No output on com3 post-install

2024-04-21 Thread Laura Smith
I cannot understand why I am getting no output on com3 post-install of 7.5. I connect to the USB-serial port, and I can see 7.5 boot of USB, and I can go through the install. No problem. During install, I say "yes" to, do you want to default to com3. But after the reboot, I see no output after

Fix the wording on the 7.5 upgrade page

2024-04-05 Thread Laura Smith
Could someone kindly fix the wording on the 7.5 upgrade page. It says "There were several configuration changes and changes in packages that may require planning before starting the upgrade." But the notes say "nothing of note this release", "nothing to remove this release", Thanks!

Re: dmesg hangs 7.4

2024-03-10 Thread Laura Smith
On Sunday, 10 March 2024 at 11:09, Tobias Fiebig wrote: > > Would still give it a try, esp. given that a large text file cat also > shows this MTU-y behavior. ;-) > > Still, I acknowledge that I do have a very MTU-hammer-view of network > things a lot. > > In any case, the issue sounds

Re: dmesg hangs 7.4

2024-03-10 Thread Laura Smith
nything special with the network setup? > > Anything odd in dmesg on the box you're ssh'ing from? > > On 2024-03-09, Laura Smith n5d9xq3ti233xiyif...@protonmail.ch wrote: > > > Hi > > > > I've got a fresh install of 7.4 on a new box and am seeing a very weird >

Re: dmesg hangs 7.4

2024-03-09 Thread Laura Smith
ly signaled. This only hits as soon as the packets > get a size larger than the MTU, e.g., when typing dmesg (or find /). > > With best regards, > Tobias > > On Sat, 2024-03-09 at 16:07 +, Laura Smith wrote: > > > Hi > > > > I've got a fresh install o

Re: dmesg hangs 7.4

2024-03-09 Thread Laura Smith
Same thing, it hangs : # cat /dev/urandom | openssl enc -base64 -out foo ^C # ls -lah foo 1.5G Mar 9 17:17 foo # cat foo Bunch of text, then hang, then dropped "Timeout, server not responding." Sent with Proton Mail secure email. On Saturday, 9 March 2024 at 16:55, Mihai

dmesg hangs 7.4

2024-03-09 Thread Laura Smith
Hi I've got a fresh install of 7.4 on a new box and am seeing a very weird problem. If I enter "dmesg" I get a few lines of output and then it hangs and my ssh connection gets dropped. I ran syspatch, rebooted and the problem persists. Example: # dmesg

Re: Slow relink in 7.4

2023-10-17 Thread Laura Smith
--- Original Message --- On Tuesday, October 17th, 2023 at 10:07, David Higgs wrote: > I have an underpowered amd64 VPS and attempted to (auto)upgrade it to 7.4. Just how underpowered is your VPS ? I've got a few underpowered VPS's (1 or 2 vCPU, 512MB RAM) and they went through

Re: OpenBSD 7.4

2023-10-13 Thread Laura Smith
> I usually track the following file. > > https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/etc/root/root.mail > Ironically, that file seems to support the earlier statement made by Peter Hansteen that he got shot down for (i.e. "The exact date will not be generally known until it happens if recent releases

Re: ixl not seeing SFP+ modules ?

2023-04-15 Thread Laura Smith
--- Original Message --- On Saturday, April 15th, 2023 at 08:37, Stuart Henderson wrote: > I have FS and FlexOptix SFP and SFP+ (various LX, SR, LR) in X710-based cards, > I don't remember what they're vendor-coded as (probably either Intel or Cisco > for the FS, and either Intel or

Re: ixl not seeing SFP+ modules ?

2023-04-15 Thread Laura Smith
Sent with Proton Mail secure email. --- Original Message --- On Friday, April 14th, 2023 at 21:14, Stuart Henderson wrote: > ixl can be vendor locked in firmware. also iirc they can be funny about when > the module was plugged in, if it was hotplugged try rebooting, though

ixl not seeing SFP+ modules ?

