Re: OT: Dell EMC switches

2021-04-09 Thread Tom Smyth
655902-001 QSA adapter. > > > > Which is pretty much what we have in production. :) > > Are you planning to buy new or eBay? There are some pretty good deals on > eBay. > > > > Mischa > > -- Kindest regards, Tom Smyth.

Re: 6.9 Current amd64 xfce seems to freeze and not respond to mouse clicks or keystrokes

2021-04-10 Thread Tom Smyth
Hello, 1) issue does not occur with fvwm or with chrome running in fvwm so the issue seems to be confined to xfce, and I was running just 1 xfce terminal session 2) (so the issue is not related to chromium) Thanks On Fri, 9 Apr 2021 at 19:09, Tom Smyth wrote: > > just to update this

Re: 6.9 Current amd64 xfce seems to freeze and not respond to mouse clicks or keystrokes

2021-04-10 Thread Tom Smyth
Geoff, The force is strong with you :) Thanks that worked xfce-screensaver was active but I was not seeing the screen-saver Appreciate your help Tom Smyth On Sat, 10 Apr 2021 at 22:48, gwes wrote: > > > > On 4/10/21 5:22 PM, Tom Smyth wrote: > > Hello, > > > >

Re: 6.9 Current amd64 xfce seems to freeze and not respond to mouse clicks or keystrokes

2021-04-10 Thread Tom Smyth
wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 10:22:17PM +0100, Tom Smyth wrote: > > Hello, > > > > 1) issue does not occur with fvwm or with chrome running in fvwm > > > > so the issue seems to be confined to xfce, and I was running just 1 > > xfce terminal session

Re: Technical Documentation - CARP

2021-04-13 Thread Tom Smyth
od context and insights... but refer to the manuals also to validate any improved syntax and or features Hope this helps Tom Smyth On Tue, 13 Apr 2021 at 09:34, jannick Weiss wrote: > > Hello,my name is Jannick Weiss and i am currently in the process of taking > my education as a datatechni

Re: Last shutdown date of old OpenBSD machine

2021-04-15 Thread Tom Smyth
. I think i know what it is, but i'm not sure > since it was so long ago. > Therefore booting into single user mode is probably the only choice for > option 1. > > Thank you for your suggestions. > > Br, Ales > > -- Kindest regards, Tom Smyth.

shells/nsh network shells, feedback and comments requested,

2021-04-18 Thread Tom Smyth
do something in NSH that you can do in base. We will be working on it to track current, and hopefully 7.0 release. Thanks Tom Smyth

default Offset to 1MB boundaries for improved SSD (and Raid Virtual Disk) partition alignment

2021-04-20 Thread Tom Smyth
might be worth re-visiting as it would make for more straightforward aligned partitions on OpenBSD installs.. my experience is more for x86 / amd64 rather than other platforms .. Kindest Regards, Tom Smyth -- Kindest regards, Tom Smyth.

Re: default Offset to 1MB boundaries for improved SSD (and Raid Virtual Disk) partition alignment

2021-04-21 Thread Tom Smyth
hardware) Thanks Tom Smyth On Tue, 20 Apr 2021 at 22:52, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > > Tom Smyth: > > > just installing todays snapshot and the default offset on amd64 is 64, > > (as it has been for as long as I can remember) > > It was changed from 63 in 20

Re: default Offset to 1MB boundaries for improved SSD (and Raid Virtual Disk) partition alignment

2021-04-21 Thread Tom Smyth
to reduce wear on SSDs, and improve performance in Virtualized Environments with large allocation units on what ever storage subsystem they are running. Thanks for your time Tom Smyth On Wed, 21 Apr 2021 at 08:49, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 08:20:10AM +0100, Tom

Re: default Offset to 1MB boundaries for improved SSD (and Raid Virtual Disk) partition alignment

2021-04-21 Thread Tom Smyth
ant ,for now anyway, Ill do a little digging on FFS and FFS2 and see how the filesystem database (or table) is structured... Thanks for the feedback it is very helpful to me All the best, Tom Smyth On Wed, 21 Apr 2021 at 15:25, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > > Tom Smyth: > > &

Re: pf: block drop not working

2021-05-05 Thread Tom Smyth
68.163.94.443 > x.y.z.171.53: [no udp cksum] 1+ RRSIG? > pizzaseo.com.(30) (ttl 249, id 55913, len 58) > 0800 532: x.y.z.171.53 > 146.168.163.94.443: [udp sum ok] 1- 0/13/14(490) > (ttl 62, id 53578, len 518) > > > What is wrong in my setup? > > Thanks, Axel > --- > PGP-Key: CDE74120computing @ chaos claudius > -- Kindest regards, Tom Smyth.

