Re: poptop connection problem

2008-10-07 Thread Richard P. Koett
Richard P. Koett wrote: > I installed -current (i386), downloaded src & ports, and installed > poptop-1.3.0 and pptp-1.7.1p0. > Trying to establish a pptp connection fails, and the following is > logged in /var/log/daemon: > > Oct 5 13:31:58 gateway ppp[25094]: Warning:

poptop connection problem

2008-10-05 Thread Richard P. Koett
I'd appreciate some advice to sort out a problem using poptop-1.3.0 from ports. If there is a more appropriate forum for asking about this, please excuse my post and point me to the right place. I installed -current (i386), downloaded src & ports, and installed poptop-1.3.0 and pptp-1.7.1p0. I com

Re: PoPToP Vulnerability Question

2008-01-29 Thread Richard P. Koett
Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2008/01/29 09:20, Richard P. Koett wrote: >> The audit I was shown stated that vulnerable versions are prior to >> "1.1.4-bs". These version numbers seem to follow a pattern I don't >> understand. Would I be correct in inte

Re: PoPToP Vulnerability Question

2008-01-29 Thread Richard P. Koett
Joel Sing wrote: > Note that that exploit is for versions earlier than 1.1.4.b3 - the > previous ports version was 1.1.4.b4, which one would presume is > patched for this vulnerability. Obviously this assumes that no other > exploits have been found since version 1.1.4.b4. The audit I was shown st

Re: PoPToP Vulnerability Question

2008-01-28 Thread Richard P. Koett
Eduardo Tongson wrote: > Did you look at ports if it has patch applied for the vulnerability? > The administrator of that OpenBSD machine should already be aware the > installed software. It is not an automagical secure system after all. > I don't mean to imply that I expect ports to be automagica

Re: PoPToP Vulnerability Question

2008-01-28 Thread Richard P. Koett
Axton wrote: > On Jan 28, 2008 11:05 PM, Richard P. Koett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Dear Misc: >> >> I've been asked to look into an issue on a i386 system running >> OpenBSD 3.7. I realize this is rather out-of-date, so feel free to >>

PoPToP Vulnerability Question

2008-01-28 Thread Richard P. Koett
Dear Misc: I've been asked to look into an issue on a i386 system running OpenBSD 3.7. I realize this is rather out-of-date, so feel free to ignore this question if it's inappropriate... The machine is running poptop-1.1.4.b4p1. Someone did an audit and declared "PoPToP servers prior to version 1

dhcpd question

2006-12-14 Thread Richard P. Koett
I'm building a firewall/router for a small private network. The external network interface uses dhclient. The internal interface will run dhcpd. Rather than hard-coding 'option domain-name-servers' in dhcpd.conf I'd like dhcpd to pass whatever nameservers were received by the dhclient running on t

Re: ifconfig question

2006-10-27 Thread Richard P. Koett
Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2006/10/27 09:44, Richard P. Koett wrote: >> I received some very useful advice from this list a short while ago >> when I was having problems with throughput on a Soekris firewall. >> The issue turned out to be a problem with Ethernet autoselect a

ifconfig question

2006-10-27 Thread Richard P. Koett
I received some very useful advice from this list a short while ago when I was having problems with throughput on a Soekris firewall. The issue turned out to be a problem with Ethernet autoselect and I thought I had worked around it effectively. The problem has now reappeared, however, and I would

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

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

Re: Soekris network problems - 48 hour deadline

2006-10-14 Thread Richard P. Koett
Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2006/10/14 00:56, Richard P. Koett wrote: >> known. Hosts on the internal network are able to access the Internet >> but report that access seems slow. Some operations fail consistently. >> For example, users can send and receive e-mail e-mails but

Re: Soekris network problems - 48 hour deadline

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

Re: Soekris network problems - 48 hour deadline

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

Soekris network problems - 48 hour deadline

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

Re: Custom kernel for Soekris net4801-50

2006-10-06 Thread Richard P. Koett
Laurent Salle wrote: > Richard P. Koett wrote: >> I'm setting up a Soekris net4801-50 (128 Mb RAM) for use as a >> firewall. For storage it has a 40Gb IDE drive rather than compact >> flash. For my first attempt I used a generic install of OpenBSD 3.9. >> The user

Re: Custom kernel for Soekris net4801-50

2006-10-04 Thread Richard P. Koett
Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2006/10/04 10:42, Richard P. Koett wrote: >> I'm setting up a Soekris net4801-50 (128 Mb RAM) for use as a >> firewall. For storage it has a 40Gb IDE drive rather than compact >> flash. For my first attempt I used a generic install o

Re: Custom kernel for Soekris net4801-50

2006-10-04 Thread Richard P. Koett
Bryan Vyhmeister wrote: > The Soekris kernel configs from flashdist are the best way to go. You > do not need to remove the MFS option but I would add the > FFS_SOFTUPDATES option. The MFS option is used for building a file > system in virtual memory. It has nothing to do with compact flash > cards

Re: Custom kernel for Soekris net4801-50

2006-10-04 Thread Richard P. Koett
Chris Kuethe wrote: > Theo builds my custom kernel... it's called GENERIC. I've been running > GENERIC on a CF-based soekris (both 4501 and 4801) for about 5 years > to no ill effect. > > CK Chris: I'm a pretty big fan of Theo's kernels as well. I just wasn't sure if this particular device neede

Custom kernel for Soekris net4801-50

2006-10-04 Thread Richard P. Koett
I'm setting up a Soekris net4801-50 (128 Mb RAM) for use as a firewall. For storage it has a 40Gb IDE drive rather than compact flash. For my first attempt I used a generic install of OpenBSD 3.9. The user complained that Internet access seemed slow, however. I'm planning to try again using a cu

Re: Alpha Disklabel Question

2005-12-17 Thread Richard P. Koett
Martin Reindl wrote: > "J.C. Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 18:03:21 +0100, Martin Reindl >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> "J.C. Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 13:50:48 -0800, "J.C. Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>

Re: Trigger on user logout?

