Re: Linksys support... hmm

2006-05-01 Thread Kian Mohageri
Sorry - never mind. I cracked open my case after I got home to verify, and I'm using a v4. v5 must be really new then, because I bought this just a few weeks ago. Kian Kian Mohageri wrote: Maybe someone on the mailing list can provide me with an answer to: 1. Can v5 af the card be used

OpenBSD 3.9 Installation onto a Nokia IP330

2006-05-01 Thread NetNeanderthal
For those of you who are waiting on me to finish testing for OpenBSD 3.9 on the Nokia IP330 firewalls, it appears that the dirty hack that worked on 3.8 works on 3.9 as well. The main deterrent is that OpenBSD can't locate a serial port to use as its console, thus giving the dreaded 'entry point

Re: 3.9 Release Available

2006-05-01 Thread Bryan Allen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On May 1, 2006, at 1:35 AM, Bob Beck wrote: We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 3.9. Got my CDs last week, upgraded a few systems by disc; no problems (expected behavior). And # pkg_add -ui -F update -F updatedepends

Re: 3.9 Release Available

2006-05-01 Thread Nigel J. Taylor
Some minor things I noticed, the following is still at 3.8 http://www.openbsd.org/pkg-stable.html http://www.openbsd.org/errata38.html should link to a http://www.openbsd.org/pkg-stable38.html, rather than the above. As an example in pkg-stable.html the package clamav-0.88.1.tgz only exists for

Re: PCMCIA on a laptop with a Insyde Software MobilePRO BIOS not working

2006-05-01 Thread Henrik Borgh
On 5/1/06, Jonathan Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try 3.9, the Intel specific interrupt quirks now match on your chipset unlike 3.8. I have tried varoius snapshot-versions of 3.9 (latest OpenBSD 3.9-current (GENERIC) #720: Thu Apr 27 21:45:15 MDT 2006) and are downloading the official 3.9

State timeouts

2006-05-01 Thread Dave Harrison
Hi all, I'm looking at the set optimization policies for PF, and while it's clear that there are varying levels of aggression towards expiring state entries, I can't find exact numbers of what those levels represent. I assume they're based on a time and/or traffic metric ?? My current policy is

nfs mount in openvpn tunnel

2006-05-01 Thread OS rider
Hi , my name is takesima , a japanese . i succeed in access avi file in remote PC with nfs mount in openvpn tunnel . the chart is next . gentoo(192.168.1.88)--intra net--(192.168.1.50)openbsd=internet=== ==openbsd(192.168.72.50)--intra net--(192.168.72.66)gentoo (192.168.72.66)gentoo is

Re: 3.9 Release Available

2006-05-01 Thread Dunceor
On 5/1/06, Mats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 03:36:27AM -0300, Leonardo Rodrigues wrote: Hrraaayyy!! Man, I've preordered my CDs about 2 weeks ago, and they haven't arrived yet... (bought from www.temporeal.com.br Brazil) Seems like I'll use ftp instead :P Can't

Re: pf firewall question

2006-05-01 Thread Murali Raju
On 4/30/06, Stuart Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006/04/30 06:34, S t i n g r a y wrote: Now what i want to know , maybe is O T in this list but what is the diffrence , i mean pf in openBSD is refered to as a firewall for home or small offices ? why is that , i mean what is the

Re: (PC video card memory aperture !=0) =OS Rootability?

2006-05-01 Thread Dave Feustel
Below is a comment about X-Windows security sent to me by a person with a lot of experience in computer security: === Dave, X-Windows has been known to be insecure for some time. That is to say it can be hacked. Now you could get the code and change the sockets that are used or require

Re: 3.9 Release Available

2006-05-01 Thread sebastian . rother
As pointed out on Slashdot somebody also provides Torrents wich may reduce the load of the Servers. The files can be found here: http://openbsd.somedomain.net/ Kind regards, Sebastian

packages for 3.9 not published?

2006-05-01 Thread Dag Richards
And the whining continues

Re: (PC video card memory aperture !=0) =OS Rootability?

