OpenBSD is an open-source operating system derived from BSD UNIX. It was forked from NetBSD in the mid-1990s.
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Port forwarding with URL on OpenBSD 4.5
I need to setup forwarding on gateway machine with following request from client:
Is it possible to setup pf.conf on OpenBSD 4.5 machine, but instead IP address to have given URL such as ...
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Bridging: OpenBSD vs Linux [closed]
The bridge interface under Linux is quite dumb. In the end, it's just very inconvenient to use: you have to delete all IP configurations from the attached interfaces and somehow migrate the ...
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OpenBsd 5 port forwarding
I'm trying to configure pf port forwarding on OpenBSD 5.0
The firewall machine has two nics:
em0: 192.168.200.3
vic0: 192.65.214.136
I would like to forward all packets comming into ...
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FreeBSD vs NetBSD vs OpenBSD as PF firewall prozy [closed]
Which would be a more ideal distribution to use to create a proxy firewall? I want to setup a BSD PF box to filter attacks and forward traffic to my servers. I've hear PF does a much better job at ...
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Trouble P2Ving OpenBSD 4.0 to VMWare
I've been tasked with migrating a physical OpenBSD 4.0 boxes to our VMWare ESXi farm. I used VMWare's Converter 4.1 CD to perform a cold migration which completed successfully. Prior to the first boot ...
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How to configure something like “Reflexive ACL” on OpenBSD?
My U-Verse modem has something called "Reflexive ACL" described as
Reflexive ACL: When IPv6 is enabled, you can enable Reflexive Access
Control Lists to deny inbound IPv6 traffic unless this ...
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openbsd carp with multiple external vip's
Is there any way to setup multiple carp vip's without creating a separate hostname.if file for each address?
Our colo has provided us with a /25 external network. Three addresses from this range are ...
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Can you recommend a shell hosting company who supports IRC clients? [closed]
About 5 people in very geographically different locations, working on the same project, fed up to poor uptime in their ircs -- looking for something more robust with long uptime. Are there some Irc ...
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OpenBSD 5.0 pf with NAT & Port Forwarding
Port forwarding does not seem to work properly, incoming connections apparently are blocked.
Is there something wrong with my pf.conf?
# Performance limits
set limit states 200000
set limit ...
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Is there an equivalent of LinuxIMQs in BSD?
Is there an equivalent of LinuxIMQs in BSD ?
From linuximq.net:
The imq device has two common usage cases:
Ingress shaping:
With linux only egress shaping is possible (except for the ingress ...
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Request multiple IP-addresses via DHCP on a single physical interface (OpenBSD)
On OpenBSD, is it possible to request multiple IP-addresses via DHCP on a single physical interface? It looks like DHCP leased addresses can't be assigned as aliases. I though of creating a virtual ...
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Default values of pf.conf set parameters
I want to learn default values of these parameters, I read the manual of pf.conf but couldn't find, could you help?
set limit states
set limit src-nodes
set timeout tcp.first
set timeout ...
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OpenBSD configuration: Client unable to mount via NFS using Berkeley Automounter (amd)
What I am trying to do is to have my openBSD client (OpenBSD 4.9) auto mount a Linux NFS file system (Scientific Linux 6.1). So far, I am not sure if it is configured correctly.
To get things out of ...
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Which BSD best suited to run as VMware guest?
I want to deploy a VM to serve DNS and files (via NFS) to other *nix systems in my infrastructure.
Due to reasons beyond my control, I need a very light OS, so I naturally choose the *BSD family.
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Insecure NFS ports on OpenBSD server
I have a OpenBSD 4.9 server running. Now I am trying to set up NFS shares on that server. I can set it up using secure ports. However it isn't possible to mount the shares from OS X without using the ...
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How to switch IP (including subnet) on OpenBSD without outage
I have an OpenBSD firewall where I have to change the IP on the admin interface (including changing subnet/gateway) and I'm looking for how to do this remotely without losing my SSH (so I can fix ...
