OT: embedded single board recommendation

2007-09-21 Thread poncenby
etc etc Any thoughts welcome poncenby

working 802.11a/g/n adapters...

2007-08-28 Thread poncenby
are there any?

various lamo questions from a shiny new person

2007-08-09 Thread poncenby
List What options are there when you have multiple IP addresses and 1 openbsd 4.1 box with two NICs acting as a firewall? The Internet goes into NIC1 and a switch (with boxes plugged in) goes into NIC2 (10/8 address range). Is the alias command used in hostname.if files the only way of utili

OT: mail retrieval software

2007-07-31 Thread poncenby
List Grateful if anyone could recommend a mail retrieval program which does not require a local SMTP service like fetchmail does. Many thanks poncenby

Re: vnconfig question...

2007-04-25 Thread poncenby
, for us luddites, how do you read the password on stdin. in great expectations, poncenby On Wed Apr 25 9:07 , Joachim Schipper [EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: >On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 11:47:00PM +0100, poncenby wrote: >> List, >> >> Are there plans to change vnconfig so it w

vnconfig question...

2007-04-24 Thread poncenby
List, Are there plans to change vnconfig so it will accept a file for the key when -K is specified? I notice there was a patch put up to misc in 2004, does anyone know if there is a patch for 4.0? Cheers poncenby

vnconfig write question

2007-04-23 Thread poncenby
is minimised? I read in vnd(4) that the vnd driver does not use a write buffer, but the svnd does. However I need blowfish and I seem to remember reading somewhere that crypto is only supported with the svnd driver. Any help appreciated poncenby

layer 2 pf question

2007-04-17 Thread poncenby
Dear list, What do openbsd users do when they need to filter/redirect traffic based on layer 2 addresses? I'm using 4.0 generic on a 386. Many thanks poncenby

streaming program...

2007-03-22 Thread poncenby smythe
it seems strange to me that ffmpeg requires X11 by default. so which streaming program that can do RTP would the list recommend? many thanks poncenby

Re: supported internal dsl modem for soekris available ?

2007-03-19 Thread poncenby smythe
Christoph Leser wrote: hello, I would love to set up a openBSD/soekris based dsl router for accessing the internet from home (my provider is t-com from germany). Can anyone here tell me whether there are internal dsl modem cards available which are supported by openBSD? although it is not ide

slow configure script...

2007-01-12 Thread poncenby smythe
list, when any configure script is checking for standard header files (stdlib.h, memory.h) it hangs for a few seconds on each file, as if it is taking this long to actually find each file on the disk. which i guess is actually happening. making the script take about almost five minutes to com

Re: package dependencies

2006-06-18 Thread poncenby
On 17 Jun 2006, at 11:24, Joachim Schipper wrote: On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 10:47:40PM +0100, poncenby wrote: quick one for you knowledgeable chaps/chapesses... If one does not have OpenBSD installed how would one obtain a list of the dependencies of a certain package, say gnome-desktop for

package dependencies

2006-06-15 Thread poncenby
quick one for you knowledgeable chaps/chapesses... If one does not have OpenBSD installed how would one obtain a list of the dependencies of a certain package, say gnome-desktop for arguments sake? Many thanks poncenby p.s. this question comes from the need to know the exact packages to

OT: thanks

2006-05-31 Thread poncenby
u etc etc and none have performed so well on such poor hardware as openbsd. just thought I'd mail and say thanks and well done guys! p.s. is anyone working on reverse engineering the firmware for usb adsl modems? i'd love to do it myself but would take a very long time :) regards poncenby

OT: parallel port programmer

2006-05-18 Thread poncenby
which will work with uisp-20050207.tgz? merci, poncenby

OT: opinion on this opinion...

2006-05-02 Thread poncenby
platforms, we made Tor fork new processes. This means you need way more memory to run a Tor server, especially an exit server. If you want to run a Tor server, we recommend you upgrade to a better OS." are they correct regarding gethostbyname_r()? thanks poncenby

Re: Best firewall for OpenBSD ?

2006-04-30 Thread poncenby
even the starting thread subject must mean such a question should not be replied to even once. a complete waste of time and possibly the silliest question I've seen on this list. please stop now.

EPIA issues...

2006-03-06 Thread poncenby smythe
temp. I have seen for TSENS2 is 60.60 degC. Does anyone else run a box similar to this? Does anyone know of any big advantages of Soekris boxes rather than EPIA? I've got a feeling the little box will just give up or even worse blow up. Thanks for your time, I appreciate it. poncenby

off topic but possibly interesting to someone...

2006-03-01 Thread poncenby smythe
c, which I can live with but realise it should be much faster. FIrst thoughts is possible bottleneck when waiting for more entropy. If this is the case would adding memory make a huge difference? or is the CPU the bottleneck? any ideas out there? i'll continue googling in the meantime thanks guys, poncenby

Re: ADSL modem intern

2006-02-24 Thread poncenby smythe
e is produced - you need firmware from the Thomson site - /var/log/messages will get filled with the following, when traffic passes through your gateway at around or over 100kbps pppoa2[13927]: write_dest: 3800 ENOBUFS errors Hope it helps poncenby Thanks George -- This email has b

Re: pf not logging to /var/log/pflog...

2006-01-09 Thread poncenby smythe
On 9 Jan 2006, at 19:37, Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, poncenby smythe wrote: On 9 Jan 2006, at 10:43, Olivier Mehani wrote: On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 10:51:12PM +, poncenby smythe wrote: I am running 3.8 GENERIC on i386 and can't figure out why pf isn't logging t

Re: pf not logging to /var/log/pflog...