2023-04-14 Thread Laura Smith
I have an ixl card (ixl0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "Intel X710 SFP+" rev 0x02: port 3, FW 6.0.48442 API 1.7, msix, 4 queues) on OpenBSD that doesn't seem to be seeing any of my SFP+ modules. The modules are all MSA coded and from different manufacturers. ifconfig ixl shows "status: no

Re: OpenBSD and AMD EPYC/RYZEN 10gb

2023-04-12 Thread Laura Smith
--- Original Message --- On Wednesday, April 12th, 2023 at 16:57, Denis Fondras wrote: > I started to write something that looks like a driver but haven't gone far > yet. > There is no freely available doc about this chipset. The only source is the > FreeBSD driver and it is

Re: OpenBSD and AMD EPYC/RYZEN 10gb

2023-04-12 Thread Laura Smith
Sent with Proton Mail secure email. --- Original Message --- On Wednesday, April 12th, 2023 at 16:13, Claudio Jeker wrote: > These integrated network ports are often disabled. I have not found a > reasonably priced system that has them exposed. This is an important reason > why

Re: OpenBSD and AMD EPYC/RYZEN 10gb

2023-04-12 Thread Laura Smith
h Proton Mail secure email. --- Original Message --- On Wednesday, April 12th, 2023 at 15:00, Mischa wrote: > Hi Laura, > > Gotcha... I don't have those laying around. :) > > Mischa > > On 2023-04-12 15:54, Laura Smith wrote: > > > Hi Mischa > > &g

Re: OpenBSD and AMD EPYC/RYZEN 10gb

2023-04-12 Thread Laura Smith
gt; inet 192.168.1.107 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 > > The dmesg you can find at: > https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?do=view=7047 > The chipset for the SFP+ card is the same. > > Mischa > > On 2023-04-12 12:01, Laura Smith wrote: > > > Has anyone had th

OpenBSD and AMD EPYC/RYZEN 10gb

2023-04-12 Thread Laura Smith
Has anyone had the opportunity to experiment using OpenBSD in conjunction with AMD EPYC/RYZEN native 10gb ports ? As far as I can see there are no drivers for it in stable ? But maybe someone's been playing with it on the bleeding-edge ? Thanks ! Laura

Re: Re: What’s new in OpenNSD 7.0 NYC*Bug meeting

2021-10-27 Thread Laura Smith
pj, I'm afraid your counter to my post is a fine example of sort the die-hard open-sourcer I was referring to. I'm sure in the world you live in, you think every desktop and server on the planet should be running OpenBSD. And that nobody should be using iOS or Android based smartphones. But

Re: What’s new in OpenNSD 7.0 NYC*Bug meeting

2021-10-27 Thread Laura Smith
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, October 26th, 2021 at 01:38, wrote: > I wouldn't trust Zoom any further than I'd trust Skype. Whilst there are certainly arguments for not trusting Zoom, I think perhaps we need to take a step back here. The reality is that whilst die-hard graybeard

Re: Samsung SSD X5 with OpenBSD - possible ?

2021-10-25 Thread Laura Smith
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, October 25th, 2021 at 19:15, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 05:45:22PM +0000, Laura Smith wrote: > > > I'm struggling a bit as to what I need to do next here. > > > > Any time in the past I've connected a U

Samsung SSD X5 with OpenBSD - possible ?

2021-10-25 Thread Laura Smith
I'm struggling a bit as to what I need to do next here. Any time in the past I've connected a USB stick etc. to OpenBSD, everything happened automagically in terms of recognition and assigning a /dev/sd. However this time, its different.  This is the only line that appears in dmesg when I plug

Re: BGPD and source interface

2021-10-01 Thread Laura Smith
is used, source will use IP assigned to interface. The > preferred source will not be used when: > > > o destination is on-link > > o source address is assigned to a disabled interface > > This is best used as a !route command

BGPD and source interface

2021-10-01 Thread Laura Smith
Could somebody kindly remind me how to force OpenBSD to use the lo0 alias for outbound traffic ? I've got an OpenBSD instance which is getting its default route via bgpd. ping 8.8.8.8 does not work but ping -I $lo0_alias works How can I tell OpenBSD to use the lo0 as default outbound interface

