Re: OpenBSD isakmpd and pf vs Cisco PIX or ASA

2008-04-25 Thread Karsten McMinn
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Matthew Dempsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Probably not. I've never had problems with carp's fallover time and > I've never used a Cisco firewall so I don't really know how it > actually compares. I just wanted to suggest a maybe-solution assuming > the suppos

Re: Perpetually Current

2007-12-27 Thread Karsten McMinn
On Dec 27, 2007 10:47 AM, Jan Stary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's about one hour of work twice a year - what's wrong with that? Why > do you want to stay -current? What problem are you trying to solve, or > what are you trying to achieve by doing that? obviously automation. regardless of p

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-11 Thread Karsten McMinn
On Dec 11, 2007 11:00 AM, Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My main basis for judging any distro is the policies it has adopted. > > Everyone makes mistakes, and well-intentioned people fix their > mistakes. So if someone finds a non-free program in gNewSense, or in > OpenBSD, in vio

Re: OpenBSD isakmpd and pf vs Cisco PIX or ASA

2007-11-07 Thread Karsten McMinn
On Nov 4, 2007 4:09 PM, Chris Bullock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ...and it appears to us that that those > sites seem to transmit data quicker than the sites that we maintain with > OpenBSD firewalls and VPNs, assuming identical bandwidth. do some conclusive transfer tests please or explain wha

Re: Server trouble shooting

2007-10-30 Thread Karsten McMinn
On Oct 30, 2007 11:49 AM, Claus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Instead of simply just rebooting the system I would like to start to > learn to trouble shoot the problem. Currently I'm physically away from > the system and can't look at the console. Since I can't connect > successfully via ssh is th

Re: About Xen: maybe a reiterative question but ..

2007-10-24 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 10/24/07, L. V. Lammert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have no clue what you're trying to say??? The original comment was the > the number of vulnerabilities is a inverse measure of the security risk > associated with a given OS. Please stop feeding this trolling. LV you should know better -- i

Re: expansion of FAQ# 1.10 re OpenBSD as a desktop system

2007-10-12 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 10/11/07, Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Personally, I absolutely LOVE the fact that OpenBSD doesn't support > flash natively. I think that's a great selling point for using it > on a desktop. Oh, but you not only like flash, but demand it. > That's ok, that's your measure of "deskt

Re: OpenBSD is loosing cd and tshirt sales

2007-10-10 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 10/10/07, Gerald Thornberry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not entirely true. I've been checking the USPS Track & Confirm > website each day since October 2 when I got my tracking confirmation > via email. Until today the USPS had no record of my shipment. > Finally I have a response: > > "Your

Re: firewall is very slow, something's wrong

2007-10-08 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 10/8/07, Florin Andrei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The UDP flood still freezes the system solid (but I discovered that the > system clock continues to work more or less fine, it's just the text > console and the firewall that are not responsive). > > I still can't match the performance I get

Re: Thank you developers... 4.2 arrived in the mail today

2007-10-05 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 10/5/07, Chad M Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My 4.2 CDs and t-shirt arrived in the mail today (near Buffalo, NY) drat, I was hoping for first the first post. you forgot the pic.

Re: ms exchange replacement

2007-10-02 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 10/2/07, Lord Sporkton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i am looking into an exchange replacement, im looking to have use of > calender appointments, tasks and mail all through a central server, > also i have multiple windows based mobile devices syncing with this > server, i wasnt able to find anyt

Re: Mini PCI card for hostap mode

2007-09-17 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 9/17/07, Steve B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone recommend a vendor that carries mini PCI > cards that support hostap mode under OpenBSD? man (4) ral is a good place to start. I bought a MSI MN54G recently which worked.

Re: Question about ral max speed?