Re: gnome, gdm problem on lenovo e14 gen2

2021-05-05 Thread SP2L Tom
nager. Best regards. Tom On 2021-05-04 13:58, Nam Nguyen wrote: Hrvoje Popovski writes: Problem is that when i should get login screen, gdm to ask me for user and password, i'm getting blank grey screen .. after moving through terminals with ctrl-alt fX, from time to time i can get this (

Re: gnome, gdm problem on lenovo e14 gen2

2021-05-06 Thread SP2L Tom
Best regards. Tom

Re: fighting amplification attack --was: Re: pf: block drop not working

2021-05-07 Thread Tom Smyth
t; Is this not possible with udp? > > Axel > --- > PGP-Key: CDE74120computing @ chaos claudius > -- Kindest regards, Tom Smyth.

Why demotion counter for group carp is set to 33 on boot?

2021-07-13 Thread Tom K
system as expected. This ar physical machines. I try to simulate this on vmware, but there is everything fine. Both system starting with demote count 0. I would appreciate any hint to understand this. Tom

Re: Why demotion counter for group carp is set to 33 on boot?

2021-07-13 Thread Tom K
Am 2021-07-13 18:12, schrieb Jorge Peixoto: Tom, Assuming the fw cluster is properly set up, I guess because PF rule states is unsync. As times goes by, states gets synchronized. JP

Re: Why demotion counter for group carp is set to 33 on boot?

2021-07-14 Thread Tom K
but why? If I reboot the other node, the system become MASTER. That is because the other system stops sending carp announcements when you reboot it. This is unrelated to the demote counter. The demote counter only matters as long as another carp MASTER remains visible. A forced failover like

Re: Why demotion counter for group carp is set to 33 on boot?

2021-07-14 Thread Tom K
Am 2021-07-14 13:01, schrieb Stefan Sperling: If the demote count never drops then perhaps pfsync traffic isn't passing properly? tcpdump on pfsync device shows me PFSYNCv6 traffic all the time as well comparing the results of "pfctl -s state" on both systems shows no differences. The same set

Re: ssh IPV6 link local through jumphost

2024-02-23 Thread tom...@yandex.ru
On Fri, 23 Feb 2024 10:49:05 -0700 Ian Timothy wrote: > > On Feb 23, 2024, at 10:33, Tom wrote: > > > > command `ssh user@fe80::262:bff::@em0` works just fine. > > > > `ssh -J user9001@jumpserver user@fe80::262:bff::%em0` > > Don’t know

Fastnetmon on openBSD Can't pass data to stdin of program /usr/local/bin/notify_about_attack.sh

2024-03-26 Thread Tom Smyth
issue. ? Im running OpenBSD 7.4 Stable on amd 64 I have upgraded to OpenBSD 7.5 snapshot and updated the Fastnetmon package Thanks Tom Smyth

Re: Is OpenBSD suited for old Dell Precision T5500 (Dual Xeon X5675, 72GB RAM)

2022-09-07 Thread Tom Smyth
hi i would check bios / firmware settings try disabling memory mapped i/o in bios check processor settings enable vt-d disable hyper threading ensure execute disable is enabled update the bios as it will update cpu microcode ... dell alow you to select the emulation of sata ahci vs raid vs

Re: Is OpenBSD suited for old Dell Precision T5500 (Dual Xeon X5675, 72GB RAM)

2022-09-07 Thread Tom Smyth
separate card or i/o module to the onboard sata ... Hope this helps On Wed, 7 Sept 2022 at 12:19, Erling Westenvik wrote: > On Wed, Sep 07, 2022 at 11:41:49AM +0100, Tom Smyth wrote: > > hi > > > > i would check bios / firmware settings > > > > try disabling memory

Re: Is OpenBSD suited for old Dell Precision T5500 (Dual Xeon X5675, 72GB RAM)

2022-09-07 Thread Tom Smyth
gt; > > the entire USB stick before expecting it to actually work. Nothing to > > > do with the T5500. > > I am puzzled: how exactly is a zero filled USB stick > less panicky than another USB stick? > > -- Kindest regards, Tom Smyth.

Re: embarrassing mail problem

2022-10-05 Thread Tom Smyth
howdy Steve... on newer versions of openBSD open SMTPD legacy tls versions / ciphers are disabled by default... there is an option to allow legact tls versions ( i cant remember the option off hand but man smtpd.conf and search for tls you should find it handy enough...( this caught me out on an up

Re: HP PA-RISC / IA64 hardware platform for Linux Debian, Gentoo, NetBSD, OpenBSD and HP-UX Unix

2022-10-07 Thread Tom Smyth
Hi Jesse, you can check out https://www.openbsd.org/want.html perhaps there is an overlap between developers requirements and what you have surplus, it is a voluntary project so consider donating some hardware to the developers according to that list, Hope this helps, Tom Smyth On Fri, 7

