Re: Boot on a device with only one video mode 1280 x 850 x 16

2015-10-09 Thread Ted Unangst
edward wandasiewicz wrote: > I believe the reason for just the one resolution, is at present, the > SeaVGABIOS does not have support for mode switching on Intel graphics > adapters. So even if we had more than one resolution available, the > SeaVGABIOS can't switch to it. In short, this is an inco

Re: Is OpenSMTPD worthy of OpenBSD inclusion?

2015-10-09 Thread Joel Rees
2015/10/07 0:10 "Артур Истомин" : > > On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 02:20:31AM +0300, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 10:52 PM, Артур Истомин wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 01:07:24PM -0400, STeve Andre' wrote: > > >> The smtpd code is very good. > > > > >

Re: Boot on a device with only one video mode 1280 x 850 x 16

2015-10-09 Thread edward wandasiewicz
1280 x 850 x 16 refers to 16 bit colour depth ( 16bpp ) I can only get grub2 output if I set GFXTERM = 1280 x 850 If I test on grub2 $ videotest 640x480x8 I get a black screen Try $ videotest 1280x850x16 I get the test patten on the Pixel 2. I believe the reason for just the one resolution

Re: Private cloud hosting recommendations

2015-10-09 Thread trondd
On Fri, October 9, 2015 4:34 pm, MartÃn Ferco wrote: > I can consider that as well, but I'd like to not depend on someone > inserting CDs or something like that for installing the OS for example > and, > also, I'd like to have the possibility of having our private network > connected via VPN to our

Re: Private cloud hosting recommendations

2015-10-09 Thread Steve Shockley
On 10/9/2015 11:04 AM, Martín Ferco wrote: Do you know or can recommend other private cloud providers? I use ramnode (kvm) and core networks (physical). Both support OpenBSD. Ramnode doesn't do a private network but they'll give you extra bandwidth to compensate; I'm not sure about core.

Re: Private cloud hosting recommendations

2015-10-09 Thread Pedro Tender
I know that in iweb dedicated servers you can request a spider kvm with 24h notice and not pay for that. If it's an urgent request you have to pay a fee. On Oct 9, 2015 9:36 PM, "Martín Ferco" wrote: > I can consider that as well, but I'd like to not depend on someone > inserting CDs or somethin

Re: Private cloud hosting recommendations

2015-10-09 Thread Martín Ferco
I can consider that as well, but I'd like to not depend on someone inserting CDs or something like that for installing the OS for example and, also, I'd like to have the possibility of having our private network connected via VPN to our other sites. I used Softlayer in the past for hosting FreeBSD

Re: Private cloud hosting recommendations

2015-10-09 Thread trondd
On Fri, October 9, 2015 1:57 pm, MartÃn Ferco wrote: > Thanks for all your input! > > I'm not particularly concerned about price -- if they are as expensive as > AWS (paying around $150/mo per instance there), I'd be OK as well. If they > are cheaper, the better, but I want quality and service as a

Boot on a device with only one video mode 1280 x 850 x 16

2015-10-09 Thread edward wandasiewicz
Is it possible to boot OpenBSD on a device which only has one video mode available through the BIOS? At present, we boot in text mode via vga(4) and wscons(4). If we have a machine compatible with inteldrm(4), it attaches, and the dmesg output is then set to the highest resolution. Is it possibl

Re: Private cloud hosting recommendations

2015-10-09 Thread Fred
Hi, I'm happily running OpenBSD on: https://www.mythic-beasts.com/ they have excellent technical support. Cheers Fred

Re: Private cloud hosting recommendations

2015-10-09 Thread Pedro Tender
Vultr also with OpenBSD since 5.7 which makes it something like half a year with no problems whatsoever. On Oct 9, 2015 7:36 PM, "Rick Hanson" wrote: > Mike Bregg wrote: > > I've been using the VPS provider Vultr.com [...] > > I second Vultr, fwiw. Works a lot like DO, but better in a few ways.

Re: Private cloud hosting recommendations

2015-10-09 Thread Rick Hanson
Mike Bregg wrote: > I've been using the VPS provider Vultr.com [...] I second Vultr, fwiw. Works a lot like DO, but better in a few ways. I got a Vultr account back in the day when DO didn't have support for any of the BSDs. Been running OpenBSD on Vultr ever since. BTW, Vultr never emailed me

Re: Private cloud hosting recommendations

2015-10-09 Thread Seth
Fri, 09 Oct 2015 11:08:21 -0700, Mike Bregg wrote: I've been using the VPS provider Vultr.com (https://www.vultr.com/) for a few months now, and have no complaints. They're KVM-based, and have datacenters in the US, Europe, Japan, and Australia. They allow you to install from a custom IS

Re: Private cloud hosting recommendations

2015-10-09 Thread Mike Bregg
On 2015-10-09 09:04, Martín Ferco wrote: Hi misc, I'm looking for alternatives to host our OpenBSD web frontends off-site. Up until now we've been using AWS for contingecy, but as you may well know, they only support Linux and Windows instances. We already have a couple of OpenBSD frontends

Re: Private cloud hosting recommendations

2015-10-09 Thread Martín Ferco
Thanks for all your input! I'm not particularly concerned about price -- if they are as expensive as AWS (paying around $150/mo per instance there), I'd be OK as well. If they are cheaper, the better, but I want quality and service as a priority. Also, ideally, it should be located in the US -- w

