Re: X710 10Gb card not configured

2017-09-27 Thread James A. Peltier
- On 26 Sep, 2017, at 20:25, Jonathan Gray j...@jsg.id.au wrote: | On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 05:35:40PM -0700, James A. Peltier wrote: |> Hi Misc, |> |> I am running the latest OpenBSD snapshot and it appears that the 10Gb cards that |> we have in the unit aren't recogni

X710 10Gb card not configured

2017-09-26 Thread James A. Peltier
anced Capability 0x03: Device Serial Number 0x0150: Enhanced Capability 0x0e: Alternate Routing ID 0x01a0: Enhanced Capability 0x17: TPH Requester 0x01b0: Enhanced Capability 0x0d: Access Control Services 0x00e0: Capability 0x03: Vital Product Data (VPD) -- James A. Pelti

Re: 10Gb single mode fibre adapters

2015-10-01 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | James A. Peltier [jpelt...@sfu.ca] wrote: | > Hi Misc, | > | > I'm looking to get some insight into those that have 10Gb single mode fibre | > adaptors in their OpenBSD machines and if they're being used in bridging | > mode? I've got

10Gb single mode fibre adapters

2015-10-01 Thread James A. Peltier
done. There will be 70 or so VLANs, some traffic shaping, and packet filter taking place on this device and so choosing the appropriate hardware is rather important. Any input from heavy bridging/VLAN use is even more important. Thanks. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computin

Re: NFS encoding?

2015-07-06 Thread James A. Peltier
>> this? Thanks. | >> | >> Best regards, | >> Zhi-Qiang Lei | | What about re-exporting the NFS share out via Samba and just ditching the NFS client in Windows 7 altogether? -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnab

Re: bridge + vlan broke after 5.5 > 5.6 upgrade

2015-01-02 Thread James A. Peltier
This was fixed in one of the snapshots and was working so it likely got broken again somehow http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=141770981219927&w=2 - Original Message - | | | On 17/11/2014 04:51, James A. Peltier wrote: | > Was a fix for this applied to current

Re: bridge + vlan broke after 5.5 > 5.6 upgrade

2015-01-02 Thread James A. Peltier
me. VLAN tagging/untagging is working as expected. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices Twitter : @sfu_rcg Powering

Re: bridge + vlan broke after 5.5 > 5.6 upgrade

2014-11-16 Thread James A. Peltier
acket into | vlan_start() which then just shoves the packet onto the parent interface. | | i have a massive headache and sleep deficit right now so im not going to | suggest a way to fix this. | | dlg | | Was a fix for this applied to current or -STABLE? -- James A. Peltier IT Services -

Re: Making tftp download large files from tftpd

2014-10-20 Thread James A. Peltier
could chainload iPXE to allow for the downloading of your file over HTTP which is much faster than TFTP to begin with. This is indeed what we do. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045

Re: Dragonflybsd's pf concurrent instead of single-threaded

2014-07-07 Thread James A. Peltier
es use the DragonflyBSD specific lightweight tokens, it's *HIGHLY UNLIKELY* (100% guaranteed) not to work against any OpenBSD sources. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045

Re: large file system

2014-03-22 Thread James A. Peltier
take forever. Softupdates will not help in this situation. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices "Around

Re: Vision 2020: Making OpenBSD the world's fastest OS

2014-03-05 Thread James A. Peltier
correctness, proactive security and integrated cryptography." That's it. To make a claim that OpenBSD is "the most secure operating system" would be false since there are many ways to define secure depending on who you talk to. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Rese

Re: net.inet.ip.arpqueued

2013-12-09 Thread James A. Peltier
kernel configuration or at compile | > time, | > and would this be advisable? | > | > | > Thanks, | > Han | | report the number of packets that arp resolution is holding onto until it gets a mac addr for an ip under net.inet.ip.arpqueued. See http://www.openssh.com/cgi-bin/

