The Ultimate BSD Thread™ - The Devil Wears a Neckbeard

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Volguus: Mar 3, 2009

I downloaded 10.0-BETA2, and told the installer to install on the pre-made BSD partition (where i had PCBsd already installed). For some reason it wanted me to provide a mount point. I provided /, but then (of course) it complained that BSD cannot be installed on a DOS partition that i would have to make a BSD one and make the appropriate slices (for swap at least).
I deleted the partition from the installer and remade it, but still is asking me for mount point on the DOS partition. If i provide / ... same thing as before.

I'm not exactly sure what this installer wants of me, or what can I do to make it make all that it needs within that partition that I provided for it. If anyone has any ideas that would be most appreciated.

# ¿ Nov 2, 2013 02:17

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 18:20

Volguus: Mar 3, 2009

hifi posted:

I believe it wants you to format the disk and use bsd/gpt partitioning. I'm not really sure what your options are for trying to keep your current partitions though.

That's obviously not an option (not ready to give up my linux partitions yet). I'll fiddle more with it to see if i can maybe create the "a" and "b" slices it needs within the dos partition it receives.

# ¿ Nov 2, 2013 03:20

Volguus: Mar 3, 2009

feld posted:

Please post this on the mailing lists. This is something I have not seen anyone test. Maybe even just send a PR http://freebsd.org/send-pr.html

I fixed it by manually creating the a (for /) and the b (swap) partitions in the BSD partition. I dont think it was a bug but that it was just me having different expectations i guess.

# ¿ Nov 3, 2013 01:22

Volguus: Mar 3, 2009

Speaking of weird iperf speeds:

code:

------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to 192.168.1.1, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 32.3 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[  3] local 192.168.1.1 port 4621 connected with 192.168.1.1 port 5001
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
[  3]  0.0-10.0 sec  10.3 GBytes  8.85 Gbits/sec
[  3] MSS size 33092 bytes (MTU 33132 bytes, unknown interface)

Card:

code:

em1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500                                                                                                                                     
        lladdr 40:16:7e:28:2a:bc                                                                                                                                                                     
        priority: 0                                                                                                                                                                                  
        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT full-duplex,rxpause,txpause)                                                                                                                           
        status: active

Something looks fishy to me with that 8.85 GBits/sec, but hey ... they work

This is OpenBSD 5.5

# ¿ Aug 26, 2014 13:20

Volguus: Mar 3, 2009

Rooney McNibnug posted:

Really just a bit curious - how many people ITT use OpenBSD semi-regularly?

e: and if so, I'm also a bit curious on what its being used for.

I use it as my home gateway. As configurability, stability and power it beats hands down any consumer level routers out there. Cheap old computer in the basement... running like a champ for the last 13 years (i do upgrade every 6 months though).

# ¿ Oct 16, 2016 23:12

Volguus: Mar 3, 2009

Forgall posted:

I'm trying to learn a bit about BSD, so I've started looking into OpenBSD installation options. As far as I understand, they provide installer for release version, daily build of current branch, but no installer for stable branch. So if I want an iso with stable version I have to build the system from source? I'm a bit confused by the logic here.

They provide full system install ISO for quite a while now. Go to https://ftp.spline.de/pub/OpenBSD/6.0/amd64/ and grab install60.iso if you want the iso or install60.fs if you want to write it to an USB. Then just boot with the media and the installation process will start.
For full mirror list see http://www.openbsd.org/ftp.html .

# ¿ Mar 18, 2017 22:20

Volguus: Mar 3, 2009

I have a question about OpenBSDs pf:

I have an OpenBSD pc in the basement that's my internet gateway. It does forwarding, NAT and a bunch of other things. I want to implement a rule in the firewall where it blocks internet access for certain IPs (internal IPs). I came up with this as the last rules in my pf.conf:

code:

table <somehosts> persist
block drop in log (all) on $int_if from <somehosts> to any

where $int_if is the internal interface. Then, with a simple "pfctl -q -t somehosts -T add <ip>" I can block an internal IP from accessing the internal interface and therefore the internet.
And it works. But, it doesn't do anything for already opened connections (such as games). Is it possible to somehow easily drop those too?

# ¿ May 11, 2017 04:44

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 18:20

Volguus: Mar 3, 2009

Kazinsal posted:

code:
pfctl -k <IP or network or label>
"Kill all of the state entries originating from the host or network specified by key." - man pfctl(8), option "-k key"

Aha, thanks. That should work.

# ¿ May 11, 2017 05:24

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