How to Assign Static IP Addresses to OpenVPN Clients in pfSense
(20180407 – The steps in this post were amended to address changes in recent versions of software — iceflatline) This post describes how to configure the OpenVPN server in pfSense to assign static IP addresses to its remote access client hosts. pfSense (i.e., “making sense of packet filtering”) is a customized version of FreeBSD tailored […] Read More →
How To Create, Configure And Connect To A FreeBSD Instance In Amazon EC2
(20180108 – The steps in this post were amended to address changes in the Amazon AWS service — iceflatline) FreeBSD is an free and open source advanced computer operating system used to power modern servers, desktops and embedded platforms. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (“EC2”) provides resizable computing capacity in the Amazon Web Services (“AWS”) cloud. […] Read More →
How To Create And Configure VLANs In pfSense
(20171231 — The steps in this post were amended to address changes in recent versions of software. Minor editorial corrections were also made — iceflatline) pfSense is a customized version of FreeBSD tailored specifically for use as a perimeter firewall and router, managed entirely from a web browser or command line interface. pfSense includes a […] Read More →
How To Access Your VirtualBox Guest VM From The Host Using SSH
(20180430 — The steps in this post were amended to address changes in recent versions of software — iceflatline) Recently I had the occasion to spin up a Ubuntu server Virtual Machine (“VM”) in VirtualBox on a Windows-based host machine. Those of you who have performed a similar excercise know that the default window size […] Read More →
How to Create and Maintain a ZFS Mirror in NAS4Free
NAS4free is an open source NAS (“Network Attached Storage”) platform based on FreeBSD that supports file sharing across Windows, Apple, and UNIX-like systems. Support for ZFS, Software RAID (0,1,5), disk encryption, S.M.A.R.T, email reports, CIFS FTP, NFS, TFTP, AFP, RSYNC, Unison, iSCSI, HAST, CARP, Bridge, UPnP, and Bittorent, are among its many features – all […] Read More →