FreeBSD-10.1 Soekris r276913

I’ve been trying forever to get a mobile IPSec connection up between my OS X laptop and pfsense.   Finally, thanks to this outstanding blog post, it works.  I’m especially excited that it works with the default OS X and Android VPN clients. My pfsense config closely mirrors the one specified by Mike Murray pfsense…

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I’ve been learning about FreeBSD kernel development, and discovering that, not surprisingly, it’s very, very slow to compile on a Raspberry Pi.  So, I decided to figure out how to compile the Pi kernel on a nice fast AMD-64. Firstly, get the kernel sources to a subdirectory under a non-root user profile: mkdir fbsd cd…

I usually work on a Macbook, and I use keyless ssh with a cron job to do nightly backups.  It works very well.  However, I decided to try backups with Time Machine, using my FreeBSD-10 server as the host. The first step is to install netatalk3, and nss_mdns pkg install netatalk3 pkg install nss_mdns avahi…

The FDT is the “Flattened Device Tree”, a simple device tree used in embedded FreeBSD, for example on a Pi.  Every architecture has a DTS file, which contains a human-readable list of hardware for that architecture.   For example, the Pi FTD is here.  You should notice that there are declarations for: cpu axi (the…