific cards on the web first). Radeonh

Re: Multi-Threaded SSH/SCP made by university of Puttsburgh

2008-02-13 Thread sebastian . rother
> On 2/13/08 11:17 PM, Benjamin Bennett wrote: > >> I wasn't saying "we can work on security" afterwards. This is something >> that [to our knowledge] has not been worked on previously, and what >> we're providing is code that we consider experimental (due to lack of >> review) to get the ball rol

Re: good video adapter for OpenBSD and X

2008-02-13 Thread Owain Ainsworth
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:43:46PM +, Jacob Meuser wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 07:08:09PM -0200, Vinicius Vianna wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Anyone can recommend some good video adapter that has a nice support for > > OpenBSD? > > I wanna to be able do see movies, specially high definition on

Re: blade servers

2008-02-13 Thread Steve Shockley
Sxren Aurehxj wrote: You can add HP BL25P to the list of working blades. I wasn't able to get it working on BL20P G2, I think it was due to it's a 5i raidcontroller. What problem did you see? I've got OpenBSD running on a couple of HP DL360 G2s without a problem, and they use the 5i controlle

Re: Methodology for Document Archiveal to digital media

2008-02-13 Thread Duncan Patton a Campbell
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:28:20 +0100 "Martin Schrvder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/2/13, Duncan Patton a Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Yes, I've looked at some of these. > > > > These are efforts/standards intended for very large, sophisticated organizations > > and are several orders more

Re: Multi-Threaded SSH/SCP made by university of Puttsburgh

2008-02-13 Thread Matthew Weigel
chefren wrote: The security problems OpenBSD people see are not in robustness of this particular program, how well it works, (without seeing I believe that's OK and the code is interesting). The security problems are, for example, that code running in one core can access data from the other co

Re: good video adapter for OpenBSD and X

2008-02-13 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 07:08:09PM -0200, Vinicius Vianna wrote: > Hi, > > Anyone can recommend some good video adapter that has a nice support for > OpenBSD? > I wanna to be able do see movies, specially high definition on my > desktop, it's an amd x2 so my only question is about graphics > pe

Re: Multi-Threaded SSH/SCP made by university of Puttsburgh

2008-02-13 Thread chefren
On 2/13/08 11:17 PM, Benjamin Bennett wrote: I wasn't saying "we can work on security" afterwards. This is something that [to our knowledge] has not been worked on previously, and what we're providing is code that we consider experimental (due to lack of review) to get the ball rolling and ge

Re: good video adapter for OpenBSD and X

2008-02-13 Thread Dmitrij Czarkoff
> so my only question is about graphics performance This time OpenBSD lacks hardware acceleration support, while work is in progress now. Anyway, no nvidia drivers suitable for hardware acceleration avaliable now, while both nv and radeon drivers provide suitable 2D acceleration. -- Dmitrij D. C

Re: Multi-Threaded SSH/SCP made by university of Puttsburgh

2008-02-13 Thread Benjamin Bennett
chefren wrote: > > > On 2/13/08 10:27 PM, Benjamin Bennett wrote: > >>> It is very unlikely that this patch will be integrated - it adds threads >>> to OpenSSH, which introduce many new security considerations. >> >> Using threads is really just a means to an end, and happened to be the >> most con

Re: Gmail Mangles Diffs

2008-02-13 Thread Paul Irofti
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 03:50:56PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > you can use smtp-auth and imap with gmail: works fine with mutt. > Yeah, I'm using my gmail account that way and it's not slow although it hangs once in a while... But somehow I'm not feeling comfortable with it and was actually

Re: Multi-Threaded SSH/SCP made by university of Puttsburgh

2008-02-13 Thread chefren
On 2/13/08 10:27 PM, Benjamin Bennett wrote: It is very unlikely that this patch will be integrated - it adds threads to OpenSSH, which introduce many new security considerations. Using threads is really just a means to an end, and happened to be the most convenient means. If that's a show s

Re: Multi-Threaded SSH/SCP made by university of Puttsburgh

2008-02-13 Thread Benjamin Bennett
Dries Schellekens wrote: [snip] A "none" cipher also should like a bad idea. Just use another file transfer protocol in that case. SSH is more than just encryption. The none switch gives the benefit of SSH authentication & MAC for data streams that do not require secrecy. --ben

Re: Methodology for Document Archiveal to digital media

2008-02-13 Thread Martin Schröder
2008/2/13, Duncan Patton a Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Yes, I've looked at some of these. > > These are efforts/standards intended for very large, sophisticated > organizations > and are several orders more complex/costly than what I intended. pdftex is in ports and can produce PDF/A. ports p