2007-09-12 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 9/12/07, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007/09/12 09:43, Daniel Melameth wrote: > > I doubt you will ever see true 54Mb/s using 802.11g or 802.11a under any OS. > > You will not; that is the data rate transmitted by the radio, > which is quoted before protocol overheads are ta

Re: Virtualisation

2007-09-10 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 9/10/07, Adrian Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to use it for a mixture of web-hosting, virtual servers, etc. but > also for running a new online game. I want to ensure (as much as is > possible) that a system fails for whatever reason the workload running on it > is automatically re

Re: Problems with chrooted Apache and PHP exec() function

2007-09-05 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 9/5/07, Otto Moerbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Johan L wrote: > > > > Any suggestion on how to solve this (other than disabling chroot of > > course...)? > > > > /Johan > > depending on how you invoke the executable, you might need /bin/sh as > well in the chroot. Please

Re: A question about OpenBSD

2007-06-12 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 6/12/07, John Tate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am downloading OpenBSD 4.2, I know how to use everything in that but being young I am not too sure about the checksum format, md5 tends to rule the world these days. What is it called exactly? I'm confused, what exactly are you asking? If its

mpi success

2007-06-11 Thread Karsten McMinn
Hi, I'm posting a mpi success. Great work on the mpt(4) rewrite David, Marco. The same LSI7102XP under solaris8 on a Netra120 was netting 7MB/sec write, 18MB/sec read using LSI's driver. sd1 is a Dothill SANnet II FC setup with 4 146G 10k FC drives in Raid5 with a 512k byte stripe size. V---

Re: About BSD Certification

2007-06-11 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 6/10/07, Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That's just as stupid as requiring people have a cert. Lots of people have certs because so many places toss your resume if you don't have "MCSE" or "CCNA" listed on it. Just because they have a cert doesn't mean they don't know what they're doing.

Re: Packets Per Second Limit?

2007-05-31 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 5/31/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anyone know the maximum packets per second that can traverse a 100MB internet link. From what I've been able to gather its about 8300 or so? Is this number accurate? Do connections just start to timeout once I hit this limit? I'm a little w

Re: project mgmt software

2007-05-31 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 5/31/07, Marc Balmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: > would appreciate some recommendations for project management software > that runs on openbsd and preferably windows as well. I like taskjuggler a lot (and use it a lot). using dotproject.

Re: Bottleneck in httpd. I need help to address capacity issues on max parallel and rate connections

2007-05-09 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 5/9/07, Daniel Ouellet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I can now have two clients using 1000 parallel connections to one i386 850MHz server, my old one that I was testing with and I get all that no problem now. No delay and I can even push it more, but I figure at 2000 parallel connections I should

Re: Microsoft gets the Most Secure Operating Systems award

2007-03-22 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 3/22/07, Ben Calvert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Microsoft is doing better overall than its leading commercial competitors. ^^ No wonder. they stacked the deck before doing the comparison doesn't this mean that they now h

Re: Router performance on OpenBSD and OpenBGPD

2007-02-22 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 2/21/07, Alex Thurlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Oops, forgot that part. At 325Mbps, we do about 60,000pps, so that puts us at about 360,000pps needed for 2Gbps. You'll have a hard time finding benches for that. To date, the best reported is 150k pps which was on the intel E7520 chipset. Th

Re: HTTP URL filtering?

2007-02-06 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 2/6/07, Xavier Mertens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi *, I've a problem with an Apache web server hit by f*cking spammers... I would like to filter some URLs (unused but still used by the bots) *BEFORE* they reach the httpd processes. What could be the best method? pf? something else? I used

Re: ThinkPad z61p: ar5_register_timeout

2007-01-15 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 1/11/07, Allan Wind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear List, > > I am getting the following with OpenBSD 4.0 (amd64) on a ThinkPad z61p > (core 2 duo) when booting either the default bsd or bsd.mp kernel: > > ... > ath0 at pc3 dev 0 function 0 "Atheros AR5212 (IBM MiniPCI)" rev 0x01: irq > 11 >

Re: OpenBSD - Vlans - CISCO

2006-12-08 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 12/8/06, michel bidard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: All the configs on the CISCO device have been done. All the hosts on the vlan 2 are able to ping each other and to surf. However, the remaining vlans aren't working. things to check that haven't been mentioned: -set switch vtp mode to transpa

Re: Which tools the OpenBSD developers are using?

