Re: Only two holes in a heck of a long time, but why?

2014-04-03 Thread Scott Learmonth
The statement holds true though (well, I trust it does, I can't verify). They're "bragging" about holes, or lack thereof, in their software, not third party software. It's a matter of personal preference how much needs to be added to a base install to make it good for your use. I use complete base

Re: USB to ethernet adapter

2011-12-08 Thread Scott Learmonth
I used a Trendnet TU2-ET100 for a few years on a Mac Mini. Never had an issue. On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Wesley M. wrote: > Hi, > > I'm going to build a small firewall with proxy cache for web. > Using an Apple Mac mini. For the second ethernet, i will use : > - Trendnet TU2-ETG OR Apple M

Re: About spam (Re: Westpac Account Message)

2011-09-04 Thread Scott Learmonth
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 9:39 PM, Javier Bassi wrote: > On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 1:09 AM, Hassan Monfared > wrote: > > don't spam please!! > > > > Replying to phishing isn't gonna help. I know rule n:1 of mailing > lists is not to comply about spam, but since we are already offtopic > in this thread

Re: I'm too stupid to understand this fsck prompt.

2011-09-02 Thread Scott Learmonth
I may be sticking my foot in it, but isn't it Force all further prompts to yes? On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 7:06 PM, ropers wrote: > I'm at the point where one of my old machines' hard drives is giving > up the ghost and I'm trying to do this: > > > THE FOLLOWING FILE SYSTEM HAD AN UNEXPECTED INCONSI

Re: Advice on learning C as first language

2010-11-24 Thread Scott Learmonth
It something I keep dabbling in - very sowly - I find this a good pace for my totally noob self: It started out as a reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/carlhprogramming And morphed to: http://www.highercomputingforeveryone.com/ It's certainly a "start from zero" but I like the pace, and the C b

Re: OpenBSD users.

2010-07-18 Thread Scott Learmonth
This really is polluting the list... But Victoria Canada. Sent from my iPhone On 2010-07-18, at 10:18 PM, Sergey Bronnikov wrote: Russia/Sergiev Posad -- sergeyb@

Re: installing amd64 using i386 to boot then amd64 for install?

2010-03-15 Thread Scott Learmonth
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:11:40PM -0700, J.C. Roberts wrote: > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:59:01 +1100 Cameron Simpson > wrote: > > > I have the apparently common problem of CD2 (amd64) from the OpenBSD > > distro not booting on an IBM x336. And of course there's no floppy > > and the box won't boot

Re: $100 to configure ALTQ on a 4.6 router

2010-02-22 Thread Scott Learmonth
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 05:59:18PM -0800, Ted Walther wrote: > I have a simple setup; a soekris box running 4.6 doing NAT for my local > network. > > I'd like a configuration to give skype traffic top priority, then my DNS > server, then ssh sessions, then http and SSL, then everything else, and >

Re: Jacek Books

2010-02-17 Thread Scott Learmonth
The real point in all of this is that, right or wrong, it doesn't belong on this mailing list. On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:51:16PM -0600, Bill Dunshie wrote: > By posting regarding this situation, possibly it will help others > from being swindled. I paid for the "Firewall Book", and as stated, >

Re: CARP Failover

2010-02-15 Thread Scott Learmonth
fails it > will automatically fail the other. > > am I correct. > > Thank you for your help, > Joe > > > > > ____ > From: Scott Learmonth > > To: misc@openbsd.org > Sent: Mon, February 15, 2010 > 6:30:39 PM > Subjec

Re: CARP Failover

2010-02-15 Thread Scott Learmonth
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 03:19:17PM -0800, Joseph Fran?ois wrote: > Hello, > > I am building a redundant OpenBSD 4.6 firewall for our > startup. We > will have > a block of IP address that we will be NATed and > redirect to many > internal web servers > and an FTP server. We will also have an IPs

Re: What does your environment look like?

