ALIX 2 Hangs on boot at date/time

Hi Everyone, I've been googling and reading but haven't been able to find anything that might help me solve a problem. Hoping you might be able to help. I haven't done anything with a ux system in years and forgot most of what I knew. I purchased an ALIX2 with 3 network ports to use as a firewa

Re: ALIX 2 Hangs on boot at date/time

David, Thanks for the suggestion. I'm 99% of the way there. Basically all I need to do is edit "/etc/ttys" to configure something like: tty00 "/usr/libexec/getty std.38400" vt220 on secure and I'll be all set. I've discovered that I can boot into single user mode. That leaves me at t

Opening VPN ports

Hi Everyone, I have an OpenBSD 3.3 transparently bridged packet filtering firewall. I would like to enable a VPN connection through the firewall into a Win2K3 server that sits behind the firewall. I am finding conflicting information on what ports/protocol to open up. Microsoft is saying proto

ATRUN Job / Cron file

Hi everyone, I've been using a cron file (shown below) for some years and it references the atrun command. It appears that the atrun command no longer exists as the man pages no longer reference it. Is there a replacement for the atrun command or is there a means to add it to my system? Below i

DOS Attacks?

I've been fighting a problem with my openbsd firewall for a few days now. The system is a 1 ghz Pentium processor with 512 meg of ram. It's running as a transparent bridged firewall doing nothing but packet filtering. The problem I run into is that it will suddenly stop processing and my internet

Re: DOS Attacks?

ing. Seems reasonable to inquire about OBSD when I'm having a problem that sounds like it might possibly be related, doesn't it? > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Jason Crawford > Sent: Thursday, June 30

Re: DOS Attacks?

here and the problem starts looking like my system I will continue working on it. I just thought it wise to poke my head out of the box for a minute and look around. :) > -Original Message- > From: eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 12:54 PM

Re: DOS Attacks?

> -Original Message- > From: eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 2:25 PM > To: Dave Beckstrom > Cc: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Re: DOS Attacks? > > On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 13:32:04 -0500, Dave Beckstrom proclaimed... > > > Ma

Re: DOS Attacks?

Greg, I believe the problem has already been solved thanks to some help from a gentleman who sent me some information privately. I won't know for certain for a day or two but I am optimistic. I want to thank the people who responded with some suggestions for debugging and things to try. I'm g

Re: DOS Attacks?

4:04 PM > To: Dave Beckstrom > Cc: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Re: DOS Attacks? > > On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 03:26:40PM -0500, Dave Beckstrom wrote: > > Greg, > > > > I believe the problem has already been solved thanks to some help from a > > gentleman who se

Re: DOS Attacks?

> > Actually, I posed a great question for a "misc" list whereas you on the > > other hand are wasting everyone's time including mine. If you > successfully > > make it through puberty let's talk again in a few years... I have a > hunch > > you might be the next Darwin award winner. LOL > > I k