Re: HP OfficeJet 5610 Scanner

[Joe M]

It works fine after installing hplip.

For the next person trying this, these commands got it working:

doas pkg_add sane-backends hplip dbus
doas rcctl enable messagebus
doas rcctl start messagebus

scanimage should work fine now.

Thanks

Re: _XSERVTransSocketUNIXAccept: accept() failed

[Joe M]

> What were you trying to do when you got these messages?

This happens when I have a bunch of X apps (with windows) open and I
try open another xterm. It appears that there is some limit to the
number of X windows that can be opened. When I try to open another one
after that limit, I get these messages. I checked 'man login.conf' but
nothing seemed relevant. I am not sure if any sysctl values might be
responsible for this behaviour though.

Thanks

keeping track of MAC addresses

[mailinglists]

Hello,

As I am tidying up my network by segregating it into secure, general inet 
access and guest networks.

I would like to keep tabs on the MAC/IP addresses in my secure net.
I do know how to do this, but keeping track of ethernet MAC addresses seems 
quite cumbersome in OpenBSD, not that it is more convenient in any other 
general purpose operating system but many interfaces for ex. routers make it 
easy to manage, especially MAC filtering.

At the moment we have:

/etc/ethers file #not the same as arp -s and arp -f !!
arp -a output
arp -s and arp -f input # not the same as /etc/ethers!!

So what have I tried:
ifconfig em0 -arp #in order to prevent discovery of unauthorized hosts
arp -ad
echo   > /etc/ethers
ping  - ping: sendmsg: Host is down
arp -s  
ping  - response
PS: after running ifconfig em0 -arp my Allied Telesis AT-GS950-16 managed 
switch took the link down and refuses to bring it back up on the same port 
without a reset. Other ports work fine.

What can I do:
Probably find some bloated program that introduces way more risc than the gain 
by keeping tabs on MAC addresses.

Make a simple script that creates a hosts/unbound file and a file suitable for 
arp -f from a single master file containing MAC, IPv4 and hostname and then 
loads them.

As I have already mentioned I can manage by myself, but it seems to me that 
this is something that a lot of people would want.

Would it make sense to have arp read /etc/ethers?

Is there another way than  ifconfig em0 -arp to prevent auto-learning mac 
addresses from the ethernet network and have the mac addresses added as 
"static"?

Awaiting imput if I am missing something, if there already is an elegant 
solution to my problem or if it is something that more people would like to 
have a solution for.

Thanks, Dimitrios