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Here we are again with another episode of "Running on OpenBSD" that describes how we configured a system with multiple gateway interfaces, allowing equal distribution of connections among them. The system was asked by an Internet Cafe with multiple ADSL connections that needed a better solution than the one already in place.

We will describe the requirements and setup of the system we finally installed along with some notes on the ideas behind each decision. As always the system was OpenBSD and the provided ports.

Here we are with another episode of "Running on OpenBSD". I believe most of the questions were answered, (please let me know if i skipped your question). So instead of letting the series die I thought we cover details of certain tools that helped us.

During the preparation of our workstations we needed to start and restart our X session in order for certain changes to be made visible. However, this was extremely time consuming and thus made our experimentation more difficult. It was obvious that we needed a way to work into a virtual X server, enter the Xnest domain.

For the past 3 months, Alice was sitting in frond of her computer trying to write her thesis with her favorite word processor. She was beginning to feel really tired of all the inconsistencies that occur with that kind of processors. Once or twice she found other alternatives that seemed more sufficient, but they could not run in her OpenBSD nor they had a decent typesetting and most importantly they were not free. "What is the use of a common application if it is not free or you cannot use it in any OS?" Alice thought.

Here we are again with another set of answers for you, surrounding the applications that we use and how we use them. Sorry for the delay since the previous post but its busy lately.

Like every previous part of the series, if your question is not answered here post a comment and I will try to include it on the upcoming "episodes".

I know what you're asking. When was Puffy Flock v0.1 ever announced? Never, you are right. Well, actually we've been hiding this one for a while but only because we wanted to make it more stable before it was to be released. Although it is still in early development we think it is usable enough and could take some testing from those of you who will be interested.

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to let you all know that we have released the initial code for a PFCTL extension for PHP. Although, the current version does not include lots of features, it will be good to have some feedback on this.