Re: accidentally overwritten wrong drive with DD, please help

2024-06-24 Thread B. Atticus Grobe
A word of warning: even multiple overwrites are not guaranteed to erase any kind of flash-based storage. This applies even to some spinning rust now that have intermediate flash storage caches on them (although those tend to be enterprise-level devices). SSD/NVME's made by a reputable manufacturer

Re: accidentally overwritten wrong drive with DD, please help

2024-06-26 Thread B. Atticus Grobe
This hasn't necessarily been explained very simply up to this point, so I'll give it a go. You are not going to be attempting to rebuild the filesystem or in any way make it functional. This is a key point to understand; the filesystem is done. Permanently broken. This is also the reason people k

Fanless amd64 sytem recommendations

2022-07-10 Thread B. Atticus Grobe
I've been running a Hewlett-Packard HP t620 Quad Core TC for a couple of years now in that role, with the AMD GX-415GA SOC in it. It's the bigger brother of that found in the APU systems. The stock configuration usually has 4GB of RAM in them, with a single re(4) 1GBps NIC, and a 16GB mSATA SSD.

Trouble with lpr and Brother wireless printer

2022-07-31 Thread B. Atticus Grobe
I use an HL-L2370DW which only accepts PCL on BINARY_P1. I think it likely that yours acts the same. You'll have to tell lp to send the output through a filter, using (iirc) the vf= option in printcap. This is what i used for a filter: #!/bin/sh gs -sPAPERSIZE=letter -sDEVICE=pxlmono -sOutputFile=

Re: Trouble with lpr and Brother wireless printer

2022-08-05 Thread B. Atticus Grobe
I'm sorry the filter didn't work for you. I'm not using OpenBSD as a desktop right now, but I abused my router a bit to test, and can confirm that with an HL-L2370DW, the following printcap entry works, along with the filter. I know you've basically already moved on, but if you feel like giving it

Re: wg(4) on router - how to get working with clients

2022-08-08 Thread B. Atticus Grobe
I've been running wg since it was introduced into the kernel without any issues. local pf.conf: ... pass in on wg0 from (wg0:network) to any match out on wg0 from any to any nat-to (wg0) ... pass out modulate state remote pf.conf: ... pass in on wg0 pass out on wg0 match out on vio0 nat-to (vio0)

Re: Route based IPsec

2023-05-31 Thread B. Atticus Grobe
On 5/31/23 05:03, Valdrin MUJA wrote: > Hi Claudio & David, > > Wireguard can work behind NAT. In that case maybe the solution is wireguard + BGP. I've been using OSPF over wireguard for several years now. It works quite well. You just have to add `wgaip 224.0.0.0/8' to allow multicast over

Re: I nuked my filesystem

2023-09-26 Thread B. Atticus Grobe
restore from backup. scan_ffs doesn't find ffs2 filesystems.

Re: Failure to start vmd

2023-10-03 Thread B. Atticus Grobe
The E8400 processor doesn't support extended page tables, which vmm requires. AFAIK, all modern hypervisors require this.