Re: 2FA VPNs

2022-11-01 Thread Tom Smyth
passowrds listed on a card , and ask the user to enter password X ? Thanks, Tom Smyth On Wed, 2 Nov 2022 at 02:14, Stuart Henderson wrote: > If anyone's got any good suggestions on how to do VPNs with 2FA > on an OpenBSD gateway for non-technical users to access (iOS, Android

Re: 0.0.0.0/32 in pf's tables

2022-11-11 Thread Tom Smyth
yeah 0.0.0.0/32 ,( legacy broadcast address is a valid address and would be included in very verbose explicit rules blocking traffic from invalid src addresses ( for example) hope this helps On Fri 11 Nov 2022, 20:23 3, wrote: > a very clever man once said that God does not play dice.. and he w

Re: Suggestions for miniPCI wireless card for an accesspoint on OpenBSD - 2022q4

2022-11-24 Thread Tom Smyth
t; https://www.pcengines.ch/wle200nx.htm > > If you would build today an accesspoint, on hardware with miniPCI, what > would you choose, for OpenBSD? > > -- > Regards, > Mikolaj > > -- Kindest regards, Tom Smyth.

OpenBSD File systems , on Flash / SSD CPE (in sites with uncontrolled power (CPE customer sites)

2022-11-28 Thread Tom Smyth
/dev/MAKEDEV /persist-fs/dev/ cd /persist-fs/dev/ /persist-fs/dev/MAKEDEV all any feedback welcome, are there other folders that could be heavily written to ? is there shortcommings I have ommited swap (because of flash and ssd wear concerns) I hope this helps... Tom Smyth -- Kindest regards

Re: OpenBSD File systems , on Flash / SSD CPE (in sites with uncontrolled power (CPE customer sites)

2022-11-28 Thread Tom Smyth
Mon, 28 Nov 2022 at 21:46, Tom Smyth wrote: > Hello, Folks, > > Im reviewing our filesystem setup for OpenBSD CPEs that we deploy in the > field > > in order to minimise the impact of Power Outages / Customer interference > on the boxes, > we install a 4G root partition

Re: VMM FAQ - 802.11 Prevents Bridging?

2022-12-12 Thread Tom Smyth
want to decend into plugging a propietary solution ... I hope this helps Tom Smyth On Mon, 12 Dec 2022 at 22:35, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2022-12-12, c0ry wrote: > > Hey folks, > > > > I noticed this line in the VMM FAQ ( > > https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq16

Re: bgpd.conf rules changed?

2022-12-19 Thread Tom Smyth
prefixes to your upstream peers... man bgpd.conf will show any other syntax that may be depreciated... ( I have nevever set the softreconfig I *think* it is now a default ... I hope this helps, Tom Smyth On Mon, 19 Dec 2022 at 11:59, Toni Mueller wrote: > > > Hi, > > I am tryin

Re: BiDi sfp in ix

2023-01-02 Thread Tom Smyth
P and that BiDI sfp works on mikrotik > RB5009UG+S+IN and cisco 2960 switch. On aruba 2540 (allow unsupported > transceiver), ibm switch and openbsd ix(4) it won't work. > > I've ordered few BiDi sfp from fs.com and maybe my ISP will lend me > MaxLink sfp so I could test them in lab. > > Thank you Stuart for information ... > -- Kindest regards, Tom Smyth.

Re: Max number of NICs

2023-01-23 Thread Tom Smyth
D host (vmx) > > I am asking because I am running an OpenBSD on a VMware host but apparently > OpenBSD can only see 8 of them. > > Can I raise the limit somehow? > > Regards, Lars. -- Kindest regards, Tom Smyth.

Re: Max number of NICs

2023-01-24 Thread Tom Smyth
> expecting some kind of issue, but when I told him they were dc(4)s, > he was disappointed and said, "Well, of course those will work". > > I had a machine for a while with something like ten or > eleven em(4)s in it, I had fired it up, don't recall seeing any > problems with it identifying all the ports (in fact, iirc, it found > a port on the MoBo that was not extended to the outside). Again, > no issue, but after staring at the power hungry box for many years > and never doing anything with it, it finally got recycled. Again, > that was many releases ago...so not sure how it applies today. > > Current FW box is a old citrix appliance with a six port NIC and two > onboard ports, for eight em(4)s. > > Nick. > -- Kindest regards, Tom Smyth.

Re: OpenBSD as a transparent switch filter

2023-01-24 Thread Tom Smyth
it but I miss a > starting point and I would > really appreciate any hint. > > Kind regards, > Claudiu > -- Kindest regards, Tom Smyth.