2006-11-29 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 11/29/06, Damian Wiest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 1) visual editor -- ed, vi, emacs 2) revision control system -- RCS, CVS, Subversion 3) portability tools -- autotools (autoconf, automake, libtool) 4) build system -- make, gmake, bmake 5) packaging system -- pkgsrc, Open and FreeBSD port

Re: Which tools the OpenBSD developers are using?

2006-11-28 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 11/28/06, Diana Eichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I use a soldering iron, dremel tool, sheet metal/plastic nibbler and solder wick. diana PS Then I load my AR-15 to see if I can shoot any holes in my code. I highly recommend glue guns, gnomes and jars of fat free mayonaise. why fat free y

Re: Java -> GPL, pre-built packages?

2006-11-13 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 11/8/06, Martin Schrvder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'll believe it when I can download the archive from Sun. the thought does make me warm n fuzzy. SGPL != GPL

Re: Fast Xorg Performance

2006-11-01 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 11/1/06, Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Additionally, as pointed out, it isn't enabled yet. I take you mean by default. I've playing with it and it seems to be doing something. I really should go read some of the diffs and tech@ to get an idea where its being loaded. firefox run

Re: OpenBSD AJAX

2006-11-01 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 10/24/06, ropers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ryan, Joachim (, others): You mentioned that you dislike PHP. I would be curious to learn your reasons for this. I'm not trying to instigate religious wars or the like, it's just that my programming skills are mostly nonexistant GW BASIC & shell scr

Re: Fast Xorg Performance

2006-10-31 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 10/31/06, Berk D. Demir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Under 1 second... Even Firefox... I can not achieve similar even with prebind'ed binaries on an Athlon64 3500+ with more than 1GB empty DDR2 memory to scratch. I took a stopwatch to it and firefox is 2.5 seconds. In other words it loads in

Re: Fast Xorg Performance

2006-10-31 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 10/19/06, Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That's true, but once everything is loaded and the system has been running long enough to figure out what belongs in swap and what belongs in memory, simple stuff shouldn't take too long. Simple stuff like opening an xterm. following up,

Re: Hard drive going bad? or something else? (obsd4.0)

2006-10-30 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 10/30/06, patrick ~ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm going to try swapping out modules, maybe I'll get lucky. unrelated but needing an archive mention is something odd I just ran across with the deadly uncorrectable sector messages is that I had two used maxtor drives that died on me after cha

Re: it has arrived!

2006-10-26 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 10/26/06, Greg Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can't wait to see the wireframe Puffy sticker from the audio CD! > Nice! http://2fortheroad.net/puffy.jpg dyin over here on the west coast. In desperation I attached a puffy earlier today. more puffy pr0n: http://www.mcminndig

Re: tftp logging

2006-10-23 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 10/23/06, Daniel Ouellet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The man page doesn't have the usual -l for logging for the tftpd, so what other choice could be done, or not logging for this. I am trying to log the traffic to syslog and so far, my research still haven't given me anything other then needed

Re: Fast Xorg Performance

2006-10-18 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 10/18/06, Jeff Quast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Documentation is key! http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/CategoryHardwareChipset http://www.xfree86.org/current/manindex4.html It took me about 30 minutes to find a $30 ati card that is well supported. The 9200 looks promising. I was able to find

Re: Fast Xorg Performance

2006-10-17 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 10/17/06, Ted Unangst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: do you mean if anyone experiences anything that bad? i've never had a window operation take as long as 100ms even using the vesa driver. the example closest to me at the moment is a desktop I work on: OpenBSD 3.9 (GENERIC) #617: Thu Mar 2 0

Fast Xorg Performance

2006-10-17 Thread Karsten McMinn
I'm trying to figure out what needs to be done in order to get fast 2d xorg (and friends) performance. I term fast as not having to wait for window operations, with most every application and xorg opertation taking no longer than 100ms. if anyone experiences this kind of performance in any xorg en

Re: what is openripd?

