Re: no carrier

Am Mi., 8. Jan. 2025 um 12:37 Uhr schrieb dan : > Among my 2025 wishes there is having something immediatly understandable on > my station when the switch is down and the router is not reachable. At that > stage all the software is up and running but the ifconfig dicititure carrier> that says re

Re: long-running future of OpenBSD

Am Di., 22. Okt. 2024 um 10:57 Uhr schrieb Christian Schulte : > What would happen to Linux? Probably Greg would take over. > If anything would happen to Richard Stallman, he is 71 years old > according to wikipedia. > > What would happen to GNU? There would be much rejoicing. :-) Best Mart

Re: Dual boot with 2 openbsd

Am Mi., 17. Juli 2024 um 00:18 Uhr schrieb <04-psyche.tot...@icloud.com>: > Does this idea make sense? No. You'll have to keep both systems up-to-date. Learn how to do backups and how to restore. Best Martin

Re: vi: How to display German umlauts?

Am Sa., 13. Juli 2024 um 13:58 Uhr schrieb : > Am 2024-07-11 05:25, schrieb ropers: > > They were all just the chars in some 256-character charset. However, > > you're prolly not in Kansas, and they're not identical in most > > Unicode formats anymore. > > Sorry, but I don't understand the meaning

Re: Favorite configuration and system replication tools?

Am So., 12. Mai 2024 um 21:18 Uhr schrieb Walter Alejandro Iglesias : > On Sun May 12 20:58:43 2024 Andreas Kähäri wrote > > With rsync(1): > > > > rsync -n -aim --delete-excluded \ > > --include-from=list \ > > --include='*/' \ > > --exclude='*' \ >

Re: How to check Health Information of SMART on an NVME disk?

Am Do., 15. Feb. 2024 um 18:35 Uhr schrieb Mikolaj Kucharski : > > === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === > > Current Drive Temperature: 0 C > > Drive Trip Temperature:0 C > > > > Read defect list: asked for grown list but didn't get it > > Error Counter logging not supported > > > >

Re: /var/unbound/db/root.key not world-readable, unbound fails to start

Am So., 10. Dez. 2023 um 02:48 Uhr schrieb Todd C. Miller : > By default, /etc/login.conf has umask set to 022. Is it more > restrictive on your system? Ah, yes. Mine is set to 077. That would explain me being unable to start it via sudo. And when I rebooted after a failed restart the permission

/var/unbound/db/root.key not world-readable, unbound fails to start

Hi, after the last erratas I rebooted my 7.4 and unbound failed to start because unbound: [65439:0] error: unable to open /db/root.key for reading: Permission denied unbound: [65439:0] error: error reading auto-trust-anchor-file: /var/unbound/db/root.key unbound: [65439:0] error: validator: error

Re: mount softdep — does it improve the situation for unexpected shutdowns?

Am So., 5. Nov. 2023 um 19:33 Uhr schrieb Mike Fischer : > However the default /etc/fstab does not make use of it. >From the 7.4 release notes: -- Make the softdep mount(8) option a no-op. Softdep was a significant impediment to improving the vfs layer. -- Methinks t

ftp.openbsd.org: tlsv1 alert protocol version

Hi, downloading the latest patches on 7.4 fails with > curl --verbose > https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/7.4/common/001_xserver.patch.sig * Trying [2620:3d:c000:178::81]:443... * Connected to ftp.openbsd.org (2620:3d:c000:178::81) port 443 * ALPN: curl offers h2,http/1.1 * TLSv1.3 (O

Re: AAAA entry for openbsd.org

Am Mo., 23. Okt. 2023 um 17:14 Uhr schrieb Theo de Raadt : > Martin Schröder wrote: > > > Am Mo., 23. Okt. 2023 um 16:54 Uhr schrieb Theo de Raadt > > : > > > So many, many words demanding that I configure my networks for ipv6. > > > > "is there any r

Re: AAAA entry for openbsd.org

Am Mo., 23. Okt. 2023 um 16:54 Uhr schrieb Theo de Raadt : > So many, many words demanding that I configure my networks for ipv6. "is there any reason openbsd.org still has no entry at the end of 2023?" So the reason is "Theo doesn't want to configure his networks for v6"? Best Martin

Re: how to startx with kde?

