Re: [OFFTOPIC] Dedicated Access Point

2025-07-08 Thread obsdml
On Tue, 08 Jul 2025 20:18:21 +0100 Martijn Rijkeboer wrote: > Wants / Requirements: > - 802.11ax or 802.11be > - PoE powered > - Multi AP setup supported > - No cloud-based controller software > - No separate controller (preference) While I haven't used one myself, the OpenWrt One (Banana Pi) se

Re: OpenBSD from linux qemu:

2025-07-05 Thread obsdml
> I get this: > cannot open hd0a:/etc/random.seed: No such file or directory > anyone to help me on this? ignore it like most of us do? you don't have a random.seed on install media, and chances are fat that you don't need it at that time. If you see that error from booting on your installed di

Re: syspatch: kernel relinking failure

2025-06-19 Thread obsdml
On Fri, 20 Jun 2025 03:24:38 + Lloyd wrote: > obs...@loopw.com wrote: > > > not 100% conjecture, but not 100% science either: > > You have <90MB on /, which is where relinking happens, on a ~30MB > > kernel. Thats a bit tight. My guess is more than one > > thing was moving things around in t

Re: syspatch: kernel relinking failure

2025-06-19 Thread obsdml
On Fri, 20 Jun 2025 12:42:06 +1000 David Diggles wrote: > This is the disk space available on mine. > > Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/wd0a 1021M144M826M15%/ > /dev/wd0e 1.9G 22.7M1.8G 2%/home > /dev/wd0d 2.9G2.4G

Re: syspatch: kernel relinking failure

2025-06-19 Thread obsdml
On Thu, 19 Jun 2025 18:05:18 + Lloyd wrote: > Janne Johansson wrote: > > > that doesn't sound 100% like out-of-space. > > > > Disk space was my first guess, but unlikely: > > Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/sd0a 384M276M 89.6M76%/ > /d

Re: syspatch: kernel relinking failure

2025-06-19 Thread obsdml
On Thu, 19 Jun 2025 04:32:35 + Lloyd wrote: > I encountered a relink failure after the last syspatch as well. > https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-bugs&m=175023041416172&w=2 > David Diggles wrote: > > > Any ideas? I'm thinking maybe the root disk is on a bad CF card. both David's and Lloyd's err

Re: pppoe connection issue

2025-05-24 Thread obsdml
> ==> hostname.pppoe0 <== > inet 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 0.0.0.1 pppoedev vlan40 authproto pap \ > authname 'user' authkey 'password' \ > up try: inet 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 NONE mtu 1492 \ pppoedev vlan40 authproto pap \ authname 'user' authkey 'password' \ u

Re: From Xfce to Mate

2025-04-29 Thread obsdml
> Just asking the last depict. Surprised, anyone can explain how some > apps of Xfce like Orage Calendar are fully compatible with Mate > panels ? they use a common library - libgtk

Re: pf for shifting UDP ports?

2025-04-18 Thread obsdml
> .. | >+---+ o * . ~ *| >| my |--> UDP 1337 --> % . pf : . --|--> UDP 31337 --> clouds >|special| + . magic + |and >|daemon |<-- UDP 1337 <-- * _ , + <--|--- UDP 31337

Re: Left with an unusable motherboard after running fw_update and then installing intel-drm

2025-04-04 Thread obsdml
> after which was the last time that machine ever POSTed. At the > time I wrote it off as corrupting EFI somehow but I'm not so sure anymore. UEFI is stored on disk, it can be wiped. Thats not your POST issue though. maybe time for a post code reader? alternatively, wipe the cmos and try aga

Re: Left with an unusable motherboard after running fw_update and then installing intel-drm

2025-04-02 Thread obsdml
> Now only today, I had a mediatek wifi card laying around… > I even > unplugged everything and put them back in, and still it's not POSTing Have you tried slowly troubleshooting by pulling out all the cards, then putting in one thing at a time and trying to post it each time? PCI cards are

Re: Ethernet interface set to the wrong group

2025-04-02 Thread obsdml
> The problem is the conflict that occurs naturally when connecting any two > ISPs. in my not at all humble opinion, with this topology (each ISP presenting the same subnet on its client side), I would use multiple firewalls. One per ISP. Use carp if you want to failover or do fancy tricks

Re: wg interface sometimes not reconnecting

2024-11-15 Thread obsdml
there are situations where stateful firewalls can forget about the wireguard session, but one or more of the peers remember it. Even wireguard’s keepalive wont fix that situation. my “bandwidth is basically free” solution: I have a script that basically pings an endpoint over a tunnel, and res