2006-10-17 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 10/16/06, Bryan Irvine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm in an entirely rip v2 environment and have long coveted the bgp/ospf folks. :-) *cringe* this post made me dream of rip atrocities last night. just let rip (v1/v2) die already. go burn your legacy rip routers.

Re: Setting up a box to do NAT and Static IPs

2006-10-11 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 10/9/06, Patrick - South Valley Internet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I have a box I installed OpenBSD 3.9 on. I'm trying to get this box to function as our office firewall. Here's the catch - we have VOIP phones that contact an external VOIP server outside of our firewall. I've been

Re: OLPC

2006-10-10 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 10/10/06, Edward A. Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In reading these it seemed obvious that the encumbered IP or microkernel that JG talks about is almost certainly ThreadX, produced by Express Logic (expresslogic.com or rtos.com). I might mention that I have a lot of experience with embed

Re: Letter to OLPC

2006-10-05 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 10/5/06, Aaron Hsu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So in the end, we can't expect anything to happen if a people don't really care. People can't put in external protections to assure the safety of their ideas, it is the responsibility of people to ensure that such things are protected, and right n

Re: Letter to OLPC

2006-10-05 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 10/5/06, Bob Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It is completely shameful. One Laptop Per Citizen - controlled by the cabal. indeed. If you (misc@) haven't already, send an email, post the outrage somewhere, voice your concern. Marvell would open in a second if it meant they were g

Re: Lenovo laptops on OpenBSD

2006-10-02 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 10/1/06, J Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've got to buy a couple of laptops, and want to get something that's as "open source friendly" as possible. I know at one time, there were a number of OpenBSD users that were enthusiastic about ThinkPads. thinkpads are still the favorite. work is

Re: Transparent bridge rdr SSH traffic

2006-09-27 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 9/27/06, Jason Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Think about it. How would sshd communicate with you without an IP address? Seems to defy the laws of TCP/IP. I'd concede that its more akin to "bending" than defying laws (RFCs). with enough will and some legwork you might be able to get fu

Re: Hacking a mail server

2006-09-27 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 9/26/06, Carlos A. Garcia G. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ;) Sorry ok the problem it is this someone told my boss that the email messages has been readed by someone else this information came from our isp we have a e1 connection its like a t1 connection so with that information they said that th

Re: Asterisk Voip

2006-09-25 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 9/25/06, J.A. Bal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Stuart,\ I altered some ownerships of the /asterisk folders, but still it wouldn't run as _asterisk. Right now, i'm running asterisk as root. I never even noticed there was an _asterisk user. and usually new users copy in the asterisk default

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-09-03 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 9/2/06, Marc Espie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The BSDs have always been about the code, not the organization. quoted for truth.

Re: Is it possible that source spoof IP bypass the three step handshake of the TCP connection to apache in an attack?

2006-08-25 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 8/24/06, Ryan Corder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: table persist block in quick on $ext_if inet from pass in on $ext_if proto tcp from any to any port 80 \ flags S/SA synproxy state (max-src-conn 100, \ max-src-conn-rate 15/5, \

Re: [OT] 2U Server

2006-08-21 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 8/19/06, Tom Geman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Looking for server advice. 1) Any chassis or supplier recommendations? Comments on "Rackmountpro", since I have found this 2U chassis from rackmountpro ( http://www.rackmountpro.com/productpage.php?prodid=2421 ). supermicro SC800 series chassis a

Re: OT hardware IDE RAID cards

2006-08-19 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 8/17/06, Antti Harri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Karsten McMinn wrote: You might find http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTBF useful. I appreciate the lecture. Well, not really. I'll take my 1.2million hr [EMAIL PROTECTED] vs a 700thousand hour [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bye.

Re: OT hardware IDE RAID cards

2006-08-17 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 8/16/06, Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There are other reasons why SAS/SCSI is more expensive than SATA/PATA besides reliability. I won't rehash them again. interfaces aside, S/P-ATA drive mtbf has gotten much better which makes sata storage really yummy. (mtbfs over 1million

Re: Sun Cobalt RAQ4i

2006-08-15 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 8/15/06, Marian Hettwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But the RaQ3 was MIPS based, wasn't it ? amd K450s mostly (i386). They have a custom bios which makes them hard to play with. as mentioned a couple linux distros made it on there other than the factory redhat distro. to try though you need t

Re: Tyan v. Supermicro for Opteron?

