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FreeBSD + OpenVPN + PF + DummyNet + NTOP
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)
Continue reading...Mount ReiserFS partitions in FreeBSD (howto)
Friday, January 30, 2009
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 I wanted to cut down on the bandwith and decided to copy over a needed distfile [...]
Continue reading...Freebsd mount a NAS via SMB / CIFS (howto)
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
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 shell script? Is that doable? If so, what’s the easiest solution ftp or CIFS? Answer. The [...]
Continue reading...Using ccache on FreeBSD (howto)
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
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 ccache on FreeBSD 7.1: su # cd /usr/ports/devel/ccache # make install clean # vim /etc/make.conf .if (!empty(.CURDIR:M/usr/src*) || !empty(.CURDIR:M/usr/obj*)) && !defined(NOCCACHE) CC=/usr/local/libexec/ccache/world-cc CXX=/usr/local/libexec/ccache/world-c++ .endif Basically [...]
Continue reading...DesktopBSD Live USB stick
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Fusselbaer has posted some instructions on how to set up DesktopBSD running live from a USB memory stick. The instructions are in German and can’t unfortunately be automatically translated with Google Translate since the link is https. The steps and commands are easy to follow, but if you’re not altogether sure, copy the (part of the) [...]
Continue reading...Setting up a FreeBSD ZFS-only system
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
“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 was to grab a snapshot of FreeBSD CURRENT. Since sysinstall doesn’t support setting up ZFS etc, it can’t be [...]
Continue reading...How to upgrade FreeBSD 7.0 to 7.1 Stable Release
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
step-by-step instructions Source: cyberciti.biz
Continue reading...OpenVPN – getting it running
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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 notes but I never published anything until today. My original use for OpenVPN was easy access [...]
Continue reading...Install FreeBSD 7.x from USB (howto)
Monday, November 24, 2008
Step one is to download a modified unetbootin utility particularly for FreeBSD. Other steps here
Continue reading...Putting Beastie back in the boot menu (howto)
Monday, November 24, 2008
If you’ve used FreeBSD in the past you’re likely familiar with the mascot, Beastie. In the past Beastie was part of the boot menu, but recently he was replaced with a simple FREEBSD text image. To put Beastie back in the menu you can add the following to your /boot/loader.conf: loader_logo=”beastiebw” Source: http://blog.zelut.org (21/10/2008)
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