Re: OpenBSD as a transparent switch filter

2023-01-24 Thread Tom Smyth
helps... On Tue, 24 Jan 2023 at 12:24, Claudio Jeker wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 11:43:08AM +0000, Tom Smyth wrote: > > Hello Cristian, > > if you want to filter on layer 2 ... you would need to use Bridge > > have a look at man ifconfig(8) > > bridge filt

Re: Software RAID5 write performance

2023-01-24 Thread Tom Smyth
t; P.S.: Anyone using RAID5 with SSD drives? How is the write speed there? > > Best wishes, > Atanas > -- Kindest regards, Tom Smyth.

Re: OpenBSD as a transparent switch filter

2023-01-24 Thread Tom Smyth
ARP for. eg: > > $ cat /etc/commarp.conf > interface em0 { > allow 192.168.1.16 - 192.168.1.254 > } > > There’s no point rewriting ARP requests for the IP your router is using on > that subnet, or carp addresses on that subnet, etc. > > > > On 24 Jan 2023,

Re: OpenBSD as a transparent switch filter

2023-01-25 Thread Tom Smyth
minimising broadcast waste of bandwidth (on large wireless access networks) On Tue, 24 Jan 2023 at 23:53, David Gwynne wrote: > > > > On 25 Jan 2023, at 09:47, Tom Smyth > wrote: > > > > Hi David is that like a local proxy arp type setup (on typical > > netwo

Re: OpenBSD as a transparent switch filter

2023-01-25 Thread Tom Smyth
(ususally ) moan about it watch your mac address table size and your hardware capacity on your switch...with this stuff... (know your switch hardware capacity and specs) i hope ths helps... On Wed, 25 Jan 2023 at 15:14, Cristian Danila wrote: > Thank you so much Tom and David for giving me id

Re: How to announce over OSPF only one IP address

2023-02-04 Thread Tom Smyth
t; > $ cat /etc/hostname.vr3 > inet 10.1.111.1 255.255.255.0 > > $ cat /etc/ospfd.conf > router-id 10.109.3.15 > redistribute connected > > area 0.0.0.0 { > interface vr0 > interface vr3 > } > > Thanks, > Radek > > -- Kindest regards, Tom Smyth.

Re: Lightweight Web browser

2023-02-06 Thread Tom Smyth
this issue (of network timeouts for certain applications I hope this helps, Tom Smyths On Mon, 6 Feb 2023 at 15:41, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi, > > Rodrigo Readi wrote: > > Can someone recommend a lightweight Browser that support javascript? > > "Lightweight" i

Re: fragmented ipv4[udp] ignored by server.

2023-03-05 Thread Tom Smyth
t > id=5 > 12 0.26551410.10.2.1 ? 10.10.2.10 RADIUS 161 > Access-Challenge id=5 > 13 0.266328 10.10.2.10 ? 10.10.2.1RADIUS 191 Access-Request > id=6 > 14 0.28460710.10.2.1 ? 10.10.2.10 RADIUS 226 Access-Accept id=6 > > Question: How to avoid altering fragment_size to get this working ? > > Some clients could not be set so easily like phones. > > Thank you. > > Mikhael. > > -- Kindest regards, Tom Smyth.

Folks are there any tips to improve page load times on smokeping running on OpenBSD

2023-03-06 Thread Tom Smyth
ol Shows the latency of the \ Wireless Connectnetwork. alerts = Sustained_5%_loss,Sudden_10%_Loss,Sporadic_Loss,Latency_Over_50ms,Offline_at_startup #config-sniped######### smoke1# rcctl ls started cron dhcpleased httpd ntpd pflogd resolvd rrdcached smokeping smokeping_fcgi smtpd sshd syslogd -- Kindest regards, Tom Smyth.

Upgrading from 7.2 stable to 7.3 current dig crashes (core-dumped) breaking smokeping

2023-03-07 Thread Tom Smyth
1.00/1.00 addr 1 isa0 at pcib0 isadma0 at isa0 pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 irq 1 irq 12 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot) wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 spkr0 at pcppi0 vmm0 at mainbus0: VMX/EPT (using slow L1TF mitigation) vscsi0 at root scsibus3 at vscsi0: 256 targets softraid0 at root scsibus4 at softraid0: 256 targets root on sd0a (59cdf031e4c1fe67.a) swap on sd0b dump on sd0b smoke1# uname -va OpenBSD smoke1server.com 7.3 GENERIC.MP#1094 amd64 -- Kindest regards, Tom Smyth.