2006-08-07 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 8/7/06, Dustin Lundquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've used both a Tyan S2892 and Supermicro H8SSL and H8DA8, the Tyan board had a number of weird BIOS issues - some times it would boot, reset the BIOS 5 times wave a dead chicken over it and then it would work. yea, their bios updating uti

Re: Gratuitous ARP problem with OpenBSD and MS Cluster Services

2006-07-29 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 7/28/06, Clayton Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Any idea what's going on here? I don't think it's even possible to filter out non-IP packets with pf, and I'm certainly not trying. I am not using any bridge devices. ARP works in all other respects. I don't see any sysctl tunables for ARP, e

Re: BGP questions

2006-07-07 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 7/7/06, Jacob Yocom-Piatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: the motivation for asking this is that i'm running an ecommerce website from work and am interested in having a failover and/or loadbalancing for it in the event that the power goes out at work, etc. colocating the machine that serves it is

Re: Recommendation for RAID-Array

2006-06-29 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 6/29/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My big problem is in selecting which SATA-Card (I've only used Dawicontrol on OBSD) and if I should buy one with four ports or two with two ports. LSI (ami) sata controllers will get you up to 8 disks on a controller. They are well liked

Re: Change MTU size TCP/IP Packets for 'black hole routers' within B SD 3.8 possible ?

2006-06-27 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 6/27/06, forums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > this could be a "Black Hole > Router Issue" and I should try to set the MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) > lower (the ping with a packet/framesize from 1472 indeed fails over this > line). A packetsize from around 1300 works ok. You should be track

Re: Windows to "copy" open bsd

2006-06-02 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 6/2/06, Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (including captain fucktrust) has had any relevant input. Can't we all just get along ... and let this thread die a quiet death? in a second don quixote. 1) were all subscribed to misc@ :: use the force :: resist the reply all button. 2) htt

Re: they say openbsd is not as scalable as others

2006-05-30 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 5/29/06, Marian Hettwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PG so what is best served? exactly what I said. I've used opensbd to serve just about everything as a service provider. includes stuff like mysql/postgresql, apache, php, perl, mail, squid, pf and on down the line. My opinion was

Re: they say openbsd is not as scalable as others

2006-05-27 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 5/26/06, Jason Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Instead of wasting your time with the question and everyone else's time suffering it, JUST TRY THE OS. If it meets your scalability/ performance needs, GREAT! If it doesn't, find something else that does. I don't think your are striking the p

Re: they say openbsd is not as scalable as others

2006-05-25 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 5/25/06, Nick Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Also "From the beginning, every line of code has been continually audited for flaws and vulnerabilities (this is an ongoing process since hackers are always developing new techniques)" It's not that 'hackers' are making new techniques as much

Re: PHP vs Mason vs Ruby vs JSP/Tomcat

2006-05-22 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 5/22/06, Craig Skinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi list, > You should install all of them and go nuts and post your findings. I've spent alot of time with php, perl and java. In my world where I only use a single 1U for production it boils down like this: Java is a pig for http. Tasks

Re: php5-curl error: couldn't resolve host

2006-05-18 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 5/18/06, Jacob Yocom-Piatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i'm trying to get the php5-curl-5.0.4p0 module working with some php code > that's > running on a 3.8-release machine. this code makes XML requests to UPS to > get > shipping costs and times. when the php attempts to use curl to contact t

Re: Laptop recommendations

2006-05-12 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 5/11/06, Chris Cappuccio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why does everyone have to post on here a message that says: > > 1. Most of the devices on my IBM laptop are completely unsupported > 2. I love my IBM laptop!! hold a ibm and a dell side by side and you'll answer that question. Yes, I have