Re: Multi-Threaded SSH/SCP made by university of Puttsburgh

2008-02-13 Thread Benjamin Bennett
Damien Miller wrote: On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wanted to bring it to your attention that the university of Pittsburgh provides a HPC-Patch for OpenSSH 4.7 wich may is worth looking at (include it into the base if possible? who knows..). :) Is crypto really a bottlen

good video adapter for OpenBSD and X

2008-02-13 Thread Vinicius Vianna
Hi, Anyone can recommend some good video adapter that has a nice support for OpenBSD? I wanna to be able do see movies, specially high definition on my desktop, it's an amd x2 so my only question is about graphics performance, I'm between ati and nvidia right now, but i now nvidia only provid

Re: a dual-boot way to upgrade openbsd

2008-02-13 Thread Imre Oolberg
Hi! Thank you for your answer but let me put more clearly the question i had. I have two fdisk partitions, this disk has quite ugly layout but i just tried things out (it had at times four OpenBSD instances :) # fdisk sd0 Disk: sd0 geometry: 1044/255/63 [16777216 Sectors] Offset: 0

Re: Multi-Threaded SSH/SCP made by university of Puttsburgh

2008-02-13 Thread Benjamin Bennett
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just wanted to bring it to your attention that the university of > Pittsburgh provides a HPC-Patch for OpenSSH 4.7 wich may is worth looking > at (include it into the base if possible? who knows..). :) fyi, this work is being done at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Cente

Re: nfsv4 - nfs ipv6

2008-02-13 Thread Thomas Prochaska
hi! thank you all! it worked perfectly. now i only have to check if i can hack ipv6 inside. regards thomas prochaska Stuart Henderson writes: On 2008/02/13 02:05, Thomas Prochaska wrote: i couldn't find an answer on the web or somewhere. therefore i hope someone on this list is able to tel

SQLite 3.5.6

2008-02-13 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
Because SQLite present in "ports" is somewhat old, I tried to compile newest version directly from its sources. Yes, it did compile OK, and it works, but I've got a problem while trying to use a module for TCL/Tk: Everytime, when I'm leaving tclsh, there is an error message: "Segmentation fault (c

MSN Messenger and authpf problems

2008-02-13 Thread Gerardo Santana Gómez Garrido
I'm running a fairly old OpenBSD 3.9, but the problem doesn't seam related to a bug in OpenBSD. I'm controlling MSN Messenger access with authpf with the following rule per user: pass out quick on vlan10 inet proto { tcp udp } from $user_ip to port 1863 keep state (vlan10 is my external interfac

Re: Methodology for Document Archiveal to digital media

2008-02-13 Thread Duncan Patton a Campbell
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:02:15 -0600 "Gregg Reynolds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/12/08, Duncan Patton a Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The following is proposed as a base methodology for hardcopy document > > archival to digital media. > > > > The standard framework for long-term ar

Re: KSH and Bash problem with long commands

2008-02-13 Thread Jon
hmm.. my ksh does not over write any thing.. . it just continues to write on the command and move every thing to the left. When the move happens, those charecter disappear behind the prompt... and "<" appear on the right hand side. Since I use VI as my shell editior (set -o vi OR ksh -o vi), I ca

Re: harddisk impact on routing firewall performance/throughput

2008-02-13 Thread raven
David Higgs ha scritto: On Feb 12, 2008 8:37 PM, raven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ted Unangst ha scritto: On 2/12/08, Darren Spiteri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't know why or how this poorly documented sysctl works, but the result speaks for itself. Note the dramatic throu

Re: Methodology for Document Archiveal to digital media

2008-02-13 Thread Gregg Reynolds
On 2/12/08, Duncan Patton a Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The following is proposed as a base methodology for hardcopy document > archival to digital media. > The standard framework for long-term archiving (very readable): http://ssdoo.gsfc.nasa.gov/nost/isoas/ The librarians are all over

Re: Gmail Mangles Diffs

2008-02-13 Thread Ted Unangst
On Feb 13, 2008, at 7:57 AM, "Edd Barrett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Feb 13, 2008 3:46 PM, Mike Erdely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Use imap/smtp with gmail. tried that way too slow :( My "All Mail" folder has about 630,000 message in it. You don't have to read mail in order to send it.

