Updated FreeBSD Wandboard Build

My preferred server OS is FreeBSD. Each time I install it, I have to go through numerous steps to secure it. So, to avoid that effort, and to make sure I get it right each time, I’ve created an Ansible playbook to automate the entire process. You can learn about it here. Some of the…

Some printers, like the one I have (HP 8600 Pro), have “Print-to-Folder” capability.   Unfortunately, I have no Windows server, only a FreeBSD box to print to.  I can mount folders from the FreeBSD box on my MacBook.. if I can get files to scan there.   So, to do that, I need a Samba…

Available here.    

I was curious to see how difficult it would be to compile NetBSD on FreeBSD 10.  Once you have the source, there is a build.sh script which is very helpful.  The build is as simple as: ./build.sh -m i386 tools ./build.sh -m i386 kernel=GENERIC release In my case I have both clang and gcc installed.  I…

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…

The FreeBSD ARM team have completed the work to support multicore on ARM.  You can read the announcement here.  I’ve made a new build of FreeBSD ARM for Wandboard, which you can download here. The dmesg output is here, and here is the sysctl showing four cores [Kroot@wandboard:~ # sysctl -a | grep hw.ncpu hw.ncpu:…