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    Solved PF / NAT uploads exponentially faster than downloads.

    Yeah, hardware offloading options with NICs that are emulated/implemented in software is a very bad idea. Unfortunately the defaults for the vtnet devices are still not sane it seems.
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    linux library - No such file or directory

    Well there used to a version of avidemux for FreeBSD that used QT4 libraries for GUI (that I used at some point) but it seems to have been dropped because QT4 is no longer in the ports tree. Someone is working on updating the port for QT5 (last post)...
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    linux library - No such file or directory

    You don't seem to aware that the FreeBSD version has the exact same GUI as the Linux version...
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    Solved invalid partition table at the boot

    Active partition vs non-active is one of those nebulous areas of the MBR standard. On some systems the disk you now have will refuse to boot because the partition is of a "non-standard" type and you need to clear the active flag for it to boot. On some other systems like yours the active flag is...
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    ZFS auto check/repair

    There is no fsck functionality for ZFS, this is by the design of it. The self healing after a crash happens automatically without user intervention when the pool is imported and it's extremely rare now that the filesystem would be left in an inconsistent state. You can run a zpool scrub on a...
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    Client/server telnet text editor?

    Please read here about the initial key negotiation used in HTTPS and other encryption protocols: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman_key_exchange It's not a bulletproof way of negotiating the initial encryption key but assuming the method is used properly (large enough primes...
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    Compiling Freebsd 12 from source - Error and Questions

    Sorry to be this blunt but you're very much asking pfSense questions here and correct place to ask for help is the Netgate forums. PfSense employs a large amount of custom code and patches that turn the system into a quite different animal compared to a vanilla FreeBSD.
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    Which support model is going to be adopted by FreeBSD?

    LTS is possible with the base system but it will then exclude the ports and packages completely which will negate the point of having an LTS release in the first place. It's the third party software that people use and want bug/security fixes on without breaking binary compatilibilty and that is...
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    BHyve - installing CentOS-6 as a guest OS fails to boot on initial start

    You need an earlier snapshot of Centos to install it in Bhyve, I forget exactly which one but for me the lastest ones just didn't work and GRUB get failing with the xfs error on boot.
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    PF Why do these rules prevent IPV6 connectivity?

    I'm pretty sure that a /64 is strictly required now if you use rtadv. A /128 makes sense only if you're configuring a point-to-point link like gif. If you use a /128 the network stack has no clue how to do the most rudimentary "broadcast" type operations (of course IPv6 doesn't have broadcasts...
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    ZFS OS down with repeating swap_pager indefinite wait buffer messages on console

    ZFS with 1GB can be made to work but you'll have to sacrifice performance quite a bit and you have to do some serious fine tuning with various tunables. The biggest problem is that ZFS ARC is wired memory that has to stay in physical memory, it can't be swapped out for obvious reasons. So with...
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    UFS Is it possible to use disk labels instead of /dev/adaXX in /etc/fstab?

    Do not use glabel period, find other ways of labeling your partitions.[/MAN]
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    UFS Is it possible to use disk labels instead of /dev/adaXX in /etc/fstab?

    I don't recommend using the actual GEOM labels that write their own metadata at the end of the provider, they are incompatible with wide varieties of other types of metadata and may cause conflics. Use GPT labels when GPT partitioning is used and UFS labels with MBR partitioned disks. The swap...
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    How to get the login name of the user who invoked "shutdown"?

    I believe it's only stored in the console message buffer so you might be out of luck here unless there's some method of accessing that buffer from a userland program. You won't get the username that way because the shutdown process is started asynchronously via shutdown and is actually...
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    What are my options for steam on freebsd?

    FreeBSD is not a market/has no visible market share where it counts and that's why gaming companies show zero interest in porting their games/gaming frameworks to FreeBSD.
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    php7.0 why removed from the ports?

    Yes, ports are a community effort but if important ports like PHP, Perl, X11 etc. were actually left in the hands of the "community" we would have none of them available or we would have multiple competing incompatible versions of them and a huge mess. This is why these important ports are in...
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    Converting flac to mp3

    The basic idea of any conversion with these compressed audio formats: source format -> uncompressed PCM (wav) -> destination format. The uncompressed PCM (wav) is the only universal format that every tool understands so the first step is always uncompressing the source file to PCM and whatever...
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    What features are you excited about for FreeBSD 12?

    The Clang change isn't a problem unless you can prove that it breaks a userland API/ABI (go ahead and prove me wrong, I doubt you can), that's what the stability in FreeBSD is all about and not about whether the tools used to build the programs are this version or that version.
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    IPF + IPNAT intermittent problems, getting worse as uptime increases

    Seconded, IPF in FreeBSD is (was?) supported by a single person and looks like that support has petered out. PF on the other hand enjoys constant attention from multiple developers because it's so widely used in FreeBSD.
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    Other gmirror - Which disk contains the most recent data?

    It won't be able to tell which one has newer files because it doesn't deal with files in the first place, it's only concerned about raw disk blocks and whether both providers have identical content on block-by-block basis or not.
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