Am Sa., 22. Juli 2023 um 23:15 Uhr schrieb Greg Thomas : > Have you read: > > https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq11.html Where does that mention KDE? Best Martin P.S.: Please learn to quote

Re: ntpd and ppm

Am Di., 4. Juli 2023 um 23:20 Uhr schrieb J Doe : > I checked: man ntpd and: man 2 adjfreq, and while: man 2 adjfreq > mentions the same unit - "ppm" - it doesn't explain what that means. > > What does "ppm" stand for ? microseconds per second.

PC Engines APU platform EOL

https://www.pcengines.ch/eol.htm The end is near for APUs :-( Best Martin

Re: 7.3: speetest doesn't work

Am So., 16. Apr. 2023 um 15:49 Uhr schrieb Stuart Henderson : > At this point I think you might be better served by dumping the > package list, uninstalling them all, and reinstalling with 022 umask. > > Borrowing the old instructions from the 5.5 time_t flag day release > notes, this also keeps th

Re: 7.3: speetest doesn't work

Am So., 16. Apr. 2023 um 15:38 Uhr schrieb Stuart Henderson : > So let's also add "newly created directories" to the list of things > where umask messes up pkg_add ;) In this case, it will be > /usr/local/lib/python3.10/encodings/ Probably more. In the end I did sudo chmod -R go+rX /usr/local/

7.3: outdated mandoc.db lacks mutt(1) entry, run makewhatis /usr/local/man

Hi, after upgrading to 7.3 man is somehow confused: > man mutt man: /usr/local/man/mandoc.db: Permission denied man: outdated mandoc.db lacks mutt(1) entry, run makewhatis /usr/local/m Neither makewhatis /usr/local/man nor sudo makewhatis /usr/local/man helps. :-( How to fix? Thanks in ad

Re: 7.3: speetest doesn't work

Am So., 16. Apr. 2023 um 14:56 Uhr schrieb lux : > > On Sun, 2023-04-16 at 14:41 +0200, Martin Schröder wrote: > > > > Fatal Python error: init_fs_encoding: failed to get the Python codec > > of the filesystem encoding > > Python runtime state: core initialized >

7.3: speetest doesn't work

Hi, after sysupgrade to 7.3 and pkg_add -u and reboot: > speedtest-cli --secure Could not find platform independent libraries Could not find platform dependent libraries Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to [:] Python path configuration: PYTHONHOME = (not set) PYTHONPATH = (not set) program nam

Re: All my Rust programs stop working on OpenBSD 7.3

Am Mo., 10. Apr. 2023 um 18:10 Uhr schrieb Sebastien Marie : > On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 11:49:50PM +0800, Siegfried Levin wrote: > > After I upgraded my OS from 7.2 to 7.3 with sysupgrade like 8 hours ago, > > all my programs written in Rust broke, including cargo installed with > > pkg_add on 7.2

Re: Creating a "multicast bridge"?

Am Do., 6. Apr. 2023 um 15:27 Uhr schrieb Why 42? The lists account. : > I'd like to create a "bridge" between two IP networks which will pass > only multicast info. / traffic. So it should only route FF00::/8? Best Martin

Re: OpenBSD as a transparent switch filter

Am Mi., 25. Jan. 2023 um 00:45 Uhr schrieb David Gwynne : > I think you can do this on OpenBSD with https://github.com/eait-itig/commarp > and just routing on em0. I don’t think any layer 2 things like bridge or veb > are needed, and probably won’t work anyway because as Claudio said, they > don

Re: Unbound fails to resolve some domains

Am Mi., 11. Jan. 2023 um 21:06 Uhr schrieb Rodrigo Readi : > It stopped to resolve some domains, for example qwant.com All fine here. > Any Idea what is happening? Not without some logs. Best Martin

Re: [SPAM?] Is CRONTAB(5) random really random ?

