P.S.: Any volunteers to put blosxom into pkgsrc?

[Tags: blosxom, hubertf]

1. a presentation
2. an article

Very well seconded!

[Tags: Release]

The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 6.0, the fourteenth
major release of the NetBSD operating system. Changes from the
previous release include scalability improvements on multi-core
systems, many new and updated device drivers, Xen and MIPS port
improvements, and brand new features such as a new packet filter.

Some NetBSD 6.0 highlights are: support for thread-local storage
(TLS), Logical Volume Manager (LVM) functionality, rewritten disk
quota subsystem, new subsystems to handle flash devices and NAND
controllers, an experimental CHFS file system designed for flash
devices, support for Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) protocol,
and more. This release also introduces NPF - a new packet filter,
designed with multi-core systems in mind, which can do TCP/IP traffic
filtering, stateful inspection, and network address translation (NAT).

In addition to many other features, NetBSD 6.0 includes significant
developments in various ports. Some highlights:

o SMP support for Xen domU kernels, initial suspend/resume support for
  Xen domU, PCI pass-through support for Xen3, and addition of the
  balloon driver.

o Major rework of MIPS port adding support for SMP and 64-bit (O32,
  N32, N64 ABIs are supported) processors, DSP v2 ASE extension, various
  NetLogic/RMI processor models, Loongson family processors, and new SoC
  boards.

o Improved SMP on PowerPC port and added support for Book E Freescale
  MPC85xx (e500 core) processors.

o ARM has gained support for Cortex-A8 processors, various new SoCs,
  and initial support for Raspberry Pi. Full support for Raspberry Pi
  and major ARM improvements to come in a future NetBSD release.

o time_t is now a 64-bit quantity on all NetBSD ports. This means that
  the NetBSD world no longer ends in 2037.

Please read the release notes for a full list of changes in NetBSD 6.0:

http://www.NetBSD.org/releases/formal-6/NetBSD-6.0.html

The generous donations of companies and individuals to the NetBSD
Foundation in previous years has enabled TNF to sponsor some exciting
developments in NetBSD 6.0, including the Xen DOMU multiprocessor
support. See our donations page for information about how you or your
company can donate to help sponsor future projects!  Complete source
and binaries for NetBSD 6.0 are available for download at many sites
around the world. A list of download sites providing FTP, AnonCVS,
SUP, and other services may be found at:

http://www.NetBSD.org/mirrors/

We encourage users who wish to install via ISO or USB disk images to
download via BitTorrent by using the torrent files supplied in the
images area. A list of hashes for the NetBSD 6.0 distribution has been
signed with the well-connected PGP key for the NetBSD Security
Officer:

ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/security/hashes/NetBSD-6.0_hashes.asc

NetBSD is free. All of the code is under non-restrictive licenses, and
may be used without paying royalties to anyone. Free support services
are available via our mailing lists and website. Commercial support is
available from a variety of sources. More extensive information on
NetBSD is available from our website:

http://www.NetBSD.org/

Dedication 
----------

NetBSD 6.0 is dedicated to the memory of Allen Briggs, who
passed away in March of 2012.

Allen's technical contributions to NetBSD were significant, and
many. He was a NetBSD developer from the very beginning of the
project, and was the main driving force behind the initial import of
some of our hardware ports. He also served on NetBSD's core team from
2003 until 2006. More than that, however, he was a mentor to many on
the project, and always willing to help when he could. Even for those
he didn't mentor, his civilized example was often a guiding
influence. He worked with many of us on the project, and in a field
where prickly personalities are common, he was always pleasant and
kind regardless of your status or technical expertise. He will be
sorely missed.

Acknowledgments
--------------- 

The NetBSD Foundation would like to thank all those who have
contributed code, hardware, documentation, funds, colocation for our
servers, web pages and other documentation, release engineering, and
other resources over the years. More information on the people who
make NetBSD happen is available at:

http://www.NetBSD.org/people/

We would like to especially thank the University of California at
Berkeley and the GNU Project for particularly large subsets of code
that we use. We would also like to thank the Internet Systems
Consortium Inc., the Network Security Lab at Columbia University's
Computer Science Department, and Ludd (Lulea Academic Computer
Society) computer society at Lulea University of Technology for
current colocation services.

Juraj Sipos started his project originally on FreeBSD (and still continues that), but there's a variant based on NetBSD 5.1.2 now, too. The system comes up read-write, so you can make changes to it - as Juraj writes on the webpage: ``With this USB image I can now use NetBSD the same way as if it was installed on a hard drive.''

