On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 7:42 PM Martin Schröder <[email protected]> wrote:
> Am Mo., 19. Jan. 2026 um 17:08 Uhr schrieb Washington Odhiambo > <[email protected]>: > > Thank you for the explanation. Very easy to understand. > > I did exactly what you advised. It still did not allow me SSH access. > > Now, I added pf=NO /etc/rc.conf.local and rebooted. > > I believe this disabled PF completely. > > This too did not solve the problem. > > I remember running OpenBSD7.4 under VMWare Workstation and life wasn't > this difficult. > > See as I even have FreeBSD 15-RELEASE as a Proxmox VM and accessible, I > am completely stumped with this issue around OpenBSD. > > > > TIt's affecting my sanity. > > > > Does anyone have any suggestions on how else I can resolve this? > > Start by reading the PF users guide. > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/index.html > > And trim down your pf.conf - start with a minimal config. > The point is, I am not even interested in PF in the first place. I just need SSH access to work. The question is why it's not, even with PF disabled, yet sshd is running. See https://imgur.com/a/1OnKWNQ I am able to access all the VMs/LXCs via SSH. It's only OpenBSD that's inaccessible. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 In an Internet failure case, the #1 suspect is a constant: DNS. "Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :-) [How to ask smart questions: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html]
