Re: 4.6 postponed to Nov 1

2009-09-18 Thread Siegbert Marschall
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:18:30AM +0200, Stephan A. Rickauer wrote: >> On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 11:09 +0200, Alexander Hall wrote: >> > Theo de Raadt wrote: >> > > The 4.6 release will be postponed to Nov 1. >> > >> > Heh. I just cannot help being a little amused by this, since we are >> > expectin

Re: dd performance question

2008-08-28 Thread Siegbert Marschall
>> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 06:58:30PM -0700, Neko wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > having a 250 GB drive on a PATA strip using lowest PIO >> mode (without dma if possible), drive specs show a 8 MB >> buffer , >> > .. >> > i had ran mine at 4mb block space thinking ill use the >> 16mb bus transfer >>

Re: TV out for Xorg/OpenBSD?

2008-08-18 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, > On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Antti Harri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Edd Barrett wrote: >> >>> The card is a "NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420" rev 0xa3 >> >> I'm not 100% sure but I don't think that will work without >> the blobby nvidia driver. Which of course isn't availa

Re: TV out for Xorg/OpenBSD?

2008-08-18 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, > Edd Barrett wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 07:16:51PM +0300, Jussi Peltola wrote: >>> On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 04:22:33PM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote: Hi, We have this BSD box with some films on, and someone had the idea of hookiing it up to the TV so we can watch DVD's et

Re: Hardware recommendation for firewalls (more than 4 NICs)

2008-08-11 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, > Forget this. Cisco does CEF (cisco express forwarding) that's stream > forwarding in hardware. You don't have a chance to reach this PPS with a yeah, expect that it doesn't route everything and in the moment it falls back to cpu your router is dead. then there I saw all kind of "funny" and t

Re: ral(4) hostap plea

2008-05-07 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hello, > Personally, I've given up on using OpenBSD as an AP--though I have for > years. Back when I used wi, everything worked very well. However, > 802.11g drivers/cards work very poorly as APs. While speed with them > can be good at times, different wireless clients performed erratically > a

Re: Rolling release?

2008-04-23 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hello, > AFAIK OpenBSD has 2 releases a year - which means, that devs are trying to > keep the packages and OS itself "fresh". But I'm wondering: wouldn't be in > such situation reasonable to switch to s.c. "rolling release" model - and > even more convenient for both devs and users? I as a user

Re: Is there a "badblocks"-equivalent for OpenBSD?

2008-04-20 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hello, > > I'm curious how much more failure in the new "perpendicular" drives > you are seeing. I can certainly see various drive makers pushing > capacity irrespective of reliability. Germane to this case, some > of them reduce the reserve storage for bad sectors for that extra > storage. Tis

Re: Is there a "badblocks"-equivalent for OpenBSD?

2008-04-20 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hello, > I don't know if anyone brought this up, and I hate to state the > obvious, but if you're getting bad blocks then the hard drive has > exhausted its ability to deal with them on its own and should be > replaced. Otherwise you'll see data loss/corruption and a higher > probability of a tot

Re: the death of the oldest OpenBSD system on the net...

2008-03-18 Thread Siegbert Marschall
> On Monday 17 March 2008 22:12:05 you wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Marc Balmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> > back in time (but not to long ago), I served 3000 email accounts for >> > a Swiss multinational insurance company on a P133 with 32MB RAM. >> > >> > That is no big deal,

DEC - Alpha giveaway 3000-300 X,LX

2008-03-07 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hello, I have too many alphas in the cellar some need to go, it's 1x175MHz and 2x125MHz DEC3000-300 machines. The alphas are clean and working. I have several harddisks for them 1gb,2gb, 1x4gb, 1x9gb and one external storage-enclosure. Memory options are also available at least 64MB for each and

Re: Power fluctuation and hard disk crashes

2008-02-28 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hello, > I also have a brand new digital multimeter which shows voltages varying > between 150 V and 250 V. nice. ;) > The SMPS in the PC is not able to provide the power that these higher > capacity disk's stepper motors demand. The last stepper motor got lost with my 40MB disk, everything in th

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-23 Thread Siegbert Marschall
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 07:43:05PM +, Jacob Meuser wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 03:01:40PM +0100, Marc Espie wrote: >> > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 04:18:42PM +0100, Miod Vallat wrote: >> > > >> SO now do you want FireEngine? Or rather SMPng networking? Or >> > > >> would you like ReallyHyp

