FreeBSD has always been my OS of choice but in the past I have always viewed upgrades as one point of failure. What is the upgrade doesn’t go as expected, […]
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Every year it seems like more and more network devices get installed on our networks. Switches, router, firewall, access points are just a few of the devices that get installed.
Oxidized – Network Configuration Tool Read More »
This article will document the procedure to setup a second UFS filesystem on a second drive and have it added into your FreeBSD server. Installing a second drive into FreeBSD
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This article documents the procedure to do a full bare metal restore of a FreeBSD ZFS system that has been backed up with ZFS send.
ZFS Bare Metal Restore Read More »
If you need to know what ports are open and listening on your FreeBSD servers, you can use a few commands. Netstat -An used to me my goto command for
Using sockstat to look at open ports in FreeBSD Read More »
This acticle will go through the install and configuration to use FreeBSD as your OpenVPN server and how to create the client config files.
Setup OpenVPN on FreeBSD 12.1 Read More »
This article documents how to add a second drive to your FreeBSD system and format it as UFS. If you have a system that allows hot-plugging (like the Dell line
Adding a Second Drive Read More »
Wondering what SSL encryption and protocols a site is using. Cipherscan is free and work well. You can find it here: Cipherscan
What SSL protocols is a site using. Read More »
There are a number of times that I need to find out when a port or package was last upgraded or installed. This comes in very handy every time I
Port or Package Installation Date Read More »
portupgradeis a tool that allows you to upgrade ports on your FreeBSD system. It has its faults, and it doesn’t always work (see below), but its about as close as
Upgrading all ports via portupgrade. Read More »