Re: Laptop recommendations

2006-05-11 Thread Karsten McMinn
> On Thursday 11 May 2006 15:21, rjn wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm looking into getting a new laptop (I start college in the fall). > > In particular, I'm looking for something OpenBSD compatible. I > > considering either a Lenovo Thinkpad or the MacBook Pro. From what > > I've seen you can only

3.9 sightings :: ot

2006-04-24 Thread Karsten McMinn
the partys starting over here in the west (usa). props if you can recognize my first server getting the honors. my thanks and my raised glass to Theo and the team. -K [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/jpeg which had a name of 3-9-1.jpg]

Re: Apache speed limitation

2006-04-07 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 4/7/06, edgarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello list! > > At the moment i have huge loaded Apache web server, download bw is > ~3MB/s. And almost all sites now is very slow. Is here any built in > speed limitation functions? If no what should i use? > > The main directives you want to p

Re: First OpenBSD 3.9 CD in Europe

2006-04-06 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 4/4/06, Paulo Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi guys! > > I couldn't resist posting a picture of the first delivered 3.9 CD in > Europe (bwahaha victory is mine!!!). So, enjoy this fantastic life > action picture ;) > > http://users.pandora.be/parecon/firstowyeah.jpg thats just aweso

Re: When would you NOT use OpenBSD?

2006-04-06 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 4/5/06, David T Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just out of curiosity why did your company decide > to go with Postgresql as opposed to mysql? > Just somewhat curious considering you see mysql > everywhere these days... > > Or at least you hear about it more it seems... I do know of one

Re: 3.9 coming out

2006-04-03 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 4/3/06, Gordon Grieder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 02:40:50AM -0600, David B. wrote: > > > I just lost my entire development box to a hack this week, right through > > smoothwall's DMZ. I had apache up, postgresql installed with the mod_php > as > > the middleware. Al

Re: Sys-Admin vs Network Admin

2006-04-02 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 3/31/06, A Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> given that I'm not sweeping the floors > or mowing his lawn, I'm managing his disorganized mess of a network. > And that job is like a sweatshop, because my employer, a small business > owner with franchisees, asks me to set up services that are stil

Re: Sys-Admin vs Network Admin

2006-03-31 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 3/30/06, Greg Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Huh? I'm not talking about any of the above and I'm not really > talking talking about official sysadmins, either. I'm talking about > security-ignorant non-computer engineers that have root and no one's > going to take root away from them.

Re: Site indexing application

2006-03-24 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 3/24/06, Gabriel George POPA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Frank Denis wrote: > I installed Hyper Estraier but now, because it is in chroot, it cannot > find the libraries it depends on. I had this problem quite a few times > with different programs. I did not have the time to solve it (with ot

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-23 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 3/23/06, frantisek holop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> i never did try to present this as absolute truth, all the mail is > my personal opinion. just shutup and donate already! -K

Short apache v microsoft paper

2006-03-21 Thread Karsten McMinn
Sharing a performance-oriented paper comparing our httpd vs Microsoft's iis6. I did this a bit ago but never bothered sharing it. I'm sure someone will find it of use. http://www.mcminndigital.com/paper/apacheviis.php -K

Re: UPEK Fingerprint-Reader (ThinkPad Notebooks)

2006-03-20 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 3/20/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Oops, that's a good heads up. I was considering getting an R51. Is that > going to have an unsupported wireless NIC? > > Paul ath0 at pci4 dev 0 function 0 "Atheros AR5212 (IBM MiniPCI)" rev 0x01: cannot map register space I've turned

Re: UPEK Fingerprint-Reader (ThinkPad Notebooks)

2006-03-20 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 3/19/06, Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In that sense I am happy too. I don't accept the compromise of vendor > lock-in, so I am totally thrilled with whatever devices manage to we > get to work. I abhor vendor driver and documentation runarounds as much as the next bloke, but

Re: [OT]: Vulnerability Scanning Frustrations (Or: if you run nessus, how do you make it run faster?)

