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Turns out it was Comcast's fault. Or the CM600. But probably Comcast. Best I can tell, the modem would issue a DHCP lease to one and ONLY one MAC, until it had been power cycled, whereupon it would once again hand out a lease. I've never seen a DHCP server do that. Maybe some kind of band-aid...

I have an 8.2-R box as a router (yes, old, very overdue for updating, but it is what I've got now). It's been fine with a DSL modem, now I'm trying to switch over to a cable modem and having trouble. Somehow I can't get even the most basic configuration to work. I plugged the modem into a win10...

I have an 8.2-RELEASE amd64 box (named Core) that has been working as my router for quite some time, but as of a few hours ago it seems no longer able to forward packets between networks. This box is the core of my home network (hence the name), and without it I'm kind of offline. (Currently...

A bit delayed, no matter. So I spun up a new ESXi VM with 8 CPUs and 12Gb RAM, put on 8.2-STABLE amd64 from sources, and repeated my file-backed experiment on ZFS v28. I got the same kernel panic. This time I caught the crash dump, though I don't really know how to read it. One possibly useful...

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/cvsup.html, and looking at it this morning, I see the little inset where csup is mentioned. I missed that yesterday. As I said, I tried several different cvsup servers, the main one being the last. Just now I tried again with cvsup[9,10,13].us.freebsd.org...

Mmmkay, awesome part 1 is that the existing (presumably) up-to-date handbook info is "old". That's nice. Where do I go for valid, current documentation about FreeBSD if not freebsd.org? Awesome part 2 is that using csup(1) produces exactly the same errors and lack of useful progress.

I have a 8.2R amd64 box I want to use to track -STABLE, having never done this before I'm pretty dumb about it. Starting with a basic -RELEASE install with "All" distributions, I installed the cvsup-without-gui port, made a copy of /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile and customized the...

phoenix, that's exactly what I thought I was doing, setting up a sandbox where I could play with ZFS to learn the ropes before trying to use it in production. If file-backed vdevs were just a bad idea, didn't work well, or didn't work at all, that would be one thing...but the consistent...

Thank you Crest, using md devices worked well. I'm still curious about the kernel panics when using files directly, as this is explicitly supported by ZFS -- I wonder if it's worth making a bug report?

I am having serious ZFS kernel panics, and I don't know how to fix it. I bought a used server to set up my "big box" home file server, intending to run a pretty basic setup with 8.2R and using ZFS to manage the storage pool. I'm new at ZFS (I didn't get much exposure to FBSD 5 thru 7) so I...

Cool, it looks like repackaging is doing what I want. Thanks, folks!

So I have two (or more) machines of the same architecture, both running 8.2R (actually VMs on the same host). The idea being to reduce the amount of redundantly stored data, and speed up the process of installing a port (once it's built on one machine, a 2nd machine should be able to quickly...

I'm getting a "Permission denied" error on an NFS mount, but I'm completely mystified as to the reason. (I really wish mountd was a little more verbose with its error logging!) First, the server and client DO work, I have existing NFS exports that mount cleanly and work as expected. So that's...

Suppose I'm using an 8.1R box as a gateway (router/dhcp/nat) handling connections from a private network to an uplink. Is there a simple toolkit I could use to implement layer 2 access control for that private subnet? I want to provide two kinds of access: 1--For hosts we already know...