2006-05-01 Thread Jason Dixon
On May 1, 2006, at 9:57 AM, Dave Feustel wrote: Below is a comment about X-Windows security sent to me by a person with a lot of experience in computer security: === Dave, X-Windows has been known to be insecure for some time. That is to say it can be hacked. Now you could get the

Disabling Antialias no more works in 3.9

2006-05-01 Thread Federico Giannici
I use KDE with AntiAlias enabled, but disabled for font size from 7 to 17, and for specific application (e.g FireFox) preceding the application name with env GDK_USE_XFT=0. After I upgraded my i386 from 3.8 to 3.9 (my CDs arrived just one day before the official date), none of the two methods

Re: PCMCIA on a laptop with a Insyde Software MobilePRO BIOS not working

2006-05-01 Thread Henrik Borgh
On 5/1/06, Jonathan Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] The snapshots are quite a bit past 3.9 now. Yes i would imagine so. Are you running the latest BIOS provided by the vendor? Of course. -- Regards Henrik

Re: Using OpenBSD article in 'The Jem Report'

2006-05-01 Thread Kurt Miller
On Sunday 30 April 2006 10:56 pm, Dave Feustel wrote: This is a very well written article for new users of OpenBSD: http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/34/1/ One question I have: Is the description in the article of what's required to install Java on OpenBSD correct? The

Re: packages for 3.9 not published?

2006-05-01 Thread Dag Richards
David Terrell wrote: On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 07:17:34AM -0700, Dag Richards wrote: And the whining continues What are you talking about? I see 'em on the mirrors. Well I guess I am talking abou the 404 I get by going here http://www.openbsd.org/3.9_packages/ But oh yeah ya dope,

Re: Using OpenBSD article in 'The Jem Report'

2006-05-01 Thread Dave Feustel
On Monday 01 May 2006 10:48, Kurt Miller wrote: On Sunday 30 April 2006 10:56 pm, Dave Feustel wrote: This is a very well written article for new users of OpenBSD: http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/34/1/ One question I have: Is the description in the article of what's

using queues to limit bandwidth

2006-05-01 Thread Chris Bullock
Can queues be used to queue overall bandwidth? We have a project where we will be sharing an Internet connection with another company, we will have an IP and they will have an IP each company providing their own firewall. I understand that queuing is able to queue based on protocol, etc on the

Re: using queues to limit bandwidth

2006-05-01 Thread Peter Blair
ALTQ Should do the trick: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/queueing.html On 5/1/06, Chris Bullock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can queues be used to queue overall bandwidth? We have a project where we will be sharing an Internet connection with another company, we will have an IP and they will have

Re: [UPDATE] php5 to version 5.1.2 (IMPORTANT)

2006-05-01 Thread Robert Nagy
Hi. I haven't recieved a single test report, but I still get letters about asking for an update. How's that? This tarball also includes mysqli, fastcgi and hardened php support: http://gi.unideb.hu/~robert/php.tar.gz On (28/04/06 01:59), Robert Nagy wrote: Hi. Finally after fighting with

Re: using queues to limit bandwidth

2006-05-01 Thread Jason Dixon
On May 1, 2006, at 1:02 PM, Chris Bullock wrote: Can queues be used to queue overall bandwidth? We have a project where we will be sharing an Internet connection with another company, we will have an IP and they will have an IP each company providing their own firewall. I understand that

Re: using queues to limit bandwidth

2006-05-01 Thread Peter Blair
I forgot to mention in my previous e-mail, that if you were to implement the scenerio outlined in your e-mail, then the other company would have to 'trust' that you're setting up your firewall to not exceed your 100k of bandwidth. Just setup a single queue that caps at 100k. On 5/1/06, Chris

using torrents for packages?

2006-05-01 Thread sebastian . rother
As I saw the website providing torrents for 3.9 I just thought about somethign for packages. Isn`t it be possible to switch to torrents to install packages? In fact there many mirrors and if they all would maybe use torrent the synergy-effect would be great. With the trackerless-torrents the

Re: using torrents for packages?

2006-05-01 Thread Spruell, Darren-Perot
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well I4m interested in YOUR ubersystem to reduce the load... Are you a solution in search of a problem, right now? DS

Re: using torrents for packages?

2006-05-01 Thread Wade, Daniel
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 3:47 PM To: Marco Peereboom Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: using torrents for packages? Well I4m interested in YOUR ubersystem to reduce the load... Buy the CDs, no load on the

Re: What to do to compile POSIX threads enabled GCC?

