Two minor problems with install under -current

2009-05-21 Thread Brian
I did a new install today of -current on my amd64 box. I ran into two issues during the install. These were not show stoppers as I was able to finish. First, when I attempted to pull down the file sets from the defaulted mirror, the files were not found. Second, when I switched my pull down

Re: softraid

2009-05-21 Thread Uwe Dippel
Marco Peereboom peereboom.us> writes: > > > Then keep asking! > > I do have the impression, what I wanted, is what you already had in mind: > > a broken mirror simply remains dead and broken, and the machine runs > > happily > > before and after reboot on the sane drive. Correct? > > Correct.

Re: softraid

2009-05-21 Thread Uwe Dippel
Marco Peereboom peereboom.us> writes: > Correct. If this isn't the case then I need to see a dmesg before & > after rebooting and bioctl output before and after reboot. This is as well supported by the post http://vext01.blogspot.com/2007/11/playing-with-new-softraid-driver-in.html "[...] Bio

Re: softraid

2009-05-21 Thread Uwe Dippel
Marco Peereboom peereboom.us> writes: > Correct. If this isn't the case then I need to see a dmesg before & > after rebooting and bioctl output before and after reboot. > > Keep in mind that softraid can only detect failure AFTER an io fails. > This is key, because you could fail a drive and g

Re: multiple videocards... for console text

2009-05-21 Thread Joel Wiramu Pauling
Just use USB to RS323 convert cables and have as many heads as you like off of dumb terminals. Or old laptops. ;-) 2009/5/22 Need Coffee > Hi, I have kind of a weird question. > > I have two video cards in an amd64/-current machine. > > Both cards have dual-head capability. > > At the text con

Re: multiple videocards... for console text

2009-05-21 Thread Nick Holland
Need Coffee wrote: > Hi, I have kind of a weird question. > > I have two video cards in an amd64/-current machine. > > Both cards have dual-head capability. > > At the text console, the same text appears on both ports. > > Would it be possible to either: > > - make the ports separate consoles

3G not navigate

2009-05-21 Thread Murilo da Silva Ijanc
Hello misc@, I am trying to use 3G technology in OpenBSD. Currently my problem is that I can not navigate, I modified the dns's, and exchanged some information from /etc/ppp/options, still not provided. Below some information that might help in solving the problem: uname: OpenBSD murilo.dotbsd.

Re: question about spamd behaviour

2009-05-21 Thread Robson Caetano
Hi, Thanks for the reply. > It isn't fault proof, but you should do it anyway. OK. I wil do it and I will follow your suggestion. But, can you tell what happens when spamd-setup does fail to fetch the blacklist? I mean, will the list be kept empty or will it not be updated? Regards, Robson.

multiple videocards... for console text

2009-05-21 Thread Need Coffee
Hi, I have kind of a weird question. I have two video cards in an amd64/-current machine. Both cards have dual-head capability. At the text console, the same text appears on both ports. Would it be possible to either: - make the ports separate consoles (seems unlikely) - run each card indepen

Re: OpenBSD ESXi VMware image on Soekris Net5501

2009-05-21 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2009-05-21, Diana Eichert wrote: > On Thu, 21 May 2009, Obiozor Okeke wrote: > >> >> Hi Diana (and Stuart) thanks for all your advice. >> >> The problem or nut we're trying to crack is that we're trying >> to deploy OpenBSD to remote clients and we wanted an inexpensive >> but very high reliabi

Re: OpenBSD ESXi VMware image on Soekris Net5501

2009-05-21 Thread Obiozor Okeke
Many, many thanks to all who responded! I now plan to run my OpenBSD firewall *stand-alone* on directly on a Soekris box for sure (no VM) and isolate all else on a separate box running the ESXi that fully supports the ESXi HCL. Many thanks to all the developers and especially Theo for creating

Re: uatraps just growing

2009-05-21 Thread Bob Beck
Nothing that out of the ordinary. just your run of the mill massive joe job attack against @ualberta.ca - someone whanging out a metric bungwad of spam with bogus @ualberta.ca from addresses. the attempted bounces get trapped. It appears to be subsiding so that will probably star

Re: question about spamd behaviour

2009-05-21 Thread Matthew Weigel
On Thu, 21 May 2009 19:37:58 + (UTC), Stuart Henderson wrote: > As long as people pick their own value for the minutes column, there > will be some reasonable kind of spread. Are the majority of people not > doing this anyway? (actually, I guess probably not or this thread > wouldn't have com

