[Soekris] FreeBSD7/NetBSD4-stable cauldron images for 5501

2008-11-15 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
Hi to everyone! I'm writing from the floor of the MeetBSD conference, hosted by Google in Mountain View, CA. If you're here; if so stop by the NetBSD booth. In advance of the conference, Steve Polyack and myself have built new Cauldron (formally bsd-appliance) CompactFlash images for the

Re: [Soekris] Locking down a Soekris

2008-10-11 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
Likely professional services are available, if the price is right :) On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, Sargun Dhillon wrote: I have a Net5501, and I'm looking at locking it down (as it'll be leaving my hands). I basically need to prevent anyone from messing with

[Soekris] NetBSD/i386 4_stable dmesg(8)

2008-10-11 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
Available at: http://www.nycbug.org/?NAV=dmesgd;f_dmesg=;f_bsd=;f_nick=;f_descr=;dmesgid=1974#1974 I haven't extensively tested PCI/SATA/USB yet, but all seems rock-steady. ~BAS ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com

[Soekris] Radio Shack K Modular Connector

2008-10-11 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
All: Also, if you forget to order a power supply and don't feel like waiting, the K size modular connector from Radio Shack modular DC power transforms seems to work. They max at 1.5amp/1500mA, but w/o minipci, USB, sata, it doesn't seem to draw the full 3 AMPs Just be prepared to grab your

Re: [Soekris] Radio Shack K Modular Connector

2008-10-11 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
Brian A. Seklecki wrote: All: Also, if you forget to order a power supply and don't feel like waiting, the K size modular connector from Radio Shack modular DC power transforms seems to work. They max at 1.5amp/1500mA, but w/o minipci, USB, sata, it doesn't seem to draw the full 3

Re: [Soekris] Question about UPS

2008-08-03 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
If you have a AP9617 in the unit, you can walk the PowerNet-MIB and use snmpget(1) to poll it with a cron-job. Otherwise, use upsd(8) from OpenBSD ports and poll it via the serial port if your 4801 has serial access (maybe external USB ucom(4)) ~BAS On Sun, 3 Aug 2008, Phusion wrote: I

Re: [Soekris] Soekris 5501 and pfSense with VPN

2008-07-11 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
So the question is, will the 5501-70 be tough enough to handle a few VPN connections, or do we need to add the vpn1411, and will the vpn1411 even work with VPN in pfSense (IPsec, IPSec is the way to fly. What speed WAN? Above 1024kbps? ~BAS ___

[Soekris] [Fwd: HEADS UP! : vr(4)]

2008-03-11 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
FYI FreeBSD users. Hopefully it will be MFC/RFP'd to RELENG_7. ~BAS Forwarded Message From: Pyun YongHyeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: HEADS UP! : vr(4) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:19:17 +0900 Dear all, I've committed overhauled

Re: [Soekris] Choosing Compact flash (Was: Memory upgrade)

2007-12-17 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
Wear leveling would be nice, but it looks like it might be cheaper to Recompiling OpenBSD on a remotely deployed CF is a situation that you can avoid by using my bsd-appliance framework. I've been meaning to release some pre-compiled images. ~BAS make backups and buy a new card in case of

Re: [Soekris] Choosing Compact flash (Was: Memory upgrade)

2007-12-17 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
ftp://ftp.z74.net/pub/OpenBSD/ if anyone is interessted. You can use these files to do a normal install or upgrade. The trick is getting the right $SKIPDIR list for your application-specific needs. I had a tutorial on disabling certain subsystems somewhere. ~BAS Of course, it's up to you

Re: [Soekris] Vi output looking very bad

2007-11-19 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 13:46 -0500, Lyle Scott III wrote: When i vi a file, i get a few fast lines of scroll that i can not see, then it spits out the text in the file with no linebreaks. Then i can't tell what is going on from there to edit the file or even see What is $TERM exported to?

Re: [Soekris] SNMP on Soekris

2007-11-17 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 13:35 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for reply Randy. FYI - We run pyramid linux on our Mark IIs. How you can utilize SNMP on the OS layer, and what hardware resources re enumerated by the SNMP agent are limited by the kernel interfaces that can be accessed by

Re: [Soekris] Access Point with net4521

2007-10-24 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
-3 image with hostapd(8) using bsd-appliance code. I've been meaning to sneak some out into the community for sampling. ~BAS I tried m0n0wall, but that's not for that usage. Any suggestions? Best regards, -- Brian A. Seklecki [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Soekris] status of vpn1411 card?

2007-10-24 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
faster, aes-256 went about 20mbps faster Check your sysctl(8) / sysctl.conf(5): # sysctl kern.usercrypto=1 kern.usercrypto: 0 - 1 Do you have any (rough?) benchmarks? -- Brian A. Seklecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech

Re: [Soekris] status of vpn1411 card?

2007-10-23 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 15:56 -0700, Dan Wilson wrote: I am preparing to put together a router/firewall with VPN support. I intend to use a net5501 for the main board. I recall reading comments here in the past that implied that the vpn1411 cards had software It works well in OpenBSD 4.x using

Re: [Soekris] Net5501 Vlan support

2007-10-10 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 16:19 -0400, Ryan L. Faircloth wrote: Do the Via nics built into this unit have vlan support? There was just a massive MFC of the em(4) into the stable branch. It supports TOE and presumably all of the hardware VLAN Tag and Checksum functions. Try a NetBSD 4 RC2

Re: [Soekris] 5501 is OK with pfSense embedded firewall image

2007-09-27 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
The fixes likely wont get MFC'd from -current into RELENG_6_2, but probably into RELENG_6 for 6.3-release. The pfSense guys probably orient their Releng cycle around the FreeBSD one to some extent. ~BAS On Sat, 2007-06-30 at 00:10 +0100, Martin Johnson wrote: Just a quick note to report that