Re: ports.openbsd.nu

2008-02-12 Thread Antti Harri
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Sunnz wrote: 2008/2/11, Fredrik Carlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Edd Barrett gmail.com> writes: The owner forgot to renew it and I can't reach him, so the site has moved to http://openports.se Since it is not renewed is it possble for someone else to take over it? I'll ta

Odd cu behavior

2008-02-12 Thread Edd Barrett
Hi, I am experiencing some odd behavior with the cu serial line command. >From a (non-X11) terminal I am able to connect to the serially connected sparc using 'sudo cu -l cua00' or 'sudo cu -l tty00'. This is what I would expect. When using X windows 'sudo cu -l cua00' presents the following: --

Re: sd0: not queued error 5

2008-02-12 Thread Michael
Hi, Marco Peereboom schrieb: > http://search.dell.com/results.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&cat=sup&k=perc+5%2fi+firmware&qmp=12&p=1&subcat=dyd&rf=all&nk=f&sort=-date&snpsd=A&nf=19427%7e7%7e142402&navla=19427%7e7%7e142402&ira=False&~srd=False&ipsys=False&advsrch=False&~ck=anav > > Let's see if that works.

Re: blade servers

2008-02-12 Thread Søren Aurehøj
On 12/02/2008, at 17.25, Need Coffee wrote: > On Feb 8, 2008 12:10 PM, Need Coffee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Thanks to all who replied. I'm going to investigate these >> options more in-depth. >> >> (To those who asked off-list: the only responses I got went to >> the list too.) > > Oops. I

Re: harddisk impact on routing firewall performance/throughput

2008-02-12 Thread Darren Spiteri
On Feb 13, 2008 11:08 AM, Ted Unangst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/12/08, Darren Spiteri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is irrelevant on a firewall/router. > > > > Sorry, you are wrong. I can achieve much higher throughput per > > connected state by tweaking recvspace and sendspace. > >

Re: harddisk impact on routing firewall performance/throughput

2008-02-12 Thread Darren Spiteri
On Feb 13, 2008 1:40 AM, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008/02/13 01:04, Darren Spiteri wrote: > > Try tweaking this sysctl: net.inet.tcp.recvspc > > > > Give it sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.recvspace=262144 and run your tests. > > Tweak it down from there. > > This is irrelevant on a

Re: (Enhanced) SpeedStep issues on Thinkpad X61s - somewhat SOLVED

2008-02-12 Thread Alexander Hall
Alexander Hall wrote: Hi! My Thinkpad X61s does not (/no longer) do SpeedStep. From the 3 dmesg(s): cpu0: EST: strange msr value 0x061508250600880b and indeed, 88 for crcur seems rather high... :-/ Oh, wait... I just took a new dmesg, and now I get this: cpu0: unknown Enhanced SpeedStep CP

Re: [OT] beefy steel cases

2008-02-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:55:52PM -0500, Steve Shockley wrote: > Jay Hart wrote: > >>>Yes, I too at one time bought a huge case. Has 10 5.25 bays. Only > >>>problem is that you can't use all of them due to cable length > >>>limitations. > >>Multiple controllers? > > > >Onboard IDE controller (pri

Re: harddisk impact on routing firewall performance/throughput

2008-02-12 Thread NetOne - Doichin Dokov
Darren Spiteri ??: On Feb 13, 2008 11:08 AM, Ted Unangst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2/12/08, Darren Spiteri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is irrelevant on a firewall/router. Sorry, you are wrong. I can achieve much higher throughput per connected state by tweaking rec

Re: harddisk impact on routing firewall performance/throughput

2008-02-12 Thread raven
Ted Unangst ha scritto: On 2/12/08, Darren Spiteri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't know why or how this poorly documented sysctl works, but the result speaks for itself. Note the dramatic throughput increase of the parent. running netperf on a firewall is a poor test of forwarding p

