Dual-homed NFS servers I had an interesting situation today. You’ll know I recently wrote about installing FreeBSD on my laptop. The next step was to use NFS to mount the ports tree from the NFS server. You will recall that the laptop was on 10.0.0.10, and another wireless card was in the Xeon at 10.0.0.2. …
NFS Portmap: RPC: Program not registered Over the past 9 months or so, this problem has been a recurring issue. It would go away only to return at a later date. It was getting to be very annoying. The crunch came this morning when I opened the XEON box in order to disconnect a …
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Build world on your fast box, install on your slow box The build world process is used to upgrade FreeBSD from one version to another (e.g. 4.2-RELEASE to 4.2-STABLE). This process involves downloading source code, compiling it, installing it, and resolving any configuration file issues, although not necessarily in that order. The best place to …
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nfs and ipf with IPFILTER_DEFAULT_BLOCK I had a power failure this afternoon. My UPS worked, but the failure was just too long for my poor old 800 KVA UPS. All the boxes went down. A pity as one box was just a few hours from 280 days of uptime. My previous record was 179 days, …
NFS Portmap: RPC: Program not registered Over the past 9 months or so, this problem has been a recurring issue. It would go away only to return at a later date. It was getting to be very annoying. The crunch came this morning when I opened the XEON box in order to disconnect a …
NFS – sharing file systems across a network This article was originally written in November 1998, but has only just been completed. Yes, that’s slack. I know. But I never had a need for NFS until today. When you install a port [from the Internet; not from a CD], files are downloaded from the Internet …