Re: Looking for opinions and experiences
* Rodney Hopkins [19-06-2010 17:07]: > What are people's opinions and experiences on running OpenBSD as a home > firewall on a laptop? We all know that notebooks are not made to be used as firewalls. But, for a home firewall I think that an old notebook may be a nice quiet and low powered server+ups+keyboard+monitor combo in a very small box. I have actually used an old toshiba celeron/1Ghz/256Mb/20Gb as my home firewall for almost five years (retired it recently). > > I'm considering converting my old firewall running on a P200MMX with 96M > of RAM over to a laptop with a couple of add-in PCMCIA NICs. I tried this aproach with two pcmcia nics but it got too hot and unstable (maybe some cooling problem specific to my notebook). I solved it with usb-ethernet adapters. > > I've read concerns about laptops (and components, including hard drives) > not being designed for 24x7 running, having to constantly have the screen > open so that proper cooling can take place through the keyboard, etc., I did not have any of these problems. > > That's the kind of reliability I'm looking for in a laptop-based firewall. > I would not rely on such machine for anything else but home firewalling/filtering, if that is your case you will probably not get frustrated. Regards, -- Carlos
usb printer problem
Hi, I'm trying to configure an Epson Stylus C67 usb inkjet printer without success. My system is an snapshot from: OpenBSD 3.9-beta (GENERIC) #591: Thu Jan 19 12:32:39 MST 2006 I have a simple /etc/printcap: lp|lpjet|EpsonC67:\ :lp=/dev/ulpt0:\ :mx#0:\ :rs=false:\ :sd=/var/spool/output/lp:\ :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\ :sh: The printer is detected with a similar message both at the usb 1.1 and usb 2.0 ports: ulpt0 at uhub0 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0 ulpt0: EPSON USB Printer, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2, iclass 7/1 ulpt0: using bi-directional mode But when I use: "sudo cat sometextfile > /dev/ulpt0" or "lpr sometextfile" the printer makes some noise, moves the printing head and stops without printing anything. commands like "lpc restart all", "lpc clean all", "lprm -" don't help. I've searched google and found that a similar problem was solved by using /dev/unlpt0 but this device is not present in openbsd. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/11/06/Big_Scary_Daemons.html Have anyone had such a problem? Am I missing some configuration? Thanks, -- Carlos
external usb enclosure and ide hard disk
Hi, is there a way to control an ide hard disk connected to an usb external enclosure, as to put it into idle or standby mode? I tried 'atactl' without success. here is the relevant part of my dmesg: umass0 at uhub0 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0 umass0: Myson Century, Inc. USB Mass Storage Device, rev 2.00/b0.08, addr 2 umass0: using ATAPI over Bulk-Only scsibus1 at umass0: 2 targets sd0 at scsibus1 targ 1 lun 0: SCSI0 0/direct fixed sd0: 38204MB, 38204 cyl, 64 head, 32 sec, 512 bytes/sec, 78242976 sec total Thanks, -- Carlos