Oh, and for those impatient to try, the root password is "netbsd5".

[Tags: live-cd, mahesha, usb]

The code's not integrated into mainline NetBSD-current yet, but rest assured that that will happen when the code is ripe. Good work, Nick!

[Tags: arm, dmesg, raspberrypi]

Please join in and help test the code, and send your feedback to the lists. If no serious issues come up, the code will be merged within a week.

See Matt's posting to tech-kern for more details, inclusing diffs and links for amd64 and i386 GENERIC (+usbmp) kernels.

Further information on the state of the code - what is and what is not converted yet - can be found in the TODO.usbmp file.

[Tags: smp, usb]

Here's the dmesg output, and I'm sure this is a lot faster than simulating 128 CPUs in qemu.

So, how to go beyone 128 CPUs for testing? Anyone played with Qemu recently, or even have some decent hardware at hand? If so, be sure to post dmesg output (and CC: me)!

[Tags: dmesg, xen]

[Tags: amazon, ec2, top]

``The NetBSD Foundation is pleased to announce completion of Multiprocessing Support for the port of its Open Source Operating System to the Xen hypervisor.

The NetBSD Fundation started the Xen MP project 8 month ago; the goal was to add SMP support to NetBSD/Xen domU kernels. This project has officially completed, and after a few bug fixes in the pmap(9) code it is now considered stable on both i386 and amd64. NetBSD 6.0 will ship with option MULTIPROCESSOR enabled by default for Xen domU kernels.

The availability of Xen MP support in NetBSD allows to run the NetBSD Open Source Operating Systems on a range of available infrastructure providers' systems. Amazon's Web Services with their Elastic Cloud Computing is a prominent examples here.

Xen is a virtualization software that enables several independent operating system instances ("domains") to run concurrently on the same computer hardware. The hardware is managed by the first domain (dom0), and further guest/user domains (domU) are spawned and managed by dom0. Operating systems available for running as dom0 and domU guests include Microsoft Windows, Solaris and Linux besides NetBSD.

NetBSD is a free, fast, secure, and highly portable Unix-like Open Source operating system. It is available for a wide range of platforms, from large-scale servers and powerful desktop systems to handheld and embedded devices. Its clean design and advanced features make it excellent for use in both production and research environments, and the source code is freely available under a business-friendly license. NetBSD is developed and supported by a large and vivid international community. Many applications are readily available through pkgsrc, the NetBSD Packages Collection.

NetBSD has been available for the Xen hypervisor since Xen 1 and NetBSD 2.0, released in 2004 , but until now only a single processor was supported in each NetBSD/xen domain.''

[Tags: amazon, ec2, smp, xen]

Components merged from NetBSD include:

• NetBSD C library
• NetBSD password file format
• NetBSD bootloader
• New NetBSD userland utilities: ext2 fsck&mkfs, gzip, m4, man&tools, mkdep, mkdir, mkfifo, mktemp, rm, rmdir, tic, uniq, libcurses, libcrypt, libprop, libterminfo, libutil, bzip2, date, indent, mdocml (mandoc), sed, zoneinfo ports

Detailled setup instructions are available on the port-arm mailing list and Paul's homepage. Paul is also looking for feedback on the port, so if you have a Mini2440 board, give it a spin and report back to Paul!

[Tags: arm, dmesg, friendlyarm, Hardware, mini2440]

The files are available at http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/cobalt/restore-cd/5.1.2/. Citing from the announcement: ``The only changes from 5.1.1 version are CHANGES file and 5.1.2 binaries, so the following instructions are same as 5.1.1 ones:

restorecd-5.1.2-20120205.iso.gz is a gzipped RestoreCD ISO9660 image as prior releases.

restoreusb-5.1.2-20120205.img.gz is a new "RestoreUSB" image which has almost identical functions with RestoreCD but is intended to be burned into USB memory sticks for USB bootable PCs.

You can write the image using gzip(1) + dd(1) on Unix like OSes, or you can also use "Rawrite32" utility on MS Windows: http://www.NetBSD.org/~martin/rawrite32/index.html

To use the RestoreUSB for cobalt installation, write the image into >=512MB USB memory stick (or USB HDD etc.) and boot your PC from it, then all other procedures are same as RestoreCD. You no longer have to burn a coaster for every installation ;-)

See also "Restore CD Howto" for actual installation procedures: http://www.NetBSD.org/ports/cobalt/restorecd-howto.html: (though RestoreUSB is not mentioned yet) and see files in .tar.gz archive for more details.''