Re: harddisk impact on routing firewall performance/throughput

2008-02-12 Thread bofh
On Feb 12, 2008 9:47 PM, Darren Spiteri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 13, 2008 1:36 PM, David Higgs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What's your definition of "network performance?" > > What's your delineation between a firewall and a router? > > > I believe Ted's point is that receiving and s

Re: harddisk impact on routing firewall performance/throughput

2008-02-12 Thread Darren Spiteri
On Feb 13, 2008 1:36 PM, David Higgs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's your definition of "network performance?" What's your delineation between a firewall and a router? > I believe Ted's point is that receiving and sending packets (i.e. > using it as an endpoint) is the job of a server, not a

Re: harddisk impact on routing firewall performance/throughput

2008-02-12 Thread Darren Spiteri
On Feb 13, 2008 2:12 PM, bofh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 12, 2008 9:47 PM, Darren Spiteri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Firewalls that have proxy software operate as both client and server. > > > This is now going into the silly place. David Higgs told you what is the > definition of net

Re: harddisk impact on routing firewall performance/throughput

2008-02-12 Thread bofh
On Feb 12, 2008 11:21 PM, Darren Spiteri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now we're just getting into semantics. It is not uncommon for a > firewall to operate on layer 7, even with OpenBSD, considering that an > essential component of PF is ftp-proxy. What you call a firewall I > call a screen-router

Re: harddisk impact on routing firewall performance/throughput

2008-02-12 Thread Darren Spiteri
On Feb 13, 2008 2:28 PM, David Higgs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unless I'm massively wrong about what net.inet.tcp.* is used for, this > indicates that the parent was NOT testing throughput as one would > typically define it for a router/firewall. He was testing his box's > ability to send and r

Re: harddisk impact on routing firewall performance/throughput

2008-02-12 Thread David Higgs
On Feb 12, 2008 9:44 PM, Darren Spiteri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 13, 2008 11:47 AM, NetOne - Doichin Dokov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Could we have a look at those numbers, in fact? > > > From the parent: > > "In the next step I increased the value for net.inet.tcp.recvspace and >

Re: harddisk impact on routing firewall performance/throughput

2008-02-12 Thread David Higgs
On Feb 12, 2008 8:37 PM, raven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ted Unangst ha scritto: > > On 2/12/08, Darren Spiteri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I don't know why or how this poorly documented sysctl works, but the > >> result speaks for itself. Note the dramatic throughput increase of the > >

Re: harddisk impact on routing firewall performance/throughput

2008-02-12 Thread Darren Spiteri
I don't agree, considering that OpenBSD firewalls often run ftp-proxy and other layer 7 relays such as hoststated and squid. You may be right that this is a red-herring in the qualified bare-bones router config, but it answered the parent poster's question. On Feb 13, 2008 11:45 AM, Ted Unangst <[

Re: harddisk impact on routing firewall performance/throughput

2008-02-12 Thread Ted Unangst
On 2/12/08, Darren Spiteri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know why or how this poorly documented sysctl works, but the > result speaks for itself. Note the dramatic throughput increase of the > parent. running netperf on a firewall is a poor test of forwarding performance.

Re: Methodology for Document Archiveal to digital media

2008-02-12 Thread Duncan Patton a Campbell
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 06:46:11 +0200 Lars Noodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Duncan Patton a Campbell wrote: > > The following is proposed as a base methodology for paper copy document > > archival to digital media. > > Fixed that for you. ;) > > >... subject each scanned page to the following pro

Methodology for Document Archiveal to digital media

2008-02-12 Thread Duncan Patton a Campbell
The following is proposed as a base methodology for hardcopy document archival to digital media. The problem consists of making available, via internet, the large coda of human knowledge contained exclusively in paper books in a manner that is searchable via electronic mechanisms: string search