Re: Upgrading from 7.2 stable to 7.3 current dig crashes (core-dumped) breaking smokeping

2023-03-07 Thread Tom Smyth
Hi Peter, Thanks for that ... you are 100% correct... I was caught off guard with that thanks ... I Think I need to go through my upgrades ... for more RmFiles... :/ Thanks it worked just fine... Much Obliged, Tom Smyth On Tue, 7 Mar 2023 at 12:48, Peter Hessler wrote: > On 2023

Re: Folks are there any tips to improve page load times on smokeping running on OpenBSD

2023-03-07 Thread Tom Smyth
0 1264K 1956K idle kqread0:00 0.00% ntpd 30532 root 20 1716K 2164K idle kqread0:00 0.00% smtpd On Tue, 7 Mar 2023 at 08:36, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2023/03/07 07:10, Tom Smyth wrote: > > I m running smokeping fcgi and rrdcached ontop of OpenbSD, to smok

Re: Folks are there any tips to improve page load times on smokeping running on OpenBSD

2023-03-07 Thread Tom Smyth
SmokePing of Wireless Connect Ltd. \ This Tool Shows the latency of the \ Wireless Connectnetwork. alerts = Sustained_5%_loss,Sudden_10%_Loss,Sporadic_Loss,Latency_Over_50ms,Offline_at_startup #####config-sniped# smoke1# rcctl ls started cron dhcpleas

Re: Folks are there any tips to improve page load times on smokeping running on OpenBSD

2023-03-08 Thread Tom Smyth
4:16, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2023/03/07 14:38, Tom Smyth wrote: > > the config below seems to get rrdcached working with httpd in OpenBSD. ... > > Thanks, I've added this to the pkg-readme. > > > the loading of the smokeping detailed graphs still takes a whi

Re: Folks are there any tips to improve page load times on smokeping running on OpenBSD

2023-03-08 Thread Tom Smyth
is way faster ... for the user interface... ... Ill let you know if there are any negative impact on the graphs ... Thanks Tom Smyth On Wed, 8 Mar 2023 at 15:21, Tom Smyth wrote: > > Hello > I found that RRDCached helps with the gaps in the graphs... (write > i/o burst smoothi

Re: Upgrading from 7.2 stable to 7.3 current dig crashes (core-dumped) breaking smokeping

2023-03-08 Thread Tom Smyth
Folks, just on this changing the binary /usr/sbin/dig... to /usr/bin/dig and going from 7.2 to 7.3 massive drop in latency of queries in a local dns server in the same datacentre ... just thought it would be useful ... before and after smoke graph below On Tue, 7 Mar 2023 at 14:30, Tom Smyth

Re: Folks are there any tips to improve page load times on smokeping running on OpenBSD

2023-03-08 Thread Tom Smyth
t; > You shouldn't need that bit (and it is safer not to) - smokeping_fcgi > > does not chroot. > > > > > Hmm, I did this on the basis of a post by you (5/11/20) in response to Tom > (5/10/20) which I interpreted as needing several files moved into www "jail."

Re: Folks are there any tips to improve page load times on smokeping running on OpenBSD

2023-03-10 Thread Tom Smyth
afer not to) - smokeping_fcgi > > > does not chroot. > > > > > > > > Hmm, I did this on the basis of a post by you (5/11/20) in response to Tom > > (5/10/20) which I interpreted as needing several files moved into www > > "jail." >

Re: How to announce over OSPF only one IP address

2023-03-17 Thread Tom Smyth
your ospf area in your ospfd.conf file Note when you redistribute a static address it will appear as an external route in the The link state advertisements from the router ... (it wont be an intra area route) which can affect the route metric during the route selection process... Thanks Tom Smyth

coverity running on OpenBSD to scan a port

2023-04-12 Thread Tom Smyth
Folks, does anyone have experience on running coverity on OpenBSD ... Im trying to scan a port im maintaining at the minute... there does not seem to be binaries for coverity for OpenBSD Tjanks -- Kindest regards, Tom Smyth.

Re: coverity running on OpenBSD to scan a port

2023-04-13 Thread Tom Smyth
Thanks for that... Ill setup a test system so ... Thanks On Thu, 13 Apr 2023 at 07:33, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2023-04-12, Tom Smyth wrote: > > does anyone have experience on running coverity on OpenBSD ... > > Im trying to scan a port im maintaining at the minute...

Re: Random crashes with Intel D945GCLF2

2008-12-17 Thread Tom Spencer
... Rev 1.84 of sys/arch/amd64/amd64/machdep.c also fixes the dmesg-output on my Thinkpad X200, a Centrino 2 system. Thx Mark! - Robert Just thought I'd add my thanks, R1.84 of machdep.c fixed corrupt dmesg on two 965 machines of mine (DQ965GF and DG965OT, both Intel boards). Thanks! - tom

Re: i386 kernel panic with 1/9/09 snapshot

2009-01-11 Thread Tom Cosgrove
= 1016823808 (969MB) mainbus0 at root Thanks Tom >>> Barry Commander 9-Jan-09 14:59 >>> > > Hi > This is the first problem I've had with OpenBSD, I think I've attached all > relevant information but if i've neglected anything please let me kno