[Tags: cobalt, usb]

• NetBSD and MirBSD developer Benny Siegert gave a talk titled "pkgsrc on MirBSD" - see his slides! pkgsrc is a framework for packaging and building 3rd party applications from source. Besides MirBSD, it runs on many other platforms like Linux and Mac OS X.
• While building from source is fine, it costs a lot of time. pkgsrc can also create binary packages, and to manage those, there is "pkgin", a binary package manager. Its developer, Emile 'iMil' Heitor introduced it in a talk - see the slides (PDF)!

• MINIX3 and BSD, by Arun Thomas
• The Lua Scripting Language in the NetBSD Kernel, by Marc Balmer
• Touch your NetBSD - towards tablet integration, by Pierre Pronchery
• pkgsrc on MirBSD, by Benny Siegert (slides)
• Introduction to pkgsrc, and to package creation in NetBSD, by Noud de Brouwer
• pkgin, a binary package manager for pkgsrc, also by Emile Heitor (slides)
• Automated package building, by Nicolas Thauvin

This work is continued by Jean-Yves Migeon, who is working on build scripts for Amazon EC2, so the "AMI" images can be provided easily, with the eventual goal to include them into the NetBSD build process by Jeff Rizzo, so EC2 images can be automatically generated easily, e.g. by NetBSD's build cluster.

[Tags: amazon, ec2, xen]

• make up your mind if you want to participate, either as student or mentor

• hash out details of project proposals and possible implementation details, and also see how much time you can devote as possible mentor. Also, think about choosing criteria for students and how to communicate with them on a daily basis and also in cases where problems arise (reallife on either side, student going AWOL, ...)

• go over the list of project proposals, esp. the ones with the right dimension for GSoC, and suggest changes and additions of new projects

• make yourself familiar with NetBSD from a user/admin viewpoint and esp. from a developer point if you intend to apply as student.

  A (slightly dated?) tour through the NetBSD source tree is available for userland, libraries, and the kernel. Also of interest: a guide on NetBSD internals.

• review our guidelines for applying for a project if you're an interested student. We get many really bad, dull and uninformed project proposals each year, and we wish more students would be as serious as YOU probably are (as you're already here :-).

We are looking forward to seeing you!''

Indeed! :-)

[Tags: Events, hackathon]

``EuroBSDcon2012
18 - 21 October 2012, Warsaw, Poland

EuroBSDcon is the European technical conference for people working on and with BSD based operating systems and related projects. EuroBSDcon 2012 is the 11th EuroBSDcon and will take place in Poland, 18-21 October 2012 in Warsaw. EuroBSDcon is a great and unique time to learn more about the powerful BSD systems we use everyday and to connect with other developers around the world. ''

[Tags: eurobsdcon, Events]

The old addresses are going to be available at least another week.''

Background of this change that the ISP of most of the NetBSD services requires renumbering. Of course this only affects IPv4, not IPv6 :-)

[Tags: ]

``To start with, the man pages for ipf(5) and ipnat(5) have been rewritten from scratch to make them easier to understand and thus easier to use the various features in IPFilter. In addition there is now an ipmon(5) that supports delivery of log messages to different destinations - including generating SNMP traps messages.

There are a few new actions that can be used with ipnat.conf. The one that will be of most interest to people is "rewrite" which supports translation of both the source and destination address with a single rule. Use of an rdr/map combination is no longer required. There are also some others that are more experimental. One of those is a "divert" action that takes a packet and puts an IP + UDP header on the front, allowing "raw packets" to be delivered to any socket. Similarly, replies from that socket have the relevant header data removed.

There are a few extras for ipf.conf, most notably it now allows for defining limits on how many different hosts/networks can have a state entry in the state table for each rule. IPFilter 5.1.1 also supports specifying a filter rule group for the filtering of ICMP packets that match an entry in the state table. Additionally, there is a new rule - "decapsulate". This has been designed to allow filtering on "inner headers" of packets that have been encapsulated in clear text. It will, for example, allow filtering on IPv4 headers inside of IPv6 packets (or vice versa.)

It is no longer required to have a separate ipf6.conf file. Both IPv4 and IPv6 packets can be used in the same file. For those that have separate files today, they should not interfere with each other unless you have "block in all" for IPv4 and "pass in all" for IPv6 or similar. In that case, the "block in all" will affect IPv6 traffic. This is a reflection of the internal design where there is now only a single list of filter rules, not one for each protocol. Check the man page for ipf.conf for more details.''

