is comixwall retarded or just stupid?
Saturday, 26. April 2008, 23:42:12
Some time back I downloaded comixwall.
MD5 (comixwall42_20080109_i386.iso) = 36d547ae6e4a0709d7ede62f04bcd2cc
I ran the install today on an old pentium MMX 166 laptop as a test.
OpenBSD can see my malo and ne network interfaces. Great! I used to love openbsd so much.
So I go through a completely generic install and reboot.
Nothing happens.
There's no comixwall documentation to be found on my install.
Did I miss something?
The only thing I see in the ISO that may be of assistance is a "packages" directory.
So someone adds a few packages to an OpenBSD 4.2 CD and calls it a product?
The documentation is useless:
This is not true.
At least I can use my openbsd 4.2 install as a serial console in the future so it's not a complete wast e of my time.
I feel for the jackasses that think this is going to be a commercial success.
Go look at the FreeNAS install and see how miserably you fail.
Thanks for wasting my time ComixWall.
Close your site and get a job digging ditches.
MD5 (comixwall42_20080109_i386.iso) = 36d547ae6e4a0709d7ede62f04bcd2cc
I ran the install today on an old pentium MMX 166 laptop as a test.
OpenBSD can see my malo and ne network interfaces. Great! I used to love openbsd so much.
So I go through a completely generic install and reboot.
Nothing happens.
There's no comixwall documentation to be found on my install.
Did I miss something?
The only thing I see in the ISO that may be of assistance is a "packages" directory.
So someone adds a few packages to an OpenBSD 4.2 CD and calls it a product?
The documentation is useless:
When OpenBSD installation is complete, installation jumps to ComixWall install.site or upgrade.site script, depending on the method you have chosen at the beginning of OpenBSD insta
llation. Installation scripts in ComixWall are heavily modified versions of the scripts in bsd.rd (especially install.sub), but the basic operation and principles are the same.
The first thing you will see is (s/install/upgrade if you have chosen upgrade mode during OpenBSD installation):
This is not true.
At least I can use my openbsd 4.2 install as a serial console in the future so it's not a complete wast e of my time.
I feel for the jackasses that think this is going to be a commercial success.
Go look at the FreeNAS install and see how miserably you fail.
Thanks for wasting my time ComixWall.
Close your site and get a job digging ditches.
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JuSn # 13. May 2008, 18:39
did you choose all packages while installation?
for getting the comixwall script starting you should use at least the site.tgz package.
please keep in mind that comixwall is created for an amd64 system. With my older pentiumII I couldn't get it to run.
JuSn
EricSeale # 17. May 2008, 04:40
swmspam # 30. May 2008, 20:30
1. Install all BSD packages, otherwise, the installation will not progress to the ComixWall install.site script.
2. Install script failed, on all three machines I tried, each one with different combinations of network cards. See my screenshots at http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20430980?hilite=
3. As a result, the physical interfaces were never recognized properly by the install script.
4. I manually configured the internal LAN card (otherwise known as "green") and accessed the ComixWall web-based GUI. This was only possible by deactivating the packet filter.
5. Got external WAN interface working where it picked up the DHCP from my service provided.
6. Never got the packet filter working, so no packets ever traversed the ComixWall.
7. Tremendous waste of time.
8. Great feature set, but would be easier to "roll your own".
9. Try Untangle. It installs in a jiffy, and works great, but is a CPU hog and lacks some features. It operates flawlessly in "transparent" mode, which is really cool.
10. Try Smoothwall. It installs even faster, works great, good feature set, but you can't turn off NAT (no "transparent" mode).
JuSn # 8. June 2008, 15:34
for me ComixWall works (fine) after enabling all packages during installation.
At the first time I mistook the both interfaces (extern and intern) so Comixwall didn´t work. So I installed it a second time. On a AMD64 the installation only tooks a few minutes to install.
I didn´t had any problems with the default installation to go into the web.
The only thing was to enable more web sites in the web filter because there are to much sites blocked.
DHCP is also fine working for me on the internal interface.
@swmspam
Did yo get it to run?
Durig my installation the network interfaces are acknowledged correctly, it is the OpenBSD installation. Later in the installation you have to decide and to know which interface is the extern and the intern one. The problem may ocur if you have two nics from the same vendor. So I logged in to the Comixwall box and used the "ifconfig -a" comand.
After disconnecting one cable from interface you can see which nic has no cable.
I noticed it and made a new installation.
May be it helps.
JuSn