Re: trying to install LPRng

2009-01-22 Thread Tom Rosso
> I am running 4.4 and tried to install LPRng: > uname: OpenBSD getlost.my.domain 4.4 GENERIC#0 i386 > > When I type "sudo pkg_add LPRng", I get the following: > parsing LPRng-3.8.21p2 > Can't install LPRng-3.8.21p2: lib not found c.43.0 > c.43.0: partial match in /usr/lib: major=48, minor=0 (bad m

Uk wireless usb modems

2009-02-06 Thread Tom Jones
Hi, I am wondering whether there are any users based in the UK that are using usb wireless modems(advertised as Mobile Broadband). I have done some research into the freely available(with contract at least) usb modems in the UK, but all the manufacture detail is hidden behind carrier branding. I

Re: Uk wireless usb modems

2009-02-06 Thread Tom Jones
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Pedro la Peu wrote: @Tom Jones - ask to see the device when you are in the shop. Many have the make / model on the underside. You should also read this: I was thinking about trying that, have you ever seen any on display in stores? Wouldn't mind plugging them in in-

Huawei Modem Setup

2009-02-15 Thread Tom Jones
I got a HUAWEI E169 usb modem on the three carrier, here in the UK. I am completely lost on how to set the modem up, Ive been through the example from the FAQ and from some Linux sources, but I would really appreciate if someone could give an example of their ppp.conf or similar that is working o

Re: Huawei Modem Setup

2009-02-18 Thread Tom Jones
page. While SSH and ftp connects are working, I cannot get through to anywhere with a web browser and attempts using cvs leave the connection hanging. Anyone have any ideas? TJ On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, Stefan Sperling wrote: Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:45:34 + From: Stefan Sperling To: Tom Jones

Re: PF Outbound traffic Load Balancing over multiple tun/openvpn interfaces/tunnels

2018-11-27 Thread Tom Smyth
out quick on { $if_ext } from self to any set prio (3,6) > > > > #Load balance outbound traffic from internal network across tun1 and tun2 - > > THIS IS NOT WORKING - IT ONLY USES FIRST TUNNEL > > pass in quick on { $if_int } to any route-to { (tun1 10.8.8.1), (tun2 > > 10.8.8.1) } rou

Re: PF Outbound traffic Load Balancing over multiple tun/openvpn interfaces/tunnels

2018-11-27 Thread Tom Smyth
Sorry the "here" I was referring to earlier was "here" as shown below https://lab.rickauer.com/post/2017/07/16/OpenBSD-rtables-and-rdomains > Howdy... > starting Openvpn in different rdomains works pretty well for us > > a crude way of doing that ... is to add the following line to the > botto

sh /etc/netstart interface counter intuitive behaviour with multiple inet aliases 6.4 and 6.3

2018-12-06 Thread Tom Smyth
Thanks Tom Smyth

Re: sh /etc/netstart interface counter intuitive behaviour with multiple inet aliases 6.4 and 6.3

2018-12-07 Thread Tom Smyth
Thanks Tom Smyth On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 at 13:09, Martin Pieuchot wrote: > > On 06/12/18(Thu) 22:49, Tom Smyth wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Im running a router with multiple ips on an interface using the > > inet alias > > > > issue: > > when commenting

Re: sh /etc/netstart interface counter intuitive behaviour with multiple inet aliases 6.4 and 6.3

2018-12-07 Thread Tom Smyth
t line in /etc/hostname.vio4 > It will nuke all v4 addresses and re-add them. > > Depending on your usecase this might work for you or it might melt > down your whole network ;) > > On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 10:49:01PM +, Tom Smyth wrote: > > Hello, > > > >

Re: OpenBSD & OpenBGPD router replacement

2018-12-18 Thread Tom Smyth
s on the server - one facing the Internet and one > facing our equipment. > > Would the access switch in this configuration be a bad idea? Should I keep > things directly homed on the server? > > And my last question - are there any specific NICs that I should look for > and/or avoid wh

Re: OpenBSD & OpenBGPD router replacement

2018-12-18 Thread Tom Smyth
control flow of traffic between your edge routers and your Stateful Firewalls Hope This Helps Tom Smyth On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 at 01:52, Max Clark wrote: > > Thanks Arnaud - I understand that it's not a stateful protocol/failover. > It's interesting from the standpoint that if I

Re: Pf traffic redirection on internal lan

2018-12-19 Thread Tom Smyth
priority 0 llprio 3 > groups: pflog > $ > > > i tried a syntax suggestion in on the bottom page of: > https://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/rdr.html > without any luck... > > > i am just getting timeouts here, does anyone know how i could solve this? > > > T

Re: Missing libraries after upgrade to 6.4

2018-12-20 Thread Tom Smyth
now helps find the correct packages from your favourite mirror and simply populate /etc/installurl with the url of your favourite mirror, man installurl for more details I hope this helps Tom Smyth On Thu, 20 Dec 2018 at 22:13, John Ankarström wrote: > > Hello all, > > I have

Re: Httpd unix socket

2018-12-22 Thread Tom Smyth
how to get httpd to use unix sockets? > > The only solution i could image was to monkey hack a fastcgi socket to > reverse proxy to the regular socket, this was without success. > > > Take Care > Sincerely Filip -- Kindest regards, Tom Smyth Mobile: +353 87 6193172 The inf

Re: Best way to change disk layout?