Re: Gmail Mangles Diffs

2008-02-13 Thread Owain Ainsworth
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 03:57:32PM +, Edd Barrett wrote: > On Feb 13, 2008 3:46 PM, Mike Erdely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Use imap/smtp with gmail. > > tried that way too slow :( > > My "All Mail" folder has about 630,000 message in it. so use filters, they come up as imap folders. Tha

Re: Gmail Mangles Diffs

2008-02-13 Thread Paul Irofti
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:23:41AM -0500, Deanna Phillips wrote: > So get a real mail account. > About that, any suggestions?

Re: Gmail Mangles Diffs

2008-02-13 Thread Edd Barrett
On Feb 13, 2008 3:46 PM, Mike Erdely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Use imap/smtp with gmail. tried that way too slow :( My "All Mail" folder has about 630,000 message in it. -- Best Regards Edd http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Re: Gmail Mangles Diffs

2008-02-13 Thread Mike Erdely
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 02:31:23PM +, Edd Barrett wrote: > Is it acceptable to send diffs as attachments? > > Gmail has a wonderful knack of shredding diffs during transit. It is > not much fun. Use imap/smtp with gmail. -ME

Re: Gmail Mangles Diffs

2008-02-13 Thread Stuart Henderson
you can use smtp-auth and imap with gmail: works fine with mutt. On 2008/02/13 10:23, Deanna Phillips wrote: > Edd Barrett writes: > > > Gmail has a wonderful knack of shredding diffs during transit. It is > > not much fun. > > So get a real mail account.

Re: Gmail Mangles Diffs

2008-02-13 Thread Didi
Hey you can have a [EMAIL PROTECTED] with imap if you want. Just drop me a mail. On Feb 13, 2008 4:23 PM, Deanna Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Edd Barrett writes: > > > Gmail has a wonderful knack of shredding diffs during transit. It is > > not much fun. > > So get a real mail account. >

Re: Gmail Mangles Diffs

2008-02-13 Thread Edd Barrett
Hi, On Feb 13, 2008 3:23 PM, Deanna Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So get a real mail account. > > Where? -- Best Regards Edd http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Re: Gmail Mangles Diffs

2008-02-13 Thread Deanna Phillips
Edd Barrett writes: >> So get a real mail account. >> >> > > Where? sdf.lonestar.org

Re: Odd cu behavior

2008-02-13 Thread Edd Barrett
Hi, Ages ago, I tried setting up a serial touchscreen :P X had a lock on the serial line :) The term is "Woops". -- Best Regards Edd http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Re: Gmail Mangles Diffs

2008-02-13 Thread Deanna Phillips
Edd Barrett writes: > Gmail has a wonderful knack of shredding diffs during transit. It is > not much fun. So get a real mail account.

Kernel panic with HP Compaq dc7800 and ACPI (with attachement)

2008-02-13 Thread Aurelien
Oups... Correct version with attachement. Sorry. When booting a 4.2-current kernel on a HP Compaq dc7800, the system crashes if ACPI is enabled (this is by default with current). Attached a dmesg. I can test patches if necessary. The same problem arises on Linux 2.6, so this might be related to

Re: sd0: not queued error 5

2008-02-13 Thread Marco Peereboom
Do you have an exact test case on how you reproduce this? On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 03:18:49PM +0100, Michael wrote: > Hi, > > Marco Peereboom schrieb: > > http://search.dell.com/results.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&cat=sup&k=perc+5%2fi+firmware&qmp=12&p=1&subcat=dyd&rf=all&nk=f&sort=-date&snpsd=A&nf=19427

Re: sd0: not queued error 5

2008-02-13 Thread Marco Peereboom
What is your setup? On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 04:00:51PM +0100, Michael wrote: > Hi, > > Marco Peereboom schrieb: > > Do you have an exact test case on how you reproduce this? > > That's easy, this is enough... > > > I=0 > while [ I -lt 300 ]; do > dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/tmp/test/$I bs=1m c

Re: sd0: not queued error 5

2008-02-13 Thread Michael
Hi, Marco Peereboom schrieb: > Do you have an exact test case on how you reproduce this? That's easy, this is enough... I=0 while [ I -lt 300 ]; do dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/tmp/test/$I bs=1m count=100 I=(($I+1)) done

Re: Methodology for Document Archiveal to digital media

2008-02-13 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, [UTF-8] Lars NoodC)n wrote: > Duncan Patton a Campbell wrote: > > The following is proposed as a base methodology for paper copy document > > archival to digital media. > > >... subject each scanned page to the following processess: > > > > 1. page scanned to .pnm via (sane)

Re: Multi-Threaded SSH/SCP made by university of Puttsburgh

2008-02-13 Thread Geoff Steckel
Jussi Peltola wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 08:52:42AM -0500, Geoff Steckel wrote: A properly engineered solution would use separate processes and a good interprocess communication system. This is not a suggestion but a question to reduce my stupidity, but wouldn't standard unix pipes and for

