Re: how does one manage to fill a TB of data

2006-09-09 Thread Peter Blair
Database backups here at work are enormous. A TB is nothing these days. On 9/9/06, Peter Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Multi system backups to disk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of pedro la peu Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 8:50

Re: Active Directory authentication

2006-08-15 Thread Peter Blair
That's not an easy scenario. Perhaps the simplest solution would work for you. You could implement a generic account on the firewall called say wifi-user. SSH into the filewall (not using Kerberos or anything) and log in using the shared password for wifi-user. The login shell could point to

Re: PF redirect to another IP on LAN

2006-07-29 Thread Peter Blair
man pf.conf Secondly, it's been discussed numerous times on the list that bridges have their place (I use them in production environments at our data centre) but you'll find filtering a bridge much more difficult than filtering a NAT. On 7/29/06, elaconta.com Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: looking for clue

2006-07-20 Thread Peter Blair
On 7/20/06, Rahul Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Peter Phillips, It is not Mr. Eric Pancer but me (rahulthehacker) who is asking for help on dhcpd lease. Wrong: http://www.sigmasoft.com/~openbsd/archives/html/openbsd-misc/2006-06/msg01371.html

Re: looking for clue

2006-07-20 Thread Peter Blair
On 7/20/06, Rob Baldassano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please forgive me if I am wrong but... This thread should die. Question is: Why would you WANT your clients to constantly get new IPs? it disrupts SSL communication traffic, especially when you are dealing with external ly available

Re: How to compile DHCPD source code

2006-07-07 Thread Peter Blair
First, *don't* download source from the cvsweb website. That source is handy for browsing, but you should be getting your code from a cvs repository. Look at the instructions for a given patch for guidance: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.9/common/001_sendmail.patch And then

Re: How to compile DHCPD source code

2006-07-07 Thread Peter Blair
dhcpd code i require sendmail patch. Can u Plz explain me that. Warm regards Rahul On 7/7/06, Peter Blair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, *don't* download source from the cvsweb website. That source is handy for browsing, but you should be getting your code from a cvs repository. Look

Re: Forbidding access in pf from subdomains

2006-07-06 Thread Peter Blair
Something like: pass in quick on $ext_if from { $friendly_networks } to any port ssh keep state block in on $ext_if from any to any port ssh should work. You can place $friendly_networks into a table that gets loaded from a file if the list is large. And/or update it via pftcl on the fly. On

Re: Forbidding access in pf from subdomains

2006-07-06 Thread Peter Blair
is part of a \16 network that has been privately subnetted. So it's difficult to say ok, jerk.com has xxx.yyy.zzz.xyz IP, and that belongs to xxx.yyy\16 network, so I'll block out all 65 thousand addresses. On 7/6/06, Peter Blair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something like: pass in quick on $ext_if from

Re: News From HiFn

2006-07-05 Thread Peter Blair
: On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 18:48:28 +0200, Joachim Schipper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 12:16:45PM -0400, Nick Guenther wrote: On 7/4/06, Peter Blair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/29/06, J.C. Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got a call this afternoon from Tom Moore to let

'route to' question

2006-07-05 Thread Peter Blair
Hello lists! (sorry if cross-list posting is frowned upon) I'm setting up a BSD/pf machine that will be working as a binat firewall for a number of hosts on two /28 subnets belonging to the same co-location provider. The BSD machine is already live, working hard for one subnet, and I don't have

Re: Question related to automaticly encrypted /tmp /vat/tmp (like swap..?)

2006-07-04 Thread Peter Blair
I haven't tried under OpenBSD, but mounting /tmp as a ramdisk could prove viable. On 7/4/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some days ago I read a question related to encrypting a partition. I just know that swap gets encrypted automaticly. Wouldn`t it be possible to encrypt also

Re: News From HiFn

2006-07-04 Thread Peter Blair
Has anyone tried recently to connect to ftp.hifn.com ? I haven't been able to connect from multiple locations. -Pete On 6/29/06, J.C. Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy misc@ Though I stayed out of the last public fiasco regarding HiFn here on the misc@ list, I privately contacted the

Re: X not found

2006-07-04 Thread Peter Blair
If you have no parts of X installed, then how do you expect to link against it? If you plan to use your OpenBSD machine as a headless X client, then you'll need to install the requisite libs. You'll save yourself a lot of time and headache if you just install the X set. On 7/4/06, Lawrence

Re: starting Apache in SSL mode

2006-06-27 Thread Peter Blair
SSL certificates for a hostname requires a unique IP address. Are you trying to do virtual name hosting with https? On 6/27/06, FTP [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 08:30:29AM -0700, Scott Francis wrote: On 6/26/06, FTP [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I was trying to

Re: Nagios and Apache

2006-06-26 Thread Peter Blair
: On Saturday 24 June 2006 18:13, Peter Blair wrote: At work we run Nagios across Linux, OpenBSD FreeBSD machines. Compiling it from source is the only way to ensure config file compatibility. Say what? How does the compilation affect the config file? The config file format is exactly the same

Re: pf woes

2006-06-26 Thread Peter Blair
Paste the entire contents of /etc/pf.conf On 6/26/06, Matt Singerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry if I didn't give enough info - what else would you have to know?

