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All-in-one guide for those looking to create a low cost firewall appliance Setting up your own OpenVPN Firewall appliance with FreeBSD (scribd.com)

My desktop dual boots Gentoo Linux and FreeBSD. When I installed Gentoo at the time I decided on splitting certain directories in distinct partition, so the I created a partition strictly for portage and opted for the ReiserFS filesystem. Today … Continue reading →

Qestion: I want to use our NAS server to store backups. Our NAS supports FTP and CIFS / SMB sharing technology. How do I mount and store files on NAS using FreeBSD? How do I automate entire procedure using a … Continue reading →

ccache is a compiler cache. It speeds up re-compilation of C/C++ code by caching previous compiles and detecting when the same compile is being done again. The following is a step by step guide to how to enable and use … Continue reading →

“After loader support for ZFS was imported into FreeBSD around a month ago, I’ve been thinking of installing a ZFS-only system on my laptop. I also decided to try out using the GPT layout instead of using disklabels etc. The first thing I started with … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD Diary has 2 howtos on setting up OpenVPN on FreeBSD This article is about OpenVPN, a full-featured open source SSL VPN solution. I first started using OpenVPN in December 2006. That is nearly two years ago. I took some … Continue reading →