Re: question about spamd behaviour

2009-05-21 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2009-05-21, Markus Hennecke wrote: > Matthew Weigel schrieb: >> On Thu, 21 May 2009 12:54:30 + (UTC), Stuart Henderson >> wrote: >>> On 2009-05-21, Robson Caetano wrote: The problem is that changing the time of the hour or of the day you fetch the blacklist will avoid concurrenc

Re: OpenBSD ESXi VMware image on Soekris Net5501

2009-05-21 Thread eagirard
Dag Richards wrote: > Jason Dixon wrote: > > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 08:05:52AM -0700, Obiozor Okeke wrote: > > > Well I should have mentioned that the ESXi is also running a Windows > > > server VM \ > > > for a custom app that requires it. So the idea was to have one box > > > running ESXi \

Re: Failing over all CARP interfaces

2009-05-21 Thread (private) HKS
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Jason Dixon wrote: > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 10:47:57AM -0400, (private) HKS wrote: >> Host1 has three carp interfaces in Master state. I'd like to fail them >> all over to Backup at once without taking down any of the physical >> interfaces (that's how I'm connec

Re: OpenBSD ESXi VMware image on Soekris Net5501

2009-05-21 Thread Kevin Wilcox
2009/5/21 : > I'll have to re-think this but I > honestly thought (I guess I'm wrong) that if I my first OpenBSD VM image > running on ESXi as my strong firewall I would be ok. B Basically its just a > virtualization of my physical environment but all on one box with 3 VM images. > So my idea was

Re: softraid

2009-05-21 Thread Marco Peereboom
> Then keep asking! > I do have the impression, what I wanted, is what you already had in mind: > a broken mirror simply remains dead and broken, and the machine runs happily > before and after reboot on the sane drive. Correct? Correct. If this isn't the case then I need to see a dmesg before &

Re: OpenBSD ESXi VMware image on Soekris Net5501

2009-05-21 Thread Bret S. Lambert
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 09:53:16AM -0700, obiozorok...@yahoo.com wrote: > Well I'm certainly no expert in all this and I'm happy to be corrected before > I make any more mistakes with my configuration. Man am I glad I put this post > out because I'm getting such great feedback! > > I'll have to r

Re: OpenBSD ESXi VMware image on Soekris Net5501

2009-05-21 Thread Henry Sieff
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Diana Eichert wrote: > SNIP . Virtualization is really cool, you > could own the virtual hardware and the O/S would never know. It > takes the issue related to binary blobs to a whole new level. Entire machine as binary blob - never thought of it that way, but

Re: OpenBSD ESXi VMware image on Soekris Net5501

2009-05-21 Thread Diana Eichert
On Thu, 21 May 2009, obiozorok...@yahoo.com wrote: SNIP I'll have to re-think this but I honestly thought (I guess I'm wrong) that if I my first OpenBSD VM image running on ESXi as my strong firewall I would be ok. Basically its just a virtualization of my physical environment but all on one box

Re: OpenBSD ESXi VMware image on Soekris Net5501

2009-05-21 Thread obiozorokeke
Well I'm certainly no expert in all this and I'm happy to be corrected before I make any more mistakes with my configuration. Man am I glad I put this post out because I'm getting such great feedback! I'll have to re-think this but I honestly thought (I guess I'm wrong) that if I my first OpenBSD

Re: OpenBSD ESXi VMware image on Soekris Net5501

2009-05-21 Thread Diana Eichert
On Thu, 21 May 2009, Michal wrote: Oh I didnt realise it was that under-poweredoh now I just feel stupid :( No needed to feel stupid, you added to the entertainment value of this thread. ;-) diana

Re: softraid

2009-05-21 Thread Uwe Dippel
Marco Peereboom peereboom.us> writes: > Upon reboot the mirror should be brought up with only the surviving > member. If this isn't the case please show me a trace so that I can go > fix that bug. 'trace' means what here? Yes, I unplugged a drive of a working mirror as I wrote, halt, plugged it

Re: question about spamd behaviour

2009-05-21 Thread Markus Hennecke
Matthew Weigel schrieb: On Thu, 21 May 2009 12:54:30 + (UTC), Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2009-05-21, Robson Caetano wrote: The problem is that changing the time of the hour or of the day you fetch the blacklist will avoid concurrency but is not fault proof. It isn't fault proof, but you

Re: OpenBSD ESXi VMware image on Soekris Net5501

2009-05-21 Thread Michal
Oh I didnt realise it was that under-poweredoh now I just feel stupid :( -Original Message- From: Edho P Arief [mailto:edhopr...@gmail.com] Sent: 21 May 2009 17:54 To: Michal Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: OpenBSD ESXi VMware image on Soekris Net5501 On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:35

