Category: FreeBSD
A Summary of My Computing/Communication Environment
December 11th, 2011I'm writing this mostly so I can refer to it from other postings. It's not all that interesting in itself.Hardware and SoftwareWe're a mostly BSD and Mac shop here at home. Kirk and I each have a BSD box (he runs PC-BSD, I run FreeBSD) that are… more »
Sonic.net, static IPs, and firewalls do not mix
July 30th, 2011Attempting to move to Sonic.net proved to be more challenging than expected. In particular, all of my hosts that had static IP addresses behind my firewall wouldn't work. This should be a pretty conventional setup for most business users. It turned ou… more »
Booting FreeBSD 8.2 on a Soekris box over the network
June 15th, 2011I've been working on bringing up a new Soekris net5501 box onFreeBSD 8.2. Since the Soekris boot ROM doesn't understand locallyattached CD-ROM drives, you have to do this over the network. There'san excellent discussion of how to do that herebut… more »
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