Re: Script at boot

2024-11-13 Thread obsdml
pro-tip: for the most part the bsd’s split from each other in the 90s. Thats a lot of lines of code to this day. You cannot bank on cron being the same in open as it is in free, net, dragonfly, etc. > On Nov 13, 2024, at 3:56 AM, Corey wrote: > > does BSD's crontab have any difference tha

Re: "Connection refused" for everything except port 80

2024-10-18 Thread obsdml
>> I am a Ph.D. student at Cornell ORIE. I saw a Dell Optiplex 7050 SFF lying >> around in our department and decided to install OpenBSD on it. The machine >> does not have WiFi connectivity, but there is an RJ45 Ethernet jack, so I >> plugged a cable in, and wrote a standard hostname.em0 >>

Re: Memory upgrade

2024-10-09 Thread obsdml
> In a second server I have upgraded from 7.5 i386 to 7.6 i386 but server sees > only 4GB of RAM > Is anybody with similar experiences? Any ideas how to fix RAM? run 64bit OpenBSD 32bit address space is limited to a max of 4GB**, and some of that is eaten up by PCI devices, etc. ** PAE can wor

Re: [7.5/amd64] ipsec + npppd + sasyncd + carp - doesn't pick up the VPN session at switchover

2024-05-29 Thread obsdml
> On May 29, 2024, at 3:48 AM, Radek wrote: > > Thank you, that explains everything. > Does wireguard support replication? Will it work properly in my CARP setup? wireguard doesn’t have “state” per se. it remembers the last address a key was associated with. In the event of a failover, if

Re: Getting "Boot error" after replacing a disk in softraid

2024-04-27 Thread obsdml
a bit late, but fwiw - I have 7.5 on an optiplex 990 on SSD, no issues. Not quite a 980, but I honestly doubt that this matters given my experience on these boxes. (I also have 7.5 on a 960, and have had it on a 955 and 945. There’s nothing special about the Dells that I have and booting MBR

Re: NAT on CARP interface

2024-04-25 Thread obsdml
> On Apr 25, 2024, at 10:36 AM, Radek wrote: > > Thank you for all your hints. > >> match out on egress from $lan_if:network to any nat-to (egress:0) > This rule doesn't work. change $lan_if to $int_if, change (egress:0) to $ext_carpif, and it will work as the rule you say works. fwiw, th

Re: NAT on CARP interface

2024-04-24 Thread obsdml
try using egress and not carp0 on your match out rule. you’re not technically sending out on the carp interface, only receiving. make your match rule like this: match out on egress from $lan_if:network to any nat-to (egress:0) > On Apr 24, 2024, at 11:05 AM, Radek wrote: > > Hi everyone,

Re: Automatic OS updates

2024-02-20 Thread obsdml
> On Feb 20, 2024, at 2:31 AM, Thomas Schmidt wrote: > > OP did indeed mean `sysupgrade`, which makes little sense _unless_ on -current, which will guarantee to break this every sixth months when -current shifts about. > but fwiw, `syspatch && reboot` reboots > your system if a patch as app

Re: Automatic OS updates

2024-02-16 Thread obsdml
> On Feb 15, 2024, at 10:12 AM, b...@fea.st wrote: > am I the only one using automatic OS updates > 0 3 * * * root sysupgrade Maybe you meant “syspatch” there? Syspatching via cron is questionable - Some of the patches wont be loaded until the box is rebooted. I think its bett

Re: OT: SSH3 proposal

2024-02-05 Thread obsdml
They have a pull request open to rename it to “h3sh" - https://github.com/francoismichel/ssh3/pull/87 Hopefully sanity prevails there. Cutting in the namespace line by stealing the next version number with zero backwards compatibility isn’t a great move to gain a user base. Doing so with a se

Re: 7.3 -> 7.4 WireGuard AllowedIPs stopped working

2023-10-22 Thread obsdml
are you certain that you upgraded your userland packages after upgrading? wireguard-tools is critical to update in 7.4 (I think due in part to the wgdescr field being added, which is a sorely missing field imo) (for what its worth, I ran into the same problem, specifically because I’d typo’d pk

Re: mg: how to indent using spaces instead of tabs

2022-06-07 Thread obsdml
> On Jun 5, 2022, at 4:24 AM, Sam Lee wrote: > > On 2022-06-05 10:58 +0200, Omar Polo wrote: >> M-x no-tab-mode RET seems to work (as long as you don't want to change >> the width of the `expandtab'; it always align to the nearest multiple >> of 8) > > How do people write Python programs usin

Re: Another kernel fault incident on a Vultr OpenBSD VM

2022-04-18 Thread obsdml
Sorry to hear about your issues. Vultr has been top notch in my experience. I have a couple of Vultr hosted nodes in different data centers that have been running OpenBSD, they’ve been online for four years now (with downtime for logging into the console to activate FDE during reboots from sysp

Re: Mouse hotplug in X?