Am Do., 5. Jan. 2023 um 18:16 Uhr schrieb Rachel Roch : > Especially given three of my crontab fields are supposed to be random > (minute, hour, day-of-month) I would expect to see at least one of the three > to be different ?!? AFAIK there is only one random value and it's created at startup of

Re: 7.2: unbound(timeout) on startup

Am Do., 10. Nov. 2022 um 11:22 Uhr schrieb Stuart Henderson : > On 2022-11-09, Martin Schröder wrote: > > Am Do., 10. Nov. 2022 um 00:02 Uhr schrieb Martin Schröder > > : > >> This happens only on bootup of the machine... :-( > > > > I've tried hard to

Re: 7.2: unbound(timeout) on startup

Am Do., 10. Nov. 2022 um 00:25 Uhr schrieb Jan Stary : > With my current ISP, putting > > ifconfig pppoe0 down > > into rc.shutdown makes the subsequent boot faster with respect to pppoe. > I suspect it's waht you say: the session gets "terminated properly" > somehow; without it, it takes l

Re: 7.2: unbound(timeout) on startup

Am Do., 10. Nov. 2022 um 00:02 Uhr schrieb Martin Schröder : > This happens only on bootup of the machine... :-( I've tried hard to get any log messages for this, but failed so far. Neither setting a log file for unbound nor "unbound_flags=-d -d" produced any output. Best Martin

Re: 7.2: unbound(timeout) on startup

Am Mi., 9. Nov. 2022 um 23:51 Uhr schrieb Stuart Henderson : > On 2022-11-09, Jonathan Thornburg wrote: > The only times I've seen ISPs take more than a few seconds to do pppoe > (unless they're broken) are if they have an old session hanging around > from a reboot or crash where the previous sess

Re: 7.2: unbound(timeout) on startup

Am Mi., 9. Nov. 2022 um 21:25 Uhr schrieb Jonathan Thornburg : > --- begin /etc/hostname.em0 --- > inet autoconf > --- end /etc/hostname.em0 --- Well, this is DTAG vDSL, so I have -- begin /etc/hostname.pppoe0 inet 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 NONE \ pppoedev vlan7 authproto pap \ auth

7.2: unbound(timeout) on startup

Hi, since upgrading my router to 7.1 unbound doesn't start up automatically anymore, instead it times out: starting early daemons: syslogd pflogd unbound(timeout) ntpd. It can be started successfully manually later. This setup worked with 7.0. System is an apu acting as a firewall/router for my

Verbose messages from pppoe(4)?

Hi, I'm using pppoe to connect to my provider via DSL on 7.1. Since yesterday my connection has been very flaky. Is there a way to get more information about the connection state changes etc.? Currently I only see the occasional /bsd: pppoe0: LCP keepalive timeout in /var/log/messages I tried t

Re: How to track system changes?

Am Mo., 4. Apr. 2022 um 17:50 Uhr schrieb Ian Darwin : > Yes, in fact, *everyone* else is. /etc/changelist lists files that are > monitored. > You will get an email if they change, e.g., if a program surprisingly becomes > setuid. > > I imagine that this is documented someplace. man security man

Re: Release schedule/general product engineering

Am Do., 22. Apr. 2021 um 09:28 Uhr schrieb Andrew Grillet : > I wanted to know approximately when the next release would be available http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq1.html#WhatIs "The OpenBSD team makes a new release approximately every six months, with the target release dates in May and November

Re: Impact of 002_icmp6.patch

Am Fr., 30. Okt. 2020 um 13:36 Uhr schrieb Florian Obser : > On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 11:58:41AM +0100, Martin Schröder wrote: > > I'd much prefer that the project adopted a" v6 first, vintage ip > > second" approach. > > But I'm not a dev. > > ... y