Re: pf woes

2006-06-26 Thread Peter Blair
And your root password. Please e-mail that to the list. On 6/26/06, Bryan Irvine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/26/06, Matt Singerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry if I didn't give enough info - what else would you have to know? At the bare minimum, your pf.conf. Also desirable are the

Re: Totally bizarre problem - cannot connect to openbsd mahcine

2006-06-26 Thread Peter Blair
, and contains: add dc0 add dc1 up It was running for a good 300 days or so. It was set up and configured by my predecessor, and I am not completely sure on all of its configurations. On 6/26/06, Peter Blair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That sorta makes sense if your firewall was working as a bridge, but I

Re: Nagios and Apache

2006-06-24 Thread Peter Blair
On 6/23/06, Spruell, Darren-Perot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Incidentally, if you haven't used the package(s) for Nagios, do. I had no problems and I went with a package install. No mysteries. At work we run Nagios across Linux, OpenBSD FreeBSD machines. Compiling it from source is the only way

Re: Nagios and Apache

2006-06-23 Thread Peter Blair
Obvious, but ensure that /var/www/cgi-bin/nagios is a valid directory from the perspective of your chroot'd server. Another caveat is to ensure that the named pipe is accessable to both the nagios executable, and to the chroot'd cgi's (once they start working that is). Nagios references the

Re: combining 2 external interfaces ?

2006-06-18 Thread Peter Blair
RTFM: man trunk On 6/17/06, S t i n g r a y [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to combine 2 external interface into one in openBsD ? actually its cheaper for me to buy two smaller internet connection then a big one. so i was thinking ... *:$., 88,.$:*(((*$ Stingray *:$., 88,.$:*((*$

Re: combining 2 external interfaces ?

2006-06-18 Thread Peter Blair
And here's another for you: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/pools.html#outgoing On 6/17/06, S t i n g r a y [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to combine 2 external interface into one in openBsD ? actually its cheaper for me to buy two smaller internet connection then a big one. so i was

Re: head.c usage function

2006-05-30 Thread Peter Blair
Be careful -- if you have an application say /usr/local/whatever/foo that is linked from /usr/local/bin/bar then when you call /usr/local/bin/bar it will populate bar as the argv[0] element. This may be what you want, but then again, perhaps you want to know that foo is the application being

Re: Xen/OpenBSD Summer of Code project

2006-05-30 Thread Peter Blair
That project (if/once completed) would be very useful. I just cringe at the thought of running a guestOS of openbsd under linux or Solaris ;) On 5/30/06, Dries Schellekens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anil Madhavapeddy wrote: We've put up some Xen-related projects for the Google Summer of Code,

Re: head.c usage function

2006-05-30 Thread Peter Blair
Gak! The should was hedged with quotes because I couldn't verify how it behaved. Apparently it's just a quick way to access argv[0]. Thanks! On 30 May 2006 16:29:31 +0200, Artur Grabowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Blair [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Be careful -- if you have

Re: Xen/OpenBSD Summer of Code project

2006-05-30 Thread Peter Blair
Are you saying that OpenBSD is targetted as a Dom0 OS? I couldn't tell from the above mentioned links. On 5/30/06, Dries Schellekens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Blair wrote: That project (if/once completed) would be very useful. I just cringe at the thought of running a guestOS

Re: nice and convenient way to check latest current src changes?

2006-05-30 Thread Peter Blair
Here's a quick perl script to extract the html: #!/usr/bin/perl # # cvs_dates.pl while(STDIN) { my($line) = $_; chomp($line); if( $line =~ /(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}).{28}(\d{10,20})/ ) { my($d) = $1; my($id) = $2; print $d, ,

Re: C++ problem in current snapshot (2006-05-22)

2006-05-25 Thread Peter Blair
Don't use iostream.h, as it's old, and only there for backwards compatibility. If possible, use iostream instead. On 5/25/06, Toni Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'd like to compile a small C++ program (part of building the HylaFAX port). This is the program:

Re: traffic shaping question.

2006-05-23 Thread Peter Blair
I haven't personally tested this, but give it a look: http://www.whoopis.com/howtos/web-bandwidth-limit.html Unfortunately it doesn't have the same kind of benefits that altq/pf provide, but as stated in the previous messages, you'd have to place your webmail and iso services on different IPs.

Re: traffic shaping question.

2006-05-23 Thread Peter Blair
Another alternative is to use http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_proxy.html#proxypass to proxy your iso directory to another httpd instance running on a private IP, eg: setup your webserver with the regular public IP address(es), and additionally setup a number of private IP addresses.