Re: OpenBSD pxe automated install

2013-08-13 Thread James A. Peltier
other OSs already offer this. Maybe not on the floppy disk versions but certainly the CD version should offer it. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca

Re: OpenBSD pxe automated install

2013-08-12 Thread James A. Peltier
tomated partitioning and the like the site.install and site.upgrade don't apply whatsoever. In order to fully automate the installation you will need to modify the bsd.rd file contents in order to do that. site.install and site.upgrade can be used to do other things like install packages

Re: logrotate error on latest snapshot

2013-04-29 Thread James A. Peltier
pflogd |tcpdump -n -e -s 160 -ttt -r $FILE | logger -t pf -p local0.info |rm $FILE | fi | | | /etc/syslog.conf | | | local0.info /var/log/pf-block.log | | | -- | James A. Peltier | Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group | Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus

logrotate error on latest snapshot

2013-04-26 Thread James A. Peltier
local0.info /var/log/pf-block.log -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices “A successful person is one who can lay

Re: Jan 4, 2013 snapshot fails with DHCP

2013-01-04 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 02:10:02PM -0800, James A. Peltier wrote: | > - Original Message - | > | On Jan 04 12:05:53, jpelt...@sfu.ca wrote: | > | > I just tried to use the latest amd64 snapshot to prepare for an | > | > upgrade to our fire

Re: Jan 4, 2013 snapshot fails with DHCP

2013-01-04 Thread James A. Peltier
esn't help if you reboot and you are not at the console. It's a bug and so I am reporting it. ;) -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca We

Jan 4, 2013 snapshot fails with DHCP

2013-01-04 Thread James A. Peltier
Cannot lstat() '/var/db/dhclient.leases.bge0': No such file or directory it does this for all interfaces and DHCP fails to configure the interface. This does not happen with 5.2-RELEASE. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burn

Can't call method "conflict_list" on unblessed reference at /usr/libdata/perl5/OpenBSD/PkgAdd.pm line 554.

2012-08-21 Thread James A. Peltier
I'm attempting an upgrade to the latest snapshot and so far everything seems to work except while updating packages I get the above stated error. Below is a typescript of the pkg_add -u with dmesg included. - Forwarded Message - From: "Charlie Root" To: jpelt...@sfu.ca Sent: Tuesday, 21

Re: upcoming pf changes in queue and sheduling system

2012-03-29 Thread James A. Peltier
pages for pf.conf in current to see some of the upcoming features that are worth documenting yet. Recently henning@ posted some info on scheduling albeit very vague. Basically, much of the work is still very much "in progress". -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Compu

Re: how to move "advskew" out of hostname.carpXXX ?

2012-02-13 Thread James A. Peltier
Why not just use sed to modify the file before the copy to the backup. Else, you can use puppet templates or some other solution. - Original Message - | Hello! | | I'd like to sync /etc/hostname.carpXXX files between MASTER and | BACKUP, the | only difference, of course is "advskew" par

Re: uvm_fault in Dec. 15 amd64 snapshot

2011-12-18 Thread James A. Peltier
east somewhat useful reference for updates that may have happened. ( Yeah right, from Aug 8th until now. Thousands of commits. ;) ) OpenBSD 5.0 (GENERIC.MP) #57: Mon Aug 8 14:58:00 MDT 2011 dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP -- James A. Peltier Manager,

uvm_fault in Dec. 15 amd64 snapshot

2011-12-18 Thread James A. Peltier
ddb{0}> keyboard is dead, no response at all from console. Any ideas? -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itse

Re: vlan and pf

2011-10-20 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | Hi folks, | | does openbsd firewall handle vlan interfaces ? | | Thanks in advance. | | []s, | | Gustavo Nope sorry! man vlan, man ifconfig (search for VLAN) ;) # cat /etc/hostname.vlan300 vlan 300 vlandev em1 -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research

Re: CVS

2011-10-11 Thread James A. Peltier
to update from. Once you've ran the cvs up the local tree keeps track of the current cvs server you are fetching from. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@s

network fails to start with firewall enabled. Used to work..