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Siegbert Marschall
> If all our users bought a CD set there would be a *lot* more > development going on by dedicated/paid developers. If corporations > needing paperwork to donate would contact www.openbsdfoundation.org > and donate there would be a lot more development going on. And if pigs > could code as well as

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, > It gets stranger. > How is a bare bones code ever going to be useful to a non developing user? > Its useful to them only when its part of an overall system. > And that overall system in a really usable state is only available via > CDs which need to be purchased. aehm, hello ? I do buy the c

Re: setting up a noiseless workstation

2008-02-02 Thread Siegbert Marschall
> 2008/2/1, Zbigniew Baniewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> You can use old Pentium II 400 MHz - there are still many of them >> available, >> which doesn't need any cooler, its radiator will do. Such way the only > > And where do you get a PCI graphics card with DVI capable of doing > 1920x1200? Every

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-11 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Is it April 2008 already, or what is happening on this mailing list ? I am about two weeks behind reading but out of curiosity I read a few emails in this thread and well, almost can't believe it. I better stop reading this list for a while and come back after doing something usefull, like instal

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-26 Thread Siegbert Marschall
> You don't seem to get the fact that I'm not even talking about what's > more or less free (in your definition). The BSD has fewer requirements, > but it allows some users to not have the freedoms you claim to defend. > ROTFL. I almost wetted my keyboard with the remains in the bottle of water I w

Re: The Atheros story ... Rui trolling again.

2007-09-26 Thread Siegbert Marschall
"Rui Miguel Silva Seabra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > lol it's always bullshit when it's not convenient to you, right? and you are a troll. can you please troll around somewhere else, you are wasting precious magnetic domains. eris will not set you free, she will eat you alive. -sm

Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-02 Thread Siegbert Marschall
>> /Putting it down to the legal point of view it implies even a "XOR" eg. >> one or the other choice, it's kind of missing the "may also" part but > > > Inexistant word in this case, so that reasoning doesn't apply. > >> that, so whatev

Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-02 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, > On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 05:56:44PM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 11:29:11PM +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: >> > > > Yes. The *rights you received* are the central point of the >> question. >> > > > Which did the user receive? The BSD granted ones? Or the GPL

Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-02 Thread Siegbert Marschall
> On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 04:55:34PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: >> > The license is not an alternative. The alternative is between two >> licenses. >> > >> > The moment one chooses one them... it's that one henceforth. >> >> And... you are a judge? > > Theo, be as unreasonable as you want. > > The

Re: Intel Core 2

2007-06-28 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, > On 6/27/07, Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Various developers are busy implimenting workarounds for serious bugs >> in Intel's Core 2 cpu. >> >> These processors are buggy as hell, and some of these bugs don't just >> cause development/debugging problems, but will *ASSUREDLY* be

Re: a little small want

2007-06-21 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hello, > It would be nice if someone could dig up a single DIMM for me. > > A Samsung M381L6423ETM-CB0 (512MB PC1200 266MHz 64Mx72 ECC > non-buffered). It's to expand a Cisco 2811 that's involved in moving > openbsd traffic, in case anyone needs to know. > > Thanks. Anything within about a week

Re: OpenBSD sucks

2007-06-02 Thread Siegbert Marschall
> It really sucks. it is slow. > Yeah, installing OpenBSD takes a long time and one feels quite drained afterwards. -sm

Re: solar power / openbsd handheld

2007-05-22 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, > We have a need for a low power OpenBSD device or handheld that can connect > to a small SCADA device (serial or USB) to collect some temperature and > voltage data, plus control one light switch, on a remote solar powered > wifi repeater tower. > > Any suggestions on the lowest powered OpenB

Re: OpenBSD/alpha Status

2007-04-17 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, > > Hm, this could point to violated hardware specifications, memory cells > that aren't used fast enough and thus not auto-refreshed in time. > > I presume the Alpha-bug is OpenBSD-only so it's definitely not a > hardware problem? Could be that OpenBSD uses certain parts not often > enough. >

Re: OpenBSD/alpha Status

2007-04-16 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, > On Monday 16 April 2007 12:06, Maurice Janssen wrote: >> On Monday, April 16, 2007 at 11:30:29 -0700, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote: >> >On Apr 16, 2007, at 10:39 AM, J.C. Roberts wrote: >> >>I've never seen the "alpha bug" on my DS20L (equivalent to the >> >>CS20) or >> >>my 500/500 but I have see

Re: OpenBSD/alpha Status

2007-04-15 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, >> >On the other hand, there seems to be a 'the alpha bug' around. I don't >> >think it's solved yet, and it's been around for a long time. >> >Apparently, >> >it causes random crashes. only on some machines. >> >> I was not aware of this bug. That is unfortunate. Hopefully this >> might be

