Archive for 'OpenBSD Networking'

Monitoring connections on OpenBSD hosts

I received a comment from a reader regarding the trafshow utility. Trafshow is definitely a cool piece of software, and I use it one some of my Linux hosts. On my OpenBSD systems, I have been using the pktstat utility, which provides connection statistics for all traffic on the system: $ pktstat interface: sis0 total: [...]

Configuring OpenBSD to support cable modems

I recently switched from DSL to cable, and had to learn how to use the ISC DHCP software with OpenBSD and my cable provider (Comcast). This was relatively easy, and the dhclient(8) manpage has lots of useful information and examples. Once I read through the man page, I created a file called/etc/dhcpclient.conf with the following [...]