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Portable firewall rules for Linux and Free/Net/Open/DragonFlyBSD
I need apply the same rules (lists of IPs with allow and drop rules) in firewalls of Linux and *BSD. Do you know some application (CLI) for to convert a list of rules in the specific format of each ...
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HTTPS only on OpenBSD 4.9?
I've tried this example from OpenBSD http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#HTTPS
it works fine, but with Mozilla Firefox 6.0 it's possible to use both http and https, while I want to force users to ...
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Sharing distfiles between FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Gentoo
Currently I have a few FreeBSD servers with one of them acting as build box sharing its /usr/ports and /usr/ports/distfiles (as separate file systems) through NFS. Recently I've added OpenBSD and ...
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Force OpenBSD to use internally one IP, but send and receive from network from other IP?
Is it possible to set up OpenBSD such, that it will have IP1 internally (in hosts, in hostname.en0, sockets binds to IP1), but convert it to IP2 when packet goes to ethernet. Also, packets for the IP2 ...
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Why does the “boot>” prompt in OpenBSD disappear at startup?
I came home today to find my network unresponsive, and I have managed to narrow the culprit down to my OpenBSD 4.3 firewall. I attempted to power cycle it, but now at boot time it hangs, and all I ...
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OpenBSD pf port forwarding multiple rules
I have a few dozen servers behind OpenBSD firewall with port forwarding. Most rules are very similar and differ only in IPs or sometimes in ports forwarded, so I want to compact them to remove ...
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M0n0wall won't pass traffic on different LAN subnets unless “Bypass firewall rules” is checked
I have a working configuration, but a question is bugging me.
The question centers around having multiple subnets on a single
interface.
LAN: 10.10.10.1/24
OpenVPN Server LAN IP: 10.10.10.250
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OpenBSD/FreeBSD Firewall w/ GUI that is compatible with Intel 82574L Gigabit LAN NICs
I recently purchased a server to run m0n0wall or pfSense but I've learned since then that both of these firewall products are based on versions of FreeBSD which weren't yet compatible with the NICs in ...
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How can I install OpenBSD to a SSD without a Optical Drive?
I'm searching for an OpenBSD bootable image that I can install on SSD to run pf on. I've found these images for m0n0wall and pfSense but not for OpenBSD alone.
Can somebody link me to an image with ...
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BSD 50% interrupt utilization in irq0/clock
On OpenBSD on an Atom 450, with HPET configured in the BIOS and not, also with Hyperthreading/ACPI on-off, nothing seems to make a difference.
Here's my vmstat -iz
# vmstat 2
procs memory ...
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OpenBSD wireless on Acer Aspire 4730z
So I used the following commands:
ifconfig athn0 nwid "Pretty fly for a wifi" wpakey myreallycoolkey
dhclient athn0
but I always get this:
athn0: no link ............. sleeping
dmesg output
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Where OpenBSD stores information about pseudo interfaces
everybody.
On my OpenBSD machine i have several pseudo interfaces for vlan that looks like
vlan3: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
lladdr 00:04:e2:c5:02:2b
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Restricting program access in OpenBSD
I'm hosting a svn+ssh repo on a OpenBSD box and wondered if it is possible to deny access to any other programs despite svnserve? The reason is that I want to restrict access to parts of the repo with ...
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OpenVPN on OpenBSD 4.8: How do I set up a VPN for road warriors in bridged mode
I'd like to set up an OpenVPN server on my OpenBSD router.
I'd like to run it in bridged mode, so the IPs given to the road warriors are from the local network subnet. I'd like to use the DNS server ...
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OpenBSD and encrypted external HD for NAS - svnd or softraid?
I'm fairly new to OpenBSD but I'm trying to cobble together what you might call a poor man's NAS with an existing computer with OpenBSD and external hd.
For this task, I'll have clients (both ...
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Wireless Internet OpenBSD with Acer Aspire 5052AWXMI Laptop [closed]
i am trying to get connected to the internet on my laptop running OpenBSD.
i believe the network card is atheros 802.11b/g
also my router has a username and WPA-PSK passkey to connect to the ...
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PF OpenBSD states
We have an OpenBSD server used as firewall using the famous pf. The firewall is connected to the Internet form one side and to a local network form the other.
we are experiencing a connection outage ...