[Tags: ipfilter, Security]

``First, my problem was I had just replaced my motherboard on my custom build PC. Once I got Windows 7 64-bit loaded and everything working, I sat up to clone my system drive. The drive is a 500GB Seagate Barracude, SATA 2 drive. Cloning locally to an identical drive.

When booting into g4u, my transfer speeds were extremely slow. Normally, my 500 Gb clones take only about 90 minutes. But this was still working after over 6 hours. The g4u transfer speed was reporting only 1.5 Mb/sec.

I shut things down, and went into my system BIOS. I noticed that the SATA mode was set to "IDE Mode" for my drives. I changed this to "AHCI Mode" and continued to boot into g4u. This worked to fix the transfer speeds, and my clone finished normally. Getting 83 Mb/sec.

Once the drive was finished, I attempted to boot into Windows, but it would not boot. I had to change my BIOS back to "IDE Mode", then Windows behaved normally.

Upon researching this, I am now learning that you should enable AHCI Mode BEFORE installing Windows for it to work. Apparently, if Windows is not installed while using AHCI Mode, it disables the drivers for AHCI on the system drive. So if you later enable AHCI in your BIOS as I did, Windows will not have the driver loaded. I saw there is a fix on the Microsoft web site, but I haven't attempted to try it yet.

If someone else runs into a similar problem, hopefully this will help you.''

FWIW, g4u-2.5beta1 is based on NetBSD-current from January 2012, so checking your BIOS may help anyone seeing bad disk performance out there.
(Emphasizes in the text added by me)

[Tags: g4u, performance]

There's also is a PDF which lists the BSD Associate (BSDA) examn objectives on 57 pages. That's neccessary!

There is currently no training material available that covers all the examn objectives, and that allows people interested in the certification to start learning. That sucks!

Now that's where I'd like to ask the NetBSD (and actually the whole BSD community) for support: This is not a small task, but I think it would be worthwhile for the whole community to have that available, either in closed (paper/book) or in public (electronic) form.

Any takers?

Update: Jeremy Reed reminds me that he has startet a Wiki-based approach to cover all topics of the BSDA, with the eventual goal to publish the result in book form. There is a Wiki-to-PDF transformation engine already in place, and the primary focus can be put on the contents at this point. So, this is the point where YOU come in. Have a look, get involved, participate in a novel project!

[Tags: bsdca, bsdcertification]

Dan continues: ``BSDCan 2012 will be held 11-12 May, 2012 in Ottawa at the University of Ottawa. It will be preceded by two days of tutorials on 9-10 May.

NOTE: This will be Fri/Sat with tutorials on Wed/Thu.

We are now accepting proposals for talks.

The talks should be designed with a very strong technical content bias. Proposals of a business development or marketing nature are not appropriate for this venue.

If you are doing something interesting with a BSD operating system, please submit a proposal. Whether you are developing a very complex system using BSD as the foundation, or helping others and have a story to tell about how BSD played a role, we want to hear about your experience. People using BSD as a platform for research are also encouraged to submit a proposal. Possible topics include:

• How we manage a giant installation with respect to handling spam.
• and/or sysadmin.
• and/or networking.

See also "Restore CD Howto" for actual installation procedures: http://www.NetBSD.org/ports/cobalt/restorecd-howto.html: (though RestoreUSB is not mentioned yet) and see files in .tar.gz archive for more details. ''

Time to get out the good old Cobalt cube :)

[Tags: cobalt]

Remember that this is a test release, so your feedback is wanted - either to me in person, or to the g4u-help mailing list. Thanks!

Here's a full list of changes:

• New commands "uploadmbr" and "slurpmbr" to backup and restore the master boot record, which includes the partition table. Required to restore a partition to an empty disk.
• New command "copymbr" to copy the MBR from one disk to another, similar to "copydisk"
• New command "wipedisk" to write the disk full with 0-bytes once from start (sector 0) to end (last sector)
• Enable command line history/editing by forcing /bin/sh to be built without -DSMALL (ugly hack... there be lots of dragons!)
• When setting up a fresh compile tree, g4u patches are now applied automagically without aborting the build
• Error detection was now enabled in the dd(1) command, which is the core of g4u (surprise!). With that, disks with broken/unreadable sectors should now be copied, skipping the unreadable sectors and copying the rest. This affects a number of programs: copydisk, copypart, uploaddisk, uploadpart. BEWARE: I wasn't able to actually test this as I do not have a disk with bad sectors here. Please report back your experiences!!!
• Make this build with NetBSD-current sources as of 2012-01-12
• New drivers added to the kernel:
  • RDC PMX-1000 IDE controllers
  • Intel SCH IDE controllers
  • TOSHIBA PICCOLO controllers
  • Attansic/Atheros L1C/L2C Ethernet
  • Broadcom BCM43xx wireless
  • Agere/LSI ET1310/ET1301 Gigabit Ethernet
  • RDC R6040 10/100 Ethernet
  • USB LCDs and USB-VGA adaptors, e.g.:
  • DisplayLink DL-1x0/1x5
  • Option N.V. Wireless USB WAN modems
  • Microsoft RNDIS specifications USB ethernet
  • Atheros AR9001U USB Wifi
  • Intersil PrismGT USB Wifi
  • Virtio PCI, memory balloon, disk & network devices
  • ... and many more that slipped past QA
• ... and any driver updates, optimizations and bug fixes and other enhancements from NetBSD-current

• ISO
• compressed ISO
• First floppy
• 2nd floppy
• 3rd floppy
• all 3 floppies
• sources

[Tags: gpl, licensing]

Apparently FreeBSD's telnetd currently has such a problem, and I think it's fair that Colin Percival as the FreeBSD Security Officer did release the advisory, even if it's in a sub-optimal timeframe.

For those NetBSD uses wondering if there's a similar problem in NetBSD's telnetd: Apparenly an unchecked argument can cause memory corruption by a memcpy length parameter overflow in sub-option processing (for terminal type, size etc.). This was fixed in NetBSD thanks to a hints from Colin. There's no NetBSD Security Advisory yet, but people still using telnetd in production networks may consider rebuilding libtelnet and telnetd.

So, to those of you who have moved to SSH: Happy Holidays!
To the rest: Happy Updating! :-)

[Tags: Security]

• NetBSD Security Advisory 2011-008: OpenPAM privilege escalation

  Affects pkgsrc, all release branches and -current before 2011-11-09, it's fixed in all branches (current, netbsd-4 and -5) after that date.

  Details from the advisory: ``The pam_start() function of OpenPAM doesn't check the "service" argument. With a relative path it can be tricked into reading a config file from an arbitrary location. NetBSD base utilities pass fixed constant strings. 3rd party programs which run with elevated privileges and allow user chosen strings open an attack vector.''

• NetBSD Security Advisory 2011-009: BIND resolver DoS:

  Affects pkgsrc, all release branches and -current from before 2011-11-20, it's fixed in the CVS branches after 2011-11-20.

  Details from the advisory: ``Unpatched BIND 9 resolvers may cache an invalid record, subsequent queries for which could crash the resolvers with an assertion failure. ISC provided a patch which makes named recover gracefully from the inconsistency, preventing the abnormal exit.

  The patch has two components. When a client query is handled, the code which processes the response to the client has to ask the cache for the records for the name that is being queried. The first component of the patch prevents the cache from returning the inconsistent data. The second component prevents named from crashing if it detects that it has been given an inconsistent answer of this nature.''

BSD Certification covers NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and DragonflyBSD, and has the goal to offer certification about BSD specific tasks in both Associate and Professional levels.

Based on my personal, most recent experience, certification is a good thing as you can show that you have a full grasp on a topic with all the relevant topics, and that you didn't only learn the few things that are relevant for your current job. Get certified!

[Tags: bsdcertification]

Details include setting up a TFTP server for loading the bootloader and getting DHCP sending out the right files.

[Tags: g4u, pxe]

The latter one is worth quoting in this blog's NetBSD context: ``We are now focused on three things: NetBSD compatibility, embedded systems, and reliability. 3.2.0 will have a lot of headers, libraries, and userland programs take from NetBSD, which is a very stable, mature system. The BSDs are quite popular as you may know. One of them is sold under the brand name "Macintosh" by Apple. [...]

We think NetBSD is a mature stable system. Linux is not nearly as well written and is changing all the time. NetBSD has something like 8000 packages. That is enough for us.''

Further topics include multicore and microkernel architectures, grants from Google and the European Research Council, software licensing, the GPL and Linux. Have a look!