2006-01-09 Thread poncenby smythe
On 9 Jan 2006, at 10:43, Olivier Mehani wrote: On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 10:51:12PM +, poncenby smythe wrote: I am running 3.8 GENERIC on i386 and can't figure out why pf isn't logging the packets I've told it to, here is a snippet from /etc/ pf.conf... Maybe a stupid che

pf not logging to /var/log/pflog...

2006-01-08 Thread poncenby smythe
ist and it seems some packets have been logged, but only from a couple of days ago. there have been no packets logged since then however running pfctl -s info shows that packets are in fact being dropped. I realise this is a vague email but any pointers would be greatly appreciated... poncenby

Re: tcpdump and libpcap versions...

2005-11-21 Thread poncenby smythe
On 20 Nov 2005, at 23:16, Damien Miller wrote: On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, poncenby smythe wrote: Dear list, Does anyone why the versions of tcpdump and libpcap in 3.8 GENERIC (3.2(i think) and 0.5 respectively) are quite a way off from the current stable releases (0.9.4). Exactly what do you

tcpdump and libpcap versions...

2005-11-19 Thread poncenby smythe
Dear list, Does anyone why the versions of tcpdump and libpcap in 3.8 GENERIC (3.2(i think) and 0.5 respectively) are quite a way off from the current stable releases (0.9.4). Thanks poncenby

Re: binding network interfaces

2005-11-14 Thread poncenby smythe
irable for these two interfaces (em0,em1) to be represented by one 'virtual' interface aliased to em0 and em1, so the full-duplex traffic is seen by tools like tcpdump/argus etc. any thoughts? and what is a round-robin trunk?!?!? thanks for your time poncenby

binding network interfaces

2005-11-14 Thread poncenby smythe
kport em0 trunkport em1 \ 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 and what is a round-robin trunk? thanks for any help and apologies for asking questions I could work out myself , I just don't have access to any openbsd at the moment. poncenby

Re: pxeboot halting...

2005-10-23 Thread poncenby smythe
thanks for the replies, the solution I found was to insert the following line into /etc/dhcpd.conf next-server if this line isn't in then the obsd machine displayed 0.0.0.0 as the server ip. thanks for the replies poncenby On 23 Oct 2005, at 11:04, Bachman Kharazmi wrote: How t

pxeboot halting...

2005-10-22 Thread poncenby smythe
d.old Perhaps I should copy the file bsd.old into the tftpboot directory but I cannot find such a file. Can anyone help me, I have attempted googling but not found much, Any solution and I promise to submit my dmesg! - what an incentive :( thanks in advance poncenby

Re: sendmail and clamd

2005-09-06 Thread poncenby
: milter, amavis etc... Thanks, look here (http://www.clamav.net/3rdparty.html#mta) for ways of using clam with qmail. good luck! poncenby

Re: BSD PPPoA Hardware

2005-08-27 Thread poncenby
t it working, if you want them mail me. poncenby

Re: syslogd udp port

2005-08-05 Thread poncenby
Abraham Al-Saleh wrote: On 8/5/05, poncenby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Firstly I never said mentioned the word security, so I don't know where Tobias got that from. I apologise once again for not searching the archives and reading the man pages. May I suggest some tolerance(does

Re: syslogd udp port

2005-08-05 Thread poncenby
Shawn K. Quinn wrote: On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 07:33 +0100, poncenby wrote: May I suggest some tolerance(doesn't have to be sincere) for people who are simply either too busy or too lazy to read man pages in their entirety. or just simply ignore the email. surely certain people on this

Re: syslogd udp port

2005-08-04 Thread poncenby
oo lazy to read man pages in their entirety. or just simply ignore the email. surely certain people on this list (theo - that's you!) don't actually enjoy patronising their loyal userbase? or perhaps that's openbsd's 'thing'? or if it isn't remind me what is...

syslogd udp port

2005-08-04 Thread poncenby
ding attackers remotely filling logs. can anyone point me in the right direction so this annoying behaviour stops. also, is there a switch for netstat which shows the pid/process for each listening port? thanks in advance poncenby

openbsd and libcap

2005-07-14 Thread poncenby
which are worth mentioning? thanks for your time, I'm sure this post merits the abuse it will obviously generate - or it'll be ignored completely :( poncenby

curious netgear FA511 pcmcia behaviour

2005-07-13 Thread poncenby
ng the installation process, but attempting to use it after installation breaks the whole system? i realise the FA511 is not officially supported by 3.7, but it's confusing why it should work during installation and not afterwards. thanks poncenby

Re: openbsd and dietlibc

2005-07-01 Thread poncenby
Damien Miller wrote: Why? OpenBSD's libc is pretty slim already. If you have need of a further cut-down libc, you could trim it more. Because I want dietlibc for a fnord installation and haven't got the time or experience to fiddle around and get fnord to work with anything but dietlibc. an

openbsd and dietlibc

2005-07-01 Thread poncenby
Hello all being a naturally lazy person i was wondering whether anyone knows of a nice easy, step-by-step guide to modifying the dietlibc source so it will compile on openbsd 3.7. the PORT file in dietlibc source describes (not fully perhaps) waht to do: - edit Makefile to detect the arch

customised network installation...

2005-06-20 Thread poncenby
us to kickstart in Linux? RPM can be used in the %post section of a kickstart.cfg. What is the reason for pkg_add not being available? Thanks for your time poncenby

pf versus ppp for address translation...

2005-06-05 Thread poncenby
noticed ppp can do the whole NAT thing itself. Do any knowledgeable chaps on this list have an opinion on which is the best to use or perhaps some advantages/disadvantages of using either. thanks for your time poncenby