Re: UEFI BIOS

2011-10-02 Thread Matt S
That was my concern exactly. That I would be unable to put the OS of my choice on hardware that I bought. This is precisely why I don't own an iPad or iPhone - I want ownership of what I bought. What good is a full on desktop computer with the inability to disable secure boot other than for tho

Re: Why I uninstalled OpenBSD…

2011-10-01 Thread Matt S
Absolute rubbish! You want to uninstall OpenBSD, go ahead, it's your risk and loss. To: misc@openbsd.org Sent: Saturday, October 1, 2011 5:49 PM Subject: Why I uninstalled OpenBSDb& http://www.trollaxor.com/2011/10/why-i-uninstalled-openbsd.html

UEFI BIOS

2011-10-01 Thread Matt S
Has anyone been following Microsoft's recent attempts to muscle OEMs into using the secureboot feature of UEFI or is this just a load of media hot air? Are there any plans for OpenBSD to support UEFI? Thanks

npppd as L2TP client

2011-09-26 Thread Matt S
Is it possible to use npppd as an L2TP client or in a configuration where both vpn endpoints are OpenBSD based? Thank you in advance.

Re: NPPPD/L2TP IPsec problems

2011-09-26 Thread Matt S
I think you have to enable NAT Traversal in your ipsec.conf file. Check the man page on that one. You could try this but I am not sure it will work. ike passive from any (public-ip) to any ..

Re: Security over wireless.

2011-09-09 Thread Matt S
I don't know how adventurous you feel, but as long as the the old gear supports L2TP pass through, you could consider trying npppd. Although, it requires some preparation work like adding PIPEX to the generic kernel and building npppd from the source code. Another option is to investigate using O

Re: Cybercafe SW for OpenBSD

2011-09-06 Thread Matt S
This is also entirely possible with Squid. You could simply use basic authentication so that you can keep an open wireless access point and people would have to authenticate in order to surf the web or do anything. Create a temporary account for each customer and add an expiration time? To: mis

Re: Userland ppp stopped working between Mar24 and Apr8

2011-07-04 Thread Matt S
I don't see anything really wrong with your configuration. When I used userland PPP, I had the mtu and mru set to 1492 but you took a known working configuration from a previous setup. Is there a good reason why you couldn't use kernel PPP? It is really easy: cat /etc/hostname.pppoe0: inet 0.0.

Re: OpenBSD + OpenLDAP

2011-05-29 Thread Matt S
OpenLDAP itself does not automatically increment the uid. You might look into using ypldap but if you don't want to do that, you would have to script your own tool. To: misc@openbsd.org Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2011 12:22 PM Subject: OpenBSD + OpenLDAP Dear list us

tun(4) and mpls

2011-05-27 Thread Matt S
Hello list: Purely for curiosity, is it possible to enable mpls on a tun(4) interface? Thanks, Matt

Re: ospfd/ospf6d causing denial of service(?)

2011-05-25 Thread Matt S
I have to agree with Theo and I was honestly shocked at your initial email. You don't bite the hand that is trying to help nor do you bite the hand that is giving you something for free. Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 3:22 PM Subject: Re: ospfd/ospf6d causing denial of service(?) Theo, come on

Re: Routing Issue

2011-05-18 Thread Matt S
Have you tried doing the following: sysctl net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 This effectively turns OpenBSD into a router. If you also need to handle, IPV6 traffic: syscttl net.inet6.ip6.forwarding=1 To make this consistent across reboots, edit the sysctl.conf file.

