Recently I replaced my office’s filtering network bridge which still ran on an old FreeBSD 4.11 box for the last eight years or so. The new system is based on a Soekris 5501, and because it took some time to choose the right software I decided to publish my notes on the tested BSD firewall products.
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Just to preserve it, here’s a useful shell command line to print a histogram of frequent log events:
grep -h 'expr' files | cut -d ' ' -f 1,2 | uniq -c | awk '{step=5; bar = ""; for(i = $1; i>=1; i = i-step) bar = bar "#"; printf $2, $3, bar; }'
Plakat der Chemnitzer Catering-Tage (Photo: Roman Hanhart)
Gerade wieder zurück von den Chemnitzer Linux-Tagen 2010.
I already love the new Apache httpd version 2.2.13 because its mod_ssl finally supports the TLS extension for Server Name Indication. In other words: it allows for every name based VirtualHost to use its own HTTPS certificate.
Dank neuen Rechners durfte ich letztens meine Programme neuinstallieren und nutzte die Gelegenheit um PC-BSD auszuprobieren.
BSD Stand@Linuxtag 2009 (Bild des LinuxTag e.V.)
Die letzte Woche habe ich auf dem LinuxTag verbracht, speziell am BSD-Stand dort. Read the rest of this entry »
Just updated to FreeBSD 7.2 and I already like it. — Finally I can use IPv6 adresses for my jailed websites :-)
“A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn’t even know existed can render your own computer unusable.” (L. Lamport)
Warte schon den ganzen Nachmittag darauf dass cvs.NetBSD.org nach Leitungsproblemen wieder erreichbar wird … :-/
Lustigerweise antwortet mir research.microsoft.com, wo ich schnell eine linkbare Quelle für das Zitat suchen wollte, auch nicht %-)