2018-12-24 Thread Tom Smyth
had to move /usr and /usr/X11R6 and it was just not worth > the effort given the drive in question is pretty much just the system > whereas the content for the services it runs is on other drives. > > > > Nick. > > > -- Kindest regards, Tom Smyth Mobile: +353 87 619317

Re: Openbsd 6.1 and Current Console Freezes and lockup Proxmox PVE5.0

2019-01-03 Thread Tom Smyth
/kvm_intel/parameters/preemption_timer so OpenBSD Runs fine on an unmodified Proxmox 5.3 Box ... so the KVM / Linux Bug that caused OpenBSD guests to Freeze seems to be resolved in Proxmox 5.3 ... (so users of 5.0 , 5.1 may want to upgrade to the latest version of Proxmox I hope this helps Tom Smyth

Re: Ignore MTU on OSPFD

2019-01-14 Thread Tom Smyth
that is interconnecting the devices also supports jumbo frames of that size (and has jumbo frames enabled) you can force the MTU to a value using ifconfig or hostname.if configuration files I hope this helps Tom Smyth On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 at 20:29, Henry Bonath wrote: > Is it possible to

Re: BGP Redistribution question

2019-01-14 Thread Tom Smyth
Claudio / Job et all are doing some great work on that at the moment ... ) https://www.ssi.gouv.fr/uploads/2016/03/bgp-configuration-best-practices.pdf ( just be careful with URPF strict mode (if you have multiple paths use loose instead) I hope this Helps Tom Smyth PS ... My recommendations

Re: BGP Redistribution question

2019-01-14 Thread Tom Smyth
gt; I will continue to play around with this, just wondering if anybody has a > "good practice" way of dynamically advertising the network. > > Cheers, > Simon. > -- Kindest regards, Tom Smyth Mobile: +353 87 6193172 The information contained in this E-mail is intended onl

Re: Wireguard Pre and Post Routing for OpenBSD

2019-02-04 Thread Tom Smyth
Hi Larry >From looking at your config it looks like when the wiregusrd interface comes up You want to allow forward traffic And you want masqurade traffic leaving on eth0 1)You dont really need to add and remove those rules as the wireguard tunnel comes up id suggest just adding firewall rules st

Re: emmc support on Ubiquiti Networks UniFi Security Gateway PRO-4

2019-02-12 Thread Tom Smyth
ntroller. > > Tested on EdgeRouter Pro, and Shasta." > > Therefore I should be able to install on the emmc, correct assumption? > > If so, is there a good way to dump existing factory firmware from emmc > before I install OpenBSD? At some point I may have to restore to > factory. &

Re: emmc support on Ubiquiti Networks UniFi Security Gateway PRO-4

2019-02-12 Thread Tom Smyth
the firmware for the USG pro you can do a dry run of the recovery firmware before you load the OpenBSD OS on the USG I hope this helps... Tom On Tue, 12 Feb 2019 at 23:41, Diana Eichert wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 4:28 PM Tom Smyth > wrote: > > > > Hi Diana, > >

Best practices for validating downloaded config files in OpenBSD

2019-02-21 Thread Tom Smyth
g if there is something like rcctl.subr that my shell script could call with functions that have been written by smarter people than I, any suggestions would be welcome , -- Kindest regards, Tom Smyth

Re: IBM x3650 M3 fatal page fault in supervisor mode

2019-03-12 Thread Tom Smyth
use memory above 4GB for for PCI-E I/O sorry I cant be more specific... I just cant remember ... it was about 5 years ago... :/ but check out any advanced I/O PCI-E settings on your server board Bios I hope this helps Tom Smyth On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 at 21:34, Marco Nuessgen wrote: > >

Re: 63 bit certificate ID is libressl affected?