2006-05-01 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hello! On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 09:49:46PM +0200, Karel Gardas wrote: My question is: what's really needed to do to make GCC with threads enabled working? I think this will be needed anyway seeing recent SMP and Rthreads work appearing in OpenBSD releases. I'm not sure. What does that mean?

Re: using torrents for packages?

2006-05-01 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Some mirros simply miss some install-Sets and I don4t mean the x* stuff. Some mirros didn`t updated yet (well I guess they`ll do it later). Some mirrors have parts of the Source and some have the Source but not the ports.tar.gz. And mostly no mirror has packages. May be I am missing something,

Re: using torrents for packages?

2006-05-01 Thread David Terrell
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 03:58:57PM -0400, Wade, Daniel wrote: Buy the CDs, no load on the ftp servers at all. As soon as you figure out how to get 3G of packages for i386 alone onto a CD... -- David Terrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((meatspace)) http://meat.net/

Re: using queues to limit bandwidth

2006-05-01 Thread Chris Cameron
On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 13:02 -0400, Chris Bullock wrote: Can queues be used to queue overall bandwidth? We have a project where we will be sharing an Internet connection with another company, we will have an IP and they will have an IP each company providing their own firewall. I understand

Re: using torrents for packages?

2006-05-01 Thread sebastian . rother
May be I am missing something, but I thought the project have/had plenty of mirrors to go around. Yeap today and for the next few days may be to busy as everyone is getting to them to get their files instead of may be buying CD's, but other then that, I really thought that capacity, even for

Re: using torrents for packages?

2006-05-01 Thread Adam
On Mon, 01 May 2006 16:08:11 -0400 Daniel Ouellet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And I am not talking about Torrents, as I prefer getting my data from a trusted source thank you. As irrelivant as this discussion is, why do people make comments like this? What makes downloading through http or ftp

Re: using torrents for packages?

2006-05-01 Thread sebastian . rother
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 09:46:51PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I4m interested in YOUR ubersystem to reduce the load... I selected a mirror that's local and up to date and set PKG_PATH to use it. If the packages aren't there I'll select another mirror -or- I'll roll my own. There

Re: pf firewall question

2006-05-01 Thread bofh
On 4/30/06, Stuart Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006/04/30 06:34, S t i n g r a y wrote: Now what i want to know , maybe is O T in this list but what is the diffrence , i mean pf in openBSD is refered to as a firewall for home or small offices ? why is that , i mean what is the

Re: using torrents for packages?

2006-05-01 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 02:14:43PM -0700, Michael Scheliga wrote: The torrent idea has been beaten to death during previous releases. If people are so hot for torrents, then why hasn't someone made one? I don't recall every hearing that a mirror would be delisted if they offered torrents. So

3.9 on nForce4 based amd64 systems

2006-05-01 Thread Mark Kettenis
Hi All, Over the last couple of months we have learned that many dual core AMD Athlon64 X2 and AMD Opteron systems using nVidia's nForce4 chipset come with a broken MP BIOS implementation. As a result, they will not work with the bsd.mp kernel. For some of these systems, a BIOS update is

Re: notebook: HP Compaq nc6220 - unable to boot from installation CD (crashes)

2006-05-01 Thread Vincent Immler
no sorry, not yet I don't have any USB floppy drives! Darrin Chandler wrote: Have you tried booting any other way such as floppy? Just fishing...

Re: notebook: HP Compaq nc6220 - unable to boot from installation CD (crashes)

2006-05-01 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 12:22:41AM +0200, Vincent Immler wrote: no sorry, not yet I don't have any USB floppy drives! Darrin Chandler wrote: Have you tried booting any other way such as floppy? Just fishing... I have had some issues with CDROMs. Sometimes I get read errors, then retries,

Re: using torrents for packages?

2006-05-01 Thread Ted Unangst
On 5/1/06, Darrin Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If people are so hot for torrents, then why hasn't someone made one? I don't recall every hearing that a mirror would be delisted if they offered torrents. So one of you out there wanting torrents set up a mirror and get torrents going. don't

Re: using torrents for packages?