Re: Impact of 002_icmp6.patch

Am Fr., 30. Okt. 2020 um 11:54 Uhr schrieb Denis Fondras : > Please, fix your tweet. The default install answer for IPv6 is 'none'. This borders on "switch off v6 for security reasons", which would be just wrong. I'd much prefer that the project adopted a" v6 first, vintage ip second" approach. B

Re: It's been awhile

Am Mi., 17. Juni 2020 um 17:06 Uhr schrieb Rasmus Liland : > Try to buy sticker_40_w for 7€ from here: > https://kd85.com/notforsale.html Note that the project will probably get no money from that site. If you want more context, search the list. Best Martin

Re: How do I set up a Wi-Fi access point (using APU2)?

Am Fr., 5. Juni 2020 um 19:14 Uhr schrieb infoomatic : > it seems you skipped the firewall part of the document you were > referring, you need NAT connections. Or you do IPv6 instead of vintage-IP. Best Martin

Re: Filling a 4TB Disk with Random Data

Am Fr., 5. Juni 2020 um 09:21 Uhr schrieb Roderick : > Is not there a SCSI command "sanitize" for that? Secure erase: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_ATA#HDD_passwords_and_security Or you encrypt your device and throw away the key. Best Martin

/bsd: atascsi_passthru_done, timeout

Hi, my firewall (APU2 with 6.7) shows this in messages ca. every other day. smartctl shows the only disc is healthy, system is behaving fine. Should I be worried? dmesg is at https://paste.opensuse.org/11922555 Best Martin

Re: Convert ffs1 to ffs2?

Am Mi., 20. Mai 2020 um 11:41 Uhr schrieb Михаил Попов : > What is the best method to harden OpenBSD in a diskless mode? Manually converting the fs to FFS2 using ed. That's what you are interested in, right?

Re: More than 16 partitions

Am Do., 23. Apr. 2020 um 21:31 Uhr schrieb : > No problem. Would it be too crude a suggestion that we go back to the > content now...? You didn't provide any patch.

Re: Wine for OpenBSD?

Am Sa., 11. Apr. 2020 um 13:19 Uhr schrieb Nikita Stepanov : > Wine for OpenBSD? Your patch?

Re: FreeBSD daemon(8)-like command for OpenBSD

Am Do., 30. Jan. 2020 um 21:06 Uhr schrieb Patrick Kristiansen : > The process I need to run is written in Clojure and thus runs on the > Java Virtual Machine. Do you have any suggestions on how to best go > about making it "daemon-like"? I am not sure that I can call unveil(2), There is jsvc/apac

Re: Suggestion: Replace Perl with Lua in the OpenBSD Base System

Am Di., 31. Dez. 2019 um 01:08 Uhr schrieb : > Would it be desirable for the OpenBSD project to replace Perl with Lua > in the base system? A smaller base afforded to by Lua will reduce the IMNSHO no. You are welcome to fork your OpenLuaBSD project, though. Looking forward to your first release.

Re: Tape drive

Am So., 17. Nov. 2019 um 23:56 Uhr schrieb Pietro Paolini : > OpenBSD .my.domain 6.3 GENERIC.MP#9 amd64 Not supported anymore; upgrade to at least 6.5 Best Martin

Re: Tools for writers

Am Sa., 2. Nov. 2019 um 16:06 Uhr schrieb Oliver Leaver-Smith : > What tools do people find useful for writing on OpenBSD? By writing I mean > long form such as novels and technical books, including plot and character > development, outlining, and formatting for publishing (not all the same > ap

Re: Tools for writers

Am Mo., 4. Nov. 2019 um 09:39 Uhr schrieb Roderick : > TeX produces dvi, a well documented and simple page description language. > Then it is transformed to postscript or pdf. Nope. pdfTeX was developed 25 years ago, LuaTeX 12 years ago. Both write PDF directly. Best Martin

Re: IPv4 & IPv6 CIDR subnet calculator

Am Mi., 25. Sept. 2019 um 13:16 Uhr schrieb Mark Jamsek : > Or use the -6 switch for IPv6 addresses: Please make v6 the default and Vintage-IP available via -4. It's 2019 after all. Best Martin

Re: Prometheus node_exporter on OpenBSD - anyone managed ?