2019-03-13 Thread Tom Smyth
Thanks Ingo for your (as always) good attention to detail and detailed feedback I really appreciate it ... Point taken Ingo re the patch... :) and tech@ :) and discussion duly moved to misc@ it was more of a heads up Ill work on my programming skills :) cheers, Tom Smyth On Wed, 13 Mar

Re: serial console images for installing on vmd based guests

2019-03-13 Thread Tom Smyth
o stupid to use Linux. I know grub-based boot loaders give > you that option, but then I went to try Alpine Linux, and from what I'm > finding, I have to setup a config file put it back into the ISO. > -- Kindest regards, Tom Smyth Mobile: +353 87 6193172 The information contained

Re: ARP issues when using ldpd and MPLS pseudowires

2019-03-13 Thread Tom Smyth
like that, If you still need to use vmware on a lesser license perhaps a multiport card + sriov and avoid their poor virtual switches basically you will have a lot of hassle with that, I hope this helps ... 352 days later :/ Tom Smyth PS Einstein once said " you should make things as sim

NTP server on OpenBSD6.4 on KVM Guest clock drift (fixed in OpenBSD6.5 beta)

2019-03-20 Thread Tom Smyth
Hello I Had noticed that NTP updates to network devices were frequently hundreds of ms and even sometimes a few seconds of an adjustment on network devices that were configured to use my 2 OpenBSD NTP servers, logging into NTP servers and checking /var/log/daemon would see the log peppered with

Is it worth considering compling a generic MPPF kernel for user convenience

2019-04-02 Thread Tom Smyth
least 2x performance from my lab testing here I think having a higher install base of consistently complied generic kernels with pf enabled would be beneficial what do the more experienced users of OpenBSD think about this? are there any down sides with this approach ? Thanks, Tom Smyth

Re: Is it worth considering compling a generic MPPF kernel for user convenience

2019-04-02 Thread Tom Smyth
in my blood pressure :) On Tue, 2 Apr 2019 at 12:33, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > No, this is not our style, it very much doesn't fit the development > process to have users running prototype code for 6 months. > > And anyways why do you want this, since pf is going away.

Re: Is it worth considering compling a generic MPPF kernel for user convenience

2019-04-02 Thread Tom Smyth
gt; > __ > kolargol > > Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. > > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > On Tuesday, April 2, 2019 1:30 PM, Tom Smyth > wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I was wondering what devs / more experienced users think about > > having

Re: Viewing SFP diagnostic data in OpenBSD ?

2019-04-02 Thread Tom Smyth
info specific to the cards there I hope this helps Tom Smyth On Tuesday, 2 April 2019, Rachel Roch wrote: > Hi, > > Hopefully I'm just searching the man pages wrong but I can't seem to find > any hints as to how I can view SFP diagnostics in OpenBSD (i.e. light power >

Re: Add current rtable to PS1

2019-04-02 Thread Tom Smyth
7;ps -aux -o rtable' > > and using some grep/cut-fu but I am not happy with the results. > > > > Perhaps there is something simpler that I am missing? > > Yes, `id -R` "Display the routing table of the current process": > > PS1="[\u@$\h:\w](rd

Re: Viewing SFP diagnostic data in OpenBSD ?

2019-04-02 Thread Tom Smyth
+1 for me also :) ix :) On Tue, 2 Apr 2019 at 23:38, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > :-) >

Re: Viewing SFP diagnostic data in OpenBSD ?

2019-04-04 Thread Tom Smyth
Hi David, yeah intel Pro 1000 chipsets with SFP were common enough back in the day... (probably still common) Thanks Tom Smyth On Fri, 5 Apr 2019 at 02:00, David Gwynne wrote: > > you have em(4) with sfp? > > > On 4 Apr 2019, at 18:55, Marco Prause wrote: > > > > I

Re: RS-232 serial to ethernet

2019-04-08 Thread Tom Smyth
------ > > > > LÉVAI Dániel > > PGP key ID = 0x83B63A8F > > Key fingerprint = DBEC C66B A47A DFA2 792D 650C C69B BE4C 83B6 3A8F > > -- Kindest regards, Tom

Re: Reflected IBGP VPNv4 Routes overstaying their welcome

2019-04-08 Thread Tom Smyth
think the neighbour would withdraw the routes until the hold time has expired ... im subject to correction on this one... but it is the behaviour I have empirically observed on the bgp routers that i manage I hope this helps Tom Smyth On Mon, 8 Apr 2019 at 22:11, Henry Bonath wrote: > >

Re: OpenBGP announce customer routes

2019-04-11 Thread Tom Smyth
rated from a customer AS & > prefixes to an EBGP neighbor in Openbgpd? > > Can I somehow create an outgoing prefix list our something like a > route-map for outgoing filtering? > > Please help > > -- Kindest regards, Tom Smyth The information contained in this E-mail i

6.5 OpenBSD (amd64) ifconfig iwn join / nwid not connecting with Open Wifi Nets with a space in the SSID

2019-04-16 Thread Tom Smyth
1 interface 0 "Intel Rate Matching Hub" rev 2.00/0.00 addr 2 vscsi0 at root scsibus2 at vscsi0: 256 targets softraid0 at root scsibus3 at softraid0: 256 targets sd2 at scsibus3 targ 1 lun 0: SCSI2 0/direct fixed sd2: 238471MB, 512 bytes/sector, 488389489 sectors root on sd2a (5cf8e277253f15df.a) swap on sd2b dump on sd2b -- Kindest regards, Tom Smyth

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