2011-08-22 Thread James A. Peltier
NET proto { tcp, udp } from gradebook.example.com to fornax.example.com pass log (to pflog1) quick on $NS_FASNET proto { tcp, udp } from cmpt165.example.com to fornax.example.com pass log (to pflog1) quick on $NS_FASNET proto { tcp, udp } from portal.example.com to fornax.example.com # Allow al

Re: OpenBSD on Dell PowerEdge

2011-08-09 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | James A. Peltier [jpelt...@sfu.ca] wrote: | > | > I think there is an issue with Broadcom cards and VLANs IIRC. On the | > Dell R200 I have the integrated bge drivers do not seem to support | > VLANs, other cards might not have issues but YMMV. |

Re: OpenBSD on Dell PowerEdge

2011-08-08 Thread James A. Peltier
eeing a quad Broadcom nic. I think there is an issue with Broadcom cards and VLANs IIRC. On the Dell R200 I have the integrated bge drivers do not seem to support VLANs, other cards might not have issues but YMMV. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser

Re: Benchmarking guidelines for NAS/Samba

2011-08-06 Thread James A. Peltier
. For a small home network your not likely to see any substantial improvements but these little tweaks can help. It seems like you're already getting pretty decent performance out of your existing box now. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Bu

Re: Firewall problem

2011-07-08 Thread James A. Peltier
ck log (to pflog1) on $NS_LAN1 | | I should also mention that I tried adding a pass quick on $NS_LAN1 | from 192.168.18.0/25 rule and this did not solve the problem either. Problem solved. No worries. Move along, nothing to see here. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Grou

Re: Firewall problem

2011-07-08 Thread James A. Peltier
n outgoing packets | # for OSs that don't already generate them | pass out quick log (to pflog1) on $NS_LAN1 I should also mention that I tried adding a pass quick on $NS_LAN1 from 192.168.18.0/25 rule and this did not solve the problem either. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Comp

Firewall problem

2011-07-07 Thread James A. Peltier
blocked pass quick from pass to ### LAN1 RULES ### ### # Block access to FASNET block in log on $NS_LAN1 all # use modulate state to generate stronger ISNs on outgoing packets # for OSs that don't already generate them pass out quick log (to pflog1) on $NS_LAN1 -- James A. Peltier

Re: adding Journaled File System (JFS)

2011-07-04 Thread James A. Peltier
AMMERFS in DragonflyBSD. It certainly wouldn't be easy, or even likely for that matter, to work it in but it is certainly an interesting file system. ;) -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045

Re: Recommended PCI-E adaptor with fibre connection

2011-06-15 Thread James A. Peltier
b-EF-Dual-Port/Gb-EF-Dual-Port-overview.htm For 10GbE the following adaptor looks to be quite good and supported using the Intel 82599 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller http://www.intel.com/Products/Server/Adapters/X520/ethernet-X520-overview.htm -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Com

Recommended PCI-E adaptor with fibre connection

2011-06-15 Thread James A. Peltier
n the 10Gb department? If so what have the developers been using to test/develop this driver with? -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.s

Re: new upper limit with BIGMEM

2011-04-05 Thread James A. Peltier
e conquered the skies a while ago. Really the solar system is the limit currently. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices

Re: Choosing a window manager...

2011-03-16 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | thx bryan. | | btw. im atheist. I've always found it important to believe in something. I'm of the belief that I'm always right and everyone else is wrong. It helps me get through the day. ;) -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Comput

Re: network bandwith with em(4)

2011-03-03 Thread James A. Peltier
terr + | - sc->rx_overruns; | + ifp->if_ierrors = 0; | | /* Tx Errors */ | ifp->if_oerrors = sc->stats.ecol + sc->stats.latecol + Hey Claudio, Thanks! This diff helped and now my errors have gone to zero! LOL! That was funny. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research

Re: network bandwith with em(4)

2011-02-22 Thread James A. Peltier
ame here, I guess the default mss is for connections from the | machine. tcpdump shows that the mss is negociated around 1450. Looks | good. | | net.inet.tcp.recvspace=262144 # Increase TCP "recieve" windows size | to increase performance | | = same, no tcp nor udp... | | I'm wrong?