Re: harddisk impact on routing firewall performance/throughput

2008-02-12 Thread Ted Unangst
On 2/12/08, Darren Spiteri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is irrelevant on a firewall/router. > > Sorry, you are wrong. I can achieve much higher throughput per > connected state by tweaking recvspace and sendspace. then your firewall isn't just a firewall or your measurements were done incor

nfsv4 - nfs ipv6

2008-02-12 Thread Thomas Prochaska
hi! i couldn't find an answer on the web or somewhere. therefore i hope someone on this list is able to tell me if openbsds nfs server supports nfsv4 respektively nfs over ipv6. thank you! regards thomas prochaska

Re: KSH and Bash problem with long commands

2008-02-12 Thread Christian Weisgerber
OBSD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a small problem with the KSH and Bash on a OpenBSD 4.2. with very > long commands. > > and in my ~/.inputrc is > set horizontal-scroll-mode Off > > I found this setting in the man readline > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=readline&apropos=0&

Re: harddisk impact on routing firewall performance/throughput

2008-02-12 Thread Günter
At first, thanks a lot for your responses. According to infos I found in the list archive I changed the values for net.inet.ip.ifq.* as follows net.inet.ip.ifq.maxlen=1024 (256 * number nics) net.inet.ip.ifq.drops=0 net.inet.ip.ifq.len=0 This had no effect on the network throughput. In the next

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Re: sd0: not queued error 5

2008-02-12 Thread Marco Peereboom
http://search.dell.com/results.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&cat=sup&k=perc+5%2fi+firmware&qmp=12&p=1&subcat=dyd&rf=all&nk=f&sort=-date&snpsd=A&nf=19427%7e7%7e142402&navla=19427%7e7%7e142402&ira=False&~srd=False&ipsys=False&advsrch=False&~ck=anav Let's see if that works... On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 05:29:23

Re: blade servers

2008-02-12 Thread Need Coffee
On Feb 8, 2008 12:10 PM, Need Coffee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks to all who replied. I'm going to investigate these > options more in-depth. > > (To those who asked off-list: the only responses I got went to > the list too.) Oops. I didn't look carefully enough. Some responses didn't g

Re: sd0: not queued error 5

2008-02-12 Thread Marco Peereboom
Just a quick look on the website and I found: Dell PERC 5/i Integrated, v.5.2.1-0067, A07 If I read it right A07 is the latest release. On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 04:30:54PM +0100, Michael wrote: > Hi, > > Beavis schrieb: > > system is still good after I cvsup to -stable. my only concern is > > dur

Re: sd0: not queued error 5

2008-02-12 Thread Michael
Hi, Marco Peereboom schrieb: > Just a quick look on the website and I found: > Dell PERC 5/i Integrated, v.5.2.1-0067, A07 > > If I read it right A07 is the latest release. It looks like there are different releases for sas-raid / no raid and sata... Could you please share the link? Michael

Re: OT:what can be done about attackers/crackers

2008-02-12 Thread ElTino
BOFH-5 wrote: > > On Jan 31, 2008 5:41 PM, Lord Sporkton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> my question was not so much what can i do to mitigate the attack when >> its happening, its more what can i do after someone attacks to "stick >> it to them" >> > > What would you like to do to them? It all

Re: sd0: not queued error 5

2008-02-12 Thread Michael
Hi, Beavis schrieb: > system is still good after I cvsup to -stable. my only concern is > during bootup it takes around 1min. on the part that says "ipmi0 at > mainbus0" but i guess this is minimal as long as it doesn't spit out > that sd0 error again. Updated the bios on my 2950 too (2.1.1 now)

Re: harddisk impact on routing firewall performance/throughput

2008-02-12 Thread Darren Spiteri
On Feb 13, 2008 11:47 AM, NetOne - Doichin Dokov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could we have a look at those numbers, in fact? >From the parent: "In the next step I increased the value for net.inet.tcp.recvspace and net.inet.tcp.sendspace to 262144 and that had big impact on the network throughp

