Subject: Re: Off-topic (wrong OS) successfully netbooted OpenBSD v4.0 on VAX
To: None <dzubint@vcn.bc.ca>
From: Jaime Fournier <ober@linbsd.org>
List: port-vax
Date: 11/07/2006 16:26:51
Curious how fast this thing is.
Can show me the results of

openssl speed

Thanks.


-Jaime Fournier


On Tue, 7 Nov 2006 dzubint@vcn.bc.ca wrote:

> Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 11:53:14 -0800 (PST)
> From: dzubint@vcn.bc.ca
> To: port-vax@NetBSD.org
> Subject: Off-topic (wrong OS) successfully netbooted OpenBSD v4.0 on VAX
> 
>
> First off, I apologise for posting this to the NetBSD list since this is
> obviously about OpenBSD, but there is no vax-related discussion list for
> OpenBSD, so I thought that I'd share here...
> (besides this list doesn't get much traffic anyway)
>
> I successfully netbooted my VAXstation 4000/60 on OpenBSD v4.0
> (the one that was just released this past November 1st)
> By more-or-less following the "install.vax" document
>
> A couple of gotchas:
> 1) the OpenBSD "mopd" server needs to see the Ethernet interface in
> promiscuous mode but it doesn't turn it on and "ifconfig" on OpenBSD
> doesn't seem to have an option to turn it on either (!?).
> my quick hack to do this was to run tcpdump, hit control-Z, verify
> the interface was in PROMISC mode with "ifconfig" and THEN run mopd
>
> 2) The boot loader for OpenBSD uses RARP.   (I think) NetBSD uses
> BOOTP.  I wasted an hour today trying to figure out why my RARP
> setup wasn't working... you edit two files /etc/ethers and /etc/hosts
> and run "rarpd -al"  ...what could be simpler?
> When I typed "boot bsd.rd" on the VAX, it kept telling me that my
> client IP address was 0.0.0.0 and NOT 192.168.1.151 which is what
> I set up in the files.   It took me an hour to realize that my home
> Internet router/firewall was answering the RARP packet because it
> had DHCP turned on.   So I turned off DHCP on my home Internet
> router/firewall and the VAX got the correct IP and mounted the NFS
> directory, loaded the bsd.rd file, and everything is working OK now.
> (and yeah, all my machines in my home will have to be static IP)
>
> Thanks for listening...and again, sorry for posting an OpenBSD thing
> on a NetBSD mailing list...but some people may actually run both.
>
>
> Thomas Dzubin
>
>