Gmail Mangles Diffs

2008-02-13 Thread Edd Barrett
Hi, Is it acceptable to send diffs as attachments? Gmail has a wonderful knack of shredding diffs during transit. It is not much fun. -- Best Regards Edd http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Re: sd0: not queued error 5

2008-02-13 Thread Marco Peereboom
Ok I'll look at this later. On Feb 13, 2008, at 9:18 AM, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Marco Peereboom schrieb: http://search.dell.com/results.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&cat=sup&k=perc+5%2fi+firmware&qmp=12&p=1&subcat=dyd&rf=all&nk=f&sort=-date&snpsd=A&nf=19427%7e7%7e142402&navla=19427%7e7

Re: sd0: not queued error 5

2008-02-13 Thread Michael
Hi, Marco Peereboom schrieb: > http://search.dell.com/results.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&cat=sup&k=perc+5%2fi+firmware&qmp=12&p=1&subcat=dyd&rf=all&nk=f&sort=-date&snpsd=A&nf=19427%7e7%7e142402&navla=19427%7e7%7e142402&ira=False&~srd=False&ipsys=False&advsrch=False&~ck=anav > > Let's see if that works.

Re: Multi-Threaded SSH/SCP made by university of Puttsburgh

2008-02-13 Thread Jussi Peltola
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 08:52:42AM -0500, Geoff Steckel wrote: > A properly engineered solution would use separate processes and a good > interprocess communication system. This is not a suggestion but a question to reduce my stupidity, but wouldn't standard unix pipes and forks/other child proce

Re: Multi-Threaded SSH/SCP made by university of Puttsburgh

2008-02-13 Thread Geoff Steckel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 13, 2008 1:11 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It seams to outperform the normal SSH a lot and this speedup looks kinda impressiv btw. The speedup looks impressive for 1 connection (because different cores are computing AES-CTR), but what happens when multiple SC

Re: Multi-Threaded SSH/SCP made by university of Puttsburgh

2008-02-13 Thread Henning Brauer
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-13 14:09]: 1: > Threads could get secured too. 2: > A threaded OpenSSL would be an advantage for the userland crypto too 3: > I'm not skilled enough pick one. may I suggest option 3? -- Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] BS Web

Re: nfsv4 - nfs ipv6

2008-02-13 Thread Henning Brauer
* Thomas Prochaska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-13 03:11]: > hi! > > i couldn't find an answer on the web or somewhere. > therefore i hope someone on this list is able to tell me if > openbsds nfs server supports nfsv4 respektively nfs over ipv6. > thank you! no NFSv4. will it ever happen the way

Kernel panic with HP Compaq dc7800 and ACPI

2008-02-13 Thread Aur
When booting a 4.2-current kernel on a HP Compaq dc7800, the system crashes if ACPI is enabled (this is by default with current). Attached a dmesg. I can test patches if necessary. The same problem arises on Linux 2.6, so this might be related to the BIOS. Sincerely, Aur

Re: a dual-boot way to upgrade openbsd

2008-02-13 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
Imre Oolberg wrote: Hallo! I experimented with OpenBSD 4.2 on i386 platform, made two fdisk partitions on the same disk, into each of them OpenBSD disklabel, installed grub from packages and can successfully dualboot. But i cant figure out if there is a way to access fdisk partition's diskl

Re: harddisk impact on routing firewall performance/throughput

2008-02-13 Thread Henning Brauer
* G|nter Zimmermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-13 08:04]: > I assumed that the ability to send and receive TCP packets > with high performance were a pre-condition for high routing > performance. this is totally wrong. send/recv is very very different from forwarding. don't draw conclusions on

Re: harddisk impact on routing firewall performance/throughput

2008-02-13 Thread Henning Brauer
* David Higgs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-13 04:40]: > On Feb 12, 2008 9:44 PM, Darren Spiteri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Feb 13, 2008 11:47 AM, NetOne - Doichin Dokov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Could we have a look at those numbers, in fact? > > From the parent: > > "In the next step

Re: harddisk impact on routing firewall performance/throughput

2008-02-13 Thread Henning Brauer
* raven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-13 02:54]: > Ted Unangst ha scritto: >> On 2/12/08, Darren Spiteri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I don't know why or how this poorly documented sysctl works, but the >>> result speaks for itself. Note the dramatic throughput increase of the >>> parent. >> runni