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-06 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, > Now everyone has won, the Linux people, Broadcom and the OpenBSD users. > > Thank you, Linux BCW developers! > actually, although the above is clearly meant in the sense if irony. I take it literally and agree with it. didn't cry a single tear about the adaptec shit either. my laptop has s

Re: Very slow raid performance with ami(4)

2007-04-01 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hello, > On 2007/03/30 13:18, Roy Kim wrote: >> I didn't realize there's two different batteries. What does the >> 'intelligent' version of the battery do extra? > > LSIiBBU01 (intelligent) has some kind of comms relating to charge state > etc, I think it may also have a longer runtime. > > LSIBBU

OT Re: Long WEP key - germany/legalities

2007-03-30 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi Henning, > * Siegbert Marschall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-03-29 22:13]: >> If somebody does something bad with my unencrypted access-point >> using my internet-access, here in germany I am liable. > > no, you're not. it's not that easy. (and I just leave

Re: Long WEP key

2007-03-29 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, > I'd like to hear an actual developer position on that statement. I > read it as a criticism of the way WPA is used more than of the > protocol itself. As in, it's of little value to encrypt the traffic > if you allow anybody to access it. If Theo was saying that it sucks > even when you'r

Re: Long WEP key

2007-03-29 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Well, > I'd be more scared of the hacker that can bypass wep, > > than the average joe without wep. > > The hacker knows how to exploit your wep-decrypted network traffic, > > the average joe doesn't even if it were plain-text data. > it's not always about sniffing something, sometimes it's about

Re: Important OpenBSD errata

2007-03-17 Thread Siegbert Marschall
"Ray Percival" ... > attention had patched and been happy for nearly a week. The logic > behind the misc posting is so very obvious that to bitch about it is > just finding something to complain about. I, of course, don't know > the exact numbers but it seems pretty clear that misc has a much > lar

OT: Cheap Domains/Service was OT: Domain Name Freedom

2007-02-03 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, can you people sit down and realize that you are turning mice into elephants here ? If you buy a domain from a cheap provider for a $ a month, you can't expect them to have a legal team on call for you 24/7. They have just some person in the noc, skilled enough and trained enough to maintain

Re: msk(4) with SK-9S91: Can not set 1000baseSX Single Mode Fiber Media Type

2007-01-31 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, > On 1/30/07, Siegbert Marschall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Or, are you saying that the Marvell PHY 88112 does not really care > about if T, SX or LX is set, because for the optical "GBIC" > electrically all is the same? yupp, from the signal point of vie

Re: msk(4) with SK-9S91: Can not set 1000baseSX Single Mode Fiber Media Type

2007-01-30 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, > # ifconfig -m msk0 > msk0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > lladdr 00:00:5a:72:fc:58 > media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX half-duplex) > status: no carrier > supported media: > media none > media 10baseT > media 10baseT

Re: Version 4.0 release

2006-10-12 Thread Siegbert Marschall
> I'm not saying OpenBSD is a bad operating system. Far from it. However I > would only use it for routers, firewalls, bridges, etc... Anything that > has to do with networking because after all, OpenBSD's networking is > great. Outside these areas OpenBSD is just too slow and doesn't support > eno

Re: OpenBSD 4.0 pre-orders are up

2006-09-22 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, > On 9/20/06, Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> We have activated OpenBSD 4.0 pre-orders. The official release date >> is November 1. >> >> For more information on the release, please see >> >> http://www.openbsd.org/40.html > And don't forget to order the cute Pluffy: > > h

OT Media-Converters, was Re: BGP router now running desp. low on mem.

2006-09-20 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, > ## > Physical connection: # > ## > We are terminating with this carrier in a FE port but due to the > distance between them and us at the datacenter location, a FDDI > connection was placed in between like: > > [our > router][100baseTX][IMC**]//..f

Re: Faster SBC

2006-09-19 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, >> no and since it is nvidia based i think not many of us are interested. > > ...and nobody's interested enough to write nfe(4) either, right? no. somebody was/is. > Funnily enough, I've had a lot less trouble with nvidia-based boards > on OpenBSD than the other amd64 chipsets which I've trie

Re: Faster SBC

2006-09-19 Thread Siegbert Marschall
> I thought these look interesting, has anyone tried them already? > http://www.win-ent.com/MB-06047.htm > no and since it is nvidia based i think not many of us are interested. -sm

