BSD Leftovers
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The Register UK ? Switching customers from Linux to BSD because boring is good
The BSDs take a radically different approach: their licenses, such as the classic three-clause version, allow companies to take their freely-available source code and use it to build proprietary products ? and sell them commercially. If you listened only to vendors like those in the previous paragraph, you'd think this was suicidally self-destructive, and yet the BSD family has been flourishing since 1BSD in 1977, shortly before Linus Torvalds' eighth birthday.
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University of Toronto ? OpenBSD kernel messages about memory conflicts on x86 machines
This sounds alarming, but there's almost certainly no actual problem, and if you check logs you'll likely find that you've been getting messages like this for as long as you've had OpenBSD on the machine.
The short version is that both of these are reports from OpenBSD that it's finding conflicts in the memory map information it is getting from your BIOS. The messages that start with 'X:Y:Z' are about PCI(e) device memory specifically, while the 'memory map conflict' errors are about the general memory map the BIOS hands the system.
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[Old] Joel Goguen ? OpenBSD IPv6 Home Internet Gateway with AT&T Fibre
When you sign up for Internet service, one thing you?re going to get is a home gateway. It?s going to offer wired and wireless Internet connections plus a bunch of other things you may not want and probably won?t need. Unfortunately, one of the things it?s going to offer you is poor performance. The wireless network on it may not cover your whole house, and if you?re also limited in where you can hook it up that could mean poor coverage in the most important areas. It?s also not built on the best hardware for the job, so when it counts the most you may not get the connection speeds you expect. Depending on your needs, you may find that the ISP hardware doesn?t offer you enough flexibility. And, perhaps most importantly, it?s not all that secure, and the firewalls can be difficult to configure properly.
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[Old] Blake Rain ? Setting Up a Firewall with Raspberry Pi and OpenBSD
For quite a while now I?ve wanted to replace a Watchguard firewall at home. I find Watchguard?s Firebox to be quite troublesome, and I rather dislike that I had to pay hundreds of pounds to buy it, and then pay hundreds more every year to use it.
So this week I took it upon myself to set up a router at the apex of my network using a Raspberry Pi. I decided that I would use OpenBSD for this.
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[Old] DN42 ? OpenBSD ~ dn42wiki-ng
This guide describes how to establish an unencrypted and unauthenticated IPv6-over-IPv6 tunnel on OpenBSD, see gre(4) EXAMPLES for similar setups.
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[Old] Vultr ? Configuring BGP on Vultr With OpenBSD
In order to use BGP, you would need your own IP space (either v4 or v6). If you have your own ASN, you can use that or we can assign a private one.