Re: OpenBSD ESXi VMware image on Soekris Net5501

2009-05-21 Thread Edho P Arief
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Michal wrote: > -Original Message- > From: owner-m...@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-m...@openbsd.org] On Behalf Of > Jason Dixon > Sent: 21 May 2009 17:08 > To: Obiozor Okeke > Cc: misc@openbsd.org; Diana Eichert > Subject: Re: OpenBSD ESXi VMware image on Soe

Re: question about spamd behaviour

2009-05-21 Thread Matthew Weigel
On Thu, 21 May 2009 12:54:30 + (UTC), Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2009-05-21, Robson Caetano wrote: >> The problem is that changing the time of the hour or of the day you >> fetch the blacklist will avoid concurrency but is not fault proof. > > It isn't fault proof, but you should do it any

Re: OpenBSD ESXi VMware image on Soekris Net5501

2009-05-21 Thread Michal
-Original Message- From: owner-m...@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-m...@openbsd.org] On Behalf Of Jason Dixon Sent: 21 May 2009 17:08 To: Obiozor Okeke Cc: misc@openbsd.org; Diana Eichert Subject: Re: OpenBSD ESXi VMware image on Soekris Net5501 On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 08:05:52AM -0700, Obiozor

Re: softraid

2009-05-21 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 04:05:18PM +, Uwe Dippel wrote: > Marco Peereboom peereboom.us> writes: > > > > The plugging in of the disk is a non-event. The disk is dead to the > > OS and by extension to softraid. > > Let me follow up on this topic, please, and report some more experiments and

Re: OpenBSD ESXi VMware image on Soekris Net5501

2009-05-21 Thread Dag Richards
Jason Dixon wrote: On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 08:05:52AM -0700, Obiozor Okeke wrote: Well I should have mentioned that the ESXi is also running a Windows server VM for a custom app that requires it. So the idea was to have one box running ESXi and reduce hardware costs. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Re: OpenBSD ESXi VMware image on Soekris Net5501

2009-05-21 Thread Jason Dixon
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 08:05:52AM -0700, Obiozor Okeke wrote: > > Well I should have mentioned that the ESXi is also running a Windows server > VM for a custom app that requires it. So the idea was to have one box > running ESXi and reduce hardware costs. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Re: OpenBSD ESXi VMware image on Soekris Net5501

2009-05-21 Thread Obiozor Okeke
Well I should have mentioned that the ESXi is also running a Windows server VM for a custom app that requires it. So the idea was to have one box running ESXi and reduce hardware costs. --- On Thu, 5/21/09, Jason Dixon wrote: > From: Jason Dixon > Subject: Re: OpenBSD ESXi VMware image on Soek

Re: softraid

2009-05-21 Thread Uwe Dippel
Marco Peereboom peereboom.us> writes: > The plugging in of the disk is a non-event. The disk is dead to the > OS and by extension to softraid. Let me follow up on this topic, please, and report some more experiments and results and thoughts. I recreated the mirror from scratch, and put /tmp,

Asus M50Sa

2009-05-21 Thread Andrej Elizarov
Hi all, after my old lovely HP nc6120 was broken down, i search for a replacement. And i defenetly stop on Asus M50Sa. Becase it has ATI Radeon 1G and i wonna test radeondrm, and it has 1680x1050, and.. has numpad and nice touchpad. There is specs: http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=q1SPgViusm

Re: Failing over all CARP interfaces

2009-05-21 Thread Jason Dixon
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 10:47:57AM -0400, (private) HKS wrote: > Host1 has three carp interfaces in Master state. I'd like to fail them > all over to Backup at once without taking down any of the physical > interfaces (that's how I'm connected to it). > > I have not found a way to do this. Enable

bce0: Tx packet consumes too many DMA segments, dropping...

2009-05-21 Thread Taylor Venable
When trying to send certain large emails using Mutt 1.5.19, I'm getting the message "bce0: Tx packet consumes too many DMA segments, dropping..." from the kernel and at this point Mutt appears to hang. I'm running OpenBSD 4.5 on AMD64. The network device in question is a Broadcom BCM4401B1. Unfor

Garanta o Seu Futuro !!!

2009-05-21 Thread Josiane e Valdir
Somos supervisores de uma multinacional norte americana que esta a 29 anos no mercado, no Brasil ha 13 anos e vocj pode trabalhar conosco de duas maneiras:  Tempo parcial, trabalhando na suas horas vagas, conciliando com outra atividade sua e obter ganhos que variam entre R$ 500,00 a R$ 1.000,00.

Re: OpenBSD on OpenBSD with qemu through the network only?