Re: Blog comparing open source BGP stacks

2021-08-25 Thread Laura Smith
Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Wednesday, August 25th, 2021 at 1:51 PM, Claudio Jeker wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 02:01:26PM +0200, Kristjan Komlosi wrote: > > > On 24. 08. 21 21:59, Laura Smith wrote: > > > > > W

Re: Blog comparing open source BGP stacks

2021-08-25 Thread Laura Smith
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Wednesday, August 25th, 2021 at 1:01 PM, Kristjan Komlosi wrote: > On 24. 08. 21 21:59, Laura Smith wrote: > > > Would be interesting to hear comments from the community on this comparison > > : https://elegantnetwork.github.io/posts/foll

Blog comparing open source BGP stacks

2021-08-24 Thread Laura Smith
Would be interesting to hear comments from the community on this comparison : https://elegantnetwork.github.io/posts/followup-measuring-BGP-stacks/ N.B. For the record, don't shoot the messenger, I had nothing to do with these tests, I just became aware of them via the BIRD list. I am

Re: literature on tmux

2021-08-13 Thread Laura Smith
Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, August 13th, 2021 at 8:07 AM, Jean-Pierre de Villiers wrote: > > I'd like to learn this program better. > > > > I prefer something printed/pressed instead of e-book. > > I own a copy of a neat little book

Re: seasons greetings and a network question

2020-12-20 Thread Laura Smith
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Sunday, 20 December 2020 10:28, Peter J. Philipp wrote: > The story is, that I log time to lives (TTL) with a setsockopt() on my logging > DNS server. Whenever mail.openbsd.org sends a mail it does not ask its cache > but does a dns query every time. This

Re: wg - panic: noise_keypair: lock not held

2020-11-04 Thread Laura Smith
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Wednesday, 4 November 2020 16:56, Caspar Schutijser wrote: > On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 02:55:55PM +0000, Laura Smith wrote: > > > Hi > > I'm still trying to figure out what triggered this, I think it might have > > been running

wg - panic: noise_keypair: lock not held

2020-11-02 Thread Laura Smith
Hi I'm still trying to figure out what triggered this, I think it might have been running "sh /etc/netstart" after a "hostname.wg" config update, but I've been unable to reproduce. As a sidenote, I thought "ddb.panic=0" was supposed to prevent these sort of hanging panics? Nonetheless, I'm

Re: 6.8 - Difficulties getting Wireguard ipv6 working

2020-11-02 Thread Laura Smith
Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Sunday, 1 November 2020 14:37, Matt Dunwoodie wrote: > On Sat, 31 Oct 2020 21:31:50 + > Laura Smith n5d9xq3ti233xiyif...@protonmail.ch wrote: > > > Hi, > > I currently have a fully functional

Re: pkg_add version scripting ?

2020-11-01 Thread Laura Smith
Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Sunday, 1 November 2020 12:53, Marc Espie wrote: > On Sun, Nov 01, 2020 at 12:23:44PM +0000, Laura Smith wrote: > > > Hi > > As far as I can tell from the docs, only pkg_info supports spec style

pkg_add version scripting ?

2020-11-01 Thread Laura Smith
Hi As far as I can tell from the docs, only pkg_info supports spec style ? I am trying to script an OpenBSD setup and as part of that certain packages need to be installed. For most packages that is not a problem, however, for example, with gnupg, there are two versions in the 6.8 repo :

6.8 - Difficulties getting Wireguard ipv6 working

2020-10-31 Thread Laura Smith
Hi, I currently have a fully functional dual-stack Wireguard instance running on Debian. However given the recent release of OpenBSD 6.8 with Wireguard in base, I thought it would be a good opportunity to switch over from the dark side. ;-) Anyway, so on Debian I have a no-NAT setup, with the

bgpd config advice needed

2020-08-24 Thread Laura Smith
Hi, Let's say I've got a scenario where I've got transit ISPs and peering connections. My general config rule is that I use med to prioritise peering over transit (because localpref is too high up in the BGP selection algorithm, so localpref is a sledgehammer to crack a nut). That setup has