Re: harddisk impact on routing firewall performance/throughput

2008-02-12 Thread Günter Zimmermann
Zitat von Darren Spiteri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Feb 13, 2008 2:28 PM, David Higgs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Unless I'm massively wrong about what net.inet.tcp.* is used for, this indicates that the parent was NOT testing throughput as one would typically define it for a router/firewall. He w

Re: KSH and Bash problem with long commands

2008-02-12 Thread Andreas Kahari
In ksh, with Vi editing mode, press Esc to get into command mode, then press 'v' to edit the very long command line in vi(1). The command line will be executed by the shell when you save and quit the editor. Regards, Andreas On 12/02/2008, OBSD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a s

Re: ports.openbsd.nu

2008-02-12 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008/02/12 09:32, bofh wrote: > On Feb 12, 2008 2:30 AM, Sunnz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Since it is not renewed is it possble for someone else to take over it? > > I'll take it and redirect it to the new url if that's the case. > > > > You could, as soon as the current squatter lets it

Re: KSH and Bash problem with long commands

2008-02-12 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 15:08:54 Feb 12, OBSD wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a small problem with the KSH and Bash on a OpenBSD 4.2. with very long > commands. > I have > echo $SHELL > /bin/ksh and > echo $KSH_VERSION > @(#)PD KSH v5.2.14 99/07/13.2 > and in my ~/.inputrc is > set horizontal-scroll-mode Off > > I found

KSH and Bash problem with long commands

2008-02-12 Thread OBSD
Hi All, I have a small problem with the KSH and Bash on a OpenBSD 4.2. with very long commands. I have echo $SHELL /bin/ksh and echo $KSH_VERSION @(#)PD KSH v5.2.14 99/07/13.2 and in my ~/.inputrc is set horizontal-scroll-mode Off I found this setting in the man readline http://www.openbsd.org/c

Re: amd64 - bootloader and BIOS see 16gb ram, kernel does not

2008-02-12 Thread Nick Holland
Mike Larkin wrote: > Travers Buda wrote >>> The developers need hardware to tackle this. >>> >>> > > It may be possible for me to loan out this hardware. Where is it needed, > and for how long? > > An private reply is probably better here as to not spam the list. > > -ml no, it's a fair q

Full day PF tutorial in Riga, February 20th, 2008

2008-02-12 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
There will be a full day PF tutorial in Riga, February 20th, 2008. At 10:00, February 20th, 2008 at the University of Latvia's Linux Center, Raina Blvd. 19, Riga, Peter Hansteen will be giving a full day PF tutorial, loosely based on his new book, "The Book of PF". NOTE: The tutorial itself

harddisk impact on routing firewall performance/throughput

2008-02-12 Thread Günter Zimmermann
Hi all, I have been using openbsd as router and firewall for several years without problems to do routing between four networks (ethernet, ipv4) using 100 Mbit/s nics. After upgrading network infrastructure to 1000Mbit/s the network throughput is not as expected. I expected a throughput around

Re: Odd cu behavior

2008-02-12 Thread Edd Barrett
On Feb 12, 2008 10:24 AM, Edd Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problems persist even if i su to root, although the errors are > slightly different: Ignore this statement, the errors are identical. I just had cu open on a terminal already. -- Best Regards Edd http://students.dec.bourn

Re: Odd cu behavior

2008-02-12 Thread Fred Crowson
Edd Barrett wrote: Hi, I am experiencing some odd behavior with the cu serial line command. From a (non-X11) terminal I am able to connect to the serially connected sparc using 'sudo cu -l cua00' or 'sudo cu -l tty00'. This is what I would expect. When using X windows 'sudo cu -l cua00' presen

Re: Odd cu behavior

2008-02-12 Thread Edd Barrett
Hi, On Feb 12, 2008 10:16 AM, Fred Crowson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What are the permission on /dev/cua00 ? ls -al /dev/cua00 crw-rw 1 uucp dialer8, 128 Feb 12 10:17 /dev/cua00 The problems persist even if i su to root, although the errors are slightly different: ---8<--- # cu -l