Re: Multi-Threaded SSH/SCP made by university of Puttsburgh

2008-02-13 Thread sebastian . rother
> On Feb 13, 2008 1:11 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> It seams to outperform the normal SSH a lot and this speedup looks kinda >> impressiv btw. > > The speedup looks impressive for 1 connection (because different cores > are computing AES-CTR), but what happens when multiple SCP/SFTP > conne

Re: harddisk impact on routing firewall performance/throughput

2008-02-13 Thread Henning Brauer
* Darren Spiteri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-13 00:59]: > On Feb 13, 2008 1:40 AM, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2008/02/13 01:04, Darren Spiteri wrote: > > > Try tweaking this sysctl: net.inet.tcp.recvspc > > > > > > Give it sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.recvspace=262144 and run you

Re: Multi-Threaded SSH/SCP made by university of Puttsburgh

2008-02-13 Thread sebastian . rother
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I just wanted to bring it to your attention that the university of >> Pittsburgh provides a HPC-Patch for OpenSSH 4.7 wich may is worth >> looking >> at (include it into the base if possible? who knows..). :) > > Is crypto really a bottleneck for

Re: Multi-Threaded SSH/SCP made by university of Puttsburgh

2008-02-13 Thread Dries Schellekens
On Feb 13, 2008 1:11 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seams to outperform the normal SSH a lot and this speedup looks kinda > impressiv btw. The speedup looks impressive for 1 connection (because different cores are computing AES-CTR), but what happens when multiple SCP/SFTP connections are b

Re: Multi-Threaded SSH/SCP made by university of Puttsburgh

2008-02-13 Thread Marco Peereboom
Yay race conditions!! I'll venture to say that this will not go in... On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 01:11:50PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just wanted to bring it to your attention that the university of > Pittsburgh provides a HPC-Patch for OpenSSH 4.7 wich may is worth looking > at (include i

Re: Multi-Threaded SSH/SCP made by university of Puttsburgh

2008-02-13 Thread Damien Miller
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just wanted to bring it to your attention that the university of > Pittsburgh provides a HPC-Patch for OpenSSH 4.7 wich may is worth looking > at (include it into the base if possible? who knows..). :) Is crypto really a bottleneck for non-HPC use

Multi-Threaded SSH/SCP made by university of Puttsburgh

2008-02-13 Thread sebastian . rother
I just wanted to bring it to your attention that the university of Pittsburgh provides a HPC-Patch for OpenSSH 4.7 wich may is worth looking at (include it into the base if possible? who knows..). :) It seams to outperform the normal SSH a lot and this speedup looks kinda impressiv btw. http://ww

Re: Route-based VPN - Fortigate to OpenBSD

2008-02-13 Thread Reyk Floeter
btw., i would really appreciate if somebody could give me access to fortigate/netscreen boxes for some testing. please contact me in private. reyk

Re: a dual-boot way to upgrade openbsd

2008-02-13 Thread Imre Oolberg
Hallo! I experimented with OpenBSD 4.2 on i386 platform, made two fdisk partitions on the same disk, into each of them OpenBSD disklabel, installed grub from packages and can successfully dualboot. But i cant figure out if there is a way to access fdisk partition's disklabel partitions while

Re: nfsv4 - nfs ipv6

2008-02-13 Thread Gabriel Kihlman
Thomas Prochaska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > i couldn't find an answer on the web or somewhere. > therefore i hope someone on this list is able to tell me if > openbsds nfs server supports nfsv4. No, but here is a NFSv4 implementation for OpenBSD: http://snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca/nfsv4/ -- Ga

Re: : : Zombie Network Spam Attack

2008-02-13 Thread Raimo Niskanen
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:33:47AM -0500, Calomel wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:17:35AM +0100, Raimo Niskanen wrote: > >On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 11:20:31AM -0500, Calomel wrote: > >> Raimo, > >> > >> Can you use the spamd.alloweddomains to whitelist email addresses and > >> domains you accept

Re: nfsv4 - nfs ipv6

2008-02-13 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008/02/13 02:05, Thomas Prochaska wrote: > > i couldn't find an answer on the web or somewhere. > therefore i hope someone on this list is able to tell me if > openbsds nfs server supports nfsv4 respektively nfs over ipv6. not in normal OpenBSD, but Rick Macklem has made an OpenBSD NFSv4 imple

Re: harddisk impact on routing firewall performance/throughput

2008-02-13 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008/02/13 15:21, Darren Spiteri wrote: > Now we're just getting into semantics. It is not uncommon for a > firewall to operate on layer 7, even with OpenBSD, "firewall" means many things but note that the subject line talks about "routing firewall" and the message doesn't say anything about ru