2006-05-01 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Darrin Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If people are so hot for torrents, then why hasn't someone made one? But Andrew Fresh has. http://openbsd.somedomain.net/ -- Christian naddy Weisgerber [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: using torrents for packages?

2006-05-01 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 03:39:02PM -0700, Ted Unangst wrote: don't worry, they're coming. i wasn't sure which packages people would want, so i started one seed for each combination. any minute now and i'll be done uploading all

Re: OpenBGPd max-prefix

2006-05-01 Thread Chris Cappuccio
Sylvain Coutant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well, your 2 plus the 5 from your other customers plus the $max-prefix The 5 is the $max_prefix. We have just only one BGP customer. Total is 7. I should never have announced more than 7 routes in any case. Is there any reason why you don't

Re: using torrents for packages?

2006-05-01 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 10:42:32PM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: Darrin Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If people are so hot for torrents, then why hasn't someone made one? But Andrew Fresh has. http://openbsd.somedomain.net/ Oh, yeah. Right you are. Then why are we having this

Re: quad de, flakiness with 3.9

2006-05-01 Thread Chris Cappuccio
David Terrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 02:54:06PM +0200, Martin Reindl wrote: Any ideas? Simply bad hardware? This was working fine with 3.8 and even a 3.9 snapshot from two months ago before the CDs arrived monday and I did the upgrade. Give the dc(4)

Re: notebook: HP Compaq nc6220 - unable to boot from installation CD (crashes)

2006-05-01 Thread Vincent Immler
Thanks for your help, but I already tried that possibility. I had to disable the following devices: pciide* uhub* brgphy* bge* wdc* isa0 then the last lines are: isa at mainbus0 not configured biomask netmask ttymask rd0: fixed, 3800blocks root on rd0a rootdev=0x1100

Re: using torrents for packages?

2006-05-01 Thread Greg Thomas
On 5/1/06, Darrin Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 03:39:02PM -0700, Ted Unangst wrote: don't worry, they're coming. i wasn't sure which packages people would want, so i started one seed for each combination. any minute now and i'll be done uploading all

Re: using torrents for packages?

2006-05-01 Thread Greg Thomas
On 5/1/06, Darrin Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 10:42:32PM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: Darrin Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If people are so hot for torrents, then why hasn't someone made one? But Andrew Fresh has. http://openbsd.somedomain.net/ Oh,

Re: using torrents for packages?

2006-05-01 Thread Jim Razmus
* Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060501 18:27]: On 5/1/06, Greg Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/1/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn`t it be possible to switch to torrents to install packages? Are you talking about a torrent for each package? No thanks. Are you

Re: using torrents for packages?

2006-05-01 Thread Samurai Chef
On 5/1/06, Greg Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/1/06, Darrin Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 10:42:32PM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: Darrin Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If people are so hot for torrents, then why hasn't someone made one? But

Re: using torrents for packages?

2006-05-01 Thread Greg Thomas
On 5/1/06, Samurai Chef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/1/06, Greg Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/1/06, Darrin Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 10:42:32PM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: Darrin Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If people are so hot

Re: using torrents for packages?

2006-05-01 Thread sebastian . rother
Greg Thomas.. you may need some glasses http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-miscm=114648851725516w=2 Hint: Take a look at the date and the time... Btw: I talked about synergy-effects wich would be provide an advantage for all Servers. If you don`t know what synergy is and if that`s the

OpenBSD via serial line

2006-05-01 Thread John Kintaro Tate
I was wondering about installing OpenBSD on a very old laptop (no cdrom) via serial line. I am aware it would take literally ages. I am guessing slip would be the way to go, I have never used it before. Does anyone have anything they can point me at with a reasonable introduction, such as certain

Re: PCMCIA on a laptop with a Insyde Software MobilePRO BIOS not working

2006-05-01 Thread Lars Hansson
On Monday 01 May 2006 17:29, Henrik Borgh wrote: I suscpect that the situation is pretty much the same on every laptop, equpped with a Insyde MobilePRO BIOS, Or it could just be Acer since I dont get any errors on my generic laptop with Insyde MobilePRO 4.00: OpenBSD 3.9-current (GENERIC)