Re: Things to do with a Pentium 166MHz cpu - 32 MB of RAM - 1.5 GB disk

2011-05-15 Thread Matt S
You might try playing with some of OpenBSD's virtual routing capabilities. You could create a couple of VLANs and test out some of the BGP/MPLS VPN capabilities within the VLANs. To: misc@openbsd.org Sent: Sun, May 15, 2011 9:48:36 AM Subject: Things to do wi

Re: problem with download limit

2011-05-10 Thread Matt S
Are the speed results on Windows more representative of the bandwidth of your connection? If the Windows results are slow when compared to the total available bandwidth, I would go out on a limb and state that a network card might be bad. Have you tried different ethernet cards? Matt Have y

Re: XEN-Guest

2011-05-02 Thread Matt S
I use kvm/qemu on a Debian Squeeze box to virtualize all of my OpenBSD stuff and it works extremely well (my only wish is that OpenBSD could support Dom0 or the kvm/qemu equivalent). If you decide to go this route, you need to make certain to disable MPBIOS after installing OpenBSD on a guest

pppoe0 gif0 bridge

2011-04-30 Thread Matt S
I am using kernel pppoe and I would like to know if it is possible to add the pppoe0 interface to a bridge? If so, how do I do it? Do I need to set a link0 flag? Thanks

L2TPv3 & Pseudowire Support

2011-04-28 Thread Matt S
Hello All: I remember reading a misc@ posting from Claudio back in November about the possibility of adding L2TPv3 & pseudowire support to OpenBSD. Does anyone out there know if there are still plans to implement this or if any work has been done? This promises to continue to propel OpenBSD f

Re: Howto set an IPv6 route?

2011-04-20 Thread Matt S
I think I see what is happening here. You have the prefix wrong. Try using /64 Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android

Routing all traffic through IPSEC VPN

2011-04-20 Thread Matt S
Hello @misc I seem to still be having some problems but I have made progress. The branch office cannot get out to the internet at large which I think may be a NAT problem. At least, when changing the default route on the branch office, I don't lose connectivity to it. On the branch office, t

Re: Routing all traffic through IPSEC VPN

2011-04-13 Thread Matt S
Thank you for all of the help. I am effectively giving up on doing it this way. OpenVPN seems to have facilities to make it easier to achieve what I want to do. I appreciate all of the time and effort spent. On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 07:34 -0700, Matt S wrote: > Hi Claudiu: > > &g

Re: Is VPN initiation by traffic possible?

2011-04-13 Thread Matt S
You might consider a creative solution with Dead Peer Detection. Per ipsec.conf(4), you enable Dead Peer Detection by using an ike dynamic statement. Heya On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 3:09 AM, Scott McEachern wrote: > On 04/13/11 09:38, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > >

Re: Routing all traffic through IPSEC VPN

2011-04-13 Thread Matt S
172.16.254.2 A.B.C.D.E My setup is using a GRE tunnel. I have the GRE Tunnel endpoints configured on /30 subnet. There might be a gap in my understanding. Thank you again, Matt On 12 April 2011 23:53, Matt S wrote: > Hello @misc: > > I am up against a stumper. I have a Site-to-Site

Re: Routing all traffic through IPSEC VPN

2011-04-13 Thread Matt S
00:0d:65:ab:c8:bf UHLc 10 - 4 em0 matthew-schwartz.c 52:54:00:27:26:22 UHLc 00 - 4 lo0 BASE-ADDRESS.MCAST localhost URS00 33160 8 lo0 On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 19:53 -0700, Matt S wrote: > Hello @misc: > > I am u

Routing all traffic through IPSEC VPN

2011-04-12 Thread Matt S
Hello @misc: I am up against a stumper. I have a Site-to-Site IPSEC VPN working beautifully. However, I would like the remote site to route all of its traffic through the VPN. After googling, I seemed to come up with a suggestion to do a route change -net 0.0.0.0/0 which didn't work well.