Re: Odd cu behavior

2008-02-12 Thread Edd Barrett
On Feb 12, 2008 10:24 AM, Fred Crowson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # Defaults specification > Defaults env_keep +="DESTDIR FETCH_CMD FLAVOR FTPMODE MAKE > MULTI_PACKAGES OKAY_FILES PKG_DBDIR PKG_DESTDIR PKG_CACHE PKG_PATH > PKG_TMPDIR PORTSDIR RELEASEDIR SUBPACKAGE" > > The change to sudo that hap

Re: Odd cu behavior

2008-02-12 Thread Fred Crowson
Edd Barrett wrote: Hi, I am experiencing some odd behavior with the cu serial line command. From a (non-X11) terminal I am able to connect to the serially connected sparc using 'sudo cu -l cua00' or 'sudo cu -l tty00'. This is what I would expect. When using X windows 'sudo cu -l cua00' presen

Re: harddisk impact on routing firewall performance/throughput

2008-02-12 Thread Nick Holland
G|nter Zimmermann wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been using openbsd as router and firewall for several > years without problems to do routing between four networks > ethernet, ipv4) using 100 Mbit/s nics. After upgrading network > infrastructure to 1000Mbit/s the network throughput is not as > expec

Re: [OT] beefy steel cases

2008-02-12 Thread Jay Hart
Back then, adding another channel meant buying another $275 SCSI card. Wasn't on my radar. Jay > Jay Hart wrote: Yes, I too at one time bought a huge case. Has 10 5.25 bays. Only problem is that you can't use all of them due to cable length limitations. >>> Multiple controllers?

Re: harddisk impact on routing firewall performance/throughput

2008-02-12 Thread Darren Spiteri
Try tweaking this sysctl: net.inet.tcp.recvspc Give it sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.recvspace=262144 and run your tests. Tweak it down from there. On 2/12/08, "G|nter Zimmermann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been using openbsd as router and firewall for several years without problems to do rout

Re: harddisk impact on routing firewall performance/throughput

2008-02-12 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008/02/13 01:04, Darren Spiteri wrote: > Try tweaking this sysctl: net.inet.tcp.recvspc > > Give it sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.recvspace=262144 and run your tests. > Tweak it down from there. This is irrelevant on a firewall/router. > > I have been using openbsd as router and firewall for severa

Re: ports.openbsd.nu

2008-02-12 Thread bofh
On Feb 12, 2008 2:30 AM, Sunnz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since it is not renewed is it possble for someone else to take over it? > I'll take it and redirect it to the new url if that's the case. > You could, as soon as the current squatter lets it go. :) -- http://www.glumbert.com/media/sh

Re: sd0: not queued error 5

2008-02-12 Thread Marco Peereboom
BIOS != 5/i Firmware. You want to make sure you are running the latest firmware. On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 04:30:54PM +0100, Michael wrote: > Hi, > > Beavis schrieb: > > system is still good after I cvsup to -stable. my only concern is > > during bootup it takes around 1min. on the part that says

Re: Methodology for Document Archiveal to digital media

2008-02-12 Thread Lars Noodén
Duncan Patton a Campbell wrote: ... I am concerned with simplicity of procedure and mass availability. Valid concerns. The choice of format cannot be avoided, though: there is no one-size fits all solution for image formats, but whatever is chosen, the output from the first pass from each ne

Re: harddisk impact on routing firewall performance/throughput

2008-02-12 Thread Bogdan Plevit
G|nter wrote: At first, thanks a lot for your responses. According to infos I found in the list archive I changed the values for net.inet.ip.ifq.* as follows net.inet.ip.ifq.maxlen=1024 (256 * number nics) net.inet.ip.ifq.drops=0 net.inet.ip.ifq.len=0 This had no effect on the network throughput