Am Fr., 20. Sept. 2019 um 10:36 Uhr schrieb Rachel Roch : > pkg_add node_exporter ? It's in current so 6.6 will have it. Best Martin

want.html reachable from homepage?

Hi, is there a clickpath from www.openbsd.org to want.html? I had to use Google to find the page. Best Martin

Re: ISDN Card /PRI Card support on OpenBSD

2018-07-11 21:30 GMT+02:00 Paul de Weerd : > Eicon was the brand, DIVA the model of one particular example I've > actually had the "pleasure" of working with. You can still find > references on the web. The web 1.0, that is. > > Now if you could get those to work using ppp, I have no clue. But I

Re: ISDN Card /PRI Card support on OpenBSD

2018-07-11 18:48 GMT+02:00 Christian Weisgerber : > (Once upon a time there was something called isdn4bsd, but I don't > think it was ever officially integrated into OpenBSD, and that's > from, oh, twenty years ago.) IIRC it was one of the reasons for the start of MirBSD (which did ISDN). Best

Re: Date of yesterday

2018-04-09 20:58 GMT+02:00 Stephane HUC "PengouinBSD" : > get the current timestamp, subtracting 86400 seconds is not reliable to > get yesterday's date to the nearest second? Did they teach leap seconds in your school yet? Best Martin

Re: UNIX Stackexchange - Community Promotion Ads - 2018

2018-02-25 18:29 GMT+01:00 Ingo Schwarze : > And no, i'm not going to create an account on some > random site just for such a petty thing. Stackoverflow is "some random website". :-) Thanks. YMMD. Best Martin

Re: NAT for dual-WAN with public and private LAN

2018-02-17 15:08 GMT+01:00 miraculli . : > I just got an second ADSL-uplink installed and now I try to reconfigure my > pf.conf to load-balance NAT over both connections. Just a reminder: NAT is not security and IPv6 should be the default. https://youtu.be/v26BAlfWBm8 Best Martin

Re: For a FFS on an SSD, which of "-o" nil, "sync" &/ "softdep" is more data-safe and fast?

2018-02-10 7:28 GMT+01:00 Rupert Gallagher : > The only problem I've encountered is rsync unable to preserve the original > time of files: copied files have the time of the copy. man rsync -t, --times preserve modification times You want -a, --archive archive mode;

Re: [OT] how secure is 2 factor auth with a smartphone?

2017-12-14 3:16 GMT+01:00 Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior : > What do you guys think about? Do you agree with the article author opinion? It's probably more secure than your typical RSA token, which had numerous security issues (including opening up the seeds!) in the last years. Best Martin

Re: Chip cheaper than chips

2017-12-04 11:05 GMT+01:00 Kevin Chadwick : > dealing with Intel ME or AMD Ryzens bloat. Should I wait for everything > to be ported to RISC and hope it is as stable and secure or wait for an > ARM CISC chip, which probably won't happen? I'll bite: Patches for a RISC-V port would probably be welco

Re: Any advice on a dedicated remote access server

2017-11-23 5:26 GMT+01:00 : > https://www.soyoustart.com/us/essential-servers/ IPv4 only.

Re: OpenBSD 6.1 Release Notes

2017-04-19 21:00 GMT+02:00 : > I'd like to help write them! What's your process/format for doing so? > > - Sent from Outlook for Android Hint: It uses OpenBSD

Re: Why isn't OpenBSD in Google Summer of Code 2017?...