Re: I'm testing cvs, $Id$ wrong last committed time

2006-05-18 Thread Peter Blair
What's your timezone? On 5/18/06, Didier Wiroth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, (openbsd novice) I'm experimenting with cvs. I'm running: a) cvs repository on openbsd 3.9-stable: repo:~ $ ls -la /etc/localtime date lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 37 May 12 17:34 /etc/localtime -

Re: I'm testing cvs, $Id$ wrong last committed time

2006-05-18 Thread Peter Blair
woops -- replied before reading entire message. *ducks* On 5/18/06, Peter Blair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's your timezone? On 5/18/06, Didier Wiroth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, (openbsd novice) I'm experimenting with cvs. I'm running: a) cvs repository on openbsd 3.9-stable

Re: I'm testing cvs, $Id$ wrong last committed time

2006-05-18 Thread Peter Blair
Since CEST is +2hours from GMT, then the cvs timestamp looks fine. On 5/18/06, Darrin Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 04:42:47PM +0200, Didier Wiroth wrote: I put a $Id$ in a file and do a commit cvs -q -d $MYCVS ci -m test index.html The index.html file $ID$ after

Re: what is this ?

2006-05-15 Thread Peter Blair
Does the section of the book talk about frame relay? More context would help. On 5/15/06, S t i n g r a y [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well i am learning OpenBSD PF from a book in the book when creating sample rules the author refers to CIR's when defining Macros but in the form of prv_ad =

Re: what is this ?

2006-05-15 Thread Peter Blair
Perhaps this is what it's talking about. http://www.ralphb.net/IPSubnet/cidr.html On 5/15/06, S t i n g r a y [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No this book is only about openbsd PF no types of networks

Re: Anti MAC spoofing in OpenBSD

2006-05-09 Thread Peter Blair
arpwatch http://ee.lbl.gov/ And lock down the permitted mac addresses on your switch. On 5/9/06, S t i n g r a y [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok i know PF dont filter using MAC address but can you point me to package that has the feature of Anti MAC Spoofing ? regards *:$., 88,.$:*(((*$

Re: network script on startup

2006-05-08 Thread Peter Blair
man getsomeoneelsetodoit On 5/8/06, Nick Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/8/06, S t i n g r a y [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have a network script that i want to execute before any host on the network connects to my computer. thanks man rc man netstart

Re: multiple publicIPs

2006-05-06 Thread Peter Blair
Perhaps I'm confused, but it doesn't look (from your diagram) that your pf machine is acting as a firewall for anything but itself. If you want to filter traffic to your public machines, then you'll have to either: 1) Use the pf-machine as a bridge between the internet ethernet segment, and the

Re: IPSec faq ??

2006-05-05 Thread Peter Blair
http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=articlesid=20060222180512 On 5/5/06, carlopmart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Somebody knows when ipsec faq will be published on openbsd website?? i need to deploy two openbsd 3.9 HA firewalls with vpn, dhcp and x509 certificates included? Somebody have some

Re: using queues to limit bandwidth

2006-05-01 Thread Peter Blair
ALTQ Should do the trick: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/queueing.html On 5/1/06, Chris Bullock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can queues be used to queue overall bandwidth? We have a project where we will be sharing an Internet connection with another company, we will have an IP and they will have

Re: using queues to limit bandwidth

2006-05-01 Thread Peter Blair
I forgot to mention in my previous e-mail, that if you were to implement the scenerio outlined in your e-mail, then the other company would have to 'trust' that you're setting up your firewall to not exceed your 100k of bandwidth. Just setup a single queue that caps at 100k. On 5/1/06, Chris

Re: Port collection missing...

2006-04-28 Thread Peter Blair
ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.7/ports.tar.gz On 4/28/06, S t i n g r a y [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well i just installed my First OpenBSD BOX :) feels good !!! but to install packages i cannot find ports collection in /usr how can i get them ? i am using 3.7 version. regards *:$.,

Re: Port collection missing...

2006-04-28 Thread Peter Blair
But perhaps you're confusing ports packages: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#PkgMgmt Packages are pre-compiled. Ports creates packages from source. You don't need the ports tree to install packages. -Pete On 4/28/06, Peter Blair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub

Re: Why advocate Old daemon book?

2006-04-27 Thread Peter Blair
As an aside: I recently read The Design and Implementation of 4.2 BSD Operating System, which focused on the VAX architecture, and was published sometime in the early 80s. In spite of its age, I found the concepts clearly stated and on a high level, I believe that reading the book forwarded my

Re: mrtg and snmp

2006-04-26 Thread Peter Blair
Perhaps: http://www.benzedrine.cx/pfstat.html would interest you. On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 07:50:22AM +0700, riwanlky wrote: I just installed a pf on my openBSD box as a firewall. However I need to install MRTG and SNMP so that I can get the network utilization. Any documentation in the