IPv6 – getting your LAN connected This article describes how I got my gateway and LAN operating with IPv6. What is IPv6? Ask Google with this query. In short, IPv6 avoids the problems you solve with NAT today. IPv6 is a bigger address space. It means each of your computers can have their own public […]
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Home networks are everywhere [Free]BSD has networking in its roots. It’s one of the things it does very well. Why else would the BSD TCP/IP stack be used in so many other operating systems if it wasn’t the best around? Most people who use FreeBSD will also have a home network. Whatever the size of
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Managing an IP address change – part 2 It was almost a month ago that I started changing the IP address of The FreeBSD Diary web server. When I first mentioned to someone that I was going to write an article about this process, they wondered: why, all it takes is an ifconfig, what is
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Managing an IP address change Have you ever changed the IP address of your computer? For those of you with a dynamic IP address, such changes are transparent. You don’t see it. Hopefully that’s what will happen when we change the IP address of the server which hosts this website. It should just happen and
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VNC – allowing remote access to graphical desktops VNC (an abbreviation for Virtual Network Computing) is a great client/server software package allowing remote network access to graphical desktops. TightVNC allows you to display X and Win32 desktops on remote X/Win32/Java displays. In short, it will allow me to access my FreeBSD box from my Windows
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Creating a VPN using PPTP I’m working for a US based company which has an office here in Ottawa. I also work from home, as do two other employees here. Until today, I’ve been using a VPN from my W2K box, which is what I usually use from day to day when accessing the office
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Quick CableNet Connections with FreeBSD Leon Dang wrote this article. Mike Meyer reviewed it for me. Thanks to both of them. I am using CableNet access with Australian telco Optus – which uses Excite@Home to handle their cable network. I don’t know whether our network would be the same as that in the US, but
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Setting up a FreeBSD IPSec Tunnel This article was written by John J. Rushford Jr. jjr@alisa.org Last modified 5/26/01 See also this ONLamp article. Introduction Recently I was approached by a friend that has a scanning and imaging business focused on imaging legal documents for large law firms. He has two offices one located in
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Setting up FreeBSD as an NIS client This article was written by Eric Anderson. So what if you want to use your FreeBSD box as a client on a network that is running NIS? Simple! This should walk you through most of the setup. Of course, have FreeBSD 3.3 or greater installed with your
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VLAN with pipsecd Philip Hallstrom wrote with this article on setting up a virtual LAN. It’s also known as a VPN (virtual private network). Thank you Philip. Philip writes: I’ve had to setup two secure VPN’s between FreeBSD boxes now. The first time I didn’t document my steps — figuring I’d remember 🙂 — which