Re: symbol ( - - - - ) size mismatch, relink your program

2010-12-11 Thread James A. Peltier
| I think this is in the archives... Yes it is because I created the most recent thread and it was because of packages. PHP in my case. -- James A. Peltier Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Web

Re: Donations

2010-12-05 Thread James A. Peltier
; hegemony | and I'm | glad the Internet is trying to block the interrupts. I don't understand the worry about these "pre-cogs" Minority report proved the theory to be infallible. :) -- James A. Peltier Systems Analyst (FASNet), VIVARIUM Technical Director Simon Fraser Univer

Re: Apache with latest snapshot

2010-12-04 Thread James A. Peltier
Updating all installed packages with pkg_add -ui worked perfectly. Thanks - Original Message - | Good point. PHP for use with symon. I'll check for package updates | there. Thanks! | | - Original Message - | | On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 6:31 PM, James A. Peltier | |

Re: Apache with latest snapshot

2010-12-04 Thread James A. Peltier
Good point. PHP for use with symon. I'll check for package updates there. Thanks! - Original Message - | On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 6:31 PM, James A. Peltier | wrote: | > Just performed a binary snapshot upgrade to the latest snapshot of | > current from ftp.openbsd.org

Apache with latest snapshot

2010-12-04 Thread James A. Peltier
slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot) pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 spkr0 at pcppi0 lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7 fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2 fd0 at fdc0 dr

Re: OpenBSD bridge setup

2010-11-06 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | Am 06.11.2010 03:23, schrieb James A. Peltier: | > Problem Description: | > | > I'm trying to filter VLANs on the bridge. However, when enabling | > VLAN devices on the em1 interface the bridge does not work. | > | Hell

OpenBSD bridge setup

2010-11-05 Thread James A. Peltier
ort 2 (UNTAGGED VLAN 300) stops functioning. This remains the same even if I add the vlan300 and vlan302 devices to the bridge. dhclient stops working ping is dead I'm stumped here. Any ideas? -- James A. Peltier Systems Analyst (FASNet), VIVARIUM Technical Director Simon Fraser University

Re: nfsv4?

2010-10-29 Thread James A. Peltier
would like to thank everyone for some of the thought provoking responses. It certainly brings to light some other possibilities that were posted on and off list. Cheers! -- James A. Peltier Systems Analyst (FASNet), VIVARIUM Technical Director Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone

Re: nfsv4?

2010-10-29 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Oct 29 06:54:07, James A. Peltier wrote: | > | > | > No I cannot just put and get. Moving hundreds of gigabytes of | > | > medical imaging data around with FTP/SSH would be out of the | > | > question. | > | | > | Yet moving hundr

Re: nfsv4?

2010-10-29 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Oct 29 07:22:22, James A. Peltier wrote: | > - Original Message - | > | On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 06:05:28 -0700 (PDT) | > | "James A. Peltier" wrote: | > | | > | > No I cannot just put and get. Moving hundreds of gigabytes of

Re: nfsv4?

2010-10-29 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | James A. Peltier wrote: | | > No, the NFS share is re-exported out via Samba as a native CIFS | > mount to Windows machines. It's a simple copy paste for them | | CIFS? How do you encrypt that? That's all clear text (except the auth) | right? |

Re: nfsv4?

2010-10-29 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 06:54:07 -0700 (PDT) | "James A. Peltier" wrote: | | > I was merely attempting to offer input as to why someone *might* | > require NFSv4. | | Fair enough but you haven't convinced me, how about ipsec, nfsv3, | auth

Re: nfsv4?