Re: Strange network issue during startup

2015-10-09 Thread Mike Belopuhov
On 9 October 2015 at 19:15, Alessandro DE LAURENZIS wrote: > Hi Mike, > > On Fri 09/10/2015 19:07, Mike Belopuhov wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Please drop the diff I've sent you and try current. >> The fix should be in the if_trunk.c revision 1.121. >> > > Just tried 9 Oct snapshot: problem solved! > > Tha

Re: Strange network issue during startup

2015-10-09 Thread Alessandro DE LAURENZIS
Hi Mike, On Fri 09/10/2015 19:07, Mike Belopuhov wrote: > Hi, > > Please drop the diff I've sent you and try current. > The fix should be in the if_trunk.c revision 1.121. > Just tried 9 Oct snapshot: problem solved! Thank you very much for your prompt reaction. Just out of my curiosity: was

Re: Strange network issue during startup

2015-10-09 Thread Mike Belopuhov
On 7 October 2015 at 07:04, Alessandro DE LAURENZIS wrote: > I'll try your patch asap. > Hi, Please drop the diff I've sent you and try current. The fix should be in the if_trunk.c revision 1.121. Regards, Mike > All the best > > -- > Alessandro DE LAURENZIS > [mailto:just22@gmail.com] > L

Re: Strange network issue during startup

2015-10-09 Thread Alessandro DE LAURENZIS
Hi Mike, [...] > Is this from the /root/ifconfig.out? Trunk interface should not > have an IP address at this point. How does your /etc/hostname.trunk0 > look like right now? My bad, I pasted the wrong text; this is the output of "ifconfig -A" *before* dhclient call: [snip.

Re: Private cloud hosting recommendations

2015-10-09 Thread Randy Westlund
On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 12:04:29PM -0300, Martín Ferco wrote: > Do you know or can recommend other private cloud providers? Take a look at https://www.digitalocean.com/. I've heard good things, and I'm about to set some stuff up there myself. The only BSD the officially support is FreeBSD, but I

Re: Private cloud hosting recommendations

2015-10-09 Thread Michel Behr
I don't have a server recommendation. Just my 0.02: for rootbsd, the fact they might be too small do have its advantages in terms of exposure (who would spend too much energy trying to hack them?). And for rootbsd or any other option some backup policy would be recommended, right? (So even with the

Re: Private cloud hosting recommendations

2015-10-09 Thread Murk Fletcher
Check out https://www.advania.com/cloud/infrastructure-as-a-service/ (Icelandic). Murk On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 5:04 PM, Martín Ferco wrote: > Hi misc, > > I'm looking for alternatives to host our OpenBSD web frontends off-site. Up > until now we've been using AWS for contingecy, but as you may

Re: CD's arrived

2015-10-09 Thread Michal Bozon
On 2015-10-08 Thu 16:33, Aaron Poffenberger wrote: > On 10/08/15 16:13, ian kremlin wrote: > >Hello > > > >Syracuse, NY -- no CD, but poster has arrived. looks great! > > > >http://ce.gl/openbsd-5.8-poster.jpg > > > >ian > > > >On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 10:51 AM, M Wheeler <6f84c...@refn.co.uk> wrote:

Private cloud hosting recommendations

2015-10-09 Thread Martín Ferco
Hi misc, I'm looking for alternatives to host our OpenBSD web frontends off-site. Up until now we've been using AWS for contingecy, but as you may well know, they only support Linux and Windows instances. We already have a couple of OpenBSD frontends on-site, and getting all our frontends to be Op

Re: softraid(4)/bioctl(8) vs. non-512-byte sectors disks

2015-10-09 Thread Tobias Ulmer
On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 08:42:14AM -0400, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: > ... It works fine, I'm exercising 4K sr crypto with rsync every night. Commit it pretty please :) The remaining bugs don't find themselves

Re: kernel panic

2015-10-09 Thread Mike Larkin
On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 04:35:48AM -0700, Mike Larkin wrote: > On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 09:53:16AM +0200, Holger Glaess wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 06:22:53AM +0200, Holger Glaess wrote: > > >> hi > > >> > > >> what kind of information you need more ? > > >> > > > > > > uhm. this machine is

pf table counters

2015-10-09 Thread Kapetanakis Giannis
Hi, Is there a problem with table counters and NAT? I don't have any counters at all. I have a table which has counters enabled # pfctl -sT -v|grep nat_users --a-r-C nat_users I also have pf rules that reference this table. @100 pass out quick on vlan123 inet proto tcp from port > 1023 to

Re: kernel panic

2015-10-09 Thread Mike Larkin
On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 09:53:16AM +0200, Holger Glaess wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 06:22:53AM +0200, Holger Glaess wrote: > >> hi > >> > >> what kind of information you need more ? > >> > > > > uhm. this machine is very very strange. It has devices I've never > > seen before and many other

Re: CD's arrived

2015-10-09 Thread Renaud Allard
On 10/07/2015 04:51 PM, M Wheeler wrote: CD's arrived today UK. Thanks again. Arrived fine in Belgium too.

Re: CD's arrived

2015-10-09 Thread OpenBSD Store Misc
On 2015-10-08 22:13, ian kremlin wrote: Hello Syracuse, NY -- no CD, but poster has arrived. looks great! http://ce.gl/openbsd-5.8-poster.jpg ian Who can beat this old sckool?

Re: kernel panic

2015-10-09 Thread Holger Glaess
> On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 06:22:53AM +0200, Holger Glaess wrote: >> hi >> >> what kind of information you need more ? >> > > uhm. this machine is very very strange. It has devices I've never > seen before and many other devices not even recognized. Without access > to the hardware there's not much