Portforwarding with ipnat

Being used to running Linux, putting FreeBSD on my home gateway has been a change for a few things. For one thing when I want to do portforwarding, it’s not in iptables. I have a few choices really, and since I’m using ipf for the firewall, I decided to use ipnat for the NAT configuration. [...]

Upgraded to 5.5-STABLE

The daylight savings time change made me recognize how long it’s been since I patched the base on my BSD box, so I took the plunge. Building world on my main server is just scary, but it all went without a hitch. I perused some scripting from Lee Dilkie, and then wrote my own to [...]

BSD is Dying

I came across this hilarious, tongue-in-cheek presentation on why BSD is Dying. The presenter is great, and there’s a lot of great Unix history in the presentation. I must say, that even as a Linux fan, I love his last slide.

Fixing my BSD PPPoE connection

So, in my learning about FreeBSD, one thing that I originally was afraid of was setting up PPPoE, as I’m on a ADSL connection. It’s never been very easy on Linux, although Roaring Penguin PPPoE did wonders for that. While the ports tree does include this, I was curious about the “official” way to do [...]

Ports and wildcard uninstalls

When I first installed Ruby on Rails on my FreeBSD box, I used ports as it’s simple and easy. What I didn’t know was that rubygems is simple and easy. It’s also more up-to-date. Rails 1.1.2 is in ports, and currently for security reasons, 1.1.6 is recommended. I’ve had users tell me to just skip [...]

Why FreeBSD is cool

One thing that always bothered me about running most Linux distributions is how much of a pain managing applications can be. Starting on RedHat, I spent a lot of time on rpmfind.net, tracking down dependencies by hand. Oh boy oh boy was that ever fun. Mandrake was no better. Then I found Debian Linux, and [...]

BSD as my gateway

I’ve been having trouble with my ADSL connection, and my ISP would like to rule-out any of my equipment, so I’ve replaced my Linksys POS NAT box with my server running FreeBSD with 2 NICs. I haven’t done that much with FreeBSD yet, so I don’t know a lot about its networking. So far it [...]