In my adventures to get a PXE server running, I run into a limitation of the isc-dhcp server - you need to have a host entry for each new machine you want to PXE boot. But this can be a problem if I just want to keep adding machines and PXE …
In a previous post I used FreeBSD 9.2 as a DHCP server. This is basically the sequel of that post. We're going to enable PXE booting by using TFTP and NFS to serve the files from. Let's go ahead and install the dhcpd server package:
pkg install isc-dhcp43-server-4.3 …This is just a quick note to myself so I don't forget. If you're looking on how to reduce the boot countdown time on FreeBSD 9 and 10 this is how you do it:
Edit /boot/defaults/loader.conf
Find the line:
#autoboot_delay="10"
Uncomment and change it to a …
I have a simple local area network where my router is also the DHCP server. It's IP address is 192.168.2.1.
For testing purposes I've been playing with a second DHCP server on the same network running inside VirtualBox - that machine is set to 192.168.2.99 …
This isn't so much of a proper how-to, but mostly notes to self on how to quickly setup IPFW on FreeBSD 9.
To enable IPFW:
Open up /etc/rc.conf and add the following lines:
firewall_enable="YES" #Enables the firewall - the most important line :)
firewall_logging="YES" #optional - enables logging - logs …I've been meaning to set up a DHCP server on FreeBSD for a while, so these are my notes for a simple configuration. This is based on the following:
I've been wanting to get a little deeper with Jails so I can learn the Jails system better - nothing wrong with Warden, but to learn more I need to "bypass the GUI". I went ahead and installed vanilla FreeBSD 9.2 and this is what it took to get the …
Hi all,
So those are my quick notes on setting up NFS on FreeBSD 9.1.
This is based on the handbook and partly on the FreeBSD Diary.
On the server side, add the following inside /etc/rc.conf:
rpcbind_enable="YES"
nfs_server_enable="YES"
mountd_enable="YES"
mountd_flags="-r"
Now …
In my previous post, I went through a basic Nagios installation on FreeBSD 9.1, but didn't go into adding new hosts.
We'll look into this here.
This tutorial assumes you configured Nagios from ports as in my previous post.
Let's first create a …
Nagios should need no introduction :) It's the most common open source solution for monitoring servers and other hosts.
I'll describe here the steps I took to install Nagios.
Disclaimer- This post heavily relied on 'How to install and configure Nagios in FreeBSD' by unixmen.com. I found some steps to …