2017-04-05 22:55 GMT+02:00 Flipchan : > Ping Theo, couldnt someone create a needs improvments list n put it on like > OpenBSD.org? No. You've got an itch to scratch, fix that. Best Martin

Re: Is randomizing UID/GUID would make sense?

2017-01-23 15:37 GMT+01:00 andrew fabbro : > On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 3:44 AM, Martin Schröder wrote: >> 2017-01-20 8:43 GMT+01:00 minek van : >> > Or something would be broken with random UIDs/GUIDs, ex.: NFS? Would it >> > only do pain? >> >> Yes. > >

Re: Is randomizing UID/GUID would make sense?

2017-01-20 8:43 GMT+01:00 minek van : > Could it bring more security if the UIDs/GUIDs would be random? Why? What's the attack you want to defend against? > Or something would be broken with random UIDs/GUIDs, ex.: NFS? Would it only > do pain? Yes.

Re: OpenJDK and support for JCE Unlimited Strength Jurisdiction Policy

2016-12-14 14:09 GMT+01:00 Rubén Llorente : > I used to think that OpenJDK already included the Unlimited Strength Policies, > so this is a bit confusing. http://stackoverflow.com/q/1179672/821436 :-) Best Martin

Re: Dell R930 server

2016-11-09 9:06 GMT+01:00 ludovic coues : > I would say big data. > > Stackexchange have a pair of SQL Server, with 384Go of memory for > stackoverflow and 768 for everything else, a Redis server with 256, a > server for elasticsearch with 192 and same quantity for an HAProxy > server. None of thi

Re: OT: shell / terminal / console / tty / cua / getty

2016-10-21 12:04 GMT+02:00 Mihai Popescu : > terminal: physical stuff, keyboard + screen + serial port for > mainframe connection Relevant: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/10/export-termaaa-60/ > enough. Also a link or a book indication for all this stuff will be > fine. We have man pages and wiki

Re: 4th nic for pcengines apu2

2016-10-19 14:24 GMT+02:00 Marko Cupać : > Any other words of wisdom regarding my idea? Safe yourself the trouble and get a similar machine with more NICs, e.g. from Lanner. Best Martin

Re: ARM64:s finally on the market, and flooding it. OpenBSD support?

2016-09-22 13:51 GMT+02:00 Tinker : > What about running OpenBSD on these, do you have any idea when this should > be possible? https://www.openbsd.org/armv7.html "A mailing list for ARM-based ports is available at a...@openbsd.org." The devs are looking forward to getting the boards you are send

Re: DigitalOcean and OpenBSD

2016-08-24 21:50 GMT+02:00 : > Wed, 24 Aug 2016 20:37:22 +0200 Martin Schröder >> You're not helping. >> > Neither are you, of course, needless to say. Because you just won't get Did you actually read his first mail? Do again and try to understand it. Since you ha

Re: DigitalOcean and OpenBSD

2016-08-24 16:48 GMT+02:00 : > You did not provide any sensible detail, so consider this guess work. You're not helping.

Re: LibreSSL on old OpenBSD

2016-08-12 23:28 GMT+02:00 Philip Guenther : > Yes, the previous situation with and > was confusing (code was including the wrong header and not getting the Thanks. Finally an answer after days of shouting. Best Martin

Re: Question about NTP server

2016-06-30 21:24 GMT+02:00 Leonardo Santagostini : > 1) Is there some calculus for making those ntp boxes efficient in terms of > not overstate (sorry, but english is not my mothers tongue) or right size > the hardware. A Rasberry Pi would suffice (but it's not supported by OpenBSD). Any old serve

Re: TLS now supported on openbsd.org?

2016-05-09 18:57 GMT+02:00 : > - I don't know in modern browsers, but Links 2.12 say that the > certificate is not valid. It's just old browsers, or firefox also > have this same problem? All's good. See https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?viaform=on&d=www.openbsd.org

Re: openbsd.org, openssh.com server(s) down

2016-03-15 14:31 GMT+01:00 Rudolf Sykora : > is it only I who cannot connect to either > of openbsd.org and openssh.com, or Nope. http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/openbsd.org Best Martin

Re: Small FW boxes for CORP use (was: T40E APU?)