2010-02-10 Thread Scott Learmonth
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:38:58AM -0500, Jeremy O'Brien wrote: > On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 09:08:38PM -0500, Brynet wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I know not everyone uses OpenBSD for a desktop OS, but I have been for > > nearly 5 years and I'm quite curious about some of your opinions? do you > > embrace

Re: looking for help with encryption and boot setup

2010-02-07 Thread Scott Learmonth
On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 09:48:03PM +0100, Gergely Fazekas wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking for help with setting up my laptop with OpenBSD. I'm pretty new > to *BSD, so please, bear with me, as I'm eager and capable to learn. :-) > > What I'd like to achieve: dual boot with Windows XP, with the fo

Re: Fw: pico and/or nano in the releases and snapshots

2010-02-03 Thread Scott Learmonth
I've been avoiding this OP, but I guess I'll weigh in now. This smells like roe. Don't feed it. On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 01:54:07AM +0100, Jesus Sanchez wrote: > El 04/02/2010 0:52, Giridhari escribis: > >Hare Krsna. > > > > > >From: Giridhari > >Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 7:37 AM > >To: d

Re: -CURRENT, VLANs, NAT

2010-02-02 Thread Scott Learmonth
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 08:18:33PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2010-02-02, Scott Learmonth wrote: > > Yes, the syntax has changed. I only briefly looked, but the faq > > seems dated. The man page is correct. > > The main FAQ always relates to the last release, 4.6. &

Re: -CURRENT, VLANs, NAT

2010-02-01 Thread Scott Learmonth
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 06:02:07PM -0800, Scott Learmonth wrote: > On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 04:27:12PM -0800, James Peltier wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I'm trying to setup a new router/firewall for multiple VLANs including one > > VLAN that must be NAT and I seem

Re: -CURRENT, VLANs, NAT

2010-02-01 Thread Scott Learmonth
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 04:27:12PM -0800, James Peltier wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm trying to setup a new router/firewall for multiple VLANs including one > VLAN that must be NAT and I seem to be running into an odd issue. > > OS is OpenBSD 4.7-BETA; Jan 27, 2010 snapshot from ftp.openbsd.org > >

Re: The insecurity of OpenBSD

2010-01-22 Thread Scott Learmonth
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:13:38PM -0500, Dan Harnett wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 07:22:58AM -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote: > > It doesn't and I'll argue all day that it won't help you a bit. > > I couldn't agree more. > > > BTW, microsoft implemented every single ACL type mechanism the NSA e

Re: Client no-ip in the OpenBSD.

2010-01-15 Thread Scott Learmonth
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 02:38:15PM -0300, PsYkHe wrote: > Hello!! > > Anybody already use the client of no-ip in the OpenBSD? > > I am, seems to be fine. If I recall it was very simple. pkg_add no-ip I should disclose though that my IP hasn't actually changed yet.

Re: Development at the hackathon

2008-06-10 Thread Scott Learmonth
I have 2 units (almost anyway) set up now for pf-pfsync-carp-dhcpd- ipsec-blahblah-andsomeotherstuff, with some users behind it, all for testing, no production. Looking forward to keeping up with the tree when I can. Good luck in Edmondchuck, and have fun all, we look forward to reading ab

Re: "remove any unwanted devices from the kernel. "

2008-06-06 Thread Scott Learmonth
As someone else who writes code for this fine os would say: removing drivers is pure masturbation. Hah, perfect. As a first foray into BSD I stumbled upon FreeBSD. To make it do what I wanted, step one was to compile a custom kernel. BOOYAH, I got a geek-on. A few months later I had chose

Re: Encrypted filesystems

2008-06-04 Thread Scott Learmonth
On 4-Jun-08, at 10:09 AM, Alphons Fonz van Werven wrote: Josh Grosse wrote: There's no "cryptfs" in OpenBSD's ports tree. Sorry - I must have been using FreeBSD for too long ;-) In OpenBSD, either vnconfig(8) or mount_vnd(8) are used to mount filesystem images, with or without encryption.

Re: ipsec home network to colo server

2008-05-14 Thread scott learmonth
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Lord Sporkton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> I am trying to set up a ipsec link between my home network(private ip >> network behind dynamic public ip) >> and my colo server(single public static ip). I was a bit unclear on >> how to set up a tunnel between a s

Newbie x509 question

2008-05-10 Thread scott learmonth
ns of using an existing device (one of my OpenBSD firewalls) as the CA, or is it technically impossible (see 3) below)? 3) If I roll my own, from a technical standpoint, does my CA need to be a unique and separate device, ie is it required to be a third party in isakmpd negotiations? Thanks, Scott Learmonth

Re: VPN Concentrator

2007-11-30 Thread Scott Learmonth
On 30-Nov-07, at 9:57 PM, Jason Dixon wrote: On Dec 1, 2007, at 12:37 AM, visc wrote: On 30-Nov-07, at 2:13 AM, Khalid Schofield wrote: Hi, I'd like to make a VPN Concentrator using openbsd. I want users to be able to authenticate using usernames and passwords and to either nat the users