A friend and I are both on dynamic IP residential broadband connections. We both use OpenBSD boxes as edge devices. We were wondering if it were possible to create an ipsec tunnel between us, even though we both have dynamic public IPs. The documentation I've read seems to suggest that at least _somebody_ must have a static IP. I can understand that at some point, needing the public IPs is necessary for setting up the tunnel, but is it possible that dyndns or some other dynamic mechansim ...

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What's your question? AFAICS there's nothing like "ip local-proxy-arp" on OpenBSD. Linux used to be able to do that with proxy arp entries with a mask and interface, but they've removed the feature in newer kernels. If you can live with the silliness of your end-stations not being able to talk to each other at all, this has nothing to do with OpenBSD and everything with your switch. Just put the OpenBSD router on a promiscuous (trusted) port. Even this is very far from a good solution ...

I am running both 32bit and 64 bit as virtual Servers on VirtualBOX. Pls see my /etc/rc.shutdown file below. it is default. I just hit *reboot* command. reboot works fine on both machines. # cat /etc/rc.shutdown # $OpenBSD: rc.shutdown,v 1.7 2006/06/22 00:41:59 deraadt Exp $ # # If it exists, this script is run at system-shutdown by reboot(8), # halt(8). If the architecture supports keyboard requested halting, # it is also run by init(8) when such an event ...

Sorry, my subject line should have been more specific..... Yes, I should have mentioned that I have tested reboot command with VMWare and Virtualbox virtual machines and it works fine. The problem is with my Compaq Deskpro DPENS-P350/6.4/N4. I have tried 'powerdown=YES' in rc.shutdown, but it made no difference. I did notice with 'dmesg', that there was an error on startup regarding "........can't enable ACPI", so I tried booting a kernel file with ACPI disabled. Still no successful ...

Le Thu, 30 Dec 2010 19:58:21 +0100, And in output?

On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 13:59:14 +0200 (muttering to myself about deja vu) adduser and vipw vs. the various forms of the user command (useradd, etc.). Yeah, I'm pretty sure I've gotten hung up here before. (ouch) Thanks. -- Joel Rees <joel_rees@sannet.ne.jp>

Hmm. (cross-posting to ppc@) Something's odd, here. On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 12:54:16 -0500 Related to adduser vs. useradd, I suppose? But, I thought I'd check the source to see which was being invoked in the install script (neither), and I discovered something odd. http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/distrib/miniroot/install.sh?rev=1.214;conten... uline="${user}:${_encr}:1000:1000:staff:0:0:${username}:/home/${user}:/bin/ksh" echo "$uline" >> ...