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  • IPv6 Part 2: FreeBSD Host Security With IPv6

    Welcome to part two of my multipart series on IPv6. In this post I’ll cover how to use packet filter (pf) to configure a host firewall on BSD. The host used runs FreeBSD 8.2, but this should be largely applicable to any version of OpenBSD or FreeBSD with packet filter support.

  • IPv6 Part 1: Configuring Static IPv6 On FreeBSD

    Welcome to part one of my multipart series on IPv6. In this post I’ll cover how to configure a FreeBSD host to use a static IPv6 address. The host used runs FreeBSD 8.2, but it should be applicable to just about any version of FreeBSD with IPv6 support.

  • Source Based Routing With FreeBSD Using Multiple Routing Tables

    Something has been bugging me for several years now. In that time I have usually had access to multiple WAN connections, owing to my participation in the telecom industry. However, I’ve never been able to get SSHD to behave the way I wanted it to. I wanted to be able to connect to the SSH…

  • Running Museeq on Mac OS X

    I recently stumbled across an interesting soulseek client, museek+ It is broken down into a daemon backend and several frontends (GTK, QT, and even a console one). Best of all, the backend and frontends can communicate over UNIX socket or TCP connection, which raises the possibility of running the frontend on a completely different machine…

  • Ubuntu Natty Narwhal and Xen

    I was in the mood to refresh a few of my Xen virtual machines, and saw that Ubuntu 11.04 had been released, so I figured I’d give it a try. Ubuntu has typically been pretty decent under Xen, working well as either a hardware virtualized (HVM) or paravirtualized (PV) guest, but standards appear to have…