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ATEN/ALTUSEN KN2132 and SLAAC
Today at work, we received an ATEN/ALTUSEN KN2132 KVM switch. Unlike our previous KVM switch, this model has IPv6 capability. Sadly, version 1.8.174 of the firmware contains an annoying bug. If you want to use SLAAC, then the firmware neglects to invert the universal/local bit while transforming the MAC-48 address to a modified EUI-64 format […]
Read More → ATEN/ALTUSEN KN2132 and SLAACesrever.c
I had some fun this afternoon, writing a small program that writes its reversed input to output. Beware, this program is not UTF-8 safe. Have fun.
Read More → esrever.cSomeone having fun at the end of the week?
For those of us subscribed to the freebsd-mobile mailling list, some of the more recent postings are both alarming and hilarious, at the expense of George Neville-Neil, a well-known name in the circles of ACM and FreeBSD. See, in received order, messages 1, 2, 3, and 4. I’m sure more will follow. LinkedIn will hopefully […]
Read More → Someone having fun at the end of the week?Upgrading FreeBSD from stable/8 to stable/9, and to stable/10
Update 2015-01-23 Order has once again been restored. I have successfully upgraded 8.4-RELEASE (r251259) to stable/8 r277528, and further to stable/9 r277528, and finally to stable/10 r277559. Update 2015-01-14 Work is underway enabling latest stable/8 to go directly to latest stable/9. All my FreeBSD systems have run stable/something-something, compiled from source, for as long as […]
Read More → Upgrading FreeBSD from stable/8 to stable/9, and to stable/10Missing chroot for dns/bind9{9,10}?
The removal of BIND from base in stable/10 left us with the option of running BIND from ports either in a jail, or as an ordinary service. The old BIND in base was able to run in a chroot environment, isolated from the rest of the system. Some of us believe a chroot is a […]
Read More → Missing chroot for dns/bind9{9,10}?Enabling encrypted swap in stable/10
Enabling encrypted swap has changed in FreeBSD stable/10. I was interested in running AES-XTS with a 256 bit random key and a simulated blocksize of 4096 bytes. I had to change the line in /etc/fstab for the swap partition from to The kernel could then happily report:
Read More → Enabling encrypted swap in stable/10Happy New Year 2015
Happy New Year 2015!
Read More → Happy New Year 2015Merry Xmas 2014
DRADIS contact! Santa’s sleigh inbound. It’s definitely friendly! Have you been a good boy/girl this year? Merry Xmas!
Read More → Merry Xmas 2014Solving conflicts between print/texlive-base and devel/tex-kpathsea
The 20141214 entry in ports/head/UPDATING says: 20141214: AFFECTS: users of TeXLive AUTHOR: hrs@FreeBSD.org Several scripts in print/texlive-base have been moved to devel/tex-kpathsea. Upgrading them can fail because texlive-base depends on tex-kpathsea, and the new ex-kpathsea tries to install files which were installed by the old texlive-base. The following error message indicates this situation: pkg-static: tex-kpathsea-6.2.0_1 […]
Read More → Solving conflicts between print/texlive-base and devel/tex-kpathseagettext 0.19.3 in FreeBSD
devel/gettext, as of version 0.19.3, has been split into three ports: devel/gettext, the meta-port depending the two next ports; devel/gettext-runtime, the runtime libraries; and devel/gettext-tools, the tools for managing the message catalogs. In my case, as I build my own ports, making the transition required manual intervention using both portupgrade and the ports collection tree:
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