[Tags: minix, tanenbaum]

To go on from there, I found that my NetBSD VM's only disk was too small to do anything useful. Options for enlarging that came to mind:

1. NFS - see 'panic' above, no go.
2. Adding another (virtual) disk - easily doable, but I felt like not adding one
3. Extending the existing disk - adventure time!

1. Enlarge the last file system on disk
2. Fix the partition table to add another partition for the new space

For those in a similar situation, here are the steps to use the newly gained space on an enlarged (virtual) disk:

1. Prepare: save the old output of "dmesg" (/var/run/dmesg.boot is OK)

2. Enlarge - VMware Fusion wants a shutdown for that, you cannot suspend the machine

3. After booting, run a diff on the saved "dmesg" output, to learn what the old and new size of the disk is, in sectors. My diff looks like this, note the size change in sectors:

   -wd0: 10240 MB, 22192 cyl, 15 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 20971520 sectors
   +wd0: 20480 MB, 44384 cyl, 15 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 41943040 sectors 

4. Backup the existing/old disklabel, just in case: disklabel wd0 >disklabel.BAK

5. Edit the disklabel: disklabel -e wd0

6. In the editor, adjust the disk size in sectors from 20971520 to 41943040:

   total sectors: 41943040 

7. Partition 'd' is the full disk on i386/amd64, it starts at sector 0 and is 41943040 sectors big

   #        size    offset     fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
    d:  41943040         0     unused      0     0        # (Cyl.      0 -  44384*)
   

8. Partition 'c' is the NetBSD part of the disk. As this VM only has NetBSD, all the usable space is used. Note that "usable" space excludes the first 63 sectors of the disk (mbr etc.), i.e. it is 41943040 - 63 = 41942977 sectors:

   #        size    offset     fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
    c:  41942977        63     unused      0     0        # (Cyl.      0*-  44384*)
   

9. After this everything is in sync with the new disk again, and the remaining/new space can be used for new partition 'e'. As the new space starts where the disk used to end, its offset is the old size, 20971520 sectors.

   The size of the new partition expands from the offset sector 20971520 to the end of the disk at sector 41943040, i.e. the partition size is:

   % expr 41943040 - 20971520
   20971520
   

   In total, this gives for the new partition:

   #        size    offset     fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
    e:  20971520  20971520     4.2BSD   2048 16384     0  # (Cyl.  22192*-  44384*)
   

10. Last, create file system, mount and populate:

    # newfs /dev/rwd0e
    # mkdir /disk2
    # echo '/dev/wd0e /disk2 ffs rw,log 2 2' >>/etc/fstab
    # mount /disk2
    # cd /usr ; pax -rw -pe -v stuff /disk2
    # rm -fr stuff ; ln -s /disk2/stuff .
    

P.S.: I'm offering choccolate to anyone fixing crossbuilding of NetBSD-current from Mac OS X. Any takers?

[Tags: disklabel, fusion, g4u, vmware]

``There are also "lite" versions of the Linux operating system available, including NetBSD, which is at www.netbsd.org. One of the amazing things about NetBSD is the variety of hardware pieces it will run on.''

[Tags: linux, sudbury]

The MBR95 features WiFi 'N' with a 2x2 internal antenna configuration, which allows it to be much more portable than the MBR900 that had two antennas the stuck up in the air. This also removes the concern of breaking your WiFi antenna and you still receive the same 100-150' (Real world tests) wireless range you'd receive with the MBR900. You'll also have the ability to do dual SSIDs (Wireless Network Name), which can allow you to create a business end for private users and a guest network for public users. This feature will also allow you to create multiple categories for different devices; in example: QoS (Quality of Service), VoIP and more. The new NetBSD is also the only platform that will allow users to use WiFi as WAN, which allows them to use another WiFi source as failover or connect their hotspot enabled smartphone. ''

See the full article for more information. The system is available for about $110US in the 3G Store, there's also a longer list of features and techincal details.

Update: Of course there's also an official vendor page.

[Tags: cradlepoint, lte, mbr95, Products, wimax]

Interested NetBSD users have a variety of options to get NetBSD to talk IPv6, and Eric Haszlakiewicz has posted about his experience: ``If anyone else has been putting off setting this up because it seemed like it would be hard to do, I urge you to give it a shot.''

To test ones IPv6 connectivity, there are several websites available.

[Tags: ipv6]

Meetings can be scheduled for webinar-style online presentation, and there's a aso a Desktop version that can be used offline.

As a show-off, here's what's possible, with NetBSD and pkgsrc as topic, plus some historical background on those topics: