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    UFS Copy usb image to hdd and boot from it

    You need to tell us which FreeBSD "image" you used, and what you did with it. Here I used FreeBSD-13.3-RELEASE-amd64-mini-memstick.img, and the dd command to write that file to a USB stick (on Linux) was: sudo dd if=FreeBSD-13.3-RELEASE-amd64-mini-memstick.img of=/dev/sda conv=sync,fsync...
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    Intel NIC i-226v

    You can have a look at the igc driver and verify the support for your I226-V as follows: [gunsynd.148] $ pwd /usr/src/sys/dev/igc [gunsynd.149] $ grep -i 125c * igc_hw.h:#define IGC_DEV_ID_I226_V 0x125C [gunsynd.150] $ grep -i IGC_DEV_ID_I226_V * if_igc.c: PVID(0x8086...
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    Intel NIC i-226v

    I have Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller I225-V (rev03) and I226-V (rev 04) NICs. My I226-V NICs look very much like yours. I can confirm that the I225-V (rev03) works under FreeBSD 14.0 and the I226-V (rev 04) works on both FreeBSD 13.3 and FreeBSD 14.0, when plugged into a gigabit switch...
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    Storytime: My new internship - Advice?

    I suggest you look at the history of Randal L. Schwartz with Intel and the State of Oregon. What he was trying to do was improve security at Intel. That got him convicted on three felony counts. Twelve long years later, with a lot of help (because he was very well known in the Perl community)...
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    Other Question for rsnapshot users, rsync experts

    Without knowing your usage case, it's difficult to make specific recommendations -- inode turn-over depends greatly on file system activity. Unfortunately, my office, including my rsnapshot (ZFS) server, is packed up in cardboard boxes at the moment. Observations below are how it used to be...
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    Other Question for rsnapshot users, rsync experts

    With rsnapshot it's usual to set aside backups on a regular basis. For instance I have an annual set of backups for all my clients going back more than a decade, and a monthly set of backups kept for several years. This won't completely solve your issue of "losing files you have deleted"...
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    Solved Networking broken after upgrade to 14.0-RELEASE-p5

    Your window decorations are very familiar. I ran fvwm on FreeBSD, for many years. /etc/rc.d/ntpdate extracts the names of time servers from /etc/ntp.conf. It looks like your network is up, but your name server is not translating those time server names to IP addresses. What happens if you...
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    How do I protect my host from rogue DHCP servers?

    Your ISP should not be allocating addresses from the private address spaces described in RFC-1918: Class-A Private Networks (10.0.0.0/8) Class-B Private Networks (172.16.0.0/12) Class-C Private Networks (192.168.0.0/16) The above addresses can not be routed (i.e. visible) on the Internet...
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    Hardware for firewall/DNS/proxy recommendation

    I have benchmarked both AX88179 and AX88179A USB3 adapters on amd64 FreeBSD systems. They both run at near gigabit wire speed (935 Mbits/sec) so long as your host USB port is rated for USB3.[12] Gen 2. However the AX88179 chipset suffered from the driver doing occasional resets. The AX88179A...
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    Hardware for firewall/DNS/proxy recommendation

    I run firewalls on a couple of Raspberry Pis (a 3B and a 4). But I use Debian and iptables, not FreeBSD. They are quite satisfactory (and don't sweat with only 4 GB memory). However you have to match their Ethernet adapter throughput with your Internet service. What's the rated speed of your...
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    What do you find the most great scientific accomplishment ?

    I think the application of the scientific method to vaccines which has saved millions of lives. In that field, many have stood on the shoulders of others, and none had broader shoulders than Robert Koch who conclusively established germ theory through his experiments with anthrax.
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    Share your preferred bsd or linux distribution which is not FreeBSD.

    If you want to make a living in government or the larger corporations as software developer, or in operating system support, then RHEL is the clear winner. At home, my favourite Linux is Debian because of community strength and the emphasis on stability. I have always been curious about...
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    Stopping with smoking.

    To lighten the mood, here is a take on Sean Lock's Self Help Book on How to Start Smoking. Sean recently passed away from lung cancer, aged 58.
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    Shell How to tell if a program exists and is executable

    If you choose to consign both stdout and stderr to /dev/null, then you should be looking at the exit status...
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    Solved How do I see progress when cp or mv big files?

    I have a love-hate relationship with rsync. I can't live without it, but it's default behaviour is to favour speed over correctness, which I despise. For instance, it will, by default, remove hard links (and replace them with copies of files). To make it behave "correctly" you have to invoke...
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    zroot pool on geli encryption

    Have you looked at the risk analysis for backup and recovery? Your data are also likely to be "at rest" on the backup server...
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    Messages from cron / perodic show up as random users

    That's quite perplexing. It still feels like you have database corruption. Does any account other than root and toor have a uid of zero? Have a close look at the output from: sudo cut -d: -f3,8 /etc/master.passwd | sort -n It's probably also time to eliminate the unlikely causes. Reboot...
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    Local login hangs, but SSH succeeds

    To trace the execution of the various source files, you can add the following to the start of /etc/profile: exec 2>/tmp/trace.$$ set -x Examination of the trace file will help pin-point the place where the problem is. Make sure that you have a root shell running in another window so you can...
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    Local login hangs, but SSH succeeds

    This subject comes up from time to time. When operating as root, and particularly under duress, I want the shell with which I am most familiar. For nearly 30 years, I have used a privately curated copy of /bin/ksh (statically linked) as root's login shell: [gunsynd.684] $ file /bin/ksh...
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    Solved How many selections with grep

    sko has an elegant solution for you above. If you want to execute the umount command from within your script, as opposed to just printing the command to stdout, you have to invoke a shell, e.g. eval $(mount | sed -n -e 's;^\(/dev/da0[^ ]*\) on .*;umount \1;p') or mount | sed -n -e...
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