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Re:OpenBSD - quite secure, I'd say. by olden · 2009-10-19 12:22 · Score: 1 · on OpenBSD 4.6 Released

You/kestasjk make it sound like OpenBSD had to play catch-up implementing NX. FYI, OpenBSD 3.3 was actually the first OS to ship with it (except they called this W^X, "write XOR execute"), 6.5 years ago.
I'll give you that the new "in a heck of a long time" wording in their tagline is unfortunate. It must be ~11 years now, a pretty strong track record I'd say, but feel free to convince me otherwise...

Re:Where did the devil put the .iso images... by manifest37 · 2005-05-19 07:09 · Score: 1 · on OpenBSD 3.7 Released

ftp://rt.fm/pub/OpenBSD/3.7/i386/
Is it really that hard to click your arch to find the iso?

Upgrading to 3.4 can EASILY hose your system. by emil · 2004-01-16 14:45 · Score: 2, Informative · on BSD For Linux Users

The problems seem pretty cut and dry.

Due to the change from a.out to ELF binary format in OpenBSD 3.4, upgrades can be a complex, delicate process. The best solution, whenever possible, is to backup your data and reinstall from scratch... In all cases, once you start the upgrade you MUST complete it. If the upgrade process fails or is abandoned before it completes you will almost certainly be left with a non-functional system... Finally, you cannot use the bsd.rd kernel to upgrade the system. The existing bootblocks on your system cannot boot the 3.4 bsd.rd.

Pardon me for reading the instructions.

Re:And there's a new song, too by Anonymous Coward · 2002-11-01 07:47 · Score: 0 · on OpenBSD 3.2 Available

IPSEC by SealBeater · 2002-05-22 13:24 · Score: 5, Informative · on Building a Wireless Network for an Apartment Complex?

I don't know if it's been mentioned, but I would use IPSEC if I were you,
simply because 802.11a/b sniffing is trivial now and mac address spoofing is
even easier. Also, I would probably recommend against going with an
established commercial wap product, as they all almost definately aren't going
to have the flexibility you need in the future and are probably way too
expensive. I would roll a couple of OpenBSD boxes with wireless cards, that
way you have an all in one solution with lots of nifty stuff like traffic
shaping per mac, monthly bandwidth accounting capablities via pf, syslog, and
tons of other stuff that commercial vendors just don't offer. And I do mean,
don't offer, regardless of price. This page
offers a good howto regarding ipsec on openbsd and this page
give a pretty good read on replacing wep with ipsec on openbsd as well. Good
luck.

SealBeater

Re:Linksys good? Not necessarily.... by Matthew+Luckie · 2001-11-13 10:29 · Score: 1 · on Apple's New, Improved Airport

I have just bought a Linksys WAP11 for US$149. I was not impressed with it initially as the access point would go to sleep if there was no wireless traffic on the link (such as what happens when you turn your laptop off for the night) requiring a reset in the morning.

Linksys have a beta firmware available, and the support is reasonably good if you can actually find the appropriate forum. The only reason that I have my WAP11 working well is due to the advice offered in here

there has also been some discussion regarding the point in using 128-bit WEP. Replace WEP with IPSec. I like the linksys because it does everything it needs to and does not include useless features such as modem ports and firewalls that are better done by using a seperate computer acting as a gateway.

Re:5x more secure? by cymen · 2001-11-12 11:44 · Score: 5, Informative · on Intel's 802.11A Wireless: 5x Faster

IPSec. Why waste your time with anything else? I really want a guide for getting Linux with FreeSwan to talk to FreeBSDs IPSec (using racoon?). There are a number of guides to getting IPSec working on Windows 2000, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc... Here are a few links:

How to setup IPsec interoperable for Linux, OpenBSD and PGPNet
Replacing WEP With IPsec

Why does IPSec with Linux seem like such a hack? FreeSwan is pretty annoying - why don't they just get IPSec into the kernel and go from there? Instead there appears to be a megapatch. It just makes me nervous. It's probably ok but man... Also, while I'm bitching, IPSec is a bit of a pain - or at least the implementations are. It doesn't need to be this complicated.

Re:New Miss Blowfish Logo by jcs · 2000-12-01 05:11 · Score: 1 · on Ask Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD

from the announcement, the artist is Ty Semaka.

Re:Security Improvements... by jcs · 2000-12-01 03:52 · Score: 2 · on Ask Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD

project goals.

it's the first link on the page. why was this moderated so high?

Re:University of Alberta by spectatorion · 2000-12-01 02:24 · Score: 1 · on Ask Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD

www.openbsd.org is just a mirror on a SUNsite (hence the solaris) done as a favor to the OpenBSD project. www.usa.openbsd.org and openbsd.groupbsd.org both run OpenBSD. openbsd.rt.fm has just been added. Note: www.usa.openbsd.org is run from canada (assumedly by the project itself), but I was unable to determine the locations of the other OpenBSD sites, although their IPs are similar. the sunsite running openbsd.org is also in canada.

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Re:PCMCIA on BSD's by jcs · 2000-11-20 20:49 · Score: 3 · on FreeBSD 4.2 Is Out

OpenBSD works great on laptops. USB, PCMCIA, APM, etc.

I have a page describing how to get OpenBSD running on two Sony Vaios.

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