Network Administration with FreeBSD 7

FreeBSD 8

farrokhi — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:16:12 +0000

Its always nice to see a new version of FreeBSD. The latest version introduces a lot of new features and improvements that system administrators would love.
Personally I enjoy the stability of ZFS since early development releases of FreeBSD 8. Now ZFS is no longer experimental and can be used in production environments.
The other interesting new feature is “vimage” or Network Virtualization that addresses one of the major shortcomings of FreeBSD jails. Thanks to this new feature, the kernel can maintain multiple instances of networking subsystems, which means network independence for Jails.

The new TTY is more SMP friendly and works much snappier.

A complete list of new features can be found in the release notes. You may also download the ISO images from FTP or Bittorrent.

make.conf in FreeBSD

farrokhi — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:47:49 +0000

I just posted a new article about make.conf in my other blog.

IPv6 in FreeBSD

farrokhi — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:49:45 +0000

In a few years from now, IPv6 will not be an optional feature anymore. Given the fact that we are quickly running out of IPv4 address space, everyone is concerned about the IPv4 to IPv6 migration. For those who run FreeBSD, its important to know how they should deal with IPv6 in FreeBSD.
This article gives you an overview of IPv6 in general and how to set it up in FreeBSD: Running IPv6 with FreeBSD

New review from Ivan Voras

farrokhi — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:53:08 +0000

Ivan Voras has posted a review for my book on his website.

From the review:

The book is full of examples and dives little into theory or background of the subject. This can be either good or bad, depending on your viewpoint. At any case, it gives enough information to point the user it the right direction in case he wants to go digging. This is not the kind of book that’s extremely comprehensive about a topic but it gives to-the-point advice on common tasks, which is what most administrators just starting with FreeBSD really need.

Read the complete review here.

New review from Ceri Davies

farrokhi — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:12:10 +0000

Ceri Davies has posted his review of the book on his website. He pointed out that he found the tuning parts useful. That part is actually my favorite part of the book which was very fun to write and in fact the core of the book. I hope everyone else has also found that part useful too.

E-Book version available

farrokhi — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:08:01 +0000

For those who read books on the go, an e-book version of the book is available from PACKT Publishing.

While I personally prefer the hardcopies, but e-books has several advantages that cannot be avoided, such as lower price, mobility and availability within a few clicks.

Sample chapter available

farrokhi — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 10:09:44 +0000

PACKT Publishing has recently published a sample chapter from the book on their website. The chapter talks about setting up GRE tunneling between FreeBSD and other GRE capable systems such as Cisco or Juniper routers. It also describes basic IPSec concepts and configuration on FreeBSD.