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OpenBSD Routing Problem
I am running OpenBSD on a network appliance hardware. It has 5 NICs.
I want to give different IP's in same subnet to 3 nics. Eg:
em0: 192.168.1.5
em1: 192.168.1.90
em2: 192.168.1.56
I make the ...
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openbsd “/usr/ports/infrastructure/build/out-of-date”-script
i have a question regarding the openbsd "out-of-date" script for ports.
for the port "nss" for example i get the output, that there is an update vom sqlite3.13.3 to sqlite3.14.0.
why do i get this ...
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How to make OpenVPN use VIA Padlock on OpenBSD?
I've bought a VIA based router for the only purpose to run OpenVPN on it. Unfortunately it seems that Padlock is not used. Here is the important part from dmesg:
OpenBSD 4.8 (GENERIC) #136: Mon Aug ...
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Provide IPv6 to network from OpenBSD firewall
I have an OpenBSD PF firewall that I have added a IPv6 tunnel to (using HE.net tunnelbroker).
I can ping/traceroute IPv6 addresses from the firewall. Now I want to provide IPv6 services to the ...
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DHCP Server Check
I have been setting up a DHCP server in OpenBsd and I think I now have it configured correctly. However I have a couple of questions.
How can I check that it is working properly before I give it ...
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SuperMicro IPMI through OpenBSD PF Firewall
I'm trying to access a SuperMicro IPMI card that is behind an OpenBSD bridged firewall.
A couple pieces of information:
The OpenBSD firewall itself has a SuperMicro IPMI that I can access across ...
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OpenBSD in a virtual box as a firewall
Is there any merit in installing a virtual machine with OpenBSD and pf (or any other simple and secure OS + iptable) on a mac laptop and routing all the traffic through that machine? I read a similar ...
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OpenBSD has open ports in default installation
I have been considering replacing Ubuntu with OpenBSD to improve the security on my local server. I need to have ssh access to it, and I also need it to serve static web content - so the only ports I ...
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PHP script unable to email on OpenBSD Apache
I have a webserver running OpenBSD 4.7 and PHP 5.2.12 out of the ports tree. There is a small contact page that is supposed to send an email to a specific address. When I fill in the form using a web ...
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OpenBSD, FreeBSD: your update philosophy?
I've used FreeBSD for about 5 years - server/Desktop - and I've tended to take my apt-get/yum upgrade everything habits along with me ( I admin Debian/RHEL/Cent boxes as well -- I know, I know ...
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Getting IPTables to properly forward NTP traffic
I have the following setup:
NTP
10.21.3.169
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10.21.3.160 (eth1)
Linux
10.0.0.67 (eth0)
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10.0.0.65 (pcn1)
OpenBSD
The idea is to allow the NTPD client (not ...
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Using NTPD on OpenBSD to get time from Linux using portforwarding
This is a rehash of another question, now that I understand things a bit better.
I have the following network set up:
NTP
10.21.3.169
| \______________
| \
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Setting up NTP on 2 Linux boxes and one OpenBSD box
I have been tasked with getting an NTP client working on two Linux machines and an OpenBSD machine.
The machines are arranged like this:
NTPServer
/ \
/ \
L1 L2
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How do I count the number of processors on an OpenBSD system?
How can I determine the number of CPUs on an OpenBSD system, using either system tools or C code?
The technique I know of to count CPUs on other BSD platforms -- checking /var/run/dmesg.boot for ...
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SFTP Timeout on download
my server keeps timing out when i attempt to download a handfull of files at once.
i'm running ubuntu 10.4 LTS
sshd_config contains the following tweaks:
Subsystem sftp internal-sftp
Match group ...
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Continuous Data Protection on Openbsd
I was wondering if there is anything similar to Continuous Data Protection that is available for openbsd?
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OpenBSD firewall - netbook hardware option - pros and cons
I'm considering putting OpenBSD on a netbook for use as a firewall. I am entertaining the idea of using a netbook because it has a built-in screen and keyboard, built-in battery backup, and a ...