Re: disk bad block

2006-05-04 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, > On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 04:17:57PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: >> On 2006/05/03 10:24, Paulo Manoel Mafra wrote: >> > I would like to create a large partition on a disk, but this disk has >> a >> > known bad block. How could I create the partition without the bad >> block ? >> >> Use a di

Re: OpenVPN on OpenBSD with hw crypto acceleration

2006-04-12 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, > I have an OpenVPN server interconnecting 5 networks with data center using > permanent PtP links - each network has about 30 PCs. Also there is about > 30 > road-warrior OpenVPN clients. Average traffic on each PtP link is > 1-2Mbit/s. > The server and end-points of permanent PtP links are c

Re: OpenBSD and the money

2006-03-27 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, ... > It would be lot easier for a business to write a check > to "OpenBSD" then to "Theo de Raadt". look, it's really not about making it easier for some big "few letter companies". If they would have been interested to donate they would've done it. Making it easier might give some more mone

Re: Pre-orders for our releases.

2006-03-13 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, > On 3/8/06, Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> But financially we are under strain, and it is not letting us grow any >> of our bigger plans. > > It sounds like you really have big plans. Maybe it is a good idea to > tell about them, maybe that will make the big companies interested

OT Re: OpenBSD USB question

2006-02-12 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, > Please continue posting your help and suggestions. > > (If there is any other way I can do this "authentication", I would be > too glad to hear about it) don't know how often this device is going to be used every day, but you should pay attention to the lifetime of the card-reader slot. Whe

Re: OpenBSD hardware router

2006-02-04 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, > On 2006/02/03 20:34, Josh Tolley wrote: >> All that being said, we 1) didn't have an encryption accelerator >> in the box > > that would tend to make things worse anyway - you'll just increase the > rate of interrupts and that seems to be the main problem. > for a something fast like "aes" i

Re: Bug Hunting 101 - Finding "The" Alpha Bug

2005-12-21 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, > As far as I can tell, the bug smells like a race condition of some sort > and if my wild guess is correct, it will be difficult to reproduce > consistently. With some (but not all) race conditions, you can increase > the chance of triggering them by increasing loads. Since I want the race >

Re: solutions that interoperate with win xp

2005-12-19 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, > Hello > > I'm trying to do the same thing as you are. > > LAN - OpenBSD - internet - NAT - windows_xp_client > maybe you should get the NAT out of the way first and get it working without, getting IPSEC to work over nat ist not trivial and depending on the "natter" sometimes impossible. bye

Re: OpenBSD website Design.

2005-09-12 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, > depends on how you measure "greatest". i think several of the > border states in the US declared a "state of emergency" about > the most profitable, and probably best known, mexican export. ;) > > and no, it's not viagra. it's a big problem on both sides of the border. However, one is wonde

Offtopic. Re: OpenBSD website Design.

2005-09-12 Thread Siegbert Marschall
> Mexico's greatest exports to the US are poverty and disease. I believe you wanted to say: The US greatest exports to Mexico are poverty and disease. Ansonsten: Wenn man keine Ahnung hat, einfach mal Fresse halten.

Re: BSD PPPoA Hardware

2005-08-17 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, > You beat me to the post. Unfortunately for me it doesn't support "ADSL > over ISDN". I'm one of those poor souls that uses iDSL to connect to the > Big-I, to far away from the CO, then I could ditch my ancient iDSL > "router". you could give this one a try. http://accoom.kd85.com/ iDSL i

Re: Change HW for AMD64

2005-07-03 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, > SiS 760GX > VIA K8M800 > NVIDIA nForce3 250 VIA is the company of choice at the moment, not that they are excellent or so, but they work. NVIDIA has dissapointed many people with their attitude and with SiS I had quite some troubles with the quality of their Chips over the years. Bye, Sig

Re: Network performance

2005-05-24 Thread Siegbert Marschall
>> > > Dont have a crappy mobo chipset and anything over 800 mhz >> > would be able to >> > > do plenty filterings. I guess a P2 450 could work also.. >> > yes, but a P2-233 should have enough HP for standard stuff, >> routing of >> > 100mbit + some not so complex filtering with normal packet >> >

Re: Network performance

2005-05-21 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, > More Mhz. Not crappy nics, get xl,fxp,dc etc. Or maybe gigabit nics like > em(4). I think he has xl and sk in the machine, sk is probably the most decent thing one can get at the moment. xl I had quite mixed results in the past, so changing that one into another sk might be all the change ne