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Hi gang, So I'm setting up my first wireless network for a small business with OpenBSD acting as internet gateway. I am familiar with OpenBSD as gateway but not in the wireless context. I picked myself up a card that the docs say is supported (Linksys WMP54G) and will be installing 4.2 from my CD this evening. At this point I'm asking myself the obvious question. How do I secure my network? I see the authpf is used a lot but is there anything else I can do? What of VPN? If so, what impleme...

I'll take this as the documentation isn't good enough. Can you point me to the area that isn't clear?

Current goal is to get to a functional raid 1 and then we'll move on to It does a little. Some drivers are more reliable than other under failure conditions. The crappy part is that there is only so much we

I've started playing with a CF in a bigger machine, and the results are rather disappointing. wd1 at pciide2 channel 0 drive 0: <TRANSCEND> wd1: 1-sector PIO, LBA, 7775MB, 15924384 sectors wd1(pciide2:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 4 This is a new "266x" CF. Write performance is in the 200..300 kB/s range. It takes six hours or so to copy the OpenBSD CVS repository on that drive. Sequential read performance tops out at about 2300 kB/s. Random access read throughput--running C...

I have a SanDisk Extreme III 2GB (at least I think it's III) in my Soekris net5501 : [weerd@tuna] $ dd if=/dev/zero of=nulls bs=65536 count=1600 1600+0 records in 1600+0 records out 104857600 bytes transferred in 8.604 secs (12186647 bytes/sec) [weerd@tuna] $ dd if=nulls of=/dev/null bs=65536 1600+0 records in 1600+0 records out 104857600 bytes transferred in 9.118 secs (11499110 bytes/sec) [weerd@tuna] $ dmesg | grep SanDisk wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <SanDisk SDCFX3-2048> [weerd...

My sandisks are quite fast (8MB/s or more, though I just had to throw a fairly new SDCFJ-1024 out with read errors?!) - I have a newish kingston which is slow (1.5MB/s "elite pro cf/1GB-S 50x") - and a bunch of assorted old 32-64MB cards, the majority of which are reasonably quick (fujifilm, sandisk and pqi come to mind)

Hi Jan, Sorry for the delay, I overlooked your reply.... If I use exactly the same commands / mount options as you I get less than 1MB/s.... I know that I cannot expect a "good" performance with the CF card, but 5MB/s would just be fine :-) What else can I try? Greetings Stefan My config: fstab: /dev/rd0a / ffs rw,noatime 0 0 # kernel rd/rootfs /dev/svnd0a /usr ffs noauto,ro,noatime,nodev 0 0 /dev/svnd1a /usr/local/sepp ffs noaut...

-----Original Message----- From: owner-misc@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-misc@openbsd.org] On Behalf Of Weldon Goree Sent: 16 November 2007 08:20 AM To: Piet Slaghekke Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Please send email directly to misc@openBSD.org (no cc please) I would like the moon to move closer to the Earth please, so I can study it more effectively. Why did the Apollo guys not think of this? Think of the fuel savings!

hi there, i have upgraded to 4.2 and because i am frequently without net access i see the following: at startup time ntpd just hangs indefinitely and must be terminated. /etc/rc.conf.local: ntpd_flags="-s" /etc/hostname.rl0: dhcp NONE NONE NONE otherwise a stock 4.2 install. could someone test this before i submit a bug report? -f -- so you think you can tell heaven from hell.

I'm quite certain that this issue has indeed existed for a while now, though I cannot say since when exactly. Has beaten me a few times, for example when using a local nameserver in dhclient.conf ("supersede domain-name-server 127.0.0.1"), but forgetting to enable named in rc.conf.local... For now, I'm using rdate (for the big leap) + ntpd. /Alexander

Hi, I've removed the '-s' flag for this reason, although I would very much prefer to have it in place in the case that I have net access. I don't know whether it would be feasible for ntpd to see whether there's an appropriate route, and whether the relevant interfaces are up. Best, --Toni++

In my test case dns is not the real problem, the dns requests are failing as they should. See the diff I sent earlier. -Otto

It is this commit, which manages to keep the outging buffer full. http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/ntpd/client.c.diff?r1=1.75&r2=1... Reverting it makes the problem go away. Still thinking how to solve this. -Otto

Hi there, I am playing with softraid. So far it seems very good. I have a 3 disk volume. If I remove one disk from the machine and boot it up, this is the result: ---8<--- # dmesg | grep softraid0 softraid0 at root softraid0: not assembling partial disk that used to be volume 0 # bioctl softraid0 # ---8<--- Is this correct behavior or is that part not implemented yet? Ideally the volume should continue to function but in some "degraded" state? Is that right? Thanks -- Bes...

Hijacking the thread a bit: Do all your disks need to be the same size to use softraid? softraid(4) and bioctl(8) do not mention anything about that. -Nick

So what happens in that case? If data is written to the end of the larger disk, is it just silently not mirrored on the smaller? -Nick

I assume so. I could not work out a way of rebuilding inconsistent volumes either, but what I see so far looks very promising compared to raidframe. For what it is worth, here are my tests: http://vext01.blogspot.com/2007/11/playing-with-new-softraid-driver-in.html -- Best Regards Edd --------------------------------------------------- http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Well I did this in qemu, so I just halted the VM and booted it again with one disk absent. This should be the same as physically detaching the disk in a real system. Does this help? Thanks for the great work. I'll be around to test if I am needed. -- Best Regards Edd --------------------------------------------------- http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Why has no-one mentioned filtering on X-Loop tag? It works for me.

(-: OK, OK, I love the responses to this request and I get the point (-: Not such a good request. I have listed the responses here (-: *(note: classifications are the sole opinion of this writer and may or may not be shared by others)* ** *thanks everyone for the help on the **"removing a list users" questions, I greatly appreciate it! (-:* *Helpful (thanks Han & Tonnere!)* "I've been struggling with this as well, and you really can't ask all those people to comply with you...

If only there were mail clients that allowed one to filter on To: or Cc:...

Can people please only mail stuff to misc that I'm interested in? Doh.

Is it possible to use CBQ as a weighted round robin queue when the upload bandwidth is highly variable? This is on FreeBSD RELENG_7 which I believe uses pf from OpenBSD 4.1 Example queue idea: Root Queue (1Mbps) big_spenders (500Kbps, priority 5, borrow) normal_folk (500Kbps, priority 3, borrow) Based on my reading of the FAQ it would seem that if your actual upload is less than the queue is configured for the queue would always be congested. ""Queues with a higher priority are prefe...

I though about doing something like that but the usable upload is so variable that 60% could completely knock the normal_folk off when it gets congested. I have 256kbit up right now and get anywhere from as low as 64kbit to 160kbit+ actual throughput depending on how busy the system is. If PF had a weighted round robin queuing system that would be almost perfect because then it would scale with the amount of bandwidth available. Ideally something that says if one queue has priority 5 and another...