Re: pf: set skip option

2011-04-11 Thread Matt S
o gre from any block log quick from pass inet proto icmp all icmp-type {echoreq, unreach} pass in on tun0 inet proto tcp from any to any port ssh keep state (max-src-conn 6, max-src-conn-rate 3/1, overload flush global) rdr-to 10.40.60.1 pass on em0 from to any Penned by Matt S on 20110411 16:59.0

Re: pf: set skip option

2011-04-11 Thread Matt S
eed to specifically allow GRE traffic? Thanks, Matt On 04/11/11 23:34, Matt S wrote: > Hello Everyone: > > I am using 4.8 RELEASE. Given the following pf.conf, would anyone be able to > tell me why gre0 is not being skipped? > > set skip on lo > set skip on gre0 > se

Re: pf: set skip option

2011-04-11 Thread Matt S
DOH! I was following a how-to that showed two separate statements for set skip on. Works great now! My apologies for the stupid question. On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Matt S wrote: > Hello Everyone: > > I am using 4.8 RELEASE. Given the following pf.conf, would anyone be able

Re: pf: set skip option

2011-04-11 Thread Matt S
Sorry, I forgot to mention that 10.40.65.0 is the remote network trying to connect to this machine over the GRE tunnel From: Matt S To: misc@openbsd.org Sent: Mon, April 11, 2011 2:34:58 PM Subject: pf: set skip option Hello Everyone: I am using 4.8 RELEASE

pf: set skip option

2011-04-11 Thread Matt S
Hello Everyone: I am using 4.8 RELEASE. Given the following pf.conf, would anyone be able to tell me why gre0 is not being skipped? set skip on lo set skip on gre0 set skip on enc0 anchor "ftp-proxy/*" block in all pass out all antispoof for tun0 table persist table {10.40.60.0/24, 10.40.6

npppd and PIPEX

2011-04-05 Thread Matt S
Hello All: I have been following npppd and PIPEX with some excitement, especially the support for L2TP. Do you know if npppd will be ready for OpenBSD 4.9 RELEASE and enabled in the build? Thanks very much, Matt

IPSEC VPN

2010-07-24 Thread Matt S
Hello I am wondering if anyone whom uses OpenBSD as an IPSEC VPN concentrator could provide an example configuration. I am planning on using OpenBSD 4.7 to achieve this and I need to be able to support multiple road warrior users who will have dynamic IP addresses. If possible, I would also like

ipv6 pf ruleset

2010-07-17 Thread Matt S
Hello, Could someone tell me why, given the following ruleset, I cannot get to my machine from the outside on ipv6? Obviously, I just masked out the ipv6 address for security. Any insight would be much appreciated. Normally, I am decent with pf when it comes to ipv4. But, I am utterly lost. P

kernel pppoe performance problems

2010-07-14 Thread Matt S
Hello All, I want to try to use pppoe with kernel ppp in an attempt to improve performance. So, I have a pppoe0 device configured and connection established properly. The box that runs kernel pppoe is obviously my gateway machine. If I am on the gateway machine, performance is decent. If I am

routing problem

2010-07-09 Thread Matt S
Given the following: [internet - DSL Modem - 192.168.0.1]--[bge0:192.168.0.254 - OpenBSD 4.7 - em0:10.40.60.1]--[Laptop - DHCP] net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 How can I get my laptop to reach the internet? I kind of figured that all I would have to do is have forwarding enabled on the

Tunnel routing headaches

2010-07-04 Thread Matt S
Hello All, I hope you can provide some insight into this problem. Unfortunately, my ISP uses PPPoE which makes my setup that much more complex and it is, of course, a dynamic IP. I have three tunnels: tun0 (PPPoE), tun1 (PPTP), and gif0 (IPv6). The PPTP tunnel is simply a connection that gives

Re: Best Practices for tun(4) and gif(4)

2010-06-22 Thread Matt S
Claudio, Thank you for clarifying that. I somehow missed that tidbit. On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Claudio Jeker wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 08:05:31PM -0700, Matt S wrote: > > I apologize in advance if this subject has been addressed but I was > unable > > to turn

Best Practices for tun(4) and gif(4)

2010-06-22 Thread Matt S
I apologize in advance if this subject has been addressed but I was unable to turn up anything from a Google search and the manual pages did not quite yield enough information. IPv6 needs aside, what is the primary difference between tun(4) and gif(4)? When is it preferrable to use gif(4) over tu