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I was able to purchase two new hard drives with a Black Friday offer on a Thursday. I’m expanding and also making my storage on my Home Server redundant. this article is mostly for myself to know, what I did.

Lately I have had less free time, which has resulted in the fact that this is the first article in over a year. Also I’ve been using mostly CentOS at my job and FreeBSD got out of the focus. But that doesn’t mean that I abandoned FreeBSD, just that solutions that require less time to set up and maintain got my attention.

I mean Routing Information Protocol of course, not rest in peace! RIP is one of the most basic and easy-to-use routing protocols there is. It has its limitations, but it can be a viable solution for small environments. With RIP it is possible to exchange routing information between devices, and as it is a standard protocol, not only FreeBSD or Linux can use it, but it’s also implemented in many different networking devices, such as routers, firewalls, and even some layer 3 switches.

In this article I would like to introduce the very basics of networking in order to allow the reader to be able to separate VMs from each other or to organize them into logically different segments. This is far from a detailed description of networks, of course!

Since FreeBSD 11.0 was released, it’s been possible to use a disk as a hot spare in a ZFS zpool. This means, that under a few circumstances, zfsd will take a predefined disk to replace another one.

I’m not really a gamer myself, but as it turned out, my wife is. She played with Civilization V many years ago on Windows, and wanted to re-play the game now. However, I have successfully eliminated it from everywhere in the household, we run Linux on the desktops and FreeBSD on the “servers”, so we seemed to have a slight problem: how to let the wife play without installing anything Windows?

LLDP, or Link Layer Discovery Protocol allows system administrators to easily map the network, eliminating the need to physically run the cables in a rack. LLDP is a protocol used to send and receive information about a neighboring device connected directly to a networking interface.

In this guide a Cisco vWLC will be installed on FreeBSD bhyve.

This will be a really short guide about how to set up the H2O webserver with letsencrypt, and how to automate it.

Luckily, I was able to get a Raspberry Pi Zero not so long ago. Naturally, my first move was to try to boot FreeBSD on it. Although there is no official support for the Zero on FreeBSD, given that the hardware is very similar to the Raspberry Pi A model, I was able to boot it. The process is quite simple.