2016-03-11 22:42 GMT+01:00 Alan McKay : > Ideally I'd like to get a redundant pair of FWs in 1U. > But I need 4 NICs on each as a bare min. Lanner FW-7525 Best Martin

Re: What hardware spec would I need to push 20 gigabit of network traffic on an OpenBSD server?

2015-10-27 20:24 GMT+01:00 Adam Thompson : > You talk about storing the data - *writing* data to disk at 10Gbps > (sustained) is currently in the realm of high-energy physics, with > multi-million-dollar budgets for the storage arrays. A 7200rpm disk can And then there are SSDs. PCIE SSDs do up t

Re: Recommended Industrial PCs?

2015-08-27 12:26 GMT+02:00 Martin Haufschild : > I forgot to say that we are looking for a fanless IPC. You forgot to say a lot of things... E.g. how fast will your communication line be? 1kb or 100gb? Best Martin

Re: Firewall question: is using a NIC with multiple jacks considered insecure?

2015-07-27 11:46 GMT+02:00 Quartz : > turning out rather difficult to find a case that's small enough to fit. I'd > really like to use an itx system with multiple onboard ethernet jacks and > cram it into something like a MiniBox M350 or Antec ISK110, but I'm not sure A Lanner FW7525 or even an Al

Re: Blob-free OpenBSD kernel needed

2015-06-09 18:48 GMT+02:00 Elias Diem : > I just wonder: Is there really such microcode available that > is open source? No.

Re: Robustness in ports fetch program?

2015-05-17 14:18 GMT+02:00 Alan Corey : > I don't think it did this back in 5.0 days or maybe earlier. I started > with OpenBSD 2.7, I just usually attributed problems to being my fault. > And I've always used the ports tree, not packages. Distfiles are often > useful across OpenBSD versions, some

Re: my experience with openbsdstore.com

2015-04-12 20:12 GMT+02:00 Jason Adams : > On 04/11/2015 06:01 AM, IMAP List Administration wrote: >> The trouble began immediately. I chose electronic wire transfer as the >> payment >> method, > > Its not 1929 any more. I'm utterly suprised the store still offers > wire transfer. Not everyone l

Re: my experience with openbsdstore.com

2015-04-11 17:08 GMT+02:00 Bernd Schoeller : > As a little defence to the OpenBSD store guys: the banking system in the UK > is by far the crappiest I have seen in whole of Europe. The banks are all Small wonder since Airstrip One seems to believe it's not in Europe. Maybe the OpenBSD store shoul

Re: Exploiting PCI-based DMA in OpenBSD

2015-04-04 13:08 GMT+02:00 Артур Истомин : > https://github.com/carmaa/inception/blob/master/README.md > > Is OpenBSD susceptible to this attack? I mean not tool themself, > I mean vector of attack. There is no Firewrire support in OpenBSD, so no. Btw: This is old news.

Re: Executable signing - a proposal

2015-03-31 9:52 GMT+02:00 Gareth Nelson : > 2 - All executables on the system must be signed with that public key > 3 - Any executable not signed is essentially chmod -x How does this help with interpreted code (e.g. shell, perl, python, java)? Best Martin

Re: Very-small fully-functional systems?

2015-03-09 9:35 GMT+01:00 Alexandre Ratchov : > The RasberyPi is said (search linux audio lists) to be unusable > because of the poor quality hardware. There's additional hardware that is said to work quite well: https://www.hifiberry.com/ Best Martin

Re: CPU criteria for OpenBSD firewall

2015-02-19 16:33 GMT+01:00 Dmitrij D. Czarkoff : > It would be nice if someone with expertise could write a detailed > explanation of the issues with that article... Thou art not supposed to twiddle with your config.