2020-11-01 Thread obsdml
note that ps/2 is not actually designed for hotplug (I fried a keyboard controller to bring you this knowledge) > On Nov 1, 2020, at 11:11 AM, Tomasz Rola wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 01, 2020 at 01:51:45PM -0500, Brennan Vincent wrote: >> Is it possible to get hot-plugging of USB mice to work? Can'

Re: sd0-n vs wd0-n

2020-10-30 Thread obsdml
My guess is that the nvram of the bios somehow reset its configuration back to default. (corruption, power loss, etc. - these are cheap parts made with failure rates after all) The default of most x86 bioses up until the last few years was to bring up SATA ports in IDE compatible mode, which w

Re: wireguard multiple interfaces

2020-07-31 Thread obsdml
Use multiple interfaces, one per site to connect with. Overhead isnt really present, its just routing and hashes at that point. (I’ve had no issues doing site to sites in this fashion, has been working great for months) > On Jul 31, 2020, at 10:43 AM, Sonic wrote: > > The need is for site-to

Re: non-checksummed UDP packets

2020-07-19 Thread obsdml
> Is this normal? Checksum is OPTIONAL in UDP, not required. This is covered in RFC 768.

Re: 6.7 trouble reaching ipmi on supermicro atom

2020-06-27 Thread obsdml
> On Jun 11, 2020, at 10:31 AM, obs...@loopw.com wrote: > > I didn’t have to bisect! Woo! While ipmitool no longer seems to function, > once I enable ipmi in my running kernel I can successfully reboot a 6.7 > ipmi-of-this-vintage system now - where previously, from 6.6 going back into > lat

Re: 6.7 trouble reaching ipmi on supermicro atom

2020-06-11 Thread obsdml
> On May 31, 2020, at 6:07 PM, obs...@loopw.com wrote: > > ipmitool is timing out on my system with the kernel driver loaded, where I > havent seen this in previous releases. > > I looked at the changes in 6.7 for ipmi.c, there's a number of them (thank > you!) My intention is to bisect for

Re: Protectli FW1 with Intel 82583V - Interfaces errors and latency spike issue

2020-06-10 Thread obsdml
I have a small fleet of protectli firewalls, all of them with em nics. Only the units i’ve upgraded to 6.7 are showing interface errors, where 6.6 is definitely not. > On Jun 8, 2020, at 5:30 PM, Gabri Tofano wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm sending this e-mail since I have found other users in t

Re: pfsync and rule specific state timeouts

2020-06-05 Thread obsdml
> What if two systems being used as redundant firewalls had different network > cards? This would make the names of the interfaces different, resulting in > rule sets that were not the same, preventing per-rule state timeouts from > being properly applied. 1) “egress” can be used to referen

6.7 trouble reaching ipmi on supermicro atom

2020-05-31 Thread obsdml
ipmitool is timing out on my system with the kernel driver loaded, where I havent seen this in previous releases. I looked at the changes in 6.7 for ipmi.c, there's a number of them (thank you!) My intention is to bisect for which change may have caused this, but if someone knows what’s going

Re: Problem with isc_named

2020-05-31 Thread obsdml
After upgrade to 6.7 I had to change all of isc_named’s file statements to have a / before their path. Fwiw, I don’t see this in the Changelog, nor does sysmerge handle this, so I’m guessing this is some sort of new bug. Before 6.7, this always worked: file “master/loopw.com” after, I have t

Re: macbook only sees 1GB of a 2GB RAM module

2020-05-30 Thread obsdml
You have a 32bit uefi on the MacBook2,1 Its set to only ever address 3GB of ram, even though you can physically have more in the box. (this is a 32 bit issue in general - x86 hardware usually defaults to a 3.5GB/512MB split, but the 32bit uefi/64bit cpu macs went with a 3GB/1GB split) > On Ma