2009-05-21 Thread Abel Camarillo
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:58:04PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > See README.OpenBSD, right at the start. I bet "-net user" is the default. > > On 2009-05-21, Uwe Dippel wrote: > > Stuart Henderson spacehopper.org> writes: > > > >> Are you trying to boot an amd64 kernel? If so, you need qemu-

Re: OpenBSD ESXi VMware image on Soekris Net5501

2009-05-21 Thread Diana Eichert
On Thu, 21 May 2009, Obiozor Okeke wrote: Hi Diana (and Stuart) thanks for all your advice. The problem or nut we're trying to crack is that we're trying to deploy OpenBSD to remote clients and we wanted an inexpensive but very high reliability system with the flexibility to change configurati

Re: OpenBSD ESXi VMware image on Soekris Net5501

2009-05-21 Thread Diana Eichert
On Thu, 21 May 2009, Jason Dixon wrote: No offense, but that's a terrible design. Get yourself two inexpensive systems (5501's are ok) and run them in a failover configuration. You have redundancy and the flexiblity to alternate between releases. Without the headache of middleware patches, an

Re: OpenBSD ESXi VMware image on Soekris Net5501

2009-05-21 Thread Diana Eichert
On Thu, 21 May 2009, Obiozor Okeke wrote: Wow!! Thanks guys for all your advice and the vm-help.com site! The OpenBSD community is fantastic!!! FWIW, I've run ESXi on run of the mill desktops, you just have to know the various boot options to get the ESXi kernel to boot. But to sound like a

Failing over all CARP interfaces

2009-05-21 Thread (private) HKS
Host1 has three carp interfaces in Master state. I'd like to fail them all over to Backup at once without taking down any of the physical interfaces (that's how I'm connected to it). I have not found a way to do this. Enable net.inet.carp.preempt only fails the whole pile over on a downed physical

Re: OpenBSD ESXi VMware image on Soekris Net5501

2009-05-21 Thread Obiozor Okeke
Wow!! Thanks guys for all your advice and the vm-help.com site! The OpenBSD community is fantastic!!! --- On Wed, 5/20/09, Kevin Wilcox wrote: > From: Kevin Wilcox > Subject: Re: OpenBSD ESXi VMware image on Soekris Net5501 > To: "David Talkington" , misc@openbsd.org > Date: Wednesday, May 2

Re: differencing subnet's hosts in gateway based on hosts' gateway address

2009-05-21 Thread Giancarlo Razzolini
Imre Oolberg escreveu: Hi! I guess that maybe i need to solve my problem using different means i.e. administrative means but i would be thankful if somebody could comment if there is feasible technical solution for this situation. I have gateway between one subnet and two connections to the int

Re: Wireless Freeze

2009-05-21 Thread Giancarlo Razzolini
Jeremy O'Brien escreveu: On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 03:18:04PM -0300, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote: Hi Guys, I finally got rid of my old access point and bought an internal pci wireless card to put on my openbsd firewall. But i've been having some weird "freezes". It simply stop sending pa

Re: OpenBSD ESXi VMware image on Soekris Net5501

2009-05-21 Thread Jason Dixon
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 06:47:08AM -0700, Obiozor Okeke wrote: > Hi Diana (and Stuart) thanks for all your advice. > > The problem or nut we're > trying to crack is that we're trying to deploy OpenBSD to remote clients and > we wanted an inexpensive but very high reliability system with the flexib

Re: OpenBSD ESXi VMware image on Soekris Net5501

2009-05-21 Thread Obiozor Okeke
Hi Diana (and Stuart) thanks for all your advice. The problem or nut we're trying to crack is that we're trying to deploy OpenBSD to remote clients and we wanted an inexpensive but very high reliability system with the flexibility to change configurations (switch in/out different VMs) and add/modi

OFF TOPIC: Re: OpenBSD ESXi VMware image on Soekris Net5501

2009-05-21 Thread Kevin Wilcox
David - it looks like my mobile device did a horrendous job of displaying your email so I apologise for coming off a bit half-cocked in the last email (and despite it being so much more OT conversation on the list, I still wanted to do it publicly). 2009/5/20 David Talkington : > Kevin Wilcox wr

Re: OpenBSD on OpenBSD with qemu through the network only?

2009-05-21 Thread Stuart Henderson
See README.OpenBSD, right at the start. I bet "-net user" is the default. On 2009-05-21, Uwe Dippel wrote: > Stuart Henderson spacehopper.org> writes: > >> Are you trying to boot an amd64 kernel? If so, you need qemu-system-x86_64. > > Chances are, that I did. Downloaded the i386-cd45.iso, and

Re: question about spamd behaviour

2009-05-21 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2009-05-21, Robson Caetano wrote: > The problem is that changing the time of the hour or of the day you > fetch the blacklist will avoid concurrency but is not fault proof. It isn't fault proof, but you should do it anyway.