2005-09-13 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 9/13/05, C. Bensend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Scans on a local subnet (nmap -sT -p 1-65535) taking 7 hours or more. > > > > The built-in nessus port scanner does the same. > > H, something _definately_ wrong there. On my LAN, using your > command line above (from a 3.7-STABLE host to

Re: BSD PPPoA Hardware

2005-08-17 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 8/16/05, J.C. Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > All the DSL modems I've seen here in the > USA are ethernet based on the user side and as misfortune would have > it, many providers *require* using their particular modem, so the user > side of it is all that matters. On the west coast Its

Re: syslogd udp port

2005-08-05 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 8/4/05, poncenby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I remember asking how to stop syslogd opening udp port 514 a while ago > and never doing anything about it, here goes again... better yet just compile your own version of nmap that doesnt scan udp 514.

Re: Eschelon IPO

2005-08-04 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 8/4/05, Tom Kegerreis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Previous calls had all said it would be at the end of the year - thats what > I meant > > And since I work nights, I was asleep during the surprise conference call > :-) yea its kind of a odd feeling aint it?? remember back in the day "w

Re: Eschelon IPO

2005-08-04 Thread Karsten McMinn
oh snap. hi [EMAIL PROTECTED] sorry! On 8/4/05, Karsten McMinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/4/05, Scott Call <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 13:07 -0500, Tom Kegerreis wrote: > > > Despite everything we've been told, Eschelon went publ

Re: Eschelon IPO

2005-08-04 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 8/4/05, Scott Call <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 13:07 -0500, Tom Kegerreis wrote: > > Despite everything we've been told, Eschelon went public today. ESCH > > on the Nasdaq > > There was an all "associates" call about an hour ago where they made it > pretty clear they wer

Re: Ammunition needed to defend OpenBSD/pf

2005-08-03 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 8/3/05, Matt Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The cynical side of me thinks that managers, no matter how great the > reality of OpenBSD, are likely to reject it based on a fear > and/or ignorance of open source, or with logic like, "Well if it's > so good, how come I've never heard of it?" T

Perl DBI and mysql notes

2005-07-22 Thread Karsten McMinn
Had a real run at it with perl DBI (dbd mysql). Hoping to save someone grief in the future. I've been using php, perl and friends in the chroot without issue but trying to add DBD::mysql was painful. Thanks to a good tip from the list with regard to someone trying to get suexec to work. You don't n

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-21 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 7/19/05, Gary Clemans-Gibbon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Forgot about the /dev/null idea. interesting result. I scp'd a 10 Mb > file from my gentoo box and it completed fast in a few seconds - speed > 3.3 Mb/s. Not great but faster than the other experiences. > > I then did the same with a 2.5

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 7/19/05, Stephen Marley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 01:28:17PM -0700, Gary Clemans-Gibbon wrote: > > A little bit more info, > > > > i ran the following... > > snip dont forget to use netstat -i (-e on windows) to look for errors on the line, which would be indicative o

Re: squid on openbsd 3.7

2005-07-07 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 7/7/05, Askar Ali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adam wrote: > I would love if you can gives any other suggestion that could makes > squid performance cool, may be in sysctl.conf? Squid is a cpu, descriptor and disk hog. After you have allocated the disk space and compiled with ample available FD

Re: openbsd as basis for something better?

2005-06-27 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 6/26/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i'm curious whether anybody would like to team up with me, to try > and map out the ideas for how a real next generation unix would be. > i'll soon have a pdf ready for those who are interested. in my > humble opinion, this would be a great

Re: heal the world, and misc@ [strictly coffeetime reading]

2005-06-10 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 6/10/05, -f <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a nice cup of coffee in front of me, and as a big fan of > robert x., let me reflect a bit on the phenomenon called > "misc@openbsd.org"... will try to keep it short. > habemus fidei defensor! why do people feel the need to try to make things which ar

Re: MySQL issues

2005-06-09 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 6/9/05, John Tate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just tried everything here, however it has come to the same problem > again... mysql refuses to start... > > -bash-3.00# mysqld_safe > Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/mysql > 050610 21:24:10 mysqld ended whats in the log? (defau