FreeBSD Upgrades with ZFS boot environments
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, How do I role it back? If you have FreeBSD […]
Oxidized – Network Configuration Tool
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. Each of them has a configuration file that gets setup […]
Install 2nd Drive in FreeBSD
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 can be done line without a shutdown. The only reason […]
ZFS Bare Metal Restore
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.
Using sockstat to look at open ports in FreeBSD
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 pulling up a list of ports that are listening but […]
Setup OpenVPN on FreeBSD 12.1
This acticle will go through the install and configuration to use FreeBSD as your OpenVPN server and how to create the client config files.
Adding a Second Drive
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 of servers) then this can be done live without shutting […]
What SSL protocols is a site using.
Wondering what SSL encryption and protocols a site is using. Cipherscan is free and work well. You can find it here: Cipherscan
Port or Package Installation Date
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 need to upgrade all my ports and I can’t remember […]
Upgrading all ports via portupgrade.
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 you can get on FreeBSD to a ‘one-click’ upgrade.