Re: CPU criteria for OpenBSD firewall

2015-02-19 10:58 GMT+01:00 Alexander Salmin : > Good luck, when you have time I also recommend that you read this. > https://calomel.org/network_performance.html The consensus here seems to be to warn against any tweaks etc. by calomel.

Re: FAQ: "My mission is to make it up into /src/lib/libssl/..."

2015-01-11 22:39 GMT+01:00 David Christensen : > Is this a statement by the OpenBSD project, or has the page been defaced? It's intentional: http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/www/faq/index.html.diff?r1=1.374&r2=1.375 Best Martin

Re: OpenBSD projects

2014-12-26 18:42 GMT+01:00, jungle Boogie : > Here's a list of projects that I'm aware of that openBSD created. Is > that correct? (p) is for portable. What else am I missing? opencvs Best Martin

Re: OpenBSD Trademark Policy

2014-12-06 9:45 GMT+01:00 Riley Baird : > I have a few questions about OpenBSD's trademark policy. (I tried > looking, but I couldn't find a document.) Is OpenBSD actually a registered trademark? The USPTO doesn't list it. FreeBSD is, though. Best Martin

Re: OpenBSD embedded? (was: OpenBSD 5.6-current on ASUS Chromebox)

2014-12-03 18:49 GMT+01:00 Alan McKay : > Does anyone know of a similar device with 2 NICs that might be > suitable as a home firewall? Yes. There are archives of this list.

Re: 64-bit amd64 : actual memory limitations?

2014-10-27 3:37 GMT+01:00 Mayuresh Kathe : > From owner-misc+m143...@openbsd.org Sun Oct 26 22:22:57 2014 Fix your mail client, please. > 256TB (2^48) should be good enough till 2020. > > it is for a lot of records (data-sets) to held in memory instead > of approaching the disk e

Re: 64-bit amd64 : actual memory limitations?

2014-10-27 1:56 GMT+01:00 Mayuresh Kathe : > if the intended application actually requires larger memory to be > accessible, would it be better to go for a non-x86-64 64-bit hardware? 256TB (2^48) should be good enough till 2020.

Re: Wireless PCIe (Host AP mode) recommendations

2014-10-26 22:31 GMT+01:00 Gordon Turner : > Rosewill RNX-G300LX > (http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833166021) > - Up to 54Mbps > - Chipset RaLink RT2561/RT61 > - Supported by ral > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/ral.4?query=ral&sec=4 That's PCI, n

Re: 64-bit amd64 : actual memory limitations?

2014-10-26 20:02 GMT+01:00 Mayuresh Kathe : > 64-bit supposedly supports upto 16 exabytes of memory ('ram'). Current hardware supports "only" 2^48... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#Physical_address_space_details Best Martin

Re: libressl

2014-10-22 16:33 GMT+02:00 Gregory Edigarov : > openssl(1) is? For example ressl(1) would be the new "high level" interface > with very few selected frequently used functions, and openssl(1) with low > level interface as it is now http://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon2014-libressl.html Best

Re: Shadow TCP stacks

2014-10-17 20:49 GMT+02:00 Bret Lambert : > Well, if, as Herr Schroeder seems to be implying, this is used to > avoid port scans, I'd look for traffic to/from address:port which > don't show up on scans. That's certainly possible but more expensive than "find all ssh servers". Best Martin

Re: Shadow TCP stacks

2014-10-17 10:24 GMT+02:00 Bret Lambert : > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 02:48:22PM +0200, Martin Schr??der wrote: >> The impossibility to scan for services - which the NSA/GHCQ/... do. > > It's a good thing that traffic analysis isn't a thing, then. Otherwise > they'd be able to check if traffic purpor

Re: Shadow TCP stacks

2014-10-16 13:16 GMT+02:00 Kevin Chadwick : > I still don't see the benefit though but do see added complexity or > more code to audit. > > Reducing DDOS against a visible SSH service maybe? Reduce password > attempts on your logs allowing them to go after targets that might > actually use password

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