2010-10-29 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 06:05:28 -0700 (PDT) | "James A. Peltier" wrote: | | > No I cannot just put and get. Moving hundreds of gigabytes of | > medical imaging data around with FTP/SSH would be out of the | > question. | | Why? | | I imagine y

Re: nfsv4?

2010-10-29 Thread James A. Peltier
onal levels of security in the sense of authentication and access control to work across a less secure, non-segmented network. I am *not* using OpenBSD for *any* of this. I was merely attempting to offer input as to why someone *might* require NFSv4. -- James A. Peltier Systems Analyst (FAS

Re: nfsv4?

2010-10-29 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On 2010-10-29 11.28, Eric Furman wrote: | > On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 08:23 +0200, "Henning Brauer" | >> * James A. Peltier [2010-10-28 20:23]: | >>> What it offers: | >>> Kerberos security, | >> what again? | >>>

Re: nfsv4?

2010-10-29 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On 2010-10-28, James A. Peltier wrote: | > What it offers: | > Kerberos security, selectable security level (-o | > sec=krb5/krb5i/krb5p), firewall friendly | | authentication != security My apologies, you are correct and so I change "selectable s

Re: nfsv4?

2010-10-29 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 08:23 +0200, "Henning Brauer" | wrote: | > * James A. Peltier [2010-10-28 20:23]: | > > What it offers: | > > Kerberos security, | > | > what again? | > | > > selectable security level (-o se

Re: nfsv4?

2010-10-28 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Oct 27 15:28:37, James A. Peltier wrote: | > - Original Message - | > | James A. Peltier wrote: | > | | > | > Now, that said, is there anything that you could recommend | > | > instead | > | > of NFSv4 for offering secur

Re: nfsv4?

2010-10-28 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 14:26 -0700, James A. Peltier wrote: | > - Original Message - | | > | You mean, NFSv4 seems more "transparent" to you (whatever that | > | means) | > | than, say, NFSv2? | > | > No, in that NFSv4 with Kerb

Re: nfsv4?

2010-10-27 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | James A. Peltier wrote: | | > Now, that said, is there anything that you could recommend instead | > of NFSv4 for offering secure file services to multiple platforms? | | Apache with SSL may be a solution. I've used it on small scale | projects. | Y

Re: nfsv4?

2010-10-27 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Oct 27 11:31:31, James A. Peltier wrote: | > - Original Message - | > | > Pardon my ignorance in this matter, but what is it that is | > | > unpleasing? The complexity of it? From my understanding, NFSv4 | > | > is | > | > mo

Re: nfsv4?

2010-10-27 Thread James A. Peltier
s much as IPv6 or NFSv4. It's certainly possible that your team can do it by looking at the other successful projects. Now, that said, is there anything that you could recommend instead of NFSv4 for offering secure file services to multiple platforms? My research only led me to NFSv4

Re: nfsv4?

2010-10-27 Thread James A. Peltier
upport file services for all of the OS platforms we | > support, across all the campuses we support, Kerberized NFSv4 fit | > the bill best. | | The comedy just never ends. Glad I can amuse you. I still find it funny that an answer hasn't been received as well. :) -- James A. Peltier Syst

Re: nfsv4?

2010-10-27 Thread James A. Peltier
quot;. Okay, let me rephrase it then. In order to support file services for all of the OS platforms we support, across all the campuses we support, Kerberized NFSv4 fit the bill best. -- James A. Peltier Systems Analyst (FASNet), VIVARIUM Technical Director Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Ph

Re: nfsv4?

2010-10-27 Thread James A. Peltier
to me complexity was the biggest issue. It was very difficult because of all the potential points of breakage and inter-dependency. Out of all of the protocols though it was the most transparent for our multi-platform support. -- James A. Peltier Systems Analyst (FASNet), VIVARIUM Techni