Re: Linksys support... hmm

2006-05-01 Thread Lars Hansson
On Sunday 30 April 2006 18:38, Lasse Bach wrote: Wtf is that? How can that be a secret? It probably isnt but i bet that's the standard reply you'll always get from first-level support. 1. Can v5 af the card be used with the ral driver? I have no idea. I know the ural works with the listed

Re: pf firewall question

2006-05-01 Thread Lars Hansson
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 05:31, bofh wrote: I must say though, a well designed gui can be a great help in managing a set of firewalls, or a firewall with complex rules. I like pf for the cleanliness of syntax and simplicity of doing things, but the guy who ran the checkpoint firewalls for 50+

Re: 3.9 build on AMD64

2006-05-01 Thread Ed Vazquez
No. Stable or Release build that I downloaded boot disks for today (waiting for my CD's). Completely blank machine. Formatted hard drive with low-level SATA utility. Bob Beck wrote: * Ed V. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-05-01 12:34]: Install from bare metal. Install completed without errors.

Re: pf firewall question

2006-05-01 Thread bofh
On 5/1/06, Lars Hansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 02 May 2006 05:31, bofh wrote: I must say though, a well designed gui can be a great help in managing a [...] not believe him. Now that I'm managing a small bunch of checkpoint boxes with a few hundred rules, and some vpns,

Re: using torrents for packages?

2006-05-01 Thread bofh
On 5/1/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg Thomas.. you may need some glasses http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-miscm=114648851725516w=2 Hint: Take a look at the date and the time... Btw: I talked about synergy-effects wich would be provide an advantage for all

Re: using torrents for packages?

2006-05-01 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Adam wrote: On Mon, 01 May 2006 16:08:11 -0400 Daniel Ouellet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And I am not talking about Torrents, as I prefer getting my data from a trusted source thank you. As irrelivant as this discussion is, why do people make comments like this? What makes downloading through

Re: using torrents for packages?

2006-05-01 Thread jared r r spiegel
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 03:57:42AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Btw: I talked about synergy-effects wich would be provide an advantage for all Servers. If you don`t know what synergy is and if that`s the reason why you can`t stop bitching you may wanna visit the school again This

Re: OpenBSD via serial line

2006-05-01 Thread STeve Andre'
On Monday 01 May 2006 22:15, John Kintaro Tate wrote: I was wondering about installing OpenBSD on a very old laptop (no cdrom) via serial line. I am aware it would take literally ages. I am guessing slip would be the way to go, I have never used it before. Does anyone have anything they can

Re: OpenBSD via serial line

2006-05-01 Thread Ray Lai
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 12:15:09PM +1000, John Kintaro Tate wrote: I was wondering about installing OpenBSD on a very old laptop (no cdrom) via serial line. I am aware it would take literally ages. I am guessing slip would be the way to go, I have never used it before. Does anyone have

Re: OpenBSD via serial line

2006-05-01 Thread Chris Zakelj
STeve Andre' wrote: On Monday 01 May 2006 22:15, John Kintaro Tate wrote: I was wondering about installing OpenBSD on a very old laptop (no cdrom) via serial line. I am aware it would take literally ages. I am guessing slip would be the way to go, I have never used it before. Does anyone

Red Black Trees

2006-05-01 Thread Brian
I am reading through the tree(3), and I need some clarification. If I want to correctly remove an element from a red black tree that I have found and free it's memory allocation, this code should work, right? find.i = 400; n = RB_FIND(inttree, head, find); if (n != NULL) { n =

Re: using torrents for packages?

2006-05-01 Thread Greg Thomas
On 5/1/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg Thomas.. you may need some glasses http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-miscm=114648851725516w=2 Hint: Take a look at the date and the time... http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-31242.html What's your point

Re: using torrents for packages?

2006-05-01 Thread Jeremy Huiskamp
On 2-May-06, at 12:21 AM, jared r r spiegel wrote: a couple of things spring to mind: A) python would have to be in base then. the license seems to my amateur eyes as a BSD license with a tamed-down djb clause #3. perhaps the license excludes it from consideration in base.

Compilers make a system less secure?

2006-05-01 Thread josh
Hello... Some people seem to think that installing a compiler inherently makes their system less secure... despite never being able to cite any actual reasons why. Personally, I really dont see how a compiler is going to lessen security, particuarly when they are used to patch the system, But I