Block level snapshots - can I do them in OBSD?

2009-05-21 Thread Paul Bradley
I am setting up an encrypted fileserver with off-site backup, for one reason and another which I won't go into here for the sake of brevity, I need to block-level snapshot partitions, file-level snapshots as I believe are provided in UFS won't do since the partitions will contain large monolithic f

Re: question about spamd behaviour

2009-05-21 Thread Robson Caetano
Hi, Thanks for your reply. > the blacklists at the same time. I changed the time on my servers > and the fetch problems went away. I will try that. But I think it will be good to know how spamd behaves when it does not suceeed fetching the blacklist. I have the feeling that it uses an empty lis

Re: OpenBSD ESXi VMware image on Soekris Net5501

2009-05-21 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
I ran OpenBSD on ESXi on a Dell 905 at my old job and it worked quite well. It wasn't really fast, but it didn't need to be. All it did was mail web forms. The security auditors didn't even mention it in their report. Ed Ahlsen-Girard

Re: question about spamd behaviour

2009-05-21 Thread Markus Hennecke
Robson Caetano wrote: I am running OpenBSD 4.4 and spamd on a bridge. Every now and then, I look at the logs and see that spamd-setup has some timed out attempts to get blacklists, like: Getting http://www.openbsd.org/spamd/traplist.gz ftp: connect: Connection timed out Spamd-setup runs on hour

Re: OpenBSD and VPN 1411 Criptographic Card

2009-05-21 Thread João Salvatti
Ok, thanks Stuart. On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2009-05-20, Iqigo Ortiz de Urbina wrote: >> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote: >>> On 2009-05-20, Joco Salvatti wrote: Hi misc, I bought a Soekris Net5501 with a cryptographic

question about spamd behaviour

2009-05-21 Thread Robson Caetano
Hi, I am running OpenBSD 4.4 and spamd on a bridge. Every now and then, I look at the logs and see that spamd-setup has some timed out attempts to get blacklists, like: Getting http://www.openbsd.org/spamd/traplist.gz ftp: connect: Connection timed out Spamd-setup runs on hourly basis. Since we

uatraps just growing

2009-05-21 Thread Christoph Schneeberger
Hello list, I apologize if this has been discussed before and I missed it, I have googled it before posting. Since a few days I noticed that uatraps gets larger and larger, basically growing by about 1k IPs per hour. I started counting (spamd-setup -d | logger -p mail.crit in crontab) the entries

relayd - Hosts flapping unexpectedly

2009-05-21 Thread Dan Carley
Hi, We've been playing with relayd recently - both from 4.5 and the latest snapshot. Approximately every hour we are seeing one or two state changes logged. But I can't see reason for the change of state and there doesn't appear to be a pattern in the way that the hosts are failed. According to

Re: OpenBSD on OpenBSD with qemu through the network only?

2009-05-21 Thread Uwe Dippel
Stuart Henderson spacehopper.org> writes: > Are you trying to boot an amd64 kernel? If so, you need qemu-system-x86_64. Chances are, that I did. Downloaded the i386-cd45.iso, and followed the 'tap mode' path: ifconfig tun0 link0 ifconfig bridge0 create brconfig bridge0 add tun0 add bge0 up All

Re: differencing subnet's hosts in gateway based on hosts' gateway address

2009-05-21 Thread Imre Oolberg
Hallo! Thanks for the reply, i am familiar with route-to and using multiple external links but my main problem here is how to differentiate between hosts in subnet based on what gateway address are the configured to use. But it seems there is principally no straithforward way to do it using one ph

Re: OpenBSD on OpenBSD with qemu through the network only?

2009-05-21 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2009-05-21, Uwe Dippel wrote: > Abel Camarillo the00z.org> writes: > >> >> that escenario is explained in the README.OpenBSD installed with qemu. > > Sorry, it still won't. It will segfault, though I follow the text (correctly, > and correct me if I am wrong): Are you trying to boot an amd64

Re: telnet escape character not working

2009-05-21 Thread LEVAI Daniel
On Wednesday 20 May 2009 21.50.24 you wrote: > Am 20.05.2009 um 14:13 schrieb LEVAI Daniel: > > On Wednesday 20 May 2009 13.53.35 you wrote: > >> LEVAI Daniel escribis: > >>> Hi! > >>> > >>> In console with telnet, when I press the CTRL+] (^]) it should > >>> exit to > >>> telnet's cli, but when I