2005-11-07 Thread Richard P. Koett
Uosis L wrote: > Thanks for advices. > > All these methods would definitely work, but the problem with shell > logout file is that vnconfig/umount both need to be executed as root. I think you can work around that requirement with kern.usermount and file permissions. Have a look at: http://www.m

Re: Trigger on user logout?

2005-11-07 Thread Richard P. Koett
Uosis L wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to make an encrypted home directory which is > mounted/unmounted on login/logout. > Mounting it on login was the easy part ( with a custom login style ), > but is there any way to unmount it on logout ( short from modifying > init ) ? I want to alter the system

Re: Anyone tried this hardware raid solution?

2005-10-11 Thread Richard P. Koett
Jean-Daniel Beaubien wrote: > Hi everyone, > > > I am wondering if anyone tried this > (http://www.allmediait.com/html/araid.html) hardware raid solution. > It seems to only support PATA. Anyways I was just wondering if > anyone had any experiences with this box. Anyone ever compared it to > a

Re: Etiquette re: unanswered questions

2005-09-30 Thread Richard P. Koett
L. V. Lammert wrote: > On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Richard P. Koett wrote: > >> What is the accepted thing to do if one posts a question >> and gets no response after a few days? >> >> Should one... >> >> a) Politely ask again? >> >> b) Rephrase

Re: Etiquette re: unanswered questions

2005-09-29 Thread Richard P. Koett
Stuart Henderson wrote: > --On 29 September 2005 20:54 -0700, Richard P. Koett wrote: > >> This machine has two interfaces - 'ne3' facing the Internet and 'rl0' >> facing a small (3 computer) internal network. I am *assuming* that >> the log entries p

Re: Etiquette re: unanswered questions

2005-09-29 Thread Richard P. Koett
Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Dear Mr. Koett, > > Ted Unangst schrieb am Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 10:00:01PM -0400: >> On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Richard P. Koett wrote: > [...] >>> b) Rephrase the question? >> yes. ask again, include more information > > In this particul

Etiquette re: unanswered questions

2005-09-29 Thread Richard P. Koett
What is the accepted thing to do if one posts a question and gets no response after a few days? Should one... a) Politely ask again? b) Rephrase the question? c) Assume nobody wants to answer so stop asking?

pf log entries

2005-09-23 Thread Richard P. Koett
'tcpdump -r /var/log/pflog' shows a lot of entries like this: 14:31:38.279681 33:0:0:0:0:0 > 3d:2:1:0:6e:65 null I (s=0,r=0,C) len=98 14:31:41.794668 33:0:0:0:0:0 > 3d:2:1:0:6e:65 null I (s=0,r=0,C) len=98 14:31:42.464382 33:0:0:0:0:0 > 3d:2:1:0:6e:65 null I (s=0,r=0,C) len=98 14:31:42.614922 33:0

Re: ftp-proxy(8) and pf question

2005-09-19 Thread Richard P. Koett
Stephan A. Rickauer wrote: > Hello, > > in migrating our netfilter box to a pf box I need to solve one > remaining problem: Passive FTP (sigh) > > I've read "PF: Issues with FTP" carefully and tried to setup > ftp-proxy(8) on the firewall. Now it seems I have a fundamental > misunderstanding on h

Re: Live cd

2005-09-15 Thread Richard P. Koett
Josh Grosse wrote: > On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 01:02:40AM +0300, Alex Stamatis wrote: > >> ...Do you think that we can create a live >> cd or dvd...??? > > Here's a link from the OpenBSD journal with an article on creating > one, and some followup discussion. > > http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=art

Re: Text editor

2005-08-07 Thread Richard P. Koett
You guys are all sissies. Real men use cat(1).

Re: Eric Raymond about GPL and BSD

2005-06-08 Thread Richard P. Koett
Alexey E. Suslikov wrote: > original article were in portuguese... > > http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.myfreebsd.com.b r%2Fmodules.php%3Fname%3DNews%26file%3Darticle%26sid%3D1262&langpair=pt% 7Cen&hl=en&safe=off&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools' > And what langua

Compile time on old i386

2005-06-05 Thread Richard P. Koett
I'm running "make build" on a Pentium 100 with 64M and an old IDE drive. Any guesses as to how long this might take? And, out of curiosity, how fast can a fast i386 box do it?

Re: [slightly OT] Zaurus -- to buy or not to buy?

2005-06-01 Thread Richard P. Koett
Can anyone recommend a Zaurus vendor for Canadian buyers? Thx, RPK.

Looking for info re: IPSec & MTU

2005-05-21 Thread Richard P. Koett
OpenBSD is working great instead of the Cisco router that our VPN peer recommended. Thanks again to the developers who make it all possible. I notice that we're receiving some fragmented packets, however. It's not a big deal but I'd like to see if things can be better optimized (and learn a bit in

pptpd and GRE support

2005-05-08 Thread Richard P. Koett
In the past when using pptpd I used a kernel with GRE disabled because I read that was the thing to do. When installing pptp-1.6.0 on a new i386 system the other day (May 1st snapshot) I saw a note saying to enable GRE so I added this to sysctl.conf: net.inet.gre.allow=1 Everything was working f