GMirror on FreeBSD 6.x/7.x/8.x
Gmirror is a software raid mirror system. It allows to disks or partitions to be mirrored so that in the even of a total drive failure, you can switch […]
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Creating a FreeBSD install DVD
FreeBSD distributions usually have 2 CDs. I wanted to have both CDs combined into one DVD. There are several good reasons to do this.
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Tuning and Testing the FreeBSD 6 TCP stack
Here is an article I came across for performance testing the FreeBSD kernel. It explains a lot of information and talks about some sysctl variables that can help improve
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FreeBSD Startup Scripts (rc.d)
Practical rc.d scripting in BSD Beginners may find it difficult to relate the facts from the formal documentation on the BSD rc.d framework with the practical tasks of rc.d scripting.
Installing Clamav Milter in Sendmail
ClamAV is a very good open source virus detector. It can detect virus’ from the command line but the best part of it is that you can plug it into
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CDBakeOven on FreeBSD
CDBakeOver is a CD/DVD burning tool that will work under KDE and FreeBSD. It is quite good and works similar to Nero. FreeBSD’s security by default will not allow CDBakeOver to
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FreeBSD WPA Support
For WPA support the wpa_supplicant is used. The supplicant in the base system does not support 802.1x or WPA2 by default. This how-to shows how to enable the base wpa_supplicant
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Intel Wireless Card (iwi)
The intel wireless nic (102.11b/g) that is built into the Toshiba M30 laptop is only recently supported in FreeBSD (as of FreeBSD 6.0 beta1). This driver is evolving and this how-to
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Bluetooth Mouse on FreeBSD 6.1
The bluetooth support in FreeBSD is evolving at a rapid pace. This How-to was done to try and get my bluetooth mouse working on my Laptop running FreeBSD 6.0-beta1. Newer
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